Johanna Zeilstra

Johanna is an established business strategist and an accomplished leader for both start-ups and global corporations. Over the past two decades, she has worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers and JPMorgan Chase, and with over a dozen client corporations, including Delta Air Lines, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Philips, Lucent, Bank of America, and Occidental Petroleum. Her career has led her to work in Canada, China, Indonesia, France, The Netherlands, Mexico and across the USA. She is an executive coach to female CEOs and entrepreneurs and serves as a Global Ambassador for the SmartWoman Project, leveraging her passion for advancing women and girls. She has been featured in Fortune Magazine for her work on integrating faith in the workplace. Recently, she launched a site called The Women’s Debate (www.womensdebate.org) to encourage presidential candidates to focus on issues that specifically pertain to women during the 2016 presidential debates. Prior to that, Johanna co-founded GiveBack, an innovative platform that makes it easy for companies to build authentic and impactful cause marketing, workplace giving and other social responsibility initiatives. GiveBack was launched on the Oprah Winfrey Show during her final season in 2011. Johanna is originally from the Netherlands and educated in Canada where she earned an undergraduate degree in Sociology and a Masters degree in Business Administration. She resides in Westchester, NY, with her husband, David Kidder, and 3 boys, where she runs the Women Entrepreneurs Network and serves on several boards, including the CEO Forum.