Wings Of...inspired Business

Jennifer Stojkovic is a General Partner at Joyful Ventures, an early-stage VC fund focused on disrupting the $1.4 trillion meat and dairy industry with sustainable protein. She’s also the founder of Vegan Women Summit (VWS), a platform of over 60,000 women professionals in the future of food, and author of the award-winning book, The Future of Food is Female. Prior to her career in food technology, Jennifer built her career in Silicon Valley under Ron Conway, Founder of SV Angel, and worked with the world's largest tech companies including Google, Meta, and Microsoft.

Sheri Riley is President of Exponential Living®, a personal, professional, and leadership development company. After spending 20 years creating marketing strategies for global superstars and companies like Usher, Warner Media, and Converse, Sheri now empowers professional athletes, coaches, entertainers, corporate executives, and entrepreneurs to grow personally and dominate professionally. She’s also the bestselling author of Exponential Living® - Stop Spending 100% of Your Time on 10% of Who You Are.

Amy Anthony is one of the United States’ most influential aromatherapists and the founder of a growing private practice NYC Aromatica, which offers one-on-one customized aromatherapy sessions, online class offerings, and corporate consulting. Also an aromatic gardener, herbalist, artisanal distiller, and certified master composters, Amy left her career in marketing research to pursue her love of plants. She also hosts the Essential Aromatica podcast.

Catherine Cassidy is the CEO and Founder of Boutique Box, a unique “style as a service” platform helping busy women find their perfect fashions in a time-saving way. Catherine has more than 20 years of experience in the Fashion Industry, and launched her first fashion business Ustyled in 2008. She’s also a sought-after speaker on leadership and confidence.

Nicole Rodrigues is CEO & Founder of NRPR Group, an award-winning, full-service PR and creative marketing agency. Her experience designing strategies for marquee brands like Yahoo!, YouTube and Hulu has made her one of the industry’s "Top 50 Game Changers" and earned her the title of “Beverly Hills Boss.” Today Nicole shares her top three strategies for standing out from the crowd and why every business needs a long-term PR strategy based on storytelling.

Tissa Richards has a mission to create a legion of leaders with an unshakable sense of self. A serial entrepreneur, a keynote speaker, leadership expert and corporate facilitator, Tissa works with F1000 and hyperscale organizations, guiding them to create blueprints for individual and organizational success, develop high-performance cultures, and to diversify C-suites and corporate boardrooms. As a repeat software founder and CEO, Tissa sits at the intersection of entrepreneurship, fundraising and executive leadership. She has raised millions of dollars for her companies, won awards for innovation and products, and holds multiple patents for complex cybersecurity software. She works closely with founders and business owners to create strategies for fearless, authentic, and resilient success. Her book, No Permission Needed, recently hit #1 new release on Amazon.

Candace Nelson is a serial entrepreneur, a New York Times bestselling author, Wall Street Journal contributor and an expert in turning one’s passion into a profitable business. Author of the WSJ bestselling book, Sweet Success: A Simple Recipe for Turning Your Passion into Profit, Candace revolutionized the baking industry when she left a career in corporate finance to launch Sprinkles, the world's first cupcake bakery and Cupcake ATM. She followed with Pizzana, a growing chain of Michelin Bib Gourmand-awarded pizzerias leading the third wave of pizza in the U.S. She continues to expand her portfolio of investments with CN2 Ventures.

Rita Ernst is the founder Ignite Your Extraordinary, an organizational consulting practice emphasizing the convergence of happiness and productivity to create positive, committed, high-performing organizations. Author of Show Up Positive, Rita helps transform corporate cultures and startup emerging growth companies lay the groundwork for success.

Amanda Bucci is a conscious business consultant, energy and alignment coach, podcaster, and creator of the Entrepreneurial Archetype Quiz™. A 7-figure CEO by the age of 25, Amanda built on her certifications in Spiritual Psychology to build a vibrant coaching business helping entrepreneurs and creators understand who they are, connect to their authenticity, and build businesses that are in alignment with their energetic blueprints.  

Tracy Litt is a sought-after success mentor for visionary women leaders navigating huge paradigm shifts and elevating into the next level of impact, wealth, and holistic success. Tracy is Founder of The Litt Factor and creator of Mind Magic ®, a proven methodology that marries metacognition and spirituality, neuroscience, and quantum law to expand and elevate more quickly. She is also the bestselling author of Worthy Human and her work has been featured by Forbes, Entrepreneur, Fast Company and Inc.com

Chelsey Roney is the COO and Co-Founder of Proxi, a custom and collaborative mapping technology for businesses, brands, and individuals. A former Boeing and Microsoft alum, Chelsey is a serial entrepreneur who previously bootstrapped and sold a SaaS business and a local services business. Today Chelsey shares how Proxi secured $1.2M in pre-seed finance and what’s next for her company.  

