Presenters, Moderators & Mentors

Caroline Turnipseed is the Founder of CWT Consulting Group, a boutique agency specializing in developing marketing initiatives for female founded consumer brands that truly drive sales. Launched in 2020, the firm helps companies acquire new high-quality consumers and retain current shoppers through brand partnerships, influencers, email marketing, product launches and strategic events. The team’s multi-channel, results driven approach to marketing has led to major results for past + present brand clients like Hunter Bell NYC, MacKenzie-Childs, Tuckernuck, Addison Bay, Sue Sartor, Oliphant and Look Linen Co.

Caroline’s experience prior to forming CWT Consulting Group is unique, as she led teams in-house for over ten years in all areas of marketing at Lilly Pulitzer, Victoria’s Secret and Julia Berolzheimer’s Gal Meets Glam. No matter the company, she is extremely passionate about thinking out of the box and creating scalable initiatives that bring large numbers of new consumers to brands.

A passionate brand leader with 15 years of experience across fashion, home décor, and lifestyle. She strategically blends storytelling, strategy, and consumer insight to create culture-forward campaigns that connect and convert. She’s built highly scalable influencer and affiliate programs focused on new customer acquisition and results-driven growth. Equally at home in agency and in-house roles, she leads with collaboration, data, and heart, co-creating brand experiences that resonate and building influencer programs that turn into case studies.

A native of the Midwest, Sarah Wetenhall is a nomad by nature having lived in more than six cities during the first twenty years of her life. Her vagabond roots inspired a love of travel and developed storytelling skills that proved essential in molding this natural-born hotelier. A graduate of Vanderbilt University, she began her career in New York where she spent a decade-plus spearheading public relations efforts for major fashion houses including Calvin Klein, Dolce & Gabbana and Hugo Boss. Her experience in the fashion industry honed her keen aesthetic acumen and a strong sensibility for the luxury market. She currently serves as a board member of the Palm Beach Chamber of Commerce, the Worth Avenue Association, the Children’s Museum of the East End, and the Women’s Committee of the Central Park Conservancy, as well as the Brick Presbyterian Church in New York City. Sarah has also been recognized by Hotels Magazine as one of the top ten independent lifestyle operators in the world.

Caroline Turnipseed is the Founder of CWT Consulting Group, a boutique agency specializing in developing marketing initiatives for female founded consumer brands that truly drive sales. Launched in 2020, the firm helps companies acquire new high-quality consumers and retain current shoppers through brand partnerships, influencers, email marketing, product launches and strategic events. The team’s multi-channel, results driven approach to marketing has led to major results for past + present brand clients like Hunter Bell NYC, MacKenzie-Childs, Tuckernuck, Addison Bay, Sue Sartor, Oliphant and Look Linen Co.

Caroline’s experience prior to forming CWT Consulting Group is unique, as she led teams in-house for over ten years in all areas of marketing at Lilly Pulitzer, Victoria’s Secret and Julia Berolzheimer’s Gal Meets Glam. No matter the company, she is extremely passionate about thinking out of the box and creating scalable initiatives that bring large numbers of new consumers to brands.

A passionate brand leader with 15 years of experience across fashion, home décor, and lifestyle. She strategically blends storytelling, strategy, and consumer insight to create culture-forward campaigns that connect and convert. She’s built highly scalable influencer and affiliate programs focused on new customer acquisition and results-driven growth. Equally at home in agency and in-house roles, she leads with collaboration, data, and heart, co-creating brand experiences that resonate and building influencer programs that turn into case studies.

Emily McCarthy doesn’t believe in boring. She immerses herself in bright bursts of color and vibrant prints. Even her middle name, Joy, reflects her optimistic point of view. Emily grew up in a small town and dreamed of living on the coast. She received her BA in Graphic Design and Photography from LaGrange College in LaGrange, Georgia. After spending part of her career in the stationery and gift industry, she turned her eye for prints and patterns into her design business, bringing explosions of delight to your closet season after season. Emily believes that when you look good, you feel good — and you do good. While confidence comes from within, a bold color and flattering fit can truly dress you up in joy. She is also inspired by the sophistication of home interior fabrics and wall coverings in her print design. Emily resides in Savannah, Georgia with her college husband and two children.

Hannah Groseclose is the founder of Hinge Creative Co., a branding house in Athens, Ga that specializes in brand identity for women-led businesses. As a designer and entrepreneur, she’s passionate about the impact of branding on the bottom line for women in business. She’s a mom to two little girls Tate and Reese, and as a UGA alumna, she and her husband call the Dawgs every Saturday in the fall.

Jackie Thomson is the founder of of Counsel PR, a consultancy she launched in 2022 after more than a decade co-owning Charleston-based lifestyle PR firm Leapfrog. She specializes in helping female founders in the design and style space grow their brands through influencer marketing, brand collaborations, and strategic partnerships, alongside traditional media relations and events. With a background spanning luxury fashion at Gucci and Reem Acra to lifestyle PR leadership and brand development, Jackie brings a sharp eye for positioning and a hands-on approach to building authentic and lasting brand visibility.

Over her tenure at Leapfrog PR, Libba guided many of her clients, both large and small, to become prominent brands among the shelves of national retailers. A storyteller at heart, she looks for common threads – pride in the process and an authentic history – in all of the companies she works alongside. Now as a founder of the creative consultancy Add Lib, she focuses on only a handful of carefully selected clients who have a truly great story – business owners in the south who have products and services that are inspired by heritage (a recipe, an orchard, a kettle built to last, kinship) and built on people’s need to gather, connect and foster relationships. She advises some of the South’s best-loved brands including Callie’s Hot Little Biscuit, Caroline’s Cakes, Sea Island Forge, Schermer Pecans, and The Southern Coterie #tscsummit. She thrives on mentoring entrepreneurs and small business owners. To celebrate these relationships, she offers a pro bono Small Business Mentorship program with three to five women participating each year.

An Atlanta native, Libba found her passion for all things edible as a post-grad student at New York’s French Culinary Institute (International Culinary Center). She segued into restaurant public relations at Baltz & Co. and the Dunn Robbins Group, promoting brands in the food, wine, and spirits industries. Following a move to her husband’s hometown of Charleston, Libba joined Leapfrog to continue her craft, as an owner from 2009 to 2021. She recently founded Add Lib in 2022.

Libba is a graduate of the University of the South, Sewanee. Libba and her husband, Chris, are raising their two sons a stone’s throw from the Ashley River.

A native of the Midwest, Sarah Wetenhall is a nomad by nature having lived in more than six cities during the first twenty years of her life. Her vagabond roots inspired a love of travel and developed storytelling skills that proved essential in molding this natural-born hotelier. A graduate of Vanderbilt University, she began her career in New York where she spent a decade-plus spearheading public relations efforts for major fashion houses including Calvin Klein, Dolce & Gabbana and Hugo Boss. Her experience in the fashion industry honed her keen aesthetic acumen and a strong sensibility for the luxury market. She currently serves as a board member of the Palm Beach Chamber of Commerce, the Worth Avenue Association, the Children’s Museum of the East End, and the Women’s Committee of the Central Park Conservancy, as well as the Brick Presbyterian Church in New York City. Sarah has also been recognized by Hotels Magazine as one of the top ten independent lifestyle operators in the world.