Women's Leadership Summit 2025 IN PERSON

Abby Butz, Principal, CliftonLarsonAllen LLP (Spokane)

Abby is a Principal at CliftonLarsonAllen Wealth Advisors, LLC. She provides comprehensive financial planning and investment advisory services to high-net-worth individuals, families, and business owners. Abby is passionate about building relationships with her clients in order to align their goals with an appropriate long-term investment strategy.

Adelaide Ness

Adelaide Ness has been speaking to professional service firms around the world for nearly 20 years, helping them grow, strengthen their cultures, and build more client-centric organizations. As the Director of Client-Centric Advisory at Moss Adams, she leads initiatives that enhance client relationships, develop talent, and drive sustainable growth. Prior to joining Moss Adams, Adelaide served as the Chief Learning Officer of The Rainmaker Companies, a management consulting and training organization dedicated to helping professional service firms succeed. Her expertise lies in leadership, business development, and cultural transformation, equipping professionals at all levels with the skills and mindset needed to thrive in an evolving marketplace. Passionate about holistic development, she is a dedicated yogi who emphasizes the importance of work-life integration in building strong firm cultures. She has developed and led women’s leadership programs at many of the Top 100 accounting firms across the country, helping to advance and retain top female talent. Adelaide is also an Adjunct Professor at Vanderbilt University, where she teaches in the Human and Organizational Development department at Peabody College. A dynamic and engaging speaker, Adelaide brings a global perspective to her work, drawing on her experience as a bilingual and bicultural citizen of the United States and France. She holds a B.A. from Vanderbilt University, an M.A. from the American University of Paris, and is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Learning and Leadership in Organizations at Vanderbilt University.

Angela Oakley, Clark Nuber PS

Angela Oakley is a Talent Advisor Director at Clark Nuber PS. She is a Gallup-Certified StrengthsFinder coach, with over 20 years in organizational development, training, performance management, and coaching expertise.

Chad Dalton

Chad is a Managing Director of Tax Technology at KPMG Ignition of the U.S. member firm (KPMG LLP), with 15 years of experience as an operations and technology executive. Chad has valuable experience working in tax technology, tax transformation, venture capital and venture backed startups. Chad has extensive experience building and leading teams that provide digital transformation and technology solutions for the accounting and healthcare industries. In his work, Chad uses data driven startup methodologies to identify inefficiencies, build disruptive technologies and create new business products. Prior to his role at KPMG LLP, Chad led operations and product for 3 startups with successful exits totaling over 500 MM in returns. Chad Joined KPMG LLP in 2018 through the Bookly.co acquisition and subsequently joined the KPMG Ignition team of the U.S. firm in 2019 to help support KPMG Mexico and other KPMG LATAM member firms on technology and innovation.

Courtney Hirata, VP, Head of Revenue Operations, SAP Concur

Courtney Hirata is an executive with 15 years of experience in strategy, operations, and finance. Known for being a transformational leader, Courtney excels at empowering individuals and scaling organizational processes during periods of transition. Utilizing her strengths in influencing and effective communication, she fosters a culture of trust, growth, and accountability, ensuring team members feel seen, valued, and supported in reaching their full potential. Committed to advancing equity and inclusion, Courtney brings a results-oriented, people-first approach that enables teams to excel, adapt to change, and achieve collective success. Courtney Hirata’s superpower is her ability to lead transformation with empathy and precision—empowering people, simplifying complexity, and building inclusive cultures where teams thrive.

Eden Baca, CliftonLarsonAllen LLP (Bellevue)

Eden Baca is an associate wealth advisor within CLA’s Western Washington and Oregon Private Client Service (PCS) team. Her career with CLA started in 2022 serving high net worth and ultra-high net worth clients by providing income, gift, estate, and trust tax compliance and planning services. Eden continues to serve these clients through wealth and investment management, estate planning, and tax efficient strategizing.

Jen Mueller, Talk Sporty To Me

Jen Mueller pursued a career in sports broadcasting after repeated comments of “talks too much” from teachers and family members.

A 22-year sports broadcasting veteran, Jen currently serves as the Seattle Seahawks sideline radio reporter. She is also an Emmy-award winning producer and part of the Seattle Mariners and television broadcast team on ROOT Sports.

In addition to her work on the sidelines, Jen launched Talk Sporty to Me in 2009. She provides a unique twist on business communication based on her time in locker rooms and expertise in 1-on-1 conversations. Jen is the author of three books and an on-demand video series “Asking Better Questions.”

Jen graduated from Southern Methodist University in 2000 with degrees in Broadcasting Journalism and Public Policy.

