2017 Speakers

VIOLA DAVIS is the first black actress to win Tony, Oscar, and Emmy awards. Davis starred in the ABC series How to Get Away with Murder. Davis received two Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by a ...

MERYL STREEP has portrayed an astonishing array of characters in a career that has cut its own unique path from the theater through film and television, for almost 40 years. Streep was educated in the New Jersey ...

DIANE von FURSTENBERG entered the world of American fashion in the seventies, when she arrived in New York from Europe with a suitcase full of Italian jersey dresses she had designed. Her iconic wrap dress ...

TIFFANY ALICHE, also known as “The Budgetnista,” is quickly becoming America's ...

KAREN ANDERSON is an award-winning journalist and member of WCVB's 5 Investigates, ...

LYNN BLAKE is an executive vice president of State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) and ...

RACHEL BLOOM-BAGLIN is head of external and executive communications at ...

LYDIA D. BOWERS believes improving the world of work improves the world at large. ...

LISA BRITT joined Thermo Fisher Scientific in March 2017 as senior vice president ...

ADAM BRYANT conducts interviews with chief executives for Corner Office, a weekly ...

KAREN BUTLER is vice president, clinical innovation initiatives with Fresenius ...

JODI-TATIANA CHARLES is the director of small and diverse business engagement for ...

LISA CONSIDINE is vice president of human resources for the Boston Scientific global ...

AMY COOPER HAKIM, Ph.D. is an industrial-organizational psychology practitioner and ...

MEGAN COSTELLO is the executive director of the Mayor’s Office of Women’s ...

DENISE COX is vice president of Cisco customer experience centers in the ...

MICHELLE CULLY is the CEO of Xpressman Trucking and Courier. She founded the company ...

ASHA CURRAN is chief innovation officer and director of the Belfer Center for ...

ANNIE DEAN is the co-founder and co CEO of Werk, a platform of flexible work ...

SHANNA DENG is the global VP of marketing for the surgical division at Hologic.  ...

ERICA DHAWAN is the co-author of the new book, “Get Big Things Done: The Power of ...

ALEXANDRA DICKINSON is an entrepreneur who teaches people to negotiate. She’s the ...

TIFFANY DUFU is chief leadership officer of Levo and launch team member to Lean ...

PAMELA ERICKSON is vice president of global branding and corporate citizenship for ...

ABBY FALIK is the founder and CEO of Global Citizen Year and an award-winning social ...

SANDRA FENWICK is president and chief executive officer of Boston Children's ...

MOLLY Q. FORD is the director of global equality programs at Salesforce. Salesforce ...

CHRISTINE FRASER is senior vice president of strategy and operations for Dell EMC ...

LYNN FRASER serves as a director in the services offer portfolio management team with ...

JACQUELINE GADSDEN is the vice president of diversity and inclusion and customer ...

HANNAH GROVE is chief marketing officer for State Street, leading brand, media ...

MEETA GULYANI is head of strategy, business development, and transformation at ...

JEFFERY TOBIAS HALTER is a gender strategist and the President of YWomen, a strategic ...

CELESTE HEADLEE is a journalist, professional speaker, and author of the books We ...

LINDA HENRY is the managing director of the Boston Globe. She is a co-founder of ...

KARA HUTCHINSON is in her eleventh season with the Celtics, where she is currently ...

JANE BOWMAN is the vice president of marketing and strategic partnerships for Boston ...

WHITNEY JOHNSON is recognized as one of the fifty leading business thinkers in the ...

MIRTHA KASTRAPELI is global head of State Street’s Center for Applied Research. ...

GRACE KILLELEA is the CEO and founder of the GKC Group, a leadership development firm ...

PINAR KIP leads global strategic operations for State Street. In this role, she ...

JESSICA LAHEY is a teacher, writer, and mom. She writes about education, parenting, ...

SHRI MADHUSUDHAN is a leader with more than nineteen years of experience in the ...

ANGELA McCLURE is the chief experience officer for Fresenius Medical Care North ...

AMY McCOSKEY is a regional sales manager for structural heart and interventional ...

NILOFER MERCHANT is a former tech executive, best-selling author on innovation and ...

CAROL LEE MITCHELL is senior vice president leading the Bank of America account ...

CAROLYN MUISE leads the chief customer office, analytics and intelligence platform ...

CELESTE Ng grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Shaker Heights, Ohio. She ...

NEELA PAL is vice president of brand marketing, partnerships, and creative at ...

