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Todd has spent more than 20 years working at the intersection of finance and equality, first as an investment banker before joining Merrill Lynch as Head of Diversity Strategy and Credit Suisse as Head of Diversity and Inclusion. Todd created the first team of financial advisors in Wall Street focused on the LGBTQ+ community and brought almost $2 billion of new assets to Merrill Lynch from LGBTQ+ couples and nonprofit organizations. Additionally, he is the founding chair of Jeffrey Fashion Cares, which raised more than $8mm for LGBTQ+/HIV causes under his decade of leadership, and is currently the CEO of Out Leadership, the world's premiere global platform for businesses to drive LGBTQ+ equality.
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Melanie Bender's experience spans two decades leading purpose-driven businesses, accruing industry accolades including Fast Company’s Most Creative People, WWD’s Beauty Vanguard, Glossy's 50, Beauty Independent’s Brand Builder of the Year, among others. Starting at Who What Wear as VP of Marketing and Brand Development, she helped build a $150 million annual retail business. Next, she was the founding president of Versed, which under her leadership, became the #1 clean skincare brand in mass channels. Most recently, Melanie was the CEO of Rhode, a minimalism skincare brand that was awarded Allure's "Best of Beauty," Beauty Inc's Newcomer of the Year Award 2022, and already ranked in the top 10 most talked about skincare brands on social media - all in their first year of business! 

Fred Mwangaguhunga started off as an attorney on Wall Street but soon became an entrepreneur, founding and running a door-to-door laundry service with elite clients like Mariah Carey and The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. After his successful exit from that startup business, Fred founded mediatakeout.com and has grown it into the number one urban celebrity online news outlet with an audience of over 40 million monthly visitors. Called a "rising star" of New Media by The New York Times and one of the industry's "Top Media" people by The New York Observer, Fred has appeared on many top tier national media outlets like Access Hollywood, Bravo with Andy Cohen, GQ, Wendy Williams, CBS, BET, Bloomberg, Sirius XM, and the list goes on and on.
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Ian Ziskin has 40 years of experience as a business leader, board advisor and member, coach, consultant, entrepreneur, teacher, speaker, and author. His global leadership experience includes Chief Human Resources Officer and other senior leadership roles with three Fortune 100 companies -- Northrop Grumman, Qwest Communications, and TRW – and has written dozens of articles, blogs, and book chapters on the future of work, HR, leadership, coaching, and HR’s role with the board of directors. In 2007, he was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources, considered to be the highest honor in the HR profession.
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Bridget Phetasy is a writer and stand-up comedian. She is the host of the podcast “Walk-Ins Welcome,” a top 1% listened to podcast, the YouTube program “Dumpster Fire,” and co-host of the podcast “Factory Settings,” along with her husband Jeren Montgomery.
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Michael Ouweleen is current President of Cartoon Network, Adult Swim and Boomerang, and has been a principal force behind their strategy and creative for more than 25 years. Previously, Michael was President of Adult Swim where he grew RICK AND MORTY into the #1 Comedy in the US and #1 Adult Adminted SVOD globally. Before that, he was Chief Marketing Officer of Cartoon Network, Senior VP of Programming and Development of Cartoon Network, and a key member of the small team that championed and launched Adult Swim in the first place -- even co-creating and co-writing one of the first Adult Swim shows, Harvey Birdman, Attorney-at-Law, starring Gary Cole and Stephen Colbert. Before Cartoon Network, Michael was in advertising in New York, starting with a job he won through a writing contest.
 
Listen in as top executive coach Lacey Leone McLaughlin and her clients tell the stories and learnings they wish they had known then.
 
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