2017 Speakers

FORMER FIRST LADY MICHELLE OBAMA served as First Lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017. As a transformative First Lady, Mrs. Obama launched and led four key initiatives: Let’s Move!, to address the ...

SHAWN ACHOR is the New York Times best-selling author of The Happiness Advantage and Before Happiness. He spent 12 years at Harvard, where he won over a dozen distinguished teaching awards, and ...

DR. BRENÉ BROWN is a research professor at the University of Houston where she holds the Huffington Foundation Endowed Chair at The Graduate College of Social Work. Brown is also a visiting professor in management ...

CARLA HARRIS is a vice chairman, wealth management, managing director and senior client advisor at Morgan Stanley.  She is responsible for increasing client connectivity and penetration to enhance revenue ...

SHONDA RHIMES is the prolific writer, executive producer and creator of the hit ABC series "Grey's Anatomy," and "Scandal."  In addition to creating the “Grey’s Anatomy” spinoff series "Private Practice," ...

ANNA AKBARI, PhD is a sociologist, entrepreneur, and writer. She is the founder of ...

JENICE ARMSTRONG is a newspaper metro columnist with more than twenty-five years of ...

MEGAN AUBREY is head of Macquarie Investment Affiliates within Macquarie Investment ...

PATRICE BANKS is a former auto airhead and founder of Girls Auto Clinic (GAC). ...

LISA BODELL is an award-winning author and CEO of futurethink. As a ...

MADDIE BROOKS is a manager of financial services for The Prudential Insurance ...

KAREN CAHN is the Founder & CEO of iFundWomen, a crowdfunding platform for ...

STEPHANIE LIM CAPELLO is chief development officer with the Girl Scouts of Eastern ...

JANET CRAWFORD is CEO of Cascadance, a Bay Area-based firm supporting leaders in ...

PAMELA CYR is the executive vice president and chief retail office for Beneficial ...

AMBER CZONSTKA is a principal and head of Institutional large market sales with ...

ANNA FIELER is the chief marketing officer of POPSUGAR, where she oversees marketing ...

YVONNE GARCIA is an SVP and the global head of client solutions and PMO at State ...

TERESA GHILARDUCCI is an expert on retirement, pensions and personal savings. She is ...

JOHN GRAHAM is vice president and head of value, evidence and outcomes ...

NINA M. GUSSACK is a partner in and the chair of the health sciences department of ...

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

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

MICHELLE D. HARE works with the State Farm® marketing department, managing national ...

DENICE HASTY is senior vice president of business marketing for Comcast’s ...

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

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

MELLODY HOBSON is president of Ariel Investments. Headquartered in Chicago, the firm ...

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

TRICIA HOLCK is assistant vice president, field marketing and events specialist, ...

KIM KEEGAN is currently the manager of methods, training and mapping and document ...

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

MICHELLE KING is a leading global expert in gender and organizations. She is a ...

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

STEPHANIE KAPLAN LEWIS co-founded Her Campus in 2009 as an undergrad at Harvard ...

JULIE LYTHCOTT-HAIMS is the author of the New York Times best-selling book How to ...

EILEEN C. McDONNELL is chairman and chief executive officer of The Penn Mutual Life ...

MARGARET A. McKENNA is a lawyer and educator, and is a leading expert in educational ...

MONICA MOODY-WRENN is senior manager, human resources with PECO Energy, where ...

ROBYN MORENO is the editorial director of Latina magazine and Latina.com; the largest ...

JENNIFER MUELLER earned her PhD in social and developmental psychology at Brandeis ...

BECKY O’LOUGHLIN is vice president of global human resources with QVC. She ...

JAMILA PAYNE brings a new twist on personal development to busy professionals. Forget ...

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

CHRISTINE PORATH is a professor at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown ...

SUZANNE QUIGLEY has over twenty-five years of experience in corporate responsibility ...

JENNIFER ROBERTS is the head of Chase Pay and Digital Products at JPMorgan Chase, ...

JOYCE E. A. RUSSELL, PhD, is The Helen and William O’Toole Dean of the Villanova ...

ALICE RUTKOWSKI is a vice president at SAGIN, where she serves nationally as ...

NIHARIKA SHAH is VP and head of brand marketing and advertising for Prudential. In ...

RUTH SHERMAN works with global CEOs, international celebrities, and public figures ...

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

EMILY ESFAHANI SMITH is the author of The Power of Meaning: Crafting a Life That ...

LISA STONE is an entrepreneur, community leader and movement builder with a 20-year ...

RENE SYLER is a television personality, who, somewhere between her first and second ...

LISA TANZER is president of Life is Good. She has over 25 years of consumer brand ...

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

TRACEY WELSON-ROSSMAN is one of the founding members and CMO of Chariot Solutions, a ...

CAROLINE WEBB is CEO of Sevenshift, a firm that shows people how to use insights from ...

EBONY STATON WEIDMAN is assistant director of marketing at Drexel University’s ...

CARMEN RITA WONG is an author and the founder and CEO of Malecon Productions. She ...

HON. ALISON YOUNG is managing partner of Red, White and Blue Strategies, and Chair of ...

DR. NAMITA AHUJA is the senior medical director of Medicare and Geriatric Programs ...

ANGELA DOWD-BURTON was appointed by Mayor Michael Nutter in 2010, and reappointed by ...

ELAINE GOLDWATER is director of global marketing for anti-infectives for Merck & ...

ESTELLA HYDE is a lead spokesperson for AARP Pennsylvania on the CARE Act. Hyde’s ...

STEPHANIE JOHNSON is director of graduate career services at Drexel University’s ...

ANGELA STEEL is vice president of clinical operations for infectious diseases at ...

CHEF FABIO VIVIANI is a nationally recognized chef and restaurateur based in ...

JACKIE KOLLAR leads the development and execution of key strategy and campaign work ...

SHARI MEDINI is a content creator and consultant living in Lititz, PA with her ...

CHARLIE WIDDOES is entering his second season as the director of digital content and ...

SANDRA LEUNG is the executive vice president and general counsel with Bristol-Myers ...

TOM WOLF was sworn in as Governor of Pennsylvania on January 20, 2015. Wolf grew up ...

ERICA BOOTH is president and CEO of Erica Booth Tax & Accounting Services, LLC. ...

TRACY BUCHHOLZ works as the communications associate for the Support Center for ...

VANESSA CHAN is an entrepreneur, consultant and angel investor who thrives on growth ...

RITA FRIEDMAN is a coach, speaker, and consultant focused on helping jobseekers ...

TONUSHREE MONDAL leads her own consulting business in strategic HR. She has over 20 ...

HANNAH MOULDEN is account director and content strategist at Tierney. She has ...

PARISNICOLE PAYTON is a communications executive, publicist, marketer and business ...

ARCHNA SAHAY works with for profit and nonprofit organizations and government ...

HANIYYAH SHARPE-BROWN is a driven leader. She is a creative thinker and innovative ...

DIANA JONES is associate director of experiential learning at the Drexel LeBow ...