Simone Martins

Simone has over 25 years of strong global Human Resources experience. She is currently HR Head LATAM at Alcon. Her background includes leadership experience in Total Rewards, Talent Management, Organization Development, Change Management and Diversity and Inclusion. Simone has held various leadership roles at ENSCO, Halliburton Services, Reader’s Digest, Unisys, and ARCO. She brings a wealth of experience from across the HR function as well as diverse exposure to global businesses and cross-cultural practices with work experience in the U.S., Latin America, Africa, Europe and the Middle East.

Simone holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from USU, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Master’s Degree from IBMEC and from PUC, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, Leadership Development in Texas A&M, USA, and is pursuing a Doctoral in Management in Organizational Leadership at the University of Phoenix, USA.

Cheryl Smith

Cheryl Smith leads talent management for Xerox, a public company with over 25,000 employees globally.  She is a seasoned talent professional with over 25 years of success in talent assessment, succession planning, leadership development, employee engagement, organizational surveys and change programs for world-class, global organizations including Gartner, Legrand, Diageo, MetLife and AIG.

Cheryl has a Ph.D. in Industrial / Organizational Psychology from New York University and a B.A. in Psychology from Yale.  She lives in Fairfield County, CT with her three daughters.

Belinda Grant-Anderson

Seth Green

Seth Green is the founding director of the Baumhart Center, an interdisciplinary center at Loyola University Chicago that equips Chicagoland leaders and students with the business tools to accelerate social impact. The Center is home to a highly selective MBA called Baumhart Scholars that prepares working professionals to marry profit and purpose in their careers. Seth is also an executive lecturer in the Management Department of Loyola’s Quinlan School of Business, where he teaches courses on nonprofit leadership, social entrepreneurship, and corporate social responsibility.

Seth joined Loyola after leading three social ventures at the forefront of fighting poverty and expanding opportunity. Most recently, he served as executive director of Youth & Opportunity United (Y.O.U.), a Chicagoland nonprofit that prepares low-income youth for post-secondary and life success. During his tenure, he spearheaded an expansion of Y.O.U.’s programs from serving 450 youth in 2010 to 1,600 in 2017. He also envisioned and led a $16.4 million fundraising campaign to build a new Y.O.U. youth center and financial endowment.

Seth began his career as a consultant at McKinsey and Company, where he worked with private sector clients on strategic planning and change management. A recipient of McKinsey’s Community Fellowship, he spent one year of his time at the firm supporting nonprofit clients, including the Gates Foundation and United Way.

Seth is a sought after speaker on social entrepreneurship, corporate social responsibility, nonprofit leadership, and cross-sector partnership. He served for numerous years as a discussion facilitator for the Clinton Global Initiative and he was a plenary speaker at the White House-sponsored conference on Connecting Communities for the Common Good. Before joining Loyola, Seth was also a lecturer at Northwestern University, where he taught courses on nonprofit management and social impact leadership.

Seth is a frequent media contributor, having served as a guest on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, CNN, and MSNBC, and having written op-eds for the Christian Science Monitor, Crain’s and Fortune Magazine. In addition, his work has been featured by hundreds of publications, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. For his social innovation leadership, Utne Reader named Seth one of 50 “Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World.”

Seth has a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University, master’s degrees from the London School of Economics and Oxford University on a Marshall Scholarship, and a law degree from Yale University. He currently serves on the Social Impact Advisory Panel at the Chicago Community Trust, on the Impact Investing Advisory Council of the YWCA Metropolitan Chicago, on the Council of Advisors of Loyola Limited, on the Advisory Board of Concordia Place, and as a member of the Economic Club of Chicago. Seth is also a co-chair on the United Way of Metro Chicago’s Campaign Cabinet.

Janine Yancey

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.

Paul Tripp

Paul Tripp is a PCC ICF certified executive coach whose career depth includes senior leadership roles within the government, private and non-profit sectors.  Paul is an author, speaker and team facilitator who focuses his passion on how to operationally reposition both individuals and corporate teams for organizational excellence.  His clients include companies such as:  IBM, CBS Network, Amgen Pharmaceuticals, University of Washington Medicine, Freshly, and more.

