Charman Hayes is Executive Vice President, People and Capability, Operations and Technology at Mastercard. She is responsible for aligning the talent strategy with the organization’s long-term, technical, and financial objectives. She brings together people and capability functions that drive the evolution of the engineering culture through the implementation of programs to recruit, retain and develop top technology talent for Mastercard. Previously, she held HR leadership positions at BlackRock, Brown Brothers Harriman and Morgan Stanley. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rosemont College and a Master of Science degree from Columbia University.

Dania is a seasoned medical strategist with more than 15 years of industry experience. As Chief Medical Officer of Wunderman Thompson Health, Dania drives the development and implementation of medical strategy across brands and the creation of content for pharmaceutical and biotech clients.

Prior to Wunderman Thompson Health, Dania worked at the FCB Health Network across multiple agencies, including Area 23 and FCB Cure. There, she established, grew and led best-in-class medical teams. Dania has provided strategic and scientific support for more than 30 oncology brands across multiple tumor types, as well as a number of brands in the immunology, rheumatology and infectious disease categories.

Before entering the pharmaceutical industry, Dania received her BS in biology from Barry University in Miami Shores, Florida, and went on to earn a PhD in biomedical sciences from the Mount Sinai Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. Dania then pursued a brief postdoctoral fellowship at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where she researched investigational drugs to target rhabdoid tumors in mouse models. Dania’s research experience includes work in neurobiology, signal transduction, muscle physiology and 10+ years of experience in cancer research.

Dania continues to pursue her passion for helping people with cancer through her involvement in fundraising efforts, including the American Cancer Society, the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, and Miles for Moffitt Cancer Center, and running marathons to support them.

Samanntha DuBridge serves as Vice President of Global Benefits, Culture, and People Experience at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). In her role, she is responsible for driving strategy and execution in a variety of areas that directly support innovation, engagement and the HPE Human Resources strategy, including building the HPE culture, creating an engaging team member experience and enabling the workplace of the future. Through ongoing culture initiatives, team member campaigns, wellbeing programs and service delivery, Samanntha’s team plays a critical role in making HPE a great place to work and a destination for top talent.  

Additionally, Samanntha leads the design, development and compliance of global benefit and mobility programs that support the needs of the business, team members and their families, navigating an ever-changing global political and regulatory landscape. She also manages people operations that include a range of important HR support services such as Labor and Employee Relations, Privacy and Compliance, HR service centers, along with Agile HR project and change management processes that are accelerating the pace of change throughout HPE. 

Samanntha is passionate about creating programs and services that deliver a world-class experience for HPE team members and their families through effective integration and alignment to maximize the  impact and value of all people experiences.Prior to joining HPE, Samanntha held positions at HP, National Semiconductor, and various healthcare organizations. She holds a Master’s Degree from San Jose State University in Health Care Administration.

Trevor Bogan is an experienced Regional Director for Top Employers Institute.

During the work week, you can find Trevor working with his world-class sales team reaching out to new and existing clients to learn more about their challenges with their internal HR practices, attending events/speaking engagements to share how the Top Employers Institute certification seals have improved companies’ employment and cultures, and working with his fantastic Marketing team building the Top Employers Institute brand in North America. Trevor’s experience in the staffing industry allows him to support HR and Talent Acquisition departments with building sustainable internal practices that will help retain and attract great talent.

Trevor has received numerous accolades for his sales and business development skills earning him several awards including Elite performer, Top Sales Executive, and Top Regional Sales leader for profit growth.

When Trevor isn’t working, he’s spending time with his family and friends, longboarding, traveling, and enjoying the outdoors.

Marielaine Yepes is the VP,HR at NBCUniversal.

Amy C. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School, a chair established to support the study of human interactions that lead to the creation of successful enterprises that contribute to the betterment of society.

