Born in South Africa and raised in Alaska, Muriel navigated to the intersection of AI and the global workforce. Earning a doctorate in industrial and organizational psychology from the University of Georgia along the way, she is on a mission to enable the underserved. Muriel co-founded Anthill to connect the deskless workforce—frontline workers who often lack access to smartphones and computers—with employee resources on any kind of device and in over 100 languages.

Eradicating workplace inequities fuels Maria’s leadership. A first-generation college graduate, she raised $17.1 million in Series B funding for Syndio while she was eight months pregnant. Syndio is a SaaS company that empowers companies to optimize pay equity. Before joining Syndio as CEO in 2018, Maria spent four years at Starbucks and co-founded Smartsheet, a NYSE-listed company that is now valued at $6 billion.

Born in Ethiopia, Lule spent her early years as an immigrant in Greece, the UK, and Kenya before coming to the U.S. and working in a series of increasingly senior roles at J.P. Morgan, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, TD Ameritrade, and Ally. A risk taker with guardrails, as she calls herself, Lule now leads U.S. Operations of the social investing platform eToro USA with a perspective informed by her intersectional identities and experience.

From the U.S. House of Representatives to John McCain’s presidential campaign to Morgan Stanley, Heather has scaled both business and politics. Starting at Trulia as employee No. 12, she rose to SVP & GM. In 2016, Heather co-founded Solv Health to shift power in the healthcare system to patients. Solv’s national network of providers enables healthcare access to 180 million Americans, offering same-day or next-day in-person and virtual care. Heather is also on the board of Atlassian.

Growing up on Long Island with a father who was a volunteer EMT, Shanel learned early on about the challenges of first responders. After graduating from Cornell, she worked at AT&T and Athenahealth, managing enterprise healthcare IT sales teams, before starting MD Ally to fix a critical and under-resourced piece of America’s healthcare infrastructure: 911. MD Ally connects non-emergency 911 callers to in-network virtual care, mental health, substance abuse and other community resources.

Rebecca grew up in rural New York State, served in the Peace Corps in Russia, and set out on a mission to tackle one of the world’s toughest challenges: advancing clean energy. After 12 years at the Vermont Energy Investment Corporation (VEIC), she is at the helm of the nonprofit, working with utilities, manufacturers, and distributors to design renewable energy programs for towns and cities—particularly underserved and vulnerable communities—across the U.S.

Harini grew up in India and came to the U.S. to get her Masters in marketing at Vanderbilt. Over two decades, she worked at IBM, then Microsoft in western Europe, and then Amazon Web Services (AWS). Harini recently joined Entrust, a leader in securing identities and payments and digital infrastructure, as Chief Customer Officer. She is an active startup advisor and also on the city council in her hometown of Medina, Washington.

Shayna has worked at the intersection of sustainability and innovation in food systems for the past two decades. A Fulbright Scholar who pioneered new approaches to supply chain management at consumer giant Mars and at venture-backed startups, Shayna moved on to co-found Supply Change Capital in 2020. The venture capital firm invests in early-stage food and agriculture tech with a focus on two forces transforming the way we secure what we eat: climate and culture. Shayna is also a contributing writer for Forbes.

Lenore’s passion for national security and economic mobility fuels her leadership. After graduating from the Naval Academy and serving as an officer in the Marine Corps for seven years, she worked at Bank of America, SoFi, McChrystal Group, and Citadel. Now at venture firm First In, Lenore focuses on cybersecurity, AI, and data intelligence. She chairs the board of Bunker Labs, which helps veterans and their spouses build successful businesses.

Growing up near Toronto, Melissa developed an early love of business. She spent 24 years at PepsiCo, where she rose from financial analyst to SVP of finance for North American Beverages, with a focus on strategic transformation. She joined General Motors in 2021 as CFO of the company’s EV, Digital and Innovation business. At GM, Melissa champions various diversity and inclusion and learning initiatives.

