Dr. Rita is a global thought leader, business strategist, social activist and philanthropist. She is CEO and founder of Women on the Leading Edge Inc., Global Visionaries Inc. and the Women’s Global Leadership Forum

For over 25 years she has worked with Fortune 500 companies and women entrepreneurs around the globe. Dr. Rita has also been leading yearlong empowerment seminars for women for over 18 years. She is now spearheading a movement to transform our world through the empowerment of women as leaders and working with women of rising influence to collaboratively co-create a radically different future for our world.

She is an advisor to top leaders in the Financial, Retail, Technology, Entertainment, Environmental and Non-profit industries, along with a number of celebrities. Dr. Rita has worked with women leaders and influencers from 5 different continents and 22 countries. Through her international experience, Dr. Rita has come to know well, the deep threads of similarities that bring women together in their fight for voice, visibility, greater relevance, influence, contribution and in fulfilling their deep desire to make a difference. She has also come to know the transformation required for women to come to leadership mastery and become groundbreaking political, social and economic forces for inspiring world change. Her work elevates women’s financial and leadership power and helps women transform their lives from the inside out resulting in greater credibility, visibility influence, global reach and income.

She has successfully worked with multi-billion dollar companies, start-ups and everything in between. She also raises money for ICOs and helps start-ups receive the funding they need to exponentially grow.

In 2015, Dr. Rita was featured in Forbes magazine as “Game Changer” for her outstanding work with women business leaders globally. She has been recognized for helping women to dynamically distinguish themselves in the global marketplace and become a powerful part of a new economic force reshaping the world. She is known for being a courageous and pioneering free spirit, whose mission in life is to bring new ideas into being creating change and a positive impact in the world.  She has also been awarded  the prestigious honor of being knighted as “Dame” of Honor by the Orthodox Order of St. John, Russian Grand Priory (the oldest humanitarian order on the planet) for her philanthropic endeavors and lifelong service to humanity.

She recently received the Women’s Excellence award for High Achievement in Women’s Leadership, in India at the Women’s Economic Forum.

Dr. Rita is an advocate for women’s economic empowerment through unleashing the unlimited leadership potential in all women. Her company, Women on the Leading Edge, Inc. is dedicated to advancing women’s leadership, cultivating female world leaders, and helping women rise to higher levels of influence across all industries and sectors.

Dr. Rita is a keynote speaker and travels the world giving inspiring talks on women’s empowerment and leadership and how women can become a political, economic and social force for change.. She is known for her ground breaking Global Leadership Summits and her Global Thought Leader’s Academy for Women of Influence. She is also the founder of the Women’s Global Leadership Forum.

Dr. Rita’s partial client list includes

• Exxon
• Groupon
• General Electric
• Motorola
• The Gap
• Macys
• Citibank
• Smith Barney
• Google
• Williams-Sonoma
• Chicago Tribune

Dr. Rita Lustgarten holds master’s degrees in Clinical Psychology, and Human and Organizational Development and a doctorate in Human Development & Organizational Systems with a specialization in Women’s Global Leadership.

She was awarded a fellowship for her outstanding work in the field of women and leadership and her concomitant contribution to a national initiative called Creative, Longevity, and Wisdom, a project of the Institute for Social Innovation.

Dr. Rita is:

• A Founding Member of the Institute of Evolutionary Leadership
• A Founding member of the Institute of Psychological Medicine
• A Founding faculty member for Compassion Happens, Inc.,
• A Faculty member of The Living University
• A founding member of Wisdom’s Goldenrod, a Center for Philosophic Studies
• Founding Guardian Circle Member– Unicef
• A member of the Association for Transformational Leaders
• Author of an upcoming book on Transformation & Actualizing Human Potential.

As a seasoned international consultant, speaker, transformational leadership expert, business growth strategist, facilitator and advisor to top leaders, Dr. Rita has been working in the field of personal and professional development and transformation, playing a central role in the human potential movement. To date, she has been engaged in over 40,000 hours of transforming the consciousness of individuals, businesses and organizations.

 

Dr. Rita speaks and moderates at conferences worldwide including:

Partial Past Engagements

• 2006, Santa Barbara- Fielding- Women’s Wisdom in Leadership Conference
• 2006- 2015, Presentations on Women’s Empowerment, Leadership and Entrepreneurship. Business Acceleration – San Francisco, London, India, Los Angeles, NYC,
• 2010 Dubai, Women’s International Leadership Conference
• 2011 Abu Dhabi, 2nd Annual Human Capital Management Forum- Fleming Gulf
• 2013, Seattle, Women of Wisdom Conference
• 2014, Las Vegas, Women in Leadership
• 2015, Silicon Valley, Franchise for Humanity
• 2015, India Women’s Global Economic Forum
• 2016, Santa Barbara Women’s Economic Forum
• 2016, Santa Barbara, Goddess Arises
• 2017, March- India- High level leadership Training for CEOs and Entrepreneurs
• 2017 September Oslo, Norway –Women’s Leadership Conference
• 2017 June, Nice France- 3-day Women of Influence Summit
• 2017 July East Africa- High Level Leadership Training
• 2017 June NYC: 3 Day Women of Influence Global Summit
• 2017 October London 3 day Next Generation women Influencers’ Summit
• 2017 Dubai- Women’s Global Conference
• 2018 April India Women’s Global Economic Forum
• 2018 October Dominican Republic
• 2018 Dubai Women’s International Leadership Conference (WIL) Naseba

Upcoming Engagements

• 2018 November, New York City- Women Thought Leader’s Global Summit
• 2018 November, Dubai WIL- Womens International Leadership Conference
• 2019 March, Dubai
• 2019 April, London- Women Thought Leader’s Global Summit
• 2019 February India
• 2019 August, Sydney Australia-Women Thought Leader’s Global Summit