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Antoinette Hamilton joined Lam Research as the Global Head of Inclusion & Diversity in February 2020.  Previous to her current role at Lam, Antoinette was the Vice President of Diversity, Inclusion and Community Experience at Xandr, an AT&T company. In her role, Antoinette drove the strategy for global diversity and inclusion initiatives. Prior to that, Antoinette served as the assistant vice president of diversity and inclusion at L’Oréal USA, working on strategic projects and innovation. She spent three years in Osaka, Japan where she taught culture and communication in support of the efforts of the Japanese Ministry of Education and Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Earlier in her career, Antoinette worked for INROADS, a non-profit organization dedicated to career advancement for college students from underserved communities.

Antoinette is a graduate of Hampton University. Additionally, she serves on the board of Tech Fin and Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site. In her personal time, she enjoys knitting and is an avid skier.

As Vice President North America, Enterprise, Zac leads the effort to help corporations of all sizes upskill and reskill their employees in North and Latin America. He is responsible for go to market strategies, sales execution and adoption of the Coursera platform within the Enterprise.

Prior to joining Coursera, Zac spent many years helping global corporations drive digital transformation in their business via cloud and data infrastructure. He was most recently Vice President of World-Wide Field Operations at MemSQL where he oversaw significant growth and customer adoption. Prior to MemSQL, Zac was Area Vice President at DataStax, an open source based big data platform where he oversaw sales and customer success. Zac also spent 10 years at Oracle leading sales teams where he worked with IT and Finance organizations to deliver improved operational capabilities.

David Thigpen, academic coordinator of the undergraduate journalism program at the University of California, Berkeley, is a former Time magazine reporter who covered Wall Street, popular music, and Chicago politics. His work has also been published in Rolling Stone and the New York Times. At  Berkeley, David designed and directed the new undergraduate journalism curriculum. He has also done public-policy research as a fellow at Institute for the Future in Palo Alto.

Subadhra Sriram is an award-winning media executive and thought leader in the workforce solutions ecosystem. She was most recently Publisher & Editor at Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA) the staffing industry's leading research and advisory firm. A member of SIA's executive team since 2014, Subadhra is the founder of The Staffing 100, The Staffing Stream and other leading industry channels. She was responsible for the company’s global media and digital strategy, supervising all editorial functions. Her role allowed her to oversee SIA’s content channels while creating and managing brands that strengthened SIA’s cutting edge-research.

An award-winning communications professional, Subadhra has spent the last 17 years covering the world of work.  Her editorial and writing skills coupled with her management ability has led to a quick progression from a business journalist to her current role, managing and supervising a team of people, publications and budgets worldwide. She has ridden the paper to digital transition and has produced multiple successful web properties.

Prior to SIA, Subadhra has had over 15 years of journalism experience at premier Fortune 500 publishing houses including Time Warner publications i.e. Money magazine, Business 2.0 and Fortune Small Business.  She began her career in India working for a national newsmagazine. She holds a Masters from Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism and a BA in English Literature and Economics from St Xavier’s College, Calcutta University.

Tiffany Johnson is the VP of Human Resources at GlobalFoundries, one of the world’s leading semiconductor manufacturers and the only one with a truly global footprint, including 13,000 employees working in 14 locations across three continents. Before her role at GlobalFoundries, Johnson served in leading HR roles at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Honeywell, and Micro Focus. She earned a BS in business administration as well as an MA in labor and industrial relations at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Ken Oliver is the Vice President of Checkr.org, the Social Impact division of Checkr, Inc., and also serves as the Executive Director  of the Checkr Foundation. Checkr.org is dedicated to the mission of Building a Fairer Future of Work: one job at a time, by reshaping the narrative and providing pathways to sustainable employment for the 80M Americans who suffer from an arrest and conviction record. Ken's professional expertise spans the landscape of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice (DEIJ), record clearance, talent development, talent sourcing strategy, change management, and public policy. His proximate leadership is informed by lived experience after having been sentenced to life in prison for joyriding. During his close to 24 years of incarceration, he served nine years in solitary confinement for reading a book by former Black Panther Party member, George Jackson. With the support of Stanford University and corporate law firm Mayer Brown, Mr. Oliver successfully filed a civil rights lawsuit against the state, which led to his release in 2019. Upon reentering society, Mr. Oliver quickly established himself in the legal field, first as a paralegal at a public interest law firm and later as a state policy director. In 2020, he co-founded and became the Executive Director of a nonprofit organization focused on providing justice-impacted individuals with career pathways in tech and the knowledge-based economy. Under his leadership, the organization secured a $28.5 million investment from the State of California to establish a unique residential tech training campus for justice-impacted individuals.

