2021 Speakers

STACEY ABRAMS is a political leader, voting rights activist, entrepreneur and three-time New York Times best-selling author of While Justice Sleeps, Our Time is Now, and Lead from the Outside. She made history and ...

SELMA BLAIR has been one of the most versatile and exciting actresses on screen throughout her long standing career. She began with her comedic roles in pop culture classics in the early 2000s. She was named one of ...

REGINA KING is an Oscar-winning actress with a decades-spanning career in Hollywood. In addition to the Academy Award, King won a Golden Globe, an Independent Spirit award, and the prestigious National Board of ...

PAT MITCHELL is a lifelong advocate for women and girls. At every step of her career, Mitchell has broken new ground for women, leveraging the power of media as a journalist, an Emmy award-winning and ...

JAY SHETTY is a British-born, number one New York Times best-selling author, award winning storyteller and podcast host, and former monk, on a mission to make wisdom go viral. In 2019, AdWeek made him their Young ...

CHLOÉ ZHAO is a Chinese writer, director, editor, producer and two-time Oscar® winner. She was born in Beijing, raised there and in Brighton, England. After moving to the US, she studied political science at Mount ...

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

LISA HELLMANN is an innovative, results-oriented leader with three decades of ...

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

LISA LING is the executive producer and host of This is Life on CNN, now in its ...

GWEN MURPHY is the vice president of storytelling for Cisco’s Global Communications ...

LAYSHA WARD is an accomplished C-suite executive with thirty years of leadership ...

JENNIFER BROWN (she/her) is an award-winning entrepreneur, speaker, author, and ...

AUSTIN CHANNING BROWN is a speaker, writer and media producer providing inspired ...

ERIN FALCONER is an author, digital entrepreneur, and psychotherapist. In 2018, she ...

ALLYSON FELIX is an Olympic gold medalist who stepped on the world stage as a ...

BRYONY GORDON is an award-winning journalist, author and mental health campaigner. ...

JACINTA M. JIMÉNEZ, PsyD, BCC, also known as Dr. J, is an award-winning psychologist ...

LUVVIE AJAYI JONES is what happens when you blindly follow doing what you love ...

CHARLENE LI is an expert on digital transformation, leadership, customer experience, ...

HEATHER E. McGOWAN is an internationally known speaker, writer, and advisor. She ...

SUSAN MCPHERSON is a serial connector, seasoned communicator and founder and CEO ...

RACHEL RICKETTS (she/her/hers) is a queer, multiracial Black woman. She is a global ...

DR. MAYA SHANKAR is currently Google’s global director of behavioral ...

KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR is a senior opinion writer and columnist at The Boston Globe ...

ERICA WILLIAMS SIMON is an award-winning narrative strategist, author, creative and ...

ADRIENNE DAWSON is the head of diversity, equity, and inclusion for North America at ...

MEGAN DEAL is the AVPD GM at HomeGoods Distribution. Recently, Deal celebrated her ...

MONTRA ELLIS is the senior director of research and innovation at UKG. Ellis and her ...

ERICA FAULKNER is the senior manager, NA business solutions at Johnson & Johnson. ...

LAUREN GOHDE is the head of organizational effectiveness at Philips. Lauren joined ...

DEVIN HOOD is the sr. director of digital experience at Cisco. She thrives on ...

CAROLE HUNTSMAN is Sanofi’s North America head of specialty care. Huntsman is ...

KIMBERLY G. HYLAND is a managing director of the Global Client Group at MFS ...

VERONICA LEE is a senior vice president, global head of accounting product management ...

KRISTIN LONGOBARDI is the vice president of R&D quality and strategic operations ...

KHALIL SMITH is the vice president of inclusion, diversity, and engagement at Akamai ...

UTHRA SUNDARAM is head of global product & launch strategy at Takeda. She leads ...

NATALIE EDWARDS is the chief diversity officer at National Grid, the multinational ...

JENNIFER FARMER is vice president, global diversity and inclusion for Thermo Fisher ...

ELVIE GEE is the VP DEI business advisor at Liberty Mutual. She leads, drives and ...

JANE GRAHAM is group vice president of relationship management. Graham leads a global ...

RENEE LAROCHE-MORRIS joined State Street in 2021, as the Chief of Staff to the Chief ...

MARIANA MCQUATTIE is the senior vice president grooming North America at Gillette. ...

SANGEETA MOORJANI is the head of tax exempt markets and retirement solutions and an ...

JENNIFER SCHNEIDERS, PhD is vice president, laboratory diagnostic solutions at ...

VANESSA WOLFELER is the head of US respiratory and GI franchise for Sanofi Genzyme. ...

SHARON CLOAD is VP of discovery biotherapeutics at Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS). In ...

FATIMA DAINKEH is the learning & development manager for She+ Geeks Out, ...

ELIZABETH FOLAND is the global project manager for EMD Serono's purpose-driven ...

CHRISTINA LUCONI is the chief people officer at Rapid7. A serial start up through ...

MIRIAM MANNING is chief information officer at Commonwealth Financial Network, a ...

KIANA PIERRE-LOUIS is a senior law lecturer at Bentley University in the law, ...

TONYA WEBSTER is senior vice president and chief consumer experience officer at Blue ...

LISA WELKER-FINNEY is the vice president of human resources for Boston Scientific ...