TEDxMorgan St Women

Speakers

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• Alicia Lozano MA

  Alicia Lozano is the CEO and Founder of Zero To Anything Co., where she helps high-achieving professionals stop delaying their dreams and redesign their entire lives around what truly matters. Through her **Flexible Effort Approach** and tools like the **Consistency Tracker,** she guides multi-passionate people who are done playing small to build lives that honor all their interests without burning out or choosing just one path. With a graduate degree in **Organizational Development and Leadership**, seven years of coaching experience, and her own journey pursuing running, dancing, acting, and entrepreneurship simultaneously, Alicia knows firsthand that multiple passions aren't about having more energy, it's about working with the energy you have.

• Chelsea Scaffidi

  Chelsey Scaffidi is a social impact lawyer, meditation teacher, and matrescence educator whose work weaves together scientific research and lived experience. With over a decade of expertise in nonprofit law and contemplative practices, she investigates the biological, cognitive, and social adaptations that shape matrescence — the developmental transition into motherhood. Chelsey is known for translating emerging research on the maternal brain into accessible, compassionate frameworks that help women make sense of this profound identity transformation. Her work invites mothers, clinicians, and communities alike to recognize matrescence as one of the most significant — and overlooked — developmental shifts in the human lifespan.

• Chelsey Saffidi

  Chelsey Scaffidi is a social impact lawyer, meditation teacher, and matrescence educator whose work weaves together scientific research and lived experience. With over a decade of expertise in nonprofit law and contemplative practice, she investigates the biological, cognitive, and social adaptations that shape matrescence — the developmental transition into motherhood. Chelsey is known for translating emerging research on the maternal brain into accessible, compassionate frameworks that help women make sense of this profound identity transformation. Her work invites mothers, clinicians, and communities alike to recognize matrescence as one of the most significant — and overlooked — developmental shifts in the human lifespan.

• Chelsey Scaffidi

  Chelsey Scaffidi is a social impact lawyer, meditation teacher, and matrescence educator whose work weaves together scientific research and lived experience. With over a decade of expertise in nonprofit law and contemplative practices, she investigates the biological, cognitive, and social adaptations that shape matrescence — the developmental transition into motherhood. Chelsey is known for translating emerging research on the maternal brain into accessible, compassionate frameworks that help women make sense of this profound identity transformation. Her work invites mothers, clinicians, and communities alike to recognize matrescence as one of the most significant — and overlooked — developmental shifts in the human lifespan.

• Cheryl Gould

  Cheryl Gould is the CEO of Gould Consulting LLC, an HR consulting firm that helps small and mid-sized businesses build effective people strategies and develop leaders who show up with presence and emotional awareness. With more than 25 years of experience, she is a SHRM-SCP and Organizational Development expert who partners with organizations to create cultures where people feel valued, supported, and empowered to lead authentically. She also serves as Vice President of Human Resources for Girl Scouts–North Carolina Coastal Pines and contributes her time on the boards of the International Montessori School and Raleigh Metro SHRM. Cheryl is a committed mentor to emerging professionals and the author of *Workplace Ready: The Career Manual for New Grads*, a practical guide for early-career success.

• Danielle Allen

  Danielle Allen is the host and founder of the podcast, Naked Nuclear which aims to strip down nuclear energy and technology for the every day audience. In 2023 Danielle pivoted away from her career as a firefighter/paramedic to pursue a degree in nuclear engineering. Inspired by the stories around climate, energy, and the need to make a difference, Danielle launched her podcast and subsequent media company to research how the public interacts with nuclear narratives and that contributes to a healthy planet.

• Daria Boulankina

  Daria Boulankina is a student at North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics where she excels as a student leader in STEM, business, and speech & debate. Driven by a passion to empower peers and learn more about the business world through the lens of consumer behavior, she fuses biopsychology research interests with entrepreneurial drive to foster inclusive innovation.

• Dr. Susan Lovelle

  Dr. Susan Lovelle, MD, AFMC, is a former award-winning plastic surgeon turned executive health strategist who now helps organizations understand how physiology, bias, and workplace culture shape well-being and performance. Trained at Columbia University in New York, she is the founder of Balanced Performance and has partnered with companies including Cigna, Align Technology, and Vistage to transform wellness into a strategic advantage for leaders and teams. Her commitment to rehumanizing healthcare is deeply personal, shaped by her own life-threatening encounter with medical dismissal. As the author of *Thrive!* and a nationally recognized educator, she develops scalable, evidence-based frameworks that advance clarity, capacity, and collaboration. Her TEDx talk, *“Medical Gaslighting: The $78 Billion Cost of Not Believing Women,”* exposes the hidden consequences of biased medicine—and the systemic shifts needed to build a healthcare system worthy of all women.

• Gehan Haridy-Ardanowski

  *Gehan "G" Haridy-Ardanowski is driven by and imparts to others the fusion of two mantras: "Why fit in when you were born to stand out?" + "Go where you're celebrated and not tolerated!"* *G has 20+ years in multi-industry human resources (HR), training, and recruitment roles with small and large household name companies. She's an edutaining speaker with an “amazing vibe” who “packs a punch,” author of the bestselling book FROM SATAN TO SENSATIONAL HR!, and the Founder & Creative Consultant of Golden Synergy Touch, LLC.

• Sonia Daptardar

  Sonia Daptardar is a highly accomplished young leader from Cary, North Carolina, who has dedicated herself to literacy, community service, and youth empowerment. A junior at Panther Creek High School, she founded Seeds of Reading, an initiative that has achieved a global reach spanning four countries and impacting thousands of people by providing accessible reading content and free educational opportunities. Her dedication to service is highlighted by her achievement of the Presidential Volunteer Service Award three times.

• Tabitha Lewis

  Tabitha Lewis is a business owner and champion for entrepreneurs striving to gain control of their finances. She helps small business owners achieve financial clarity through strategic tax planning, profit-growth strategies, and practical business advisory services. Her mission is to equip leaders with the tools and guidance they need to build strong financial foundations and achieve lasting, sustainable success. With a background as a Tax Professional and an MBA in Business Management with a focus on Project Management, she has combined real-world experience with deep technical knowledge. She is passionate about simplifying complex financial concepts and turning them into actionable strategies that help businesses grow