Speakers

Sheryl Raphael Whitaker, MBA, is a Leadership Expert and #1 Amazon Best Selling author of It Starts with Joy: The Inner Shift that Changes Everything. As Founder & CEO of EdenAnthony LLC, she helps leaders and teams move from disconnection and overload to clarity, integrity, and alignment through her JoyShift™ Method and signature philosophy, Joy is my COO™. Often described as “The Joy Whisperer,” Sheryl’s conviction that leadership begins with protecting joy traces back to a defining childhood moment—later echoed throughout her corporate career—where she learned how quickly dignity can be dismissed and how essential it is to lead with humanity. Sheryl spent more than three decades in senior leadership roles at State Farm, AutoOne Insurance, AIG, and USAA before launching EdenAnthony, named in honor of her late father. She serves on the Executive Board of TEDxSouthlake and lives in New Jersey with her husband, Dwayne, and their pup, Bella.