Trudy Loper is a seasoned healthcare marketing communications strategist and leader. Her gift lies in simplifying the complex and translating it for a broader audience. With a passion for health equity, Trudy specializes in developing strategies that leverage deep customer insights to drive change. Her diverse career spans agency, client side, and nonprofit worlds. She has helped organizations elevate their missions and achieve lasting, positive change in communities.

Talk: You are contagious / Vanessa Van Edwards

“Applicable to my professional life and as a parent. The idea that we are contagious, how we hold ourselves, how we present, how we dress and use gestures is something that can be taught.”

Margaret Weniger, Career Story Collector

Margaret Weniger

What if everything you’ve been taught about building a successful career no longer applies?

Margaret Weniger has spent years exploring that question from both sides of the table. As director of entrepreneurial programs for CREATE-X at Georgia Institute of Technology, she helps founders navigate uncertainty while building companies designed for the future. As a technology sales executive, leadership strategist and author of “Broken,” she has interviewed hundreds of professionals, founders and executives to understand why some people emerge from career disruption stronger than before.

Margaret’s work sits at the intersection of entrepreneurship, leadership and the changing nature of work. Drawing from her own unconventional career and years of research, she challenges long-held assumptions about success, ambition and what it really takes to build a meaningful career in a world that refuses to stand still.

At TEDxAtlanta, Margaret invites us to rethink one of the most familiar ideas about work. The answer may change not only how you think about your career, but also how you approach whatever comes next.