2025 Women's Leadership Summit (WLS)

Jeremy Wortman

With a strong passion for and a commitment to the positive development of individuals and organizations, Jeremy Wortman is the Owner of HRD Initiatives, which specializes in leadership development, organizational development and talent management solutions. In this capacity, he works with client partners’ executive teams in determining talent management strategies, building organizational culture and leadership talent, implementing solutions and coaching individual leaders. 

Jeremy has more than twenty-two years of experience in organization and leadership development with a significant and meaningful amount of his time, early in his career, at TD Ameritrade where he was the Director of Organizational Effectiveness and their Corporate Psychologist. There, he was responsible for enterprise-wide talent management initiatives where he partnered with senior executives across the organization to determine business unit and department-level talent management strategies and solutions that drove their performance goals. He was also responsible for building their leadership development programs and coaching executives. He has extensive knowledge of organizational psychology and has had great success in developing strategies and programs that build better individuals and organizations using a strengths-based approach. 

Jeremy has also focused his expertise within the accounting profession since 2004. He is a frequent speaker at various Regional, National and International conferences on the topics of Ethical Decision-Making, Leadership Development and Talent Management. As a consultant to the profession his clients include a range of small firms to the top ten largest in the United States, many of whom are found on the Accounting Today’s Best Firms to Work for list. 

Jeremy attended the University of Nebraska where he earned his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior, Leadership and Organizational Development as well as a Masters in Business Administration. He holds undergraduate degrees in Economics and Human Resources. Jeremy is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and the Academy of Management. He is also active in his local community as the former President of the Young Alumni Board for the College of Business Administration at the University of Nebraska, where he was also an adjunct professor from 1999 to 2016.

Lisa Rigoli

Lisa Rigoli, founder of Element of Change, helps organizations stabilize and thrive during transitions. Her journey took an unexpected turn when her own role was eliminated, shifting her perspective and inspiring her to create a firm dedicated to building trust, reducing turnover, and empowering leaders to navigate change with resilience and authenticity. With 15+ years of HR and leadership experience, Lisa blends practical expertise with a human-centered approach, ensuring leaders feel equipped and supported through every phase of transformation.

Her tagline, “Uniting Teams during Corporate Transitions,” reflects her focus on creating cultures where teams feel valued, heard, and motivated to collaborate. Lisa’s work emphasizes that resilience isn’t built in crisis but before it. She helps organizations establish a foundation of trust and communication, ensuring both leaders and teams can thrive, even in uncertain times.

Driven by a passion for fostering strong connections, Lisa partners with organizations to focus on people, not just processes. By addressing challenges with clarity and compassion, she helps leaders and teams build lasting success through alignment and collaboration.

Billie Woodard

As the National Director of Education & Training at Risk Strategies, Billie Woodard is dedicated to developing engaging and impactful programs that foster continuous learning, enhance expertise, and strengthen client relationships across the employee benefits practice. Billie holds a SHRM-CP and is a True Colors Certified Facilitator. She is passionate about uplifting women and girls and serves as a Troop Leader for Girl Scouts of Southeast Florida, a mentor for Women of Tomorrow, and a mentor for Women In Healthcare’s 2025 Ment.Her.Ship program, and is an active member of the Junior League of Martin County. She is also a graduate of Leadership Florida’s Connect Class 14.

John Muller

John Muller leads Risk Strategies' Human Capital Advisory Services team. The goal is to connect our team of advisors and consultants with organizations and HR teams to further their HCM goals. With decades of industry experience and knowledge behind the team, John has built an offering that supports and enhances HR teams by introducing industry best practices and innovative ways to solve Human Capital issues.

John earned a Bachelor's in Business Administration majoring in Business Management and Organizational Development from the University of Miami and a MBA from Florida Atlantic University. He holds his SPHR and SHRM-SCP as well as becoming a certified Predictive Index Analyst and True Colors Certified Facilitator. John is also a graduate of Leadership Florida's Cornerstone 40 class (XLerators).

Beth Conlin

Beth Conlin is a business strategy leader with over 20 years of experience driving workforce development, corporate stewardship, and relationship management priorities across the automotive, financial services, and manufacturing industries, and non-profit policy institutes. Future-oriented and innovative, Beth is renowned for uniting C-suite executives, stakeholders, and clients to deliver multimillion-dollar, industry-disrupting solutions to complex challenges. She is also a public policy expert and vigorous advocate for military families, acting as an author, speaker, and sought-after advisor to Capitol Hill. 

