2021 Speakers

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 ...

GLENN CLOSE is an eight-time Academy Award-nominated actress and multiple Golden Globe, Emmy, and Sag award-winning producer and performer for her work on stage, screen, and television. In 2010, Close co-founded ...

LAVERNE COX is a four-time Emmy-nominated actress, Emmy-winning producer, and a prominent equal rights advocate and public speaker.  Her groundbreaking role of Sophia Burset in the critically acclaimed Netflix ...

PAYAL SAHNI BECHER is executive vice president and chief human resources officer at ...

ANTOINETTE BROCK is VP of corporate analytics and global transparency reporting at ...

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

AMNA NAWAZ joined PBS NewsHour in April 2018, and currently serves as chief ...

MELLITA NEELY is director, Medicare product development and management, at ...

AMINATOU SOW is a writer, cultural critic, and entrepreneur. She is renowned as ...

SHAWN DAWSON TROUTT is the vice president of licensing strategy at Cisco Systems, ...

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

JENNA WORTHAM (she/they) is a journalist, author, and cultural figure whose work has ...

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

RACHANA BHIDE is a 22-year leadership psychologist and broadcaster, formerly ...

SIMONE BILES is known as one of the greatest gymnasts of all-time. The first woman to ...

SUSAN CAIN is the author of the best-sellers Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of ...

DOLLY CHUGH is an award-winning professor at the New York University Stern School of ...

MICHELLE GIELAN has spent the past decade researching the link between happiness and ...

LINDA A. HILL is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at the ...

ALEXANDRA LEVIT is a business and workplace author, speaker and consultant. Her goal ...

NORA McINERNY is a writer whose pieces have appeared in the New York Times, TIME ...

CECILIA MUÑOZ is a national leader in public policy and public interest technology ...

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

SIMON SINEK is an unshakable optimist. He believes in a bright future and our ability ...

JESSAMYN STANLEY is an internationally acclaimed voice in wellness, highly sought ...

DR. R. LORRAINE (LAURIE) BERNOTSKY is executive vice president and provost at West ...

GINA CLARK is the executive vice president and chief communications & ...

ANGELA CONTI is SVP and head of consumer payments at TD Bank. She leads the ...

LEA KNIGHT is the VP of finance for the Janssen Supply Chain at Johnson & ...

KAREN LEMIRE is chief of staff for Cisco’s global software and services sales ...

KRISTIE PAPPAL joined the Philadelphia Eagles in 2007, and currently serves as the ...

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

DAMARIS SCHNEIDER is a managing director at State Street’s transformation ...

PAYAL SAHNI BECHER is executive vice president and chief human resources officer at ...

MICHELLE CALOPE is the VP, US cardiovascular for Bristol Myers Squibb. Calope started ...

KORTNEY CRUZ is VP of sales and marketing for Medicare at Independence Blue Cross. ...

KAREN ETZKORN is the chief information officer of Qurate Retail GroupSM, leading ...

LOREN HUDSON is SVP and chief diversity officer for Comcast Cable. In this role, ...

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

ANNA RODRIGUEZ, MSN, MHS, RN, OCN, NEA-BC is the chief nursing officer and VP of ...

DR. SINDU SRINIVAS is a professor of obstetrics and gynecology and the director of ...

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 ...

DR. LAUREN D’INNOCENZO  is an associate professor of organizational behavior and ...

COLLEEN EICHMAN is a senior manager with Janssen’s commercial and leadership ...

NIKKI PUMPHREY is the managing director of Per Scholas’s Philadelphia Campus. She ...

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

ALLYSON SACCOMANDI, M.Ed. is the director of leadership and organizational ...

DANA YAMATE LeGRAND is the director of market research and intelligence at ...