Ken's insights and contributions to the field have been recognized and featured in publications such as Newsweek, Fast Company, Forbes, Inc., the New York Times, and others. He also played a role in shaping California Governor Newsom’s 2021 Future of Work Report.

In addition to his primary roles, Mr. Oliver holds board positions with several organizations, including The Last Mile, the San Mateo County of Community Colleges Foundation (SMCCCF), Turning Basin Labs (TBL), ClimbHire, Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice (CURYJ), the Justice Reform Foundation (JRF), and the National Reentry Workforce Collaborative (NRWC).

Jon Harold leads the Sales and Customer Success teams at SoFi at Work, helping organizations offer impactful student debt and financial wellbeing benefits. Over the past seven years, Jon has partnered with hundreds of companies to design and implement programs that have saved employees thousands of dollars. Before joining SoFi, Jon worked in financial consulting and earned his Finance degree from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. Outside of work, Jon is an avid traveler and a hot sauce enthusiast.

LeeAnn Mallorie, Founder of Guts & Grace Leadership, began her career as an executive coach in 2006, working with women leaders and teams from around the globe. Yet she soon found something was missing—the body. This led her on a personal journey of physical, mental, and spiritual healing, to eventually embrace the more feminine side of leadership. Committed to walking her talk, she brought these lessons back to her clients in the corporate, non-profit and government sectors, with surprisingly positive results. 

Today, LeeAnn specializes in bringing feminine wisdom and diverse cultural values into business, as keystone to solving some of our world’s stickiest problems. Her playful weaving of cutting edge science and ancient wisdom will take you on a journey of unexpected and necessary evolution—one that is required for any woman who wants to make a bigger impact without losing herself along the way. Inspired by her personal work with plant medicines, meditation, somatics, voice activation, nature-based ritual and ecstatic dance, as well as deep science, her trainings spark creativity and innovation. Using practical embodiment tools, she helps attendees bridge the gap between the hard-driving logical mind and the deeper wisdom of the soul.  

LeeAnn believes that for a woman leader to play at the top of her game, she needs to embrace her whole self: body, mind, emotions and spirit. Her book, Guts & Grace, is the roadmap for how to release internalized, patriarchal programming and truly bring your best self to work.

John Bailey is the VP of Human Resources at Fanatics, Inc., a global leader in licensed sports merchandise, with more than 8,000 employees and 300 partners, suppliers, and vendors. Before joining Fanatics seven years ago, Bailey was a leader in HR at Chartboost, CBS Interactive, and CNET. He’s a graduate of San Jose State University.

Bio: Michael Mager serves as the Head of Talent Branding at Samsara, an IOT company aimed at improving the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of the operations that power the global economy. As Head of Talent Branding, Michael manages Samsara's global brand and reputation as an employer—helping Samsara grow from 1500 to nearly 3000 employees. He believes the best brands shine from the inside out through transparency, authenticity, and the employee voice.

Before Samsara, Michael began his career managing a global talent brand at Grammarly, the AI writing partner, rising from the Marketing & Communication department. Michael brings a unique perspective, having grown up across the US, China, and Germany and received his bachelor's degree from Munich Business School. He has also been interested in men's emotional development, having run peer-facilitated emotional leadership groups for several years.

With over 10 years of experience in the people data space, Nick has helped clients transition to cloud technologies and extract insights from their people data. At companies the likes of Deloitte, Tesla, and Atlassian - he has built data science teams and currently looking for ways to leverage AI to enhance the work in HR.

Kim Scott is the author of Radical Respect: How to Work Together Better and the bestelling Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity. Kim was a CEO coach at Dropbox, Qualtrics, Twitter, and other tech companies. She was a member of the faculty at Apple University and before that led AdSense, YouTube, and DoubleClick teams at Google. Kim learned the most valuable but painful management lessons as co-founder and CEO of two failed start-ups. She shares what she’s learned from failures and successes alike at the executive education company she co-founded and on the management podcast she co-hosts.

