Serena Anthony is Chief People Officer for GroupM North America. Serena is an expert Human Resources Management professional with over 20 years of experience working across complex, disparate ecosystems where she demonstrates her true capabilities as an innovative thinker and change-maker in the field.  As a member of GroupM’s North America Executive Committee, Serena is a key player in designing, driving and championing GroupM’s people strategy.  With a passion for diversity & inclusion programming, and a focus on culture, Serena aims to position GroupM as an employer of choice.  She is known for her motivational leadership, dynamic personality, and delivering valuable impact.

Serena is the proud mother of identical twin girls and currently resides in Canada, splitting her time between Toronto and New York City.

Sharon Jean-Baptiste is the Vice President, Midwest US Operations - People & Places Solutions at Jacobs.

Colleen Ammerman is founding director of the Harvard Business School Gender Initiative, which catalyzes and translates cutting-edge research to transform practice, enable leaders to drive change, and eradicate gender, race, and other forms of inequality in business and society. She oversees the Initiative’s staff, operations, and activities, including student and alumni engagement, programs for companies, and research conferences. She is a member of the Life & Leadership After HBS research team, an ongoing longitudinal study of Harvard Business School alumni which examines the influence of gender and race on their life and career outcomes. She has published various articles and teaching materials on inequality in the workplace and is coauthor, with Boris Groysberg, of Glass Half-Broken: Shattering the Barriers That Still Hold Women Back at Work (Harvard Business Review Press 2021).

Liat Krawczyk is a Vice President at the NYC Economic Development Corporation where she heads the Economic Mobility pillar and Childcare Innovation Lab. The Lab leads research on childcare as economic infrastructure and catalyzes public and private sector innovations that pave a more accessible and equitable future of care. Prior, Liat co-led Cyber NYC, NYCEDC's signature program to grow the City’s Cybersecurity industry. Before joining NYCEDC, Liat grew non-profits, startups, social-enterprises, and innovation ecosystems with a focus on social impact tech and real estate/fintech. Liat is co-founder of The Jeneba Project, a nonprofit that runs an excellence high school for girls in Sierra Leone. She is also the producer and director of several documentary films.

Tricia Layde is the Global Reward Business Partner, Strategic Projects and Transformation, at Smiths Medical. The Smiths Medical business includes syringe and ambulatory infusion devices, vascular access, and vital care products.

Angela Nelson is the Executive Director, Clinical Services for RethinkCare. She oversees RethinkCare’s consultation services and content generation for our industry leading Parental Success solution. She specializes in working with parents raising children and teens with learning, social, and behavioral challenges, as well as organizations motivated to best support their employees with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Angela holds a master’s degree in Counseling, a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from UCLA, and is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA). She is currently pursuing her doctorate in Education with a specialization in organizational behavior change.

Ericka Sóuter has over 20 years of journalism experience and is a nationally recognized voice in parenting news and parenting advice. She is the author of the 2021 book, How to Have a Kid and a Life: a Survival Guide. A frequent contributor on Good Morning America and other national broadcast outlets, it’s her job to speak to parents across the country to stay on top of the issues, controversies, and trends most affecting families today.

Her work appears on the Bump, What to Expect, CafeMom, and Mom.com, all high-traffic parenting sites that reach millions of moms each month. Her writing has also been featured in People magazine, Us Weekly, Essence, Cosmopolitan, Self and WebMD. Ms. Sóuter received her bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University and a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Callum Borchers writes a weekly, reported column for the Wall Street Journal about people’s careers and work lives. Previously, he was a correspondent at public radio station WBUR, where he covered business and politics and often hosted NPR’s national midday show, “Here & Now.” Callum also has been a staff writer at the Washington Post and Boston Globe. He is an adjunct professor of journalism at Northeastern University, where he earned a master’s degree. He and his wife have four children and are foster parents. Before kids devoured his non-work time, Callum once qualified for the U.S. national pararowing team for athletes with physical disabilities.

Shauna Cour is the Vice President, Employer Sales at Ovia Health.

Phyllis Stewart Pires is a leader in helping organizations navigate the rapidly changing dynamics
of how people live and work. As AVP of Employee Support Programs & Services, Phyllis is
responsible for the strategic direction, planning, development, implementation, and evaluation
of policies and programs for university-wide human resource functions. Under her leadership
are comprehensive wellness programs, dependent care, and worklife programs, flexible work
implementation, mental health services, and employee experience. Her team oversees one of
the largest and most complex child care systems in higher education, serving more than 900
children across six child care centers.

Before coming to Stanford, Phyllis held a variety of HR, communications, change leadership and
diversity roles at Cisco and SAP. She has extensive experience designing, building, and managing
corporate child care centers and founded the award-winning Family Services programs at Cisco.
While serving as the Global Head of Diversity for SAP, she made significant progress in diversity,
engagement, and values-driven culture alignment initiatives.

Phyllis has served on the Conference Board WorkLife Leadership Council, the Clayman Institute
for Gender Research, Working Group on the Future of Work, Families and Work Institute
Corporate Leadership Circle Advisory Board, and the College and University WorkLife and
Family Association Board of Directors.

Phyllis has an Early Childhood Degree and Elementary Education Credential from the University of the Pacific and her Master’s Degree in Human Development from UCLA.

Leigh Betancourt is the AVP of Solution Consulting at Carrot Fertility, the leading global fertility healthcare and family-forming benefits provider for employers and health plans. Carrot's clinically-managed program includes egg freezing, in vitro fertilization (IVF), donor and gestational carrier services, and adoption. Carrot supports more than 400 companies and is available in more than 120 countries across North America, Asia, Europe, South America, and the Middle East.

