The Speaker Series for Young Women Coalition is a passionate group of Chief members dedicated to cultivating and empowering the future generation of young leaders, designed by and for persons who are cisgender, non-binary, and transgender.

Mission

Vision

To be a confident, empowered, self-valued, and healthy woman leader in an equitable and inclusive world.

About us

The coalition has reached over 300 national women undergraduates and recent graduates featuring the professional and personal journeys of diverse women C-suite, senior vice presidents, and executive leadership in the Speaker Series for Young Women through CHIEF meetups with young people.  Boss Me In business and programming is curated to align with your unique college or university setting and is separate and distinct from the Speakers for the Speaker Series for Young Women. However, the coalition is in partnership, and its members may opt to contribute to select Boss Me In initiatives.

THE SPEAKER SERIES FOR YOUNG WOMEN COALITION IS POWERED BY MEMBERS OF CHIEF, THE MOST POWERFUL NETWORK OF WOMEN EXECUTIVES.

  • AJ Umandap

    Chief of Staff/VP of GTM Strategy, Operations and Planning

    As a strategic operations executive, AJ is adept at identifying revenue and process improvement opportunities thereby strengthening an organization’s competitive advantage. A true fixer, her superpower is my ability to anticipate issues and obstacles well before they appear, quickly taking action in building people-first contingency plans that mitigate potentially problematic situations. Known for proactively embracing challenges and clearing barriers, she is skilled at cross-functional collaboration and designing best-in-class strategies that deliver superior customer experience and a boost in financial performance.

  • Alisha Leveston

    Operations Executive

    Alisha is a strategic and solutions-driven Operations Executive fortified by over 15 years of progressive experience driving innovative and profitable solutions through strategic planning and process road mapping across global organizations. Recognized for her ability to shape high-performance cultures, guiding cross-functional teams, ensuring organizational effectiveness and collaboration while gaining consensus from internal and external stakeholders.

  • Catherine Gregor

    Chief Clinical Trial Officer

    Catherine Gregor is a transformational leader and business advisor with close to two decades of experience in clinical research. She currently serves as the Chief Clinical Trial Officer for Florence Healthcare, a software company focused on connecting sponsors and sites worldwide.

  • Christa-Marie Singleton

    Physician Executive/Chief Medical Officer

    Dr. Christa-Marie Singleton is a board-certified preventive medicine physician executive, currently serving as a Chief Medical Officer, connector and translator between public health, healthcare, employers, and community partners. She has over 25 years of public and private healthcare experience, including 15 years of experience in federal, state and local public health policy and practice.

  • Disha Mehtani

    VP, Business Development

    Dr. Disha Mehtani holds a Ph.D. in polymer science from the University of Akron, OH and a B.E. in polymer engineering from Maharashtra Institute of Technology in India. For the past 13 years, she has been involved in the innovation of smart windows and has played a key role in operationalizing this one-of-a-kind product from ideation to IPO.

  • Heather Lindsay

    Board Chair/Healthcare Advocate

    Heather Lindsay is a highly successful leader with over 25 years of experience currently an associate vice president with Health Care Services Corporation, the parent company of five Blue Cross Blue Shield health plans (IL, TX, NM, OK & MT) responsible for operations servicing over a million Medicaid members. She is the board president for Butterfly Dreamz, a national organization supporting girls of color to achieve their dreams and become future leaders.

  • Jenny Trang

    Client Solutions & Innovation Leader

    Jenny is VP of Client Solutions at Epiq Global, a legal tech company, where she serves class action litigators while also exploring new adjacencies. She is an Executive Sponsor for the Epiq Women ERG. She enjoys mentoring, promoting diversity, and supporting underserved communities. Jenny is also an innovation and discovery strategist supporting global organizations in their transformation efforts.

  • Dr. Jill Guindon-Nasir

    Global Learning Leader & Business Development Executive

    Dr. Guindon-Nasir has over 25 years of experience in International Business, and has a passion for learning, service excellence, transformation, and sharing her knowledge with others. She has taught at the College level for over 22 years; which enables her to share her real-world business experiences with her students. Dr. Guindon-Nasir spent over 16 years with The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, holding various positions, such as Vice President of Global Business Development & Healthcare Advisory Services for The Ritz-Carlton Leadership Center. She was responsible for the Leadership Center’s Business Development, Financial Requirements, Client Relations and Curriculum Development.

