Lead Like a Woman

Warren Rustand is a husband, father, grandfather, entrepreneur, corporate leader, educator, speaker, and philanthropist. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Arizona where he was an Academic All-American basketball player. In 1973, Warren was selected as a White House fellow through a nationally competitive process. He was appointed as a Special Assistant to th...

Kati Quigley is a leader in tech and the Senior Director of the Global Industry Marketing team at Microsoft. She regulates the buyer journey across 10 major industries that provide insights and innovations. For each industry, she utilizes events, press, and analysts with customers and partners across the globe to manage marketing engagements and initiate industry solutions. Kati has over 30 years...

Lesley Michaels is a transformational coach and keynote speaker who applies simple brain science to reset behavior patterns and establish a mindset of unwavering self-trust. She is a podcast host, public speaker, author, and Founder of Never Too Late Media. Lesley uses her platform to help other women strengthen their voices and achieve success in the modern world of business. Lesley is passionate...

Amalia Martino is the Founder of The Vida Agency, a creative agency providing strategic communications, public engagement, media planning, and more to underrepresented and disproportionately impacted communities. When Amalia founded the agency in 2017, she set out to build a place where every voice is valued, every client achieves strategic and inclusive impact, and every person is intentionally s...

Mary Abbajay is the Author of the best-selling book Managing Up: How to Move Up, Win at Work, and Succeed with Any Type of Boss. She is also the President of Careerstone Group, a full-service organizational and leadership development consulting agency that provides facilitation, training, consulting, and coaching services to businesses and government entities. Mary is a highly-regarded author, spe...

Niki McKay is the Founder and CEO of Seattle-based Blue Danube Productions. She has been a dynamic, noteworthy leader in the event production space for over 20 years. Niki's expertise is demonstrated through the rapid growth of her company and the industry-wide recognition for her excellent work. She has served partners such as Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Facebook Reality Labs, and the Bill and M...

Elise Holtzman is a former practicing attorney, certified executive coach, and the Founder of The Lawyer's Edge, where she and her coaching team work with law firms to grow thriving businesses by helping lawyers become better business developers and leaders. Prior to practicing law in large New York law firms, Elise earned a BA in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and her JD from Colu...

Stephanie Camarillo is the President of Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO), Idaho. She sits on a global subcommittee for membership and serves on the Leadership Council for the National Federation of Independent Businesses. Stephanie started her career working in international business and academia. She had an "aha moment" one day and realized she was building programs in large organizations and cou...

Alexis Krisay and Melissa DiGianfilippo are the Co-founders of Serendipit Consulting, a full-service creative and PR agency. Alexis has an extensive background in online and offline strategic marketing operations and has developed her innate talent and flex for all things marketing. After more than 15 years in a fast-paced, ever-changing industry, Alexis has adopted a deep understanding of what ma...

Dame Stephanie (Steve) Shirley is a workplace revolutionary and successful IT entrepreneur-turned-ardent philanthropist. In 1962, she founded an all-woman software company that pioneered remote working, upending the expectations of the time. It was ultimately valued at almost $3 billion and made 70 staff members millionaires. Since retiring, Dame Stephanie's focus has been on philanthropy — especi...

Caity Cronkhite is the CEO and Founder of Good Words LLC, a technical communications consulting firm based in Seattle, Washington and remotely around the globe. Good Words was created to help produce, edit, and deliver communications content for organizations, from startups to Fortune 500 companies. The goal is to intersect both technology and communication to relay complex, specialized informatio...

Peggy O'Flaherty is an accomplished entrepreneur, author, and community-centric business leader with over 30 years of experience managing and growing female-founded and mission-driven businesses and organizations. Her work has been featured in Forbes , Startup Hustle , Business Insider , Women's Wear Daily , Modern Retail, and more. In her current venture as the Co-founder and Chief Community Offi...

Erin Keam is the Host of Conversations About Closets With My Closest 1000 Friends podcast and has interviewed over 160 women, mainly entrepreneurs, and she interviews them about what they do and why it matters. She loves to showcase and connect women, as she believes they are the answer to everything. The more money they make, the better the world will be. Erin also offers mentoring and marketing...

