Lisha Davis

Pave Careers | Founder | Forté Alum

Lisha is an innovation leader, venture builder, startup investor, and business strategist who has been fortunate enough to have served on all sides of the business table. Throughout her career, she has been a GM and operator, entrepreneur and intrapreneur, board member and advisor, managed large P&Ls as well as built, launched & scaled new products & businesses. She is also the founder of Pave, a future of work startup dedicated to bridging the human capital gap. Pave aims to support career explorers to find their ideal career paths & navigate their transition and pivot with greater ease. An angel investor and startup advisor, Lisha is also an educator at Temple University, teaching an MBA course on Open Innovation & Strategic Alliances. She considers herself a lifelong advocate of DEI and champion for increasing representation of diverse founders and funders.

Katrina McGhee

Career Break & Sabbatical Coach

Katrina McGhee is a career break and sabbatical coach, speaker and author of the bestselling Taking a Career Break for Dummies. With her wealth of knowledge and experience, Katrina helps mid-career professionals design transformative life breaks that lead to happiness, personal growth and lasting change. Katrina developed the Break Blueprint, a guiding framework she's used to help nearly 100 clients rejuvenate their lives by taking a break to travel the world, launch a business, write a novel, change careers and more. Katrina's work was inspired by her own 20-month career break where she saved $40,000 in just 18 months to quit her corporate job to travel the world. As an avid world traveler and digital nomad, her expertise on career breaks and travel has been featured in prestigious outlets such as Forbes, Smarter Travel, Thrive Global, and Yahoo.

Kathryn Valentine

CEO of Worthmore Strategies

After starting her career at McKinsey and Co., Kathryn spent her time in business school researching how to negotiate specifically as a woman. That work is the foundation of her research based approach to women's leadership development. Kathryn is now the CEO of Worthmore Strategies, where she leverages research to help organizations advance and retain female talent. She has spoken at Harvard, Wharton, and Kellogg business schools and numerous women's conferences. Her work has been featured in The Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Adweek, Forbes and Business Insider.