Edmondson has been recognized by the biannual Thinkers50 global ranking of management thinkers since 2011, and most recently was ranked #1 in 2021; she also received that organization’s Breakthrough Idea Award in 2019, and Talent Award in 2017.  She studies teaming, psychological safety, and organizational learning, and her articles have been published in numerous academic and management outlets, including Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Harvard Business Review and California Management Review. Her 2019 book, The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation and Growth (Wiley), has been translated into 15 languages. Edmondson’s latest book, Right Kind of Wrong (Atria), builds on her prior work on psychological safety and teaming to provide a framework for thinking about, discussing, and practicing the science of failing well. First published in the US and the UK in September, 2023, the book is due to be translated into 15 additional languages. 

Adi Ignatius is Editor in Chief of the Harvard Business Review Group, where he oversees the editorial activities of HBR, hbr.org, and HBR’s book-publishing unit. Prior to joining HBR in 2009, Mr. Ignatius was the No. 2 editor at TIME.

He is the editor of two books: President Obama: The Path to the White House and Prisoner of the State: The Secret Diaries of Premier Zhao Ziyang. Both made the New York Times Bestseller List.

Mr. Ignatius lived and worked for nearly 20 years overseas. He was Editor of Time’s Asian edition and earlier served as Beijing Bureau Chief and Moscow Bureau Chief for the Wall Street Journal.

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.

Siobhan O'Connor is the chief content officer at Atria Institute.

Abby Schneiderman is an entrepreneur, innovator and visionary leader with a passion for finding ways to use technology to make people’s lives better. Together with Adam Seifer, she is currently the co-founder and co-CEO of Everplans (Everplans.com), a life and legacy planning company dedicated to transforming the way people think ahead and get their families organized. Everplans is offered by hundreds of financial services companies, insurance providers, and employers across the country. As an industry expert in the areas of digital estate planning, technology and consumerism, Abby has been featured in numerous publications including the NYT, WSJ, Bloomberg, CNBC, and the Huffington Post. Abby was named to Fast Company’s list of the most creative people in business in 2016 (https://www.fastcompany.com/most-creative-people/2016). Abby lives with her husband and two little girls in Washington, D.C.. Abby is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.

Alex is a highly experienced employee engagement consultant, trainer and speaker. For over 15 years she has helped HR and business leaders implement strategies that drive true culture change.  Her wealth of knowledge comes from coaching and training thousands of managers from a wide range of industries across the globe. Alex focuses on providing organizations with proven practices that drive results for varied leadership styles and the multiple generations in the modern workforce. Her presentation will leave you motivated and better equipped to lead your organization on a path to a more engaged workforce, making the world a better place to work.

Corrinne M. Hobbs (she/her) currently serves as the Vice President of Business Development at Ovia Health where she is focused on partnerships and new business development. Corrinne is a changemaker with a passion for health equity, innovation and development of strategies that lead to improved health outcomes, market share and profitability.

Corrinne has nearly 20 years of healthcare experience within Fortune 50 corporations, federal government, health systems and the tech industry to include CVS Health / Aetna, Kaiser Permanente, Publicis Sapient, Booz Allen Hamilton and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Corrinne is a proud graduate of Clark Atlanta University (BA) and University of Maryland's Smith School of Business (MBA). She is also a wife and mother of two.

Alicia Mandel has 30+ years of experience in high profile companies as a thought leader  in learning and leadership development, change management, organizational  development, executive coaching, and workplace culture.

Alicia joined garten as their Chief People Officer in June, 2022. She actively sought out the opportunity to work with an organization that not only embraced wellness for their organization, but actually “sold” it. With health (nutrition and fitness) and engagement (at work and in life) as critical personal values she embraces, she knew garten would be a perfect fit. Being able to apply her HR/Leadership knowledge to some of garten’s biggest challenges has been very rewarding – all while working with a team of professionals that share those same values.

She previously co-founded and served as principal consultant at Medius Advisory Group, where she put her expertise to use working with leaders of organizations that want/need to make a change.

Before launching Medius, Alicia spent six years leading Apollo Education Group’s learning and  organizational development practices as the Chief Learning Officer. In that role she was  responsible for the organization’s succession planning, learning strategy and curriculum, core values development, internal communications, and executive development. 

