Ellie Shefi is an attorney, advisor, keynote speaker, strategist, leadership consultant, corporate trainer, and multiple international best-selling and award-winning author who drives change by helping organizations optimize operations and individuals build the lives, communities, businesses, and world they envision.

As the founder of MTC Consulting, Ellie leverages her more than 30 years of experience in law, business, education, and advocacy to help organizations build resilient teams and world-class cultures while developing influential leaders. Serving as a strategic advisor to governments, universities, corporations, entrepreneurs, and NGOs, she successfully helps organizations mitigate their risk, optimize their operations, and align their teams.

A 10x #1 international best-selling author, Quilly award recipient, and member of the National Academy of Best-Selling Authors, Ellie is dedicated to empowering others to use their voice. She founded Made to Change the World™ Publishing, a full-service independent publishing house that’s run by women, for women, to provide women with a world-class platform to share their stories with the world. Ellie guides entrepreneurs, speakers, coaches, and consultants through her strategic business and brand-building book writing and publishing process and helps leaders amplify their message so they can scale their impact.

A sought-after speaker addressing audiences globally, Ellie is regularly interviewed in top publications and on podcasts and media channels like Forbes, Entrepreneur, USA Today, NBC, ABC, and CBS, amongst others, and she hosts the Free by Design™ television show, the Creating an Impervious Mind® YouTube series, and the You Are Not Your Scars® podcast.

A civil rights attorney and outspoken advocate fighting against injustice, Ellie is proud to serve on the leadership councils and advisory boards of nonprofits focused on civil rights, human rights, criminal justice reform, disaster recovery, fighting human trafficking, and ending mass atrocities.

Ellie is also the founder of the Made 2 Change the World™ Foundation, an emerging nonprofit organization that seeks to equip and empower the next generation with the tools, resources, and strategies they need to create the lives, communities, and world they envision.

The recipient of numerous social impact awards and recognized as the 2x Discrimination and Human Rights Lawyer of the Year, the 2025 Women Changing the World Global Thought Leader of the Year, a 2024 Success Magazine Changemaker, one of the Most Admired Women Leaders in Business, one of the Top 10 Entrepreneurs to Follow, one of the Most Inspiring Business Women of the Year, one of the Most Influential Women Leaders to Watch, and a 50 under 50, Ellie has dedicated her life to giving a voice to the voiceless, speaking out against injustice, and advocating for change. She is also the proud recipient of numerous Woman Changing the World Awards,

presented by Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York.

Ellie has spent decades cultivating her unique expertise that she now shares with her clients to drive change, disrupt industries, and create well-rounded organizations and “force for good” businesses that best serve their wider communities.

To learn more about Ellie, visit ellieshefi.com.

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