2020 Speakers

KELLY CORRIGAN was called “the voice of a generation” by O Magazine. She is the author of four New York Times bestsellers, the host of a new primetime interview show on PBS called Tell Me More with Kelly ...

VIOLA DAVIS is the first black actress to win Tony, Oscar, and Emmy awards for acting. Davis starred in the ABC series How to Get Away with Murder, from ABC Studios and Shondaland, which aired its final episode ...

CELESTE HEADLEE is a journalist, professional speaker, and author of the books We Need To Talk, Do Nothing, and Speaking of Race. Her TEDx Talk, 10 Ways to Have a Better ...

IYANLA VANZANT is the award-winning host and executive producer of OWN’s Fear Not. From welfare mother to New York Times best-selling author, from the Brooklyn projects to Emmy Award winner, from broken ...

TARA WESTOVER is an American author. Born in Idaho to a father opposed to public education, she never attended school. She was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. After that first encounter with ...

RACHEL BOESING is program host at QVC. Boesing’s true passion for storytelling has ...

EL CAVANAGH-LOMAS is VP for people & communities for Europe, Middle East, Africa, ...

DZUNG LEWIS is a cookbook author and the host of the Youtube channel, Honeysuckle ...

CATHERINE OWEN is senior vice president and general manager, US commercialization at ...

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

SIGNE WILKINSON is a nationally syndicated cartoonist whose home base is the ...

ANGELA ZEPEDA is the chief marketing officer (CMO) for Hyundai Motor America. She is ...

MARCUS BUCKINGHAM is the author of two of the best-selling business books of all ...

SUSAN DAVID, PhD is one of the world’s leading management thinkers and an ...

ANNIE DUKE is an author, corporate speaker, and consultant in the decision-making ...

ARLAN HAMILTON is the founder and managing partner of Backstage Capital, a venture ...

CHARMAINE McCLARIE is an author, C-suite adviser, keynote speaker, executive ...

SUZE ORMAN has been coined America’s favorite financial advisor by The New York ...

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

DR. NINA VASAN is a physician, entrepreneur, and pioneer in mental health technology. ...

ESTHER WOJCICKI is a leading American educator, journalist, and mother. A leader in ...

LILY ZHENG is a diversity, equity and inclusion consultant and executive coach who ...

MELISSA COSTELL is the enterprise risk coordinator for research & development ...

REETIKA KUMA, M.D., F.A.C.P., is the medical director and vice president of clinical ...

DANIELA MARDAROVICI co-leads the firm’s US Multisector Fixed Income efforts for ...

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

LAKSHMI STOCKHAM serves as chief of staff to the group head of innovation, ...

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

LISA WASHINGTON is the senior vice president and chief legal officer of WSFS Bank. ...

DANA W. WHITE is the chief communications officer of Hyundai Motor North America. She ...

FUNMI WILLIAMSON is the chief customer officer and SVP customer operations at PECO. ...

DR. ARONTÉ BENNETT is an associate professor of marketing and the assistant ...

ERICA DOTSON BENNETT has more than twenty five years of experience in human resources ...

OLABISI BOYLE is the vice president of product planning and mobility strategy for ...

ELIANA CAMPOS-DOMINGUEZ is the rewards & digital owner marketing manager for ...

CANDICE CARUSO is senior vice president, director of government guaranteed lending. ...

CHEKEMMA J. FULMORE-TOWNSEND is president and CEO of the Philadelphia Youth Network ...

MELANIE HIDALGO-BRITT is the chief revenue officer for Coded By Kids (CbK), where she ...

MICHELLE HISTAND is the director of innovation for Independence Blue Cross. She ...

JENNIFER LEA, MS, CSCS, CPT, is a performance coach and the director of global ...

JOAN MACDONALD, at the age of 70, was on multiple medications for high blood ...

MARISSA MACGAULEY is the senior manager of talent acquisition at Bristol Myers ...

CASSANDRA MOORE, ACC, CPC, ELI-MP, is the founder and CEO of The Moore You Know ...

SAMANTHA RECCHIA is a senior associate of corporate & marketing public relations ...

AYELE SHAKUR is chief executive officer (CEO) at BUILD. She brings almost three ...