Our 2023 speaker line-up.

  • Tamsen Fadal is an Emmy award-winning journalist who took her storytelling skills beyond the news desk. With a passion for authentic conversations, she became a digital content creator, author, and podcaster. Now, her focus is on redefining menopause discussions on a global scale.

    Through her books and podcast, Tamsen shares personal growth insights and engages in thought-provoking discussions. It was her own experience with menopause that ignited her advocacy work and determination to combat stigma and educate others.

    Tamsen is a strong voice for Breast Cancer Awareness after losing her mother to the disease in 1990 and her stepmother in 2021. She is a Board member of Let’s Talk Menopause and is a National Board Member of Best Buddies International.

  • Mariella Frostrup is one of the UK’s most respected broadcasters and columnists. Her contribution to arts and literature along with her advocacy on gender and social issues have placed her at the forefront of the cultural landscape. She made the ground-breaking BBC1 documentary The Truth about Menopause and she currently presents her own daily show on Times Radio covering issues of the day.

  • Chief Medical Advisor to Alloy Women’ s Health and a DC-based OB/GYN and Certified Menopause Practitioner on a mission to empower women to take charge of their health. Author of ‘Grown Woman Talk’, due to be published April 2024

  • Michal Elovitz, MD, is a physician-scientist, mentor, and advocate. She is the Dean of Women’s Health Research at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She is also the Director of the Women’sBiomedical Research Institute, which is focused on understanding the female reproductive tract and sex-specific biology to make meaningful advances in women’s health science and women’s health care. Dr. Elovitz has been actively involved in fundamental and translational research for more than 20 years.Her research is or has been funded by the March of Dimes, Burroughs Wellcome Fund, National Institute of Child Health and Development, National Institute for Nursing Research, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

    Dr. Elovitz supports,fosters, participates, and advocates for collaborative research, from the bench to the bedside, to advance the mission of improving health outcomes for women and their children. She is a strong believer in team science and has successfully brought in diverse disciplines to advance women’s health research. Her research program has focused on understanding the mechanisms and consequences of adverse reproductive and pregnancy outcomes both for the pregnancy of interest and for implications for the long-term health of the mother and child. Her research integrating immunology and microbiology into pregnancy health has led to novel discoveries for reproductive health.

    Dr. Elovitz believes that scientists are obligated to support, train, and empower the next generation of researchers. As such, she has created several mentoring programs and is active in supporting women in science and medicine. She is a public advocate for reproductive rights, gender, and racial equity.

  • Brooke Bartholomay Quinn is Chief Customer Officer at Carrot Fertility, the leading global fertility care platform. As Chief Customer Officer, Brooke ensures the engagement, success, retention, and growth of Carrot’s more than 850 customers.

    Brooke is a trusted advisor and executive strategy leader with deep expertise in operational management, customer success and retention, and sales strategy and execution. Prior to joining Carrot, Brooke was Vice President of Sales at DHI Group, Inc., a leading provider of data, insights, and employment connections that serves multiple markets globally. She has also led executive customer success roles at Dwolla, a payments technology company, and Businessolver, a benefits administration technology company.

    Brooke is a passionate champion of women and leadership. As the current vice chair of the board of directors for Girl Scouts of Greater Iowa, she is active in the promotion of female leadership and ongoing fundraising efforts in support of the mission of building Girl Scouts of courage, confidence and character, who make the world a better place.

  • Lucy Pérez is a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company’s Boston office, advising CEOs and teams at leading companies globally on growth strategy, innovation, sustainability, and organizational transformation. Lucy is particularly passionate about advancements in science and technology, which are transforming patient care delivery and outcomes. A former cancer researcher at Memorial Sloan-Kettering, she brings a strong technical background to her work with organizations across the healthcare sector.

    Lucy co-leads McKinsey’s global client service in Sustainability and Social Impact Strategy and is responsible for McKinsey’s North America Diversity, Equity and Inclusion efforts. As a leader in McKinsey’s Life Sciences practice, Lucy leads McKinsey’s efforts on health equity and women’s health. Her work has been quoted extensively in outlets such as Bloomberg, Fortune, and CNBC.

    Beyond her work at McKinsey, Lucy is a board member of the Massachusetts Business Roundtable and sits on the advisory board for the Aspen Institute’s Latinos in Society program and the Women’s Health Innovation Summit. Lucy is an avid traveler, amateur photographer, and a co-inventor on multiple patents.

  • Pilar Guzmán is the Editorial Director of Oprah Daily, overseeing content strategy across the brand’s platforms. She is the former Editor-in-Chief of Condé Nast Traveler and Martha Stewart Living, and the Founding Editor of the parenting magazine Cookie. Her most recent book, Patina Modern, is the #1 interior decorating book on Amazon.