Kymberly Messersmith, KPMG

Kymberly Messersmith manages political risk and leads KPMG’s state legislative and regulatory program. She also coordinates with State CPA Societies to drive visionary policy that would impact the profession. Messersmith has extensive experience in state legislative, regulatory and executive relations. She is also successful in issue management, brand building, coalition leadership and development.

Lamiaa Daif

Lamiaa is the Worldwide Growth Strategy Leader for Mac and iPad at Apple, an Executive and Business coach, and an award-winning keynote speaker. She created the Inside-Out Model® to help organizations and individuals achieve transformations starting from within. She serves as Treasurer and Board Member for Resonate Workshops, empowering women and girls in Africa. With over a decade as a Director at Europe’s largest Private Equity Fund, Lamiaa now supports mission-driven founders as an angel investor and advisor. A Stanford GSB alumna and Robert Joss Scholar, she is also a TEDx speaker and frequent guest at global conferences on leadership, women empowerment and innovation. In 2024, Lamiaa was named to Morocco’s 40 Under 40 list, the Arab America Foundation’s 40 Under 40 list, and received the Speaker of the year 2024 award by Women in Tech Network.

Lauren Hausner, Manager, Audit and Assurance, Clark Nuber PS

Lauren Hausner, CPA, CGFM, is a Senior Manager in Audit & Assurance at Clark Nuber PS, specializing in governmental and not-for-profit accounting with a passion for local government, government-funded NFPs, foundations, and arts organizations. With a Master of Science in Accounting from WGU and a Bachelor’s in Math and Economics from the University of Washington, Lauren brings a unique blend of expertise as an experienced manager, artist, and accountant. Lauren also has a rich history in the performing arts industry, including five years of leadership with Seattle’s premier nouveau cirque company. Lauren’s superpower is blending analytical precision with creative insight—bridging the worlds of audit and artistry to bring clarity, structure, and heart to every engagement.

Madison Asbury, KPMG

Madison Asbury is a Senior Associate at KPMG in Ignition Tax - Consulting, possessing a variety of technical expertise in data and analytics. In her role, Madison leads Gen AI client engagements (including presentations, onboarding, and training) and works with other tax teams at KPMG to develop technology solutions.

Madison Asbury has been with KPMG for over three years, currently working as a Senior Associate in the Ignition Tax – Consulting group in San Diego, California. Currently, she is a facilitator for the West Coast Ignition Gen AI cohort, where she leads virtual and in person Gen AI client presentations, onboarding, and training sessions.

Madison is a product manager in the KPMG Tax Data Office and collaborates with internal tax stakeholders to gather requirements and deliver internal data solutions.

Prior to this role, Madison worked as an Associate at KPMG in Ignition Tax - Data & Analytics in Denver, Colorado, where she contributed to various projects in data modeling, analytics and visualization.

Raquel Nelson, Managing Principal, Baker Tilly LLP

Kelly Nelson, CPA, has over 20 years of experience as a trusted advisor to high-net-worth individuals. Kelly’s mission is to help families turn complex financial and estate plans into clear, purpose-driven strategies. Think of her as part strategist, part translator, and part family whisperer - especially when it comes to facilitating multigenerational conversations and educating rising generations. Kelly’s superpower? Leading with intention. She brings a family office mindset to every relationship, blending sharp tax and estate planning skills with empathy, clarity, and a good dose of positivity. She believes in unlocking the strengths of every team member, creating environments where people feel seen, supported, and empowered to bring their best selves to the table. Because when people thrive, plans succeed—and that’s when the real magic happens.

Renee Yaseen

Renee Yaseen is a former Washington Post writer and creator of The Third SPaces Project. She graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 2022 with a BA in economics. In college, she founded her first tech startup while at home in Indiana during the coronavirus pandemic. Recently, she worked as a senior research associate at the University of Notre Dame’s Building Inclusive Growth Lab, focusing on global poverty and development research.

Sara Elizabeth Jones, Tax Partner, Clark Nuber PS

Sara Elizabeth Jones is the Tax Managing Shareholder at Clark Nuber, where she leads a team of nearly 90 professionals in the Tax Services Group. As a strategic developer of people, Sara Elizabeth leverages her relationship-building strengths to support the continued growth of the tax department. Her ability to build strong relationships supports various niche and practice groups throughout the department, fostering a more cohesive team and building consensus among the leaders. Sara Elizabeth’s expertise includes tax issues affecting non-profit organizations, IRS controversy services, exempt status applications, and unrelated business income tax (UBIT) consulting. Sara Elizabeth’s superpower is forging alignment through relational leadership—bringing people together, building consensus across practice groups, and creating a unified, collaborative approach to advancing the Tax department’s success.