July 12, 2022

5 Top Female Speakers in Business – 2022

If you are a leader looking for keynote speakers to inspire your team through a tough moment or you are looking for the best keynote speakers to help you take your company’s conference or convention to the next level of experience, here is a list of top female keynote speakers in 2022.

These 5 successful keynote speakers are influential and inspiring female keynote speakers paving the road for a future generation of female entrepreneurs, innovators, and thought leaders. From STEM to sports, big business to big data, their expertise and insights educate, motivate, and empower. Leading publications, financial services, global organizations, and savvy meeting professionals turn to these accolade-earning female business advisors for cutting-edge analysis, unique perspectives, and strategic counsel. Let The Keynote Curators bring these influencers to your main stage to engage with and inspire your audiences in 2022.

Erica Dhawan

Erica Dhawan, Leading Authority on Collaboration and Innovation, WSJ Bestselling Author, Named “Oprah of Management Thinkers,” and Ranked #1 of Top Women Keynote Speakers of 2020.

When leaders want to break team silos, drive exponential growth and innovate through teamwork, they call Erica Dhawan, one of the best keynote speakers in the world.

Erica Dhawan is an internationally-recognized leading authority, Keynote speaker and advisor on 21st-century teamwork, collaboration and innovation. Named as one of the top 50 management thinkers in the world by Thinkers50, she is the author of two bestselling books, Get Big Things Done: The Power of Connectional Intelligence and Digital Body Language: How to Build Trust and Connection, No Matter the Distance. As we continue to experience an increasingly digital world where work practices are changing at a blistering pace, Erica shares innovative strategies to unlock the collective power of teams, build a culture of trust across any distance and create authentic engagement to ensure competitiveness.

Rated #1 on the Top Women Keynote Speakers list, Erica frequently appears in the Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and the Wall Street Journal. Erica speaks on global stages ranging from the World Economic Forum at Davos, to the US Army, to companies such as Coca-Cola, FedEx, Goldman Sachs, Walmart, and Cisco. She holds Harvard University, MIT Sloan, and The Wharton School degrees.

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Kate O’Neill

Kate O’Neill is Known as the “Tech Humanist,” Founder and CEO of KO Insights, Technology Thought Leader. She’s one of the top business keynote speakers.

Kate O’Neill is helping humanity prepare for an increasingly tech-driven future by teaching businesses how to be successful with human-centric data and technology.

Kate’s expertise in integrated experience strategy and human-centric digital transformation comes from more than 20 years of experience and entrepreneurship leading innovations across technology, marketing, and operations, developing human-centric, data-guided, and brand-aligned growth and retention strategies for companies of all sizes, from startups to Fortune 500s.

She created the first content management role at Netflix, was founder and CEO of [meta]marketer, first-of-its-kind analytics and digital strategy agency, led cutting-edge online optimization work at Magazines.com, developed Toshiba America’s first intranet, and held leadership and advisory positions in a variety of digital content and technology start-ups.

Kate is now the founder and CEO of KO Insights, a strategic consultancy committed to improving the human experience at scale.

Whether in convention centers to audiences of thousands, at Conferences, in board rooms, or one-on-one, as a “Tech Humanist,” Kate advocates for the future of meaningful human experiences by helping corporate and cultural leaders re-think how to succeed long-term by taking a human-centric approach to digital transformation and readiness for the future.

She is a vocal and visible advocate for women in technology, entrepreneurship, and leadership — she was featured by Google in the launch of their global campaign for women in entrepreneurship. Author of four books including her latest, Tech Humanist, Kate’s expertise has been featured in CNN Money, TIME, Forbes, USA Today, Men’s Journal, the BBC, and other national and international media. Without a doubt, Kate is one of the best keynote speakers in the world in 2022.

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Tiffani Bova

Tiffani Bova Chief Growth Evangelist at Salesforce, Top 50 B2B Sales Expert on LinkedIn, Author, and Podcast Host.

Tiffani Bova is the Chief Growth Evangelist at Salesforce, author of the Wall Street Journal bestselling book GROWTH IQ, and host of the What’s Next! Podcast with Tiffani Bova. A celebrated keynote speaker and member of the Thinkers50 list, Bova inspires people to think forward, be bold and take action.

