Hattie Hill

A senior executive and transformational leader, Hattie Hill has spent more than 30 years championing women in leadership while developing successful strategies to empower and elevate women in corporations, nonprofits and foundations across 70 countries. Currently, Hattie Hill serves as the President & CEO of the T.D. Jakes Foundation, which provides the skills, education and training to lift communities and power the modern global economy through STEAM. Ms. Hill is leading those efforts through a $100 million fundraising campaign while utilizing her experience and the reach of founder and chairman T.D. Jakes, with more than 22 million followers across the social media landscape and more than 1.5 billion collective social media impressions over the last year alone, to connect people with opportunities. Previously, Ms. Hill was President & CEO of Women’s Foodservice Forum (WFF), the premier leadership development organization for the food service industry accelerating the advancement of women and gender equity. After taking the helm, she set a new direction that resulted in WFF increasing revenue by 25 percent and increasing membership by 20 percent. During her prior career as founder and CEO of Hattie Hill Enterprises, Ms. Hill served as a strategy growth and development consultant for multinational companies such as IBM, McDonald’s and Southwest Airlines.