Linda P. Fried, M.D., M.P.H., served as Dean of Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health from 2008 to 2025, where she transformed public health education and research for the 21st Century to be committed to creating the knowledge to solve the health challenges of the future and is interdisciplinary. Of the many leaders she recruited, 8 became Deans, Vice Provosts and university Presidents.
An epidemiologist and geriatrician, she is globally recognized for science that has defined frailty as a medical syndrome and for creating a novel senior volunteer program, Experience Corps, to enable older adults to support children in public elementary schools succeeding academically while promoting the volunteers’ health. She led the creation of the National Academy of Medicine’s 2022 Global Roadmap for Healthy Longevity, and works globally to implement what she has proposed, a Third Demographic Dividend.
Prior to 2008 Dr. Fried was the Director of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. Dr. Fried is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including being named by France as a Chevalier de La Legion d’Honneur.
Dr. Kalman received her bachelor’s degree in history and art history from the University of Pennsylvania and medical degree from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She performed all her clinical training (internal medicine residency, chief medical residency, clinical cardiology, advanced heart failure) at Mount Sinai, New York. She has also completed a physician leadership course at the Health Management Academy and a health care delivery executive program at the Harvard University School of Business. Dr. Kalman began her professional career as an academic cardiologist, directing clinical and research heart failure programs at Beth Israel Medical Center, Tisch Hospital at New York University, and Mount Sinai Medical Center. In addition to her outstanding clinical skills and dedication to patients, Dr. Kalman was tremendously effective in organizing and galvanizing clinical, research, and administrative programs focused on the needs of complex patients with advanced heart failure.
She came to Northwell Health in 2014 as associate medical director of Long Island Jewish Medical Center and the North Shore LIJ Health System. She then moved to Lenox Hill Hospital as medical director (2015-2018) and was also the health system’s medical director of patient experience (2016-2021). In 2018, Dr. Kalman became executive director of Lenox Hill Hospital and showed exemplary leadership during the pandemic.
In 2021, she was appointed chief medical officer and deputy physician-in-chief at Northwell Health. Dr. Kalman is truly a visionary leader, a champion of excellence, innovator, and a strategic mind. She is a professor of cardiology at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell.
She is a well-recognized, highly respected national health care trailblazer and has helped put Northwell on the national map in many areas, including innovation, AI, patient experience, women’s health, physician wellness, crisis management, and effective change.
Dr. Kalman has received Modern Healthcare Top Women Leaders Award, the Long Island Herald Excellence in Healthcare Award, chaired the American Heart Association's Go Red Campaign, and been recognized by Becker's as a Chief Medical Officer to Know and by Reuters as one of Healthcare's Trailblazing Women.
Chelsea Clinton is an advocate, storyteller, investor, mentor, teacher, and most importantly, mom to her three kids. As vice chair of the Clinton Foundation, Chelsea works alongside the Foundation’s leadership and partners to improve global health and wellness, increase opportunity for girls and women, create economic opportunity and growth, and inspire emerging leaders across the United States and around the world. A longtime public health advocate, Chelsea also serves as vice chair of the Clinton Health Access Initiative and uses her platform to increase awareness around issues such as vaccine hesitancy, childhood obesity, and health equity. In addition to her Foundation work, Chelsea is the co-founder of Metrodora Ventures, she teaches at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and has written several books for young adults and readers including the #1 New York Times bestselling She Persisted. Chelsea holds a Bachelor of Arts from Stanford, a Master of Public Health from Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health, and both a Master of Philosophy and a Doctorate in international relations from Oxford University.
Elizabeth Coplan spent 45 years in marketing, building brands, leading strategy, and driving growth before choosing not to slow down but to pivot. In “retirement,” she became an award-winning playwright, producer, and founder of Grief Dialogues, a national arts movement that transforms life transitions into purposeful action. Her work sits at the intersection of storytelling, entrepreneurship, theater, and social impact. With candor and humor, she challenges outdated narratives about aging and invites women to claim retirement as a powerful second act fueled by experience, agency, and unapologetic ambition. Her Off-Broadway play, TIL Death, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in Drama.
While serving as a NYC High School teacher, Rochelle took a night school class with Milton
Glaser and got a job as an assistant art director at the newly formed New York Magazine;
became part of Gloria Steinem’s team that started Ms. Served as Art Director of Harper’s
Bazaar, Vogue, House & Garden, Esquire, Editor-in-Chief of SELF, President and Founder of
Calvin Klein Advertising and Conde Net and Epicurious, EVP Creative Director at Revlon.
Recipient of the Matrix Award, Society of Publications Designer’s Hall of Fame and Art
Directors Club awards.
Mother of two responsible citizens and grandmother of two very busy
children.
Today, she is researching and writing an inclusive historical timeline of her local Village
of Ossining and works as an End of Life Doula in her community.
Myrna Blyth is and an editor and writer. Most recently, she was the Senior Vice President and Editorial Director of AARP Media, overseeing AARP The Magazine, the largest circulation magazine in the world, the AARP Bulletin, website, and book department. Previously she was Editor-in-Chief and Publishing Director of Ladies’ Home Journal for over twenty years. She was also founding Editor-in-Chief and Publishing Director of More Magazine. She is now publishing a Substack: Editor’s Journal by Myrna Blyth.
Ms. Blyth is also an author and has written many articles and short stories for various publications including New York and The New Yorker, as well as two novels. Her novels were both Literary Guild alternate selections. Her first non-fiction book, “Spin Sisters,” about the effect media has on American women was published by St. Martin’s Press and was a New York Times bestseller.
