Sarah Benken is passionate about supporting women, specifically high-achieving businesswomen that are overworked and lacking community with like-minded women. Why? Because she has been there – in the wrong rooms, stretched thin, and feeling like she was alone on the journey.   As an accomplished CEO of 12 years, Sarah has built and scaled her own brands internationally.  She is an award-winning entrepreneur that knows first hand what it...

Roseann Sunwoo is CEO and Designer of Clara Sunwoo, an ageless women's lifestyle brand designed by a NYC mother & daughter team known for perfect fit.  Clara Sunwoo stands for making women FEEL good.  Clothing that is every day ready and ready for everyday. Growing up with parents who immigrated to the US from Seoul Korea with $1000, a suitcase, and a dream,  necessities such as clothing & home goods were handmade at home.&...

Monick Halm is an educator and advocate for women to create passive income streams through real estate investing. Her mission is to assist 1 million women to achieve financial freedom through real estate. She is the founder of Real Estate Investor Goddesses, and is herself a real estate investor and syndicator with over 15 years of real estate investing experience in multi-family, industrial, mobile home and RV parks, flipping, vacation rentals, ...

Maril is a nationally recognized leader in communication, strategy execution and business transformation. She’s pioneered a discipline that collaborates with corporate leaders to energize and mobilize their workforce behind a company’s strategic goals, culture and brand in order to optimize business performance. Her clients have included some of the world’s leading companies including Bristol-Myers Squibb, Coca-Cola, DuPont, GE, Johnson & Joh...

Kathleen Hunt founded her company, Personalized Payroll Services, Inc., in 2011 with the goal to help women-owned businesses thrive and prosper. Personalized Payroll partners with small to mid-sized businesses to customize and streamline their payroll processing and HR services. As a certified woman-owned business through the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC), and an active member of the Women’s Business Council Southwest and W...

Karen Cripe is a business owner, who has been closing multi million dollar deals and co-running Label Logic for over 20 years. She has a Bachelors of Science, with a concentration in Engineering Psychology and a Associates in Graphic Art and Design. She had been published twice in Packaging Digest, over her 33 years, in the industry. Her company has been named Flexographic Label company of the year for 7 years standing and her Company was named, ...

Judith M. von Seldeneck is the Founder and Chair of the Diversified Search Group, one of the country’s top executive search firms. A pioneer in the search industry, she has been identifying and placing senior-level executive talent around the country for more than four decades. A born-and-bred North Carolinian, she began her career as an executive assistant to then-Senator Walter F. Mondale in Washington, D.C. Her road into executive search comme...

Janice is Chief Executive Officer and Chair of PALCO, a global Reverse Logistics company, with locationsin Huntsville, Alabama, El Paso, Texas, The Netherlands, Asia Pacific, and Mexico. PALCO provides worldclass solutions in Supply Chain Management by redefining Reverse Logistics with innovative solutionsand cutting-edge capabilities for Fortune 100 and 500 corporations and the Department of Defense andall government entities. PALCO is a Tier 1 ...

Dr. Nkem Okeke has collectively spent two decades as a healthcare executive, advisor,physician, change management facilitator, accomplished speaker & entrepreneur. Currently, through her firm, Medicalincs, Dr. Okeke guides and advises healthcare leaders and organizations on strategic solutions to enhance go-to-market/implementation framework strategy, improve operational efficiencies and outcomes, and increase revenue volume/revenue stre...

Ciemone Sheppard is the Founder and CEO of Ciemone Inc. a Financial and Insurance Firm. The primary goal for her starting this company was to create and provide her clients with the tools to create financial education, wealth strategies and intergenerational wealth.  She works with a wide range of professionals across the public and private sector to secure the longevity of their businesses. ...

My name is Barbara Potter.  I am the CEO of T J Potter Trucking, Becker Warehouse & Reload and T J P Brokerage located in Becker, MN.  We have been in business for over 30 years.  We recently purchased Perkins Motor Transport located in Northfield, MN.   I grew up in Maple Lake, MN.   I was very active in the community and graduated in 1978 from Maple Lake high school.  I played softball, volleyball and was ...

Carolyn Marshall Covington began living her dream at 21, opening the first In-Flight Hair Salon in Maryland, eventually expanding the chain to Virginia and North Carolina. Carolyn got married and raised two sons while balancing family and a career. Inspired by Madame C.J. Walker, Carolyn and her team developed DZIRE Hair Care products to empower generations of African American women. Over the span of 40 years, Carolyn’s accomplishments are: Licen...