Denise Brosseau is the CEO of Thought Leadership Lab where she works with entrepreneurs, executives and their teams on their thought leadership strategies -- how to increase their influence, build their brand, expand their impact & gain recognition for their innovations & big ideas. She is the author of the best-seller, Ready to Be a Thought Leader? (Wiley), and recently she was a lecturer at Stanford Business School on topics of credibility, influence and thought leadership. She also teaches 2 courses on thought leadership on LinkedIn Learning that have been viewed by more than 200K people around the world. 

As a professional speaker, keynote and workshop leader, Denise has had the opportunity to speak before tens of thousands of people worldwide, for companies (Microsoft, Google and Roche); conferences (Grace Hopper, Governor's Conferences), and organizations (Women in Optometry, ACNL). 

Denise is a certified executive coach with clients from many major tech, financial service and non-profit organizations and she leads group coaching sessions with C-suite women through Chief.com.

As a serial entrepreneur, Denise has served on the founding team of a number of world-class organizations. Most recently, she was the founding COO of Futuro Health, a non-profit working at the intersection of healthcare and workforce education and funded by Kaiser Permanente.

Denise has had a long-term commitment to advancing more women leaders to the top of every organization. In her past life, she was the founding CEO of the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs (now Watermark) and the co-founder of Springboard, the women's startup launch pad that has led to over $10B in capital for women entrepreneurs. She has taken that expertise to develop & lead women's leadership programs for Liberty Global, Nimble Storage, Gracenote and KPMG.

Denise was honored as a Champion of Change by the White House and recognized as one of the Top 100 Women of Influence in Silicon Valley by the SV Business Times. She serves on the board of TheatreWorks, a Bay Area regional theater that recently won the Tony Award and was the past Chair of the NARAL Silicon Valley Leadership Council and annual fundraiser. She is a longtime member of the International Women's Forum and the Wellesley Business Leadership Council.