Ms. Blyth’s many awards include being named Advertising Age magazine’s “Publishing Executive of the Year” and receiving the “Women of Achievement” award from the New York City Commission on the Status of Women. She received the Magazine Publishers of America’s Henry Johnson Fisher Award, the industry’s highest honor
She also was an official American delegate for the UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing and Chairman of the President’s Commission on White House Fellows.
At 71, she's living proof that reinvention has no expiration date. Divorced over 30 years and happily single, she launched her third career at 50 and built a thriving real estate practice. A 2023 vacation to St. Croix, USVI changed everything — she knew instantly it was home. With her team in trusted hands, she got licensed in the USVI and is relocating in 2027 to ease into semi-retirement on her own terms. Tennis, Pilates Reformer, lifelong learning, and an obsession with healthy aging keep her sharp and energized. She's never been happier — and she's just getting started.
Vivia Chen is the creator of the Ex-Careerist column on Substack where she writes about the intersection of work, life and politics. A former lawyer turned journalist, she was an opinion columnist at Bloomberg and The American Lawyer.
Vivia’s writing offers an insider's view of the workplace. She starts with the premise that work is central to our lives but that it’s a fraught relationship, particularly for women and people of color. Readers describe her writing as “honest,” “infuriating,” and “fabulously grumpy.”
Vivia has won several awards for her writing, including accolades from The Jesse H. Neal Awards, The Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW), The American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE), and the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ).
Vivia is also a frequent speaker and moderator at law firms, corporations, law schools, and professional organizations. Among the topics she’s covered: women and minorities in the profession, the gender gap, business development, DEI, leadership, and the future of the profession.
Born in Taiwan, Vivia was raised in Houston. She graduated from Williams College and New York University School of Law. She resides in New York City.
Kristen has overall responsibility for delivering tailored financial strategies to working professionals within the legal, asset management, and professional services industries.
Prior to this, Kristen served as Head of Investment Solutions for Citi Global Wealth. In this role, she was responsible for leading our investments business globally, serving all our clients across Citi Global Wealth. This included delivering the entirety of our Investment product offering including performance, innovation, development, platform and sales.
Kristen has spent over two decades in the industry leading teams at Citi, Credit Suisse and JP Morgan. A fluent Spanish speaker, Kristen has extensive experience covering clients globally and speaks regularly in the media and at industry conferences, presenting in both English and Spanish.
Kristen holds a BA in Economics and Spanish Language & Literature from the University of Notre Dame (summa cum laude) and an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.
Jaime Magyera, Senior Managing Director, is Head of BlackRock's U.S. Wealth Advisory (USWA) business, Head of BlackRock’s Retirement business, and a member of the firm’s Global Executive Committee.
As Head of USWA, she is responsible for leading BlackRock's relationships with wealth management firms and platforms, including some of the largest and fastest growing financial advisors in the U.S. Her USWA team distributes BlackRock's alpha-seeking, iShares, and private markets solutions and drives adoption of BlackRock's portfolio construction, personalized solutions, and digital wealth technologies.
As Head of Retirement, she is focused on accelerating BlackRock’s retirement efforts and initiatives, working with leaders across the firm and the broader industry in a joint ambition to deliver the financial security needed for Americans to enjoy better, longer lives.
Prior to her current roles, Jaime served as Co-Head of USWA from 2023-2025, and as Chief Operating Officer for USWA from 2019-2022. As COO of USWA, she was responsible for overseeing business strategy, as well as ensuring that the organization, including its client, distribution, product, marketing, and technology functions, had the necessary connectivity, operations, and resources to enable growth, manage risk, and drive scale and efficiency.
Previously, Jaime led National Accounts for USWA where she and her team were responsible for strategy, relationship management, and development for some of BlackRock's largest clients. Jaime was also previously head of Retirement Marketing at BlackRock. Jaime’s service with the firm dates back to 2001, including her years with Merrill Lynch Investment Managers, which merged with BlackRock in 2006.
Over the course of her career, Jaime has held various roles in Retirement, Marketing, Strategy, and Technology. Jaime is a member of the Board of Directors for iCapital. She earned a BA from the University of Pennsylvania.
Sally Susman is an advisor, advocate and author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller Breaking Through (Harvard Business Review Press).
After four decades in business and government, Susman recently transitioned from her role as Chief Corporate Affairs Officer at Pfizer to pursue independent ventures with companies, projects and people aligned with her passions and purpose.
She enjoys helping organizations grow and create value and continues to serve on the boards of UL Solutions (NYSE: ULS) and the Pfizer Foundation. She recently joined the board of FGS Global, a strategic advisory communications consultancy, and (effective May 1), the board of Flutter Entertainment (NYSE: FLUT), an entertainment technology company.
Earlier in her career, Susman served in the Clinton Administration and worked on Capitol Hill. She remains active in supporting candidates and causes that promote innovation and advance civil rights.
Alongside her professional work, she is deeply engaged in creative pursuits, including multiple writing projects, and serves on the board of The Church, a nonprofit dedicated to fostering creativity and honoring the living history of Sag Harbor as a maker village.
Prior to founding Lustre, Erica practiced law for four decades, becoming the first woman partner in the General Counsel’s Office of Price Waterhouse (subsequently PwC). Before retiring, Erica was Deputy General Counsel of PwC, where she was happily involved in some of the high profile financial reporting issues and corporate investigations of the day in the U.S. and globally. Erica serves on the National Board of Friends of the Children, a non-profit providing full-time paid mentors to disadvantaged children from kindergarten through high school. She is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University and the New York University School of Law. She is married, has one lovely daughter, and lives in Manhattan.
Karen also practiced law for four decades, becoming the first woman litigation partner at a global Wall Street law firm. She litigated cases involving international insolvency and all kinds of financial dislocation, and she loved every minute of it. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, and New York University School of Law. She lives in lower Manhattan with her husband, and is the proud mother of twin children who are now twenty-seven.
