Susan McPherson is the founder and CEO of McPherson Strategies, a communications consultancy focused on the intersection of brands and social impact, and the author of The Lost Art of Connecting.

Leslie Forde is a leading voice in working moms’ well-being, workplace equity, and the future of work. She helps organizations understand what working parents and caregivers need to thrive. Her core message: self-care is not a luxury—it’s essential.

We live in the age of auto-generated thought. AI can draft your memos, summarize your meetings, even write your thank-you notes. But it can’t do the hard work of original thinking or developing a point of view. That’s where writing comes in — and why every leader should be doing more of it.

Diverse companies are better companies.

Manisha Thakor has worked in financial services for more than thirty years, with an emphasis on women’s economic empowerment and financial wellbeing.

On November 30th, the WIE Suite launched our holiday shop at the Lingua Franca Townhouse in NYC.

If you are short on time and your attention is slowly waning, podcasts are the perfect side companion to get yourself into the zone.

An excerpt from “Don’t Feed the Elephants: Overcoming the Art of Avoidance to Build Powerful Partnerships” by Sarah Noll Wilson

When you are looking for board positions, you might wonder what is the difference between a career resume and a board resume?

Daisy Auger-Domínguez shapes organizational transformations on the leading edge of culture. As an executive, workplace strategist, inclusion revolutionary, author, speaker, and board member, Daisy inspires and equips global businesses, organizations, and leaders to build workplace cultures firmly grounded in human-centric values and purpose.

When you hear the word “alpha,” you probably conjure up an image of wolves fighting for the role of leader , or men vying it out for supremacy... which brings us to the topic at hand, the “Alpha CEO.”

Gunjan Keida, the Vice Chair of Wealth Management and Investment Services, was named America's most powerful woman banker by American Banker in 2018, 2019 and 2020 and recently joined PBS's Board of Directors. Keida recently sat down for a fireside chat with The WIE Suite Founder, Dee Poku, to discuss everything from how the pandemic has made her rethink typical bank culture formalities to why women need to say yes more often.

Julie Wainwright has always had a penchant for businesses that meet at the intersection of tech and commerce, but after the dot-com bust of her company Pets.com, she had a hard time moving forward and was repeatedly turned down for funding for her resale platform idea, The Real Real.

Can you relate to any or all of the following? You politely side-step a perilous situation instead of standing up for yourself because it's easier; you say nothing when someone says something un-called for, or (even worse) apologize for things that aren't your fault or that don't actually require an apology?

Noreena Hertz is a renowned thought leader, academic, and broadcaster. She was named one of the world's leading thinkers The Observer, and by Vogue as one of the world's most inspiring women.

Clare Vivier grew her company, Clare V., by meeting the needs of her target audience and through serendipitous collaborations. From the beginning, Clare focused on creating locally in order to generate jobs and to reduce her carbon footprint, things that weren’t huge consumer concerns when she started, but have proven to be an admired and sustainable business practice.

The Pareto Principle or the 80/20 Rule dictates that you advance better in life by focusing on the things that bring you the most success. If 20% of your customers drive 80% of your revenue then you concentrate your efforts on that lucrative subset.

The temptation to “look good” may be hindering us from actually “getting good.”

Jenni Konner is an American television writer, producer and director. Konner is no stranger to working in television as her mom wrote for Hart to Hart and Cagney & Lacey, and her dad has been writing for television since 1976.

Tough compassion is a term that's been resurfaced due to recent world events. The typical rosy-colored compassion has not been sufficient to address the challenges posed by the pandemic, widespread inequality and climate change.

Ayọ (fka Opal) Tometi co-founder of Black Lives Matter and founder of Diaspora Rising Ayọ (fka Opal) Tometi is one of the three women co-founders of the Black Lives Matter digital platform and chapter-based network.

Many people’s relationships with deadlines are similar. Deadlines are craved yet resented, necessary yet avoided. However, time-sensitive obligations add both structure and suspense to our lives.

