Jazzercise Founder and CEO Judi Sheppard Missett successfully transformed her passion for dance into a worldwide fitness sensation. Today after 45 successful years she is CEO, teaches classes, choreographs routines, travels extensively as a presenter, writes as a featured blogger for Huffington Post, and oversees corporate staff and 7,800 franchisees teaching 32,000 classes weekly in 32 countries. Jazzercise was named the #1 Women Owned Business ...

Susan McGlory Michel is the founder and CEO of Glen Eagle Advisors, LLC, a full-service investment securities firm headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 2003, Glen Eagle Advisors maintains registered representatives in six states and manages more than $350 million in assets. Michel volunteers for numerous church, community and professional organizations and recently completed 10 years of board service to the Saint Paul School of Prin...

Martha is the founder of ATHENA International. She envisioned and established an international non-profit organization dedicated to opening leadership opportunities for women through the ATHENA Award, ATHENA PowerLink, ATHENA World Cafe, Globalinks, ATHENA Young Professional Award, ALM Leadership Program. ATHENA was founded in 1982 and Martha served as president until 1999, with permanent membership status on the Board of Directors and Executive ...

Andrea March has successfully reinvented herself several times as a woman business owner and leader. Co-founding the Women's Leadership Exchange®, she says, is the fulfillment of her destiny, the culmination of all her previous experience, in business and in life. After selling real estate for some years, she and her husband Sy launched a jewelry import and distribution company, Andrea March Accessories. Andrea, who had always had a passion for j...

The European Awarded Leadership & Personal Branding Strategist A Life-time Entrepreneur, founder Connected-Women, co-founder BRANDit.  Runa is a founding and steering committee member at ATL Europe, The Association of Transformational Leaders in Europe and the vice-president at FKA – The Icelandic Association of Women Business Leaders. Runa is a sought after international speaker, known for her fun and highly interactive seminars and wor...

Quantum Leaps’ CEO has been a trailblazing advocate for women’s entrepreneurship for several decades. In the 1980s, she was Vice President for Public Policy for the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) in the United States, and subsequently its National President. She was also one of the three primary architects of the Women’s Business Ownership Act – referred to as “the Big Bang of women’s entrepreneurship” in the US – which bec...

Margery Kraus, president and chief executive officer of APCO Worldwide, a global consulting firm headquartered in Washington, D.C., specializes in public affairs, communication and business consulting for major multinationals.Ms. Kraus founded APCO in 1984 and has transformed it from a company with one small Washington office to a multinational consulting firm in major cities throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. In S...

Caryn is the Chief Door Opener® at Kopp Consulting whose Door Opener® Service has helped thousands of business owners and sales people secure initial meetings with high level decision makers in almost every major Fortune 500 company including P&G, Pfizer, GE, Merck, Verizon, AT&T, Time Warner, Kraft, Target, CBS and the list goes on and on.During a period of time when gaining new customers has become almost impossible, Kopp Cons...

Sung-Joo Kim was inaugurated as the President of the Korean Red Cross in Oct 2014. She is the Chairperson and Chief Visionary Officer of the Sungjoo Group (Korea) and MCM Holding AG (Germany). She established Sungjoo Group in 1990 and launched premium fashion brands in Korea such as Gucci, Sonia Rikyel, and YSL as well as the products of the largest fashion distribution company based in the United Kingdom, Marks & Spencer. Since the group’s e...

For nearly twenty-five years Karen Kerrigan’s leadership, advocacy and training work has helped foster U.S. entrepreneurship and global small business growth.  She is  president & CEO of the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council, and is the group’s chief advocate for its members. Kerrigan regularly testifies before the U.S. Congress on the key issues impacting entrepreneurs and the economy, and has been appointed to numerous...

Nina Kaufman is a small business champion—not your ordinary business attorney. She's on a mission to help small businesses make more money, more consistently ("scale") so they can maximize their options down the road.Forbes Magazine calls Kaufman "One of the 25 Most Influential Women Tweeting about Entrepreneurship." The U.S. Small Business Administration named her their regional Women in Business Champion of the Year. In over 15 years in busines...

MarilynjSpeaks.com is the website to locate "The Global Ambassador" -- Marilyn D. Johnson -- who speaks with individuals, groups, organizations, and audiences, all over the globe. Johnson engages every attendee with her special understanding of leadership and empowerment. She does not lecture, she captivates, inspires and escorts her listener into a new comfort zone. Marilyn has a unique ability to connect with millennials, young professionals, m...