Your Leadership Legacy

Sarah is a scientist in San Francisco with a vision to create leadership opportunities for underrepresented and underserved communities in science. She has her PhD in Organic Chemistry and currently works at a Biotechnology Company in small molecule discovery chemistry. Sarah is a strong advocate for diversity and inclusion, antiracism, LGBTQ+ rights, climate change, leadership, mindfulness and science.

Aruna Krishnan is a Strategy Consultant, Best Selling Author and Podcast Host. Her "Busy Mind" book series and Podcast "Lead That Thing!" cover leadership topics and competencies.

Her company OPTIM LLC works with Small Business Owners to define Business and Product Strategies that increase their revenues and growth. She also has 15+ years of experience in the Technology field and leads efforts in large corporations to define, design and deliver high quality products for their customers.

Aruna's main mission in life is to lift up people by helping them find themselves, happiness, and success by educating and encouraging them through content, stories and inspiration!

Tiffany Houser is a transformational leadership coach, facilitator and speaker. Tiffany's company, EVOLVE works with intrapreneurs, executives, teams, and companies committed to transforming engagement, soft skills, equity, diversity + equity + inclusion, emotional intelligence, mindset, potential and culture.

Keelin Siobhán Clark is the owner of the POP Video Academy, for Entrepreneurs and creator of Planet Liberty, an online educational children's show hosted by her 21st Century version of Lady Liberty.

Keelin is committed to liberating humanity's magic, via powerful coaching and short videos focused on Education, Empowerment and Equal Opportunities. She is also radically in love with humanity.

John Murphy's BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal, as Jim Collins called it!), for his clients is to help them make a life and not just a living.

John wants to help his clients create both success AND significance in their lives.

John Murphy is a results oriented business coach and mentor to senior executives and CEOs. He's a great communicator with broad experience in a skill that discussing issues that make businesses and individuals grow and thrive. John lives and works in the South of France, originally from Ireland.

Before starting his own business, John enjoyed a highly successful career in the corporate world. He began as a door to door life assurance salesman and culminated as the CEO of pan European life assurance company in Ireland. John started his business John Murphy international in 2004 in his work worldwide across the broad range of industries. His clients include major corporate corporates such as Pfizer, Circle K, Merck State Street bank, Vodafone and others.

Aracelli Esparza is the founder and owner of Wiscconsin Mujer, a multimedia an engagement company that specializes in highlighting the rich diversity of minority audiences in marginalized communities and frequently speaks at places like Dane County women LED conferences , Madison college, and national universities.

Esparaza's experience in targeted outreach comes from over 10 years of working in fund raising in program development positions with local government, colleges, and large nonprofit agencies. Araceli has coached many minority business owners on professional development, event planning, fund raising, entrepreneurship and content creation when she is not connecting folks she is reading doing yoga walking and writing her memoir and picture book!

Celebrating her 21st year in the insurance industry, three years ago, Meg did the unthinkable and quit her job without a job. Gasp! Who does that?

It was a pivotal decision that led to the launch of her consulting firm, Adjunct Advisors LLC, in 2018, through which she offers thoughtfully curated solutions for the development of insurance sales professionals.

A believer in the story within every story, Meg also shares more about her personal journey in the thought-provoking workshops she facilitates for women and entrepreneurs.

A graduate of Illinois Wesleyan University and resident of Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood, when she's not helping business professionals navigate the insurance world, you can find Meg putting the "practice" into yoga practice, searching for the best vegan burger, or enjoying live music and the wonder that is Chicago's lakefront.

Renee Moe is President and CEO of United Way of Dane County, a leader in the worldwide United Way network and across the nonprofit sector. Charity Navigator recently recognized United Way of Dane County in the top 3% of U.S. nonprofits.

A military kid who grew up on three continents, Renee has a JBA in Journalism and Mandarin Chinese, and an MBA from UW-Madison. She has been recognized with the YWCA Woman of Distinction Award, Wisconsin Women of Color Network Power of Unity Award, Brava Woman 2 Watch, UW Business School 8 Under 40 and served as President of Downtown Rotary.

United Way's mission is to unite the community to create measurable results and change lives, mobilizing the community's caring power to stabilize and empower families. Through significant community listening and understanding community data, United Way prioritizes education, financial stability, health and how we treat each other as the building blocks of a stable life and thriving Dane County.

With thousands of volunteers, tens of thousands of donors and hundreds of thousands of community relationships, United Way convenes cross-sector collaborations to articulate community-built change plans and metrics; engages the community in giving, advocating and volunteering to get proximate to issues and resource these plans; and evaluates progress, strengthening collaborations and accountability for results.

These collaborations have increased graduation rates, decreased family homelessness, and increased employers' hiring pools of diverse and committed employees. (More results at https://www.unitedwaydanecounty.org/)

Renee and United Way believe in the potential that lies within all people, and are committed to fostering environments that accelerate belief in and empowerment of that potential.

A committed advocate for change, Renee lives in Madison with husband Jason Salus and their children Nick and Nora.

Erin is on a mission to transform the employee experience by empowering managers to become the leaders they aspire to be. She spent 12-years in the commercial insurance industry and led client service teams ranging in size from 7 to more than 40. Through this experience, she learned firsthand that being a great leader is much easier said than done.

After personally navigating the many ups and downs of leadership, she pivoted her career to focus on empowering & supporting emerging, first-time and middle managers. Erin founded, Lead Connext, an online leadership community & development platform offering 1-on-1 coaching, virtual peer groups and on-demand resources.

Erin is also an avid traveler having been to 35 countries and an aspiring travel photographer. Learn more at www.leadconnext.com.

Kathleen Brown is the Founder & CEO of buddhi [ bud-dee]: a community-powered wellness platform for cancer thrivers to connect and heal. She created the platform after nearly 25 years navigating the f*cked up road as a cancer survivor without a get-well guidebook.

Prior to founding buddhi, Kathleen raised millions of dollars for cancer research and treatment while serving as a patient advocate to thousands. She enjoyed 15 years of success as a corporate sales and development leader for Disney, Comcast and St. Jude after graduating from the University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign and Northwestern University.