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We all know there are benefits to being optimistic and maintaining a sunny disposition. However, when life presents us with challenging and painful circumstances, ignoring difficult emotions in favor of a cheerful facade isn't the most healthy coping mechanism.

Tyler Cowen is an American columnist, economist, and professor with a global reputation for spotting and nurturing incredible talent who go on to attract international recognition for their work and achievements. For anyone in the business of building and managing organizations, it's worth studying Cowen's ability to discover and enable the most talented people before anyone else notices them.

Over the years, several tools have been created to help individuals manage their ever-growing list of things to do such as Walter Chen and Rodrigo Guzman’s productivity tool called IDoneThis. Instead of writing tasks down, it was for tracking things already accomplished.

Sylvia Rhone is the chair and CEO of Epic Records, a label owned by Sony Music Entertainment. Rhone is regarded as the most influential female executive in music business history. She has held senior positions at all three major record companies and was the first woman to be named CEO of a major record label owned by a Fortune 500 company.

Anne-Marie Slaughter is an American international lawyer, foreign policy analyst, political scientist and public commentator. From 2002 to 2009, she was the Dean of Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs.

Annie Dean is the VP of Team Anywhere at Atlassian, a software company that builds collaborative software. Her role is to execute their distributed work strategy which allows her to get back to the type of client she’s served throughout her career as a lawyer, founder and consultant. Prior to Atlassian, Annie worked as the Director of Remote Work at Facebook (now Meta).

Shelly Lazarus is the Chairman Emeritus of Ogilvy (formerly Ogilvy & Mather) and has worked in the business she loves for more than four decades. She rose through the ranks of Ogilvy & Mather assuming positions of increasing responsibility in the management of the company, including president of O&M Direct North America, Ogilvy & Mather New York and Ogilvy & Mather North America.

If your first instinct when you see the word “creativity” is to scroll… Stop! Creativity isn’t reserved for artists or creators; it’s critical to problem-solving in the workplace, a driving force behind innovation, and revolutionary in exploring potential career growth.

Marci Alboher is Vice President of Narrative Change at CoGenerate, which brings older and younger people together to solve problems, bridge divides and co-create a better future. She is author of The Encore Career Handbook: How to Make a Living and a Difference in the Second Half of Life and One Person/Multiple Careers: The Original Guide to the Slash Career.

Julie roots for humans. She works to help humans thrive. She has degrees from Stanford, Harvard Law, and California College of the Arts, but she's not done learning. She plans to learn and grow until she draws her last breath. She lives in Palo Alto, California with her beloved life partner of 34 years, their itinerant twentysomethings, and her mother.

Lesley Jane Seymour is a media entrepreneur and founder of CoveyClub launched in February 2017 (Covey is a small flock of birds). In January 2008, Seymour was named Editor-In-Chief of More Magazine, the leading lifestyle magazine for women over fort . In July of 2015, Seymour created history by having the First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama, guest edit an entire issue.

We’ve all had unpleasant work experiences, but for many that “unpleasantness” actually crosses into workplace trauma, an under discussed, real experience. As with any trauma, unacknowledged it can drive your actions and reactions even when the threat has passed–like when you’ve left the toxic job behind and are stepping into a new, healthy role.

Amy Wilkinson, founder and CEO of Ingenuity and lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business, draws on her unique experience as an entrepreneur, business executive, and academic researcher to reveal how companies and leaders can answer disruption with the forces of innovation.

Janna Meyrowitz Turner is an advisor, angel investor, and strategist focused on systems change, leadership development, and communication in all its forms, in every direction. She has been building values-aligned networks for over 20 years across the public, private, and social sectors. She started her first company, Style House, at the age of 23 in 2006.

For the past two years, turnover has been exceptionally high in the US. In November of 2021, according to government data, more than 4.5 million workers chose to leave their jobs – that’s more than any other time in the twenty years the government has been tracking that information. While turnover proliferates industry and wage-level categories, the rates are especially high in lower wage sectors such as hospitality. In January of 2023, churn was declining, but remained higher than pre-pandemic levels.