Andrea Heuston is the CEO and Creative Principal of Artitudes Design, an award-winning creative agency. She has over 20 years of experience in the design industry and has won several awards such as the Puget Sound Business Journal's 40 under 40, the Annual Enterprising Women of the Year Awards for Enterprising Women Magazine, Cambridge Who's Who, and the Key4Women Achieve Award. Andrea holds a deg...

Daisy Jing is the Founder and CEO of Banish, a natural skincare line targeted in treating acne scars. Daisy suffered acne all of her life, and traditionally prescribed treatments didn't work for her. She studied pre-med and dermatology at Duke University and while there, she started her YouTube channel reviewing skincare products. Through her vulnerability and story of her skincare journey, the Yo...

Mori Taheripour is a negotiation expert, globally recognized and highly sought-after speaker, and award-winning educator. She has worked with some of the most iconic sports leagues and Fortune 100 corporations over the past 20 years. She also teaches negotiation and dispute resolution at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and is a seven-time recipient of awards for excellence in...

Dr. Wenwen Ni is an Assistant Professor at Sonoma State University. She has a Ph. D. in social psychology from UCLA, and her work broadly examines the experiences of underrepresented groups including women in leadership and college students from low socioeconomic status backgrounds. She focuses on how social and environmental cues can affect identity and feelings of belonging, particularly when me...

Diana Fryc is the Chief Sales and Marketing Officer at Retail Voodoo, a US-based branding firm that helps food, beverage, wellness, and fitness companies address their toughest growth challenges. As the daughter of parents who endured unimaginable hardship before emigrating from Eastern Europe to the US, Diana is built for a higher purpose. From working with Jane Goodall to source sustainably made...

Natasha Miller is the Founder and Chief Experience Designer of Entire Productions, the go-to experience design event and entertainment production company based in San Francisco. She has been on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies in America for three years in a row. Her passion and commitment to giving back drive her invariable contributions and participation with numerous charitable o...

Andrea Duffield is the Chief Executive Officer at Bridgeways. Over the span of 15 years as a speech-language pathologist, she obtained her MBA and went on to start and run her own business, Mosaic Rehabilitation. Mosaic provided speech, physical and occupational therapy, behavioral health, psychology, and counseling services in four clinical locations across the Seattle area. During her time there...

Lorrie Morgan is the Owner and President of Red Hot Copy. She is considered an industry trailblazer in the world of emotional response copywriting and marketing, especially when it comes to selling to women. She founded her first company, Red Hot Copy, in 1999 so she could work anywhere, raise her family, and make a good living. Her highest values are family, freedom, and fun. After studying close...

Michele Hecken is a seasoned entrepreneur, author, speaker, and business leader. She has over 25 years of experience running a global company that she started at the age of 22 and sold in 2019. Her passion is elevating other entrepreneurs in life and business as a transformational executive coach. Michele is currently writing a book focused on how to create your best, fun, and fearless life in bus...

From yoga instructor to trucking fitness authority, for 20 years, Hope Zvara has helped change thousands of lives using her easy, step-by-step lifestyle strategies and solutions. As the CEO of Mother Trucker Yoga, Hope's mission is to help one million drivers change lanes in their health and fitness by 2031. While everyone else is focused on exercise, Hope shows drivers how to add more movement in...

Shenandoah Davis is the Co-founder and CEO of Adventure Nannies, a nationwide domestic staffing agency that has been helping progressive families find nannies, private educators, and newborn care specialists since 2012. Shenandoah grew up attached to the piano. Being homeschooled, she would spend each day racing through her lessons so she could have time to practice for as long as possible. After...

Congresswoman Nancy Mace grew up in the Lowcountry of South Carolina. She is the daughter of a retired Army General and a retired school teacher. Before being sworn into Congress, Nancy earned accolades as one of the most fiscally conservative members of the South Carolina General Assembly. She is also one of the most pro-conservation lawmakers in that state. She grew up in Goose Creek, South Caro...