Adi Klevit is a systems and process expert and the Founder and CEO of Business Success Consulting Group. With nearly three decades of experience, she and her team help fast-growing companies bring structure to their operations, increase profitability, and scale effectively. Known as the “Process Guru,” Adi specializes in translating complex and often undocumented workflows into clear, actionable systems that drive consistency, accountability, and...

Sharita E. Warfield, MD, MS, DipABLM, is a board-certified Emergency and Lifestyle Medicine physician, executive health strategist, and nationally recognized voice on menopause, leadership, and high performance. With over 30 years of frontline medical experience and as a certified life coach, she helps high-achieving women leaders navigate perimenopause, menopause, and midlife transitions without sacrificing their health, productivity, or profess...

Kay Unger is a fashion designer, entrepreneur and philanthropist based in New York. For more than forty years, her flattering, feminine looks have made her one of America’s most popular designers for first ladies, anchorwomen, business women, partygoers and bridal parties.  After graduating from Parsons School of Design, Kay entered the fashion world in 1968 as a design assistant to Geoffrey Beene. Two years later, she founded her own dress ...

Jeska Brodbeck of Be Light Consulting has for the last 18 years studied and practiced the disciplines of Flow State, one of the most researched and sought-after brain states known to humanity. Through her interactive keynotes, executive performance coaching and corporate workshops, she has taught countless business professionals how to step into a new world of meaning and enjoyment while also experiencing the highest levels of performance possibl...

Erika Baez-Grimes, CM&AP, is an award-winning M&A advisor, founder, and dealmaker with more than 15 years of experience leading complex transactions across a range of industries. Through her portfolio of companies, she leads firms that deliver certified business valuations, transaction strategy, pricing optimization, asset protection, and ownership transition services, guiding founders through critical inflection points in their businesse...

Keisha A. Rivers, M.Ed. is the Founder and Chief Leadership Infrastructure Architect of Equipped for Change®, a management consulting firm specializing in Leadership Infrastructure™, organizational design, governance, decision architecture, executive advisory, and management system development. Through her work, Keisha helps founders, executives, and leadership teams reduce founder dependence, clarify decision ownership, strengthen...

Enterprising Women celebrated its 25th Anniversary with the panel Looking Back and Looking Forward, highlighting the progress women business leaders have made and the work that remains. Soon after the video was finished, our community experienced a great loss with the sudden passing of Pamela Prince-Eason, President and CEO of the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC). Pam played a key role in this important conversation, so we too...

Marcel V. Quiroga is the Founder and CEO of TQM Wealth Partners, a boutique registered investment advisory firm serving business owners, C-suite executives, and high-net-worth families under a fiduciary standard of care. With more than 25 years of experience in financial services, Marcel specializes in helping clients grow, protect, and transfer wealth in alignment with their values and multigenerational goals through a holistic, legacy-focused a...

Kris has over 23 years experience creating award-winning marketing and advertising campaigns. Since 2004, Kris has built her business from a one-woman shop to a full service boutique agency serving clients in security, manufacturing, food, agriculture, and other industries. MCG's long-term success has been built on the relationships they've grown with their clients. Kris and her team aim to learn everything about their clients’ businesses in orde...

Deborah (Deb) Ward is the visionary founder and CEO of Televergence Solutions and UV BIOCLEAN. At  Televergence, she leads nationwide operations and expansion into emerging markets, carrying forward a 35+  year legacy of integrity, transparency, and unmatched customer service. Under her leadership, the  company has sustained an extraordinary customer retention rate averaging more than 15 years—evidence of the trust and loyalty she ...

Joan Killian Gallagher is the founder and president of Warden Brooks New York. Since 1978, her visionary leadership in the field of custom designed corporate gifts established Warden Brooks as the preferred manufacturer of branded merchandise. Made in America, the distinctive line of canvas bags with woven ribbon trim includes totes, briefcases, and the, often imitated but never duplicated, original Wall Street banker bag.In 1998, while successfu...

Kirsten founded and runs Rethink Compliance LLC (Rethink), a compliance industry leader that is dedicated to empowering organizations to create real behavior and culture change. A repeat honoree on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies, Rethink serves more than 125 of the world’s great companies and its products and services reach millions of global employees each year. Kirsten first joined the compliance industry in 2000, working with ...