[Past Event] Women & Worth: Power Forward Summit

Juliet Scott-Croxford CEO, Worth

Kathleen Entwistle Senior Vice President, Wealth Advisor, Senior Portfolio Manager

UBS on their commitment to women and
inclusive investing with the Own Your Worth and Project Entrepreneur
programs and how they help clients navigate their financial lives.

Rebecca Minkoff Founder of Rebecca Minkoff and The Female Founder Collective
MODERATOR Jane Schwartzberg Head of Strategic Client Segments (Women, Business Owners, Wealth Inheritors)

Jane and Rebecca will engage in a candid discussion about Rebecca’s entrepreneurial journey, including building her own business, her commitment to supporting other female-owned companies through The Female Founder Collective and, more broadly, how women can “own their worth.”

Kara Goldin Founder and CEO of Hint Inc.
MODERATOR Anjali Kumar Author, Attorney, Advisor, Speaker

Kara will talk about founding and scaling a $100 million business with purpose built in from the start. Her mission includes creating a platform for change not just profit, promoting a healthy company culture and making sure communities have safe, lead-free water sources.

Vanessa Barboni Hallik Founder and CEO, Another Tomorrow

Fatma Collins CEO and Co-Founder, Ten Little

MODERATOR Emily Cegielski Senior Editor, Worth

A conversation with leaders who pivoted from a corporate career to founding a mission-based startup. They will discuss what drove them to make the leap, the problem they want to solve and the world they want to create. We will explore the pros and cons of making such a pivot, their
viewpoints on the trends impacting their mission and ways to support the issues we care about most.

Michelle Cordeiro Grant Founder and CEO, Lively
Rachel Drori CEO and Founder, Daily Harvest
Sandra Campos CEO, Diane von Furstenberg
MODERATOR Cate Luzio Founder and CEO, Luminary

Cate will lead a discussion on what corporate and startup CEOs can learn from each other on leading through times of turbulence, leveraging support systems when you are at the top and building a strong culture.

Caitlin Taylor Global Event Manager, Corporate Marketing, IBM
Lexie Komisar Global Head of Startup Ecosystems & Partner Platforms, IBM
Melissa Dain Program Lead, Digital Growth and Commerce, IBM

How can we help employee-led groups (e.g., BRGs and affiliate groups) to accelerate their ability to affect change from the bottom up? A team from the Women at IBM NYC Group will lead a design thinking workshop that will serve as a baseline for developing a cross-corporation task force to source best practices and create a playbook for change from within… together.

Lindsay Shookus Producer, Saturday Night Live
Kristin O’Keefe Merrick Financial Advisor

Lindsay and Kristin have been friends since college and supported each other through the ups and downs of life and career in high pressure, male-dominated worlds. They will discuss the power of informal networks and supporting female entrepreneurs.

Alexa von Tobel Founder and Managing Partner, Inspired Capital, and New York Times Bestselling
Carolyn Childers Co-founder and CEO, Chief
MODERATOR Juliet Scott-Croxford CEO, Worth

Wade Davis VP of Inclusion for Product, Netflix

Ashley Etienne Communications Director and Senior Advisor for Speaker Nancy Pelosi

Glynda C. Carr Co-founder, Higher Heights for America and Higher Heights Leadership Fund

Stephanie Berger President, Berger Hirschberg Strategies, Campaign Strategist

MODERATOR Wendy Sachs Author, Emmy Award-Winning TV News Producer

Women are changing the campaign trail and what our representation looks like in the political arena. As more women run and enter office,
how is policy being affected? What hurdles still exist? Will we see a focus on issues such as education and healthcare that tend to unite rather than divide? What can be done to maintain momentum and mobilize support? We will also touch on the outlook for the 2020 election.

Claudia Pici-Morris Consultant, Board Practice, Spencer Stuart
Jenny Galluzzo Co-founder, The Second Shift
Anna C. Catalano Board Director
MODERATOR Shelley Zalis CEO, The Female Quotient

This interactive session will convene three different experts on getting that board seat to provide insight into the board selection process, the skill sets that boards are seeking, how to craft the right narrative and strategies to set yourself up for success. The session will consist of a lightly moderated conversation with a focus on audience questions.

Darlene Liebman Founder, Creative Humans
Susan Can Director, Corporate Equity, Johnson & Johnson Global Marketing Group
MODERATOR Christie Marchese CEO and Founder, Picture Motion
Major brands are tackling some of the most pressing issues of our time through groundbreaking long-form documentaries. This new genre is responsible for films like Johnson & Johnson’s HIV documentary 5B and Patagonia’s Artifishal.

The conversation will explore the creative process and how brands are leveraging film to weigh in on issues in a powerful way from brand reach to how the films are being received, shared, and more.

Mita Mallick Head of Diversity & Inclusion and Cross-Cultural Marketing, Unilever
Erika Karp CEO and Founder, Cornerstone Capital Group
MODERATOR Prisca Bae Corporate Diversity Expert and Advocate for Global Women’s Issue

From turning purpose into a strategy and becoming a driving force of culture at one of the world’s largest global corporations to standing up to the status quo as the first open lesbian on Wall Street and building an impact investment firm from scratch, these change agents are living diversity and inclusion in the everyday not the ivory tower. Learn how purpose translates to a better workplace, world, and bottom line and impact.

Jamie Sears Head of Community Affairs & Corporate Responsibility, Americas, UBS
James Benedict Co-founder, Left Tackle Capital
Ita Ekpoudom Partner, GingerBread Capital
MODERATOR Alicia Syrett Founder and CEO, Pantegrion Capital

Three leaders who are focused on democratizing the flow of capital will discuss the changing landscape of funding, how to fuel more investment in underrepresented founders and how recent events have called into question the growth-at-all-costs mindset of Silicon Valley.

Leona Qi President, VistaJet US
Kate Pratt Head of Sales – America, Liverpool Football Club
Sasha Richardson Managing Director, Life Sciences Advisory, Commercial Strategy, EY
MODERATOR Jackie Cooperman Senior Writer, Worth

Workplace studies report that 1 in 5 women are the only women in the room. For women of color, this figure rises to 45%. This can lead to negative consequences from attrition to microaggressions and more. What can we learn from women who have thrived being an “only”? Hear from three women leaders in male-dominated fields on how they personally broke through their “only” status to achieve success.

Cathy Engelbert Commissioner, WNBA
MODERATOR Juliet Scott-Croxford CEO, Worth