Summit Speakers
brought to you in partnership with 4XI Global Consulting
Georgina Miranda
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CEO of She Ventures. Mountaineer Athlete. Speaker. Author. Activist. “Women are the largest untapped resource in the world. Given equal opportunities, women hold the key to being the largest contributors of positive economic, social, and environmental change globally.”- Georgina
Featured & quoted in Forbes, Vox, Glamour, NBC News, Mindful Magazine, Intel, Women’s Health, Huff Post, Latina, & many more media outlets and films. She is a contributor for Thrive Global & Mindful Leader.
Barbara Boden
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Founding Managing Partner, 4xi Global Consulting. Global hospitality and employee amenity strategic thought leader with over 25 years in Corporate Services, Barbara leverages her innovative skills and deep network creating solutions that enhance the on-site experience. She developed and managed Global Amenities for JPMorgan Chase & Co for over 18 years prior to co-founding 4xi Global Consulting.
Nathalie Walton
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Nathalie Walton is the CEO of Expectful, the #1 meditation, and sleep app for growing families.
As a new mother, she experienced the failure of the US healthcare system as it pertains to nurturing the mental and emotional wellbeing of pregnant and new mothers. Nathalie joined Expectful to provide universal access to evidence-based wellness solutions, such as meditation, that help millions of women around the world navigate the new state of parenthood.
Brandi DeCarli
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Social entrepreneur, Explorer’s Club 50 Member, Tedx Speaker. Brandi is the Founding Partner & CEO of Farm from a Box, a cleantech powered infrastructure for community-based local food production. She is currently a SheEO Venture, a board member of Jordanian agritech accelerator HASSAD, and a Rising Talent with the Women's Forum. She is a frequent global speaker on technology's role in climate resilience, economic empowerment, and women's leadership, including her TEDx talk, "How technology and togetherness can transform our world." A firm believer in the power of collaboration, Brandi is passionate about rejecting old rules and driving positive change in the world through innovation, compassion, and connection.
Marianna Jamadi
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Founder, Travel Photographer, and Host.
Marianna is the founder of Oh Good Grief– an online platform aimed at changing the conversation around grief. After the loss of both her parents, she launched Oh Good Grief in 2020 in hopes of creating community and healing for those on their personal grief journeys. Oh Good Grief believes in the healing power of creativity and offers workshops in collaboration with different artists and wellness practitioners as a way to help people digest, express, and externalize their grief.
Marianna was awarded the VSCO Artist Initiative Grant and contributes to the likes of AFAR, Condé Nast Traveller, Rhapsody, FATHOM, and many more media outlets around the world.
Kate Williams
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Kate is CEO of 1% for the Planet, a global movement that inspires action and commitment so that our planet and future generations thrive. 1% for the Planet’s global network of thousands of businesses and individuals have given $100s of millions to environmental partners to date. Kate has led significant growth in the community’s scale and impact, as well as deep work on best practices for implementing high impact giving strategies, growing a network brand, and operating as an effective and innovative enterprise. Kate earned a BA at Princeton University and an MS at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and has served on a variety of Boards throughout her career. Kate is a mother, a trail runner, an active dog walker, and a kitchen gardener.
Claude Silver
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VaynerMedia’s —and for that matter— first ever Chief Heart Officer, Claude Silver fuses empathy with agency to unlock employee potential and foster a culture of belonging. Between her education in psychology, years as an advertising strategist, and time at VaynerMedia, she’s been studying and influencing human behavior for over three decades. Outside of VaynerMedia, she speaks globally about the need for heart-leadership in today’s workplace and the importance of treating “employees” like people, not numbers. Her success guiding client relationships, global brand strategies, operations, management, and culture is driven by an abiding passion for creating spaces in which people can thrive.
Prior to VaynerMedia, Claude held leadership positions at a handful of large advertising agencies both in the US and UK. She founded and ran an outdoor adventure & surf company in San Francisco where she was in the cold Pacific Ocean coaching 275 days a year. Simply put, her glass is always full!
