Shveta Miglani, Ph.D.

Shveta Miglani currently serves as the Head of People Development Experience for Micron Technology. In her role, she fulfills the growth and development needs of all 40,000 Micron employees across 18 countries. Her global team is dedicated to creating a culture of continuous learning through digital transformation of the learning space. Shveta held leadership roles at GlobalFoundries, SanDisk, Palo Alto Networks and LiveRamp. She is passionate about Future of Work and is currently working on upskilling and reskilling efforts.

Shveta is also an official Member of Forbes HR Council, an Executive Board Member of CityYear and a member of World Economic Forum. Shveta holds a Bachelor’s in Economics and Sociology, Master’s of Science in Instructional Technology and a Master’s in Organizational Development. She recently completed her Ph.D. in Leadership Development and Organizational Development.

Don Robertson

Don Robertson is an Executive Vice President and the Chief Human Resources Officer of Northwestern Mutual – a $30 billion in revenue, Fortune 90 financial services company; the largest U.S. provider of individual life insurance; and manager of more than $290.3 billion in policyholder assets.

Don is a catalyst of change within Northwestern Mutual, bringing a strategic mindset and a unique flair for identifying and developing talent to his role as CHRO.

Don understands how to meet the needs of a diverse workforce while employing strategic thinking to deliver real results for Northwestern Mutual, its workforce, and its clients. Benefitting from his varied experience as a leader in sales and finance as well as human resources, Don’s goal is to continue re-imagining how HR collaborates with other operational leaders to advance the goals of Northwestern Mutual and its workforce.

Prior to his role at Northwestern Mutual, Don developed workforces across the world at Hewlett-Packard Corporation, GE Capital, Stanford Research Institute, Apttus, and Sutherland Global Services, among others.

Don earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration from California State University in Fresno, where he currently serves on the Advisory Board for the Craig School of Business. Don also serves on the Boards of Directors for the Northwestern Mutual Foundation, Wisconsin Humane Society, and the Milwaukee Public Museum.

Shaun Mayo

Shaun Mayo is the chief people officer of the Arizona Cardinals NFL football team. He is a Human Resources Strategist who likes to think of himself as the “People Whisperer.” Shaun has more than ten years of HR leadership experience delivering innovative people solutions, developing and managing teams that operate in an agile way, and helping to build a high-performance culture that promotes diversity and inclusion. Shaun is known for delivering forward-thinking HR solutions to solve some of the most complex business problems. He has a proven track record in driving business results through the HR function.

Romesh Ratnesar

Romesh Ratnesar is a member of the editorial board of Bloomberg Opinion, where he writes on national security, immigration and education issues. He is also a contributing editor at Washingtonian magazine and a New America fellow. Previously, Ratnesar was deputy editor of Bloomberg Businessweek and an editor and foreign correspondent for Time. He has served in the State Department and is author of “Tear Down This Wall: A City, A President and the Speech that Ended the Cold War.

Lia Garvin

Lia is an operations leader, speaker and coach, on a mission to humanize the workplace, one conversation at a time. Through her writing, leadership coaching and savvy program management skills, she brings an authentic and sense of humor to teams to help them examine the challenges holding them back and focus on what matters. She has built robust diversity & inclusion programs, launched the world’s first holographic computer, driven programs and initiatives around team inclusion and organizational effectiveness, and coaches people on how to drive impactful work and thrive working in tech. She was recognized by the National Diversity Council as a 2021 DEI Champion.

Lia is the author of UNSTUCK: Reframe Your Thinking to Free Yourself From the Patterns and People that Hold You Back, leaning into nearly 10 years of experience working in some of the largest and most influential companies in tech including Microsoft, Apple and Google to explore the power of reframing to overcome common challenges found in the modern workplace. She has a Bachelor of Arts from UCLA in sociology, a Masters of Arts in media studies from the New College of California and is a Co-Active and ICF certified professional coach.

