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
Kate Betts Fashion and style expert, author of Everyday Icon: Michelle Obama and the Power of Style and the memoir My Paris Dream
Jennifer Finney Boylan Author of the bestselling memoir She's Not There and celebrated LGBTQ activist
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
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
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
Sherry Lansing First woman to lead a major motion picture studio, former President of 20th Century Fox, and former Chairman of Paramount Pictures
Amanda Lucidon Obama White House photographer, award-winning filmmaker, and New York Times-bestselling author
Marisa Acocella Marchetto Graphic artist, breast cancer survivor, and author of Cancer Vixen and Ann Tenna
Paula McLain New York Times-bestselling author of The Paris Wife, Circling the Sun, and Love and Ruin.
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
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