20 Most Inspiring Women Leaders 2023

Bonnie Carlson, President and CEO, has been with the Bloomington Convention and Visitors Bureau for 33 years of service and has made significant contributions to the state’s travel industry. Bonnie has been at the forefront of the hospitality industry, crafting and supporting policies and initiatives promoting the sector at every level – local, state, national, and international.

Clare Ducksbury is an inspirational leader, an advanced thought-leader in the mass claims/class actions space, and most importantly, a pioneering leader who strives to educate her team to progress collective action knowledge and expertise within their respective disciplines. Clare is a people person with a particular focus on ensuring the core values of Case Pilots are reflected in everything her team does. She encourages her team to take accountability for the work they manage, resulting in several employees developing into influential leaders, safe in the knowledge that they are supported in exploring the full extent of their capabilities.

Helen Fisher is a business psychologist who specialises in helping organisations become more effective through their people. Described as logical and analytical, an ingenious thinker and long-range planner, and good at anything that requires rapid reasoning, Helen is direct, results-oriented and thorough.

Jennifer Thornton is on a mission to help progressive organizations foster an environment of learning, experimentation, and innovation and meet the demands of exponential growth for business.

The tattoo on Krystn Macomber CP APMP Fellow, LEED AP, Co-Founder & CEO, Summit Strategy says, ‘Never Settle,’ and that is the attitude she has honed to be successful. Krystn is a healthy balance of resilience, determination, a growth mindset, and good humor.

Harvard Business School Professor Amy Edmondson has found that a “psychologically safe work environment” – an environment in which teams feel free “to take risks, to express their ideas and concerns, [ask] questions, and to admit mistakes… without fear of negative consequences” – promotes team engagement and motivation.

Mylène Lapierre, President & CEO of the Chartered Professional Accountants of New Brunswick (CPA NB), heads the professional organization representing more than 3,000 professional advisors from one of the world’s most respected designations.

Adaptability is one of Nancy Fateen’s greatest strengths. Managing Seizmic with such a wide breadth of services, Nancy wears many different hats and can pivot at a moment’s notice to handle all matters with confidence and grace. She is solution-driven at her core and can always be counted on to find a fair and straightforward resolution.

Trudy Darwin’s first corporate job after graduating from University in the late ’90s was with what the industry labeled a dot.com, where she worked on the marketing side of web development for eCommerce companies, moving to web-based sales and digital brand awareness.