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Elizabeth Ames
Elizabeth Ames is a technology executive and advocate for women in product management, best known as the CEO who led Women In Product from 2019 to 2024. Under her leadership, the nonprofit community doubled to over 34,000 members across 24 local chapters, growing from a single annual conference into a year-round platform for training, coaching, and career development. Before Women In Product, she spent five years as SVP of Strategic Marketing, Alliances, and Programs at AnitaB.org, the organization behind the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. Her earlier career spans marketing and strategy roles at Apple, Verifone, Netcentives, Vontu, Certive, and Plastic Logic, plus a stint as Founder and CEO of RETHINK Partners.
Leonard Adler
Leonard Adler is the founder and CEO of Green Jobs Network, a San Francisco-based social enterprise he launched in 2008 to connect job seekers with careers in sustainability, conservation, and clean energy. A Stanford-educated political scientist who went on to earn a J.D. from Georgetown Law and an MPP from Harvard's Kennedy School, Adler parlayed his early work in public-interest law and poverty research into building one of the internet's most active communities dedicated to green and climate careers. Under his leadership, Green Jobs Network has grown to run the largest LinkedIn group focused exclusively on green jobs—135,000+ members worldwide—while publishing a newsletter with more than 100,000 subscribers, hosting the Green Jobs Pod, and launching ClimateJobs.AI, an AI-powered career coaching platform. An Echoing Green Global Fellow and serial social entrepreneur, Adler has spoken at Stanford, the Commonwealth Club's Climate One, the National Career Development Association, and the Green Festivals, making him one of the most visible connectors in the climate workforce ecosystem.
Swizec Teller
Swizec Teller is a Slovenian-American software engineer, bestselling author, and educator based in San Francisco who has spent 20+ years turning hard-won startup experience into actionable career wisdom. Best known for his Senior Mindset newsletter and books like 'Scaling Fast' and 'Senior Engineer Mindset,' he teaches engineers how to stop writing code and start building leverage. Currently building web UX for gene sequencing at Plasmidsaurus, he's the rare person who codes all day and then writes about coding all evening - and makes that seem entirely reasonable.