  • Alex is CEO of Channel 4 and is a passionate and committed advocate for inclusive work environments. Channel 4’s gender equality staff network, 4Women, developed and launched a menopause policy in 2019, providing women and colleagues with the tools, support and guidance needed before, during and after menopause. In 2020 that policy was made freely available to everyone and since then it has been downloaded over 2,000 times.

  • Award-Winning Actor, Producer, Activist, and Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Stripes.

  • Natalie Walker is a Benefits Leader for Stitch Fix. Her passions include equal access to care, women’s health, and finding a balance between fiscal responsibility and meaningful benefit offerings.

    Natalie connects with people on a personal level with her kind but direct style of communication. She likes always having a project to work on and finds inspiration in making change - both personally and professionally. Her area of expertise is making the complicated easy to understand. Natalie holds a Masters Degree in HR and her SHRM-SCP certification.

  • Samantha Skey is CEO of SHE Media, a top 10 lifestyle media company reaching 74M monthly unique visitors*. SHE Media, including the flagship brands SheKnows, Flow, StyleCaster, Soaps and BlogHer, was acquired by Penske Media Corporation in March 2018. Skey launched the SHE Media Collective in 2016 which represents the largest network of independent lifestyle publishers and creators in the US. The Collective now contributes over $40MM in revenue annually to independent publishers, helping women and minority-lead businesses to scale both their profits and their social impact. In 2023, Skey was selected as a finalist for Digiday’s “Leader of the Year Award” and she serves on the board of directors for The Ad Council, the World Surf League and Acast, and is on the advisory boards of The Bronx Academy of Letters and the Digital Ascendant.

  • Jessica is an agenda-setting and award-winning editor who's spent 19 years atop mastheads at premium digital publications with millions of viewers.

    As the Executive Editor and SVP Content at The News Movement, Jessica runs the US newsroom for The News Movement and The Recount, driving daily and long-term coverage around news, politics, and current events for Gen Z audiences on social platforms.

    Previously, Jessica was the chief content officer at Morning Brew, where she oversaw their flagship newsletter brands and directed the company’s expansion into multimedia. She’s held top editorial roles at New York Magazine and Vanity Fair, and served as a long-running editor in chief at both Mashable and Jezebel.

  • Courtney is a culturally sensitive leader with two decades of experience leading complex change management initiatives that define and shift company culture and empower diverse and distributed workforces.

    Having started her career in consulting at Towers Perrin, she has held roles of increased global responsibility at Avon, AXA, SAIC and most recently at Twitter as the former Head of People Experience. During her time at Twitter, she led the organization through the design and implementation of global pay transparency and focused on advocacy of inclusive benefits such as Twitter’s first global medical mobility travel allowance for Tweeps and their families and sponsored the creation of Twitter’s global LGBTQ+ travel resource to support communities navigating local LGBTQ+ legislation that impact travel.

    Courtney brings a global perspective to her work having lived in France as an expat while working at AXA and working in multiple countries throughout Europe, Asia Pacific and South America in various roles. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania where she studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics and is a member of Forbes HR Council.

  • Attorney, advocate, and author Jennifer Weiss-Wolf is the executive director of NYU Law’s Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Center. Prior she was vice president and the inaugural women and democracy fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice. She also leads partnerships and strategy at Ms., the feminist movement-making magazine. A passionate writer on and advocate for issues of gender and politics, she was dubbed the “architect of the U.S. campaign to squash the tampon tax” by Newsweek. Her 2017 book Periods Gone Public: Taking a Stand for Menstrual Equity was lauded by Gloria Steinem as “the beginning of liberation for us all.” Her forthcoming book, Period. Full Stop. The Politics of Menopause will be published by NYU Press in 2025. Jen’s writing and work on menstrual and menopause policy have been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, TIME, Cosmopolitan, Harper’s Bazaar, Teen Vogue, Oprah Daily, NPR, PBS, and NowThis, among others.

  • Dee Poku-Spalding is an entrepreneur and women’s advocate born in the UK and raised between London and Accra.

    She is the founder and CEO of The WIE Suite, a private membership community and peer learning platform for women in leadership. Its mission is to redefine the way women leaders achieve success for themselves and for their companies by providing the community and tools for them to succeed at the highest levels. The WIE Suite also works with companies to accelerate growth by helping them attract, retain and grow talent.

    Dee’s background includes senior marketing roles at Paramount Pictures and Focus Features (a division of Universal Pictures), working with the likes of Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Reese Witherspoon, Scarlett Johansson, Emily Blunt and Taraji P Henson. She has marketed numerous award-winning films including Al Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth’; the Coen brothers’ ‘No Country For Old Men’; Sofia Coppola’s 'Lost in Translation', Alejandro González Iñárritu’s ‘Babel’ & ’21 Grams’ and Ang Lee’s 'Brokeback Mountain'.

