2013 Speakers
Now presenting…the 2013 Women’s Festival featured speakers! We are thrilled to share the lineup for the upcoming festival, which includes many renowned speakers who will deliver TEDx-like talks that revolve around the theme of Health, Wealth, and Soul.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER LYNDA WEINMAN ~
Lynda Weinman is co-founder and executive chair of lynda.com, a leading online education company that teaches anyone software, creative, and business skills. She is a self-taught computer expert, author, educator, and entrepreneur. Lynda, along with her husband and cofounder, Bruce Heavin, has evolved lynda.com from its original concept as a free web resource for her students, to a site to sell her books on web design, to an award-winning online learning company with more than 83,000 individual tutorial videos and a membership base of more than 2 million people.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER TAMA KIEVES ~
Unleashing Your Calling: Create the Work & Life You Love
Tama Kieves, honors graduate of Harvard Law School, left her law practice with a corporate law firm to write and help others discover and live their life’s work. She is the bestselling author of This Time I Dance! Creating the Work You Love and her new book, Inspired & Unstoppable: Wildly Succeeding in Your Life’s Work!, which hit #1 on Amazon.com for career books. To read more about Tama, click here!
KEYNOTE SPEAKER ANN DOYLE ~
POWERING UP! How America’s Women Achievers Become Leaders
Anne Doyle has been on the front lines of women’s progress for four decades. Author of “POWERING UP! How America’s Women Achievers Become Leaders,” she began her career as a pioneering TV News & Sports broadcaster in the 1970s and 80s. For her leadership role in opening men’s sports locker rooms to female journalists, she’s in the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame. To read more about Ann, click here!
Also featured:
KIM CASTLE ~ The Lost Art of Being Human
To read more about Kim, click here!
PAMELA JANSEN ~ On Becoming a Fearless Woman To read more about Pamela, click here!
KEVIN BOURKE ~ Make Your Money Last a Lifetime
To read more about Kevin, click here!
DR. ANN MCELANEY-JOHNSON ~ Empower Your Life, Your Leadership
To read more about Ann, click here!
BOBBIE SURBER ~ Is a 600-Mile Walk Across Spain Long Enough to Heal Your Heart and Soul?
To read more about Bobbie, click here!
REBECCA TINSLEY ~ Conquering Post-Traumatic Stress: How Uganda’s Former Child Soldiers Counsel Each Other To read more about Rebecca, click here!
CAROLYN FINERAN ~ Dancing with Kindred Spirits: Lessons From My Wise Women To read more about Carolyn, click here!
JANET GARUFIS ~ Top Ten Things Women Can Do to Secure Their Financial Futures
KAREN FRYE ~ NBA Mom: Welcome to the Sisterhood
HEIDE HARGREAVES ~ Change Your Statement, Change Your Life
KATHY GRUVER ~Stressless in 2013
LUCIA DE GARCIA ~ Health & Spirit (poetry reading)
Keep checking for updated speaker lists!
