Speaking Up for Workplace Equality & Gender Parity

Keynote Speaking

Teresa Freeborn is a dynamic speaker and bold advocate for women's leadership, known for turning ideas into revolutions. With sharp insight and humor, she challenges the status quo and inspires action—empowering women and enlightening the men who want to be part of real change.

Speaking Topics

Guys, you're stepping on our skirts:

How and why men are preventing women from attaining corporate power.

Women and the bottom line:

How women make businesses more profitable. That’s a fact.

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What People are Saying

A powerful reminder of the responsibility we all have, especially those currently in power, to challenge the status quo.

B. Martinez President & CEO
Redwood Credit Union

A welcome fresh addition to any corporation’s DEI initiatives and not from another man but from a woman.

R. Cruickshank Counsel
Dentons

I have witnessed Teresa deliver dozens of speeches with a mixture of candor, honesty and passion, which is now accompanied by the gravitas that comes from having enjoyed a string of career successes.

C. Willard President & CEO
Cornerstone Credit Union League

Teresa is more than an incredibly gifted speaker; she has mastered the ability to share her energy in such a way that you'll find yourself wanting to join her in a chorus of evangelism to change the world. Teresa captures a room's attention as an educator, subject matter expert, and motivator by creating the opportunity to ignite curiosity and empowerment.

C. Lorence Executive Director
CU Awareness

Dynamic, powerful, inspirational are just a few ways to describe Teresa Freeborn as she brings clarity to the many battles women face attaining leadership roles in business, and more importantly, the practical steps needed to create equity, parity, and equality in c-suites and board rooms in corporate America.

D. Dykstra President & CEO
California Credit Union League

About Teresa

Teresa Freeborn is a published author with over four decades of finance experience across Canada and the U.S., earning a reputation as a dynamic leader, trusted advisor, and powerful agent of change. For 16 years, she served as CEO of a major financial institution, gaining deep, firsthand insight into corporate power dynamics. Beyond her many successes in financial services, Teresa also plays an active role in Smash+Tess, a clothing company she Chairs and co-founded in 2014 with her daughter Ashely.

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#GameOn

After decades of shamefully slow progress in the advancement of women, it’s game on.

Suits and Skirts: Game On!

The Battle for Corporate Power

Suits and Skirts is different than other books on this subject because it is a successful woman CEO speaking directly to the men blocking women’s corporate advancement. This no-holds-barred discussion will ruffle many feathers. Now, Teresa Freeborn is demanding men immediately reevaluate their behavior and become women’s advocates instead of adversaries. Freeborn is calling men out and demanding change.

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