2018 SPEAKER LIST (More to Come! Check Back!)
Confirmed Speaker & Presenter Bios
CV Harquail, Co-Founder of Feminists at Work and faculty at Stevens Institute of Technology, is a feminist management professor and consultant whose work weaves together the fields of organizational change, social justice, and digital technology. CV has worked with over 100 teams of entrepreneurs, helping them use Lean Startup processes to bring business ideas forward and adopt new technologies. CV also helps business leaders incorporate feminist values and goals into their companies, changing the world by transforming business.
CV is currently documenting how feminism has already transformed business in an upcoming book and she has presented her research at Harvard Business School, Stern Business School (NYU), Kellogg (Northwestern), Booth (UChicago), and TEDxHoboken. She has published in AMJ and AMR, and her essays on feminist business/ product design appear in two major Women’s Studies anthologies. She writes at the Huffington Post, Forbes.com, Women2.0, and the Harvard Business Review, as well as her blog AuthenticOrganizations. Read more at cvharquail.com.
Dr. Barb Orser - Professor Orser is a Full Professor and the Deloitte Professor in the Management of Growth Enterprises. In 2010, Dr. Orser was recognized by the Women's Executive Network as a 100 Most Power Women in Canada (Champion Category) and The International Alliance of Women World of Difference 100 Awards. In 2011, she received the University of Ottawa Telfer School of Management Award for Service, Teaching and Research.
She is an active advisor to the federal government and the former Chair of the Taskforce for Women's Enterprise Growth (2009-2011), a Canadian non-partisan consortium of prominent women business owners, SME service agencies, academics and industry associations. Prior to joining Telfer School of Management in 2005, she was an Associate Professor at Carleton and Ryerson University and Program Manager of the Conference Board of Canada Centre of Excellence for Women's Advancement. Barbara Orser is co-author with Catherine Elliot of Feminine Capital: Unlocking the Power of Women Entrepreneurs, published by Stanford University Press in 2015.
Vicki Saunders has co-founded and run 4 ventures in Europe, Toronto, and Silicon Valley including Zazengo (an online platform for consumer and employee engagement for Fortune500 companies focused on sustainability), KidsNRG/The NRG Group (which went public on the Toronto Stock Exchange in 2000), and Impactanation, a global consulting firm focused on engaging youth to tackle the grand challenges we are facing.
Vicki was recently named one of the 100 most influential leaders of 2015 from “EBW – Empowering A Billion Women”, alongside Marissa Mayer, Melinda Gates, Sheryl Sandberg, and Michelle Obama. In 2001, Vicki was selected as a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum. She has spoken regularly at events around the world including; The World Economic Forum in Davos, Women of Influence Series in Canada, TEDx Conference, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs events and the Tallberg Forum.
Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall is a design anthropologist, public intellectual, and design advocate who works at the intersections of critical theory, culture, and design. As Dean of Design at Ontario College of Art and Design University, she is the first black and black female dean of a faculty of design. She leads the Cultures-Based Innovation Initiative focused on using old ways of knowing to drive innovation processes that directly benefit communities.
With a global career, Dori served as Associate Professor of Design Anthropology and Associate Dean at Swinburne University in Australia. She wrote the biweekly column Un-Design for The Conversation Australia. In the U.S., she taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She organized the U.S. National Design Policy Initiative and served as a director of Design for Democracy. Industry positions included UX strategists for Sapient Corporation and Arc Worldwide. Dori holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Stanford University and a BA in Anthropology from Bryn Mawr College.
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Dr. Golnaz Golnaraghi - With more than 10 years of teaching experience in higher education, Dr. Golnaz Golnaraghi’s research interests include gender and diversity, identity construction, transformational and experiential learning models, portfolio learning and critical reflection. She developed a passion for innovation in teaching and learning in 2012 when she led the design and delivery of a portfolio learning model in five new Bachelor of Business Administration programs for an Ontario-based college, fostering self-awareness, growth mindset and 21st century skills. In 2013, Golnaraghi was a co-recipient of a significant research grant through the Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities for her work in experiential learning in higher education business courses. She has published her research in books, magazines, blogs and peer review journals including the International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management and Equity, and Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal.
