Suzan Morno-Wade was named chief human resources officer effective November 2018, and is an executive vice president of Xerox Holdings Corporation. In this role, Suzan leads Xerox’s strategy for global human resources, corporate security, communications, and payroll to facilitate and drive Xerox's transformation. 

Suzan has over 20 years of human resources leadership experience spanning across several industries, including positions at global organizations including Hess, Quantum, Mitsubishi, General Electric and Quaker Oats. In 2019, Suzan was recognized by Black Enterprise, the premier resource for African American professionals, for her professional contributions and named her one of the “Most Powerful Women in Corporate America.” Suzan serves on the Boards of Latham Pool Products and A Better Chance (ABC), an organization focused on educational access for low-income students of color in the United States. 

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.

Ming’s passion is to support teams of all types, especially creative individuals. She came from the Television/Entertainment industry but is very proud to be working with Firefly to advance the work of social good organizations. Her job is to take care of all the operational issues that staff members face, so that they can work at their highest level. She also heads the JEDI efforts internally at Firefly and is constantly looking for ways to create an more inclusive workplace. Ming holds a B.S. in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Colorado Boulder. In her spare time, she loves to cook and feed her friends and family and is passionate about ending food insecurity. She also loves to travel and experience new cuisines across the globe. Ming is also on the Board of Directors for Growing Home, a nonprofit that services the Denver area with a two-generation approach to poverty alleviation and community equity.

Dexter Davis is the Vice President Human Resources- Global Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Ecolab. Dexter began his career serving in a variety of roles at Fairview Health Services, Target, and General Mills. Davis joined Ecolab to be involved in their greater vision to cultivate cleaner, safer and healthier environments. Davis has a passion for serving at the global level and providing others with a sense of belonging. 

Timothy Fair is the Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Burlington Stores, Inc., Timothy is responsible for driving the company's strategic diversity agenda across all levels of the organization, including corporate, field & stores, merchandising, and distribution centers.

Prior to his current role, Timothy served as the inaugural Vice Chancellor for Diversity and Inclusion at LSU Health Sciences Center-New Orleans, where he successfully implemented a comprehensive framework that leveraged diversity, equity, and inclusion to drive institutional effectiveness. As Chief of Staff and Deputy to the Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion at
Auburn University, Timothy led the university's strategic initiatives to increase demographic diversity and foster inclusive teaching, resulting in measurable improvements in recruitment, retention, and institutional culture.

With extensive experience in leadership and management, Timothy has also held key roles as Assistant Dean of Students at Cornell University and Assistant Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Mississippi State University. He is a highly sought-after course facilitator and instructional designer, having worked with professionals from around the world to expand their
cultural acuity and professional skills in inclusion and diversity management through eCornell’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Certificate program.

Timothy holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point and a master’s and Ph.D. from Mississippi State University, both in public policy & administration. He is a visionary leader committed to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace and beyond, and is highly regarded for his ability to create positive
change and drive results.

Yentil Rawlinson serves as the Vice President of Inclusion, Diversity & Equity for The Sherwin-Williams Company. She has over 10 years of experience in leading programs, initiatives, and strategies to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion in large, global organizations.

Since joining the company in 2018, Sherwin-Williams has been recognized by Forbes as one of America’s Best Employers for Diversity, America’s Best Employers for Women, America’s Best Employers for New Grads, and America’s Best Employers for Veterans. Yentil serves on the board of directors for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Northeast Ohio and the Fund for Our Economic Future, and on Greater Cleveland Partnership’s Equity & Inclusion Board of Advisors.

Additionally, she is co-chair of M Suite, a program under the Women of Color Foundation to support Black, millennial women in the city of Cleveland and surrounding areas. In 2021, she served on the Transition Committee for Cleveland's 8th Mayor to support talent, culture, and equity in the city of Cleveland.

Yentil holds a BA in Sociology from The Ohio State University, MS in Management from Indiana Wesleyan University, and is a trained Lean Six Sigma Green Belt through Case Western Reserve University. For her professional endeavors, she has been recognized as a recipient of the Top 25 under 35 Movers & Shakers Award by the Cleveland Professional 20/30 Club, Rising Buckeye Award by The Ohio State University Alumni Association, a Her-Story Honoree by Radio One Cleveland, and the Overall Excellence in HR Award by Crain’s Cleveland Business.

Stacie M. de Armas is Senior Vice President Inclusive Insights & Initiatives and a Leader within Nielsen's Diversity, Equity & Inclusion practice. She is an inclusion & identity researcher, consumer behaviorist, and subject matter expert on diverse communities. Specializing in data at the intersection of community, advocacy & entertainment, she is responsible for producing inclusive thought leadership and new research initiatives on diverse consumers and audiences.

