Ashley Baker
Personal Development Coach + The Baker Firm
Ashley’s experiences in college, fire department safety speaking, school classrooms as a teacher, and as a certified personal trainer and exercise instructor for over 15 years have fueled her desire to guide and empower others. Ashley is a former yoga instructor with over ten years experience teaching in traditional studios and an outreach drug and alcohol rehab center, a Holistic Health Coach certified through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, a Certified Life Coach through Lumia (formerly Catalyst Coaching Intensive), and a Zig Ziglar Choose to Win Coach. Most recently, Ashley has become a Culture Coordinator for The Baker Firm.
Ashley’s biggest passion now is taking the stage as a motivational speaker to present her message to all people.
Cass Cooper
Know Better, Do Better Consulting
Cass R. Cooper, MHR is the visionary force behind Know Better, Do Better Consulting, a corporate climate development group committed to catalyzing inclusive cultures and optimizing institutional processes. With a focus on relentless progress, Cass collaborates with clients to nurture cultures that thrive through their commitment to inclusivity. Know Better, Do Better Consulting leverages existing strengths while bridging knowledge gaps, ultimately fostering robust corporate cultures and a profound sense of belonging.
Academically, Cass has earned a Bachelor of Arts in Women's and Gender Studies from DePaul University, Chicago, and a Master of Human Relations, Inclusive Leadership from The University of Oklahoma. Cooper uses her passion to explore the intersection of people, processes, and organizational culture. Her unique ability lies in transforming apparent chaos into coherent business practices that prioritize individuals. In the evolving landscape of successful enterprises, the core requirement is sustaining a space where members are not just acknowledged but also valued, respected, and safeguarded.
Beyond her professional pursuits, Cass is an ardent reader, a dedicated consumer of podcasts, and the nurturing mother of a delightful tiny human and a questionably thriving collection of plants. Cass Cooper's work underscores the pivotal role of equity and inclusion in shaping the future of organizations, emphasizing the value of knowing better to do better.
Deb Degner
The Leadership Bridge
The Leadership Bridge® works with executives, managers, and academic and emerging leaders to develop their leadership skills and help them reach their full potential. Deb’s client retention rate reflects client satisfaction and her commitment to delivering impactful, sustainable leadership growth. Client feedback has shared that her ability to deliver energetic, engaging programs allows individuals to practice their skills and enjoy an interactive and fun learning environment.
Prior to her executive coaching career, Deb spent more than twenty years as a business leader in the public and private sectors. She spent ten years leading public and government relations initiatives and teams in the oil and gas industry. Throughout her career, she has served on numerous community and industry boards and has enjoyed leadership roles in various capacities.
Deb’s diverse work background allows her to serve a broad list of clients. She worked in the telecommunications industry and worked for several federal and state elected officials in multiple states and in Washington, D.C. She has experience in sales and marketing for private and non-profit organizations. Her knowledge and experience managing productive teams and setting and achieving goals allow her to connect, relate and understand the demanding jobs and responsibilities of her clients.
Ami Doshi
Frontier Investment Management
Ami Doshi is a dedicated advocate for women’s financial well-being. As a trusted advisor, Ami works closely with executive leaders entering wealth for the first time, as well as women navigating transitions such as the loss of a spouse or divorce.
Ami’s approach centers on aligning personal values with financial decisions. She takes the time to understand her clients’ goals and the impact they want their wealth to have on their lives and their loved ones. At Frontier, Ami spearheads “Limitless: Women, Wealth & Wellness,” a program tailored to the interests and needs of her female clients. Through monthly in-person events and a newsletter focused on wealth management topics, she is building a community of learners and empowering women to save, invest, and work towards financial independence.
Ami’s holistic approach extends beyond financial planning. She helps clients build generational wealth, offering customized solutions that encompass financial and retirement planning, investment management, tax strategies, estate planning, and charitable giving.
Before her role at Frontier, Ami founded Opportunity Plus, a nonprofit promoting financial literacy and microloans for low-income women entrepreneurs.
Bianca King
Pretty Damn Ambitious
Bianca B. King is the President of Seven5 Seven3 Marketing Group and CEO/Founder of Pretty Damn Ambitious®. She empowers women by connecting them with expert coaches for personal and professional growth.
Bianca’s digital agency, Seven5 Seven3, has helped clients generate over $277 million in revenue since 2008. Starting her journey with just $700, a laptop, and a plane ticket, she quickly secured her first client.
Her work has been featured in PIX11 News New York, ESSENCE, Black Enterprise, and NBC Texas Today. Bianca contributes to LinkedIn, Entrepreneur, and Fast Company.com, and is a Forbes Business Council member.
With an MBA in e-commerce Marketing and a background in commercial real estate, Bianca also serves as Marketing Director at Texas Wall Street Women. She champions a new narrative of ambition, integrating joy and personal values into success.
Cami Miller
Train for Life + Satori Capital
Cami Miller lives her life at the intersection of wealth and wellness with a career in the investment industry and a passion for feeling fit in all areas of life.