  • Keith joined Hakluyt in 2019 and leads its business in the Americas. Before then, he led global engagement at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. He was previously director of global strategy for the Wall Street research firm Guidepoint, general counsel at Tommy Hilfiger, and an associate at Covington & Burling LLP and Bain & Co. Keith is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and sits on American Ballet Theatre’s global council. He holds an AB from Dartmouth College and a JD from Harvard Law School.

  • Stephanie Kramer is the author of Carry Strong: An Empowered Approach to Navigating Pregnancy and Work—a ‘labor’ of love to create a groundswell of support. She is a tenured beauty industry senior executive in New York City who today serves as the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) of L'Oréal USA. Stephanie is also an adjunct professor of management communication in the graduate business program at the Fashion Institute of Technology and serves on the program’s Industry Advisory Board, and a proud mother of two young children. Stephanie has been featured as a speaker at several colleges and universities including The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, and New York University. Stephanie deeply believes that you can do it all, not at the same time, and not alone.

  • As WPP's Global Chief People Officer, Jennifer Remling is laying the groundwork for unlocking the creative potential in all 115,000 employees within the WPP network. Central to that is ensuring DE&I is embedded in all aspects of the People strategy – from talent acquisition and total rewards to employee engagement and leadership development.

    Jennifer has a wealth of experience building high-performing teams in agency environments in roles at Essence, R/GA, AKQA, 360i and most recently GroupM. There, she transformed the People team to deliver a world-class People proposition that ensured a fair, equitable and inclusive workplace for all 36,000 employees in 80 markets.

    Jennifer is passionate about helping people find meaning and purpose in what they do, no matter their background. That’s why she published “Carve Your Own Road: Do What You Love and Live the Life You Envision” in 2009 and has made it her lifelong ambition to help as many people as possible reach their full potential.

  • Carly Pierpoint is an Executive Director and Head of Talent Acquisition for the Global Private Bank and Wealth Management Solutions. In her senior leadership role, Carly oversees all hiring channels of the Talent Acquisition organization to manage an integrated recruitment strategy for the firm’s sizable growth initiative. She is dedicated to bringing top talent into the fold and ensuring a seamless candidate and client experience.

    Carly sits on the U.S. Private Bank Operating Committee and partners closely with the executive teams to drive innovative hiring synergies across lateral and campus recruitment, onboarding, training and development. She takes a big-picture approach to identify shifts in the competitive landscape and establish tools and best practices to bring a strategic edge. Candidate acquisition is integral for the firm, and Carly ensures her team employs proactive measures to network and build relationships with key players in the space who can make an impact and be an asset to the growing Private Bank. A subject matter expert in this field, she couples a passionate nature with trusted decisiveness to deliver dynamic results.

    Most recently, Carly was the Head of Talent Acquisition and Growth Strategy for J.P. Morgan Private Bank in the U.S. Previously, she was the Head of J.P. Morgan Private Bank Recruitment, Americas, after spending four years running Private Bank Recruitment at Goldman Sachs. Before these roles, Carly ran her own desk at CitiStaffing, a comprehensive recruitment agency. Carly started her career in sales and business development almost 15 years ago. She has a strong track record of attracting the best and brightest talent in the industry and ensuring these candidates are ramped-up for success.

    Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Carly holds a B.A. with dual majors in Business and Musical Theater from Penn State University. She is a longtime resident of New York City, where she lives with her husband, two children and Maltipoo.

    Carly gives her time and resources to organizations that have meaning for her family and friends. She ran the New York City Marathon to support mental health awareness. Carly continues to enjoy musical theater and enjoys cooking, sports and travel.

  • Miriam Warren is the Chief Diversity Officer at Yelp and Board Chair of the Yelp Foundation. Miriam joined Yelp in 2007, serving in a variety of marketing and operational roles, including leading the company’s expansion efforts internationally as Vice President of New Markets. Presently, she heads a team working at the intersection of culture, engagement, corporate philanthropy and diversity, equity and inclusion. Miriam holds a B.A. in Ethnic Studies from Mills College.

  • Ray Rhodes joined RX Global (Reed Exhibitions) in 2007 as a Director of Human Resources for the US business and became the Director of Learning and Talent Development in 2014. After several years of intensive engagement with Inclusion and Diversity programming, he was appointed the Head of Inclusion and Diversity for the global business in April 2021. Ray has launched a number of important initiatives across RX, including forming the RX Global Inclusion Council, an I&D advisory board comprised of RX colleagues from 19 countries, representing many cultures and diversity dimensions. He has developed and implemented the Global I&D strategy for the business and oversees the delivery of programs that promote unconscious bias awareness, team psychological safety, equality allyship and inclusive leadership.

    Prior to joining RX, Ray served as Vice President of Human Resources for The Bank of New York for thirteen years. He, his partner Joseph, and their daughter Samantha, reside in Connecticut.