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Debbie Epstein Henry is an expert, consultant, best-selling author, and public speaker on careers, workplaces, women and law.  She runs DEH Consulting, Speaking Writing where she consults and speaks internationally, including The Hague, the French Senate, London, and Vienna.  Debbie conceived of Best Law Firms for Women, a benchmarking survey and competition she ran for a decade with Working Mother.  She wrote two ABA best-selling books, Law & Reorder (author, 2010) and Finding Bliss (co-author, 2015) and she’s been featured by hundreds of news outlets including The New York Times, NBC Nightly News, and The Wall Street Journal.  In 2011, Debbie co-founded Bliss Lawyers to employ lawyers in temporary roles for in-house and law firm clients.  In 2020, her company was acquired by Axiom, the global leader in high-caliber, on-demand legal talent, and she now serves as their executive consultant.  A native New Yorker, Debbie and her husband live in the Philadelphia area; they have three sons.

Robyn Addis joined LISI in October 2019 as Chief Operating Officer. Robyn provides the leadership, management, and vision to ensure organizational excellence, and has responsibility for providing superior experience, service, and results to ensure satisfaction.

Robyn brings more than 15 years of professional services marketing experience to the role and has spent the past 12 years in two of Philadelphia’s largest law firms in marketing and business-development roles. Her wide-ranging experience includes leading national and international cross-functional teams tasked with achieving marketing operations, technology, and event strategies to drive revenue growth.

Throughout her legal marketing career, Robyn has collaborated with various legal and functional departments to guide a unified approach to customer service. She is skilled at mobilizing internal and external resources to drive successful outcomes and is seen as a natural connector.

Robyn is actively involved in the legal marketing community, having served in various roles on the Legal Marketing Association Metropolitan Philadelphia Chapter board and Philadelphia local steering committee. In 2020 and 2021, Robyn will be Director-at-Large on the LMA Northeast Region Board. A graduate of St. Joseph’s University, Robyn has a B.A. in Political Science.

Stefanie Marrone helps law firms, individual lawyers, accounting firms, recruiting firms, business professionals, and other professional service companies of all sizes with brand building and revenue-generating strategies and tactics in marketing, business development, and communications.

Stefanie has served as an outsourced chief marketing officer., providing customized virtual and in-person social media and business development training for companies of all sizes. Her areas of focus include personal coaching, business development training, social media strategy and training, content marketing strategy, LinkedIn company page management and development of posts and accompanying imagery, social media and business development training for marketing teams, lawyers and practice groups, writing of bios and practice areas, ghostwriting articles, practice and industry group planning, website copy development, pitch materials and messaging, client events and alumni programs, digital marketing consulting, competitive intelligence analysis, and award submissions.

Charlotte Smith started her career as an employment lawyer in the UK, acting for big named clients like Hilton and Expedia. She quickly rose up the ranks in her firm, and as Head of Employment, she was recognized in a prestigious 30 Under 30 Awards for her contribution to legal innovation, and was the youngest at her law firm to be offered partnership.

Sharon Wong is a San Francisco native and lives in the Bay Area with her husband and two teenaged sons. She's graduated from UC Berkeley (and an alumni parent, Go Bears!) and UCLA, worked as a teacher for many years before becoming a stay at home mom. She's currently an educator, advocate, and blogger at Nut Free Wok where she shares her nut-free Asian recipes and food allergy mom stories and experiences to help other families. Sharon and her advocacy have been featured on NBC Asian America, Healthline, PBS, various food allergy and asthma organizations, and local and national media.

Over 15 million people living in the United States are affected by food allergies and anaphylaxis and every 3 minutes a life-threatening allergic reaction sends people to the hospital. Both of her sons have food allergies, her younger son's nut allergies are so severe that just being near nuts have caused allergic reactions without even eating them.  Sharon became very fired up about sharing food allergy awareness when one of her sons experienced food allergy discrimination and bullying at school.

People with food allergies are often told by medical experts to avoid certain foods, including Asian food. What does one do if one is Asian or loves Asian food? She started her blog Nut Free Wok: Allergy Aware Asian Fare (www.nutfreewok.com) to share her nut-free Asian recipes and allergy mom experiences. She is proud to be a mission ambassador for End Allergies Together, a national non-profit that funds food allergy research.

Rich Bracken is a keynote speaker, author and podcaster who focuses on emotional intelligence to help improve the personal and professional lives of everyone he interacts with. Through his lively presentations, television appearances and other content, he shares inspirational stories to help his audience realize their full potential.

He’s had the privilege of speaking at numerous conferences across the country, has been handpicked and brought in by several Fortune 500 companies to speak to their executive teams, hosts the informative and uplifting EnRich Your Soul podcast, and frequently guest stars on various other podcasts.

You can learn more about Rich and enjoy all his content at richbracken.com

Suzanne Brown is a strategic marketing and business consultant and work-life balance speaker, strategist, and award-winning author. Tapping into her 20+ years of experience, she helps entrepreneurs and large companies overcome their strategic marketing challenges. And Suzanne empowers working moms and companies to think differently about balance and take action, using her own experience and research as well as tips, insights, and advice from interviews with more than 110 working moms. Find out more about her strategic marketing services at www.oksuzi.com and her work-life balance books and services at www.mompowerment.com. Suzanne and her family live in Austin, TX.

Grace Futrell grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and attended Louisiana State University. Following university she joined the Peace Corps and spent two and half years in Ukraine. After Peace Corps Grace began her employment with the federal government and now lives in Washington, DC with her wife and cat.