Cami is the vice president of stakeholder experience at Satori Capital, a Dallas-based investment firm built upon the principles of conscious capitalism that manages customized portfolios for private investors, family offices, and institutions. Satori Capital’s purpose is to create, fund, and inspire business that elevate humanity. In her role at Satori, Cami focuses on delivering the highest quality of service and support to Satori’s stakeholder groups, including investors, team members, and the broader community.
Prior to joining Satori, Cami was an audit associate for KPMG, LLP, where she assisted with audit engagement activities for private equity clients. She went on to pursue her passion for health and fitness as a manager for lululemon athletica, where she learned to appreciate the importance of an empowering organizational culture. Cami is a graduate of The Neeley School of Business at Texas Christian University, where she received her B.B.A. in Finance and Accounting and her Master of Accounting Degree. In addition to her education and career in finance, Cami is a graduate of the Institute of Integrative Nutrition, where she earned her certification as a Holistic Health Coach.
Cami is also the founder of Train For LifeTM, a business built on the belief that we are all athletes, and we are all training for life. She immerses herself in every learning and tool along the way, and this self-exploration has led to the self-discovery that her purpose is to help people train for the game of life. Cami lives in Fort Worth with her goldendoodle, Coach. She is actively involved in the Texas health and fitness community and frequently serves as a speaker, panelist, and advocate on a variety of topics, including living optimally both in and outside of the workplace. To learn more about Cami and her Train For Life philosophy, visit her website at camimiller.life.
Kristin Carver Smith
The New Fashioned Co.
Kristin Carver Smith is an artist, agent and ease strategist on a mission to create a more just and joyful world.
The CEO/Founder of The New Fashioned Co, Kristin has spent the last decade crafting new fashioned publicity, exposure and business strategies for clients across a variety of industries including sports, entertainment & lifestyle, music, publishing, logistics and supply chain, nonprofits, education and more. Her clients have have teamed up with some of the world’s most recognizable brands and organizations, taken the stage at renowned conferences and been featured on ABC’s Good Morning America, CBS, CNN, NBC’s TODAY, The View and in Entrepreneur, ESSENCE, Fast Company, Good Housekeeping, The New York Times, USA Today, US News and World Report and The Washington Post, among others.
Today, she integrates all that she’s learned and experienced into her work and music. Namely, how the practice of homecoming creates a more just and joyful world across every facet: from individual, soul-level to global, cultural ripple effects. Kristin has discovered that when you’re home in yourself—your body, your giftings, your expertise, your calling, your joy—the world is better for it.
She is the host of Just and Joyful with Kristin Carver Smith, a podcast guiding leaders, visionaries and creators on their homecoming journeys, and a sought-after keynote speaker known best for blending music and storytelling to create unforgettable moments—and breakthroughs—on stage.
She lives in Music City USA with her gem-of-a-human hubby, Nick, and her fur shadow, Greyson. When she’s not singing, speaking or strategizing, you can find her painting canvases, taking long walks to admire God’s creation and subjecting Nick to commentary on her favorite reality television shows.
Tara Wilson
Fierce Lab + Tara Wilson Agency
Tara Wilson’s official title is CEO. In the business world she’s referred to as an entrepreneur. Clients like to refer to her as a dot-connecter. In the community, she’s known as an advocate for women.
Tara founded her namesake experiential marketing agency to create emotional connections between clients’ brands and consumers through imaginative, immersive and transformative experiences. Since 2015, Tara has helped business giants like Samsung, Nike, Lou & Grey and ESPN redefine brand engagement. Under her leadership, they have assembled a team of fearless and creative marketers that understand the tremendous power of inviting people into a brand’s universe by way of an experience.
Tara’s path to CEO of TW Agency has not been a straight line. As a graduate from Auburn University with a BBA in Finance, she started my career at Merrill Lynch as a Senior Financial Advisor. After 9 years, she drew on her leadership skills and passion for event design to become an entrepreneur when she opened Tara Wilson Events™ and spent eight successful years executing social events. After becoming an authoritative voice in the field, Tara’s burning interest in the metrics behind the experiences inspired her to rebrand her company as Tara Wilson Agency.
In 2019, Tara launched Fierce Lab, a podcast and conference series for women, to amplify their stories around the topics of career development, risk taking, mental health and financial empowerment. In December 2021, she successfully led the development and launch of the Fierce Lab app, a tool for women to access content, on-demand, designed to help them achieve their greatest potential.
Tara’s agency has twice landed on the coveted Inc. 5000 list, recognizing them as one of the fastest growing privately held companies in the U.S. And in the spring of 2018, Auburn University's Harbert College of Business named Tara Entrepreneur of the Year. She has appeared on and in a variety of national and local media outlets including The Today Show, Entrepreneur.com, Smart Money’s Small Business, MSN’s Business on Main and Fox Business to name a few.
Tara lives in Fort Worth with her husband and their two feisty Labs. In her free time, she loves traveling and also enjoys a good physical challenge. As such, she’s completed 1 Ironman, 3 half-Ironman, and 9 marathons.