Kari joined Google in 2014.  She currently leads the Professional & Organizational Development (OD) team for Google’s Global Data Centers.  Prior to this role, Kari was OD Partner for Google’s Knowledge & Information (K&I) and Platforms & Ecosystems (P&E) organizations. She has also held roles in Google’s School for Leaders and Talent Team.  Throughout her career, Kari’s worked with Leaders and HR to grow a pipeline of talent and build effective teams.  Kari also spent 10 years at Johnson & Johnson in various HR/Learning & Development roles providing executive coaching and facilitation to senior leaders in biotech and engineering.  

Kari earned a bachelor's degree in Communication studies from University of Iowa.  She hold duel masters in Organizational Design and Human & Organizational Development.

Charlotte currently leads the People space in Tapestry, a project currently housed in X, the moonshot factory (the innovation “factory” for Alphabet, formally known as Google X). Tapestry is X’s moonshot focused on the mission for the decarbonization of the electric grid, with the dual identity of a startup and a bit of Google.  She works closely with all levels of the organization, working with the executive team as an HR Business Partner, with the management team on talent development and strategy, and across the org as a coach and HR consultant. She has led talent acquisition, early-career hiring, and employment-branding teams before Tapestry, during her time at Google Singapore, and launched various pilot programs across skills-development programs for the community and new partnerships with universities across Southeast Asia.  Prior to her tech journey, she was a teacher in the U.S. and Korea, and studied education and psychology, as well as international development, at Harvard and UCLA.

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.

Michal Lev-Ram covers the technology and entertainment sectors for Fortune, writing profiles and in-depth features about the biggest personalities and trends within both industries. She also serves as the editorial director of Fortune Live Media, helping to steer the company’s growing portfolio of global conferences. In addition to her broader role as the editorial lead for Fortune Live Media, Michal co-chairs Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit and Brainstorm TECH, an annual technology gathering.

Outside of Fortune, Michal is the co-creator, writer, and host of Operation Firewall, an Audible Original podcast series about a groundbreaking cybercrime investigation that took place in the early 2000s. Previously, she was a staff writer at Business 2.0. and contributed to CNNMoney, Fast Company, and Popular Science. Michal has appeared on CNBC, CNN, NBC, and other TV and radio outlets. Born in Israel, she holds a degree in journalism from San Francisco State University and lives in the Bay Area with her husband, three kids, and miniature poodle.

With over 14 years of varied HR experience, Ilona Jurkiewicz is a seasoned and passionate people leader and strategist who helps organizations and individuals achieve their full potential. Recently, Ilona serves as President of Cappfinity, Americas, a leader in Skills-based Hiring and Talent and Development Solutions across the TA lifecycle. Prior to Cappfinity, Ilona founded her own coaching and talent strategy consultancy, Curiouser & Curiouser, LLC. She also recently served as the Head of Human Resources and SVP of People at Leaf Group, a diversified consumer internet company, and as Head of Human Resources for Xandr (adtech company previously known as AppNexus), and played a key role in the acquisition and integration of Xandr by Microsoft in July 2022, ensuring a smooth and successful transition for both companies. Ilona also held numerous HR Business partner positions and led Global Early Careers for Thomson Reuters and was considered an early thought leader in advocating for skills-based hiring and creating more opportunities for diverse and equitable hiring.

Stephen Mueller serves as Cappfinity’s Head of Consulting. Throughout his 25-year career as an Industrial Organizational Psychologist, he has worked across sectors with numerous domestic and multinational organizations. His primary practice areas include selection process design and validation, executive assessment, people analytics, and EEOC/OFCCP compliance. In his role, he leads a team of psychologists that are responsible for the design, validation, and implementation of psychometrically sound, bias free talent acquisition solutions. 

He earned a doctorate (Ph.D.) in Industrial Organizational psychology, with an emphasis in quantitative analysis, from the University of Houston and a master’s degree in business (MBA) from the University of St. Thomas. He is a member of the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP).

Phil Willburn was the co-founder and is now a board member of Network Leader. He also serves as the Vice President of People Analytics at Workday. Phil's expertise spans technology, analytics, and leadership development, shaped through experiences at the Center for Creative Leadership and within the U.S. intelligence community. Phil's strategic guidance as a board member at Network Leader underscores his commitment to innovative, network-centric approaches. He helps leaders navigate complexity through thoughtful, data-driven strategies.

