Erin GallagherErin Gallagher is the CEO and founder of HYPE WOMEN, an inclusive ecosystem that hypes women to remember who the fuck they are. She is the producer and host of the Hype Women podcast and author of Hype Women: Breaking Free from Mean Girls, Patriarchyand Systems Silencing You. On LinkedIn, she is a Top 100 Influencer, a Top 10 DEI Voice, and listed as one of the Top 200 Most Powerful Women; she also wrote one of the platform's 100 Most Influential Posts of the Decade. She began her career at Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, a nonprofit legal services watchdog dedicated to ending the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy (which they ultimately achieved). Erin spent her almost-twenty-year corporate career leading global marketing, business development, branding, and communications for agencies and global brands. She's counseled The White House, Fortune 100 C-suite, and senior leaders at some of the world's biggest and best brands and companies (from LinkedIn to United Airlines to Carhartt to McDonald's). She was named one of Fast Company's World's Most Innovative Companies of 2022 and honored as a PRNews "Top Woman in PR" in 2019. Through her work forging relationships with change makers and leaders who believe in the power of diversity, equity, inclusion and access, Erin has become (as one Global CMO so succinctly put it) "the not-so-secret weapon so many leaders count on to drive real change . . . she knows everyone." She lives in a suburb of Chicago with her husband Brian, their sons William and Charlie, and their beloved golden retriever Lincoln. Erin is an Aries. And she makes sure everyone knows it. Read More Read Less