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Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of CliniSpan Health, Dezbee McDaniel has been a career entrepreneur. He is an alum of Venture for America, a prestigious entrepreneurial fellowship, where he worked with different technology startups across many functions of business such as sales, marketing, and operations. Dezbee has founded and/or grown startups from inception as well as consulted with ear...

Dr. Opal Lee is known as the “Grandmother of Juneteenth.” At 90 years of age, she started a walking campaign from Fort Worth, TX to Washington, DC to bring awareness to the need for celebrating Juneteenth nationally. Ms. Opal was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of her work to bring awareness to the contributions and struggles of African Americans in the United States, as well as h...

Kevin Kelly is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He co-founded Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor for its first seven years. He is also founding editor and co-publisher of the popular Cool Tools website, which has been reviewing tools daily since 2003. From 1984-1990 Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review, a journal of unorthodox technical news. He co-founded the...

Rodney Sampson is heralded as the leading inclusive innovation, entrepreneurship and investment ecosystem builder in the world, particularly given his mission to ensure that everyone, everywhere, particularly socially disadvantaged communities, have equitable access to the new multi-generational wealth creation opportunities afforded in the future of work and fourth industrial revolution as defini...

Joetta is an Olympic athlete who has made an indelible impact in sports and business after her legendary 24-year elite career as a half-mile runner. Joetta represented the United States of America at the 1988, 1992, 1996 and 2000 Olympic Games and was voted as the USA's women's team captain for track & field. She is the President of Joetta Sports & Beyond, where she inspires people...

As the Australian Ambassador for Women's Entrepreneurship Day celebrated annually at the United Nations, Theme Rains raises awareness for the global empowerment and support of women entrepreneurs. Theme is also Founder, CEO and Formulator at organic skincare company Synthesis Organics, runs wellness and transformational retreats, formulates white label retail products, designs spa treatments a...

As a transformational leader, Dr. Burton has worked in various strategic management level positions with national and international responsibility involving diversity and inclusion for such companies as Xerox, AT&T and Intercontinental Hotels Group where she served as manager of supplier diversity. Dr. Burton's business acumen and empowerment techniques have harvested respect amongst her p...

Miracle Olatunji is a financial analyst, public speaker, entrepreneur, and author of Purpose: How To Live and Lead With Impact. When she was 17, she founded her first business, OpportuniMe, which helped youth build life skills and find opportunities to explore different career paths. Now, at 23, she is the founder of Her Wallet Media, an educational platform to help women build their net worth, ne...

Angelina Darrisaw is the founder and CEO of C-Suite Coach, a firm that offers expertly designed professional development and coaching programs for working professionals and small business leaders. C-Suite Coach has staffed coaches and provided training programs for Google, Major League Baseball, NYU's Veteran Lab Accelerator, Zendesk, Oscar Health, Year Up, Omnicom, SEO, THowardF and many othe...

Internationally Renowned Social Entrepreneur, Impact Investor, Animal Advocate, Humanitarian, Best Selling Author, TV Personality and DO GOODer! Wendy Diamond is the CEO and Founder of Women's Entrepreneurship Day Organization (WEDO), a non-governmental volunteer organization and global initiative celebrated in 144 countries and universities/colleges worldwide with the mission to economically...

An entrepreneur, lawyer, philanthropist, mother, author and Miss Universe 1998, Wendy Fitzwilliam has forged a career that spans television production, entertainment, social activism, fashion, radio broadcasting, government and law. A native of Diego Martin, Trinidad and Tobago, in 1998, Wendy became the third woman of colour and the second Trinidadian woman to win the Miss Universe Crown, two mon...

Nana Gecaga is the chief executive officer of the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC), a state corporation in the Kenyan government under the Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife. KICC is the largest convention center in East Africa and the fourth-largest in Africa. Gecaga is a single mother of three young boys. On any given day, she interacts with heads of state from around the world or g...

Bestselling author and treasured spiritual leader Keion D. Henderson is Founder, CEO, and Senior Pastor of The Lighthouse Church and Ministries, one of America’s fastest growing churches headquartered in Houston, Texas.  His ministries and initiatives are fueling the explosive growth and far-reaching impact of The Lighthouse Church, whose congregation continues to blossom with more than 15,000 ded...