Dona is the Director of Tech for Microsoft Accessibility. A woman of color tech leader for over a decade. A multi-published author (it turns out fiction writing is really useful in software!). The owner of the ethical luxury fashion brand Prima Dona Studios. Dyslexic but Dealing. Fast Company’s 100 Most Productive People and Cosmopolitan magazine's Businessperson of the Year. A teacher of hating Mondays less through the power of intrapreneruship in corporations. Always ready to get on a plane.

Less than a third of US employees think their compensation is fair; this impression is largely driven by how much employees trust their organization, or in many cases, how much they don’t. For better or worse, trustworthiness is a quality influenced more by experiences outside of compensation, such as negative experiences in terms of inclusivity, toxic culture, inadequate work/life balance, and a perception of unfair expectations.

Emily Tisch Sussman is a podcast host, women’s empowerment and family policy advocate, leading democratic political strategist, contributing editor to Marie Claire, and mother of three. Emily is the host of the award-winning podcast She Pivots, which features women, their stories, and how their pivot became their success.

How can you make networking work for you? These eight well-connected professional women from across industries share tips. This is the third in our series on networking.

Today we continue our series with networking advice from executive women whose experiences range from consulting to law to tech, luxury fashion, healthcare, and more.

Networking is always a hot topic - one fraught for many with obligations, aspirations, and generalized anxiety. We’ve gathered the best advice of seven connection-making mavens wielding experience ranging from consulting to law to tech, luxury fashion, healthcare, and more, and will bring their insights to you over the next month.

Sheila Lirio Marcelo is Co-Founder and CEO of Proof of Learn, a Web3 learning platform with a mission to unlock accessible, high-quality education across the world. Prior to POL, Sheila was a Venture Partner at New Enterprise Associates (NEA). In 2006, before joining NEA, she founded Care.com, where she was Chairwoman and CEO until early 2020.

Once you’ve determined that networking is a worthwhile endeavor - and that there are authentic ways to make it work for every personality - it’s time to consider how you’ll manage your network.

Tina Bhojwani is the Co-Founder and CEO of AERA New York. Prior to that, she held key leadership roles at global brands Donna Karan and Theory where she played an integral part in international business development. Her most recent corporate role was as President & CEO of Dolce & Gabbana, North America.

Jess Weber is currently the President and Interim CEO of Creatively. Previously she was a consulting at Russell Reynolds Associates, where she advised market-leading and investor-backed clients on optimal organizational design and talent strategies to attract and retain high-impact leaders within the dynamic consumer landscape.

As a sought-after consultant, speaker, and leadership experience designer, Tara Jaye Frank helps leaders and organizations define a vision and develop strategies to advance their culture and leadership goals. In 2015, she published her first book titled Say Yes: A Woman’s Guide to Advancing Her Professional Purpose - a practical tool to help emerging leaders reach their own professional high grounds.

One of our favorite things about June (other than the mad rush of trying to get things figured out before summer, endless school events for those with kids, and last minute vacation planning) is the slew of graduation speeches with advice from high profile celebrities.

Stephanie Ruhle anchors MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle Reports on weekdays and appears across all NBC News and MSNBC platforms as NBC News’ Senior Business Correspondent. A Wall Street veteran, Ruhle is known for bringing her business acumen and hard-hitting style to high profile interviews in her original reporting, and bringing humanity to her news coverage, covering the migrant crisis at the border in McAllen, TX and a daily “Good News Ruhles” segment.

Karen Cahn, a veteran of Google and YouTube, has had a career of ups--being a Google Intrapreneur for 10 years and launching the branded entertainment portion of YouTube (her team was the first to connect brands with content creators--ie what we call native video advertising today), and downs--getting fired for making too much money (yes, you read that correctly), and, launching a company post Google that was a bust.

This week for our Masterclass Moment we are going to discuss the trajectory of Carol’s Daughter. Founder, Lisa Price’s story is a shining example of building at one’s own pace.

Julia Collins is a serial entrepreneur who has spent her career building food companies. In 2015 she co-founded Zume Pizza, and became the first Black woman to co-found a unicorn company.

