Linette Cottrell • Speaker & Financial Leadership Advisor

Financial leadership that honors the woman leading.

Keynotes, workshops, and leadership experiences that bring humanity into conversations about money—so women can lead with greater clarity, confidence, and freedom.

Linette Cottrell, financial leadership speaker
30+ yearsof accounting and financial leadership experience
Where practical wisdom meets the human side of money.
Women founders
Women leaders
Professional communities

Signature talks

Conversations that move women from pressure to possibility.

Each session can be shaped for a keynote, interactive workshop, leadership lab, retreat, or virtual experience.

Leadership keynote

Financial Leadership Awakening

A powerful invitation for women to examine the messages they have inherited about money, leadership, and worth—and choose a more confident way to lead.

Ideal for conferences & leadership events

Signature workshop

Beyond the Budget: The Human Side of Financial Leadership

Using the SIGNAL framework, participants learn to separate facts from fear, communicate financial realities clearly, and lead decisions without losing trust or humanity.

Ideal for teams, associations & project leaders

Wellness experience

Financial Wellness Is Self-Care

A compassionate conversation about the emotional weight of money—and how clarity, small financial practices, and honest attention can create more peace and choice.

Ideal for retreats & wellness programs

Entrepreneur workshop

From Side-Hustle Money to Business Money

A practical and empowering shift for women earning revenue who are ready to organize their finances, understand the numbers, and begin leading as the Financial CEO.

Ideal for founder communities & accelerators

Women-centered keynote

Why Does Success Feel So Heavy?

A candid exploration of the invisible weight successful women carry—the pressure to perform, over-responsibility, inherited definitions of success, and the belief that growth must cost them their peace. This session invites women to redefine success so their leadership and businesses can support the lives they truly want.

Ideal for keynotes, retreats & women’s leadership events
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A different kind of financial conversation

People do not need more shame. They need a safer way to see clearly.

Linette combines financial expertise, emotional intelligence, and deeply relatable storytelling. Her sessions make room for the realities people often carry silently—avoidance, responsibility, uncertainty, and the pressure to already know.

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Compassionate, never clinical

Financial information is presented as useful insight—not a verdict on anyone's worth.

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Grounded in real leadership

Participants connect financial choices to communication, identity, capacity, and decision-making.

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Practical enough to use tomorrow

Every experience leaves the audience with language, tools, and one clear next step.

What audiences receive

They leave feeling seen—and ready.

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Relieved

Less isolated by the questions and emotions they have been carrying.

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Informed

Clearer about what the numbers and the situation are actually communicating.

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Empowered

More confident asking questions, naming needs, and making grounded decisions.

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Supported

Equipped with a compassionate next step that feels possible to take.

Selected speaking experience

Speaking where women are leading, building, and becoming.

ABWIPPM 2026 ConferenceBeyond the Budget: The Human Side of Financial LeadershipBaltimore
Broward Black Chamber of CommerceTax Talks 2026Panelist · Four-woman panel
Coral Springs ChamberThe 10-Minute Financial CEO Check-In + The Cost of Financial AvoidanceBusiness referral group
Fall Into WellnessFinancial Wellness Is Self-CareSanna Wellness
LOUD Women NationFinancial confidence and leadership for women in businessLOUD Stage
MompreneursThe Wealth Within Her: Building a Business That Sustains You, Pays You, and Honors YouVisionary Women Network · Three-part webinar series

Ways to work together

Built for the room—and the women inside it.

Every engagement can be tailored to your audience, timing, event theme, and desired experience.

Women entrepreneursBlack women professionalsWomen of Color professionals & entrepreneursWomen leadersProject & program leadersAssociationsRetreat communities
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Keynotes

Big-picture inspiration grounded in credible financial and leadership insight.

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Interactive workshops

Reflection, conversation, and practical tools audiences can immediately use.

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Leadership labs

Smaller, facilitated experiences for practicing complex financial conversations.

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Panels & media

Thoughtful commentary on money, women, entrepreneurship, and financial freedom.

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Meet Linette

A financial expert who speaks to the whole woman.

Linette Cottrell is a financial leadership advisor, speaker, and host of the EmpowerHER Business Podcast.

With more than 30 years of accounting and financial leadership experience, Linette has built and led accounting operations, guided entrepreneurial organizations, and supported women founders through financial complexity. She is the founder of EmpowerHER Bookkeeping + Advisory and creator of Compassionate Accounting™ and Holistic Financial Leadership™.

Linette holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Florida A&M University. Based in South Florida, she is available for in-person and virtual speaking experiences.

30+ years of experienceBS Accounting, FAMUPodcast hostSpeaker & facilitator

Bring this conversation to your audience

Let’s create an experience women will carry with them.

Share your event, audience, date, and vision. Linette will respond with the best-fit topic and format.

Or email linette@empowerherbookkeeping.com