2013 Speakers
Keynotes
Bob Beaudine
Bob Beaudine is president and CEO of Eastman & Beaudine, the nation’s leading executive search firm in professional sports and entertainment. The Wall Street Journal named Eastman & Beaudine the “top ...
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Addie Broyles
Addie Broyles is a writer based in Austin, Texas. As a columnist for the Austin American-Statesman, she covers everything from cookbooks and recipes, to farmers markets, trends and food businesses in the Wednesday ...
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Leymah Gbowee
Leymah Gbowee is the 2011 Nobel Peace Laureate. She is a Liberian peace activist, trained social worker and women’s rights advocate. She is founder and president of the Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa, head of the ...
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Sallie Krawcheck
Sallie Krawcheck is a woman with a reputation for integrity, independence of thought, a sense of humor and an unrelenting focus on results. Krawcheck has often been referred to as one of the most successful and ...
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Jenny Lawson
Jenny Lawson is an award-winning blogger and is author of the New York Times #1 best-selling memoir “Let's Pretend This Never Happened.” She's known for her irreverent writing style and hilarious views on ...
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Vernā Myers
Vernā Myers, Esq., principal of Vernā Myers Consulting Group, LLC (VMCG), is a nationally recognized expert on diversity and inclusion within law firms, law departments and law schools. Myers is a dynamic speaker ...
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Rachael Ray
According to Rachael Ray, she grew surrounded by food. “My first vivid memory is watching my mom in a restaurant kitchen. She was flipping something with a spatula. I tried to copy her and ended up grilling my ...
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Esmeralda Santiago
Esmeralda Santiago was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She came to the United States at thirteen, the eldest in a family that would eventually include eleven children. In 1977, she and her husband, Frank Cantor, ...
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Breakout Session Speakers
Wendi Aarons
WENDI AARONS is an award-winning humor writer whose work has appeared in The New ...
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Miki Agrawal
Miki Agrawal is a serial social entrepreneur. She is the founder of the acclaimed ...
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Michelle Baden
Michelle Baden is managing director, corporate and government affairs for United ...
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Jessica Baker
Jessica Baker leads the development of The Respect Institute’s programming and ...
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Sera Bonds
Sera Bonds is the founder of Circle of Health International (COHI), a U.S.-based NGO ...
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Erin Cargile
Erin Cargile is an Emmy nominated reporter who anchors the weekend morning show on ...
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Natalie Madeira Cofield
Natalie Madeira Cofield currently serves as the president and CEO of the Capital City ...
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Trenesa Stanford Danuser
Trenesa Stanford Danuser has utilized her highly creative and strategic ...
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Janine Driver
Janine Driver is the founder, president and lead instructor for the Body Language ...
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Debbie Dunnam
Debbie Dunnam is senior vice president of Americas services at Cisco Systems. She ...
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Susie Ellwood
Susie Ellwood is publisher for the Austin American-Statesman. Ellwood began her media ...
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Delia Ephron
Delia Ephron is a bestselling author, screenwriter and playwright. Her book, ...
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Mauria Finley
Mauria Finley is the founder and CEO of Citrus Lane, an innovative social e-commerce ...
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Erica Ariel Fox
Erica Ariel Fox is a highly sought after advisor in organizational effectiveness and ...
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Shirley Franklin
Shirley C. Franklin is former Mayor of Atlanta. She is currently the Barbara Jordan ...
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Porter Gale
Porter Gale is an internationally known public speaker and entrepreneur with more ...
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Holly Gordon
Holly Gordon is executive director of 10x10. She sets the strategy and leads the ...
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Laura Huffman
Laura Huffman is the state director of The Nature Conservancy in Texas and heads a ...
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Deborah Jackson
Deborah Jackson is the founder and CEO of Plum Alley, an e-commerce and ...
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Emma Johnson
Emma Johnson is a fulltime freelance business writer and creator of ...
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Johnita Jones
Johnita Jones is the Texas Conference for Women board president and the Pipeline Risk ...
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Kelly LIvers
Kelly Livers has been with Schwab for almost 22 years, and is one of 10 regional ...
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ShaChelle Delvlin Manning
ShaChelle Devlin Manning is the director of innovation and enterprise integration for ...
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Dr. Sherri Reuland
Dr. Sherri Reuland became a business owner fresh out of orthodontic school when she ...
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Karen Reuther
Karen Reuther is a multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural design leader whose experience ...
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Jessica Shortall
Jessica Shortall has led a global career in social entrepreneurship built on ...
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Eileen Silvergleid
Eileen Silvergleid is a 20-year veteran of C-level sales and account management. ...
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Manisha Thakor
Manisha Thakor is the founder and CEO of MoneyZen Wealth Management. Known for ...
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Tracy Yelencsics
Tracy Yelencsics is director of global brand in corporate marketing and ...
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Randi Zuckerberg
Randi Zuckerberg served as the marketing director for Facebook for six years, where ...
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Expert Exchange
Dr. Laurence Altshuler
Dr. Laurence Altshuler is a board-certified internist at Cancer Treatment Centers of ...
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Tracy Carmen-Jones
Tracy Carmen-Jones is a leadership coach to high potential and C-suite leaders, ...
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Sandy Hoffman
Sandy Hoffman is chief diversity officer for Cisco. In this capacity, Hoffman is ...
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Sridevi Koneru Rao
Sridevi Koneru Rao is the business development director for the Cisco Services ...
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Lynn Tinney
Lynn D. Tinney is the director of strategy and planning at Cisco Systems in the ...
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Health & Wellness Pavilion Speakers
Amy Vickers
Amy Vickers has worked as the executive director of the Mothers’ Milk Bank of North ...
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Local Leader
Social Media Roundtable
Bryn Harrington
Bryn Harrington currently serves as the Austin community manager for Google+ Local, a ...
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Brittany Highland
Brittany Highland is the editor of the Austinot, the top-ranked blog about the city ...
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Nettie Reynolds
Nettie Reynolds is a laughter yoga teacher and marketing/branding consultant. She is ...
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