Simone has over 25 years of strong global Human Resources experience. She is currently HR Head LATAM at Alcon. Her background includes leadership experience in Total Rewards, Talent Management, Organization Development, Change Management and Diversity and Inclusion. Simone has held various leadership roles at ENSCO, Halliburton Services, Reader’s Digest, Unisys, and ARCO. She brings a wealth of experience from across the HR function as well as diverse exposure to global businesses and cross-cultural practices with work experience in the U.S., Latin America, Africa, Europe and the Middle East.

Simone holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from USU, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Master’s Degree from IBMEC and from PUC, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, Leadership Development in Texas A&M, USA, and is pursuing a Doctoral in Management in Organizational Leadership at the University of Phoenix, USA.

Cheryl Smith leads talent management for Xerox, a public company with over 25,000 employees globally.  She is a seasoned talent professional with over 25 years of success in talent assessment, succession planning, leadership development, employee engagement, organizational surveys and change programs for world-class, global organizations including Gartner, Legrand, Diageo, MetLife and AIG.

Cheryl has a Ph.D. in Industrial / Organizational Psychology from New York University and a B.A. in Psychology from Yale.  She lives in Fairfield County, CT with her three daughters.

Seth Green was appointed Dean of the Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies on July 1, 2021.

Before joining Graham, Green served as Founding Director of the Baumhart Center for Social Enterprise and Responsibility at Loyola University Chicago. During his tenure, the Center launched a top-ranked specialty MBA program, a globally significant award for social innovation in business, and an array of educational programs that annually engage more than 4,000 learners. Green also served as an Executive Lecturer in Loyola’s Quinlan School of Business, teaching classes on social entrepreneurship and receiving recognition as the Mission-Driven Faculty Member of the Year in 2021.

Prior to Loyola, Green led Youth & Opportunity United (Y.O.U.), a nonprofit organization that prepares low-income youth for post-secondary and life success. At Y.O.U., Green oversaw the fourfold expansion of programs and a $16.4 million fundraising campaign to build a state-of-the-art youth center. He also spearheaded two strategic planning processes, resulting in an enhanced program model and deepened impact. Alongside Y.O.U., Green taught courses on nonprofit management as an adjunct lecturer at Northwestern University.

Earlier in his career, Green worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company, guiding private sector clients through strategy development and change management. A recipient of McKinsey’s Community Fellowship, he spent one year of his time at the firm supporting nonprofit clients, including the Gates Foundation and United Way.

Green speaks and writes on social innovation. His commentaries and research have appeared in the Christian Science Monitor, Fortune Magazine, the Journal of Business Research, and the Social Innovations Journal, and he serves on the Editorial Review Board of the Business and Society Review. Green has been a featured guest on Slate Podcasts, C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, MSNBC, and CNN, and his efforts have been covered by the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. In 2008, Utne Reader named him one of 50 “Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World.”

Green is civically engaged in Chicago, serving on the Campaign Cabinet of the United Way of Metro Chicago, the Impact Investing Advisory Council of the YWCA Metropolitan Chicago, the Advisory Board of Concordia Place, the Reception Committee of the Economic Club of Chicago, and the Advisory Board of the Executives’ Club of Chicago.

A Marshall Scholar, Green holds a J.D. from Yale University, a master’s in women’s studies from Oxford University, a master’s in development studies from the London School of Economics, and a bachelor’s degree in politics from Princeton University.

Emtrain founder and CEO Janine Yancey is a passionate advocate for healthy workplace cultures. Janine’s unique approach blends technology, behavioral science, data analytics, and social media-inspired interactions to help inform and improve workplace behavior. Janine presides over a team of experts and an extensive library of content including courses, video, resource guides, checklists and analytic reports that define the modern workplace.

Janine is a proponent of neutral, third-party guidance and problem-solving. By orchestrating a publicly-accessible community interface for employee questions and concerns, Janine stays at the forefront of real-world, real-time harassment, bias, discrimination, and ethics issues.

A tireless visionary, Janine writes extensively, has provided expert testimony and advice to state legislatures, and helps leading companies implement harassment prevention, diversity, ethics, and compliance programs. Janine is a sought-after speaker and has been published and interviewed in the mainstream media including The Washington Post, Fast Company, USA Today, Bloomberg Business, TechCrunch, and Startup Grind. She’s presented at Society of Ethics and Compliance; Techstars FounderCon; Founders Network, and The Club.

Prior to founding Emtrain, Janine was a partner at Employment Law Partners where she specialized in solving labor and employment problems for high tech firms including Google, Intuit and a variety of start-ups. Janine also worked as counsel at Liebert Cassidy Whitmore, served as Board Member of the Northern California Human Resources Association, and authored The HR Handbook, designed to help young tech companies navigate workplace laws.

