2025 Spring Summit
May 16th at Music Hall in OTR
If your group would like to purchase a table, please email Missy at the Music Hall box office!
You will need your table’s names, email addresses for each guest, and lunch selections if they are general admission seats!
For the makers seeking community. For the mothers starting to create their dreams and don’t know where to begin. For the women who feel isolated in balancing entrepreneurship and being. For the corporate women who are seeking like minded fellowship.
Every woman deserves to be seen, heard, and loved. That is the foundational belief of the Power to Pursue Summit, our annual event where women gather to eliminate barriers and embrace the power of their authentic selves.
Our fourth annual Summit will welcome a lineup of electrifying speakers, each determined to help you pursue your calling. At the Power to Pursue Summit, vulnerability is strength, community is a superpower, and you are the key to creating the life of your dreams.
2025 Keynote
Katie Couric
Co-Founder, Katie Couric Media
Katie Couric (@katiecouric) is an award-winning journalist and #1 New York Times best-selling author of her memoir, Going There, which was published in October 2021. She is also a co-founder of Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) which has raised almost $800 million for cancer research.
Couric was the first woman to solo anchor a network evening newscast, serving as anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News from 2006 to 2011 following 15-years as co-anchor of NBC’s Today show. In 2017, she founded Katie Couric Media (KCM), which has developed a number of media projects, including a daily newsletter, “Wake-Up Call”, a podcast, “Next Question”, digital video series and several documentaries. You can find it all at katiecouric.com.
2025 Speakers
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Abby Allen
Founder and CEO, Neon Butterfly and Sweetgum Manor
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Rebeca Arbona
President & Chief Truth-Teller, BrandTrue
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Whitney L. Barkley, M.S.
CEO, Speakerazzi
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Karen P. Bosse
Energy Medicine Practitioner and Mind Body Alignment Coach
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Holly Brians Ragusa
Author, Speaker; President, Ohio Poetry Association
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Logan Brookbank
Owner, Flourish Ayurveda Center
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Dr. Sarah Cash Crawford
Founder/CEO, Anchor Wellness Center
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Katie Chal
Founder, lifeinmovement
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April Cielica
President of Global Business Services, P&G
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Rachel DesRochers
CEO, The Gratitude Collective; Founder, Power to Pursue
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Rhiannon Hoeweler
VP Experience & Impact, MadTree
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Michelle Hopkins
Lifestyle TV Host, WCPO 9; Community Engagement Director, Greater Cincinnati Foundation
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Dr. Somi Javaid
Founder, HerMD
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Rachel Jones
AI Sales Coach, The Bold B
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Dr. Arielle Jordan
Founder/ CEO, Mindset Quality LLC
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Dr. Judith Joseph
Top Happiness Researcher, Psychiatrist, Author of High Functioning
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Caroline Keating
Category Manager, The Kroger Co.
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Kelly Kolar
President + Founder, Kolar Design
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Radha Lakshmi
www.radartist.com
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Cathy Lindemann
President, Evolution Creative Solutions
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Candice Matthews Brackeen
Founding Partner, Lightship Capital; CEO, Lightship Foundation
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Mary Maune
Program Administrator, Hamilton County Commission on Women & Girls
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Shailah Maynard
Co-Founder & CEO, Sew Valley
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Meriden McGraw
Director of Workplace Mindfulness at the Osher Center for Integrative Health, University of Cincinnati
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Mackey McNeill
Founder/CEO, MACKEY & The Prosperity People
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Sarah Grace Mohr
Chief Operating Officer, MACKEY & The Prosperity People
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Jennifer Panepinto
Owner, Painted Bread Marketing
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Paaras Parker
Chief People Officer, Greenhouse
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Isabel Perez
Co-Founder, Perez Consulting
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Dr. Odayme Quesada
Medical Director, Women’s Heart Center, The Christ Hospital Health Network
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Tian Philson
Leadership, Wellness & Mindset Coaching, LSF Wellness
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Krista Powers
Executive Director, Giving Voice Foundation
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Tarita Preston
Professional Life and Leadership Coach
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Dr. Dominique Pritchett
Founder, Speak to the Soul
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Kendra Ramirez
CEO, KR Digital
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Jackie Reau
CEO, Game Day
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Lauren Schiavone
Founder and Lead Consultant, Wonder Consulting
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Jessica Shely Green
CEO, GPD Creative Agency
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Maggie Smith
Award-winning poet and NYT bestselling memoirist
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Liza Smitherman
Chief People Officer, Jostin Construction, Inc.
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Ashley Solomon
Licensed Clinical Psychologist & Founder, Galia Collaborative
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Saki Stammer
Beauty Purchases Leader, P&G
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Amy Tobin
Founder, Amy Tobin & Company
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Helen Todd
Founder & Podcast Host, Creativity Squared
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Barbara Turner
CEO and Founder, BT RISE
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Kelly Vanasse
Partner, Corporate Consciousness
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Susanna Wong Burgess
Partner, Oriental Wok Restaurants
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Kyla Woods
Public Information Officer, Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office
2025 Sponsors
This community is being built in part by our incredible partners. Thank you to each company and entrepreneur who has invested their dollars with us. Your support helps make this work possible.
When you support the region’s leading summit for women, you support the women in our community. Join us in our mission to uplift and empower!