Susan Justus

Driven by a passion to help others succeed, Susan Justus draws on more than 15 years of experience in talent development to help professionals at all levels reach their goals. She currently serves as the Vice President of Talent Development for Betterment in NYC where she helps team members at all levels find clarity, confidence and purpose through dynamic professional development programs and DEI education solutions. Susan brings to the company a proven success record for building talent development departments from the ground up, advancing existing growth cultures and revolutionizing stale or ineffective programs within several organizations across various industries. At Betterment, Susan works with individuals and leads the team responsible for creating and maintaining competency frameworks, end-to-end employee development curriculums focused on professional skills and diversity, equity and inclusion and leadership tracks.

Throughout her career, Susan has helped build learning cultures within several industries, including financial services, business consulting, advertising, financial tech and insurance. She is comfortable and highly competent with onboarding program development for early career stage employees on up to through C-level executives. Susan has successfully managed leadership and development teams and regularly collaborates with all levels of management to chart employee improvement strategies and roadmaps. In addition to her work with Betterment, Susan volunteers with the Lean In program at Columbia University and First Round Fast Track as a career mentor.

A broad thinker with a strong growth mindset, Susan offers a unique and deep understanding of leadership behaviors, life motivations, corporate insight and cross-cultural influences. As a coach, her approach begins with identifying individual talent and then utilizing a strategic method to help individuals embrace motivations and inherent strengths as they embark on their career journeys.

Susan holds an M.S. in Human Resources Management with a focus in Human Development from the New School University, a Life Coaching Certification from the Certified Life Coaching Institute and a Career Coaching Certification from New York University.

Kelly Rider

Kelly Rider is Chief Learning and Talent Officer at PTC, a leading digital transformation solutions company. She is responsible for establishing the central learning organization and driving PTC’s talent management strategies. Prior to PTC, Kelly held leadership positions in corporate L&D at SAP, SuccessFactors, Hewlett-Packard, and ACS/Intellinex.

Madhukar Govindaraju

Madhukar Govindaraju is the Founder & CEO of Numly, Inc. As an experienced Tech. Entrepreneur, Madhukar brings more than two decades of experience in the software industry as a GM/Product Executive, CTO, SVP Engineering, and business leader, at some of the world’s leading software companies, including VMware, Microsoft, TriNet HR Group, Saba Software, SAP / Business Objects, Hyperion Solutions, HP, IBM, and several successful startups. He also has several patents pending in the Talent Management, Innovation Network Analytics and AI-4-HR space.

Laurie Rebholz

Laurie Rebholz is the Head of Leadership and Performance Solutions (LEAPS) for Citi. Laurie and her team work closely with global stakeholders to embed leadership skills such as managing in the remote environment, inclusion, influence and credible challenge into Citi’s culture.   and practices using social, mobile and traditional learning methods.

Laurie has built her career at Citi over 20 years, in learning and development roles that span global, regional and product specific audiences.  Over the past few years, she’s successfully spearheaded various efforts to bring new and innovative approaches to Citi’s leadership development portfolios through social, mobile and traditional learning methods. Prior to this role, Laurie led various teams such as learning design and the manager capability/talent development practice area within the LEAPS organization.

Laurie is an executive coach and serves as faculty for one of Citi’s most senior leadership development programs.  Laurie has served on the Advisory Board for Harvard Manage Mentor and represented Citi on the Advisory Board of the American Bankers Association (ABA) School of Bankcard Management.

Laurie has an MBA in Human Resource Management and a B.A. in Political Science.

Ben Colvin

Today’s business world is increasingly complex. To succeed and grow, organizations must navigate a range of challenges, both in and out of the company’s control. Leaders are expected to optimize diverse teams to effectively react, adapt, and innovate – all while continuing to meet business objectives in the short-term. The last thing anyone has time to do is overhaul their performance management or leadership training programs.

