Top Entrepreneurs

Tahani Aburaneh

Driven by an unrelenting will to succeed and a sincere love for what she does, Tahani Aburaneh overcame adversity that would have discouraged many. From her humble beginnings in a refugee camp where she was born, to the prejudices she faced as a woman and mother trying to establish herself ... Read More

Joey Adler

Joelle (Joey) Berdugo-Adler is a powerhouse in the fashion industry as President and CEO of Diesel Canada Inc., and the driving force behind the ONEXONE (One by One) charitable foundation. In 1984, Joey entered the fashion world working for Sergio Valente, one of the founding brands of the early 1980s ... Read More

Julie Austin

There are very few women innovation speakers, and even fewer who have actually innovated. Julie is both. A true innovator who’s been in the trenches and bootstrapped a unique invention from scratch and turned it into a global success with no venture capital, no bank loans, and no mentors. Julie Austin ... Read More

Ruma Bose

Ruma Bose is a serial entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist, and author of the bestselling book Mother Teresa, CEO: Unexpected Principles for Practical Leadership, which explores the leadership principles that led Mother Teresa, with whom Bose actually worked, to create one of the world's largest and most successful organizations. Bose is currently president ... Read More

Ali Brown

Founder and CEO of Ali International

Ali Brown is fast becoming regarded as the voice for women and business success. As founder and CEO of Ali International, she has created a dynamic multimillion dollar enterprise that is devoted to empowering women entrepreneurs around the world. Starting from humble beginnings with less than $20 in her bank ... Read More

Jenny Buccos

Jenny Buccos is the Director, Producer, and Founder of ProjectExplorer.org. Jenny began her professional career in 1999 with Credit Suisse First Boston as a marketing project manager on two web-based startup projects. It is here where she gained experience with global media production and successfully managed marketing campaign projects in Hong ... Read More

Amber Chand

Visionary leader, social entrepreneur, gifted writer and inspirational speaker, Amber Chand is a global woman with roots in India, Africa, Europe and America. She speaks to her audiences as a mother, peace builder, global citizen and award winning entrepreneur From the moment her family fled Uganda under the threats of execution ... Read More

Julie Clark

Founder of world famous Baby Einstein brand

Julie represents what all entrepreneurs strive to be: she built what she loved from the ground up and filled a void in the marketplace to answer a need that was her own. She cared about her product, and never forgot the importance of customer service. She made babies smile while ... Read More

Maxine Clark

CEO of Build-A-Bear Workshop

Maxine Clark is one of the true innovators in the retail industry. In 1997, she founded Build-A- Bear Workshop, a teddy-bear themed retail entertainment experience. Today, there are more than 400 Build-A-Bear Workshop stores worldwide along with its award winning online virtual world. Under Maxine's leadership, Build-A-Bear Workshop was named ... Read More

Barbara Corcoran

Barbara Corcoran's credentials include straight D's in high school and college and twenty jobs by the time she turned twenty-three. It was her next job that would make her one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the country when she took a $1000 loan to start The Corcoran Group ... Read More

Michelle Dunk

Michelle Dunk has been a winning entrepreneur since the young age of twenty-two. She began her illustrious career at seventeen, organizing and managing local and international charitable events. She went on to become a successful business owner in the financial industry and a highly sought after public speaker. She has ... Read More

Carolyn Gable

As single mother of seven children ages 10 to 35, Carolyn Gable's rags to riches story seems impossible to believe. As a waitress for over a decade, she honed her communication and interpersonal skills, yet she knew she was meant for something greater. Like many, she needed a little push. As ... Read More

Shama Kabani

Web and TV show host. Bestselling author.International speaker. Award winning CEO of The Marketing Zen Group – a global online marketing and PR firm. Shama is the face of today’s digital world, and represents the best her generation has to offer. She has aptly been dubbed the “master millennial of the ... Read More

Carolyn Kepcher

Carolyn Kepcher is the CEO of  Carolyn & Co., an enterprise created for and by a career woman. Carolyn & Co is aimed at women just graduating college, women looking to advance their careers and women juggling the variety of challenges in their careers Kepcher is the author of "Carolyn ... Read More

Marion Luna Brem

President and CEO of Love Enterprises

Marion Luna Brem had her near-perfect life shattered when she was diagnosed with a terminal illness and told she had only 2 to 5 years to live. But dying was not an option. Battling cervical and breast cancer with no health insurance, no employment and no resume, Marion, newly divorced ... Read More

Linda Lundstrom

Award-winning Canadian Fashion Designer Linda Lundstrom owned and operated Linda Lundstrom Inc. from 1974 to 2008. The creator of uniquely Canadian clothing for authentic women, Lundstrom championed 'Made in Canada' The company was recognized for innovative leadership, business achievement, community outreach, environmental initiatives, use of CAD/CAM (Computer Assisted Design/Computer Assisted ... Read More