Janine earned her JD at the University of California Hastings School of Law and a BA in English and Political Science at the University of California Berkeley.

Paul coaches CEOs, executives and facilitates leadership development programs for senior teams. His clients range from Fortune 50 to small scale and mid-size venture-backed startups in a wide range of industries including pharmaceuticals, healthcare, luxury brands, technology, travel services, consulting, and financial services.

Paul draws on his own 30+ years of experience as a Cryptologic Warfare Officer in the US Navy, a corporate business and entrepreneurial investor and leader. Paul’s experience ranges from managing a $900 million dollar business unit where he drove a $246 million budget reduction during a large-scale corporate realignment, to President of a predictive analytics company and as the COO whose leadership led them to be named one of the top consulting firms in Seattle. Paul has taught change management within university systems and is a guest speaker on diversity and inclusion at several large-scale universities.

Paul has a B.A in Psychology from Chapman University, an M.A. in Human Relations from the University of Oklahoma and an M.S. in Finance from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. He is ICF PCC credentialed, a certified Hogan facilitator and a certified Team Coach through Brown University.

Kathy is a Director with Aon’s Assessment Solutions practice. She has over 15 years of experience and consults in the areas of personnel selection, job analysis, leadership development, and test development. She also has experience in training, counseling, and executive coaching. Kathy has assisted both public and private organizations, as well as national and international clients.

Kathy received a Master of Science in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from the Florida Institute of Technology, where she graduated with distinction. While earning her M.S., she had the opportunity to develop selection tools for two large aerospace organizations.

Kathy is a member of the American Psychological Association as well as Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and has presented at such conferences to contribute to and advance the field of I-O Psychology.

Abby Guthkelch is the communications industry expert for the Workplace team globally. Her focus is on advising Workplace customers on communications best practice, trends and thought leadership, and works closely with our engineering and product management teams specifically with our communications customers in mind. Prior to Workplace, Abby held a number of senior level comms & marketing roles both in-house and agency – most recently as Global Head of Social Media at HSBC, and Ketchum’s UK Head of Digital. Abby has over 15 years’ experience as a multi-industry, multi-channel content strategist and was ranked among the Top 25 marketing innovators in EMEA in 2017.

Grace Berman is a Senior Director of DaVita University, guiding Learning & Development in the spaces of leadership, team, culture, and diversity & belonging training at DaVita Inc., a Fortune 500 health care provider focused on transforming care delivery to improve quality of life for patients globally. In this role, Grace leads learning delivery and technology innovations and also serves as a faculty member, coach, and partner to business leaders. She co-hosts a publicly-available leadership podcast for DaVita teammates called DaVita Leadership Insights. Originally from Taiwan, Grace currently lives in Denver, Colorado with her husband and two children. Her passions are food (cooking, baking, and eating) and traveling the world with her family.

Mina Morris is a Partner with Aon’s Assessment Solution Practice.  As an organizational psychologist, Mina works with clients to maximize the effectiveness of their talent selection processes, implement talent management systems and manage change.

Mina has extensive global experience partnering with clients in North America, Asia Pacific, and Middle East to deliver human capital solutions that help deliver business results. Before joining Aon, Mina held various management consulting roles with leading human capital firms.

Mina holds a Masters of Science in Industrial-Organizational Psychology and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Psychology, from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

Lydia Dishman is Fast Company’s senior editor for growth and engagement. She has also written for CBS Moneywatch, Fortune, The Guardian, Popular Science, and the New York Times, among others.

Rocky is the Founder & CEO of the NoW of Work Inc. - a business transformation firm whose primary focus is helping executives build future-proofed, resilient organizations that are anchored on cultures of innovation and agility. He couples a decade of senior leadership roles in large enterprise, with 5-years in start-up tech to form what he believes is the culture and operational DNA for all modern companies.

Dave is a Workplace Client Partner out of New York, with a focus on working with the largest companies in North America to help them transform how they better connect with their people to build a sustaining, competitive advantage. Prior to Workplace, Dave worked for 7 years at a start up in marketing tech, helping organizations transform how they connect with their customers.

Dr. Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks is a Behavioral Scientist and the William Russell Kelly Professor of Business Administration at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. He currently serves as the Faculty Director of the Ross School’s +Impact Studio. His research explores the fundamental social and emotional dynamics of organizational life. This work has generated novel insights about leading the creative process, implementing strategic change and ways to bridge diverse cultural divides.

Melissa Kilby is the Executive Director of Girl Up, the global leadership development organization transforming a generation of girls to be a force for gender equality and social change.

