Samantha is the founder of Empower Global, and a facilitator for Korn Ferry and the NeuroLeadership Institute. She has trained over 1800 people leaders from 35 countries on inclusive leadership, women’s leadership and other DEI topics. She is deeply passionate about fostering social impact and cultivating empathetic, purposeful, visionary leaders. She has trained people leaders at companies like Deloitte, Fidelity Investments, RB, Amazon, Coldwell Bankers, and more. Samantha developed and teaches a transformational leadership program, The Women’s Leadership Challenge, for women leaders from across multiple sectors to learn how to step into their power, lead for the future, and create institutional change. The program now boasts 80+ alums from 18 countries, who are women leaders in aerospace, defense, government, nonprofits, technology, finance, and international organizations. She also runs women’s leadership accelerators for companies. Formerly, Samantha was in senior positions at Silicon Valley and NYC tech startups, managed the women’s issues portfolio at The US Embassy in Bosnia & Herzegovina, and led global engagement for Ashoka. She regularly speaks at conferences about tech for good, women’s leadership, and DEI. She has lived and worked in the Czech Republic, Peru, Bosnia, and Spain, and hosts a youtube show on global politics from a feminist lens, Samanthropolitics. Samantha has been published in New America, Conscious Company Magazine, the Washington Post, The Times of Israel, and beyond. She is a regular guest on podcasts speaking about leadership and women’s issues. Samantha received a master’s degree in international relations with a focus on conflict resolution and gender analysis from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. She has also studied at Yale University, The Harvard Kennedy School, and the Harvard School of Education. She is trained in mediation and speaks Spanish. Samantha is working on a book about Feminist Leadership, and is a TEDx speaker.