2018 Speakers

SHAWN ACHOR is the New York Times best-selling author of The Happiness Advantage and Before Happiness. His most recent book, titled Big Potential: How Transforming the Pursuit of Success Raises Our ...

AMAL CLOONEY is a British human rights lawyer practicing at Doughty Street Chambers in London, where she specializes in international law and human rights. She is also a visiting professor at Columbia Law School, ...

NICK CLOONEY has been a broadcaster since he was sixteen years old. For most of the intervening years, his focus has been radio and television news. His career has also encompassed hosting talk shows, researching ...

ELIZABETH GILBERT's memoir Eat, Pray, Love has been called “a generation’s instruction manual” by The Toronto Sun. Exploding onto the scene in 2006, the best-seller famously chronicled the year Gilbert ...

JESMYN WARD is a novelist, memoirist and essayist. She is a MacArthur Genius and two-time National Book Award winner and has been hailed as the standout writer of her generation. In 2017, she became the first woman ...

MAYSOON ZAYID is an actress, comedian, writer, and disability advocate. She is a graduate of, and a guest comedian in residence at, Arizona State University. Zayid is the co-founder and co-executive producer of the ...

YVONNE ALBERT is head of human resources for MilliporeSigma. Albert joined ...

EMILIE ARIES is the founder and CEO of Bossed Up. Formerly the co-host of ...

SALLY BAMENT is vice president of marketing, cloud and service providers with ...

BROOKE M. B. BASS is the senior vice president and manager, property field ...

STACY DAWSON BELF is a managing director for State Street Corporation’s ...

MELISSA BEN-ISHAY is a mom, baker, and founder of Baked by Melissa, the New York ...

ELIZABETH BOLGIANO is executive vice president and chief human resources officer with ...

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

LISA BRADY is the director of supply chain sustainability at Cisco, leading programs ...

TERRI BRESENHAM is GE Healthcare’s chief innovation officer, leading innovation and ...

JENNIFER BRIERE is the vice president, HR business partnering and SWFP at National ...

LAUREN SMITH BRODY is the author of The Fifth Trimester: The Working Mom’s Guide ...

STEPHANIE BROWNE is vice president of talent acquisition and chief diversity and ...

VALORIE BURTON is a best-selling author and founder of the Coaching and Positive ...

COURTNEY CARVER changed her life by simplifying it after a devastating diagnosis in ...

FRANCESCA CAVALLO is CCO of Timbuktu Labs, an award-winning media company founded in ...

JEAN CHATZKY is the financial editor of NBC’s TODAY show, is an award-winning ...

LIDA CITROËN is an international branding and reputation management expert who ...

JAMES CLEAR is an author and speaker focused on habits, decision-making, and ...

KEM DANNER is the head of human resources and senior vice president for State Street ...

MEREDITH DeWITT is the founder and principal of MJD Associates, LLC, a boutique ...

KELLYANNE DIGNAN is director of global corporate affairs with Ocean Spray. In this ...

KATE DOBBS has the privilege to serve as senior vice president of marketing and ...

KRISTY DUNCHAK is a senior director of product management for Tyco converged ...

JUDY A. DURKIN is vice president of financial planning and analysis at Raytheon ...

CHRISTINE M. FANDOZZI, PhD is associate vice president at Merck Research ...

DR. CHRISTINA FARUP is vice president of transformation and change management for ...

SANAM RAZZAGHI FELDMAN leads global people strategy and development initiatives ...

MEREDITH FLYNN-RIPLEY is vice president of mobile messaging at Salesforce, where ...

MARY-JO GAGLIARDI is a senior vice president of human resources and leads HR for ...

FRANCESCA GINO is an award-winning researcher, and the Tandon family professor of ...

MELODY GODFRED is an entrepreneur, writer, and speaker. She practiced law as a ...

DR. MARSHALL GOLDSMITH is the world authority in helping successful leaders achieve ...

LOI SESSIONS GOULET leads the research team at TripAdvisor. After establishing the ...

SARAH GRIMWOOD is the head of portfolio, strategy and operations, and chief of ...

KATE GULLIVER oversees the talent team at Wayfair, where she is responsible for ...

BLAIR HAMMOND is a global marketer, specializing in digital brand management. As ...

MARTIE HASELTON, PhD is the world’s leading researcher on sexuality and the ...

FRAN HAUSER is a long-time media executive, startup investor and author of The Myth ...

SUSAN HAYES is a supply chain vice president in product operations, with Cisco ...

AMANDA HEALY is an award-winning B2B marketing demand generation leader and ...

SALLY HELGESEN is considered the gold standard among experts on women’s ...

DR. ELLEN HENDRIKSEN is a clinical psychologist who helps millions calm their ...

LINDA HENRY is the managing director of the Boston Globe and Stat News. She is a ...

MEREDITH (MAX) HODGES joined Boston Ballet as executive director in 2014, and leads ...

SAKINA IBRAHIM is an NAACP Image Award-nominated author, social entrepreneur, and ...

CYNTHIA JOHNSON is the VP of global data center sales at Cisco. In this role, she is ...

KATIE ROSEN KITCHENS is co-founder of FabFitFun. She has led the company’s ...

LAURIE KNOCKE is senior employment counsel at Boston Scientific Corporation. In ...

NATALY KOGAN is the creator of the Happier Method™, and an entrepreneur, speaker, ...

JANET KRAUS is co-founder and CEO of Peach, a lifestyle brand with a mission to ...

KATHY KRISCH is a director in Bose’s consumer wellness division, responsible ...

RAKHI KUMAR is a senior managing director and head of ESG investments and asset ...

RAQUEL (ROCKY) LACHMAN is a brand marketing leader and recently VP of marketing ...

ALI LAVALLEY is the director of global Converse procurement at Converse.  ...