She joined Nielsen in 1998 and has served in many roles related to multicultural marketing. She sits on the Hispanic Marketing Council Board of Directors as well as Google's 21st Century Multicultural Marketing Council and has been the recipient of industry honors for her work in diversity marketing.

Stacie is an adjunct professor of qualitative research at California State University Los Angeles and California State University Northridge. She received her Master's degree in Business Administration with a focus on marketing from Texas A & M. Stacie is a first-generation Cubana and lives in Los Angeles with her two children.

Heather Wollerman is Vice President, Talent Management & Chief DEI Officer at McGraw-Hill Education. Prior to her current role Heather led global talent programs within EnPro and oversaw talent programs including Performance Management, Talent Acquisition, Talent Development & Assessment, Executive Succession and Diversity & Inclusion. Additionally, Heather was responsible for Corporate Office Human Resources including executive, leader and employee support.

Heather has over 20 years of manufacturing industry experience in a variety of Human Resources roles including Leadership Development, Recruiting, Change Management, Employee Relations, Labor Relations and General HR Business Support. Heather held leadership roles at SPX Corporation, ATI Specialty Metals as well as the Goodrich Corporation. Heather obtained her Bachelor of Business Administration in Management and Human Resources from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and her Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from Wake Forest University. She resides in Charlotte with her two daughters Emma (10) and Abby (9). She enjoys competitive rowing (crew), and running as well as traveling the world.

Kenji Yoshino is the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law at NYU School of Law and the faculty director of the Meltzer Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging. Kenji studied at Harvard, Oxford, and Yale Law School. His fields are constitutional law, antidiscrimination law, and law and literature.

 He has received several distinctions for his teaching and research, including the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award, the Peck Medal in Jurisprudence, and New York University’s Distinguished Teaching Award. Kenji is the author of three previous books—Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights; A Thousand Times More Fair: What Shakespeare’s Plays Teach Us About Justice; and Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial. He has published in major academic journals, including the Harvard Law Review, the Stanford Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal, as well as popular venues such as the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. He serves on the board of the Brennan Center for Justice, advisory boards for diversity and inclusion at Charter Communications and Morgan Stanley, and on the board of his children’s school.

David Glasgow is the executive director of the Meltzer Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging and an adjunct professor at NYU School of Law. He graduated with a BA in philosophy and an LLB (First Class Honors) from the University of Melbourne, Australia, and clerked on the Federal Court of Australia. A dual-qualified attorney in New York and Australia, he practiced employment, labor relations, and antidiscrimination law at law firm King & Wood Mallesons before completing his Master of Laws (LLM) at NYU School of Law in 2014, where he was awarded the David H. Moses Memorial Prize and the George Colin Award. He has written for a range of publications including the Harvard Business Review, HuffPost, and Slate, and served as an associate director of the Public Interest Law Center at NYU School of Law prior to his current role.

Kristen Carlisle is General Manager of Betterment and Work's 401(k) business, where she and her team work to bring retirement planning and financial wellness benefits to small and mid-sized businesses across the US. Kristen has over 10 years of experience within the B2B technology industry, and most recently served as the company’s Director of B2B Operations. Prior to joining Betterment, Kristen served as Director of Finance for Meetup, where she helped lead a company-wide enterprise business strategy pivot. Other previous experiences include roles at Yieldbot, AOL and Google. Kristen graduated from Ithaca College and is based out of New York City.

Tarawhona (Tara) Bellevue is an award winning education and leadership executive who delivers high-energy and inspirational keynote presentations. As a little girl from South Carolina she had big dreams with an adventurous spirit. Tara envisioned herself as a business executive and after high school obtained her B.S. in Business Administration. She went on to pursue a Master’s Degree in Secondary Education, which opened up a plethora of opportunities that allowed her to shape the minds of young people, become an award winning teacher, administrator, and appointed as the first woman of color for Business Teachers Association of NYS.

Tara is currently the Vice President of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access (IDEA) Strategy for NAF, where she brings stakeholders together to solve huge educational and economical challenges. She is also the visionary and conference co-founder of Today’s Girl Tomorrow’s Woman

Dave Wilkin is the founder of Ten Thousand Coffees. As an award-winning serial LGBT+ entrepreneur who grew up in a small  town, Dave learned that mentors and meaningful connections were integral to accessing career-progressing and skills development opportunities. As a result, he has spent his career empowering organizations to build more inclusive workplaces using 10KC’s technology. Dave wants to share his vision with organizations and business leaders on how they can unlock opportunity by cultivating meaningful connections in today’s new working world of decentralized, remote, and hybrid environments.

