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The Speaker
Felicia is a dynamic speaker and moderator that has spoken on stages locally, nationally and globally. In 2022 Felicia moderated the panel, the Rising Young Female Entrepreneur, interviewing the Winner of “The Apprentice UK'' Harpreet Kaur and several other influential women in the UK. Some of her most memorable speaking opportunities were with Dress For Success. She spoke has been invited back time and time again for the Worldwide Central’s Going Places Network and the Professional Women’s Group. She was also a panelist for their National Conference “Living The Dream.” Her first LIVE international speaking opportunity came in 2019 was for the A Woman’s Narrative one day event in Paris, France. She was a featured moderator and speaker for the Global Woman Summit in 2022 (live in London) and in 2020 (virtually in London) sharing the stage with the likes of Jack Canfield, author Chicken Soup for the Soul and Kim Kyosaki, wife to Robert, author of the all time best selling book in finance Rich Dad, Poor Dad.
Who is Felicia Shakespeare
Felicia Shakespeare is an award winning Global Speaker, a 5x Bestselling Author, Educator and Personal Brand Strategist. She is the Founder of A Purpose Driven Woman LLC which has successfully produced a podcast, conference series and a compilation book project. Felicia is the recipient of multiple prestigious awards; the Global Woman Honorary Award (2022) and the Global Woman Inspirational Award (2020), the FWD Award (For Women and Diversity, 2019) and the WNBA Chicago Sky’s Redefine Possible Women’s Leadership Award (2017-18). Other notable awards include:
Business Star, The Boss Network
Dream Entrepreneur Award, Dream Conference
Shining Example Award, Associated Colleges of Illinois
ICE Award (Impacting the Community through Education), Aurora School District
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CLIENT TESTIMONIALS
Mike Pritchard
Senior Vice President at Penske Truck Leasing
“Felicia presented a fantastic program designed to develop the meaning and motivation of personal branding to 30 of our aspiring female leaders. That 2 hour time with Felicia still resonates with the team as I constantly hear from those in attendance of the impact that her message provided. The passion, focus, and resilience of Felicia is not easily duplicated and provides an energetic spark to me each time I have the opportunity to come in contact with her."
Kathleen Quinn
CFO
"Felicia's ability to inspire students, faculty, and business partners to achieve greater outcomes is a result of her effective communications, collaborative work approach and productive relationships with senior leadership. Her delivered outcomes of this unique skill set are increased levels of brand awareness, higher customer satisfaction and measurable results for internal and external stakeholders. Additionally, her leadership of two separate events that I attended was exceptionally engaging for panelists and participants. She emanates joy and inclusiveness in all she does."
Lesley Martinez