  • Joanne Simon-Walters

    Chief People Officer

    Dr. Joanne Simon-Walters is a dynamic speaker, author, human resources, and leadership professional with 20 years of progressive management experience in multiple industries including education, healthcare, information technology, and financial services. Joanne’s personal mission is to create and sustain platforms where intentionally excluded people are able to find their voice and share their stories.

  • Joy Meserve

    COO to Leadership Coach

    After two decades of executive experience in scaling operations and developing leaders, Joy Meserve recently founded her consulting business, Leading with Joy, designed to help young companies as they scale so that in the process their people connect to their purpose, spread more joy in the workplace, and ultimately, establish the foundation needed for growing a sustainable company.

  • Joy Powell

    CEO & President

    Joy Powell is the CEO and President for Springbuk, a health intelligence software company empowering actionable insights to improve a population’s wellbeing while containing claim costs. She brings over 25 years of executive leadership experience spanning various aspects of the healthcare industry, including population health, care coordination, and analytics. Before joining Springbuk, Powell served in President and Chief Operating Officer roles at both Healthways and CareSync.

  • Lisa Eyer

    VP Client Success, Consero Global Solutions

    Lisa works for Consero Global, overseeing the organization’s entire relationship with its customers and driving efforts to assess and elevate experiences at each touch point across the customer journey in this fast paced and dynamic finance as a service business.   With over 25 years in the FinTech, Payments industry she has provided leadership across many key strategic positions. 

  • Lixa Marie Anderson

    VP, Enterprise Applications & Delivery

    Seasoned technical executive with proven success in culture building, leadership development, strong business and vendor partnerships, digital transformations and starting from the ground up in building teams in organizations.

  • Lucy Chen

    Financial Executive

    Lucy Chen is a first generation immigrant from China, a financial executive, and a founder of GiftedCoaching.info. She has 20+ years experience in engineering, consulting, healthcare, financial, renewal energy, etc. She is passionate about coaching women and youths, and supporting the Asian community.

  • Mai Moore

    Social Impact Leader

    Mai Moore is an Award-Winning Social Impact Leader, Co-Founder of EYEJ: Empowering Youth, Exploring Justice, Founder of Setting Off Social Impact, and Founder of Boss Me In. She helped two tech start-ups go public; Travelzoo Inc. and United Online. Mai believes in diverse women, BIPOC persons, and our young people to help create a more equitable and inclusive world. She is from Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

  • Marie Onakomaiya

    Neuroscientist, Clinical Epidemiologist, Digital Health Executive

    Neuroscientist, clinical epidemiologist, and digital health executive. Dr. Onakomaiya has spent her career working on complex issues in mental health, neurological and chronic conditions, and digital health research. She is an expert in translating scientific research, data, and health policies into digital health products to address complex global health and healthcare challenges with the potential for positive public health and social impact.

  • Marlene Heath

    HR Leader

    Marlene is an accomplished human resources and healthcare executive with over 28 years of experience in the military, corporate and not for profit arenas. Marlene is skilled in HR Strategy, Organization Design, Operational and Change Leadership. She is a passionate innovator who builds for scalability and sustainability. Marlene has a strong belief in the power of diversity, teamwork and collaboration across cultures, she is a firm believer in the “Happy People are productive people” model.

  • Michelle Garcia Dorminey

    Vice President, Innovation

    Michelle Garcia Dorminey is a bi-lingual executive leader with over 15 years of experience in finance, M&A, new ventures, market research, and sales operations in the automotive and internet industries. As VP of Innovation at TrueCar, she develops and executes go-to-market strategies for new revenue streams that increase top-line revenue and stakeholder value.

  • Nikki Lamba

    Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer, DDB Worldwide

    Nikki Lamba sits on the DDB Worldwide Executive Leadership team as DDB’s first Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Officer. In her role, Nikki is responsible for designing and implementing DDB’s global DEI strategy, ensuring that DDB’s core values, The Four Freedoms, are a key driver for agency culture.