Since 2010, Girl Up has developed 85,000 girl leaders in 125 countries and all 50 U.S. states, and has raised more than $27 million for girls’ leadership programs and impact partners at the United Nations. Melissa joined Girl Up in its first year, and during her tenure with her team, has built the organization into the force that it is today.

Melissa is a leading expert on next gen leadership and youth activism. Recently named to Fortune Magazine’s 40 Under 40 Class of 2020, Melissa is also currently Chair of the Board of Directors of Girls on the Run, Washington DC. Prior to Girl Up, Melissa served as a National Director for OP3, where she helped raise an average of $45 million each season managing a nine-city, multi-day fundraising walk series benefiting the Avon Foundation for Women. Melissa holds a Bachelor of Journalism in Strategic Communication from University of Missouri – Columbia.  In 2014, she was selected to participate in a highly competitive program for non-profit leaders through Harvard University’s Kennedy School. Melissa sits on the U.S. Advisory Group for UN Women’s WE EMPOWER G7 and the Steering Committee for Women in Dev.

Melissa has appeared on MSNBC, written articles for Huffington Post and Harvard International Review, been quoted in many national and international press outlets and speaks regularly as an expert on leadership, activism and Gen Z girls. Recent speaking engagements include TEDxQuincy, Women in Dev, UN Women International Women’s Day events, and various other Girl Up events and at the UN.

Ursula leads the Executive Engagement Programs at Facebook. The program focuses on bringing global leaders along Facebook’s view of the Future of Work today. Ursula works hands on with Executives to facilitate the discussion of important issues that CEOs/CHROs/CIOs face in today’s ever changing working environment and create space for discussion among like-minded leaders. Ursula is passionate about connecting people, and using social networks and technologies as enablers to a great employee experience and amplifying culture. For the past 20 years she has worked and led high performing customer success teams at Oracle, Salesforce.com, Box, Microsoft, insidesales.com and now Facebook.

On a personal note, Ursula is Peruvian born & raised and moved to Canada in her late teens. She is active with her two “start-ups” Lucas (11) and Matias (10), loves to participate in ultra-trail marathons and resides in Menlo Park, CA.

Master Certified Coach, Fellow of Institute of Coaching/Harvard Medical School, Founder, HR Executive, Equity Ambassador. Alexa Teare has a passion for translating business vision to reality through global strategy, business acumen, behavioural science and unlocking the potential of all people.

Alexa is driven, action-oriented, deeply curious and grounded by her value system and growth-mindset. Rooted in her education in adult learning principles, organizational psychology and coaching pedagogy, Alexa is a leader in the realm of leadership development.  She has developed and executed upon strategies related to talent acquisition and development, fostered learning cultures, and built systems to support career growth and Equity & Inclusion at organizations ranging from startups to a trillion dollar finance company to a multinational tech giant. She believes that human connection is the nucleus from which all else forms and strives to embody that daily as a partner, parent and in her role as Chief People & Coaching Officer at Lingo Live.

Patricia Huska is the Chief People Officer (CPO) for American Express Global Business Travel (GBT) responsible for leading the Company’s Human Resources function. In this role, Huska leads a people-focused strategy designed to attract and retain talent, while furthering GBT’s focus on being the employer of choice in the global travel industry. She is responsible for all human capital related functions that support over 15,000 highly-skilled business travel professionals across GBT’s global enterprise.

Prior to becoming CPO, Huska was previously Vice President of Global Human Resources for GBT, responsible for the development and execution of strategies aimed at attracting talent, while retaining and engaging the existing employee base. She also has significant merger and acquisition experience.  She played a key role in the planning and creation of the Amex GBT joint venture as well as spearheading the HR integration of HRG from due diligence to integration.

An accomplished human resources leader with over 25 years at American Express and GBT, Huska has a broad HR background including employee relations, recruitment, change management, and organizational effectiveness. Throughout her career, she has led the creation of many corporate initiatives including home-based servicing for travel counsellors, workforce flexibility initiatives, and leadership development programs.

Huska has a master’s degree in Management from Lesley University and a bachelor’s in Business Administration from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.  She is based in Boston with her husband and two children.

