Lisa Hinkelman, PhD
Founder and CEO of Ruling Our eXperiences (ROX)
Dr. Lisa Hinkelman is a nationally recognized researcher, speaker and author who is a foremost authority on educating and empowering girls and creating environments that foster girls’ confidence, self-esteem and successful decision-making. She has spent nearly 20 years researching and counseling girls and educating adults, first as a professor at The Ohio State University and currently as the Founder and CEO of the national non-profit Ruling Our eXperiences (ROX), an organization that delivers evidence- based programming, research, education and training focused on the critical issues impacting girls.
Lisa is the author of the groundbreaking research report, The Girls’ Index™ , a national study with more than 17,000 girls and her best-selling book ’Girls Without Limits: Helping Girls Succeed in Relationships, Academics, Careers and Life’, (Corwin Press, 2021) was featured as an Amazon Hot New Release. Her work has been featured by The Wall Street Journal, Parents Magazine, Newsweek, USA Today, SXSW and Education World. She works with schools, corporations, associations and organizations across the country to address the social, emotional, educational, safety and leadership issues impacting girls.
Dr. Hinkelman earned her bachelor’s degree in Education and Psychology from Chatham College, her master’s and doctorate degrees in Counselor Education from The Ohio State University and completed the Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management program at Harvard Business School. She is a former collegiate softball and ice hockey player, a rescue dog lover and mom to young, wild and three-year old daughter, Irene.
“Dr. Hinkelman does a phenomenal job capturing the voices and personal experiences of girls across the nation and translates their struggles into positive strategies that can result in prolific outcomes.”
