Wings Of...inspired Business

Jaclynn (Jax) Brennan is CEO and Co-Founder of Fyli, a Network as a Service (NaaS) business for early-stage female founders, offering education, accountability, peer-to-peer mentorship, leadership advancement and funding opportunities. A Creative Director for a variety of luxury fashion brands, Jaclynn has helped lead over 22 major corporations in executing branding strategies.

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.”

So much of who we are and what we achieve as women pioneering in business comes down to the gifts – and the limiting beliefs – we got from our mothers. Melinda Wittstock remembers her own late mother, who passed away peacefully three weeks ago at age 95, and shares how our mothers influence the deep subconscious beliefs that drive our successes and failures in life and entrepreneurship.

Darleen Santore, better known as “Coach Dar,” is an author, Licensed and Board-Certified Occupational Therapist, sought-after motivational speaker, plus leadership and mental skills coach to professional athletes, CEOs, and business leaders around the world. Author of “The Art of Bouncing Back: Find Your Flow to Thrive at Work and in Life - Anytime You’re off your Game”, Darleen is best known for her mental strength conditioning work with athletes in the NBA, MLB, PGA, and NHL she most recently worked as the mental conditioning and life coach for the Phoenix Suns.

Dr. Jessica Kriegel is the Chief Scientist of Workplace Culture at Culture Partners and an expert in workplace strategy, culture and driving results. Author of Unfairly Labeled: How Your Workplace Can Benefit From Ditching Generational Stereotypes, Jessica recently sold her company The Culture Equation to Culture Partners, where she works with Fortune 100 and other companies using data-driven insights to transform cultures to drive results.

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.

Jenna Spencer is the Founder and Visionary of AssistPro™, an executive assistant matching and delegation coaching service created to free up time and create growth for busy leaders. Since founding AssistPro in 2014, Jenna has worked with hundreds of clients, helping them find the Right-Fit Assistant™ and teaching them how to delegate and develop their assistants into leaders, as well. Under her direction and leadership, AssistPro has grown more than 50% each year since its founding – and has led to her creation and launch of an extension of the company devoted to helping entrepreneurs and small business owners on the path to Delegation Mastery.

Laura Casselman is the CEO of JVZoo, co-founder of media agency Vidastreet, and author of Trust Your Increments. She has nearly two decades of experience in growing sales and revenue, improving customer service, and aggressively controlling expenses in competitive markets. Companies under her direction have landed on the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Companies in America four times and increased revenue from $100M to over $2B. Laura is the recipient of Stevie Awards for both Executive and Woman of the Year, a CEO World Award for Female CEO of the Year, and a Pillar World Award for Employer's Diversity Achievement of the Year.

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.

Sarah Smith is the founder of The Dyrt, the No. 1 app for camping information and booking, with 30 million annual camper visits, 50,000 campground listings, and 8 million user-generated reviews, photos, and tips for US campgrounds. The Dyrt has grown to the largest online source of camping information and the only major platform to offer commission-free bookings for campgrounds. Sarah was recognized on the 2022 Inc. Female Founders 100 list of the top women entrepreneurs.

Ungenita Prevost is on a mission to help 10,000,000 women build social capital and monetize their networks as the leader of a global feminine leadership network. A former Hollywood Body Double, Music Video Dancer turned Award Winning Feminine Leadership Expert, Ungenita created the fast-growing Networking in Stilettos. Author of the book by the same name, she also hosts the podcast Billion Dollar Rolodex.

Coco Brown is the Founder and CEO of Athena Alliance, an Executive-Education-As-A-Service platform helping women advance as founders, corporate executives, board members and investors. Athena’s peer network, with its live and on-demand learning, networking, and coaching, has helped thousands of women, and brought more than 400 women to corporate boards. Former COO of Taos which sold to IBM, Coco has served on ten commercial and non-profit boards and advisory boards, and she’s part of Nasdaq's Governance Insights Council, and is often called on to share guidance to the evolving focus and breadth of responsibility within the modern boardroom.

Ali Nichols is the Co-founder of Getaway, a vacation rental investing business she has now pivoted with a branding change to Hammock, helping people invest in rental properties just 5% down. Previously at Bungalow, Ali spearheaded raising and operating a $700M real estate fund focused on acquiring single family rentals. Today she shares her journey pivoting to find product-market fit.

Kat Dey and Phoebe Yu are the co-founders of Ettitude, a material science social impact company and direct-to-consumer sustainable lifestyle brand best known for its bedding, bath and sleepwear made from their proprietary CleanBamboo® fabric. Ettitude has raised $6.5m, earned tens of millions of dollars in revenue and been named twice among the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the US. Phoebe, the CEO, previously built two successful international trade and sourcing businesses, and Kat, was the co-founder and co-CEO of gourmet food subscription business Try the World.

Ashley Ford is an expert in small business accounting who has worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs to transform the way they make and spend money in their business. Today she shares her tips and why financial clarity is the key to sustainable success.

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.