About Kate

Author, Speaker, Board member & International Executive.

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/kateisler

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Kate has over 20 years of international executive leadership gained working for fortune 100 companies to startups and has now turned her passion for supporting gender parity into a thriving business. Kate is the Co-Founder and CEO of Be Bold Now, a conscious consulting practice whose mission is to build an intersectional community of women and men, who strive to inspire, empower and support each other to take bold pragmatic action to accelerate gender parity and support the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Kate is a change agent and thought leader. Her experience in high tech as a CEO of a digital health startup, and as an Executive at Microsoft where she spent many years living and working overseas, provides a powerful platform of real-world expertise and examples to draw from when addressing gender equity and balanced management practices.

Kate’s journey of leadership, challenging the status quo, overcoming adversity and breaking gender stereotypes motivates and inspires. She has successfully navigated the complexity of a global company and tested her agility and ability to innovation leading as an entrepreneur.

She is a published author and recently completed her memoir to be released by HarperCollins Leadership in 2020.

Kate is an active and committed mentor for the International Women’s Forum, and, serves on the global board of Girl Rising, and several startup advisory boards.

Kate has over 20 years of international executive leadership gained working for fortune 100 companies to startups and have now turned my passion for supporting gender parity into a thriving business. I am the Co-Founder and CEO of Be Bold Now, a conscious consulting practice whose mission is to build an intersectional community of women and men, who strive to inspire, empower and support each other to take bold pragmatic action to accelerate gender parity and support the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Kate is a change agent and thought leader. My experience in high tech as a CEO of a digital health startup, and as an Executive at Microsoft where I spent many years living and working overseas, provides a powerful platform of real-world expertise and examples to draw from when addressing gender equity and balanced management practices.

Her journey of leadership, challenging the status quo, overcoming adversity and breaking gender stereotypes motivates and inspires audiences, teams and individuals. I have successfully navigated the complexity of a global company and tested my agility and ability to innovate as an entrepreneur.

Kate is a published author and recently completed my memoir to be released by HarperCollins Leadership in 2020.

Kate is an active and committed mentor for the International Women’s Forum, and, serves on the global board of Girl Rising, and several startup advisory boards.

About Sharon

Speaker & International Executive.

LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharon-harris

Email:

sharrisny@hotmail.com

Sharon Harris is the Vice President, Alliance Relations at Google Marketing Platform Alliance with Deloitte Consulting

Sharon is an experienced digital media professional. She has over twenty years of cutting-edge knowledge in branding and launching numerous campaigns and products for several world-renowned brands. Microsoft, T-Mobile, and Reuters are just a few of the leading companies that she has worked with to help them define and translate their brand and business strategies in revenue.

Sharon made her mark at Microsoft as the Senior Global Product Marketing Manager, becoming a fundamental launch contributor for Microsoft Windows 8 Ads-in-Apps. She constructed the fall 2012 launch of advertising on Microsoft Windows 8. In early 2012, Sharon coordinated the launch of advertising on Skype mobile, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2010. Mastering many challenges, she also designed the sales coordination efforts, as well as the overall messaging for advertising on Microsoft Windows 8.

Ms. Harris managed multimillion-dollar accounts and directed company-wide projects for companies like IAC, and Discovery Networks. Presently, she is employed by Deloitte Consulting as a Senior Manager serving as the VP of Alliance Relationships supporting its Google Marketing Platform Alliance.

Sharon’s tenacity of being a seasoned advertising and digital media professional does not limit her ability to give back to the community. Being an advocate of change, she has been an active participant in diversity and inclusion efforts in advertising and technology, while mentoring college students who are interested in both fields of study. She also serves on several non-profit boards including, The Marcus Graham Project, Be Bold Seattle - International Women’s’ Day, Challenge Day, Ignite and the Sustainable Impacts and Strategic Global Initiatives (SISGI).

Sharon is from a small town in Louisiana, but her accomplishments since leaving home have been anything but small. Ms. Harris studied American Studies at Yale University and graduated with honors from New York University with a B.A in Literature.

Sharon loves to travel and enjoys cooking creole cuisine.

International Women’s Day (IWD) is a day to acknowledge and celebrate women’s cultural, social, and economic contributions but is also a call to action for women and their allies to take action to accelerate gender parity. IWD has been celebrated for 111 years and recognized by the UN since 1975.

2020 will mark the fifth annual Be Bold Now International Women’s Day celebration, March 5, 2020, at Benaroya Hall. The event is an evening celebration where we share women's stories to inspire the audience to take action to promote gender parity. The evening is anchored on the data from the World Economic Forum Gender gap report (WEF) to ground women and our allies in the work that needs to be done to close the current estimate of over 200 years for women to achieve parity.

We hope you will join us for the uplifting and inspiring evening. ASL Interpretation will be available at this presentation.