With her Texas-sized vision and no-nonsense approach, Chantell Preston has spent more than 30 years building, scaling, and transforming businesses in healthcare while challenging the myth that women must be perfect to be powerful. She is the author of
The Success Lie: Reframing Your Reality to Thrive Personally and Professionally, which has appeared on the USA TODAY and Los Angeles Times bestseller lists and both the Woman and Business lists on Amazon.
Chantell is a serial entrepreneur, investor, executive strategist, keynote speaker, and host of the
Get Real. Get Results podcast, a professional and personal development show that helps ambitious professionals—especially women—redefine success on their own terms. As founder and CEO of Preston Partners, she advises organizations on growth, strategy, and leadership, drawing on decades of experience leading multimillion-dollar healthcare operations across the U.S. through complex industry change.
Chantell’s expertise spans founding, scaling, and successfully exiting multiple companies, including Mentis Neuro Health, which was acquired by private equity. Her work extends well beyond healthcare. She is Co-Founder and Owner of Signal San Francisco, a League One Volleyball professional women’s team; owner of The Dance Barre HTX, the largest privately owned dance studio in Houston; and Managing Partner of The Collectiv, a community-powered venture fund focused on expanding access and opportunity in sports and health technology investing.
An inductee into the 2025 Texas Women’s Hall of Fame and recipient of the 2021 Breakthrough Women Award, both presented by the Greater Houston Women’s Chamber of Commerce, Chantell is a passionate advocate for authentic leadership. She is known for helping women break free from inherited expectations, reclaim their self-worth, and lead with clarity, confidence, and conviction. She has also been recognized as one of America’s Top 100 Women to KNOW and named to the Entreprenista 100.
Chantell has appeared in
Forbes,
USA TODAY,
Us Weekly, and on news outlets across the country. A sought-after speaker and advisor, she has delivered a TEDx talk and a keynote for the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, among many others. Through her speaking, she challenges conventional narratives about success and invites women to pursue ambition from a place of alignment rather than exhaustion.
A proud Texas A&M alumna and devoted mother of three daughters, Chantell lives in Houston, Texas, where she continues to build, invest, and empower others to lead—and live—on their own terms.
You can find Chantell at:
chantellpreston.com instagram.com/chantell_preston/ linkedin.com/in/chantellpreston/ youtube.com/@ChantellPreston