KRISTEN LaVERGHETTA is head of life science global internal communications with ...

CARA ALWILL LEYBA is a best-selling author, master life coach, and creator ...

DES LINDEN braved headwinds and torrential rain to become the first US women’s ...

JOANNE LIPMAN is the best-selling author of That's What She Said: What Men Need to ...

CATE LUZIO is the founder and CEO of Luminary, the premier collaboration hub and ...

ELLEN McGIRT is a senior editor at FORTUNE, where she established the race and ...

JENNIFER MEADE currently serves as the vice president of sales and commercial ...

GILLIAN MEEK joined the Keds team as president in 2016. In this role, she leads a ...

DR. MYECHIA MINTER-JORDAN is president and chief executive officer of The Dimock ...

JESSICA MORRIS is the digital lumen’s director of application engineering for ...

DIANE MULCAHY is the author of The Gig Economy: The Complete Guide to Getting Better ...

KATHLEEN MURPHY is president of Fidelity Investments personal investing division, ...

NATHALIE MOLINA NIÑO is a serial entrepreneur, a super connector and an investor, ...

LAURA OKMIN has been covering the biggest names in sports on the biggest stages, for ...

ANTHONY OSTLER is currently a senior vice president in the Global Services Americas ...

MONA PATEL is vice president of clinical training and fellowship education for the ...

CARMEN PEREZ is something of a Renaissance woman in modern-day activism. She has ...

MACI PETERSON PHILITAS is the CEO and co-founder of On Second Thought (OST), the ...

BETH PHALEN is president and GM of the data protection division at Dell EMC. She is ...

DEB PINE serves as the executive director of the Gloria Cordes Larsen Center for ...

COLLEEN RICHARDS POWELL is the director of corporate citizenship and diversity with ...

FRANCHESCA “CHESCALEIGH” RAMSEY is an actress, writer, producer, director and ...

SAM RAPOPORT is senior director of football development with the National Football ...

SHANNON RESETICH is head of rare diseases and rare blood disorders, North America, ...

SELENA REZVANI teaches women at all levels to negotiate like a boss. She also ...

CECILE RICHARDS is a national leader for women’s rights and social and economic ...

BRITNEY ROBBINS is the founder and CEO of The Gray Matter Experience, a non-profit ...

NISHITA ROY-POPE is a senior consultant at Dell, where she has led high impact, ...

LAURIE RUETTIMANN is a former human resources leader turned writer, speaker, and ...

DR. LAURIE SANTOS is professor of psychology and head of Silliman College at Yale ...

CATHLEEN SCERBO is VP and GM of technology services at Liberty Mutual. In an era of ...

HANA SCHANK is a writer, design researcher and technologist. Her most recent book ...

JAN SCHWARTZ is senior director of engineering for enterprise management tools at ...

DEB SHAPIRO is a global business executive in the biopharmaceutical industry. She ...

DAVID SMITH, PhD, is the co-author of Athena Rising: How and Why Men Should Mentor ...

ALISON SMITH is a marketing manager at Reebok where she works with the brand's ...

JESSAMYN STANLEY is the author of Every Body Yoga as well as an ...

JANE STEINMETZ is the first woman to lead an office for a Big Four accounting ...

AMANDA STERN was born in New York City, and raised in Greenwich Village. She’s the ...

SIMONE STEWART is a senior director for Akamai’s web strategy and operations ...

SARON TESFALUL joined Bain Capital Private Equity in 2012.  She is a vice president ...

JENNIFER TOMOSIVITCH is the vice president of market development for the laboratory ...

ASHLEY TYRNER is the founder and CEO of Farmbox Direct. She went from food stamps, ...

CHRIS VOSS is a negotiation expert, CEO of the Black Swan Group, and author of the ...

CY WAKEMAN is president and founder of Reality-Based Leadership, global ...

ELIZABETH WALLACE is the author of The Ambition Decisions: What Women Know About ...

NICOLE WETMORE is the director of global HR compliance and Americas operations with ...

KRISTIN WONG regularly writes about personal finance, career, and human behavior ...

GOVERNOR CHARLIE BAKER was inaugurated as the 72nd Governor of Massachusetts on ...

ALI BEBO joined Hologic in February 2015, and entered the unchartered territory ...

RENEE CONNOLLY is the global head of communications and business markets/services at ...

KATHY HORGAN is executive vice president and chief human resources and ...

KATIE THOMPSON is a general assignment reporter who joined WCVB in February of ...

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

ROBIN GOLINSKI is an energetic and ...

ANNEMARIE RILEY GUERTIN is a newly minted author. Her debut picture book How the ...

CRISTEN TARA MOORE is a senior vice president of investments at Wells Fargo Advisors. ...

BRITNEY ROBBINS is the founder and CEO of The Gray Matter Experience, a non-profit ...

WENDY SILVER is the founder and president of Beyond the Workplace LLC, a boutique HR ...

YULKENDY VALDEZ is the co-founder and a managing partner of Forefront, a premier ...

NATASHA ZENA is the co-founder of Lioness, the digital magazine for female ...

CHRISSY CARROLL is a spirited blogger and social media enthusiast. On her ...

NANCY CHEN is a staff scientist in the projects and solutions department at OSRAM ...

HOLLY CHESSMAN was named one of New England’s Top 40 Influencers in content and ...

LAUREL DRISKILL, aka sugar boogerz, was in a dark place when she found autonomous ...

JODI FLYNN is the owner of Women Taking the Lead. She is an executive leadership ...

SHAKTI ROUTRAY HARRIS is the global diversity and inclusion leader for the specialty ...

JESSICA N. LEVENSON brings over fourteen years as a straight-shooting innovative ...

ANGELA PITTER is founder and CEO of LiveWire Collaborative, a digital marketing ...