Samantha Karlin

Passionate, engaging, well-versed, and extremely relatable are all characteristics that I would use to describe Samantha’s Women’s Empowerment keynote presentation at our company in March. We were excited to have her speak and end Women’s History Month on the highest note possible, as we continue to do the work that is necessary to foster continuous improvement from an inclusivity perspective. Samantha did not disappoint. During the presentation she eloquently presented facts, solutions, and injected humor to lighten the mood for some of the heavier topics discussed while simultaneously maintaining the subject's significance. I highly recommend working with Samantha for speaking engagements if you are looking for someone knowledgeable and personable to champion DEIJ values and allyship within your organization. Thank you, Samantha! ~ Dwan Tabor | Director of Learning and Development, Founder of the Community Outreach Employee Resource Group (RHINOS), and Co-Founder of the Diversity and Inclusion Steering Council (DISC) at Aspida

Samantha gave our company an incredible keynote presentation on the topic of “how the pandemic has impacted women in the workplace.” She was engaging, insightful and thought-provoking. She is very relatable and approachable, and she was incredibly easy to work with. Thank you, Samantha!

Passionate, inquisitive, authentic, personable, professional... This embodies Samantha in our work with her as we collaborated on building and facilitating the key training for our virtual women's empowerment program for 60 young professionals in Palestine in March 2022. Samantha worked closely with us to understand our participants and the cultural aspects that are unique to their experience of gender and empowerment; this was critical to implementing an effective training and she went above and beyond to assure her understanding and content were culturally relevant. Samantha also adjusted her language so our non-native English speaking audience could more easily comprehend and engage. The participants highly rated her training as one of their favorite aspects of the program. They not only learned a lot about women's empowerment but they gained a great deal of inspiration, especially through Samantha's authentic self. Samantha's content covered women's empowerment globally as well as in the MENA region and Palestine. She did her homework and delivered! We highly recommend Samantha and Empower Global and look forward to partnering again.

Samantha is an inspirational leader and speaker who is passionate and knowledgeable on the subject of biases and disparities that women in the technology industry face every day. She led a collaborative workshop for our team that allowed for a safe space for us to learn, share our experiences, and discuss how we can better support and advocate for our success, work/life balance, and professional development.

Shifting a culture isn’t easy, and maintaining one can prove just as challenging. Samantha Karlin helped us take these first steps in becoming better mentors and colleagues by facilitating a corporate workshop on Gender Equity at Slalom’s South Florida Office. Following her workshop, participants and allies met to take actionable steps towards making our office more gender equitable. We are continuing to amplify our efforts in D&I recruitment and are considering internal initiatives like resume scrubbing to ensure that candidates are not subject to implicit racial and gender biases. We are holding each other accountable to produce more gender neutral team outings, and to refrain from using gendered language and analogies in our discussions, among others. Samantha’s workshop ignited a powerful movement at Slalom.

Samantha spoke at TEDx Tufts 2020 conference. As the opening speaker, she really set the tone for our event. Samantha immediately energized the audience with her simultaneously professional and down-to-earth tone. She explored the topic of women’s empowerment in a way that was easy for any audience member to understand and grapple with, while also including nuanced personal anecdotes and refreshing takeaways. She was also a pleasure to work with.