Jordan has built, launched, and led some of the top video studios inside of digital publishers. She is an award-winning Director and Executive Producer who has had the privilege of working with some of the most sought-after global brands to tell their stories. After launching a video studio inside Ashton Kutcher’s media company A Plus, she was named Executive Producer of LittleThings Productions where she produced branded video content for companies like Jockey, Disney, American Greetings, Proctor & Gamble, CVS, and Doctors Without Borders – and created editorial content seen and shared by millions. She is currently directing and producing a new digital talk show series called GIRLS TALK REAL in partnership with Lou & Grey and OKREAL.

Her work has been featured on outlets including Buzzfeed, The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post and Bustle, and has been distributed through a number of A-List celebrity Facebook pages.

After building and running foundations for Oprah Winfrey and the Crown

Family in Chicago, Caren started Croland Consulting to help high net

worth families and businesses develop philanthropic practices in line with their values. Her focus is on governance, cross generation engagement, strategic planning and evaluation. Caren helps philanthropic professionals realize efficiency and potential using evidence based tools to understand changing landscapes.

Emma is an investment management attorney, with a solutions-oriented

and business-focused approach to advising clients. She is a Partner in Faegre Baker Daniels’ Investment Management Practice, serving as a trusted advisor to investment managers, investors, and other investment management industry participants. Previously, she was the General Counsel and a Senior Managing Director of Mesirow Advanced Strategies, Inc., an investment advisor offering multi-manager hedge fund portfolios worldwide. Emma was named as a Top Latino Leader by the U.S. National Diversity Council and as a Business Leader of Color by Chicago United, which recognizes individuals who currently serve or are ready to serve as board directors for Fortune 1,000 companies. She is a member of the Private Directors Association. Emma received a B.S.B.A. summa cum laude from Saint Louis University and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School.

Lisa Kornick is the Founder of the First Women’s Bank of Chicago. Lisa's mission is to create a modern model for community banking that proactively supports the financial and entrepreneurial goals of women.

Before her decision to change the banking landscape, Lisa was a successful entrepreneur.  She was a co-founder and owner of the DMK Restaurant Group, which has 10 nationally recognized restaurants in Chicago, Illinois.  Her entrepreneurial journey began in 1998 when Lisa launched "mk" with her husband Michael Kornick. A vision for one restaurant that captured the essence of great hospitality, became the foundation for their restaurant group.    

Jason Britton is a serial entrepreneur, avid reader and constant student of humanity. He is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Reflection Companies: Reflection Analytics and Reflection Asset Management.

Reflection Analytics is a financial technology company specializing in leveraging machine learning and artificial intelligence to assist investors and their advisors in reviewing and constructing values-based investment portfolios.  Reflection Asset Management is a Registered Investment Advisory Firm dedicated to creating custom portfolios leveraging Mr. Britton's 15 years of social investing thought-leadership.

Thomas Morgan worked as real estate developer and investment banker for most of his career. In 2009, after a “series of unlikely events” Morgan left the corporate world behind to become a documentary filmmaker and activist. Thomas is now a globe-trotting filmmaker whose films have been on the floor of congress to change laws, helped win CNN Hero awards, built orphanages, brought immediate disaster relief, and now, with SOUFRA, funded the first-ever children center inside of a refugee camp. He is not just a filmmaker, he is a force multiplier for lasting social change. 

Regina Cross is a Vice President at Goldman Sachs Investment Management. As a Private Wealth Advisor, Regina works closely with families, foundations, and endowments to provide customized financial advisory solutions to a select group of clients. Regina has an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, an MA of Education from the Stanford Graduate School of Education, a certificate in Public Policy, and holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance with Honors from Indiana University. She is a board member of KIPP Indy, Board of Advisors for the Indiana Governor’s Conference for Women, Ambassador for the

Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Board member of Victory Gardens Theater, and Board member for the Chicago Foundation for Women.

Al was a founding partner of the Chicago law firm of Ungaretti & Harris which in 2015 merged into the national law firm of Nixon Peabody LLP. At Ungaretti & Harris, Al served for many years as managing partner and then as a member of its Executive and Compensation Committees. In these roles, he had extensive experience watching and evaluating women as they move up the career ladder. Over the course of his career, Al has grown increasingly concerned about the barriers and biases women face in traditionally male career environments. Al coauthored with Andie the 2014 article, “Taking Control: Women, Gender

Stereotypes, and Impression Management.” Al and Andie speak together and separately on these important topics

Andie is a partner in the international law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP, which is listed as one of the “10 Best BigLaw Firms for Female Attorneys.” Andie is head of the firm’s Financial Products, Trading and Derivatives Group, and is the founding chair of the firm’s Gender Diversity Committee and currently serves as its co-chair. She has served on both her firm’s Management Committee and Compensation Committee. In these roles, she became deeply concerned about the disparities in the pace and extent of women’s and men’s career achievements.