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As the founder of The Easy Flow Life, I help founders and executives reduce operational and mental load so they have the capacity to lead more effectively, grow their businesses sustainably, and focus on the work that matters most. My perspective is rooted in the belief that scaling isn't just about working harder or learning another strategy. It also requires the right operational support and ownership behind the scenes.

I also believe this conversation is especially relevant for women, who are often leading not only their businesses and careers, but also carrying significant responsibilities in their personal lives. Helping women create more capacity across both business and life allows them to lead with greater clarity, confidence, and sustainability.

I believe this perspective aligns particularly well with Herscension's focus on helping women grow, scale, and accelerate their businesses while building lasting success.

Preeti Bhat is a 1,000-hour certified Senior Breathwork and Meditation Coach with the Art of Living Foundation, an international organization widely recognized for its transformative programs that cultivate inner peace and holistic well-being.
Preeti’s journey in the wellness space began over 27 years ago, when she attended her first breathwork program. What initially felt like a simple technique that brought a sense of ease gradually unfolded into a deeply transformative practice—shaping her into a calmer, more grounded, and compassionate individual.

For more than 22 years, Preeti has had the privilege of sharing these powerful breathwork and meditation practices with over 10,000 people, supporting them in managing stress, building emotional resilience, and reconnecting with their inner balance.

A Georgia Tech graduate, Preeti spent over two decades in corporate America, working with Fortune 500 companies and leading large-scale technology transformations. This professional experience deepened her appreciation for these practices—particularly their ability to support high-performing professionals who often carry significant, unseen stress.


Today, Preeti has chosen to dedicate herself fully to serving the broader community, with the intention of helping individuals lead healthier, more balanced, and more fulfilling lives.

Celeste Warren is a visionary leader, TEDx Speaker, author, and former Vice President and Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer at a global Fortune 100 company, where she spent 28 years driving transformational change. During her decade leading the Global Diversity and Inclusion Center of Excellence, she implemented groundbreaking strategies that helped embed equity and inclusion into business operations and culture.

Today, Celeste is the founder of Celeste Warren Consulting, LLC, where she partners with organizations to build equitable systems that create opportunity and drive sustainable impact. Her TEDx talk highlights the critical importance of changing systems—not just individuals—to create real and lasting momentum in equity.

Celeste is also the co-founder of Destination STEM, Inc., a nonprofit she launched with her two children to support students of color and underserved students pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

Celeste is a published author and her articles on diversity, equity and inclusion have been featured in numerous national and global publications and she has had the opportunity to speak at various events across the world. She has recently published her second book entitled “The Truth About Equity”

Dr. Adaobi Okocha is a board-certified pediatrician with a background in public health and non-profit work. She graduated from Emory University with an undergraduate degree in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology. She received her Master's in Public Health from the Rollins School of Public Health with a concentration in Behavioral Science and Health Education. She pursued her medical training at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee, followed by her pediatric residency at Nemours Children’s Health in Orlando, Florida. Throughout her journey, Dr. Okocha has had numerous wins but also many failures. In order to forge her way forward through an arduous path, Dr. Okocha re-imagined her approach of turning her losses into wins. With these lessons, she pays it forward through mentorship of pre-medical students and graduates. Her experiences also fuel her passion-work as a founding member and now Vice President (a self-proclaimed “STEMinist,”) of The African Research Academies for Women, a non-profit organization dedicated to correcting the gender disparity in STEM research for African women. Outside of the clinical space, Dr. Okocha is involved in health advocacy. Off the clock, you will find her spending time with her husband, learning a new language, or being a foodie.

Dr. Isi Idemudia is a Principal at Infosys Consulting and a globally recognized Responsible AI leader, with prior experience at Accenture and HCLTech. She is Chief Builder at StyleMyCrown, where she is on a mission to make AI work for everyone. A Global AI leader specializing in agentic AI and AI governance, Dr. Idemudia holds a Ph.D. in Technology Management and is completing a Master of Intellectual Property Law — a rare combination of deep technical AI expertise and legal strategy. She helps organizations and professionals turn AI agents into real engines of growth.”

Dr. Samantha March Clark is a Doctor of Chiropractic, NIH-affiliated researcher, IIN Certified Health Coach, and published author of Harmonize Your Life: Finding Alignment From Within. Over the past decade, she has worked with nearly 6,000 patients across 89,000 clinical visits, building a unique vantage point into the hidden physiology that derails high-achievers.

