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Event: Past Speakers

Jean Oelwang

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Jean Oelwang is a collaboration architect, founding CEO of Virgin Unite, and a B Team Leader who has spent her career bringing influential leaders and organizations together to tackle global challenges. She has helped incubate initiatives including The Elders, The B Team, Ocean Unite, and Carbon War Room, and is passionate about the transformative power […]

Daisy Auger-Domínguez

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Daisy Auger-Domínguez is a global people and culture leader, author, and speaker who has shaped organizations including Google, Disney, Moody’s, and VICE Media. Now Global Chief People Officer at fintech company Digital Asset, she is passionate about sustainable leadership, inclusive cultures, and building organizations where people can thrive.

Jordana M. Pourian

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Jordana Pourian is the Senior Vice President of Operations and Chief of Staff at Aritzia — an innovative design house and fashion boutique. Aritzia believes all women deserve Everyday Luxury and delivers this through, beautifully-made clothes, exceptional experiences and aspirational environments. Founded in 1984, the company has grown to include boutiques across North America including […]

Halla Tómasdóttir

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Presidential Candidate (2016) & TED Speaker, Iceland Halla is a Change Catalyst on a quest to inspire and empower leaders to release the value of principle-based and gender balanced leadership. She has passionately pursued this purpose as a business leader in Corporate America with M&M and Pepsi Cola, as the first female CEO of Iceland’s […]

Jody Wilson-Raybould

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The Honourable Jody Wilson-Raybould was elected as the Member of Parliament for the new constituency of Vancouver Granville on October 19, 2015. On November 4, 2015, Ms. Wilson-Raybould was appointed the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada making her the first Indigenous person to serve in this portfolio. She then served as Minister […]

Shelley Zalis

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Shelley Zalis, known as the “chief troublemaker,” is a pioneer for online research, movement leader, and champion of gender equality. She is an internationally renowned entrepreneur, speaker, mentor, mother, and founder and CEO of The Female Quotient. Zalis rewrites the rules and innovates solutions to impact real change. In 2000, she left the corporate world […]

Esther Wojcicki

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Esther Wojcicki is the founder of the Palo Alto High Media Arts Program and the 2002 California Teacher of the Year; a recipient of the Gold Key by Columbia Scholastic Press Association; a 2009 MacArthur Foundation Research Fellow; and the 2011 Charles O’Malley Award recipient from Columbia Scholastic Press. Dr. Wojcicki was Chair of Creative […]

Tiffany Dufu

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Tiffany Dufu is founder and CEO of The Cru. Their algorithm matches circles of women who collaborate to meet their personal and professional goals. She’s also the author of the bestselling book Drop the Ball: Achieving More by Doing Less. According to foreword contributor Gloria Steinem, Drop the Ball is “important, path-breaking, intimate and brave.” […]

Joanna Griffiths

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Joanna Griffiths is the Founder and President of intimate apparel and activewear brands Knix, Kt by Knix and MNTD. Since launching the company in 2013, Joanna has been credited with helping invent the leakproof underwear category, which is considered the fastest growing segment within intimate hygiene and has changed the lives of millions of people […]

Jen Murtagh

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Jen Murtagh is the co-founder of Maturn, an organization dedicated to supporting, developing, and retaining women at work as they navigate key life transitions, including fertility, maternity leave, motherhood, and peri/menopause. With over 20 years of experience in corporate and nonprofit sectors, Jen is a recognized leader, strategist, and advocate for gender equity, known for […]