Marisa Santoro Corporate Speaker from New York City, NY

Former Wall Street IT executive, Marisa is a keynote speaker for motivational women's leadership, professional development and author events. She is also a corporate leadership trainer, diversity and inclusion consultant, and leading business author of "Own Your Authority" (McGraw Hill). Her expertise in leadership and professional development, as well as effective business communication, has been brought in to support business leaders across clients in diverse industries such as Merck, American Express, UBS, Anheuser-Busch, Allianz Global Investors, Sony Music, S&P Global, Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) Aetna, NYU and many more. She is a TEDx speaker, and honoree of the Woman of Influence award from New York Business Journals and BizWomen.com for her years of mentoring and coaching midcareer leaders, executives, healthcare professionals, and sales leaders to achieve higher levels of influence. She also writes a career column for American City Business Journals, covering their how-to career and business strategy sections, with articles published across 44 cities in the United States. Her TED talk, “Speaking Without Apology,” guides on how to detach from language that feeds into the “Sorry Syndrome” and make subtle tweaks in your speech to springboard you from diluting your value to spotlighting your assets immediately.