Janice Fraser built a storied career in Silicon Valley as a startup founder, product manager, and confidante for entrepreneurs and enterprise executives alike. From creating the second-ever personal interface to the web in the early days of Netscape to leading the world’s first user experience firm, Janice has often found herself “sitting at the bleeding edge and making it boring” by figuring out how to make the latest evolutions repeatable, useful, and commonplace. Janice currently supports “VLOs” (very large organizations), including P&G, in becoming more innovative and agile.

She also guides several venture-funded startup companies, federal government entities, and non-profit organizations, helping them do more with less, make bold moves, and achieve extraordinary results.

She sits on the board of the Ohio University Entrepreneur Center and served on The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine workshop committee focused on the innovation ecosystem for NASA. Over the years, Janice has been a guest lecturer at Harvard Business School, Berkeley HAAS School of Business, Kellogg School of Management, and Stanford, among others.

Drawing on her almost three decades of coaching hundreds of leaders and teams to achieve success, Janice is a sought-after speaker offering audiences around the world the opportunity to learn from her experiences and sharpen their leadership skills, build stronger teams, make meaningful progress quickly, and drive business transformation. Her exuberant big-stage keynotes and practical, empathetic brown-bag talks have become cult favorites.

She is the co-author of Farther, Faster, and Far Less Drama: How to Reduce Stress and Make Extraordinary Progress Wherever You Lead (April 2023), which outlines a groundbreaking framework for modern leadership that empowers greater alignment and quicker decision-making.

Allison is passionate about building things and motivated by opportunities to tackle ambiguous problems that desperately need to be understood before they can be solved.

As many do, her career began as a Consultant. She was fascinated by the varying problems she could help tackle and reveled in the opportunity to lead research initiatives and get to the heart of the problem. She was frustrated that she didn’t get to build and execute the solution she helped design.

Moving into Strategy and Operations, she finally got her chance to have a true, measurable impact. She invested in understanding the customer as intimately as possible and made their challenges her own. As a result, we redefined Axial’s approach to the customer lifecycle and customized applications to help us deliver at every turn. Where customer service was inefficient or ineffective, she synthesized feedback and liaised with our Product team to develop a product solution to the customer’s pain.

That is when she discovered the immense joy of product management. At Axiom, she had the remarkable opportunity to help transform a company and industry. She helped usher in an age of technological advancement at Axiom, bringing our marketplace online and delivering digital experiences that delight users and differentiate Axiom as an employer. With that experience, she moved to Workiva and has advanced her career from Senior to Lead Product Manager with an evolving scope of responsibility and the ability to contribute back to the R&D organization as a whole.

Kaylen Williams-Henry, Sr, Product Manager at Workiva, has 10 years of experience in SaaS product management, over 6 of which were spent with Workiva.

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Hillary Eckert is Vice President of Global Solutions at Workiva Inc. Workiva has built the world’s leading Assured Integrated Reporting SaaS platform that brings together customers’ Financial Reporting, ESG, GRC data and processes.

At Workiva, Hillary heads the global solution strategy and growth for the company’s largest Financial Reporting business line. Ensuring alignment, prioritization, and commercial success across the business, including product, partner, sales and marketing, and customer success.

Hillary has been at Workiva for 11 years, supporting business growth and customers’ success as the company accelerated from a private company to public, growing to today to over 6,000 customers globally.

She also proudly serves as an Executive Sponsor of Workiva’s Women Business Employee Resource Group.

Hillary lives in Ames, Iowa, with two beautiful girls and a wonderfully supportive husband. Outside of work, she enjoys traveling, bird watching, sipping wine, and going to concerts and live music events.

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Lori is passionate about product management and has enjoyed working in the space for over 23 years. As a leader, Lori loves to coach and mentor. She enjoys using her experience to help teams scale effectively by introducing structure while maintaining creativity.

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Molly Rempe holds an M.S. in Applied Cultural Anthropology and has worked as a UX Researcher in product development for a decade. She has researched users interacting with hardware, firmware, and software across the globe. Molly is currently focused on triangulating user research with other data inputs to influence how Workiva’s SaaS platform might scale for high volume user segments.

Shelly is an accomplished product leader with expertise in mobile and web products, focusing on outcomes and impact. She is a thought leader in hiring, building, and developing high-performing product teams and cultivating a strong product culture. With a proven track record, Shelly excels in defining and socializing vision and strategy for products and platforms across diverse B2B and B2C industries.

Currently serving as the Senior Director of Product & Design at Sittercity, Shelly continues to drive innovation and excellence in product development, leveraging her extensive experience and leadership skills.

Nic is a seasoned Product leader with more than a decade of experience in both B2B and B2C Product Management and Product Marketing Management. Passionate about operations, growth, community building, and AI/ML, she is dedicated to helping women from non-traditional and underrepresented backgrounds succeed in the tech industry.

Throughout her career, Nic has demonstrated leadership in guiding product teams to success across diverse industries, including e-commerce, fintech, and government. With a natural aptitude for problem-solving, she excels at devising simple solutions to complex challenges, driving impactful outcomes for her teams and organizations.

Madhuri is VP of engineering at Salesforce. She is a Technology executive focused on driving the delivery of critical customer-facing applications in global markets while managing global high-performance technical org (200+). She has over 20 years of experience in technology, financial, and consulting industries.

She leads with her core values of compassion, curiosity, and courage to empower teams to bring their best to the table.
 She holds an MS, MBA, and BS in engineering degrees from three continents.

Lacey is the Founder & CEO of ZoCo, a renowned product studio dedicated to serving customer-centric companies. Over the past decade, ZoCo has earned recognition as a leading advocate for human-centered technology, collaborating closely with internal product teams and infusing every conversation with a customer-centric mindset. Through ZoCo’s efforts, valuable and beloved experiences are crafted for users.

Lacey’s achievements have garnered significant acclaim, including being honored as a NAWBO Visionary and as a member of Columbus CEO’s inaugural ‘Future 50’ class. Additionally, she has been recognized in Business First’s ‘Forty Under 40’, Smart Business’s ‘Smart 50’, the C-Suite Awards as Most Admired Executive, and received the BizTech Awards as ‘Outstanding Woman in Technology’. Her dedication to innovation and customer-centricity has established her as a respected leader in the industry.

Ngozi Ofoche is a Trust Product Strategist at Meta, where she focuses on ensuring that privacy, security, integrity, equity, and accessibility are fundamental elements in the design of Meta’s VR, AR, and metaverse products and experiences. Her career trajectory has been guided by a commitment to advocating for responsible technology, leading her from law to consulting and now to Product. In her current role, Ngozi aims to encourage technologists to consider the broader social impact of their innovations.

In addition to her work at Meta, Ngozi is the founder of Black Women in Product, an organization dedicated to building community and support for Black women and femmes working, or interested in working, in Product-related roles. Through her initiatives and contributions, Ngozi is driving meaningful change within the tech industry and fostering a more inclusive and socially responsible approach to product development.

Based in Silicon Valley, Dr. Marily Nika is an award-winning AI Product Management leader & one of the world’s best AI educators, with 12+ years of experience at Google & Meta & a PhD in Machine Learning.

Marily founded the AI Product Academy, which has courses about breaking into AI Product Management that 3,000 people have taken. Marily has been recognized for her contributions to AI & tech several times: Medal of Outstanding Achievement, WISE Influence Award (Women in Science & Engineering by Princess Anne), 2020’s Top 100 Women in tech, 2021’s Emerging Leader Award (Imperial College London), 2021’s 40 under 40 list.

Marily is also an Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School, where she teaches AI Product Management.
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