Carmen Bryant is currently Marketing Director at Indeed where she is responsible for the development and execution of the integrated marketing plan and go-to-market strategies in the US; the Idea Center, Indeed’s executive briefing center; and Global Evangelist Programs which includes the global alignment, training and development of Indeed’s recruitment evangelists.

Carmen’s international experience also allows her to engage customers and develop scalable strategies that help companies find critical talent. She can often be found presenting at conferences and in boardrooms in the US and around the world.

Prior to Indeed, Carmen led the trends and insights practice for the Content Innovation Agency at NBCUniversal as well as other strategic insights positions at top tier companies including Time Inc. and L’oreal USA. Carmen is a graduate of Harvard University, where she studied Sociology and African American Studies.

As the President of Eighfold.ai since 2018, Kamal Ahluwalia leads the company’s growth, pioneering its AI-powered Talent Intelligence Platform into 25 countries around the world, serving more than 100 customers in 13 languages. Kamal brings extensive experience in creating software categories, scaling businesses and ensuring that customer and partner success drives business success. As Chief Revenue Officer at Apttus, Kamal led the company to market leadership in multiple product categories ahead of Salesforce, Oracle, SAP, IBM and others with active endorsements from Global 2000 companies that relied on Apttus solutions. Prior to Appttus, Kamal held leadership positions at Selectica, Model N, Oracle and Apple. In 2019, Kamal’s first book, What’s Next For You: The Eightfold Path to Transforming The Way We Hire And Manage Talent, was published with Eightfold.ai CEO and co-founder, Ashutosh Garg, in support of the company’s mission of finding the right career for everyone in the world.

Stephanie Neal leads DDI’s Center for Analytics and Behavioral Research (CABER) where she manages strategic market research and trend studies on leadership and talent. She works with clients across industries to design and execute analytics initiatives that demonstrate the impact of assessment and development. Stephanie is an author of several industry-leading research reports, including DDI’s Global Leadership Forecast, the world’s largest leadership trend research study.

Shradha is a passionate Org Design and Org Transformation leader. She brings along deep experience in this topic across various industries and geographies. Shradha loves to transform organizations and solve business challenges through Org Design vantage. She believes that reimagining the work itself while rewiring the organizational system with right leadership accountabilities is the foundation of the future of work.  She advocates for the power of curiosity and simplicity, infused with a good sense of humor - which can solve for most organizational problems. Shradha loves to read, cook, hike and play board games. She lives in Greater New York area with her husband, son and a puppy.

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.

Jon is the CEO and co-founder of Even, a responsible earned wage access company that combines the flexibility and convenience of on-demand pay with intuitive budgeting and savings tools to improve employee financial health and boost retention and loyalty. Even currently serves more than 600,000 active members and is the most popular opt-in employer benefit offered by Walmart, behind only healthcare and 401k.

Jon co-founded the company in 2015 with a team of former Instagram and Google engineers who shared his vision and were equally committed to using a data-and-research driven approach to product design. Since then, Even has been embraced by forward-thinking employers in retail, healthcare, restaurant/fast food, logistics, manufacturing, financial services, and more, including Walmart, PayPal, Noodles & Co, Humana, CoxHealth, Pitney Bowes, The Toro Company, and more. Before founding Even, Jon studied behavioral and cognitive psychology at Skidmore College and applied those learnings to designing and building award-winning digital products and experiences.

Curtis Brooks is responsible for Talent, Employee Experience, and Culture at DXC.

Curtis is also a graduate of the University of Texas at Dallas’ Executive and Professional Development Coaching Graduate program and is Principal owner of The Blueprint Executive & Professional Development Coaching firm.

The Blueprint firm partners with professionals -through coaching relationships- in identifying necessary confidence, skills, and strategies- to overcome internal and external obstacles; navigate career challenges and opportunities; and, achieve success in every field of endeavor.

He has 20 years of experience designing Talent Strategies and shaping Learning organizations. Prior to his current role, Curtis led DE&I Education, Career Development, and Content Curation for U.S. Bank’s Corporate division and served as head of Learning and Development for U.S. Bank's Mortgage Servicing and Lending Services Division. Before joining U.S. Bank in 2017, he served in a number of leadership roles including Assistant Vice President of Leadership and Organizational Development for Mr. Cooper, Assistant Vice President-Director of Servicing Training for Homeward Residential, and Vice President of Training and Development for Bank of America Home Loans.

Curtis holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Business Management from Stephen F. Austin State University, is currently completing a Master’s degree in Leadership & Organizational Development from the University of Texas at Dallas; and, is certified in many disciplines including Meyer’s Briggs MBTI, FIRO-B, PDI 360 Coaching, and Prosci Change Management. He resides in Texas with his wife and three children.

Jennifer Dove currently heads up Talent Acquisition for Peacock, the new Direct-to-Consumer streaming service for NBC Universal.  Jennifer leads a team of experienced recruiters that stretches across every functional area and has helped  Peacock scale quickly from 1 to over 500 employees in just over a year. Prior, she helped Comcast fully scale Freewheel, a company in the ad tech market from 100 to over 1500 individuals.  She has over 15 years’ experience in Global Talent Acquisition and Talent Management.  She has a diverse background in recruiting, talent planning, M&A, change management, organizational development and vendor management. Jennifer holds a degree in Communication from Miami University, Oxford OH.