Coaching Works NYC gets it. Founded by Ben Colvin after a 25+-year career as an executive corporate leader, Coaching Works NYC builds real-life, scalable solutions to enhance an organization’s existing programs with individualized coaching that ties directly to business goals and reaches deeper into the organization.  The outcome is accelerating the diversity of an organization’s leadership bench and ensuring the readiness of its leaders to step-in.

Ben applies a business leadership perspective to his consulting and coaching practice, which supports discovery and growth of innate talents to increase impact personally, professionally and the business for leaders and their teams.  This truth supported his own accomplishments as a senior leader in product, marketing, and business development roles across financial services, insurance and payments technology industries.

Chelsea Margolies

Chelsea Margolies is the Director of Education Strategy & Experience at 15five.

Emily Diaz

Emily is the Director of Transformational Services, a division she created after identifying the need for organizations to teach ‘vital skills’ to their people, skills which in turn supercharge the impact of 15Five’s performance management software. Since joining the company’s founding team 8 years ago, she has served as advisor, trainer, and coach for companies across all industries — including Visa, Tesla, Citrix, and ThermoFisher. Her experience across domains informs the creation of unique and powerful programs that train core professional competencies. Emily especially loves to support high-growth organizations in making the shift from ‘command and control’ to ‘collaborate and coach’. She is a diehard intrapreneur and regularly leverages her background in social science to connect with others and build new things. Emily received her BA in Sociology from Bard College.

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.

Benedek Frank

Benedek is an ambitious and motivated senior organizational development expert, coach and team coach with extensive practical experience in the Learning and Development function of HR. A former marketing agency account and strategy director, he also has a wide understanding of different businesses and their inner workings. As an ICF licensed, PCC level business coach and corporate trainer, he prides himself on quickly understanding how and where people and teams are ‘stuck’ and providing them with the right toolkit to grow and progress. He finds joy in getting his clients to access their next best versions.

Andy Johnson

Andy Johnson is the Chief Operating Officer at iorad, an eLearning solution that enables anyone to quickly create and share customizable tutorials online. His career is heavily focused on the technology industry and he brings with him a breadth of experience spanning from lean startups, to high-growth enterprises and full-scale global corporations. Andy loves to push the needle forward in pursuit of new ideas that can streamline digital education and help people Capture, Share, and Learn.

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.

Morgan Chaney

Morgan Chaney is Senior Director of Marketing and Employer Branding Lead at Blueboard, an experiential employee rewards platform for the modern workplace. She is a seasoned professional speaker and employee recognition thought leader, hosting Blueboard’s monthly webinars and presenting across a variety of industry conferences and professional meetups including HR Redefined, HR Transform, HR Southwest, DisruptHR Regional Events, Culture Con Madison, and CalHR Conference.

As a leader of the Blueboard Culture Committee, Morgan focuses her attention on crafting a more meaningful candidate experience. Her current projects center around building a powerful employer brand as a tool for attracting top talent, creating a memorable candidate journey, and setting up “Newboarders” for success through streamlined onboarding efforts.

Living Blueboard’s mission around adventure and exploration, outside of the office you’ll find Morgan photographing wildlife, practicando su español, or teaching yoga. Connect with Morgan on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/morganchaney.

About Blueboard:

Blueboard is an employee recognition and incentives platform powered by hand-curated experiences. We make it easy for companies to give meaningful employee rewards, incentives and gifts—from one-of-a-kind to once-in-a-lifetime experiences. Hundreds of companies like Pinterest, Google, Otis Elevators, GoPro and USI Insurance use Blueboard to reward their top performers with experiences – think local adventures like skydiving, couple’s massage, learning to surf, or luxury incentive travel in lieu of cash or gift cards. Learn more at Blueboard.com and how experiences make an impact on our blog.

Will Foussier

As a Forbes 30 U 30 and Harvard alumnus with a background in social-impact investment and finance, Will founded AceUp with the desire to help professionals at all levels unleash their full-potential, by giving them easy access to premium leadership coaching enabled by technology, empowered by science, and backed by data.

