Sheila Krueger

Sheila is the “People” in “People and Things”. Sheila snuck in the back door of HR through a secret IT passage. After implementing an HRIS for an HR team, she just refused to leave. Thus started a career that has encompassed HRIS, Compensation, Benefits, Wellness, Communication, M&A, and many other aspects of the People Experience life. Currently the Head of Global Benefits at Zoom Video Communications, Sheila works to provide a suite of benefits, based on the Five Pillars of Wellness, to Zoomies that helps them lead their best lives and truly foster the culture of #workhappy. This includes the recrafting of processes as well as implementing creative and useful benefit programs for all, based on the five pillars of wellness. In her spare time, she runs a charity benefiting the unsheltered in Phoenix, spends some time creating paper crafts, and loves to travel.

Andy Dunn

Andy Dunn is the co-founder of the Bonobos menswear-apparel brand and the author of Burn Rate: Launching a Startup and Losing My Mind, a radically honest and unconventional entrepreneurial memoir and a revelatory look at the presence of mental illness in the startup community. In intimate and insightful prose, Andy fearlessly shares his experience building a business while living with bipolar disorder, a diagnosis he kept secret from almost everyone for more than 15 years.

At 28, fresh from Stanford’s MBA program and steeped in the move-fast-and-break-things ethos of Silicon Valley, Andy found his calling with a new-school approach to an old-school product: selling men’s pants online. Against all odds, business was booming. As he hustled to scale the startup, raising millions in venture capital, boundaries between work and life evaporated. As Andy struggled to keep Bonobos afloat, he was also haunted by his “ghost”: the bipolar diagnosis he received after a wild manic episode as a college undergraduate.

For years, Andy had understood his diagnosis as an unspeakable shame, which, according to the codes of his family and the business world, should never be addressed. With his secret locked away, Bonobos began to take off, but he found that some of the very traits powering his success as a founder–relentless drive, confidence bordering on hubris, and ambition bordering on delusion–were now threatening to undo him. A collision course was set in motion, one that would culminate in a violent night that nearly unraveled all that he had built.

Dunn served as CEO of Bonobos through its 2017 acquisition by Walmart. As an angel investor and through his venture-capital firm Red Swan, he has backed more than 80 startups, including Warby Parker, Oscar, and Coinbase. Dunn serves on the boards of Monica + Andy, an organic baby apparel company founded by his sister, and the tech nonprofit Raised By Us. Named to Fortune‘s 40 under 40 list in 2018, he is a graduate of Northwestern University and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He lives with his wife and their son in Chicago.

Nicole Smith

Regina Blair

Regina Blair is the VP, Talent & Diversity and Inclusion at Day & Zimmermann.

Brandy Lappi

Brandy Lappi is the Director, Workforce Health and Employer Onsite Services at Kaiser Permanente.

Rachel Schneider

Rachel Schneider is founder and CEO of Canary, a company helping the 21st-century social net evolve to reflect the future of work. She has led development of Grant Circle, a high-impact solution for challenges she uncovered as co-author of The Financial Diaries: How American Families Cope in a World of Uncertainty. Grant Circle exists so employees can access emergency support in times of financial need and enable them to recover quickly.

She brings experience from Merrill Lynch, Financial Health Network, and The Aspen Institute, as their entrepreneur-in-residence. She credits her commitment to the potential for innovative finance to solve major social problems from her days as a VISTA Volunteer.

Kathleen O’Driscoll

Kathleen O’Driscoll is the Vice President Human Resources – Global Benefits, Wellbeing and HR Policy at Cognizant.

Kimberly Young

Kimberly Young Vice President, Global Benefits and HR Technology at Amentum.

Anna Maltby

Anna Maltby is an award-winning journalist and editor who currently works as a freelance editorial director and consultant, fitness programming and performance coach, and personal trainer and Pilates teacher. Until April 2021, she was the executive editor of Elemental, Medium’s health and wellness publication. She was previously the deputy editor at Real Simple magazine and a deputy editor at Refinery29, and also held staff positions at Men’s Health, Marie Claire, SELF, Fit Pregnancy, Natural Health and Condé Nast Traveler. Her writing has appeared in such outlets as The Wall Street Journal, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, and O. She received her BSJ and MSJ from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Anna is also an American Council on Exercise–certified personal trainer and functional training specialist, a certified prenatal and postnatal exercise specialist, and a certified mat Pilates teacher.

Lydia Dishman

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.

Janelle Nanos

Janelle is a business reporter at the Boston Globe, covering retail, restaurants, and consumer culture. She is also the host of the Bold Types interview series with the city’s business leaders. She thrives on diving deep into the ideas, people, and trends that drive Boston’s economy. She has previously worked at Boston Magazine, National Geographic Traveler, and New York Magazine, and she currently teaches a class in magazine writing at Boston College. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, among other publications. She was a Senior Fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism.

Michael Heinrich

Shweta Kurvey-Mishra

Shweta Kurvey-Mishra is the VP of organizational and talent development at WM, North America’s largest comprehensive waste-management environmental solutions provider. Previously known as Waste Management and based in Houston, Texas, WM is driven by commitments to put people first and achieve success with integrity.

Haeli Harris

Haeli Harris is the Lead Mental Health Clinician at Nivati, a licensed mental health therapist, yoga instructor, health and wellness coach, and mindfulness practitioner dedicated to helping others through holistic health and healing. She takes a client-based, solution-focused approach helping the client to find their own solutions that are within them and building on their own strengths. Haeli has specialized training in combining yoga and mental health including using a trauma-informed lens when working with her clients. She is also a mother to teenagers and a lover of chocolate and dancing!

Amelia Wilcox

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 over 1200 practitioners across North America while balancing the demands of motherhood with her three daughters.

Will Peng

Natalie Baumgartner PH.D

Dr. Natalie Baumgartner: Natalie 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’s found success analyzing what most overlook – the human element. She holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology with a specific focus on assessment and additional training in strength-based psychology.

Harrison Bach

Harrison Bach is a Certified Human Potential Coach, lead researcher, and facilitator at Regenerate. Harrison has studied performance science for over five years, learning from the world’s peak performers in disciplines from Olympic athletics to serial entrepreneurship about the tools and traits that translate to the greatest health, happiness, and productivity. As a coach and speaker, he’s used his knowledge to help many young professionals and athletes unlock greater energy, purpose, and career success.

Claire Barnes

Claire Barnes has been at Monster since 2018, and was recently named Chief Human Capital Officer, leading a global human resources strategy. With more than 20 years of experience working in communications, tech, and information services, Claire has played a leading role in human capital planning for brands such as Verizon and Thomson Reuters. She is passionate about equality, engagement, and leading successful and effective teams. Claire is based in the U.K.

Julie Law

Julie Law is the Head of HR for John Hancock & Global Head of Talent Management (VP) at ManuLife Financial.