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Alexandra Whittington is a futurist writer and speaker who explores the future of humanity and society. She is a member of the Future of Business team at TCS, where she helps clients navigate the complex and uncertain world of tomorrow. She is a former Lecturer in Foresight at the University of Houston and co-author and co-editor of several books such as A Very Human Future, Aftershocks and Opportunities, and The Future Reinvented. She has been featured as one of the world’s top women futurists by Forbes and delivered a TEDx talk called The Museum of the Future. She is passionate about empowering people to imagine and create positive futures for themselves and their communities.
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Chief Hustler
As a strategic thinker and consultant, Lisa is well known for her ability to investigate and look beyond the obvious, to adapt, pivot, strategize and execute an adaptive advantage in your business by making the right connections with the right people who have the right products and services. A powerhouse connector and speaker, her clients love that she is fearless, scrappy, passionate, full of grit and unstoppable. No hurdle is too high and no ask is too small when looking to get a strategic edge on your future. Having worked working with some of the most recognized thought-leaders in the world, Lisa has many stories and Edge Learning lessons to create memorable moments for audiences.
More than $10,000
Marline Francois Madden is the owner of Hearts Empowerment Counseling Center, best selling author of The State of Black Girls, a phenomenal public speaker, and entrepreneur. With over 15 years of clinical experience, she has become a sought-after expert in mental health, trauma, self-care, and girls' leadership. Marline has shared her expertise at dozens of universities, colleges, community organizations, churches and conferences— including the Congressional Black Caucus for Women and Girls. Marline Francois-Madden is creating equity within the mental health space through the execution of self-care driven experiences dedicated to black girls around the world. One million. It’s the number driving Marline’s relentless work as she seeks to build black girls up one after another by way of policy-facing advocacy, holistic therapy, comprehensive education and civic engagement that consistently drives impact and change in mental uplift. Through the establishment of an evolving safe space embracing every background and experience, innovative projects are executed to expand therapeutic access for girls around the world. With tireless determination to normalize mental healing, Marline’s educational leadership exposes fellow therapists to the methods driving private practice success in order to serve more girls in the most conscious, unique and effective way. Always moving the needle as the Transformative Social Worker, best-selling author, creative entrepreneur, and activist, Marline is unapologetic in her steps to be the champion for black girls on their journey of self-care, awareness, optimum well-being and ultimate freedom. She was named by the White House as a Nominated Changemaker at the State of the Women summit during the Obama administration. Her work has been featured on HuffPost, Business Insider, Essence, Hot 97, Fox5, Bustle, Psych Central, and various media platforms. Marline has a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Penn State University and a Masters of Social Work degree from Rutgers University - Newark. She is the Chair of the National Association of Social Worker -Legislative and Social Action committee. She is currently licensed as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the state of New Jersey.
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Trina's passion is making the technology industry equal for Women of Color in Tech. She uses her over two decades of experience in tech to educate on the obstacles that Women of Color in Tech face. Trina advocates and teaches companies how to hire, promote, and retain Women of Color in Tech to create a truly diverse and inclusive profession. Trina L. Martin is an author, international speaker, technologist, and podcaster. She uses her experiences to motivate audiences to overcome adversity, develop self-determination, and discipline. Trina also inspires emerging leaders to pursue their wildest dreams with heart and grit. An accomplished I.T.professional and retired U.S. Naval Officer with 30 years of service, she has broken barriers and made strides in her career that many said weren’t possible. A native of Chicago, IL, Trina is the youngest of four children. The first in her family to attend college, and due to the lack of support at home, she knew she would have to achieve her goal on her own. With unwavering determination, she enlisted in the U.S. Army and served in the reserves to put herself through school at Alabama A&M University. Both of these choices fueled Trina’s desire to succeed and revealed the depths of her resiliency. After several years in the Army, Trina transferred to the Navy and earned an MBA from WesternInternational University. Naturally skilled at finding the harmony between technology, science, and data, she has led a stellar career in the Information Technology field. As an Intelligence Officer in the U.S. Navy, a Cyber Intelligence Analyst for the FBI, and now as the owner of her technology company, Trina has pierced the glass ceiling and excelled in positions typically held by men. Throughout Trina’s career, the common denominator has been her ability to set goals and not only achieve but surpass them. Self-motivation, discipline, and hard work are the driving forces that helped her design a life and career that defied the odds stacked against her. As a speaker, she takes a refreshingly honest and relatable approach to teach leaders, professionals, and women how to develop the confidence they need to do the same. Based in Houston, TX, when she’s not helping others realize their full potential in the office or on a stage, the role she values most is that of mom to her two children.