Will believes that we can do well by doing good, and this is what drives his leadership and the one of my team every day at AceUp.

Alex Kinney

Alex Kinney is currently a collaborative learning specialist and expert at 360Learning, the world’s first collaborative learning platform. 360Learning helps companies big and small create, ship, and improve courses through the power of upskilling and collaborative Learning. Alex is passionate about the field of I/O psychology and strives to simplify complex, multi-level organizational issues and incorporate academic theory-applied practice. He is experienced in developing training programs, training new hires, organizational design and development, and leadership development and collaborative innovation.

Heather Tinsley-Fix

Heather Tinsley-Fix is a Senior Advisor at AARP, where she leads the organization’s work on employer engagement and helps drive AARP’s focus on providing workers 50+ with the tools they need to thrive in today’s work environment.  With a background in marketing, innovation, and program management, Heather works with employers and job seekers, external partners, and academics to provide thought leadership on 50+ labor market issues and create practical resources that enable employers to build age-inclusive organizations that capitalize on the value of experience.  She holds a B.A. in English Literature and an M.A. in Literary Theory, both from the University of Exeter.

Shareka Nelson

Shareka has extensive experience in the areas of Diversity, Equity, Belonging & Inclusion Strategy, Talent Acquisition/Recruiting, Analytics, Global Partnerships and Program Development/Implementation.

She provides strategic coaching in the development and execution of people strategies, HR policies, training and processes, specifically in the areas of diversity, talent attraction, bias mitigation, retention, employee engagement and inclusion.

Mark Kaestner

Mark has over twenty years of experience in the fields of human resources, talent management learning, and development, and franchisee relations. Mark has also been responsible for leading large-scale projects and initiatives, guiding cross-functional teams, large learning teams; identifying performance gaps and implementing solutions, such as onboarding, development processes, mentoring, training, coaching and feedback, continuous development, and team building. He has also managed outside consultants and agencies and has had broad P&L responsibility.

Currently, Mark’s position with Graphic Packaging International is Vice-President, Talent Management, Learning & Development, and Diversity & Inclusion. Mark’s is responsible for providing enterprise-wide thought leadership and counsel to senior executives on all areas of talent, including talent acquisition, diversity and inclusion, learning and development, performance management, succession, leadership development, and employee engagement. He leads a team that translates and deploys best-in-class talent management and acquisition processes and solutions in a way that most effectively enables GPI’s culture and employees. The team drives progressive, and business-centric learning and leadership development solutions across the organization, including the integration and deployment of all enterprise-wide learning strategies and solutions, as well as solutions to ensure leaders at all levels are developed. Additionally, he leads the team who develop strategies and solutions that directly impact GPI’s culture – namely employee engagement, career development, diversity & inclusion, and leadership expectations/mindset.

Before joining Graphic Packaging, International, Mr. Kaestner served as Global Director (Chief Learning Officer) Learning, Leadership and Capability Development for The Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta, Georgia. Mark worked in The Coca-Cola system for the thirteen and a half years.

He is currently working towards his Doctor of Education (EdD) at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education.

Mark finds having the opportunity to impact leaders and employees through talent solutions exhilarating. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia, and in his spare time, enjoys mountain biking, scuba diving, camping, and snow skiing. Mark also has two large beautiful dogs, a golden retriever and a flat-coated retriever—they are young pups, which keeps his life very interesting.

Caitlin Collins

Caitlin is an Organizational Psychologist and Principal Implementation Consultant who serves as a strategic advisor and a Betterworks product and platform expert for the largest, most complex enterprise customers. She has spent her career consulting for mid to global Fortune and FTSE 500 companies across various vertical markets developing people-centric strategies for recruitment, development, agile transition and change to help organizations become more nimble, more capable and more productive. With the belief that everyone deserves the opportunity to be great at their jobs despite experience, Caitlin has successfully taken a different approach to talent management by unlocking and understanding potential.