Tianna Collins
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Founder. Yogini. Photographer. Artist. Community Builder.
Founder of CARDYoga— a practice for everyone. Living in the moment and taking the time for self care is important for the mind, body and soul. We detoxify our bodies and use our breath to meditate, helping us reach our wellness goals in a positive, healthy and successful way.
Lani Cooper
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Founder. Wellness Practitioner. Brain Injury Survivor. Australian businesswoman, stand up comedian, and purpose driven entrepreneur, Lani Cooper, is the Founder and CEO at MOBOT, a revolutionary fitness company, the first to patent the combined foam roller and a reusable, environmentally sustainable water bottle, based in Venice, CA. MOBOT has been featured in GQ, Forbes, goop, Self, Shape, Women’s Health, Men’s Health, Livestrong, and around the world.
Sruti Bharat
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Sruti is currently Senior Manager of Venture Programs at All Raise, a nonprofit dedicated to achieving gender equity among funders and founders in tech. She is also the founder of FutureMap, which supports first-generation college students in the transition from college to career. She has a background as an operator at an Industrial IoT enterprise software company for five years, an MBA from Kellogg, and consulting at Bain & Company.
Emily Green
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Emily is Head of Private Wealth Management at Ellevest. At Ellevest, she works with women and their families to help them achieve their full financial strength and independence. Emily leads the the business’ vision, growth planning, investment platform development, and financial advisor recruiting, as well as working one-on-one with client’s herself as a financial advisor. She especially enjoys helping clients align their investments with their values.
Emily previously worked at JP Morgan’s Private Bank as an advisor to high net worth individuals, families, endowments and foundations. While at JP Morgan, she realized that the investment industry was severely under-serving women and joined Ellevest to flip the script. Before JP Morgan she worked in London at Cantor Fitzgerald. Emily received a B.A. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Emily is a board member at Plan International USA and a Steering Committee Member of Alvin Ailey’s Young Patron Circle in New York.
Marisela García Márquez
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Marisela is an experienced leader with a passion for building meaningful connections and inclusive communities that transcend borders and bridge cultural divides. With an unwavering commitment to creating opportunities that demonstrate the value that diverse women bring to the industry, in 2019 Marisela launched the Global Women in Venture initiative, building a strong community of rising women in venture capital that promotes a global pipeline of female investors, empowers a growing collective of Change-Makers, and establishes a pathway towards diversification and gender equity.
Emily Warne
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Emily Warne is the Director of the US Office of Panzi Hospital and Foundations (Panzi), a non-governmental organization that provides survivors of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo with access to compassionate, holistic care. She is responsible for managing strategic partnerships, fundraising, and communications, as well as media relations and event planning for the organization's founder, 2018 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Dr. Denis Mukwege.
Emily has over a decade of experience in non-profit development, marketing, and operations, with a focus on global health and education. She has worked with organizations based in the Middle East, North Africa, and East Africa, and comes to Panzi most recently from a maternal health systems innovator affiliated with the Vanderbilt University Institute of Global Health.
Farah Daou
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Farah is an Associate at VU Venture Partners. At VU, she works as part of the Consumer team to help invest in pre-seed through growth companies around the world. Previously, Farah worked as a founder and operator in the Food industry. She also worked in Investment Banking and Business Valuation. Farah is passionate about women’s rights and social justice and contributes her time to mentoring and helping other women succeed.
Susie Arnett
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Susie Arnett is the Director of Wellness Programming for Six Senses where she develops both in-person and virtual programming for properties around the world. She is a passionate explorer of all things wellness and is inspired by the possibility of creating a healthier world through the combination of ancient knowledge and practices and modern, evidence-based tools.
Rebecka Zavaleta
Rebecka Zavaleta has worked in financial technology and is the founder of First Milli, which helps people reach their first $1 million in net worth. She was named by NextAdvisor in partnership with Time Magazine as a top money expert in 2020. She creates wealth building content from a first-gen perspective. She works in tech as a Product Manager developing software in adtech and fintech for over the last 10 years.
More speakers to be announced shortly…