Palak Shah is the founder of Open Spaces Capital, a real estate firm she built as a stay-at-home-mom to $10 million in asset value. Palak had spent 17 years as a top paid mechanical engineer climbing the corporate ladder when she realized on maternity leave, she wanted more flexibility to focus on her children. When her request to work from home part time was rejected, she quit her high paying job and launched her profitable real estate company, and how she also teaches women how to ‘BRRRR’, that is “Buy, Rehab, Rent, Refinance, Repeat.”

Wendy Appel is a founding partner of Trilogy Effect, a leadership development and executive coaching consulting firm that helps startups and F-500 companies alike build high functioning teams by tapping into the wisdom, creativity, and vitality inherent in themselves, in their teams, and in their organizations. Author of InsideOut Enneagram: The Game Changing Guide for Leaders Wendy also hosts the podcast Being Human is Good for Business.

Rebecca Whitman is an award-winning Success Mentor and the internationally bestselling author of Phenomenal Feminine Entrepreneurs, Business, Life, Universe, and How to Make a Six Figure Income Working Part Time. International Association of Top Professionals’ Life Coach of the Year, Rebecca shares how her 7 Pillars of Abundance enables entrepreneurial success and a full, happy life. She also hosts the Balanced, Beautiful, Abundant podcast.

Ego Iwegbu is a serial entrepreneur and co-founder and CEO of The Good Mineral, a clean-beauty brand focused on sensitive acne-prone skin. She first went into business founding Nail Salon in 1999, and now also founded two other companies, the cosmetic line Miss London and the salon business Miss Salon London. Author of Open Your Own Salon the Right Way and Kick-Start Your Salon into Profit, Ego has also made it her mission to help other women build businesses, especially female founders who find themselves in difficult circumstances.

Anna Konchar is an e-learning expert mentor who helps women monetize their skills, knowledge and passions with online courses and membership programs. Anna built her first side hustle e-course to $100,000 while still working a 9-5 job, and went on to earn $3mm in 3 years with her own courses working just 2 days a week. Today she shares her blueprint of how to build a million-dollar side hustle.

Kareen Walsh is a startup adviser, investor, serial entrepreneur, executive coach, author, and podcaster. She is the CEO and Founder of Revampologist, a 7-Figure Boutique consulting and coaching company and co-founded the Clevr Network. With 17+ years of entrepreneurial and executive experience leading and advising industry leaders, Kareen is hyper focused on leadership to help businesses scale. Her clients include trillion-dollar companies like BlackRock, Groupon, Broadridge as well as startups, and she helps leaders align what they love with what they do, and monetize it. She believes if you are not growing, your business won't grow, and uses her books Lead with Value and Be A Badass, along with her Podcast Your Badass Journey as ways to share the methods of personal and professional growth. Listen to learn: Four strategic steps to take aligned action How to identify and monetize your unique ‘zone of genius’ How to ask for what you want Why lack of trust is the biggest block to building scalable businesses

Jessica Procini is on a mission to help high-achieving women heal the roots of their emotional eating. When Overeaters Anonymous and therapy weren’t enough to help Jessica end her fight with food, she spent ten years in research before developing her signature healing framework, Escape From Emotional Eating®, which has helped women reclaim their power over food. Now that she’s been 100% free from her compulsions with food for over 5 years, Jessica helps female entrepreneurs and executives do the same at EscapeFromEmotionalEating.com.

Patience Ball and Dr. Ruth Shaber, the authors of The XX Edge: Unlocking Higher Returns and Lower Risk, make a well-researched case that women entrepreneurs and C-suite executives deliver stronger long-term performance that drive higher financial returns and more positive societal outcomes. They both draw on real-world experience. Patience, who raised more than $16 billion for women entrepreneurs as Principal Investment Officer and Global Head of Banking on Women at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), is now founder and CEO of the Women of the World Endowment, an investment nonprofit. Ruth, the co-founder and board chair of Rhia Ventures, a group of foundations and investors that collaborate to bring new types of capital and enterprise to the field of reproductive health, was featured in Forbes 2020 Impact 50: Investors Seeking Profit—and Pushing for Change for her contributions to the field of impact investing.

Tissa Richards has a mission to create a legion of leaders with an unshakable sense of self. A serial entrepreneur, a keynote speaker, leadership expert and corporate facilitator, Tissa works with F1000 and hyperscale organizations, guiding them to create blueprints for individual and organizational success, develop high-performance cultures, and to diversify C-suites and corporate boardrooms. As a repeat software founder and CEO, Tissa sits at the intersection of entrepreneurship, fundraising and executive leadership. She has raised millions of dollars for her companies, won awards for innovation and products, and holds multiple patents for complex cybersecurity software. She works closely with founders and business owners to create strategies for fearless, authentic, and resilient success. Her book, No Permission Needed, recently hit #1 new release on Amazon.