Meet Our 2026 Speakers
Founder & CEO, Silvering™ Beauty + The Silvering Sage App - Visionary in Pro-Silver Innovation
Alexis Eizinas
I founded Silvering™ Beauty with a simple but powerful belief: silver hair isn’t something to hide - it is a particular beauty to celebrate. Silvering was born out of a gap I saw in the market and experienced first-hand. It’s now a growing DTC brand redefining how women 45+ can experience beauty, powered by science-backed formulations designed specifically to amp up the beauty of silver, white, and gray hair. In 2025, I expanded that mission with The Silvering Sage App, a first-of-its-kind digital guide that supports women through the emotional and practical journey of growing out dyed hair. Think: a personalized coach, reflection journal, progress tracker, expert hub, and silver-hair try-on tool - delivered with compassion and backed by strategy.
Co-Founder, The Silvering Sage & Founder Color Me Silvery
Jineen Glover
As my natural gray grew in, I shared the process publicly and became one of the original Silver Haired influencers on Instagram. Over the years, I've built a vibrant, global community of women looking for representation, real talk, and tools to embrace aging on their own terms. My story has been featured in Oprah Magazine, and I've collaborated with beauty and wellness brands committed to authenticity and inclusivity. Now, as Co-Founder and Chief Marketing & Content Officer at The Silvering Sage App, I'm channeling my years of advocacy into something bigger: a unique personalized support platform for women growing out their dyed hair. With a background in psychology and a deep interest in what makes people tick, I approach everything I do with curiosity, compassion, and creativity. I believe that embracing our age is a radical act-and that beauty should reflect wisdom, not resist it.
Katie Goes Platinum, Blogger & YouTube
Katie Emery
Katie is the woman we've all come to know as KateieGoesPlatinum through her blog and YouTube channel where she encourages women to take a fresh perspective on what it means to embrace your gray. In February 2018, at age 50, Katie decided she'd had ENOUGH! She just couldn’t bear the thought of spending any more money and any more time trying to hide her natural hair color. To her surprise, the minute she decided to stop hiding her age, she felt so liberated that it has changed her outlook on life in general. She'll tell you that going gray was one of the best life decisions she's ever made – it unlocked her creativity, jump-started her new career, and has made her 50s an absolute blast! As one of the most loved Gray hair bloggers (We belieive the first) she provides knowledge and wisdom for women looking to become dyefree for them selves.
Speaker, Coach - Mind & Body Connection
Tracy Revell
Tracy brings a powerful blend of grounded authenticity and playful energy to the stage. She inspires audiences with real-world wisdom and heartfelt stories, while delivering practical tools they can use immediately. Eqaul parts motivational and relatable, Tracy's presence leaves people feeling energized, empowered, and at home in themselves, ready yo move thorugh the world with confidence.
She'll be bringing the science of Presence, Power, and Grace to move with Power,Lead with Presence to our Leading Ladies theme this year.
LinkedIn expert, AI strategist, and creator of VIOS
Viveka Von Rosen
Get Seen for the Thing You're Promoting Right Now
When you look at the people doing what you do, do you ever feel like you know more than they do, and somehow they're the ones getting all the visibility? That gap almost never comes down to expertise — what's usually missing is the language and structure around what you know, so the right people can find it.
This is a working session, and whatever you're promoting right now works here — your business, a book, a passion project, a group you're pulling together, even the pickleball team you're trying to fill. You'll run VIOS Preflight, the guided front end of Viveka's Visibility Infrastructure OS, live and on your own work: who you're trying to reach, what makes you the one worth paying attention to, your niche and your moat, what you're inviting people into, and the channels and content built for your work. Then we'll talk through what came out, so what you leave with sounds like you.
Come with a laptop and the thing you're most wanting to get seen right now.
Co-Director & Producer of Your Roots Are Showing Film
Ilise Harris
Ilise is an international makeup and hair artist with decades of experience and a diverse clientele that has included celebrities, fashion and beauty brands, corporations, and indie films. She has contributed to iconic editorial and advertising campaigns and has worked with some of the world’s most influential fashion, fine-art and beauty photographers such as Arthur Elgort, Francesco Scavullo, Horst, Joyce Tenneson, and Anne Geddes. For over forty-five years, her career has afforded her the opportunity to work with many high-profile personalities like Vogue's Anna Wintour, Mia Farrow, Liza Minnelli, Paulina, Jon Stuart, Gloria Steinem, Brooke Shields and others.
YOUR ROOTS ARE SHOWING marks Harris’s debut as a documentary filmmaker, expanding her practice as a visual artist into long-form storytelling. The film has opened new pathways for Ilise as a public speaker, Modern Elder, and pro-age beauty advocate.
Grey Blending Specialist/Grey Hair Life Coach
Farah Hurdle
Farah is a a greyblending specialist and transitioning to grey hair life coach. She loves grey hair. She wants to help you love your grey hair too! Let her help you transition from a full high maintenance color to a low maintenance color. Not only will it give you more time and flexibility, it gives you freedom from having to get back to the salon every month. She will be your biggest fan. She's been a hairstylist for 24 years and a salon owner for 18 years. Her passion for greyblending has been a priority for the past 9+ years now. Farah is bringing her wisdom to our experience for the conversations around working with your stylist when you're looking to celebrate your grey. For those in San Diego, she can help directly in that journey when you're looking for a stylist that understands your needs and desires.