Pragashini Fox is the SVP of Global Talent and DEI at Thomson Reuters. She is responsible for architecting talent strategy that guides how they attract, develop and retain the best talent. She also supprts efforts in how they grow their leaders and enable performance that reinforces the deep commitment to building an inclusive, diverse environment at Thomson Reuters.

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.

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.

Kadia Tubman is the global newsroom's Managing Editor for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.  Before Insider, Kadia was a national politics reporter at Yahoo News and a Reuters journalist fellow at the University of Oxford. Additionally, Kadia is an adjunct professor at Columbia Journalism School and Hunter College in New York City, where she teaches critical issues and news literacy.

Dr. Enin Rudel holds a PsyD. in Organizational Leadership Psychology with a concentration in Neuropsychology, and an MSW in Clinical Social work. As an organizational psychologist, through the use of dialogic practices, he creates space for employees to bring their authentic selves into the workplace. He is a thought leader, and an innovator in DEI. Dr. Rudel’s approaches are rooted in emotional intelligence and his award-winning, publication titled: “Emotional Intelligence, Organizational Social Architecture, and Black Male Leadership”, offered the first resource for global DEI leaders on how to elevate retention and leadership of Black male executives.

Enin is the Director of the Inclusive Leadership Psychology Concentration at William James College and serves as teaching faculty in the Organizational Leadership Psychology Department. He is founder and principal of EI Consulting, LLC.

Dr. Rudel is a member of Boston Facilitator’s Roundtable and the American Psychological Association.

As Consulting and Assessment Practice Lead, Karen R. Young works closely with the IBIS consulting team to deliver results-oriented, innovative and engaging organizational and individual consulting services.

The experienced and diverse team of IBIS consultants offer assessments, consultation and coaching to advance individual and organizational diversity, equity and inclusion capability utilizing a proprietary tool for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion assessment, The Inclusive Organization Framework, and fourteen different areas of organizational impact to gauge where coaching and consultation will ensure the most progress. The IBIS consultation and coaching approach is positive and collaborative whilst focused on learning, adapting, and continuous improvement.

Karen R. Young is an experienced consultant, coach, and former DEI executive who has led enterprise-wide, multi-year diversity, equity, and inclusion strategies that have been recognized as results-oriented, innovative, and engaging from both a business and workplace perspective. She holds a Master of Social Work from Boston University and Bachelor of Arts in Education from Barrington College. She has a twenty-five-year track record as executive leader, business consultant, advocate, HR leader, business partner, facilitator, certified Strengths coach, and organization development consultant.

Her commitments to the community include service on the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts LGBT Chamber of Commerce, Boston Alliance of Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Youth (BAGLY), Pride in Our Workplace, and is a Member of the Perkins School for the Blind Corporation. Karen is proud to be recognized in the inaugural Power 50 – Chief Diversity Officers by Color Magazine highlighting CDO’s across various industries who are shaping and innovating the future of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Patrick Boyaggi is co-founder and CEO of Own Up, a technology company changing the way people shop for and secure a mortgage. Prior to co-founding Own Up, Patrick was a Senior Vice President at Leader Bank. Patrick also served as a Management Consultant in Accenture's Financial Services practice. Patrick received his Bachelor’s degree from Bates College and his MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

Olivia O’Connor is the Director of People Operations at Own Up.

Brandon Boatner currently serves as the Global Impact Specialist at StockX helping lead some of the company's DEI workplace efforts, including team member resource groups and inclusive and educational conversations. He has a passion for helping team members learn to lean in with empathy and equipping them with the tools necessary to build a more inclusive and authentic workplace. 

Lona Choi-Allum is a Senior Research Advisor in AARP Research.  She has been with AARP since 2004 and currently serves on the Financial Resilience team.  She focuses on research related to financial security, including work and jobs, older workers, reskilling and upskilling, small business owners, and consumer fraud.  She has over 20 years of research experience in both academic and non-profit settings.  

Prior to working at AARP’s national office, she managed federal grants under the National Science Foundation and the National, Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at the SPRY Foundation. She also worked in Health Advocacy and Consumer Affairs in AARP’s Southeast Regional office, and as a Health Representative for AARP’s NortheastRegional office.  She holds a Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts degree in Sociology.  She also has a PhD and a Master of Science degree in Gerontology from the University of Massachusetts Boston.