Meet Jennifer

Meet Our Founder and Producer of Speak Up Women

Jennifer S. Wilkov

Jennifer’s personal mission in life is to move humankind forward

Her passion for communication has led to her being a multi #1 international best-selling award-winning author, a TED/keynote speaker, a producer, an award-winning freelance writer, a respected book business and entertainment development consultant, and entrepreneur.

In May 2016, after successfully producing the inaugural Speak Up Women Conference at the United Nations in New York City, she completed the Grand Canyon Rim to Rim hike in a single day, 23.5 miles in 15.5 hours. In July 2016, she summited Mt. Kilimanjaro and came down to a life-threatening cancer diagnosis of Advanced Stage IV Non Small Cell Lung Cancer in November 2016. For the next 5 years, she lived and nearly died and came back again through seven near-death experiences, including five of them in 2019 alone. She has miraculously recovered and continues to encourage others, especially women, to live their lives to the fullest and that they have the right to remain fabulous, no matter what the situations, circumstances, or experiences they are challenged by.

She also survived being victimized by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office and incarcerated in one of New York’s and the nation’s most violent prisons, Rikers Island, as a result of her case being riddled with prosecutorial misconduct and inappropriately being told to plead guilty to a crime she didn’t commit by an attorney who mishandled it. Shortly thereafter, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority exonerated her, rendering a decision in an arbitration that all claims against her were denied in their entirety and that Jennifer was innocent. Jennifer continued to succeed as an author, media personality, entrepreneur and speaker after enduring this devastating, unimaginable experience.

She knows what it takes to live the life you love in the face of any challenge. She loves to inspire audiences everywhere with the insights, knowledge and wisdom she has gained so participants take action.

Jennifer fans the flames of the Human Spirit in each audience member and empowers them to tell their stories, express them transparently, leap powerfully into their lives and, at last, live the lives they’ve imagined.

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