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Gloria Steinem
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Jessica Aguirre
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Laura Garcia
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Jess Lee
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Ann Miura-Ko
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Breakout Session Speakers
Tiffany Aliche
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Hillary Frank
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Tracy Layney
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Morra Aarons-Mele
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Mary Abbajay
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Tara Arvedson Arvedson
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Jean Case
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Annabel Chang
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Joy Cho
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Iris Choi
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Harmony Downs
HARMONY DOWNS is an experienced HR professional with a dual role as HR business partner and diversity and inclusion specialist for Applied Materials, in... Read Full Bio
Annie Duke
ANNIE DUKE is an author, and experienced corporate speaker and consultant on the behavior of decision making. In 2018, her first book for general audien... Read Full Bio
Jennifer Dulski
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Kristen Dumont
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Ellen Ensher
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Marc Freedman
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Amy Gallo
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Meena Harris
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Zoe Harte
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Sally Helgesen
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Tiffany Jana
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Jennifer Kahnweiler
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Sarah LaFleur
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Rebecca Lynn
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Sara Mauskopf
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Charmaine McClarie
CHARMAINE McCLARIE is a C-suite adviser, keynote speaker, executive coach, and executive presence authority who helps leaders have their best year ever.... Read Full Bio
Marion McGovern
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Ann Miura-Ko
ANN MIURA-KO is a founding partner at Floodgate, a seed-stage VC firm in Palo Alto, CA. Called “the most powerful women in startups” by Forbes, Miu... Read Full Bio
Kati Morton
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Sheryl O'Loughlin
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Amber Rae
AMBER RAE has been called "the Brené Brown of wonder” by Mind Body Green, and a “millennial motivator” by Fortune magazine. Rae is an author, a... Read Full Bio
Laurie Ruettimann
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Alice Rutkowski
ALICE RUTKOWSKI is a vice president at SAGIN, where she serves nationally as executive communications coach. Rutkowski joined SAGIN with more than thirty... Read Full Bio
Kim Scott
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Tali Sharot
DR. TALI SHAROT is a leading expert on human decision-making, optimism and emotion. She combines research in psychology, behavioral economics and neuros... Read Full Bio
Brad Smith
DAVID SMITH, PhD, is the co-author of Athena Rising: How and Why Men Should Mentor Women and associate professor of sociology in the Department ... Read Full Bio
Krista Suh
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Rachel Thomas
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Margalit Ward
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Claire Wasserman
CLAIRE WASSERMAN is a community builder, and an advocate for women in the workplace. She founded Ladies Get Paid, an organization that gives women the t... Read Full Bio
Leah Weiss
LEAH WEISS, PhD is a researcher, lecturer, consultant, and author. She teaches compassionate leadership at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, whe... Read Full Bio
Kristin Wong
KRISTIN WONG regularly writes about personal finance, career, and human behavior for the New York Times, New York magazine, and Lifehac... Read Full Bio
Small Business Roundtable
Margalit Ward
MARGALIT WARD is a certified empowerment and executive coach, cofounder of Professional Women’s Network LA, and facilitator for Thrive Global and the E... Read Full Bio
Joanne Black
JOANNE BLACK is the founder of No More Cold Calling and America’s leading authority on referral selling. She works with business owners, salespeople, ... Read Full Bio
Mary Cravets
MARY CRAVETS is a business development expert and international speaker who helps entrepreneurs significantly grow their businesses without working night... Read Full Bio
Manufou Liaiga-Anoa'i
MANUFOU LIAIGA-ANOA’I is founder and executive director of Pacific Islander Community Partnership “Engage, Educate and Empower” program, and Camp Unity. Camp Unity... Read Full Bio
Olga Mack
OLGA V. MACK is a blockchain strategist, public speaker, and adjunct professor at Berkeley Law. She is vice president of strategy at Quantstamp, the firs... Read Full Bio
Sara Robinson
SARA ROBINSON has spent the past decade as a mental skills coach, helping individuals change the way they think and feel to create positive behavioral c... Read Full Bio
Rene Siegel
RENE SHIMADA SIEGEL is extremely passionate about empowering colleagues and advocating for the next generation of communicators. She is the founder and C... Read Full Bio
Tech Roundtables
Archana Gilravi
ARCHANA GILRAVI is the VP of partnerships at the Sheryl Sandberg and Dave Goldberg Foundation, the nonprofit organization behind LeanIn.Org and OptionB.O... Read Full Bio
