Angella Nazarian

Bestselling Author

Bestselling author of “Pioneers of the Possible: Celebrating Visionary Women of the World” and “Life as a Visitor” (Assouline) and speaker on women’s issues...

Honorable Lili Bosse

Mayor of Beverly Hills

The Honorable Lili Bosse was elected to the Beverly Hills City Council in 2011. She is the mayor of Beverly Hills...

Shelley Reid

Shelley Reid is a highly experienced media executive. Shelley is currently Executive Vice President of Television Business and Legal Affairs at MGM Studios. Prior to joining MGM, Shelley was Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy, Business Development and Business Affairs at Fox Television Studios, News Corp Company...

Thea Andrews

TV Journalist, Former Host of THE INSIDER

From the playing fields of the sports world to the red carpets of Hollywood, THEA ANDREWS has established herself as a veteran television journalist whose diverse experience ranges from co-hosting a live daily morning show...

Liz Dennery Sanders

Brand consultant, creative director and personal development coach

Liz Dennery Sanders is a brand consultant, creative director and personal development coach. With 20+ years of experience in branding, marketing, public relations and influencer outreach campaigns...

Karen Murphy O’Brien

Chairman & CEO Murphy O’Brien Public Relations

Karen co-founded Murphy O'Brien with partner, Brett O'Brien, following a successful career in luxury, hospitality and entertainment public relations...

Joyce Arad

Joyce Arad is a mother, grandmother, artist and philanthropist .A former practicing attorney in corporate law, she is now sculpting, specializing in figurative works.

Price Arana

Price Arana started her career as a professional photographer at the age of 21, working with Kodak, Rolex, Swissair and Sports Illustrated. She launched her Los Angeles-based advertising agency, The Press Cabinet, in 1998.

Ambassador Nicole Avant

Former U.S. Ambassador

Nicole Avant is a former Ambassador of the United States of America to The Bahamas. During her tenure, Ambassador Avant pursued five key initiatives: Economic & Small business development, Education, Women's Empowerment, Alternative Energy, and raising awareness about the challenges facing people with disabilities...

Pamela Beck

Pamela Beck is a writer/producer whose novels include the New York Times best seller Fling, as well as two Book-of-the-Month Club main selections...

Tiffany Beck

Tiffany Beck was born and raised in Chicago Illinois. During high school, Tiffany moved to California in order to train as a nationally ranked figure skater at the Ice Castle International Training Center in Lake Arrowhead.

Sheila Yafai Bolour

Dr. Sheila Yafai Bolour trained in Internal Medicine and Women's Health at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after receiving her undergraduate degree in (Third World) Development Studies from UCLA and her M.D. from the Keck School of Medicine at USC.

Beth Cowan

Ms. Cowan began her professional career 29 years ago in the offices of Maguire Thomas Partners after receiving her degree from Pepperdine University. In 1989 she was responsible for overseeing the first City of Los Angeles renovation and sprinkler retrofit of an occupied hotel (Century Plaza Hotel in Century City, CA).

Nancy Ellin

Nancy Ellin is a former New Yorker who relocated to Los Angeles with her family 12 Years ago.  She is a residential real estate agent at Coldwell Banker, Beverly Hills.

Nellie Emrani

Nellie Emrani is an Iranian-American mother of four and grandmother of two curious boys. She has lived with her husband and family in California for the past 37 years.

Annette English

Named one of LA’s top designers by The Franklin Report and a “National Tastemaker” by Luxe Interiors + Design, Annette English is celebrated for the bold, original and immaculately appointed residential interiors she creates for discerning clientele.

Lani Fauvre

Lani spent the majority of her career as a retail executive in Marketing and New Business Development for numerous companies including Carolina Herrera, Donna Karan, Gymboree, Esprit, and etoys.com.

Cece Freeman Feiler

UCLA Resnick NeuroPsychiatric Board

Cece Freeman Feiler received her undergraduate degree from UCLA and graduate degree from USC in Counseling Psychology. She has taught at both USC and UCLA in counseling psychology  and currently serves on the UCLA Resnick NeuroPsychiatric Board.

