Sheela Subramanian is Vice President and co-founder of Future Forum. She holds 20 years of experience building high-growth global teams across Google, Slack, and startup organizations. As a champion for workplace equity, her work is cited in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and other publications. She is also co-author of How The Future Works: Leading Flexible Teams to Do the Best Work of Their Lives. Sheela earned her BA from Stanford University and MBA from Harvard Business School and is the mother to two magical daughters.

Ernest W. Marshall is executive vice president and chief human resources officer for Eaton, a global power management company.

Ernest leads Eaton’s effort to create a culture that attracts and inspires great talent and provides an exceptional place for employees to work and grow. In his role, he is responsible for the company’s global Human Resources function, which includes leadership and organizational development, compensation and benefits, inclusion and diversity, and talent acquisition.

Ernest has more than 22 years of global HR experience, previously holding executive HR leadership roles with General Electric.

Prior to joining Eaton in July of 2018, he served as vice president, Human Resources Leader for GE Aviation, with global HR responsibility for more than 45,000 employees.

Ernest holds a law degree from Indiana University – Bloomington School of Law, an MBA from Indiana University, and a Bachelor of Arts in accounting and business administration from Bellarmine University.

He currently serves on the boards of trustees for Republic Bank and Trust, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Bellarmine University, and the Kindway Organization.

Khairunissa Jivani is the VP of future of work, talent transformation, and organizational effectiveness at Prudential Financial. Previously, she served in roles in organizational change and strategy at companies including AIG and Accenture. She earned bachelor’s degrees in business administration and accounting at the University of Southern California and an MBA from Emory University.

Nicole Turner is the senior vice president of technology hubs at Mastercard, where she has served 17 years as a leader in HR and technology. She earned her MS in counseling psychology from Hunter College in New York City and has studied HR and leadership at Duke University and Yale University.

Yana Smith is the Vice President of Future Org Design at Teach For America. Previously, she was chief of staff for the Oakland Unified School District and chief organizational culture & effectiveness officer for the Denver Public Schools.

Melissa Luff Loizides is vice president of talent at Zebra Technologies, a global leader in tracking technology and solutions that generate actionable information and insight by connecting people, assets and data, which gives companies unprecedented visibility into their business and a performance edge. Zebra, headquartered in Lincolnshire, Ill., empowers people on the front line of business in retail, health care, transportation and logistics, manufacturing and other industries.

Melissa has nearly 25 years of experience within the technology and finance industries and has provided HR leadership throughout multiple merger and acquisition engagements including the Motorola acquisition of Symbol Technologies and the Zebra acquisition of the enterprise division from Motorola Solutions. Over her career, she has partnered with C-suite executives across multiple organizations and teams. In her current role, Melissa is leading Zebra’s Global HR Business Partners collaborating with our executive leadership and their organizations to “Shape the Future of Zebra through the Power of People.”

Melissa joined Symbol Technologies, Inc. in 2004 as HR business partner for engineering and product management, following her many years at Goldman Sachs & Co. in the Equities Division. During Melissa’s tenure, she held numerous HR business partner roles of increasing responsibility and scope with leaders across multiple functions. She was selected for a six-month rotation to partner with and support the Motorola Solutions Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) in 2011. In 2014 with Zebra’s acquisition of the MSI Enterprise business, Melissa was a core HR team member leading the effort to “carve out” nearly 4,500 employees and assets of the Enterprise business that were acquired by Zebra Technologies. Since the acquisition, Melissa has held roles of increasing responsibility leading to the merging of all global HRBP’s under her leadership in April 2021.

Melissa holds a bachelor of arts in history and a master of science in management with a concentration in HR management from St. Joseph’s College. She is a certified KF360 coach, and a member of the School Business Partnerships of Long Island, First Long Island Board of Directors. She resides in East Patchogue, NY, with her husband and two children.

Natalie Baumgartner, PhD, is the chief workforce scientist and director of the Achievers Workforce Institute, the research and insights arm of Achievers, the employee recognition and engagement platform. She has spent her career advising companies of all sizes, from entrepreneurial startups to Fortune 500 firms, on issues related to company culture. Specifically tackling key-hire assessment and portfolio due-diligence issues, she has found success analyzing what most overlook: the human element.

