Marline Duroseau

Marline C. Duroseau is a nationally recognized CFO, CPA, leadership executive, and confidence coach with over 22 years of experience in business, finance, and organizational strategy. A proud daughter of Haitian immigrants and a native of Miami, FL, Marline’s career spans executive leadership in both the corporate and nonprofit sectors, where she is known for her inclusive leadership style, advocacy, and transformational guidance.

She is the founder of MCD Business Enterprise LLC, where she empowers women to embrace resilience and lead with confidence through her Women Matter initiatives, leadership programs, and signature vision-building events.

A Doctoral candidate in business leadership, Marline blends academic rigor with lived experience to create real-world solutions for personal and professional growth. She is also a published author, including her memoir It’ll Happen By 30, which chronicles a defining personal journey that continues to shape her advocacy work and connection to others.

In addition to her work with women, Marline is a children’s book author and educator, hosting literacy and empowerment workshops for youth nationwide. She also serves as CFO and board member of Filling Empty Wombs, Inc., a nonprofit serving the fertility community.

Marline is a proud wife and mother of four, a committed mentor, and a woman of faith who believes every challenge holds the potential for transformation. Her passion for helping others thrive makes her voice a compelling addition to the TEDx stage.

About TEDx, x = independently organized event

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TED Talks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized. (Subject to certain rules and regulations.)

About TED

TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 30 years ago, TED has grown to support its mission with multiple initiatives. The two annual TED Conferences invite the world’s leading thinkers and doers to speak for 18 minutes or less. Many of these talks are then made available, free, at TED.com. TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Sal Khan and Daniel Kahneman.

The annual TED Conference takes place each spring in Vancouver, British Columbia. TED’s media initiatives include TED.com, where new TED Talks are posted daily; TED Translators, which provides subtitles and interactive transcripts as well as translations from volunteers worldwide; the educational initiative TED-Ed. TED has established The Audacious Project that takes a collaborative approach to funding ideas with the potential to create change at thrilling scale; TEDx, which supports individuals or groups in hosting local, self- organized TED-style events around the world, and the TED Fellows program, helping world-changing innovators from around the globe to amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activities.

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