Candy Barone is the founder and CEO of You Empowered Strong, where she serves as an executive trainer and coach, business strategist, and keynote speaker. Barone has spent two decades educating business leaders on how to lead and learn, as well as how to build exceptional, high-performing teams. Barone 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, and was nominated as a 2015 Profile in Power Central Texas Woman of Influence.