Suzi Weiss-Fischmann

Co-Founder & Brand Ambassador OPI Products Inc.

Known worldwide as the “First Lady of Nails,” OPI Co-Founder & Brand Ambassador Suzi Weiss-Fischmann initially made her mark on the beauty industry in 1989, when she created the first 30 OPI nail lacquers...

Jill Goldman

Social Activist and Filmmaker

Jill Goldman is a social activist and filmmaker. She cofounded the Go Campaign, an international non-profit that improves the lives of orphans and vulnerable children around the world by partnering with local heroes to deliver local solutions.

Veronica Grazer

Freelance Branding and Marketing Expert

Ms. Grazer has over 15 years of experience in brand development, brand communications, marketing and advertising from a number of international brand-led companies ...

Wendy Greuel

Wendy started her career in public service working for her mentor, former Mayor Tom Bradley, where for ten years she worked on a wide range of public policy issues including child care, senior care homelessness, housing, public health and education.

Andrea Grossman

Founder of Writers Bloc

Andrea Gelfand Grossman is a graduate of UCLA (B.A., English) and The Annenberg School of Communications at USC (M.A.). Before founding Writers Bloc, Andrea worked in pay television and home video programming and marketing, and was a fundraiser in California Democratic politics.

Shilla Hekmat

Founder of the Shilla Hekmat Music Academy

Shilla Hekmat is the founder of the Shilla Hekmat Music Academy, a music educator, composer and author, who has devoted herself to enriching the lives of children through music.

Sarvia Jasso

Sarvia Jasso was born in Mexico and raised in Los Angeles. She is currently a gallery director at Blum & Poe, which also has locations in New York and Tokyo.

Piera Klein

Piera Klein is a multi-media producer and recording artist in Los Angeles. Her work spans a variety of platforms, from the entertainment business to the non-profit sector, including music, broadcast media, digital communications, events and development.

Nina Kotick

Having graduated from Tufts University and Fordham Law School, Nina was a corporate litigator in New York before moving to Los Angeles to marry and practice entertainment law. While raising her children, Nina joined the Huffington Post, first writing the column "Love and the Law,” then crafting celebrity interviews and finally, becoming a contributing editor on the site.

Dora Levy Mossanen

Dora Levy Mossanen is an internationally acclaimed bestselling novelist, a writer for Huffington Post, and book reviewer for The Jewish Journal. Her widely acclaimed novels Harem, Courtesan, The Last Romanov, and Scent of Butterflies have been translated into numerous languages and distributed worldwide.

Deirdre McCready

SVP, Sales and Special Events, Live Nation

For the past ten years, Deirdre McCready has developed sbe’s Special Events division into one of the most well respected firms in the industry and has proven to be instrumental in the company’s growth.

Irena Medavoy

Irena Medavoy is a children's and women's rights activist. She attended USC film school while working at The Hollywood Reporter and was mentored by the first female editor in chief Tichi Wilkerson Miles...

Nooshin Meshkaty

Hon. Nooshin Meshkaty, Computer Scientist and Electronics Specialist in Aerospace Industry. Working in the same fields Since 1988. Currently Senior Engineer and Technical Group Leader for Manufacturing and Logistics of Flight Electronics.

Tiffany Mikail

Tiffany Mikail is the Senior Marketing Manager for sbe, the Los Angeles-based leading lifestyle hospitality company that develops, manages and operates award-winning hospitality venues around the globe.

Sarah Milken

Sarah Milken graduated with honors from the University of Pennsylvania, with a BA in Communications. After graduating, Sarah worked at the BBDO advertising agency in London...

Pamela Orwin Mohn

Pamela Orwin Mohn was born and raised in southern Kentucky in the foot hills of Appalachia where her family still resides. She attended Morehead State University as an undergraduate and then to Western Michigan University and University of Kentucky for graduate studies in School/Child Psychology...

