KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Join us in Making the Impossible Possible on April 24th, 2025

TICKETS

Lisa Nichols

2025 Keynote Speaker

Thursday, April 24, 2025, the Executive Board for the Bakersfield Women’s Business Conference welcomes one of the world’s most-requested motivational speakers, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Motivating the Masses Inc, Lisa Nichols as the keynote speaker.

LISA NICHOLS is one of the world’s most-requested speakers, media personality, and corporate CEO whose global platform reaches over 170 countries and serves over 80 million people. Lisa’s social media reach is over 2.4 million followers.

As Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Motivating the Masses, Inc., Lisa has helped develop workshops and programs that have transformed thousands of businesses, and the lives of entrepreneurs. As a result of her training, her students become unforgettable speakers, best-selling authors, and 6 and 7-figure entrepreneurs.

Lisa’s extraordinary story of transforming her own life from public assistance to leading a multi-million-dollar enterprise is the inspiration behind her bold mission to teach others that it is possible to do the same. Today, fans worldwide revere Lisa for her mastery of teaching people how to accomplish unfathomable goals and tap their limitless potential.

Opening Speaker

Dr. Shree Walker

As a young woman growing up in a poverty-stricken single parent home, Dr. Shree Walker refused to be a victim of circumstance. Being the eldest of six children and the backbone of her family, she has been faced with many obstacles. Without any heroes to look to, she had to become her own. Dr. Walker was determined not to live as a victim or a statistic. Dr. Walker is an author, educator and motivational speaker who will provide excellent professional development for life learners. She can relate to other survivors through the pain, the courage, the conquering, and the reality that there is a life after the pain. Dr. Walker is sunshine in a hurricane and came to this planet to change the world.

Dr. Shree Walker is the founder of Resilient Walker and the Director of Strategic Leadership Development for Five Keys Programs and Schools. She formerly served as the Director of Special Education and Special Education Local Plan Area (SELPA) in Los Angeles County and as the Director of Section 504 and Special Populations for Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools in Nashville, Tennessee. She also served as an Adjunct Professor at Belmont University and served on the leadership committee for the Sexual Assault Center, Nashville Tennessee.

Dr. Walker utilizes practical resolutions to support diverse learners and develops policies and procedures to ensure students have improved educational outcomes, educational stability, minimal disruptions, and endless possibilities. She received a Doctorate of Curriculum and Instruction from Tennessee State University, Education Specialist of Administration and Supervision from Tennessee State University, a Master of Special Education from Lipscomb University, and a Bachelor of Arts in History from Fisk University. Dr. Walker participated in a Public Education Leadership Project with Harvard University and published her first book, Resilient Walker (2018).

Dr. Sheree Walker