Women's Interest Speakers

These author speakers inspire and empower audiences, bringing their unique perspectives to a diverse range of topics relevant to women’s interests.

Cheryl Strayed

Author of the #1 New York Times-bestselling memoir Wild and "Dear Sugar" columnist

Laura Vanderkam

Productivity expert and author of 168 Hours, I Know How She Does It, and The New Corner Office

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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

Kate Betts

Fashion and style expert, author of Everyday Icon: Michelle Obama and the Power of Style and the memoir My Paris Dream

Alisyn Camerota

Author, journalist, and anchor of the CNN morning news program New Day.

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

Gillian Flynn

Award-winning author of the #1 bestselling novel Gone Girl

Jane Fonda

Award-winning actress, bestselling author of My Life So Far, and fitness expert

Lisa Gardner

#1 New York Times-bestselling crime thriller novelist

Annabelle Gurwitch

New York Times Bestselling author, humorist, popular television host and storyteller.

Dr. Michele Harper

Emergency room physician and author of the New York Times-bestselling The Beauty in Breaking

J. Kelly Hoey

Networking expert and author of Build Your Dream Network

Cathy Park Hong

Award-winning poet and New York Times-bestselling author of Minor Feelings

Therese Huston

Author of Let’s Talk: Make Effective Feedback Your Superpower

Tania Katan

Creative disruptor, inspirational speaker, and co-creator of the viral campaign #ItWasNeverADress.

Daisy Khan

Women's advocate, media commentator, and Executive Director of the Women's Islamic Initiative

Julie Klam

New York Times-bestselling author of Friendkeeping and You Had Me at Woof

Anne Kreamer

Journalist, media expert, and author of Risk/Reward

Jean Kwok

Award-winning author of Girl in Translation

Jen Lancaster

New York Times-bestselling memoirist and author of The Tao of Martha

Sherry Lansing

First woman to lead a major motion picture studio, former President of 20th Century Fox, and former Chairman of Paramount Pictures

Ariel Lawhon

Critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author and cofounder of SheReads.org

Ariel Levy

Author of the New York Times-bestselling memoir The Rules Do Not Apply

Amanda Lucidon

Obama White House photographer, award-winning filmmaker, and New York Times-bestselling author

Angie McArthur

Co-author of Collaborative Intelligence and speaker on intellectual diversity

Paula McLain

New York Times-bestselling author of The Paris Wife, Circling the Sun, and Love and Ruin.

Rebecca Mead

Author of literary memoir My Life In Middlemarch, New Yorker staff writer

Tara Mohr

Founder of the acclaimed global Playing Big leadership program and expert on women's leadership and well-being

Jenny Nordberg

Award-winning investigative reporter, foreign correspondent, and author of The Underground Girls of Kabul

Robin Oliveira

Bestselling author of My Name Is Mary Sutter and I Always Loved You

Priya Parker

Facilitator, strategic advisor, and author of The Art of Gathering

Eve Rodsky

New York Times-bestselling author of Fair Play

Hanna Rosin

Journalist and author of The End of Men: And the Rise of Women

Domenica Ruta

Author of the New York Times-bestselling memoir With or Without You

Marjane Satrapi

Academy Award-nominated director, cartoonist, and author of Persepolis

Dani Shapiro

Bestselling author of Hourglass and Inheritance, host of the Family Secrets podcast.

Sadia Shepard

Documentary filmmaker and author of The Girl from Foreign

Suzanne Simard

Leader of The Mother Tree Project and Professor of Forest Ecology

Victoria Sweet

Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, prize-winning historian, and author of God's Hotel

Linda Kaplan Thaler

Advertising Hall of Fame luminary, Chairman of Publicis Kaplan Thaler, and bestselling author of Power of Nice and Grit to Great

Ayelet Waldman

Acclaimed memoirist and author of Bad Mother and Love and Treasure

Holly Whitaker

Bestselling author of Quit Like a Woman and Founder of Tempest, Inc.