A Rhodes and Truman Scholar who started her career in the U.S. Army, Liz completed two year-long tours in Iraq, where she served on the senior staff of General David Petraeus, and served as a Military Police Commander. During her decade plus at McKinsey, she rose to a Partner and Global Leader at McKinsey Academy. Now at Schmidt Futures, Liz oversees a portfolio of programs addressing hard to solve problems in science, technology, and science.

From KPMG tax accountant to senior attorney at Amgen to Executive Director of the Debbie Allen Dance Academy, to returning to her accounting and finance roots as VP Finance Cumulus Media, Chief Accounting Officer and CFO at Reputation.com, Shannon eventually navigated a path to Alphabet, the holding company that owns Google and she runs the finance, operations, and partnerships teams at Wing, Alphabet’s drone delivery company. Shannon serves on the boards of NetScout Systems (NASDAQ: NTCT), Lazy Dog Restaurants, and Sofi Bank (a Sofi subsidiary). She’s also a filmmaker: Her award-winning Colored My Mind follows the stories of families with children with autism in the Black community Her latest film, OnBoard, delves into board diversity and is slated to be released in Summer 2023.

A first-generation college grad with an electrical engineering degree from Northwestern, Leslie joined IBM as an intern and rose to global sales VP. She moved on to Comcast and First Data. Following Fiserv’s 2019 acquisition of First Data, Leslie co-heads operations for the combined companies Global Business Solutions Division. As executive sponsor of the company’s Black Leadership Council, she changed the name of the organization to SOAR.

A Harvard-educated physician, board certified in both internal medicine and endocrinology, Chevon worked across business (from digital health startups to Amazon to Takeda Digital Ventures), government, and academia——always focusing on improving patient outcomes and fixing healthcare inequities. Now at Oncology Care Partners, she leads the company's digital strategy and oversees its oncology delivery systems.

After conquering her own health challenges, Kristina started Equip to improve care for people with eating disorders. Equip is the leading provider of virtual, evidence-based eating disorder treatments—providing therapists, dietitians, physicians, and peer & family mentors to support patients in their recovery. Kristina also founded Project HEAL, a non-profit that works to improve access to treatment for eating disorders.

Regina created Pizza Hut’s New Founders Program to give women and minority entrepreneurs access to the capital and connections they need to start businesses. She also co-wrote Pizza Hut’s strategy for equity, opportunity, and unity and led efforts to create new entry-level jobs. Originally from Switzerland and now based in Texas, Regina has lived and worked in dozens of countries and is fluent in six languages.

In her two decades at Eli Lilly, Adrienne has tackled healthcare inequities by bringing to market many innovative treatments for major diseases. Before her 2023 promotion to oversee corporate development, she was Group Vice President of U.S. diabetes—an epidemic affecting more than 463 million people worldwide. Adrienne serves on the board of BioCrossroads. She has an MBA from Florida A&M University.

Lisa holds a PhD in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a mission-driven serial entrepreneur. Her current venture, Air Protein, uses half-century-old NASA technology to create meat from elements of the air. Lisa’s startup has been recognized as a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer company. Previously she founded Kiverdi, an industrial biotech company that harnesses space age science to create planet-friendly commercial solutions and new products through carbon transformation.

Karen drives Bank of America’s strategy to mobilize and deploy $1.5 trillion in sustainable finance capital for climate transition and social inclusive development by 2030. Karen sits on BofA’s management committee and ESG committee. She is a national board member of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), one of the largest Community Development Financial Institutions in the U.S. Karen has been recognized on the Fortune 40 under 40 list and as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.

Emma is a founding team member and leads data science at Fractal Ag, a fractional farmland investment platform. Before joining Fractal, Emma created a groundbreaking program that pays farmers to reduce their carbon emissions at Corteva Agriscience. The program has potential to scale to millions of acres of farmland. After receiving her BA in biology and environmental studies at the University of Chicago, she earned a PhD in ecology at Princeton, where she investigated the environmental impact of U.S. commercial fisheries. Now she’s dedicated to solving private-sector environmental problems at scale.

