Create a piece of music that sells a million copies and you're awarded a platinum record and the cover of Rolling Stone. Write a book that sells a million copies and you're a "New York Times Best-selling Author." But if you're Eleanor Abbott and you create a board game that has sold over 100 million copies, you're... Who? Eleanor Abbott invented Candy Land in 1949. Her game has gone PLATINUM,100 times over, and yet, very few people have heard her story. Tim Walsh is out to change that. Inspired by his own research on the greatest playthings ever created, Tim shares the inspirational stories of the greatest female entrepreneurs that world has ever seen including Elizabeth Magie (Monopoly), Kay Zufall (Play-Doh), Leslie Scott (Jenga), Ruth Handler (Barbie), Eleanor Abbott (Candly Land), Betty James (Slinky), Helen Malsed (Slinky Dog), and many more. In this empowering presentation Tim shares how an industry adjacent to education opened its doors to woman and was wildly rewarded for it. And so were we all.