Melanie Goldey is the COO & CFO at TMRW Life Sciences, Inc. She was previously CFO at Refinery 29, where she was instrumental in the company’s merger with VICE Media Group.

Meena Harris is an American lawyer, children's book author, producer, and founder of the Phenomenal Woman Action Campaign, a company that creates statement fashion to support charitable causes.

Marina Khidekel is the founder of Hugimals, a TIME Best Inventions- winning line of weighted stuffed animals for kids & adults that 'hug you back' to ease anxiety, which has been recognized in Goop, People, NBC News, Real Simple, and many more.

One of the most sought-after minds in strategic communications, Rakia Reynolds is a thought leader, tastemaker, and branding expert who advises name brands on creative strategy.

Anne Fulenwider is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Alloy Women’s Health. She is a former magazine editor and a believer in the power of storytelling. She began her career at the literary magazine The Paris Review, spent ten years at Vanity Fair editing such writers as Carl Bernstein and Dominick Dunne, and in 2009, was named editor-in-chief of Marie Claire, overseeing all content and brand extensions in the United States.

Marianna Sachse is the founder and CEO of Jackalo—America’s first circular children’s clothing brand. Jackalo makes long-lasting essentials for little change-makers. Prior to launching Jackalo, Marianna spent over a decade advising national and global foundations and nonprofits on communications to support health and environmental change. She is a mother of two active kids, a dog lover, and a cancer survivor.

Joy is currently co-founder and Managing Director of Brilliant Friends Investing, an early stage venture group that invests in women-led, tech enabled businesses. She is a Lecturer at Princeton University, where she teaches the foundational entrepreneurship classes and also serves as a Venture Fellow at JVP, a large venture capital firm. Previously Joy was Executive Vice President and General Manager Digital Video at Condé Nast Entertainment (CNE), a subsidiary of Conde Nast, the publishing giant whose properties include Vogue, The New Yorker and Vanity Fair.

Jing Gao is a chef, entrepreneur, and renowned expert on Chinese cuisine, and she’s on a mission to bring uncensored Chinese flavors to the global table. She was born in Chengdu, Sichuan.

Sarah has over 15 years of experience in accounting and financial leadership roles including leading large-scale transformations programs, adoptions of new accounting pronouncements, and targeted close acceleration/cycle reduction projects focused on the record-to-report process.

Christina Stembel is the CEO of Farmgirl Flowers, Inc., the only large-scale, female-founded (and 80% female run!), direct to consumer e-commerce floral delivery company in the US.

Stephanie Nadi Olson is an innovator and disruptor, aiming to change the world's perspective on the future of work and what it means to be inclusive in the workplace. Olson, a former advertising executive, founded We Are Rosie in 2018, before the pandemic made remote and flexible work mainstream.

Aishwarya Iyer attended New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study where she graduated with a degree in Media and Globalization with an emphasis on South Asian Gender Studies. Following graduation, Aishwarya spent many years working for various startup and tech firms in New York while indulging in the diverse culture of the city during her evenings and weekends.

Chloe Harrouche is a Co-Founder of The Lanby, a wellness-forward primary care members club.

Rachel Johnson is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of J&O Law, a firm focused on representing high-growth companies as they scale. Since founding J&O in 2014 with her Co-Founder, Christina Oshan, the firm has grown to a team of 20 with offices in both New York City and South Florida.

Cindy Gallop is an advertising veteran, equality rights activist, and the founder of MakeLoveNotPorn.

Last week, our founder Dee Poku and founder and CEO of Moms First, Reshma Saujani, gathered to host a Talking Circle with the legendary Gloria Steinem at her home. Together, the group held space for an honest look at where we stand on equity and inclusion and what it will take to move forward together.

Ida Liu is a visionary leader in global wealth management and former Global Head of Citi Private Bank, renowned for pioneering a holistic, multi-generational approach to wealth.

Wie Suite Founder Dee Poku shares a powerful message for what companies can and must do to support black women in the workplace.

