A woman essays a plethora of roles throughout her life, from a daughter to a doting wife, career-oriented woman, and a mother; there are enough reasons to celebrate womanhood every day. However, March 8th known as International Women’s Day, became a special day to rejoice ‘being a woman.’ The history dates back to 1917 when it was chosen to memorialize women’s suffrage in Soviet Russia.Later in 1977, the United Nations instituted this auspicious event, and since then, this day is recognized globally as International Women’s day to appreciate women’s achievements and support their rights. The IWD marks the celebration of women in every aspect of life. Every year on March 8th, the world honors women for their significant role in social, economic, cultural, and political development.
This year the International Women’s Day theme is ‘Choose to Challenge.’ An excerpt from the IWD website quotes: “A challenged world is an alert world – from challenge comes change, so let’s all choose to challenge.”
Since International Women’s day, 2021 is approaching, we would like to proudly present our top ten female public speakers, who are well-versed with various themes such as education, entrepreneurship, gender diversity, technology, leadership, innovation, ecological sustainability, motivation, and the likes.
If you are looking for exceptional public orators connected to the forthcoming Women’s international day events, virtual speaking platforms, or other similar occasions. In that case, we highly recommend the ones listed below.
Gitanjali Rao – Time Magazine ‘Kid of the Year’
Gitanjali Rao is a young scientist, inventor, and author. The 15-year-old Indian-American was the first recipient of Time’s kid of the year in 2020.
Rao invented three revolutionary devices; one detects lead in potable water, the second is an application that exposes cyberbullying, and the other verifies opioid addiction. She is a Davidson Young Scholar since 2012 and was also famed as America’s Top Young Scientist in 2017. Two years later, the teen genius also had her name listed in ‘Forbes 30 under 30’ for her groundbreaking lead detection tool.
Gitanjali has been a speaker at Ted talks four times in the past, an orator at numerous global seminars, and a UNICEF panelist. Currently, she resides in Denver, USA, and addresses her audience in English. She speaks about technology, cyberbullying, innovation, and the role of youth. Read more
Hattie Hill – Pioneer of Gender Equality and Organizational Diversity
Hattie Hill is a renowned pioneer of organizational diversity and gender equality. The 63-year-old is also an established author of several books, including Smart choices, Women who carry their men, and many others. She is the President and CEO of Hattie Hill Enterprises, with three decades of expertise in board governance, risk reduction, and workplace diversity.
The coveted speaker has appeared several times in electronic and print media, some of which are the Oprah Winfrey show, Corp Magazine, Huff Post, and The Wall Street Journal. Hill has numerous awards to her name, including the Forbes Top Texas businesswoman, the E&Y “Inclusiveness Champion of the Year,” and the Trumpet award “High heels in High places.” Hattie Hill lives in the USA and delivers her speeches in English.Read more
Phiona Mutesi – Chess Prodigy Rises from Ugandan Slums, Queen of Katwe
Phiona Mutesi is a famed chess genius. The Ugandan chess player also became known as the ‘Queen of Katwe’ due to her life biography, which later became the acclaimed Disney biopic.
Mutesi grew in one of the Kampala, Uganda slums. She dropped out of school and became a maize seller when she was just nine years old as her family could not afford her education. Sometime later, she enrolled in a Sports Outreach Institute program and met Robert Katende, who became her first chess teacher. Mutesi became a three-time junior chess champion by the age of 16, and the same year received an award for the Woman Candidate Master.
The Ugandan chess player resides in America and talks about opportunities, persistence, dealing with adversity, and pursuing dreams.Read more
Elisa Guerra – Best Educator in Latin America and the Caribbean by the Inter-American Development Bank
Elisa Guerra is a young children’s educator from Mexico. She wrote more than 25 books, out of which 12 were for Pearson Education textbooks. In 2015, Guerra became the ‘Best Educator’ in Latin America and also joined UNESCO’s International Commission for the future of education. She is an acclaimed international orator, a teacher for the technology and language social studies subject, and a podcast producer to help tutor her students for creative writing skills.
