About
The current systems (yes, all of them) aren't built for – or by – women.
We're here to change that.
Erin Gallagher
CEO + Founder
Erin brings 20 years experience leading global marketing, business development, media relations, branding, communications and organizational and culture change to the many roles she currently plays: small business owner, disruptor, entrepreneur, system-challenger and mother to two young boys.
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She was named a 2022 Top 100 LinkedIn Creator and Top 10 DEI Voice (#5) and penned one of the Top 100 Most Influential LinkedIn Posts of the Decade.
Erin has counseled The White House and C-suite and senior leaders at some of the world’s biggest and best brands and companies — from LinkedIn to United Airlines to Carhartt to McDonald’s — and forged relationships with change makers and leaders who believe in the power of diversity, equity, inclusion and access.
Erin's Backstory
Erin's most recent accolades include growing the previous company she founded from becoming global holding company Interpublic Group’s first equity investment in a majority women-owned business...ever (in its 93-year history) to earning the recognition from Fast Company as one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies of 2022.
Erin is also a PRNews 2019 ‘Top Women in PR’ Honoree.
She began her career at Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, a non-profit, legal services, watchdog committed to lifting the ban on LGBTQ+ in the military. (Which they ultimately achieved.)
Aspirations
Why Ella exists.
Mission
Power our disruptive ecosystem to achieve intersectional gender equity + build generational wealth for womxn everywhere.
Vision
To create a world where womxn realize the unencumbered, uninhibited + unlimited personal, professional + passion potential they have always deserved, but never experienced.
Values
Honesty
Empathy
Accountability
Respect
Transformation
Affiliations
Our steadfast commitment to intersectional gender equity is foundational to our values, core and being. We created Ella because we see other womxn not as competition, but as confidants, co-conspirators and collaborators.
Here are just a few of those established partnerships and affiliations.