Bova was named one of 2020’s Top Virtual Keynote Speakers by Read Write and is a guest on Bloomberg, BNN, Cheddar, MSNBC, and Yahoo Finance, among others. She contributes her thinking to publications including the Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Entrepreneur, Diginomica, Quora, Thrive, Rotman School of Management and Duke Dialogue Review.

As host of What’s Next! with Tiffani Bova, an iTunes’ all-time business and management bestseller and a top sales podcast, Bova has interviewed a growing number of exceptional humans including Arianna Huffington, Dan Pink, Ginger Hardage, Bonin Bough, Seth Godin, and Tom Peters.

Bova is a top Twitter influencer, was named one of Inc. Magazine’s 37 Sales Experts You Need to Follow on Twitter, a LinkedIn Top Sales Expert to follow, a Top 100 Women in Tech, and one of the most Powerful and Influential Women in California.

Prior to working with Salesforce, she served as a Distinguished Analyst and Research Fellow for Gartner. There, she won the Thought Leadership award and earned accolades for her cutting-edge analysis and her skill at architecting bold new strategies for sales and growth. Bova’s experience, combined with candor, results in a unique perspective on business needs for people who want to increase their GROWTH IQ.

She is certainly one of the best female keynote speakers in the business.

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Beth Paretta

Beth Paretta, Founder of Paretta Autosport, the First Woman-Owned, Woman-Driven, Woman-Forward Team in INDYCAR History.

Beth Paretta is the founder, owner and team principal of Paretta Autosport – the first woman-owned, woman-driven, woman-forward team in INDYCAR history. Born out of Beth’s vision and determination, Paretta Autosport launched in 2021 at the “Greatest Spectacle in Racing” – the famed Indianapolis 500 – where its successful participation garnered an incredible 6.5 billion total media impressions for the team.

Paretta Autosport operates under the mission of unifying the current generation and inspiring the next. With over 75% of the team being comprised of women across all roles, Paretta Autosport shines a bright light on diversity and inclusion for all. It also encourages girls and young women to study science, technology, engineering, and mathematics to ultimately diversify and feed the STEM workforce pipeline well beyond motorsports. Defying convention and fueled by something greater, Beth and Paretta Autosport utilize sport as a lens for action to improve society.

Prior to the founding of Paretta Autosport, Beth had a long history as an automotive and motorsports executive. She held leadership roles at Aston Martin and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) across operations, marketing, and finance. It was at FCA where Beth became the first woman to lead a performance brand and an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) in motorsports. Under her watch, FCA secured three (3) national championships, including the NASCAR Cup Series championship.

A board member of the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America, Beth has been named AutoWeek magazine’s “Secret People” who will change the car world, as well as a “Game Changer” by Sports Business Journal. Beth is a business leader, a top keynote speaker, a brand builder, and a consummate professional who is smart, articulate, and on a mission.

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Barbie Brewer

Barbie Brewer, The former Head of Talent at Netflix, Chief Culture Officer at GitLab and Chief People Officer at mParticle shows leaders and teams how to do remote culture well.

Barbie Brewer is a passionate advocate for remote working. She is a Silicon Valley-based Chief People Officer with unparalleled experience of what it takes to lead a fully virtual organization.

Barbie Brewer began her career in 1996 with a successful Bay Area start-up, building the HR function as the company grew from 20 to more than 500 employees. Following that adventure, she was exposed to more traditional HR while working for IBM and Cisco, based in Europe and the U.S. Throughout her career, Barbie has worked in or managed all areas of the HR Function, facilities, and IT. She served as the head of HR for Sportvision and Tiburon before joining Netflix as Vice President, HR in 2011. In 2017, Barbie rejoined the start-up world as GitLab’s Chief People Officer. GitLab was an all-remote company with team members in 54 countries.

She has a passion to enable remote work, building strong cultures that value inclusiveness and fostering strong leadership. Up until December 2020, she was Chief People Officer for LoveToKnow Media. She is now the CPO at Joinsprouttherapy.com and heads up TNT Consulting, LLC. In addition, Brewer serves as Chair of the Compensation Committee on the Board of Directors for Amesite.

Barbie holds a B.A. from Santa Clara University and a master’s in human resources management. Her greatest passion is enabling opportunities throughout the world through remote work readiness.

She is not just a top keynote speaker but one of the top technology keynote speakers.

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