Conference Speakers
Elim Chew
As Founder of Singapore’s leading retail chain, Elim Chew helps youth and young adults realize their dreams, and believes businesses can do well and do good at the same time to create a more sustainable, inclusive and a better world. View Elim Chew's full biography
Marty Evans
One of our nations top leaders, Marty Evans' distinguished career has combined both military service and leadership of the nation's premier non-profit organizations, by blazing new trails in the Navy and as the leader of Girl Scouts of the USA (the largest organization representing girls in the world), and the American Red Cross. She has inspired and aided millions around the globe. View Marty Evans's full biography
Julie Gilbert
Visionary, mobilizer, catalyst: Julie Gilbert helps companies achieve eye-popping results, like those she achieved for Best Buy as Senior Vice President--generating an incremental $4.4 billion revenue increase by women consumers--using a formula she now applies as Founder and CEO of WOLF Means Business. View Julie Gilbert's full biography
Denise Jelinski-Hall
Blazing trails for many years from right here in Hawaii, Chief Master Sergeant Denise M. Jelinski-Hall has served our country and lead by example earning numerous awards and decorations as she's quickly risen through the ranks and earned her position advising the Chief of the National Guard Bureau. View Denise Jelinski-Hall's full biography
Michelle Kristula-Green
One of the Wall Street Journal's top "Women to Watch," Michelle Kristula-Green shapes strategies for attracting, developing and rewarding the most important ingredient in our business: People. She does this while living and working on four continents. View Michelle Kristula-Green's full biography
Linda Lingle
Under her leadership as Hawaii’s sixth chief executive, the International Women’s Leadership Conference was launched in 2004 and has continued to grow, now in its eighth year. Governor Lingle’s successes as the first woman governor of the 50th state include an unprecedented move toward clean energy and keen focus on STEM education, among many others. View Linda Lingle's full biography
Nicole Marquez
Nicole Marquez was well on her way to realizing her dream of making it in New York as an actor-dancer-singer, when a near-fatal fall changed everything. View Nicole Marquez's full biography
Lesley Jane Seymour
Lesley Jane Seymour was named editor-in-chief of More in January of 2008. Under her guidance, the magazine published its first compilation book, More Magazine’s 287 Secrets of Reinventing Your Life: Big and Small Ways to Embrace New Possibilities, was named to Mediaweek’s 2010 Hot List and dubbed “the Vanity Fair for Women” by marketers. Seymour was also ranked 4th on Forbes’ Most Powerful Fashion Magazine Editors list in 2009. View Lesley Jane Seymour's full biography