As a former Customer Success professional, Leigh combines her experience supporting customers with her deep understanding of fertility care to provide in-depth expertise to HR benefits teams as they consider their options for fertility benefits. Leigh comes to Carrot with extensive experience in the consumer health space. Before joining, she held positions with Spring Fertility, Reproductive Science Center, and The American Cancer Society.

Liz Colizza, MAC, LPC, NCC is a nationally certified licensed professional counselor with certifications in couples therapy and trauma-informed therapy. She's also the Head of Clinical Content for Talkspace Self-Guided. She has thousands of hours of clinical experience, and millions have seen her relationship advice. Liz's work has been featured in GQ, Vox, Oprah, and more.

As an HXM Value Advisor, Monica works with senior SAP leadership, SAP clients and SAP prospective clients to support the cloud technology journey and value realization for these solutions.  As a previous HR executive, she has had the unique opportunity to lead every function in HR with extensive experience in implementing and managing Human Resource technology initiatives.  Her experience spans multiple industries with large domestic and international companies across Technology, Retail, Entertainment, Financial Services, Energy and Education.  Over the past two decades, she has streamlined HR business processes and maximized HR’s contribution to organizational results. She has built and driven business partnerships, total rewards programs, M&A activities, operations teams, talent acquisition, strategic talent programs, enhanced learning & development programs, and technology programs.

Her passion is working with clients to solve business problems.  When working with executives on technology, her key focus areas have been helping these leaders move towards a more robust employee experience by building technology implementation plans and roadmaps that meet the business and employee needs.

Monica is based in Austin, Texas, and outside of work she is very active in her local community and spends her free time with her friends and family.

David Malmborg is VP of Marketing & Community at Nivati, a leading mental health platform for employees. He serves on the Board of Directors of Utah Digital Marketing Collective, a non-profit organization promoting marketing education in the intermountain region. He has over 15 years of experience in various marketing initiatives. Previous to his role at Nivati, David ran agency operations and performance marketing at two different marketing agencies focused on travel and tourism and has worked with multiple world class ski resorts, and convention and travel bureaus.

Deborah Hanus is the CEO and co-founder of Sparrow, the first high-tech, high-touch leave management solution to help employers care for their people. Deborah earned engineering degrees from MIT, was a Fulbright Scholar, and started her PhD work at Harvard. Under her leadership, Sparrow has raised $20 million in funding and touches hundreds of thousands of lives.

Haeli Harris is the director of clinical operations at Nivati, a licensed mental health therapist, yoga instructor, health and wellness coach, and mindfulness practitioner dedicated to helping others through holistic health and healing. She takes a client-based, solution-focused approach helping the client to find their own solutions that are within them and building on their own strengths. Haeli has specialized training in combining yoga and mental health including using a trauma-informed lens when working with her clients. She is also a mother to teenagers and a lover of chocolate and dancing!

Andy Rosa is the vice president of care, supporting customer service delivery across the Accolade product and solution suite. He joined Accolade in 2019 and previously led the large strategic/enterprise account management team. Before Accolade, Andy led various HR functions at AmeriGas and Comcast, buying and enabling Accolade solutions for both organizations. Outside of work, Andy enjoys spending time with his family and traveling. He is also a passionate sports fan and coach.

As Senior Director, Thought Leadership for Bright Horizons Workforce Consulting Team, Elizabeth Myers, PhD, is responsible for advancing current and conducting original research on topics of interest to our clients. Dr. Myers’s career spans for-profit, non-profit, and government sectors with over a decade of experience leading research, evaluation, and analytics projects primarily within the domains of education and human development. Her research can be found in over a dozen scientific journals, and she is a frequent conference speaker. Dr. Myers earned her B.S. in Psychology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, M.Ed. in Psychological Studies from Cambridge College, and PhD in Child Study and Human Development from Tufts University.

Ann is the Chief People Officer of Flo, the world’s leading female health and wellness product on a mission to build a better future for female health by helping women harness the power of their body signals. Ann is responsible for the strategic development of Flo’s global people and growth strategy, leading talent, engagement, people operations, and performance management as the company ramps up for significant growth as one of Europe’s fastest-growing tech unicorns. Before Flo Ann was the Group HR Director at Bumble, with previous gigs in Goldman Sachs, Rolls-Royce, Connected Places Catapult, and Lebara Mobile. 

Ann is born and raised in the Nordics, educated in Bangkok, and calling London home since 2008. Ann was the Stonex Scholar at London School of Economics, has an MBA from Imperial College, is a judge at the UK Employee Experience Awards, and was the HR Professional of the Year Gold Award Winner in HR Brilliance Awards 2019.

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.

Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza is a freelance journalist and From Day One contributing editor who writes about work, the job market, and women’s experiences in the workplace. Her work has appeared in the BBC, The Washington Post, Quartz at Work, Fast Company, and Digiday’s Worklife.

Greg supports the SAP SuccessFactors North American HR Cloud team, working directly with senior leadership at both current and prospective customers. With a desire to bring competitive advantage solutions to life through innovative strategic thinking, Greg is a trusted advisor who helps organizations implement sustainable long term HR cloud platforms with high impact. Greg is a Human Resources professional with over twenty five years of Talent Management and HR leadership experience. He has helped drive global HR transformation in M&A environments, professional services organizations and in the life sciences industry with Roche, Aon Hewitt, and Baker McKenzie. He has a BS degree from Purdue University and MBA from the University of New Orleans.