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...

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...

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...