As an exceptional speaker, Guerra has spoken numerous times on Tedx about the importance of public speaking and the future of education. She writes for well-known blogs, including the Huffington Post. Read more
Dava Newman – Apollo Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Dava Newman has a Ph.D. in aerospace, biomedical engineering and teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Astronautics and Aeronautics unit. She is also the director of the MIT Portugal Program and a member of the Harvard health sciences and technology.
Dava is an expert spacesuit designer, leads innovation, astronaut performance, and space policy. She has performed experiments on the space shuttle and the International space stations, developed the human to mars journey plan. Dava Newman patented the ‘Biosuit,’ which is her spacesuit invention. The form-fitting technology features flexible polymers that provide the spacesuit with its snug-fit and provide ease of movement.
During her speeches, Dava talks about her experiences and insights with aerospace and exploring the Earth. Read more
Catherine Barba – Digital Pioneer and a Retail and E-Commerce Industry Futurist
Catherine Barba is a leading French business executive. She started working as an intern at Technip in 1995, where she got eager to learn more about the web which led her to become the head of the OMD’s internet division.
Gradually she opened up her own online shopping store, the Cash Store, which she sold it to Plebicom a few years later. In 2012, the French entrepreneur set up her Catherine Barba group to help retail businesses access the digital market. She was awarded ‘Femme en Or’ in 2011 and ‘Knight of the National Order of Meritin’ a year later for helping the digital retail industry prosper in France.
Catherine Barba is well-versed with digital retail and has her own way of engaging her audience with her core subject knowledge. Read more
Céline Cousteau – Humanitarian, Environmentalist, and a Premium Speaker in her field
Céline Cousteau is known as the daughter of the famous oceanographer Jean Michael Costeau. She loves traveling across the globe and exploring nature and plays a significant part in the Ocean Futures Society to raise awareness about safeguarding the sea and the treasures that lie within.
Besides, Celine is the CauseCentric Productions founder and produces short documentaries in collaboration with non-profit organizations to provide global exposure to their work. She has also worked for several documentaries as a photographer or field producer, including the mystery of the shark coast for the Discovery channel. In her speeches, she talks about her personal experiences in the field and the connection between people and the world around them. Read more
Debra Searle – British Explorer, Crossed Atlantic Ocean alone
Debra Searle is a British explorer who shot to fame after crossing the Atlantic Ocean alone after her husband abandoned her and completed the journey in three months. The brave-heart is one of the leading orators in Europe, presented over 1000 speeches, and was recognized by the Her Majesty on two such occasions. The story of her legendary Atlantic-row is set to become a motion picture in Hollywood, which is currently under process.
Debra designed a daily journal, ‘Choose Your Attitude,’ to motivate people to recognize and remember the positives in their life that will help them feel happy and succeed in their goals. During her speeches, she talks from her heart and shares her thoughts she had amid the long journey and the strategies that kept her going. Read more
Robin Chase – Pioneer of Buzzcar, car-sharing concept
Robin Chase is an American entrepreneur and former CEO of the largest car-sharing company, Zipcar. She developed the concept of allowing car access to everyone without the need for ownership. A few years later, she introduced the Buzzcar model, which is just a different sort of vehicle sharing. It enables peers to share cars, and they can put their own vehicles in the sharing pool.
Robin has been awarded several titles such a Business Week top 10 designers, 100 Most Influential People in Time’s magazine, and Fast Company fast 50 Innovators. She has an abundance of knowledge and frequently appears on Ted Talks to speak about technology and innovation. Read more
Randi Zuckerberg – Mentor for Entrepreneurs, Author, Businesswomen, Investor, Lead of Zuckerburg Media
The sister of Facebook’s co-founder and CEO, Randi Zuckerberg, is the company’s former spokesperson. She is a businesswoman, an investor, a celebrated author, and even an Emmy nominee. At present, Randi leads the Zuckerberg media, which supports and mentors and startup entrepreneurship. The multi-tasker also hosts a radio show that airs weekly on Sirius XM. Her best-seller book ‘DOT’ was transformed into a blockbuster pre-school television show.
Randi was also nominated twice for Tony-award and won as the producer of Oklahoma and Hadestown. She speaks fluent English and travels the world to talk about Blockchain technologies, entrepreneurship, and balancing life and work. Read more
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