Nicole Nathanson

Director of Philanthropic Giving for the Nathanson Family Foundation and Mapleton Investments

Nicole is director of philanthropic giving for the Nathanson Family Foundation and Mapleton Investments....

Ellen Olivier

Ellen Olivier is a contributing writer to the Los Angeles Times, chronicling the city’s most important charity and cultural events for the Sunday “Image” section and the newspaper’s online fashion/lifestyle section. These stories and others also appear on her website, Society News LA.

Jennifer Perry

Jennifer Perry has been Executive Director of the Children’s Action Network (CAN) since its inception. By marshalling the immense communications power of the entertainment community, CAN inspires the public to take action on behalf of children.

Jill Posnick

Jill Posnick is the executive director of communications for the Milken Institute. Appointed to this role in January 2017, Posnick leads the Institute's global communications strategy—amplifying the impact of its programs and research by extending the reach of its nonpartisan policy analyses, promoting its brand worldwide and engaging with a broad range of stakeholders.

Gayle Gannes Rosenthal

CEO and founder of Gayle’s Sweet’N’Sassy Foods

Gayle Gannes Rosenthal CEO and founder of Gayle’s Sweet’N’Sassy Foods  was born in New York and moved to the West Coast as young child She began a career in modeling and acting while studying dance at UCLA...

Lynn Rosenthal

President of Rosenthal Enterprises, LLC, a media consulting firm. She works primarily with middle market companies, creating strategic solutions to improve brand awareness and bottom lines.

Anne Cohen Ruderman

Anne Cohen Ruderman has been an art advisor for over 25 years and owns Quality Art Consulting, an art advisory firm.

Michele Ruiz

Michele Ruiz is a bi-lingual entrepreneur, bestselling author and keynote speaker whose passions are entrepreneurship, empowerment, all things communication, content marketing, social media and technology.

Chara Schreyer

Born in Muenchberg, Germany to Holocaust survivors. Moved to Southern California in 1952. Married to Gordon Freund. Have two daughters, Justine and Natalie and step-daughter, Arielle.

Bri Schulz

Bri Holloway was founded by fashion entrepreneur Bri Schulz in the fall of 2015. Schulz began her career in fashion interning for top couture houses Chanel and Diane von Furstenberg.

Lauren Taschen

International Art Consultant

Lauren Taschen has worked since its inception in 2001 as show management of the first, now legendary, Art Basel Miami Beach and oversaw the tremendous growth of the art-fair phenomenon.

Patricia Torkan

Painter

With her enigmatic, highly personal canvases, artist Patricia Torkan pushes painting into a divine realm.

Jennifer Yen

It was a simple case of "form follows function" that led actress Jennifer Yen to create Pur~lisse, her 10- product skincare line. "As a successful working actress living in Los Angeles, I noticed that my skin was breaking out and becoming easily irritated after hours in makeup and under hot lights...

Cynthia Occelli

Cynthia is an accomplished author, public speaker, and digital entrepreneur. As a 9th-grade dropout and welfare mom, Cynthia turned her life around, went back to school, graduated from law school, built an investment portfolio, and successfully raised two conscientious children as a single mother.

Lavinia Errico

Lavinia Errico, the founder and visionary behind Equinox Fitness Clubs and the Inside Out Movement, is a nationally acclaimed fitness and wellness entrepreneur and a speaker of essential truths on the subjects of entrepreneurship, leadership, fitness, wellness, nutrition, self-awareness and emotional balance.

Malea Farsai-Zafari

As a former resident of beautiful Seattle, Malea continues to enjoy her move in 1988 to sunny Southern California where she attended college and law school.

Bree Jacoby

Bree Jacoby is a Los Angeles native with a splash of East Coast mentality and spunk. Bree specializes in men’s and women’s personal brand consulting and is the Founder of BREE JACOBY, STYLE CONCIERGE.