Session: Living More, Working Less: The WorkSmart Mindset

Morgan DeBaun is the Founder & CEO of Blavity Inc., the leading media company for Black culture and millennials.

Since launching Blavity Inc. in 2014, Morgan has led the company to successfully acquire Travel Noire, a travel platform for Black millennials and Shadow And Act, a Black entertainment news site. Under her leadership, Blavity has launched several leading consumer summits including Summit 21 for Black women creators and Bay Area’s AfroTech, the largest tech conference for Black innovators and founders. While scaling the company, Morgan has raised over 12 million dollars from top Silicon Valley venture firms such as GV and Comcast.

Morgan is also the founder of WorkSmart, an advising program that teaches small business

owners how to scale their business and The WorkSmart Podcast, designed to help established entrepreneurs get the guidance needed to grow by taking you inside real-life advising sessions and interviews with CEOs.

Morgan is a St. Louis native and a graduate of Washington University in St.Louis

Session: Managing Wealth: A Conversation About Being Rich vs Wealthy

Adam is a self-described venture capitalist meets therapist meets trust and estate lawyer meets banker. He leverages his entrepreneurial energy, empathic and educational style, and sheer conviction to solve pressing financial issues in the complex worlds of entrepreneurs, tech startups and venture capital.

Learn More About Adam Katz Here

Women’s Only Private Session

In 2009, I began building my first company, Solid Ground Innovations (SGI), to encompass all areas of service that charitable organizations and individuals seeking to do incredible deeds of kindness would need. As demand increased, SGI expanded to expertise in branding, PR, and digital marketing, eventually landing a multimillion-dollar government contract. Within its first few years, at only 22 years old, I had bootstrapped SGI to a 7-figure company.

Still on a mission to ensure nonprofit growth and development, I went on to eventually transform SGI’s nonprofit service into a technology platform, birthing my second company, Resilia. Resilia is a tech start-up I launched in 2016 to revolutionize how socially-conscious leaders develop, maintain, and grow the nonprofits, corporations, cities, and other enterprises they lead. A New Orleans-based company, which has a second office in New York, was named to Venture Beat’s Top Startups to Watch Out For in 2019. As of 2020, I have raised over $11M for Resilia and am humbly known as the first Black founder in New Orleans to close a 7-figure round of funding.

Session: Stepping into Leadership: The Science of First Impressions

Olivia Fox Cabane is the author of The Charisma Myth, cofounder of KindEarth.Tech, former Director of Innovative Leadership for Stanford's startup accelerator and a keynote speaker for Fortune 500 companies. She has lectured at Harvard, Yale, MIT and the United Nations and is currently writing “The Genius Myth: How Anyone Can Learn To Access Their Inner Einstein.

Learn More About Olivia Fox Cabane Here

Session: Business Partners Managing a Growing Food Empire

Slim & Husky’s was founded on a shared dream inside of a garage in 2015. The Tennessee State University grads started the fast casual, gourmet pizza joint as a way to serve unique pies and provide jobs to their neighborhood in North Nashville. Now, Slim & Husky’s offers build-your own pizzas, take out options, catering services, and delivery through third party vendors.

Watch Slim & Husky's Founding Story Here

Session: How CEOs can find their number 2 and hire an executive to join their scaling business

Hosted By: Courtney Sloan and Tangeel Cherry

AboveBoard is an inclusive executive hiring platform that connects senior executives with exclusive leadership opportunities.