Kathy MacKay

Kathy is a Director with Aon’s Assessment Solutions practice. She has over 15 years of experience and consults in the areas of personnel selection, job analysis, leadership development, and test development. She also has experience in training, counseling, and executive coaching. Kathy has assisted both public and private organizations, as well as national and international clients.

Kathy received a Master of Science in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from the Florida Institute of Technology, where she graduated with distinction. While earning her M.S., she had the opportunity to develop selection tools for two large aerospace organizations.

Kathy is a member of the American Psychological Association as well as Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and has presented at such conferences to contribute to and advance the field of I-O Psychology.

Abby Guthkelch

Abby Guthkelch is the communications industry expert for the Workplace team globally. Her focus is on advising Workplace customers on communications best practice, trends and thought leadership, and works closely with our engineering and product management teams specifically with our communications customers in mind. Prior to Workplace, Abby held a number of senior level comms & marketing roles both in-house and agency – most recently as Global Head of Social Media at HSBC, and Ketchum’s UK Head of Digital. Abby has over 15 years’ experience as a multi-industry, multi-channel content strategist and was ranked among the Top 25 marketing innovators in EMEA in 2017.

Grace Berman

Grace Berman is a Senior Director of DaVita University, guiding Learning & Development in the spaces of leadership, team, culture, and diversity & belonging training at DaVita Inc., a Fortune 500 health care provider focused on transforming care delivery to improve quality of life for patients globally. In this role, Grace leads learning delivery and technology innovations and also serves as a faculty member, coach, and partner to business leaders. She co-hosts a publicly-available leadership podcast for DaVita teammates called DaVita Leadership Insights. Originally from Taiwan, Grace currently lives in Denver, Colorado with her husband and two children. Her passions are food (cooking, baking, and eating) and traveling the world with her family.

Mina Morris

Mina Morris is a Partner with Aon’s Assessment Solution Practice.  As an organizational psychologist, Mina works with clients to maximize the effectiveness of their talent selection processes, implement talent management systems and manage change.

Mina has extensive global experience partnering with clients in North America, Asia Pacific, and Middle East to deliver human capital solutions that help deliver business results. Before joining Aon, Mina held various management consulting roles with leading human capital firms.

Mina holds a Masters of Science in Industrial-Organizational Psychology and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Psychology, from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

Myla Skinner

Lydia Dishman

Lydia Dishman is a business journalist who writes about the intersection of tech, leadership, commerce, and innovation. She is a regular contributor to Fast Company and has written for CBS Moneywatch, Fortune, The Guardian, Popular Science, and the New York Times, among others. She is coauthor of the book Survive to Thrive. Over the course of her career, she’s interviewed a variety of well-known executives including Diane Von Furstenberg, Gregg Steinhafel, former CEO of Target, Mickey Drexler, former CEO of J.Crew, Christopher Bailey of Burberry, Mary Barra of General Motors, Scott Borchetta of Big Machine Records, Alexis Ohanian of Reddit, Tony Hsieh of Zappos, and other luminaries such as Adrian Grenier, Romany Malco, and Tom Brokaw.

Rocky Ozaki

Rocky is the Founder & CEO of the NoW of Work Inc. – a business transformation firm whose primary focus is helping executives build future-proofed, resilient organizations that are anchored on cultures of innovation and agility. He couples a decade of senior leadership roles in large enterprise, with 5-years in start-up tech to form what he believes is the culture and operational DNA for all modern companies.

Dave Games

Dave is a Workplace Client Partner out of New York, with a focus on working with the largest companies in North America to help them transform how they better connect with their people to build a sustaining, competitive advantage. Prior to Workplace, Dave worked for 7 years at a start up in marketing tech, helping organizations transform how they connect with their customers.

Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks

Dr. Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks is a Behavioral Scientist and the William Russell Kelly Professor of Business Administration at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. He currently serves as the Faculty Director of the Ross School’s +Impact Studio. His research explores the fundamental social and emotional dynamics of organizational life. This work has generated novel insights about leading the creative process, implementing strategic change and ways to bridge diverse cultural divides.

Melissa Kilby

Melissa Kilby is the Executive Director at Girl Up (United Nations Foundation).