With more than 20 years of experience guiding organizations toward workplace inclusion, Teresa Hopke brings a wealth of knowledge and wisdom on the importance of establishing cultures of belonging where everyone can thrive. Her unique, trusted, and proven insights on employee wellbeing, women's leadership development, and DEI (Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion) make her an incredibly valuable resource as Talking Talent’s CEO and as a partner to her coaching clients. ​

​Teresa’s career has been focused on building up others in order to achieve the best results, both for the individual and the teams they work with. Her innovative ideas and determination to see real change are the reasons for her success over the last two decades.  She is a nationally recognized thought leader on the topic of inclusive leadership, and she has been featured in many top tier business publications and media outlets such as CNBC, the CBS Morning Show, NBC Nightly News, NPR, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, HR Magazine, Money Magazine, and others. ​

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As a mother of four, Teresa understands the needs of working parents and caregivers. She also continually advocates for people who are underserved, undervalued, and underestimated in the workplace.

Stephanie Neal leads DDI’s Center for Analytics and Behavioral Research (CABER) where she manages strategic market research and trend studies on leadership and talent. She works with clients across industries to design and execute analytics initiatives that demonstrate the impact of assessment and development. Stephanie is an author of several industry-leading research reports, including DDI’s Global Leadership Forecast, the world’s largest leadership trend research study.

Kristen Bellstrom is features editor at Fortune, where she oversees The Broadsheet newsletter and edits the publication’s women and business coverage. Kristen also serves as co-chair of Fortune‘s Most Powerful Women Next Gen Summit. She was previously a senior editor at Money, where she ran the publication’s real estate and travel coverage. She began her journalism career at SmartMoney, where she was a writer and editor covering the travel industry, luxury, and consumer products. Kristen is a graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and Duke University.

For nearly 20 years Dr. Patrick Donahue has helped leaders become the best version of themselves. Dr. Donahue is a coach, teacher, executive, writer and speaker whose clients range from C-Suite Executives to new leaders finding their path.

In his current role, Pat is responsible for setting the strategy and direction  for leadership development at  the Danaher Corporation. Danaher is a Fortune 150 Multi-industry science and technology enterprise providing competitive advantage to customers worldwide.

Before joining Danaher, Pat served as the Director of Global Leadership  Development at Eli Lilly which consistently ranked in the Top 20 globally  of Top Companies for developing leaders. Pat’s roles at Eli Lilly included sales, marketing, operations, and eventually training and leadership development where he found his passion.

Prior to joining Lilly, Pat was the Division I Associate Head  Basketball Coach at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois. In this role  for ten years, Pat led his teams to two NCAA tournaments and four  NIT tournaments. He also served as a faculty member in the Bradley University Foster School of Business teaching Organizational Development.

Pat has previously been on the Board of Directors for Chaucie’s Place whose mission is to generate awareness of and prevent child abuse through its education and prevention programs. Pat has a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Elmhurst College, a master’s degree in business administration from Loyola University and a PhD in Organizational Leadership from  Indiana Wesleyan University. Pat’s dissertation explored the relationship between leader authenticity and trust. Pat’s first book was published in 2020 entitled, “The Power of Genuine Leadership” – How Authentic Leaders Earn Trust. Pat currently serves as an adjunct faculty member with the prestigious Lacy School of Business at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana

Kimberly Newkirk is the Vice President, Chief Talent and Learning Officer for Liberty Mutual Insurance. Kim is responsible for responsible for designing and executing strategies to develop and grow the capabilities of Liberty’s talent, from employees to executives, in order to advance Liberty's business strategy.

Before joining Liberty Mutual, Kim served in various learning, talent development and finance roles within technology, real estate and banking industries. Kim is passionate about all aspects of talent management, learning and development, with a track record of improving culture, capability and performance of technical and non-technical leaders. She also has a strong belief that skill building happens outside of the classroom, in the flow of work.

Kim received her Bachelor’s Degree from Emory University in Political Science and her Master of Business Administration from The George Washington School of Business in International Finance. Kim also holds several certifications in NeuroLeadership, Executive Education and Brain Based Coaching.

Laurie Rebholz is the head of Leadership and Performance Solutions (LEAPS) for Citi, the global banking company. Laurie and her team work closely with global stakeholders to embed leadership skills such as managing in the remote environment, inclusion, influence and credible challenge into Citi’s culture and practices using social, mobile and traditional learning methods.

Laurie has built her career at Citi over 20 years, in learning and development roles that span global, regional and product specific audiences.  Over the past few years, she’s successfully spearheaded various efforts to bring new and innovative approaches to Citi’s leadership development portfolios through social, mobile and traditional learning methods. Prior to this role, Laurie led various teams such as learning design and the manager capability/talent development practice area within the LEAPS organization.

Laurie is an executive coach and serves as faculty for one of Citi’s most senior leadership development programs.  Laurie has served on the Advisory Board for Harvard Manage Mentor and represented Citi on the Advisory Board of the American Bankers Association (ABA) School of Bankcard Management.

Laurie has an MBA in Human Resource Management and a B.A. in Political Science.