Taking Care of Business Conference

Main Stage Speaker

Donna Orender

Donna Orender is a nationally recognized business leader, speaker, and CEO of Orender Unlimited. She served as President of the WNBA, where she led significant business growth and expanded the league's reach across media and sponsorship, and spent 17 years as a senior executive with the PGA TOUR, shaping global media and strategic development.

Donna is also the founder of Generation W, a platform dedicated to educating, inspiring, and connecting women and girls, and author of the best-selling book WOWsdom! celebrating leadership and possibility. She has been named one of the top 10 Most Powerful Women in Sports and one of Newsweek's 100 Most Influential People in Sports.

Donna speaks nationwide on leadership, innovation, and personal growth—bringing insights from her experiences at the intersection of sports, business, and community impact.

Dr. Shawn DuBravac

Dr. Shawn DuBravac is a futurist, best-selling author, and former chief economist of the Consumer Technology Association (CTA). A widely recognized authority on technology, economics, and finance, he is known for using emerging trends to forecast major shifts across industries. His insights have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Financial Times, and on CNN and MSNBC.

During his time at CTA, DuBravac advised industry leaders on economic trends and the future of technology, while also helping develop key industry indices in partnership with organizations like NASDAQ and CNET.

He is the author of Digital Destiny: How the New Age of Data Will Transform the Way We Work, Live, and Communicate and has taught in MBA programs at George Washington University, George Mason University, and the University of Mary Washington. He previously served as a research analyst in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division and holds degrees from Brigham Young University and George Mason University.