Ashley Flukes and Nneka Ukpai are making waves, moving needles, and shifting narratives by leveraging the power of community and collective investment.

Updated learning on generative AI, AI and the use cases in your business.

The data on equal pay for women is appalling.

On the release of Aliza Licht's book On Brand in paperback, we share an excerpt on how to think about the development of your own brand.

The WIE Suite founder, Dee Poku, shares leadership advice for allies.

Denise Hamilton is a nationally recognized workplace culture and DEI expert.

The WIE Suite founder, Dee Poku on why every woman should learn to trust her instincts.

Karena Kilcoyne is a former trial lawyer who specialized in criminal defense, including complex white-collar and civil litigation in federal and state courts. Later in her practice, she worked as in-house counsel for a publicly traded worldwide manufacturing company.

Laurie has spent over two decades revolutionizing the world of work through her candid storytelling, innovative solutions, and passion for driving better employment experiences.

While it’s crystal clear that a successful transition to a new CEO is key to a corporation’s success, history tells us that even with the best of intentions and efforts on the part of a Board of Directors—who are collectively responsible for managing that succession—it’s not always a slam dunk.

Our Fall Table For Eight dinner series added Washington DC and Chicago to an already expansive list of host cities.

This holiday, the WIE Suite asked tastemaker members for their holiday shopping must-haves.

The jury is out. Depending on your experience a board course or certification may help you but it's also possible that you don't need one.

Getting a spot on a board of directors—especially a major for-profit company—has long been considered as mark of success and acumen, an emblem of power within the business community, a way of amplifying your achievements, a route to cementing old contacts and establishing new ones, and, of course, another way of making money.

Mona Patel is an expert in helping people reframe the way they think by understanding and empathizing with other people’s points of view. For over 23 years, Mona's worked with brands like Nike, Facebook, Capital One, First Republic Bank and Pfizer. She teaches organizations how to listen for what people really want. She has started and built a series of 7-figure companies, is a published author, award winning researcher, and keynote speaker. Her latest company, Gray Zones, produces online immersive experiences to inspire leaders to have more empathy, awareness and understanding for different points of view.

Alexis Grant is founder of They Got Acquired, a media company that features acquisitions of online businesses and the founders behind them. Previously, she was EVP of The Penny Hoarder, a personal finance media brand that acqui-hired her content marketing agency. She also founded The Write Life, an online community for writers she sold in 2021.

Leveraging a nonprofit board seat to secure a corporate board seat can be a strategic career move. Nonprofit board experience can provide valuable skills and networking opportunities that make you a more attractive candidate for corporate board positions. Here's how to go about it.

And, what decision criteria would you think about using when you're considering leaving a board?

Thasunda Brown Duckett, the former CEO of JP Morgan Chase consumer banking, who led a network of 40,000 employees and 4900 branches, was recently named the CEO of TIAA, becoming the second Black woman currently leading a Fortune 500 company.

Debra Lee spent 13 years as the chairman and CEO of BET Networks, has more than 20 years of board service across seven different public boards, and currently serves on boards of AT&T, Burberry, Marriott, and Procter and Gamble.

The Girl's Who Code founder who worked to bring girls to the forefront of STEM, has stepped back from the day-to-day running of the company she created, to focus her energy on helping one of the hardest hit demographics of the pandemic, stay-at-home mothers, with her Marshall Plan for Moms.

Rebecca Minkoff has a lucrative accessories and clothing business, a podcast--Superwomen with Rebecca Minkoff, a network--the Female Founder Collective, that supports women owned businesses, and in her spare time, has written her first book, Fearless: The New Rule for Unlocking Creativity, Courage and Success, which comes out this summer.

Deirdre Findlay is the global CMO and Chief Revenue at Conde Nast, where she oversees all consumer marketing efforts and is focused on driving consumer revenue, brand development, audience insights and growth, digital strategy, and increasing subscriptions and memberships.