A former senior culture writer for BuzzFeed, Anne Helen Petersen now writes her newsletter, Culture Study, as a full-time venture on Substack. Petersen received her PhD at the University of Texas at Austin, where she focused on the history of celebrity gossip. Her previous books, Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud and Scandals of Classic Hollywood, were featured in NPR, Elle, and the Atlantic. She lives in Missoula, Montana.

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.

Kayla Nall currently heads Talent Acquisition for Delta Air Lines Information Technology division, supporting three Global Tech Hubs. Kayla leads a team of recruiters accountable for ensuring Delta’s success by discovering and attracting exceptional talent as well as aligning talent strategy to support Delta’s Agile and Cloud technology journey. She has over 10 years’ experience in recruiting and Global Talent Acquisition. Kayla holds a degree in Corporate Communication from Western Kentucky University.

Kristen Bellstrom is features editor at Fortune, where she oversees The Broadsheet newsletter and edits the publication’s women and business coverage. Kristen also serves as co-chair of Fortune‘s Most Powerful Women Next Gen Summit. She was previously a senior editor at Money, where she ran the publication’s real estate and travel coverage. She began her journalism career at SmartMoney, where she was a writer and editor covering the travel industry, luxury, and consumer products. Kristen is a graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and Duke University.

Daniel Roberts covers sports business, tech, bitcoin, and media at Yahoo Finance. He hosts the podcast Sportsbook and the daily live show YFi AM. Before Yahoo, he spent more than five years at Fortune Magazine. He is the author of the 2013 book “Zoom: Surprising Ways to Supercharge Your Career.”

TJ Kreuziger is 3M’s Global Leader of Talent Acquisition and Contingent Workforce Solutions and responsible for developing strategies that add the best and brightest talent to 3M’s group of more than 96,000 innovative employees.

Supported by a talented team of recruiters in more than 25 around the world and driven by his strong passion for innovating in the talent and recruiting spaces, TJ’s 20-year HR career is and continues to be all about finding incredible, diverse people with amazing stories and skills.

TJ holds a degree in Human Resources Development from the University of Minnesota and currently lives in Milwaukee, WI with his wife and two sons.

Adam Weber is the host of the popular  HR Superstars Podcast & SVP of Community for 15Five where he supports and leads thousands of HR professionals through the HR Superstars Community, elevating them to become more strategic leaders. 

Previously he was the Co-founder and Chief People Officer of Emplify (which sold to 15Five in 2021), a company that helped leaders measure, diagnose. He also co-founded Bluebridge Digital, where he grew and sold the company in 2016. 

He is the author of the Amazon bestseller, Lead Like A Human. In 2020, Adam was named to Business Insider’s list of Rising Stars in HR. 

Adam is a proud Ball State University alum holding a bachelor's degree in sociology and a master's degree in organizational communication. 

He lives with his wife, two sons and dog Poppy in Zionsville, Indiana. 

Marinus van Driel is an Associate Partner with Aon’s Assessment Solutions Practice. His responsibilities include providing strategic, expert advisory, and transition management services to clients related to implantation and maintenance of enterprise-level assessment systems.

The sectors in which he has served client organizations include customer service, retail, mining, manufacturing, utilities, legal, aviation and defense. Prior to joining Aon, Marinus served as a human capital strategist with a focus on leadership transformation as part of large technology implementations. He has also served as an international talent manager with a focus on Latin America, where he guided regional talent management initiatives in seven countries.

Additionally, Marinus has extensive experience implementing international talent analytics programs with strong focus on the United States, sub-Saharan Africa and Europe. He also has experience in public policy.

Marinus holds a Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Florida Institute of Technology.

John has worked for Aon’s Human Capital practice in a variety of roles over the past 12 years, in 5 countries and across 4 continents. This in-market experience combined with his current role as Chief Commercial Officer, Europe leads to an in-depth knowledge of global trends impacting talent strategies across all organizations.

Avenica CEO Scott Dettman is a dynamic leader with a strong track record of driving growth through transformation and innovation in the human capital arena.

Scott joined Avenica in 2019 following a six-year stint with ManpowerGroup that included progressive leadership roles spanning analytics and transformation to general management and business development.

Scott has a master’s degree and Ph.D. (ABD) from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and most recently completed an Executive Leadership program at Harvard Business School.

Shaun helps organizations transform to create better employee and customer experiences. For the past decade, he has led strategic business and digital transformation planning, design, execution, change management, and success measurement, often through technology implementations. He has led award-winning projects for some of the world’s most recognized brands across numerous verticals.

These experiences, combined with a Ph.D. in Communication from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, give him a broad, yet knowledgeable perspective on the cultural, technological, and business factors surrounding transformation initiatives.

Currently, Shaun is the Director of Change Management at LumApps, where he develops and delivers organizational change management to help customers maximize adoption and value.