Recent Fishbowl Speakers
Becky Calder
Retired Naval Officer & Public SpeakerBecky attended the U.S. Navy Fighter Weapons School (TOPGUN) in 2004 where she became the first female pilot to graduate from the elite program. She has accrued over 2,500 flight hours and 421 carrier arrested landings and became the first woman to have her basketball jersey (#32) retired from the United States Naval Academy in January 2014. She was inducted into the New England Basketball Hall of Fame in 2004, and inducted into the Andover Athletics Hall of Honor in 2008, as part of the inaugural class.
Katie Harnetiaux
Principal of Aequus Sports, LLC; Co-Owner/President, USL SpokaneKatie is a global business leader and innovative marketer with deep experience building consumer brands, scalable business and creating strong teams in equitable work environments. In addition to her new role as president of USL Spokane, she is a Principal of Aequus Sports, LLC and Co-Owner. Over the past seven years, Katie held significant leadership roles at Amazon. Most recently as Head of Retail Marketing for North America. She led the Sports & Outdoors and Handmade businesses, driving significant growth and profitability across multiple channels, including social, digital, mobile, and retail. Prior to her time at Amazon, she led the marketing for Teavana at Starbucks.
Sarah Haggard
CEO and Founder of TributeSarah Haggard is the CEO and Founder of Tribute, a peer-to-peer mentorship app for the workplace that connects employees, through shared life experience and stories. Haggard's superpower is her ability to spot patterns, create high performing teams and activate the right people at the right time to deliver results. She founded her mentorship app, Tribute because she is passionate about the power of human connection, and using storytelling as a means to find that connection.
CEO, The Contingent and Author, A Kids Book about White Privilege
SPRING 2021: Ben Sand serves as CEO of The Contingent, a venture non-profit focused on sparking and holding initiatives to empower leaders and mobilize community for the common good. In 2008, Ben founded Portland Leadership Foundation (PLF), a faith-based community organizing organization, to both hold Act Six Leadership Scholarship program and incubate new initiatives in the city, which has grown into The Contingent. Ben also recently published a book, A Kids Book about White Privilege and is an aspiring leader in DEI and allyship work.
Ginger Ewing
Co-Founder & Executive Director of TerrainSPRING 2019: Ginger Ewing is an arts advocate and organizer in Spokane, WA. She is the co-founder and Executive Director of Terrain, an arts non-profit dedicated to creating community and economic opportunity for artists of the Inland Northwest, as well as a Spokane Arts Commissioner, a Washington State Arts Commissioner, and the former Curator for Cultural Literacy at the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture.
Scott Svenson
Co-Founder & CEO of MOD Super Fast PizzaSPRING 2018: Scott Svenson is the co-founder and CEO of MOD Super Fast Pizza. MOD, which was the fastest growing restaurant chain in the US in 2015 (according to Technomic), is a culture-centric business inspired by a purpose of making positive social impact. As of January 2018, the company had more than 305 stores trading across the US and the UK. A Seattle native and a graduate with honours from Harvard University, Scott and his wife have established numerous successful companies, MOD Pizza being their most recent.
