Founder & Chair
Elisa Basnight, Esq., Founder of Girls Action Network, Inc., is renowned for catalyzing change and fostering optimal outcomes across Fortune 50 corporations, government bodies, and nonprofits. Her background encompasses senior executive roles in Healthcare, Supply Chain, Workforce Innovation and advising clients as a corporate and commercial attorney. A two-time U.S. Presidential Appointee and former intelligence officer in the U.S. Army, her military record includes a Joint Chiefs of Staff appointment to the Office of the U.S. Military Representative of NATO. Actively involved in board memberships in the health care, STEM and supply chain sectors and dedicated to fostering competitiveness and optimizing potential, Elisa is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy – West Point, Rutgers Law School, Harvard’s Kennedy School, and Boston University – Brussels, underscoring her commitment to excellence. She holds law licenses in NY, NJ and PA.
Elisa has served as adjunct, teaching a module on Leading Change at Brookings. She is a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She has authored and published op-eds and two (2) Law review articles: Resolving Conflict in the 21ST Century Global Workplace: The Role of ADR and Globalization, Governance, and Multinational Enterprise Responsibility: Codes of Conduct in the 21ST Century, which has become a Lexis Litigation Essential (Both Law Journal publications as Elisa Westfield). She is a member of the Association of Supply Chain Management, NACD and The Links, Incorporated. Elisa reminds GAN members that, “If you see it, you can believe it. If you believe it, you can become it.” Two of Elisa’s favorite life tenets are: “Together, we can! and “Teamwork makes the dream work!”
