Featured Industry Experts
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Each year we accept applications for speakers of innovative and exceptional women in the lowcountry. We select our speakers based off of a continuous theme of entrepreneurship, innovation, and motivation! We have had a large variety of speakers talk on subjects including entrepreneurship, local politics, innovation, women's health, and passion.
Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Sierra Pollard
CEO of Winnovation Agency
Founder Women's Summit of the Lowcountry
Sierra is the first person to study Innovation at the undergraduate and graduate levels. She decided that she wanted to connect women in innovation and help female
entrepreneurs start their businesses!
Melissa Epstein
Energy Leadership Index Master
Melissa holds a BA in business and a minor in psychology from the University of Elon and is a Certified Professional Coach and Energy Leadership Index – Master Practitioner. Melissa lives in Bluffton, SC with her husband, three children, and fur baby.
Energy Leader
Creative Marketing
Katie Silva
FOUNDER & CEO Lowcountry Made
Katie Silva founded Lowcountry Made with a mission to promote Lowcountry makers, connect them with shoppers, and promote business to business collaboration. Katie is a mom of 4, business owner, and creative business strategist.
Amanda Loniero
Female Founder
Loniero Inspired Wellness, CEO
Health Transformation Specialist
Rodan + Fields Executive Consultant
“Changing lives from the Inside-Out-Outside-In”
Mom, Wife, Entrepreneur
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Female Founder
Network Marketing
Amanda Travis Simon
Independent Senior Executive Director at Color Street
Amanda Simon is an entrepreneur who discovered network marketing five years ago. As an elementary teacher, she was tired of working endless hours with no hopes of being a six-figure earner in that profession. Thanks to some friends, she was well aware of the potential in the direct selling world and was determined to make something of an opportunity that fell into her hands. Within several years, she left the classroom and has built a $15 million empire. She has worked to be the architect of the life she once could only dream of leading.
Priscilla Johnson
Insurance
Priscilla earned a Bachelor’s degree in Communications from the University of South Carolina and a Master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy. She loves caring for her family and most importantly spending quality time outdoors with them.
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Insurance
Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Sierra Pollard
CEO of Winnovation Agency
Sierra is the first person to study Innovation at the undergraduate and graduate levels. She decided that she wanted to connect women in innovation and help female
entrepreneurs start their businesses!
Melissa Epstein
Energy Leadership Index Master
Melissa holds a BA in business and a minor in psychology from the University of Elon and is a Certified Professional Coach and Energy Leadership Index – Master Practitioner. Melissa lives in Bluffton, SC with her husband, three children, and fur baby.
Energy Leader
Entrepreneur, Author, Digital Leader
Jen Wolfe
Entrepreneur, Author, Digital Leader & Global IP Strategist, CEO & Founder of Whisper Creek Spa
Jen has served as the CEO of Dot Brand 360, a digital agency and registrar, and managing partner of intellectual-property law firm—Wolfe, Sadler, Breen, Morasch and Colby—ranked in the top seventy-five patent-law firms in the country by IP Today. Her research, thought leadership and books have been endorsed by senior executives from Microsoft, Procter & Gamble, Richemont, Scripps Networks Interactive, Uber, General Electric and the Motion Picture Association of America. She is a proud step-mother and mother to four children.
Jen Kopke
Jen's Personal Training
Jen Kopke has been an AFAA Certified Personal Trainer for 16 years. She has trained clients ranging from high school athletes to senior citizens. Her engaging and personalized approach is centered around the clients’ goals and success. Jen maintains a high level of physical fitness and has competed in a number of adventure races and triathlons. She is a Marine Corps Wife and Mother of three!
Physical Wellness
Wellness Coach
Susannah Winters
Wellness Coach & Entrepreneur
Susannah is a Wellness Coach and owner of Hilton Head Island Coffee Company. I’m inspired by real-life connections, nature, women in business, delicious coffee, and books. I live on Hilton Head Island with my husband, two kids, and our big dogs.
Kim Williams
GuGo Movement
Kim is a full time nurse who has started a movement to help families balance their screen time with green time, thus improving their mental and physical health and relationships with each other.
Work & Family Balance
Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Sierra Pollard
CEO of Winnovation Agency
Sierra is the first person to graduate with an undergrad and graduate degree in innovation. She owns the Winnovation Agency and is a Professor of Innovation at the University of Florida. She decided that she wanted to connect women in innovation and help female entrepreneurs start their businesses!
Lisa Sulka
Mayor of Bluffton
Mayor Lisa Sulka has called the Bluffton- Hilton Head area home for 37 years. Born and raised in Prosperity, SC, a small southern town just outside of Columbia, she finished her higher education at Clemson University. After college, Lisa moved to Hilton Head Island and started her own business, which she owned for 15 years. This business venture led to her relationship with Hampton Hall, where she was part of the original sales team. Lisa currently works for Carson Realty, a full service real estate firm in Bluffton, SC.
Mayor of Bluffton
Melissa Epstein
Energy Leadership Index Master
Melissa holds a BA in business and a minor in psychology from the University of Elon and is a Certified Professional Coach and Energy Leadership Index – Master Practitioner. Melissa lives in Bluffton, SC with her husband, three children, and fur baby.
Energy Leader
Entrepreneur
Elizabeth Millen
Owner of Pink Magazine
Holding a Bachelor of Science degree from the distinguished Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina, Elizabeth found the perfect way to marry her business acuity, creativity and compassion-filled heart in the creation of Pink and its mission to empower, inform, encourage and evoke thought. In addition to Pink, Elizabeth’s company also creates and publishes Paisley Magazine each month in South Coastal Georgia. Each market hosts the fabulous “Partini,” which is the largest ladies’ night out in both regions.
