These author speakers inspire and empower audiences, bringing their unique perspectives to a diverse range of topics relevant to women’s interests.
Laura Vanderkam Productivity expert and author of 168 Hours, I Know How She Does It, and The New Corner Office
Joanna Barsh McKinsey Director Emeritus, bestselling author of How Remarkable Women Lead and Centered Leadership and Grow Wherever You Work.
Brit Bennett Novelist of National Book Award nominated, New York Times-bestselling The Vanishing Half, and National Book Foundation 2016 5 Under 35 Honoree
Cat Bohannon Researcher and Author of Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
Katherine Boo Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and National Book Award-winning author of Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Jennifer Finney Boylan Author of the bestselling memoir She's Not There and celebrated LGBTQ activist
June Eric-Udorie Feminist activist, Editor of Can We All Be Feminists? and DEI Programme Manager for Flexa
Danielle Evans Recipient of the National Book Foundation's 'Under 35' award and author of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self and The Office of Historical Corrections
Dr. Marisa G. Franco Psychologist, professor, friendship expert, and New York Times-bestselling author of Platonic
Dr. Michele Harper Emergency room physician and author of the New York Times-bestselling The Beauty in Breaking
Daisy Khan Women's advocate, media commentator, and Executive Director of the Women's Islamic Initiative
Amanda Lucidon Obama White House photographer, award-winning filmmaker, and New York Times-bestselling author
Paula McLain New York Times-bestselling author of The Paris Wife, Circling the Sun, Love and Ruin and When the Stars Go Dark
Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin Author of Becoming Heroines, activist, and founder and CEO of The Gaia Project for Women's Leadership
Tara Mohr Founder of the acclaimed global Playing Big leadership program and expert on women's leadership and well-being
Leila Mottley Award–winning author of Oprah’s Book Club selection Nightcrawling and former Youth Poet Laureate of Oakland
Jenny Nordberg Award-winning investigative reporter, foreign correspondent, and author of The Underground Girls of Kabul
Victoria Sweet Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, prize-winning historian, and author of God's Hotel and Slow Medicine
Linda Kaplan Thaler Advertising Hall of Fame luminary, Chairman of Publicis Kaplan Thaler, and bestselling author of Power of Nice and Grit to Great
Michelle Zauner Frontwoman of Japanese Breakfast and author of New York Times bestselling Crying in H Mart