PK Mutch
Petra Kassun-Mutch is a serial social purpose entrepreneur, start up and business growth incubator management consultant and publisher, deeply committed to creating a more inclusive, just, human-centered and generative economy through the power of feminist business practice, pedagogy, theory, innovation and entrepreneurship. Her enterprise, Eve-volution Inc (2014), a B Corp certified, lean, networked feminist enterprise advocates for and designs programs that promote equity and inclusion in startup and community-based economic development ecosystems. Her magazine, LiisBeth serves as a convener, capacity-builder and voice for the growing, 10 000+ all gender, entrepreneurial feminist community.
Mutch current serves as the Executive Director of Food Starter, a food processing entrepreneur incubator and accelerator program with a 20 000 sq ft processing facility in in Toronto.
Mutch is a certified Feminist Business Model Canvas Master Coach and holds an EMBA from the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. She is a co-founding, co-producer of the Entrepreneurial Feminist Forum—an educational, collaboration and resilience-crafting conference for entrepreneurial feminists of all genders. Her work was recently recognized in the Canada 150 Women: Conversations with Leaders, Champions and Luminaries book which was published November 2017. Mutch was recognized as one of Canada’s Inspiring 50 women in April 2018.
Lex Schroeder is a writer/editor and business strategist in the systems thinking community, Co-Founder of Feminists at Work, and the Marketing & Editorial Team Lead at Imagine Philanthropy, a strategic philanthropy and invesing firm. As Co-Founder of Feminists at Work, Lex brings a feminist lens to transforming businesses, organizations, and systems. Her focus these days is creating new knowledge at the intersection of gender justice and the future of work. Lex has led strategic initiatives at The Berkana Institute, The Lean Enterprise Institute, and Take The Lead, a U.S. nonprofit dedicated to gender parity in leadership across all sectors by 2025. During Take The Lead’s early startup years, she co-developed and scaled a unique leadership development program flipping power on its head serving 500+ women, recruiting and managing an intergenerational team of 30 leaders across the country.
Lex has presented workshops or spoken on collective leadership at NYU, Yale, See Jane Do, and the Harvard School of Public Health. Her views on leadership have been featured in ELLE France, Fast Company, and Boston.com. Lex is trained in the Art of Hosting, a set of participatory leadership methods and way of working with emergence and collective intelligence during gatherings that allows for responsive design. She lives in Harlem and tries to get to the Maine coast as often as she can. Her favorite dance troupes are Ballez and STREB Action Lab.
CV Harquail, Co-Founder of Feminists at Work and faculty at Stevens Institute of Technology, is a feminist management professor and consultant whose work weaves together the fields of organizational change, social justice, and digital technology. CV has worked with over 100 teams of entrepreneurs, helping them use Lean Startup processes to bring business ideas forward and adopt new technologies. CV also helps business leaders incorporate feminist values and goals into their companies, changing the world by transforming business.
CV is currently documenting how feminism has already transformed business in an upcoming book and she has presented her research at Harvard Business School, Stern Business School (NYU), Kellogg (Northwestern), Booth (UChicago), and TEDxHoboken. She has published in AMJ and AMR, and her essays on feminist business/ product design appear in two major Women’s Studies anthologies. She writes at the Huffington Post, Forbes.com, Women2.0, and the Harvard Business Review, as well as her blog AuthenticOrganizations. Read more at cvharquail.com.
Dr. Barb Orser - Professor Orser is a Full Professor and the Deloitte Professor in the Management of Growth Enterprises. In 2010, Dr. Orser was recognized by the Women's Executive Network as a 100 Most Power Women in Canada (Champion Category) and The International Alliance of Women World of Difference 100 Awards. In 2011, she received the University of Ottawa Telfer School of Management Award for Service, Teaching and Research.
She is an active advisor to the federal government and the former Chair of the Taskforce for Women's Enterprise Growth (2009-2011), a Canadian non-partisan consortium of prominent women business owners, SME service agencies, academics and industry associations. Prior to joining Telfer School of Management in 2005, she was an Associate Professor at Carleton and Ryerson University and Program Manager of the Conference Board of Canada Centre of Excellence for Women's Advancement. Barbara Orser is co-author with Catherine Elliot of Feminine Capital: Unlocking the Power of Women Entrepreneurs, published by Stanford University Press in 2015.
Vicki Saunders has co-founded and run 4 ventures in Europe, Toronto, and Silicon Valley including Zazengo (an online platform for consumer and employee engagement for Fortune500 companies focused on sustainability), KidsNRG/The NRG Group (which went public on the Toronto Stock Exchange in 2000), and Impactanation, a global consulting firm focused on engaging youth to tackle the grand challenges we are facing.