Previously, Baumgartner was the founder and chief psychologist of RoundPegg, a software platform designed to help companies understand their culture from the ground up to create cultural alignment and higher organizational performance. RoundPegg was acquired by Achievers.

Baumgartner earned her BA in psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, her MA in clinical psychology at UCLA, and her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Denver, with a specific focus on assessment and additional training in strength-based psychology.

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.

Katie Johnston writes about work and income inequality for the Boston Globe. She also edits the Globe's annual Top Places to Work magazine. Katie has been at the Globe since 2002, where she has also worked as a copy editor, entertainment editor, music editor, and travel/workplace reporter. She previously worked at The Gazette in Colorado Springs and the Itemizer-Observer in Dallas, Ore., and has a bachelor's degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Lindsey Dixon is the assistant vice president of innovation for NAF, an industry-sponsored nonprofit with a national network of public-private partnerships that support career academies within traditional high schools. NAF serves more than 120,000 high school students in 34 states, with a 99% graduation rate for students who complete their career academy (CTE) program.

Lindsey is responsible for leading the identification, exploration, and development of opportunities to extend and deepen NAF’s impact through technology solutions. She has decades of experience in education, technology, nonprofit leadership, and workforce development for organizations such as Urban Assembly and Year Up, among others, and was a high-school English teacher in the Bronx. Lindsey is also a veteran of the U.S. Air Force.

She has several certifications and degrees in education and instructional technology and earned a BA from the University of Maryland and an AAS in Electronics Technology from the Community College of the Air Force. She is currently a doctoral student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, studying educational leadership and learning design. Her certifications are in the areas of Applied Artificial Intelligence, Entrepreneurial Studies: Product Design, UX Design, Blended Learning Design, and Project Management.

Bryan Walsh is an editorial director at Vox overseeing the tech, climate, and world teams, as well as the editor of Vox’s Future Perfect section, which covers the policies, people, and forces that could make the future a better place for everyone. He is the author of the 2019 book End Times: A Brief Guide to the End of the World, which is about existential risks like AI, pandemics, and nuclear war, and isn’t really all that brief. Previously he worked at Axios as the Future Correspondent and worked at TIME magazine for 15 years as a foreign correspondent in Asia, a climate change writer, and as the international editor.

Shana Lebowitz Gaynor is a correspondent for Insider, where she covers career development and workplace culture. Her new book, Don’t Call It Quits: Turn the Job You Have into the Job You Love (Amazon, Bookshop), just hit shelves.

MaryKate Morley Ryan is a leader on Accenture’s Future Workforce team with a focus on social innovation and radical inclusion.  She is responsible for Accenture’s US Innovating for Society strategy. She has worked closely with Fortune 50 C-suite leaders, local civic leaders, higher education executives and even military leaders. No matter the place or the people, her focus is on holding the space for public and private sector leaders to shape the future of work.

As the daughter of a single mom, she witnessed the power of grit, selflessness and community support. She’s translated these learnings into her work by championing courageous collaboration, human-centered design and servant leadership. She co-taught a course on Possible Future Livelihoods at Stanford during Covid-19, partners with Harvard on the Next Level Lab, and serves as World Economic Forum Fellow on the Jobs of Tomorrow.

An expert in developing and executing strategic plans for business growth and brand awareness, Andrea Dumont brings more than 20 years of global marketing and communications experience to Enboarder. In her role, she leads all of Enboarder’s marketing efforts as the company expands into helping others build human connections at every step of the employee journey.

Holly is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Eightfold AI where she leads Eightfold’s contingent hiring solution – Talent Flex. She helps leading organizations make better-informed decisions and find higher-quality hires with deep-learning AI​. Prior to joining Eightfold, Holly spent six years at Salesforce supporting corporate marketing and product marketing.

Rebecca Warren is the Director of Talent Centered Transformation, at Eightfold AI and has been in and around the TA space for 15+ years at a variety of organizations and industries in both full-time and consulting roles. She has been at Eightfold for just over a year in customer success and the president of the Arizona Recruiters Networking Community (part of the Recruiters Network) and is passionate about helping people succeed.

Robyn Thornton is the Talent Acquisition Director at SeekOut.

Henry Finklestein is the Head of Data and Customers at Rising Team.