Fewer than 2 percent of intellectual property lawyers are African American, and Toni Hickey is one of them. As deputy chief of staff at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, she helped launch the Patents for Humanity Initiative to incentivize the development of technologies addressing humanitarian needs. After nine years at Cummins, where she was Deputy General Counsel and Chief IP Counsel, Toni played a key role in the spinoff of Cummons' filtration business—now publicly traded and known as Atmus Filtration Technologies. She serves on the board of the Indianapolis Urban League.

Cherée began her journey as a chemical engineer at 3M before pivoting to law school and a career as an intellectual property lawyer. A passion for clarifying complex challenges took her from Cargill to Kraft Heinz to McCormick to W.R. Grace before she moved to Dentsply Sirona in early 2022. Cherée is on the board of the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Lindsay spent 28 years as the primary caregiver for her mother, who suffered from Multiple Sclerosis. That experience led Lindsay to create a company to help people navigate the confusing caretaking landscape. Before starting Wellthy in 2014, Lindsay worked in advertising, technology, and media, as well as SVP of Marketing at New York-based startup Simulmedia, and in product and strategic marketing at Microsoft.

Elli had one goal when she started Neurotrack: To change the way Alzheimer’s is diagnosed and treated. After losing two grandparents to the disease, she created a company that develops digital cognitive health solutions to enable people to assess, monitor, and strengthen brain health. Elli began her career in government, working at the White House and the State and Treasury Departments before moving to private equity and then the United Nations. She has an MBA from Harvard University and is on the Business School’s Healthcare Advisory Board.

Jaclyn joined General Motors 20 years ago and sees herself as a model for women and girls to reach the highest levels in the male-dominated auto industry and other STEM fields. A mechanical engineer, she was Executive Chief Engineer of Full Size Trucks before GM promoted her to President and Managing Director of GM Europe in 2022. Now based in Zurich, Jaclyn speaks proudly of her Chaldean heritage and actively promotes women and diversity across GM.

Shally began her career in IT as a developer at Amerigroup. She rose to lead technology strategy and innovation there before moving to Anthem, WellStar Health System, Humana (where she was the first woman SVP & CIO), and Liberty Mutual. She joined Zelis, a healthcare fintech company, as CTO in 2023. Shally is passionate about advancing women in technology. She is also co-founder and Chairwoman of the Freedom Council, a coalition of businesses combating human trafficking.

After gaining expertise in healthcare via stints at Deloitte, Goldman Sachs, Bain, and Massachusetts Medicaid, where she was COO, Corbin decided she wanted to revamp the ways substance abuse treatment and mental healthcare are paid for and delivered, particularly for marginalized populations. Eleanor Health, which Corbin founded in 2019, applies technology, data, and compassionate teams to provide at-home and in-clinic care. Corbin serves on the boards of Eleanor and various organizations that support equity for women and the LGBTQ+ community.

Laura co-founded Code 2040, a nonprofit focused on dismantling structural barriers to diverse and inclusive leadership in tech. She then worked on access to capital and DEI as a senior policy adviser in the Obama White House and was head of impact at social innovation fund Echoing Green. In 2021, Laura joined Base10 Partners, the first and only black-led VC firm to cross $1B in assets under management, as operating partner. Laura has taught social innovation at Stanford and at the American University of Rome.

Yolanda began her career at the law firm Morrison & Foerster and moved to Gap as a contract attorney in 2003. She was General Counsel of Athleta—a Gap brand focused on “igniting the limitless potential of all women and girls”—and Gap Inc.’s Deputy General Counsel before being named SVP and General Counsel in early 2023. Yolanda also co-leads Gap’s Legal Diversity Committee. On a mission to make paths smoother for those behind her, she has developed initiatives to provide jobs for attorneys who tend to be overlooked in traditional recruiting.

After starting her career in education, Elise worked at IBM Watson and then in venture philanthropy. While pursuing her MBA/MA in Education at Stanford, she co-founded Praxis Labs to create immersive VR-enabled learning platforms to train employees to be empathetic and inclusive—and drive inclusion across the workplace.