Bonnie Marcus

Award winning entrepreneur and Forbes contributing writer, Bonnie Marcus, M.Ed., has real conversations for real women about real situations in the workplace today. As the founder and principal of Women's Success Coaching, Bonnie assists professional women to successfully navigate the workplace and position and promote themselves to advance their careers. With ... Read More

Lori Mitchell

Lori Mitchell is the fiercely entrepreneurial president of Tomboy Tools Canada and has founded one of this country's most inspiring business success stories. A unique business without direct competition in today's marketplace, Tomboy Tools sells high-quality hand and power tools designed with the ergonomic needs of women in mind. Lori Mitchell, the ... Read More

LuAn Mitchell

Past Chair – Mitchell’s Gourmet Foods

"Rags to riches" doesn't even begin to describe the LuAn Mitchell story. Now a wealthy entrepreneur, author, motivational speaker, corporate executive, philanthropist, wife and mother, it's hard to believe Mitchell was ever anything but successful. The Leading Women Entrepreneurs of the World have honored her since 2001. LuAn Mitchell is ... Read More

Pattye Moore

Pattye Moore is a consultant, speaker and author, specializing in leadership development, brand development, marketing, and strategic planning. She is also a proud mother, grandmother, wife and daughter who knows first-hand the challenges of work-life balance. Pattye currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, a ... Read More

Sabrina Parsons

Sabrina Parsons is CEO of Palo Alto Software, developer of the best-selling business planning software, Business Plan Pro. Palo Alto Software developes software and tools specifically targeted for entrepreneurs and small-business owners. Sabrina assumed the CEO role in 2007 and is responsible for Palo Alto's business planning, fiscal and ... Read More

Nadja Piatka

President and CEO of Nadja Foods

Nadja Piatka made a dream come true armed only with an idea. Her tale of taking a company out of her kitchen with a $100 investment and creating a multi-million dollar lowfat food manufacturing company that became an international supplier to Subway and McDonald's was recently highlighted on Oprah. As ... Read More

Laura Robinson

Inventor of Balderdash and Count your Blessings

Laura Robinson is best known for co-inventing the best-selling board game, "Balderdash," which has sold over 25 million copies worldwide. Her most recent inventions include the games "Identity Crisis" and "Count Your Blessings." She is motivated to share good message games that bring families and friends together for times of ... Read More

Julie Shifman

Julie Shifman is an inspirational and award winning speaker, author and business owner who believes in every woman’s ability to challenge herself and grow.  Julie started her career as a professional ballet dancer, before becoming a highly successful lawyer in New York City, and then in Cincinnati. She founded her company ... Read More

Jody Steinhauer

Chief Bargain Officer of Bargain Group

Known as Canada's Queen of Bargains, Jody Steinhauer is the President and Chief Bargain Officer of The Bargains Group. Jody started her company with only a $1,000 investment, and with her innovation and business savvy, grew the business into a multi million dollar corporation. The Bargain Group is Canada's largest ... Read More

Rumeet Toor

Rumeet Toor is the President of Jobs in Education, an employment job board bringing together employers and job seekers within the K-12 education sector. At the age of 25 and again at the age of 28, this passionate and dynamic advocate in global education received the honour of being named one ... Read More

Shalini Vadhera

"My passion in life is discovering the exotic," says author, celebrity makeup artist, global lifestyle expert, and Oprah Award winner Shalini Vadhera. "Life is a journey. Finding ways to help women look good and feel good is the best part." And this media darling's journey is one for the ages. Vadhera's ... Read More

Shevaun Voisin

Editor and Publisher of Motivated Magazine

  Exercising the power of audacity, Shevaun Voisin has promoted a world-ranked boxer, built a mall, and taught hundreds of entrepreneurs how to start and grow their companies. She has interviewed some of the world's most accomplished leaders and cultural icons; Sir Richard Branson, Will Smith, Don Cherry, President Bill ... Read More

Lisa Von Sturmer

Lisa von Sturmer is the founder and CEO of Growing City, North America's first and only premium office composting service. Her company makes it easy for any business to reduce their waste by up to 50%, overnight. Lisa is a champion for composting, waste reduction and urban agriculture ... Read More

Gail Warrior

President and CEO of the Warrior Group

In 1997 Gail Warrior founded Warrior Group, which has grown to be one of the largest minority- and woman-owned construction services companies in the country. The construction company provides permanent, modular buildings to corporations and government agencies in more than 30 states. Under her leadership, Warrior Group with saw revenue ... Read More

Laura Zander

Laura Zander and her husband Doug Zander were Silicon Valley software engineers who realized their jobs were in jeopardy. So they emptied their bank accounts, left San Francisco, and moved full time to their second home in Truckee, California, near Lake Tahoe. They both liked to ski, and Laura Zander ... Read More