Laura E. Knights, LCSW is an executive coach, speaker, facilitator, and licensed clinical social worker with 17+ years of experience creating personal and professional development programs that have touched leaders all over the world. Her expertise and background in business, human resources, adult education, and social work uniquely equip her to teach others how to deal with both the "head work" and "heart work" required to succeed at work and in life.  Laura is the creator of the Black Woman Leading™ program, and the Founder and Lead Consultant for Knights Consulting LLC,  a leadership development consultancy that provides customized training and coaching programs to create more confident leaders and high performing teams. Laura is a teacher and master strategist at heart.  With all her endeavors, she always aims to fulfill her WHY —To educate and empower people so that they can uncover their full potential, walk boldly in it, and create their own legacy.

Ursula Pawlowski is a Leadership Executive with a rapidly progressive career, specializing in business development, strategic planning and project management, governance, operations and training and development. 

Priscilla Guasso is the author of Amazon's bestselling book, "Latinas Rising Up in HR," which looks to inspire the Latina community to join and diversify the HR field as future leaders. With 15+ years of HR experience across healthcare and hospitality, her drive is fueled by passion  and determination to answer the question, "why aren’t there more Latinas in executive leadership?” Learn more about Priscilla's book and the Latinas Rising Up in HR community here: http://www.latinasrisingupinhr.com