Her personal mission is to help foster fulfilling work environments that will create a contagiously positive impact on lives outside of work. Caitlin holds a Bachelors of Science degree and Masters of Science degree, both in Organizational Psychology with a certification in Training and Development.

Donna DiMenna

Donna DiMenna is an organizational psychologist with expertise in talent management practices: assessment, organizational development, leadership development, and executive coaching. She has led Talent Management for Global Functions at Medtronic and is currently the Director for Team Effectiveness and Executive Coaching at Medtronic. Donna can also assist in bringing in external coaching partnerships for leaders.

Prior to Medtronic, Donna has worked globally in numerous Fortune 500 companies driving talent, engagement, leadership, and cultural initiatives. She has also presented widely on issues of developing hi potentials, executive succession, executive development and global workforce demographics.

Colin Emerson

Colin is a Customer Success Executive at Eightfold AI, helping deliver the right career for everyone in the world. Before Eightfold, Colin was a management consultant at Deloitte, focusing on workforce transformation for Fortune 500 and public sector clients, with an emphasis on building skills-based organizations. Prior to that, he spent nearly a decade as a public educator with Singapore’s Ministry of Education.

Seth Green

Seth Green was appointed Dean of the Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies on July 1, 2021.

Before joining Graham, Green served as Founding Director of the Baumhart Center for Social Enterprise and Responsibility at Loyola University Chicago. During his tenure, the Center launched a top-ranked specialty MBA program, a globally significant award for social innovation in business, and an array of educational programs that annually engage more than 4,000 learners. Green also served as an Executive Lecturer in Loyola’s Quinlan School of Business, teaching classes on social entrepreneurship and receiving recognition as the Mission-Driven Faculty Member of the Year in 2021.

Prior to Loyola, Green led Youth & Opportunity United (Y.O.U.), a nonprofit organization that prepares low-income youth for post-secondary and life success. At Y.O.U., Green oversaw the fourfold expansion of programs and a $16.4 million fundraising campaign to build a state-of-the-art youth center. He also spearheaded two strategic planning processes, resulting in an enhanced program model and deepened impact. Alongside Y.O.U., Green taught courses on nonprofit management as an adjunct lecturer at Northwestern University.

Earlier in his career, Green worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company, guiding private sector clients through strategy development 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.

Green speaks and writes on social innovation. His commentaries and research have appeared in the Christian Science Monitor, Fortune Magazine, the Journal of Business Research, and the Social Innovations Journal, and he serves on the Editorial Review Board of the Business and Society Review. Green has been a featured guest on Slate Podcasts, C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, MSNBC, and CNN, and his efforts have been covered by the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. In 2008, Utne Reader named him one of 50 “Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World.”

Green is civically engaged in Chicago, serving on the Campaign Cabinet of the United Way of Metro Chicago, the Impact Investing Advisory Council of the YWCA Metropolitan Chicago, the Advisory Board of Concordia Place, the Reception Committee of the Economic Club of Chicago, and the Advisory Board of the Executives’ Club of Chicago.

A Marshall Scholar, Green holds a J.D. from Yale University, a master’s in women’s studies from Oxford University, a master’s in development studies from the London School of Economics, and a bachelor’s degree in politics from Princeton University.

Kaelyn Phillips

Kaelyn Phillips is the Director of Global Talent Development at Monster, where her mission is to enable employees to do the best work of their career.  Focusing on the career journey from preboarding through offboarding, Kaelyn has over 10 years’ experience in welcoming new employees, developing leaders, engaging employees, and implementing a diverse and inclusive high-performance culture.  She has developed a global onboarding online system and process for a major multi-national corporation, has worked as a leadership consultant for both small and medium-sized businesses, and has led multiple organizations through the challenging process of realigning their culture and values to become more inclusive organizations.