Candy Barone
Vice Chair
Candy Barone, CEO of You Empowered Strong, is a leadership development expert, trainer, guide, and executive coach. She also is an international speaker, Amazon best-selling author and host of the Aligned As F*ck Podcast. She is a catalyst and change agent who works with executives and emerging leaders to help bring “heart” back to leadership while feeding the soul of their business. With nearly 20 years in corporate, combined with a Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, certification as a Six Sigma Black Belt, and MBA, she is a master at building exceptional, high-performing teams, maximizing and leveraging ROI, growing emerging leaders, creating metrics for greater accountability, and catapulting individuals to achieve explosive growth.
Candy is a tree shaker and helps people get aligned so that they can remember who they are, how to step into their leadership, reclaim their personal power, and step into the fullness of their gifts. She brings in tools (e.g., Human Design and Gene Keys) to connect people back into their energetic blueprint and individual wiring. Candy believes leadership is a choice, and everyone’s opportunity … and, it all starts with how we choose to lead ourselves first.
She was named a 2014-15 VIP Woman of the Year by the National Association of Professional Women, was recipient of the 2015 Public Speakers Association Local Collaborator Award, was nominated as a 2015 Profile in Power Central Texas Woman of Influencer, and recipient of the 2021 Evolutionary Business Council Unstoppable Award. She served on the Forbes Coaching Council, is a member of The Dames, and is a Legacy Circle Member of Lifeworks.
She also has been showcased in CNN, U.S. News & World Report, SWSX: Fast Company Grille, The Austin Statesman, Austin Business Journal, Be the Boss Magazine, OffBeat Business Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, ciLiving TV, Femmes Under 40 Magazine, along with numerous radio shows and podcasts. In addition, she serves as a call leader for the Evolutionary Business Council, a Partnering Director for the Public Speakers Association, is a member of the Good Deed Society, and volunteers within her community. Candy initially served as an Advisory Board member for Central Texas Table of Grace.
Candy lives in Austin, where she enjoys spending her time in nature, hiking, being on the water, reading, live music, and of course, watching baseball.