Her expertise bridges three disciplines: clinical chiropractic care, evidence-based health coaching, and NIH-affiliated research on hormonal dysregulation and performance. She founded the Rmoniz® Framework specifically to address the pattern she witnessed repeatedly: brilliant women and leaders who excelled professionally while their physiology quietly collapsed. Conventional medicine missed it. Wellness trends missed it. Only a framework anchored in clinical insight and lived credibility could solve it.

Dr. Clark brings 26 years of combined clinical, research, and leadership experience to every room. She understands both the science of why burnout breaks founders and the lived experience of building while running on empty. She was her.

At HER ASCENSION, she's offering something unique: a data-backed methodology that positions physiology not as a wellness afterthought, but as the competitive infrastructure that separates founders who scale sustainably from those who don't.

Dr. Sheila Volante is the Co-Founder and Chief Strategist of CollectiveLogik, LLC, where she partners with organizations to drive strategic IT initiatives, digital transformation, and operational excellence. She holds a PhD in Philosophy with a focus on Strategy and Innovation, and has spent over two decades managing, and often rescuing, multimillion-dollar transformation programs for Fortune 1000 companies including Target, Xerox, Aetna, State of Washington, MGM Resorts International, and Caesars Entertainment.

Stella Ihenacho once removed every qualification from her CV so she would look less threatening on paper.

It worked.

It also showed her how many brilliant women shrink themselves to fit rooms that were never built for them.

Now she spends her days making those rooms bigger.

Stella is the first Team Lead of the RTE Organization in Red Hat’s Data & AI division, where she shapes assignment strategy, talent alignment, and delivery across the teams building enterprise AI. For more than a decade, she has led enterprise Agile transformations. Today, her focus is what AI changes about how work gets planned, delivered, and led, a conversation she explores through her Agile & AI with Stella series and in her work with leaders navigating the future of work.

She is Co-Founder of NSTAR Technologies, a career acceleration institution that has helped more than 200 immigrant and first-generation professionals build careers in technology. She is also Co-Founder and COO of the African Immigrant Collective (AIM), an organization advancing access, leadership, and economic mobility for African immigrants and the diaspora.

A TEDx speaker and author of five books, Stella has served on the PMI Global Steering Committee that helped shape the updated PMI-ACP examination and is a Scrum Alliance Featured Voice. She is a 2026 Women in Technology Woman to Watch and holds an MBA, a Harvard Certified Agile Leader credential, PSM II, PMI-ACP, and ICP-ACC.

Her message is simple.
English is the new programming language.
Courage is the new credential.

Dr. Amaka Ifeduba is an award-winning educator, program strategist, and Founder of ScholarUP Mentoring Academy and ScholarUP AI and Tech Academy. She holds a Ph.D. in Horticultural Sciences from Texas A&M University and an MBA with a specialization in Artificial Intelligence.

Through her ScholarUP LinkedIn Elevation and AI Accelerator & Monetization programs, she has coached over 1,000 professionals and 500 graduate students across 20+ countries, helping them strengthen their personal brands, build practical AI skills, access global opportunities, and accelerate their academic and professional growth.

Her work sits at the intersection of personal branding, education, AI, career growth, and digital readiness. She helps professionals build visibility, communicate their value clearly, and use their personal brand as an unfair advantage to stand out and gain more opportunities in an increasingly competitive world.

Keyonna Taylor is the Founder and CEO of Key Focus Group, a strategic Customer Success and organizational transformation firm helping organizations protect the value they have already created and build the capabilities to grow it.

With more than 20 years of executive experience across customer success, client experience, operations, and transformational leadership, Keyonna has led complex global organizations, managed $100M+ in revenue, supported thousands of employees across international markets, and helped organizations turn customer relationships into measurable business outcomes.

Her work sits at the intersection of leadership, customer experience, technology, and growth. She challenges executives to look beyond traditional functions and ask a more consequential question: Are we actually creating the outcomes our customers, constituents, and organizations need?

Through Key Focus Group and her executive strategy methodology, Key Elevate™, Keyonna works with enterprise and public-sector leaders to align strategy, leadership, and execution around measurable success.

Known for connecting seemingly unrelated ideas and turning them into practical frameworks, Keyonna brings an operator's perspective to conversations about growth, retention, transformation, AI, and the future of leadership.

Her philosophy is simple:

“The greatest growth opportunity may already exist inside the value you've created. The question is whether your organization knows how to see it.”

