JENNIFER IANNOLO

Jennifer is a global speaker and empowerment catalyst. A lifelong entrepreneur, she is the founder and CEO of IMPERIATM, an innovation incubator focused on women creating social impact projects around the globe. IMPERIA brings together women from 195 countries to develop their leadership and provide a strong sense of community, with programming based on Jennifer’s methodology of Self-Directed EmpowermentTM . She recently published No One is Coming: An empowerment manifesto, to illustrate how one can become one’s own renewable, sustainable source of power. Jennifer speaks on this and entrepreneurship at venues from the United Nations to Harvard University,  and corporate headquarters like Konica Minolta . Jennifer is a featured speaker on women’s entrepreneurship for the U.S. State Department,  which has sent her on tours throughout India and Nepal. When she’s not on stage, Jennifer is at IMPERIA’s headquarters atop the World Trade Center, where she and her team have dedicated themselves to building resilient female leaders, including the recent $1M winner of the WeWork Creator Awards Global Finals . Jennifer is a graduate of the Stern School of Business at NYU, and lives in NYC.  

Evan Wei-Haas