Emmy Award-winning journalist, television personality, author, producer, philanthropist and girls’ empowerment activist, Shaun Robinson is a true role model. She has won the respect and admiration of millions of daily television viewers throughout her career, including her work as co-host of the entertainment news show, Access Hollywood. Shaun has interviewed Hollywood’s biggest stars and covered...

When one thinks of an artist whose music career spans over three decades, has made stops along world tours in South Africa, the United Kingdom, The Middle East,  Europe, Australia, the US, Nigeria, Ghana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Kenya, and has collaborated with renowned artists like Donnie McClurkin, Israel Houghton, Micah Stampley, Lionel Petersen and, in her secular career, Shabba Ranks a...

Deeply involved in the community, Michael Coles is a transformational leader, accomplished entrepreneur, education advocate and motivational speaker. He is living proof that there are no limits to what we as individuals can accomplish. He brings his story to life in his book “Time To Get Tough” How cookies Coffee And A Crash Led To Success In Business And Life. After a successful 19 year career in...

Candi Carter is a media executive who has produced award-winning broadcast television for over 30 years. In her most recent role, Carter was an executive producer/showrunner for ABC and had a first-look development deal with ABC Entertainment. In 2020, she became the executive producer and showrunner of the Tamron Hall Show. Under Carter’s supervision, Tamron Hall received three nominations for th...

Rebecca Schwarzlose is a cognitive neuroscientist studying the developing brain at Washington University in Saint Louis. She earned a Ph. D. in Neuroscience from M.I.T. and served as the editor of the scholarly journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences for three years. She has been obsessed with both writing and the mind since she was a girl. She now finds beauty in the brain’s capacity to represent an...

Vaughn Millard Williams III has an extensive career in the area of Community Programming with an emphasis on Human Resource Management, Supplier Diversity, Procurement, Operations and Social Services. Having worked in the area of Social Services and Supplier Diversity for the last 20 years, Vaughn is able to attest to the pitfalls of any industry, yet he knows that the end result is what you make...

Paul D. Ashley is a seasoned procurement executive with over 20 years of Industry Experience. Paul is currently Director Strategic Engagement within the Global Procurement group at Bristol- Myers Squibb. In his role, Paul is responsible for strategic advising on global category strategies, performance management, professional development, communications and Market Intelligence. Diversity and Inclu...

Author and journalist A’Lelia Bundles is the author of On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker – a New York Times Notable Book about her entrepreneurial great-great-grandmother – that is the inspiration for Self Made, the fictional four-part Netflix series starring Oscar-winner Octavia Spencer that premiered in March 2020. She is at work on her fifth book, The Joy Goddess of Har...

As a successfully recovered addict, Pinchas Kras is the Founder & CEO of a sobriety platform called Soulber, an app that assists in the journey of sobriety and better reintegration into society. "Over time, throughout every center I went to, I found significant gaps in how they prepared clients for post-treatment. Two of the most important elements of recovery are re-establishing trust bet...

Scarlett Lewis founded the nonprofit Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement in honor of her son, Jesse, who was murdered during the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy in December 2012. Shortly after his death, Scarlett decided to be part of the solution to the issues that we're seeing in our society -- that also caused the tragedy -- and turned it into an opportunity to build a culture of love, re...

Kathey is a nationally recognized small business strategist and award winning supplier diversity expert. With a career spanning nearly two decades in marketing, small business development, supplier diversity and entrepreneurship. A sought after subject matter expert, Kathey is a frequent keynote speaker, panelist and workshop facilitator at conferences and events focusing on supplier diversity, sm...

Christine Dimmick is the Founder/CEO of The Good Home Company Inc., author of Detox your Home, and a public advocate for health and wellness. Her work in environmental sustainability is solution based, connecting the inventors in the private sector with governments worldwide – bringing innovation to the public in a broader, more efficient way. She is a notable speaker on regenerative agriculture,...