Keynote

Aileen Axtmayer

Aileen Axtmayer is a Wellbeing Speaker and Career Coach. As an expert on stress and burnout, over the past 15+ years Aileen has helped thousands of people restore their energy and do more of what they love through keynotes, workshops, and coaching. Aileen has been included in The Boston Globe, Yahoo Finance, and examples of past clients include Harvard T. Chan School of Public Health, America’s Test Kitchen, and Akamai Technologies.

Aileen earned her bachelor’s in psychology from Villanova University and master’s in counseling from Northeastern University. She complemented these studies with a 200-hour yoga teacher training, Integrative Nutrition Health Coaching certification, and Meditation and Breath Coach trainings. She lives in Natick with her husband, their 5-year-old daughter, and their eldest ‘child,’ Buster, an English Cream Golden Retriever. If you’re interested in bringing Aileen into your company or event as a speaker, head to her website www.aspirewithaileen.com to learn more.

Keynote

Glenda Carnate

When her son was diagnosed with autism at two (2) years old, much like any other parents, she struggled with finding information and the right care. There is no roadmap, no smart assistant, and information is so limited/not easily accessible. With this fire in her heart, that there has to be a better way, autism health was born.

With decades-long deep experience in customer experience, automation, data, healthcare, responsible artificial intelligence, and her DNA that ‘everyone deserves to live a full life’, autism health, provides easy access to providers and autism-friendly places at your fingertips. In addition, it significantly reduces the search from months/weeks to literally minutes. With the proprietary care navigation assistant Pogi, caregivers will get help and suggestions throughout the autism journey. This empathetic assistant aims to reduce the pain, cognitive overload, and mental pain/angst caregivers go through from the pre/diagnosis moment, anxiety, finding care, and caring for their autism person. This is just the beginning- there is so much more assistive experience to come with this product.

In addition to being an authority on neurodiversity, AI/data, and 3x entrepreneur, Glenda is an award-winning multi-talented global executive primarily building and commercializing SaaS platforms end to end with revenue as high as $2B. She is a Wien International Scholar, has a Bachelors in Economics (and minors in Philosophy) from Brandeis University and MSc in Finance from New England College of Business & Finance. Coming from humble beginnings, she also mentors up and coming leaders, entrepreneurs, data scientists and serves as an advisor/board member to a number of non-profits. As her interest is vast, she speaks at events with audiences as large as >100K.

Comedian

Katie Arroyo

Katie Arroyo is a comedian who has performed throughout New England and featured in clubs in New York and Boston. She’s performed in the Boston Comedy Festival, the Rogue Island Festival and can be heard on Sirius XM. With an aggressive-good natured act, her varied life experiences have given her the ability to connect with any audience. Whether she’s explaining lesbian weddings or describing her dabbles in depression, it’ll be a good time.

Emcee

Gabriela Bello

Gabriela Bello serves as a project manager in the technology industry, where she has led various teams and driven successful outcomes in the ever-evolving technology landscape. Ms. Bello is fluent in five languages, enabling her to navigate cultural boundaries, fostering connections and understanding across different communities. She is an advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion and the power of effective communication. She marries her passion for language with her desire for a more equitable world, creating inclusive spaces where everyone’s voices are heard and respected. 

Goddess Award

Helen Lemoine

Helen Lemoine, now retired, served as the Executive Director of Leadership MetroWest from 2000-2023 and she is a 1993 alumna of the organization’s highly acclaimed flagship program, The MetroWest Leadership Academy, with 900+ alumni working and volunteering in the public, private, nonprofit and grassroots sectors.

She is a recipient of the prestigious “Athena Award,” a national award, given regionally, honoring women leaders who have achieved excellence in their profession, have inspired women to achieve their full potential, and have given back to the community in a meaningful way.

During her years at Leadership MetroWest, Helen was profiled in Common Wealth Magazine as one of eight prominent “civic connectors” in Massachusetts — people with ties to many sectors and networks in the community — who promote civic culture and collaboration.

In 2016 Helen received the inaugural “Women Making History Now” award from Framingham State University. The award honors six women each year who are having a powerful impact on their communities today. In 2023 Helen received the Citizen Laureate award from Framingham State University and she received the Commonwealth Heroines of Massachusetts award from the MA Commission on the Status of Women, nominated by Senate President Karen Spilka.

Helen serves her community in many volunteer capacities and in the past has served on boards including the MetroWest Chamber of Commerce, the MW YMCA, Amazing Things Arts Center, Framingham History Center. Currently she is a corporator for Middlesex Savings Bank and board member for the MW ESL Fund at Framingham Adult ESL Plus. She served as an elected member of the Framingham Planning Board for three terms from 1995-2004 and as an appointed member of Framingham’s Historic District Commission from 2008-2018.

Helen Lemoine is a 1974 summa cum laude graduate of Boston University’s School of Communication. Her retirement gives Helen more time for her longtime avocation and new business venture, genealogy.