As of March 12, 2025. Subject to change.
Lauren Beane
Producer of the “Ready Enough” podcast and TEDx speaker
Named among the top 50 female speakers in the U.S., Lauren Beane equips audiences to take the leap and believe they are ready enough by offering tools, coaching, and her personal stories so they can embrace and own their unique talents. Too often, Beane says, she would not act on her goals unless she felt confident that she had all the answers. But in 2020, Beane grew tired of waiting until she felt ready to pursue new opportunities. After taking a huge leap and launching the consulting business of her dreams, she is now on a mission to empower others to feel they are ready enough (even with only 50% of the answers) and live out the life they deserve. Her directive: Let’s stop waiting until that perfect moment to reach our goals. Let’s act now and believe we are ready enough.
Lauren Jones
Chief Executive Officer, Leap Advisory Partners
A staffing industry powerhouse. Workforce technology whiz. Change management mastermind. Fierce female leader champion. Professional storyteller. Lauren Jones is all these things as well as the founder and now president of Leap Advisory Partners (formerly Leap Consulting Solutions). After decades as an innovator and influencer in the staffing industry, Jones founded Leap to make recruiting companies more efficient, more successful, and more human. How? By helping firms define and understand their technology needs, embrace change, and ensure adoption of a firm’s largest investment.
Michelle Penelope King, Ph.D.
Best-selling author, award-winning speaker, and expert on organizational culture
Michelle Penelope King is a globally recognized expert on inequality and organizational culture. Based on more than a decade’s worth of research, King believes that we must first learn how workplaces work, so we can make them work for everyone. She is the host of a popular podcast called The Fix as well as the author of two best-selling and award-winning books: The Fix: Overcome the Invisible Barriers That Are Holding Women Back at Work and How Work Works.
King has been featured in the Economist, Harvard Business Review, CNBC, CNN Business, Fortune, Financial Times, Bloomberg, and many other media outlets because of her expertise and knowledge of how successful organizations work. She is an award-winning speaker, having spoken at 500+ events worldwide including conferences like the Nobel Peace Prize Conference, Ellevate Network Conference, Massachusetts Conference for Women, Texas Conference for Women, SXSW, and the She Summit.
In each of her roles, King lends her expertise to advance gender equality and enhance global opportunity and achievement for women. In 2022, she was named LinkedIn’s Top Voice for Workplace Equity and was recognized as one of the Top 100 Women at Davos by Global Women’s Leadership Experts.
Charlie Saffro
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, CS Recruiting
Charlie Saffro empowers leaders to uncover their everyday power, embrace their influence, and create extraordinary outcomes. As founder and CEO of CS Recruiting, Saffro knows leadership goes beyond metrics—it thrives on trust, collaboration, and engagement. An experienced keynote speaker, TEDx presenter, and thought leader, she inspires audiences to make a difference and foster cultures they’re proud of. Her passion for a human-centered workplace drives her mission to help leaders recognize the power of small actions, create meaningful ripple effects, and build thriving teams and cultures.
Nika White, Ph.D.
Founder, Nika White Consulting
Known as the “inequity disrupter,” Dr. White has spent the last 20 years educating, empowering and challenging organizations and individuals. Founder of Nika White Consulting, she is a globally recognized authority on diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. With more than 20 years of leadership experience, she has worked with 200+ corporate, educational, government, and nonprofit brands, managing more than $200 million in assets. Dr. White is also a published author with strategic diversity and inclusion expertise. Renowned for her engaging keynote speeches, she has delivered more than 200 presentations nationwide on team engagement, leadership, race equity, and intentional inclusion, offering audiences holistic takeaways with her unique blend of expertise and authentic style. Her thought leadership has been cited in national business magazines, including Forbes and Entrepreneur.
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