In her current role leading strategic initiatives, Beth drives Amazon’s innovation efforts, strengthens relationships with key customers and partners, and manages both internal and external C-suite engagement to maximize output and growth. Her creation of the pan-Amazon Executive Engagement Strategy yielded over $4 billion in revenue in its first year. Leveraging her expertise on the intersection of business and government, Beth drove development of Amazon’s positions on several key public tax and workforce issues, including the White House’s Joining Forces initiative. A military spouse herself and a trusted expert on the Status of Forces Agreement, Beth is passionate about knocking down barriers for DoD families. She belongs to several DoD and White House working groups, and is an advisor to Blue Star Families and MilitarySpouseJobs.org, as well as Chair of the Military Spouse Chamber of Commerce. She holds an MBA from Chaminade University of Honolulu and a BS from the University of Idaho. When she isn’t charging hard as an executive or advocate, she indulges in travel, food tourism, and skiing. She and her family currently reside in Columbus, Georgia.

Angelia Brown

Angie Brown is a PCC-certified Executive Leadership Coach and Organizational Facilitator with over 35 years of experience in leadership development, team effectiveness, and strategic culture change. Her career began in Human Resources and evolved into senior nonprofit leadership, where she discovered her passion for coaching and collaboration.

She has worked with leaders across industries—including healthcare, compliance, cybersecurity, and mission-driven organizations—to strengthen emotional intelligence, lead with authenticity, and drive results. Certified in Appreciative Inquiry, DiSC®, and The 5 Behaviors®, she brings a strengths-based, practical approach to leadership and organizational growth.

Through tools like 360 Leadership Assessments and Neuro Coaching, she helps executives gain insight, build trust, and take focused action. Known for her grounded presence and strategic mindset, Angie empowers leaders to transform with clarity, purpose, and lasting impact.

Kathryn Horton

Kathryn Horton is President of Kathryn Horton CPA PA and is an industry leader in the use of data analytics, specifically using Caseware IDEA. Kathryn was the recipient of the 2017 North America IDEA User of Excellence Award. She was a featured speaker at the 2018 and 2020 National IDEA User Conference and has presented on data analytics to both regional and national audiences, including the 2021 Annual Conference for the Institute of Management Accountants. Kathryn was recognized as a 2020 and 2019 National 40 Under 40 Honoree by CPA Practice Advisor, and is a current Board Member for the Florida Institute of CPAs (FICPA). Kathryn was awarded the 2020 Emerging Leader Woman to Watch by the FICPA, is a graduate of the 2020 Florida TaxWatch Citizenship Institute and was selected as a participant for the 2021 AICPA Leadership Academy. She is an active volunteer with Habitat for Humanity, Covenant House, HANDY, Project Downtown Fort Lauderdale and Firewall Centers.

Tracy Hancock

Genevieve Hancock, CPA is a highly-skilled technical accountant, currently employed with one of the largest public insurance brokerages for U.S. GAAP and ICFR compliance specifically supporting the largest accounting change in modern history around Revenue Recognition, with extensive experience in technical accounting research, contract structuring, accounting policy creation, and implementation of operational functions, controls, documentation, and processes for large accounting changes. Her background includes industry experience in Controllership for a Fortune 50 company, Big 4 and Big 6 assurance and audit experience across industries, mainly concentrating on complex financial markets, media and entertainment, technology, and consumer and industrial products and services.

Cristina Osgood

As the BDO USA Central Florida Tax Practice Leader, Cristina Hale manages all aspects of the tax practice for the firm's Tampa and Orlando offices.  Cristina has more than 20 years of experience providing partnership and corporate tax services to clients in the Real Estate, Private Equity and SAAS space.  

Cristina received both a Masters of Science in Taxation and Bachelor's Degree in Accounting from the University of Miami.  She is a Certified Public Accountant in both Florida and Virginia and a member of the AICPA and FICPA.

In her free time, Cristina enjoys giving back to the community and is a regular volunteer with Habitat for Humanity and Feeding Tampa Bay as well as sitting on the Boards of Big Brothers Big Sisters Tampa Bay and Habitat for Humanity Hillsborough.  Cristina is also a proud graduate of the Leadership Tampa Bay Class of 2021.  She was chosen as an honoree for both the Tampa Bay Business Journal Business Woman of the Year and 40 under 40 in 2022, won the Tampa Bay Business & Wealth magazine Business Services category for the 2024 Women Who Win program and was chosen by the Florida Institute of CPA's as the 2024 Experienced Leader Women to Watch.