$5,001 - $10,000
I am a License LMFT with over 20 years in the field. I enjoy motivating and encouraging others as I have a way of being funny, entertaining as I educate and provide information. I am a business owner, podcast host, co-author and diversity leader trainer.
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Karena Calhoun, is a North Carolina native currently doing life with her best friend and husband in Richmond, Virginia for the last ten years. Karena; a Certified Mindset and Life Coach guides women entrepreneurs to level up in their business by unveiling their authentic selves, discovering their purpose, increasing their self confidence and destroying self defeating obstacles! This in turns helps women to reach their goals and pull their vision towards them. Karena began her coaching practice in January 2018 as a side hustle. In 2019, after 22 years and an abrupt corporate-wide shut down; Karena began full time in her coaching business. In 2020 Karena began a journey of unveiling her authentic self and discovering her true purpose. During this time Karena began to understand that what she had been doing to help women since 2009 through outreach was definitely her purpose and calling. Today Karena helps women entrepreneurs destroy negative self talk, overwhelm, and other malicious obstacles that come against their purpose. Karena has become for other women entrepreneurs what she needed when she first launched her own business as a side hustle. Today Karena offers a range of programs and services - from individual coaching, to group coaching, webinars, summits and as a host of an international podcast launched in January 2020.
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Founder
Kirsty is an organisational thought leader, having built large global companies through innovative processes. She is an expert in empowering winning teams, increasing creativity and innovation, developing professional confidence and resilience and powerful communication. Having built a successful global marketing agency and partnering with companies such as IBM, Virgin Atlantic and IKEA she has a wealth of real world corporate experience which she brings to her speaking. Kirsty and her work has been featured on Forbes, Inc, Metro, Bustle, HR News, Happiful Magazine, Consultancy UK alongside many others. She is an accomplished keynote speaker and travels across the globe speaking to audiences of thousands about business disruption and collaboration. In this capacity, she partners with Canada based enterprise Shine Bootcamp to help hundreds of women across the UK, Canada and the USA kickstart their professional speaking careers. She is accredited with the Neuroleadership Institute in brain based coaching and is an expert in organisational neuroscience, using scientific evidence to support her corporate work and experience. She is also a standup comedian, having ran a sold out one woman show at globally acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe in 2016, and brings this passion for humour into her work. She is author of the award nominated book "The Future of Freelance" and lives between London and LA with her husband and their baby child Amazon Alexa.
$1,501 - $5,000
Lindsay Watson has had over 13 years of experience in Human Resources. She is a relationship management professional and public speaker, with a passion to “connect the dots” in the world of staffing. Ms. Watson is the Co-Founder, and Vice President of Business Development of FIA NYC, LLC. Employment Services. Based in Lehigh Valley, PA and founded in 2012, FIA NYC is a premium staffing firm, providing IT, Marketing, Creative, Broadcast, Finance and Administrative staffing solutions throughout the United States. She specializes in establishing and cultivating business relationships with clients ranging from startup to Fortune 100. During her four year tenure at a Wall Street staffing firm, Ms. Watson was responsible for developing multi-million dollar relationships with Fortune 500 companies such as American Express, NBC Universal and Time Warner, generating over $1.5M in revenue in one year. Her prior experience in human resources and relationship management included recruiting talent from blue collar to C-suite corporate executives, through her work at Goldman Sachs (Recruiting Coordinator), Deutsche Bank (Training Manager) and The Related Group of Companies (Recruiter). Ms. Watson holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Communication Arts from St. John’s University. In addition to staffing and recruiting, Ms. Watson is an active public speaker, mentors young women, services as an active leader at her church, and is a volunteer with the Red Cross Disaster Action Team. She enjoys cooking, and pursuing her personal passion of weather and meteorology.
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I have worked in the private and public sectors for over 15 years. I have an educational and work background in the international relations and non-profit fields. I have experience in coaching, in particular women in all stages of their lives and I have partnered with families in creating as much balance as possible in their homes.
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