Dawn Davis, the new Editor-in-Chief at Conde Nast's Bon Appetit, was most recently at Simon & Schuster, where she founded boutique imprint 37Ink. Her successes have included The Butler, by Wil Haygood, made into a movie by Lee Daniels, and The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl​, by Issa Rae.

Many of us mean to get more financially savvy, but put it off for various reasons - the concept is overwhelming, someone else in the family has been handling ( eg a partner), or it just feels too late in the game to dive in.

You might think that if you'd built a game-changing business into large global brand and successfully sold it to a powerful conglomerate, you'd sit back, put your feet up and bask in your success, rather than launch a parallel business in a now saturated market-place with a smaller team.

Renowned executive, Esi Eggleston Bracey has spent her the bulk of her career in the beauty industry, first at Procter & Gamble where she became the Senior Vice President & General Manager Global Cosmetics, then at Coty as the President of Consumer Beauty and now at Unilever, where she is currently the EVP + COO North America for Beauty and Personal Care, and it is no surprise her contributions to the industry have had profound impact.

With their enormous spending power and a specific set of ingrained but evolving values, Gen Z is changing the way companies do business. How do you scale commerce with them, build meaningful communities and embrace their approach to culture?

Company (and personal brand) crises are on the rise, but waiting until one happens is not an optimal path.

Tyrona Heath is the global lead at LinkedIn b2b Institute, a think tank within professional networking platform LinkedIn. She delivers educational content to help marketers stay on top of the latest digital marketing strategy.

Poppy Harlow is an Emmy nominated journalist and an anchor in the CNN Newsroom. Based in New York City, Harlow is also a correspondent for CNN, covering breaking news and reporting features and investigative stories.

The US government just released data showing significant increases in the Hispanic, Asian and multiracial populations, making Sheila Marmon’s masterclass particularly timely.

Sarah Hurwitz had an illustrious career working for the White House, working as senior speechwriter for President Barack Obama and then head speechwriter for First Lady Michelle Obama.

Robbie Myers is a seasoned media and fashion executive who for eighteen years served as Editor-in-Chief of ELLE, the #1 fashion magazine brand in the world. She reached over 28 million monthly readers across print, digital, mobile and social in the US alone. Today, Robbie brings 30+ years of creative, managerial and entrepreneurial experience to her current roles as a board member, consultant and advisor to companies in the world of tech, media and fashion.

Karen Robinovitz is a pioneer in the social media space. She was one of the first to create an influencer marketing agency, Digital Brand Architects, and see the potential in representing influencers and helping them to build their brands through social media. Now Robinovitz has turned her attention to TikTok and has done incredibly well on the platform.

Kimberly Evans Paige, Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at Black Entertainment Television (BET)Kimberly Evans Paige is the Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of BET.

Dawn Davis is the editor-in-chief of Bon Appetit, where she is the 3rd person of color to head one of Conde Nast’s American publications. Prior to that, she was the Vice President at Simon & Schuster, where she was the founder and publisher of 37 Ink, an imprint for historically marginalized voices.

Alana Mayo is the President of Orion Pictures, where she was hired to relaunch the MGM label to focus on underrepresented voices. She was previously Head of Production for Michael B. Jordan's production company, Outlier Society, where she oversaw the production of movies and TV shows including Just Mercy, Without Remorse, Fahrenheit 451, David Makes Man and Raising Dion.

Tina Wells author, marketing expert and business strategist. Tina Wells is an author, marketing expert and business strategist recognized by Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People in Business, Essence's 40 Under 40 and more.

Shannon Washington is Group Executive Creative Director of R/GA New York where she co-leads creative teams and opportunities for Google, Uber, MailChimp, Cigna, ESPN, and more.

Danielle DuBoise is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Sakara Life, the wellness brand on a mission to nourish and transform lives through the power of plants as medicine.

Aya Kanai is Head of Content and Creator Partnerships at Pinterest. She was previously Editor-In-Chief of the U.S. edition of Marie Claire magazine. Before her appointment at Marie Claire, Kanai was Hearst Magazines Chief Fashion Director since 2016, overseeing the fashion content for Cosmopolitan, Women's Health, Seventeen, and many more Hearst brands.