LENKA PATTEN is a vice president and head of human resources at Reebok. In this ...

KATHRYN PAYNE serves as AMAG’s vice president of external affairs and oversees the ...

ESTHER PEREL is recognized as one of today’s most insightful and provocative voices ...

DEB PINE serves as the executive director of the Center for Women and Business at ...

CHRISTINE PORATH is an associate professor at the McDonough School of Business at ...

COLLEEN RICHARDS POWELL is vice president and director of corporate citizenship and ...

DR. PETER C. RAFFALLI is the founder and director of the Bullying and Cyberbullying ...

APARNA RAYASAM has over twenty years of experience in software engineering, working ...

PRECILLIA REDMOND is vice president and manager of organizational effectiveness and ...

DANI RYLAN is the founder and commissioner of the National Women's Hockey League. ...

LAURA SCHROEDER is director of the transducer technology group in global development ...

ANN SHOKET is the author of THE BIG LIFE:  Embrace the Mess, Work Your Side Hustle, ...

ANUJA SINGH is a director at Cisco Systems and runs advanced services business ...

STACIE SLOANE has spent over 15 years helping marketing and business teams transform ...

DR. SARAH SPENCE is a child neurologist with a PhD in neuropsychology.  She is the ...

GRETCHEN STEWART is the founder of Sunshine Press. She understands that in life we ...

CANDACE SUTCLIFFE is vice president and chief compliance officer for the Liberty ...

LISA SKEETE TATUM is founder and CEO of Landit, a technology platform created to ...

LAURA MILLER VOKE has been involved in sports marketing for over twenty five ...

CELESTE WARREN is vice president, human resources and Global Diversity and Inclusion ...

CLAIRE WASSERMAN is the founder of Ladies Get Paid, an organization and community ...

DONNA WATSON is the region operations executive (ROE) for New England with Bank of ...

DR. JEN WELTER became the first female to coach in the NFL when she joined the ...

CAROLYN WINTNER is a senior vice president at Bain Capital Credit, where she ...

ALEX WOLF is a millennial branding strategist and founder and CEO of Bossbabe, Inc. ...

GWEN WUNDERLICH is CEO and partner of Wunderlich Kaplan Communications, and creator ...

SHELLEY ZALIS is CEO of The Female Quotient and founder of the The Girls’ Lounge, ...

JESSICA ASHLEY content strategist, and author. She helps single moms thrive through ...

BELLA BOUTET is a social data storyteller, turning unstructured data into meaningful ...

EMILY BRUTTI has been with Ocean Spray Cranberries for over ten years, and currently ...

JULIA CAMPBELL is a Boston native, who has been involved with the social good sector ...

MICHELLE HACUNDA is a higher education digital strategist and communications ...

KELLY HOEY is the author of Build Your Dream Network (January 2017 / Tarcher ...

CARRIE KERPEN is CEO and co-founder of Likeable Media, an award-winning content ...

COURTNEY RHODES is CEO of Brandista, and Urbanity Communications. With over 15 years ...

RENEE CONNOLLY is the chief diversity, equity & inclusion officer and head of ...

PATRICE D’ERAMO is vice president of Americas marketing and communications with ...

MARIAN L. HEARD is the president and CEO of Oxen Hill Partners, a Boston-based ...

KAREN HOLMES WARD is the director of public affairs and community services as well as ...

GLORIA CORDES LARSON is a respected lawyer, public policy expert, Boston business ...

LIZ MATTHEWS is the senior vice president of global brand and creative for Dell.  ...

MARIA STEPHANOS is a highly-regarded local journalist with more than twenty five ...

TALINE BADRIKIAN is the founder and principal of Laveh Inbound Marketing. She ...

BRENDA LOAN BAKER is a partner with innerOvation, LLC. With over 20 years of sales, ...

MELISSA CLAYTON is CEO and founder of Tiny Tags, an online jewelry store designing ...

MAGGIE DRAKE is co-founder and CEO of Bandolier. Proving that necessity is indeed ...

HOLLY HURD is the founder of VentureMom.com, a web platform and national movement ...

SHARON KAN is the CEO and co-founder of Pepperlane, a place for mothers to start and ...

CHRISTINE KOH is a former music and brain neuroscientist turned Internet unicorn. She ...

KARA LUND has been a voice and speech coach, college level educator, and film and ...

CRISTEN TARA MOORE is first vice president of investments at Wells Fargo Advisors, ...

LINDA ROSSETTI is an entrepreneur, author, coach and thought-leader on women’s ...