Core Faculty and Speakers
In addition to the Program Directors, MCGL! tapped the talents of Middle Tennessee’s deep bench of women leaders and national experts in leadership development.
Core Faculty
Cathy Cate
Executive Director
Leadership Tennessee
Maura Cunningham
Founder and Executive Director
Rock the Street Wall Street
Aerial Ellis
Dept of Journalism & Communications
Lipscomb University
Sheila F. Gibson
Assist. Vice President of Acquisitions/Divestitures
HCA
Dr. Astrid Sheil
Dean
Byrd School of Business, Shenandoah University
Beverly Watts
Executive Director
Tennessee Human Rights Commission
A Few of Our Guest Speakers:
Jacky Akbari, Managing Principal, Worthington Advisory
Dr. Katherine Y. K. Brown, Founder and CEO, Learn CPR America
Shannon Carlisle, Teacher, Metro Nashville Public Schools
Agenia Clark, CEO of Girl Scouts of Middle Tennessee
Yolanda Harris-Jackson, Author, Speaker, Visionary Leader and Marriage Strategist, Live in Peace Ministries, LLC
Veronica A. Johnson, Vice President of Member Value, Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce
Dr. Phyllis Qualls, Assistant Vice President for Strategy & Institutional Advancement, American Baptist College
Deborah Taylor Tate, Director of TN Supreme Court Administrative Office of the Courts and former Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission
Monica Wentworth, Assistant Dean of Career Development, Lipscomb University