Jake Canull serves the Top Employers Institute as a member of their senior leadership team. With over 10 years of experience in the HR technology and people analytics space, Jake is a trusted advisor for global HR and Talent Executives. Jake's leadership experience has taught him to serve others in ways that help them grow and drive better business results. His core values are respect, integrity, growth and courage. He's a native New Yorker living in Brooklyn and enjoys music and travel (ask him about his latest Japan trip).

Jason Phillips currently serves as the CEO for RedCAT Systems, a leading compensation and performance software company. He is responsible for growth, performance, and the overall customer experience for the HR platform. Jason’s teams are committed to delivering moments that matter for complex and global enterprises.

Prior to RedCAT, Jason was the Chief Digital Officer and led the next-generation licensing and buying experiences for Cisco Systems. He also championed the intersection between digital, business transformation, and the end user journey as their Global HR leader for People Experiences.

Jason’s passion for human resources accelerated during his tenure at Kaiser Permanente where he oversaw HR delivery for more than 600K employees and retirees. His people-centered leadership approach spanned HR delivery and engineering, creating widely recognized benefits throughout each organization he has led.

A few of his accolades include HR Executive of the Year, Talent Acquisition Executive of the Year, 2020 Stevies Award for Talent Brand Excellence and Top 100 HR Technology Influencer.

Jason’s professional career first started as a U.S. Marine Corps Officer and continues to play a vital role in his life today as he volunteers his time assisting veterans and their spouses.

Erin Andre is the Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) for Informatica. As CHRO, she is responsible for driving a world-class culture of innovation, designing strategies to attract, develop and retain top talent, while continuing to deepen the company’s high-performance environment. With thousands of employees in dozens of countries, the company’s global HR strategy focuses on high engagement, building Informatica’s reputation as a great place to work and creating an exceptional employee experience.  

Erin empowers Informatica employees to live the company’s “DATA” values – Do Good, Act as One Team, Think Customer-first, and Aspire and Innovate – and works to provide an inclusive environment where employees can learn, grow, and have successful careers within the company. She champions Informatica’s belief that diversity and a deep sense of belonging drive innovation. Under her leadership, and together with many dedicated colleagues, the company harnesses differences to create unique strengths, making a positive impact for employees, communities, and the world at large.

Melissa Sheehan (she/her) is currently the Senior Principal, Employer Brand at Nutanix, where she champions building the Nutanix brand from the inside out. Her entrepreneurial journey sparked at age 12 with a lucrative pet and babysitting venture. Her professional experience has since expanded, spanning Talent Acquisition, Human Resources, Marketing and Sales at companies within the technology, entertainment and retail industries. Armed with this diverse experience and a psychology degree from the University of Washington, Melissa applies a unique marketer’s perspective to how companies can build stronger, happier teams and thriving businesses. Outside of work, you can find her enjoying the great outdoors, learning the harmonica and perfecting her latest ice cream recipe.

Nicole Johnson is a seasoned executive who has more than 30 years of a unique blend of corporate and nonprofit experience in finance, multicultural marketing, and DEI. She serves as a senior director of Advisory at Seramount. Prior to Seramount, Nicole was the senior director of DEI at the American Red Cross, where she supported efforts related to employee resource groups, leadership development, and community engagement. Nicole has built diversity departments for both Aramark and Wyndham Worldwide and is proud to see that both are thriving and award-winning. As a result, she has acquired critical knowledge and experience on how to build a diversity department from the ground up. Nicole has also led multicultural marketing efforts for Fortune 500 companies, including AT&T and the Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau.

Nicole has a passion for giving; she’s served on various boards and advisory committees and shared her knowledge as a visiting professor at Temple University and Fairleigh Dickinson University. She has a bachelor of science degree in economics from Rutgers University, but her first real job and real love is her role as a proud mother and life coach to her two children.

Dr. Leann Pereira is a Doctor of Education, focusing on Learning and Instruction, and Organization and Leadership. She brings to Emtrain an entire career of developing or delivering enterprise products and services. Leann has worked with product management teams on applications that leverage automation and AI for people applications and is one of the founding directors of the Bay Area Learning Analytics Network.

Laraine McKinnon is a Talent and Culture Strategist at Emtrain.

Dwight Davis is the Head of Global Employee Learning & Development at Intuit. With over 15 years of experience in leadership and employee development roles across various industries. Dwight has been instrumental in implementing comprehensive learning experiences organization-wide. His expertise spans manager and employee development, career development initiatives, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. Passionate about fostering an inclusive and innovative workplace, Dwight excels in coaching individuals and teams to embrace authenticity and achieve successful outcomes by leveraging human-centric design, technology to scale, and data analytics to drive continuous improvement and impact.