Founder, Host of Extraordinary Women Radio |Kami Guildner Coaching
Kami Guildner
Kami believes women’s voices are the catalyst for change. She is a connector, a storyteller, and a business coach for high-vibe women entrepreneurs ready to #RaiseUp theirVoice, Vision, and Visibility—so they can amplify their impact and scale their businesses with soul. She's the founder of the Extraordinary Women Ignite Conference and host of the award-winning Extraordinary Women RadioTM. She is the best-selling author of Firedancer:
Your Spiral Journey to a Life of Passion and Purpose and was named to the 2020 Twenty-Five Most Powerful Women in Business List by the Colorado Women’s Chamber of Commerce. Kami Guildner believes women’s voices are the catalyst for change.
Editorial Portrait & Branding Photographer |TS Mag West Coast Photographer
Dena Meeder
Dena Meeder is an editorial portrait and branding photographer who helps women step into visibility with confidence, authenticity, and presence — especially during seasons of reinvention. Through photographing women navigating change, growth, and new chapters, she witnessed the powerful transformation that happens when a woman is truly seen — not posed or perfected, but reflected with intention and truth. Her work blends storytelling and editorial imagery to create photographs that feel both elevated and deeply personal. Whether a woman is building a brand, embracing her silver hair, or redefining her identity, Dena creates space for her to show up fully and unapologetically. Through her signature 40 Over 40 Portrait Experience and branding sessions, Dena helps women reconnect with their confidence and own their story — not someday, but now. She believes visibility isn’t about perfection, but about presence, self-trust, and the courage to be seen exactly as you are.
Owner, Hair People Salon
Maree Chavez
I have proudly been in the beauty industry for 40 years. This year, we are celebrating the 50th anniversary of Hair People, a salon founded by my parents back in 1976. Ten years ago I embraced my natural silver hair and am excited to share tips and tricks with other women who are curious about going silver. My passion lies in helping women look and feel their best at any age.
Founder, ONE BODY edu,
Medical massage practitioner,
Metabolic health coach, Kiltz health certified coach
Kimberly Morrow LMT MMP
Kimberly is a metabolic health coach and founder of ONE BODY edu, specializing in women’s hormones, menopause, and insulin resistance.
After transforming her own health through a ketogenic and carnivore approach, she now helps women understand the root cause of weight gain, fatigue, and hormonal imbalance—not as isolated issues, but as symptoms of metabolic dysfunction.
Kimberly teaches an insulin-first approach to fat loss and hormone health, empowering women to take back control of their bodies through education, not restriction. Her work challenges conventional narratives around aging, menopause, and dieting—bringing clarity to what actually works.
Entrepreneur, Speaker & Advocate, SecondActWomen
Barbara Brooks
Barbara is a keynote speaker and founder of SecondActWomen, where she advocates the intersection of age, experience, and what's next. She's been named one of the Top 25 Most Powerful Women in Business by the Colorado Women's Chamber of Commerce, a Leader in Diversity by the Denver Business Journal, and an AARP Colorado Executive Council Member. Her work has been featured in Forbes, MarketWatch, CBS, NBC, and PBS for redefining what success looks like at 40, 50, and beyond because beauty knows no age. And neither does relevance, confidence, or value.
Content Creator Business Builder (Slight Addiction to Figuring It Out)
Michelle Russo
💥Michelle Russo ~ the slightly chaotic, always resourceful woman behind a thriving content creator business ~ built her six-figure brand from scratch with zero roadmap, a lot of intuition, and a “well…let’s see what happens” attitude. https://www.bymichellerusso.com/
At the 2026 Silverhood Experience, she’s spilling the real tea ~ not the polished highlight reel, but the messy, funny, “Holy shit - this actually worked!” version of building a profitable content creator business on your own (yes, you can do it too)!
And for those ready to stop dabbling and start building, she’s launching The Mature Creators Circle ~ her course for ballsy humans who know they’ve got something to say and are ready to turn it into a real, money-making business.
Since Michelle’s brain could no longer handle the chaos of 62 tabs open, missing contracts, and “did I send that?” spirals, she’s also introducing The CreatorKeeper https://creatorkeeper.com/ ~ the organizational tool designed specifically for creators to keep their entire business in one place ~ scripts, contracts, deadlines, and all the moving pieces that make you feel slightly unhinged.
Michelle’s superpower is making overwhelming things feel doable ~ sprinkled with some fun and laughter. So if you’ve ever thought, “I could do this… I just need someone to show me how (and maybe help me get my shit together)” ~ Michelle’s got your back. Expect sass, Silver Sister energy 🩶, and a whole lot of “ohhh…I can totally do this!”
Creator & Women Centered Coach
Gwen Roberts
After a long career in corporate leadership, Gwen found herself accomplished, respected — and quietly asking, Is this it? That question led her to make a courageous shift from achievement-driven success to a life rooted in alignment and authenticity.
Today, as a certified women-centered coach and creator of the SOAR framework, Gwen guides high-achieving women move from Achiever to Creator — stepping fully into their Leading Lady identity and building lives that feel as expansive as their potential.
Psychotherapist and Director of Clinical Operations
Cynthia Vlahos Palmer
Cynthia Vlahos Palmer, MSC, LCPC, NCC is a licensed psychotherapist and director of clinical operations at Helios Counseling of Montana.
An advocate for women’s empowerment, she blends her clinical insight with cultural wisdom to
challenge how society defines beauty, worth, and aging.
Founder & Speaker, Tangled Silver Magazine
Robin Salls
Meet Robin, the unstoppable Founder and Speaker on a mission to help women redefine aging and beauty on their own terms! She's not here to spoon-feed you society's standards, but to cheer you on as you become the superhero of your own life. Whether you're in your 20s or 80s, Robin believes you're always relevant, and your wisdom is your ultimate superpower. So, own your midlife like a boss and live your best life with a giant smile on your face! She champions audacious aging and beauty for every woman.