At Innovation Women, our speaker database is home to thousands of women ready to take the stage and every month, we highlight a handful of them as Featured Speakers.
Featured Speakers earn their spot by showing up. They complete their speaker profiles, engage with the community and make the most of their Innovation Women membership. In short, they’re doing the work—and we want more people to find them!
Let’s get to know April’s five Featured Speakers: who they are, what they speak about and why they’re worth your attention.
Dr. Christiane Schroeter | Leadership Strategist, Doctor Christiane 
Dr. Christiane Schroeter is a TEDx speaker, leadership strategist, award-winning professor and author who helps high-performing professionals create meaningful progress without burning out. With two decades in higher education and a background in applied economics, she blends behavioral science, leadership research and real-world experience to help individuals and organizations navigate change with clarity and confidence.
Dr. Christiane is the author of multiple best-selling books, host of the globally top 1% ranked Happy Healthy Hustle podcast and a sought-after speaker for universities, conferences and corporate teams. Her talks focus on leadership, visibility, decision making and how small, intentional actions create lasting impact.
View Dr. Christiane’s speaker profile.
Shantell Thomas | Managing Founder, Inside Out Strategies {iOS}
Shantell Thomas built her career in the technology industry, marketing products for globally recognized organizations including IBM, Avalara, Cisco, Lenovo and Amazon. Within those halls, she discovered her purpose: helping organizations design workplaces where people can truly thrive.
Since then, she’s delivered keynotes and talks for major conferences and organizations including iBTechCon, Young Women in STEM, the American Marketing Association–Triangle and the Durham Chamber of Commerce and has engaged employees at companies like Cisco, Deluxe, Avalara, Amazon, Legrand North America, Google and Rent.
As the Managing Founder of Inside Out Strategies {iOS}, Shantell helps organizations design intentional, inclusive workplaces. She believes the employee experience deserves the same rigor and care as the customer experience—because when people thrive, businesses do too.
View Shantell’s speaker profile.
Carol Enneking | CEO, Lead Learn Legacy LLC
Carol Enneking is a force in modern leadership, having lived it from every angle. She spent years as a trusted advisor to executives and rising leaders in more than 150 companies across six continents, then stepped into the arena herself, beginning as a manager and rising to Vice President of Talent Management, Learning & Diversity at a $6B international manufacturing company. That dual experience—coaching leaders at the highest levels and becoming one—gives her a rare depth of insight into the demands placed on leaders.
Carol is the founder of Rebalancing Revolution™ and the author of the award-winning, best-selling book, The Rebalancing Act: Wisdom from Working Women for Success that Matters. In 2025, she was recognized as Oxford Talks’ most-viewed speaker in its history, with more than 1.8 million viewers engaging with her call to redefine success before it redefines us.
Marta Spirk | Professional Singer & Speaking Coach, Marta Spirk Coaching
Marta Spirk is a TEDx speaker, best-selling author and recording artist who helps speakers and entrepreneurs clarify their message, craft a compelling signature talk and deliver it with confidence and authority. With a background in performance and over seven years of experience in business and visibility strategy, she teaches women how to position themselves as experts, communicate with trust and turn speaking engagements into aligned opportunities for growth—on stage and on camera.
Her passion lies in guiding women to own their voice and use speaking as a powerful path to authority and impact.
Kristine Beese | Founder and CEO, Untangle Money
Kristine Beese is the CEO and Founder of Untangle Money, a financial technology company reimagining personal finance for women. Her work sits at the intersection of money, design and equity—challenging long-standing assumptions in financial advice and replacing them with tools that reflect how women actually live, earn, spend and plan. With a background in finance and engineering, she bridges data and empathy to illuminate why gendered financial equity matters for women’s wellbeing and for economic growth and innovation.
On stage, Kristine reveals the unintended consequences of a financial system built for men and what that means for women’s financial outcomes today. She combines research, real-world insights and relatable stories to help women see money differently and empower them to make confident choices that align their daily spending with their long-term goals.
View Kristine’s speaker profile.
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