Vicki was recently named one of the 100 most influential leaders of 2015 from “EBW – Empowering A Billion Women”, alongside Marissa Mayer, Melinda Gates, Sheryl Sandberg, and Michelle Obama. In 2001, Vicki was selected as a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum. She has spoken regularly at events around the world including; The World Economic Forum in Davos, Women of Influence Series in Canada, TEDx Conference, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs events and the Tallberg Forum.
Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall is a design anthropologist, public intellectual, and design advocate who works at the intersections of critical theory, culture, and design. As Dean of Design at Ontario College of Art and Design University, she is the first black and black female dean of a faculty of design. She leads the Cultures-Based Innovation Initiative focused on using old ways of knowing to drive innovation processes that directly benefit communities.
With a global career, Dori served as Associate Professor of Design Anthropology and Associate Dean at Swinburne University in Australia. She wrote the biweekly column Un-Design for The Conversation Australia. In the U.S., she taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She organized the U.S. National Design Policy Initiative and served as a director of Design for Democracy. Industry positions included UX strategists for Sapient Corporation and Arc Worldwide. Dori holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Stanford University and a BA in Anthropology from Bryn Mawr College.
EFF'S "MADAMES" OF CEREMONY
Dr. Golnaz Golnaraghi - With more than 10 years of teaching experience in higher education, Dr. Golnaz Golnaraghi’s research interests include gender and diversity, identity construction, transformational and experiential learning models, portfolio learning and critical reflection. She developed a passion for innovation in teaching and learning in 2012 when she led the design and delivery of a portfolio learning model in five new Bachelor of Business Administration programs for an Ontario-based college, fostering self-awareness, growth mindset and 21st century skills. In 2013, Golnaraghi was a co-recipient of a significant research grant through the Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities for her work in experiential learning in higher education business courses. She has published her research in books, magazines, blogs and peer review journals including the International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management and Equity, and Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal.
PK Mutch
Petra Kassun-Mutch is a serial social purpose entrepreneur, start up and business growth incubator management consultant and publisher, deeply committed to creating a more inclusive, just, human-centered and generative economy through the power of feminist business practice, pedagogy, theory, innovation and entrepreneurship. Her enterprise, Eve-volution Inc (2014), a B Corp certified, lean, networked feminist enterprise advocates for and designs programs that promote equity and inclusion in startup and community-based economic development ecosystems. Her magazine, LiisBeth serves as a convener, capacity-builder and voice for the growing, 10 000+ all gender, entrepreneurial feminist community.
Mutch current serves as the Executive Director of Food Starter, a food processing entrepreneur incubator and accelerator program with a 20 000 sq ft processing facility in in Toronto.
Mutch is a certified Feminist Business Model Canvas Master Coach and holds an EMBA from the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. She is a co-founding, co-producer of the Entrepreneurial Feminist Forum—an educational, collaboration and resilience-crafting conference for entrepreneurial feminists of all genders. Her work was recently recognized in the Canada 150 Women: Conversations with Leaders, Champions and Luminaries book which was published November 2017. Mutch was recognized as one of Canada’s Inspiring 50 women in April 2018.
Lex Schroeder is a writer/editor and business strategist in the systems thinking community, Co-Founder of Feminists at Work, and the Marketing & Editorial Team Lead at Imagine Philanthropy, a strategic philanthropy and invesing firm. As Co-Founder of Feminists at Work, Lex brings a feminist lens to transforming businesses, organizations, and systems. Her focus these days is creating new knowledge at the intersection of gender justice and the future of work. Lex has led strategic initiatives at The Berkana Institute, The Lean Enterprise Institute, and Take The Lead, a U.S. nonprofit dedicated to gender parity in leadership across all sectors by 2025. During Take The Lead’s early startup years, she co-developed and scaled a unique leadership development program flipping power on its head serving 500+ women, recruiting and managing an intergenerational team of 30 leaders across the country.
Lex has presented workshops or spoken on collective leadership at NYU, Yale, See Jane Do, and the Harvard School of Public Health. Her views on leadership have been featured in ELLE France, Fast Company, and Boston.com. Lex is trained in the Art of Hosting, a set of participatory leadership methods and way of working with emergence and collective intelligence during gatherings that allows for responsive design. She lives in Harlem and tries to get to the Maine coast as often as she can. Her favorite dance troupes are Ballez and STREB Action Lab.