Prior to Apollo, Alicia worked at the United States Olympic Committee. She drove the design  of Olympic University: a corporate university focused on building experiential learning  programs that leverage sport to teach leadership principles to leaders of Fortune 500  organizations, coaches, athletes, and employees. Additionally, in her roles running Leadership  Development and as acting CHRO, she was responsible for helping transform the culture to  one that was high performing, innovative, and profitable. 

Alicia served as the Director of Leadership Development for Asurion, a Stanford startup, where  she helped grow the company from $200M in revenue to $1B and from 50 employees to 5000  in under three years. She spent 10 years at American Express in New York City, where she  held various learning and development leadership positions. Alicia launched her career at  CitiGroup as a sales and leadership trainer. 

Today Alicia lives in Phoenix and enjoys traveling to see her clients all over the country. She  has two adult (sort of) children – a 21-year-old son and an 18-year-old daughter. She has two  dogs and enjoys a great glass of wine (or bourbon) as much as a great workout.

Andrea Cooper is a human resources executive who has invested more than 20 years to the
practice of improving employee experiences. She currently leads the People function for
Talkspace, an online and mobile therapy company whose mission is “therapy for all”. As a long
time Walmart employee she developed a broad range of human resources skills, including global HR, learning and development, labor relations, diversity & inclusion, and strong business partnership. Andrea has further developed her strategic leadership and innovative HR skills through her roles at Amazon, CUNA Mutual, and while running her own consulting practice (Flourish).

Andrea has a bachelor’s degree in organizational management from John Brown University and a Senior Human Resources Management certification from HRCI. She teaches HR study sessions through the UW SBDC to support developing human resources professionals and is a member of the Wisconsin Innovation Awards board of directors.

Alvarine Syiem is the Head of Total Rewards and HR Operations at eClerx. 

Kimberly Ardo-Eisenbeis currently holds the role of Regional Director, Human Resources for Allied Universal, a global security solutions provider with more than 800,000 employees internationally working in more than 90 countries.  As an organization, Allied’s purpose is to “There for You,” serving and safeguarding customers, communities, and people around the world.  She utilizes her passion to develop others to provide HR leadership support to over 30,000 employees and leaders within the Central Region to fully live out that purpose.

Prior to joining Allied Universal in early 2021, Kimberly has held HR leadership roles with leading retail and logistic organizations such as Blockbuster Entertainment, Federated Department Stores, The Home Depot, and Core-Mark International over her 25+ year career.

Kimberly holds a bachelor’s degree in industrial sociology from Florida Atlantic University with a focus on Human Resources.  She also earned a master’s degree in Organizational Leadership from Nova Southeastern University, during which she became a Situational Leadership Trainer from the Center for Leadership Studies.  Interestingly, she also has spent time as a Certified Addictions Counselor coupled with her HR experience to give back to those who suffer from the disease of addiction.  She lives in Fort Worth with her husband Chris, her 10-year-old son Zachariah, and their family dogs.

Amelia Wilcox is the Founder and CEO of Nivati, a company providing employee stress management and mental health services that employees can access–anytime, anywhere. Recently listed as a Forty Under 40, Fast 50, Twice on the Inc. 500 and twice awarded National Woman-Owned Small Business of the Year, Amelia has exponentially grown her company from a solo living-room service business to an international technology brand. She operates Nivati with a virtual team and provides flexible work for more than 1,200 practitioners across North America while balancing the demands of motherhood with her three daughters.

Judith Harrison is Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer at Weber Shandwick, a leading global communications, public relations and engagement firm. Previously, she was SVP of HR at Ruder Finn, one of the world's largest independent global communications and creative agencies.

Andrew helps organizations develop sustainable, human-centered processes to thrive in today’s always-on, always-connected work world.

After years as a high-performing sales leader in a fast-paced, demanding role, Andrew saw how his exhaustion and inability to separate life from work was impacting his relationships, energy and sense of purpose. He found a new way to manage my time and energy and now teaches other corporate leaders and their teams to do the same.

Through his leadership of Regenerate, Andrew has helped thousands of leaders develop energy-inspired practices to transform their workplaces — including Apple, Booz Allen Hamilton, Intel, Coca Cola, Accenture, Edelman, Genentech, GE, Lego Systems, DPR Construction, and American Express, and the US Air Force.