As the Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing at Keystone Partners, Tim is responsible for the overall performance of the firm’s sales and marketing initiatives, alignment with the business strategy, and the expansion of Keystone into new markets nationwide and globally.

Tim has over 25 years of expertise spanning across global sales, marketing, client success, and revenue operations. Tim brings a track record of success and expertise in revenue growth, market expansion, and change execution across the teams he’s led with Fortune 100, global enterprise, mid-market, and startup SaaS companies. Tim excels at building and optimizing go-to-market teams and strategies to drive and sustain growth. Over the past 12 years Tim has worked with numerous HR executives on their people and leadership strategies, including employee engagement and performance strategies. Tim has held leadership positions at UPS, Tiffany & Co., O.C. Tanner, Inspire Software, and Reward Gateway; he has also served on the Advisory Board for HR.Com, contributing thought leadership in HR leadership practices. Outside of work, Tim enjoys spending time with his family, playing golf and tennis, skiing, hiking, and rooting for his kids’ college sports teams.

Shawna is responsible for successfully managing and fostering current and prospective client relationships, ensuring proper and consistent delivery of holistic development strategies. Nothing thrills her more than to work with clients, helping companies and individuals excel, grow, and develop. Her warm, engaging style, combined with her quick intellect and understanding of psychological processes, organizational effectiveness, and dynamics have made her a highly sought-after consultant.

She strives to be an authentic leader with a strong commitment to mentoring, promoting collaboration, and developing new approaches that are built on credibility, creativity, ethics, and knowledge. Previously, she held Board positions with the Mile High Society for HR Management (MH-SHRM) and the Executive Advisory Council of the Association for Talent Development, Rocky Mountain Chapter. Shawna is a writer for the ColoradoBiz Magazine, Training Industry, and serves as an Advisor on the Corporationʼs Advisory Board with Merritt Trailers, Inc. 

Natasha Kehimkar is a strategic advisor and executive coach.  As the CEO and founder of Malida Advisors, she and her team enable companies to achieve their goals faster by reducing friction and building resilient, inclusive teams. With over 25 years of experience in leading human resources, talent, and DEI across multiple industries and six continents, Natasha has a track record of expediting company and business unit turnarounds, earning her a reputation as the "rapid response expert" in navigating significant challenges, such as restructuring, culture change, executive team transitions, and acquisitions and divestitures.    

Natasha has served in leadership roles in startup to enterprise-level companies, including OpenTable, Data.ai, Pfizer, and Guardant Health. Her expertise has been recognized by private companies and nonprofits, where she serves in both board and advisory roles. She holds a BA in Sociology, a Master's degree in HR and Labor Relations, and has received executive coaching and team coaching accreditations.    

Malida Advisors is a certified Minority & Women-owned Business Enterprise.

Adamaka Ajaelo is an Oakland native, mathematician, and STEM trailblazer with an unshakeable passion for the social, emotional and economic empowerment of young women of color. She is the Founding Executive Director of Self-eSTEM, a non-profit organization on the mission to ignite pride, purpose, and possibility among BIPOC girls and women through STEM by providing culturally relevant education, training & mentorship, and a network of support to thrive within the talent pipeline. Since 2014, Self-eSTEM has unleashed the brilliance & self-esteem of 1,325+ girls through STEM. Celebrating 10 years of impact, she is on a quest to ensure BIPOC women are recognized as top talent and innovation in STEM. 

Adamaka is also a Director of Strategic Workforce Planning & Analytics at Visa, and she provides insights and recommendations influencing global workforce plans and talent development strategies. She has worked at large companies such as Kaiser Permanente, Cisco Systems, Workday, Meta (Facebook) and Adobe in the areas of Finance, Workforce Planning & Analytics and Business Continuity. She has 17+ years of experience in the areas of Finance, Operations, People Analytics and Workforce Planning for top global companies. She has managed a budget of $110M+, shaped a $5.0B global tech workforce through talent insights, and is an Angel Investor via Pipeline Investors. 

Adamaka received her B.A. in Mathematics from Occidental College in Los Angeles, CA and her M.B.A. in Finance and Leadership-Management from Holy Names University in Oakland, CA. When she is not working, she enjoys attending Warriors basketball games, wine tasting and traveling.