Nichole Ogburn is an entrepreneur, author, international speaker, and Priority Intelligence™ strategist whose journey spans product creation, retail ownership, publishing, and professional development. She grew a handbag business from a side hustle into a recognizable brand with storefronts, employees, events, and a loyal customer community, all while navigating the realities of growth, changing seasons, and founder responsibility. Nichole later expanded her work into books, speaking, and strategy services designed to help women recognize what deserves their attention and build without carrying everything alone. Drawing from both entrepreneurial experience and nearly two decades in corporate operations and implementation, she brings practical insight, relatable storytelling, and honest conversations about leadership, prioritization, and sustainable growth.

Nicole McCain is the Chief AI Officer and Founder of Gentiv-AI Solutions, also serves in the capacity of Corporate AI Trainer, Speaker, and Future of Work Strategist helping small businesses, corporate teams, and women-led organizations adopt AI safely, practically, and productively. She has trained more than 5,200 business owners and team members on practical AI use.

With more than 20 years leading multi-million-dollar operations technology initiatives for Fortune 500 companies such as JP Morgan and BlackRock, Nicole helps leaders build practical AI training, workflow readiness, human review standards, and clear data boundaries that protect decision quality and team capability.

Nicole was recently honored by the University of Delaware's Blue Hen Innovation Fest, the FPI Women's Business Network, and Marquis Who's Who in America 2026 for her contributions to AI and business growth. She is also the author of The AI-Powered One Hour Workday, board member and strategic partner with the National Association of Women in AI, and founder of the 5 Million Women AI Initiative

Monique Carter helps businesses stop chasing contracts and start building the strategic relationships that lead to corporate partnerships.

With nearly two decades of Fortune 500 experience in supplier development, community engagement, and stakeholder strategy, Monique delivers real-world insights and actionable strategies that prepare entrepreneurs, nonprofits, and economic development organizations for long-term success in corporate contracting.

Her engaging presentations combine practical frameworks, authentic storytelling, and a relationship-centered approach that audiences immediately put into practice.

Funding-readiness strategist, executive advisor, and creator of the Concept to Capital™ funding-readiness ecosystem. Dr. Nicholas Harvey is Principal and CEO of Nicholas Harvey Consulting where he helps founders strengthen the strategy, financial credibility, market evidence, leadership discipline, and funding alignment needed to become more attractive to funders and then supports them to get the right funding. A leadership coach, speaker, and former university professor, Dr. Harvey brings decades of experience helping leaders turn potential into disciplined action. His practical approach challenges entrepreneurs to see their businesses through the eyes of those being asked to fund them by building trust, demonstrating evidence, and making stronger funding decisions before asking for capital

Aalliyeh Clinton is a materials science engineer, entrepreneur, and STEM advocate from Baltimore, Maryland. Her passion for science began early at Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, where she participated in Project Lead the Way, a rigorous pre-engineering STEM program. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Morgan State University and is currently on a leave of absence from her master’s program in Materials Science and Engineering while advancing her entrepreneurial and research work.

In August 2022, Aalliyeh founded Monneah’s Engineered Materials, LLC, an advanced textile company focused on developing sustainable, fashionable, and high-performance personal protective equipment (PPE) for STEM professionals. She has developed a patent-pending proprietary material, secured a trademark, partnered with three life science companies, and collaborated with Early Charm Ventures to commercialize her innovations. To date, she has raised over $80,000 in non-dilutive funding. Her work has been recognized through selection as a 2025 Baltimore RealLIST Startup and a feature on a Times Square Billboard in 2025.

Porsché Mysticque Steele makes books that work.
For over a decade, she has been the book strategist behind more than 120 nonfiction authors, and now serves as an associate publisher with Forbes Books. Her clients get more than a publication date. They get the stages, the clients, and the revenue a well-positioned book is supposed to produce.
She is a TEDx speaker and TEDx organizer, so she knows what a stage wants from both sides.
Most people know they need a book. Porsché knows what to do with it.

My name is Dr. Layomi Balogun, Pharm.D., a Licensed Financial Professional, Financial Educator, Speaker, and Founder of Majestic Eagles Financial Services LLC.

With a background in healthcare and financial services, I'm passionate about **empowering women, professionals, and families to rise beyond financial limitations, take ownership of their financial futures, and build lasting generational wealth.**

I believe true empowerment goes beyond earning a good income. It's about having the knowledge, confidence, and strategies to create financial security, build wealth, and leave a meaningful legacy.

My mission is to inspire and equip individuals, especially women, to turn financial success into lasting financial freedom and generational impact.