Bethanie Baynes is the Director of Corporate Partnerships at Amazon. Prior to that she spent 16 years at Google in a variety of roles including overseeing strategic partnerships and driving new business development, revenue management and analytical insights. She is a tireless women's advocate and recognized leader on the topic of breadwinning women.

Naomi Seligman is a nationally recognized strategic communications leader, a social innovator and an expert in high-stakes communication. She transforms organizations into powerhouses of influence. She has led successful local, state, national and international campaigns for advocacy organizations, elected officials, mission-driven corporations, tech innovators and entertainment industry luminaries through robust partnerships, cutting-edge tactics, creative marketing and media buzz.

Tamara Gruzbarg is a senior analytics and insights executive with 20 years of experience spanning diverse industries such as finance, consulting, Ecommerce, fashion retail and media. She previously led Data Analytics and Consumer Insights within Time Inc. Her team focused on harvesting a deep understanding of the consumer from both – subscriber and advertising standpoints.

The new brand rules are changing engagement strategies.

Anna is the CEO and Founder of Perx Technologies, a category-creating Lifestyle Marketing SaaS startup based out of Singapore. With over 20 years of global experience in enterprise software, Anna has held senior leadership positions across startups and global companies.

Sara Tervo has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer since September 2019. She joined Express from Justice where she was Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer from 2016 to 2019. From 1998 to 2016, she held multiple leadership positions at L Brands across marketing, creative services and public relations, including Executive Vice President, Marketing for Victoria’s Secret and Senior Vice President, Marketing for PINK.

Christina Blacken is a public speaker, performer, and founder of The New Quo. The New Quo is a leadership development and equity consultancy, helping leaders create inclusive practices, habits, and goals through their narrative intelligence, which is the psychological power of story to change behavior.

Richelle Fredson, book publishing consultant and the “six-figure book deal coach,” knows all the angles of the publishing biz.

If a Gen Z’er shares your household - or if you’re also chronically online - you might already be familiar with “panini” and “panorama” as synonyms for “pandemic,” and that “accountant” might mean something other than the professional who manages your books.

Retailers were hustling to drive sales this holiday season. The New York Times reported merchants weren’t only competing against each other, but against the clock as Americans continued to be buoyed by savings from the “pandemic era” (the Fed estimates about $1.7 trillion in extra savings) and a still-hot labor market, but were - and are - facing quickly-rising prices and increasing costs of borrowing.

Marcy is Chief Marketing Officer, Commercial Group at EagleView, Prior to EagleView, Marcy held leadership marketing roles at Spruce and as employee #3 at Austin based start-up Dosh (acquired) where she claimed the top spot on the App Store and secured $97M in VC funding. Prior to Dosh, Marcy was a senior marketer at Amazon, where she launched Amazon Supply (now Amazon Business), built marketing traffic for Woot (an Amazon subsidiary), and led a team to drive branding, promotion, traffic and analytics.

Elizabeth Rees is the founder of Chasing Paper, a pioneer and leader in the home decor industry, innovating beautiful, clever solutions for the modern home. As third generation in her family’s printing company, she grew up learning the ins and outs of ink, paper and patterns. With the belief that printing is not only a family tradition, but also a craft, Elizabeth carved out her own path in paper with Chasing Paper.

Lesley Pinckney is an accomplished marketing and digital transformation expert with a track record of building successful brands and businesses. With a focus on youth and diverse audiences, she has been a driver of marketing innovation for Fortune 500 brands across multiple categories. She’s held leadership positions in both public companies and start-ups.

Diana Pessin is an award-winning marketer with extensive senior leadership and management experience in product, direct-to-consumer, and data-driven marketing. Diana is the founder of NextPhase Advisors, which provides marketing, media, and data strategy consulting to companies looking to accelerate their growth.

Amanda Jedeikin is the cofounder of Revel (thisisrevel.com), an award-winning, strategy-first brand editorial agency producing high-quality, multimedia content for brands that are dedicated to improving people’s lives.