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.

Lia Garvin

Lia has almost a decade of experience working in some of the largest and most influential companies in tech including Microsoft, Apple, and Google. As a Senior Program Manager at Google, Lia leverages her leadership coaching and program management skills to examine the challenges holding teams back from doing their best work, and develop programs, workshops, and resources to help foster psychological safety, inclusion, and effective team dynamics. She built the Diversity & Inclusion program for Google’s Augmented and Virtual Reality team, mentors and coaches program managers across the company about how to drive impactful and measurable D&I programming, and was recognized by the National Diversity Council as a 2021 DEI Champion.

Lia is a certified executive coach, and works with her clients on how to use the power of reframing to achieve the goals they have for their lives and careers. Lia has a bachelor of arts in sociology from UCLA, and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family.

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.

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.

Donna DiMenna

Donna DiMenna is the Global Director, Leadership & Talent Development at Medtronic.

Shaun Mayo

Shaun Mayo is a Human Resources Strategist, who likes to think of himself as the “People Whisper.” Shaun has over 10 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.

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.