    Prior to her current role, Nikki spent 11 years with global research organization Catalyst, providing partnership and guidance on organizational strategies and D&I programming in order to hire, advance and retain diverse talent for F1000 organizations across a range of industries.

  • Pamela Meadows

    Vice President, Consulting

    Pamela Meadows is Vice President at Octo Consulting, recently acquired by IBM. In this role, she is focused on creating better outcomes for the Department of VA through digital innovation, process improvement, and people development. In 2022, she won the American Society of Quality - Hartford’s Quality Person of the Year.

  • Rachael Jones

    CEO & Founder

    Rachael Jones is Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of a Stealth Venture at Redesign Health focused on enabling transparent and collaborative Value-Based Care programming. Rachael has over 25 years of experience leading data analytics, value-based care programs, and network contracting at national payors and large data-driven companies in healthcare. She is a deep Value-Based Care expert who has devoted most of her career to telling stories with data.

  • Rachel Boyd

    Healthcare Marketing Leader

    Rachel Boyd is a health innovation strategist, marketer and culture builder based in Connecticut, but present wherever opportunities take her. She’s held marketing leadership roles at digital health pioneers at the forefront of designing proactive solutions for women’s health, mental health and chronic condition management – including Ovia Health and Cricket Health.

  • Robin Li

    Investor & Board Member

    Robin Li is an investor at GGV Capital based in New York, focusing on investments in consumer, fintech, and the digital economy. She serves on the board of directors for Bustle Digital Group, Flieber, Glow Concept, Odeko, and Snappy. She is also a board observer or actively involved with Bowery Farming, Chief, Frubana, Function of Beauty, K Health, Novo, Shelf Engine, Slice, StockX, Swimply, and Yami.

  • Shari Begun

    Vice President, Sales

    Shari is Vice President of Consumer & IOT Sales at Renesas Electronics after previously holding sales leadership positions at Dialog Semiconductor, Texas Instruments and Cypress Semiconductor. She holds a Bachelors of Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology & MBA from Kennesaw State University.

  • Sheana Hamill

    Saas Marketing Leader

    Sheana Hamill is a B2B SaaS marketing leader with experience across sectors in the energy industry, manufacturing, technology, and financial services. She was most recently the SVP of Marketing at ProPricer, and the Head of Marketing at Puffer-Sweiven, a channel partner of Emerson. Before her role at Puffer, Ms. Hamill held global leadership roles at IHS Markit and Wood Mackenzie.

  • Sheraun Britton-Parris

    Chief Marketing Officer

    Sheraun Britton-Parris is a Chief Marketing Officer and independent company advisor with more than 20 years of experience who has conceived, created, and launched global go-to-market growth strategies for both emerging and established A-list brands across diverse industries - including tech, consumer packaged goods, financial services, and travel.

  • Stephanie Falkenstein

    Health Tech Marketing

    Stephanie Falkenstein is a marketing executive who connects innovative products and services with the customers who need them. With a non-linear career spanning filmmaking, advertising, tech, nonprofits, and healthcare, Stephanie thrives in organizations pioneering new technologies from AI and robotics to telehealth and digital therapeutics.

  • Tammy Lee

    Founder, Fractional COO

    Tammy Lee is the Founder of RIA Strategic Implementation & Execution (RIASIE) - a Fractional COO business that brings in skilled implementation to wealth management firms. Having spent nearly 2 decades in financial services, rising from operations to financial planner to C-suite management, Tammy is committed to expanding quality financial advice to everyone regardless of background and raising up new leaders in business, particularly in underrepresented communities. Tammy is a CFP, has been a contributing writer for Advisor Hub, part of the Schwab Executive Leadership Program, DEI Think Tank and Next Generation Sponsor.

  • Van Tran

    Founder | Create Ripples

    First generation Vietnamese immigrant from Vietnam, raised in Silicon Valley. I’m a founder, DEI practitioner, and CXM leader. I help Leaders and organizations carve more empathetic and inclusive paths towards business success.