Women’s Leadership Forum

The Women’s Leadership Forum recognizes and honors inspirational women for their leadership and accomplishments. Motivational and educational content.

2025 WLF Thank You Speakers & Sponsors
2025 WLF Recap video

A two minute look at the 2025 Women’s Leadership Forum
Women We Admire Awards
Deborah Riley Draper - CEO, CoffeeBluff Pictures
Ashley Tyrner-Dolce - CEO, FarmboxRX

Ashley Tyrner-Dolce - CEO, FarmboxRX
Journey to the Top
Taylor Wolfe … and Sandy Wolfe! - @thedailytay
Building Your Own Ladder to Climb Panel
Investing in Women’s Sports to Drive Equity Panel
Caitlin Murray

Content Creator, @bigtimeadulting
The Band of Sisters

Featuring Lori, Katie, Angelique and Mitzi
Leah Thomas

Founder, Intersectional Environmentalism
Kel Kelly

Founder & President Humanity Rises and Founder Kel & Partners
Grisella Martinez

Former Director of Legislative Affairs for Vice President Kamala Harris
Elle Purrier St. Pierre

Olympian
Sonita Alizadeh

Activist, Poet, Rapper
The Good Fight

Andrea Campbell | Democratic Nominee for Massachusetts Attorney General
Culture Wars on Mercy Street: Reproductive Rights

Jennifer Haigh | Award-Winning Author, Mercy Street
Sacha Pfeiffer | Interviewer | Pulitzer Prize, winning Journalist, NPR Correspondent
The Power of Age Diversity

Tobi Russell | Introduction | Chief People Officer, Public Consulting Group
Karen Kaplan | Moderator |Chair & CEO, Hill Holliday
Yasmin Cruz Ferrine | Co-Founder, Visible Hands
Sarah Fay | Managing Partner, Glasswing Ventures
Yvonne Garcia | Chief of Staff to CEO, State Street
Tia Thomson | VP & Chief of Staff, Visible Hands
The Next Generation of Warriors

Lily Joy Winder | Student, Native Activist
Batouly Camara | Founder of W.A.K.E., Former UCONN basketball player
Nadia Nazar | Artist, Climate change Activist
Jen Deaderick | Interviewer | Author of She The People
Divorced, Beheaded, Died, Divorced, Beheaded, Survived.

Kelsee Kimmell | Broadway Performer, SIX: The Musical
You Say Yes, I Say No, No, No

Laurie Weingart | Professor of Organizational Behavior, Carnegie Mellon, Author of The No Club
Commanding the Stage

Ruby Ibarra | Rapper, Producer & Director
Lulu Garcia-Navarro | Interviewer | Peabody Award-winning Journalist, New York Times
Ladies Get Paid: 10 Tips for Negotiating your Salary

Claire Wasserman | Founder, Ladies Get Paid
Darcel Wilson | Good Vibrations

Darcel Wilson | Musical Artist and Professor, Berklee College of Music Introduced by Andrew Graff | CEO, Allen & Gerritsen
Shock Waves
A Fractured Future: The American Dreamer
The Battle of the Boardroom

https://vimeo.com/721185835
Ibtihaj Muhammad | Be The Hero You Didn’t Have
No Limits, No Fear
Senator Elizabeth Warren

Nevertheless, She Persisted
The Betrayal of Burnout

Dr. Pooja Lakshmin | Psychiatrist & Author
Leading the Next Normal: The Post-Pandemic Future of Female Leadership

Heather Bender | VP, Talent and Kiran Smith, EVP & CMO, iRobot
Keep the Faith: Save the Earth

Molly Burhans | Climate Activist and Founder, GoodLands
Nevertheless, She Prepared: Financial Wellbeing for Women

Jennifer Halloran | Head of Marketing, MassMutual Yasmeen Ramadan | Market Segment Strategist, MassMutual
Women in Male Dominated Industries: A conversation between female founders

Ashley DePaolo, President | CommCreative Esther Tetreault | Founder, Trillium Brewing Company
Invisible no More

Gish Jen | Award Winning Author
Let Us March on the Ballot Boxes

Nsé Ufot | CEO, The New Georgia Project & the New Georgia Project Action Fund
Weathering Time: A personal Archive

Nancy Floyd | Visual Artist
Blake’s Story: Be Bold

Blake Bolden | Former NWHL Player & Pro Scout
Wendy Ong & Julia Stone | Making Dreams Come True

Wendy Ong | President of TaP Management and TaP Records, U.S. Julia Stone | Singer, Songwriter Performing ‘Fire in Me’