Ursula Llabres

Ursula leads the Global Enterprise Executive Briefing Program at Facebook. She brings her extensive customer centered enterprise SAAS experience to a consumer product centered organisation. Ursula leads the strategy for bringing global leaders along Facebook’s view of the Future of Work today. The Enterprise Executive Briefings are virtual and hosted campus sessions  that offer a highly curated agenda and experience for business executives seeking to meet Facebook leaders and learn about what it takes to become a connected company. The program focuses on facilitating dialogue and thought leadership on topics like: culture, technology innovation and leading practices around culture, communications, employee engagement and experience. Ursula is passionate about connecting people and using social networks and technologies as enablers to engaging leaders and amplifying culture.

On a personal note, Ursula is Peruvian born & raised and moved to Canada in her late teens.  She is a single mother to her 2 “start-ups” Lucas (10) and Matias (8), loves to participate in Ultra Trail races and resides in Menlo Park, CA.

Patricia Huska

Patricia Huska is the Chief People Officer (CPO) for American Express Global Business Travel (GBT) responsible for leading the Company’s Human Resources function. In this role, Huska leads a people-focused strategy designed to attract and retain talent, while furthering GBT’s focus on being the employer of choice in the global travel industry. She is responsible for all human capital related functions that support over 15,000 highly-skilled business travel professionals across GBT’s global enterprise.

Prior to becoming CPO, Huska was previously Vice President of Global Human Resources for GBT, responsible for the development and execution of strategies aimed at attracting talent, while retaining and engaging the existing employee base. She also has significant merger and acquisition experience.  She played a key role in the planning and creation of the Amex GBT joint venture as well as spearheading the HR integration of HRG from due diligence to integration.

An accomplished human resources leader with over 25 years at American Express and GBT, Huska has a broad HR background including employee relations, recruitment, change management, and organizational effectiveness. Throughout her career, she has led the creation of many corporate initiatives including home-based servicing for travel counsellors, workforce flexibility initiatives, and leadership development programs.

Huska has a master’s degree in Management from Lesley University and a bachelor’s in Business Administration from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.  She is based in Boston with her husband and two children.

Teresa Hopke

Teresa Hopke is CEO, North America of Talking Talent, a global coaching firm that inspires inclusive cultures that allow people and organizations to thrive.  She and her team provide coaching-led programs to support working parents, the advancement and retention of women, and cultures of inclusion and belonging. A working mother of four, Teresa is committed to creating a more inclusive world for her children and the organizations she serves.

Stephanie Neal

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.

Patrick Donahue

For nearly 20 years Dr. Patrick Donahue has helped leaders become the best version of themselves. Dr. Donahue is a coach, teacher, executive, writer and speaker whose clients range from C-Suite Executives to new leaders finding their path.

In his current role, Pat is responsible for setting the strategy and direction  for leadership development at  the Danaher Corporation. Danaher is a Fortune 150 Multi-industry science and technology enterprise providing competitive advantage to customers worldwide.

Before joining Danaher, Pat served as the Director of Global Leadership  Development at Eli Lilly which consistently ranked in the Top 20 globally  of Top Companies for developing leaders. Pat’s roles at Eli Lilly included sales, marketing, operations, and eventually training and leadership development where he found his passion.

Prior to joining Lilly, Pat was the Division I Associate Head  Basketball Coach at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois. In this role  for ten years, Pat led his teams to two NCAA tournaments and four  NIT tournaments. He also served as a faculty member in the Bradley University Foster School of Business teaching Organizational Development.

Pat has previously been on the Board of Directors for Chaucie’s Place whose mission is to generate awareness of and prevent child abuse through its education and prevention programs. Pat has a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Elmhurst College, a master’s degree in business administration from Loyola University and a PhD in Organizational Leadership from  Indiana Wesleyan University. Pat’s dissertation explored the relationship between leader authenticity and trust. Pat’s first book was published in 2020 entitled, “The Power of Genuine Leadership” – How Authentic Leaders Earn Trust. Pat currently serves as an adjunct faculty member with the prestigious Lacy School of Business at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana

Kimberly Newkirk

Kimberly Newkirk is the VP, Chief Learning and Talent Officer at Liberty Mutual Insurance.