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.

Don Robertson

Don Robertson is the EVP and Chief HR Officer at Northwestern Mutual.

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.

Shawne Robinson

Shawne joined Monster Worldwide in 2019 as Senior Director of Product Management, and transitioned into the role of Vice President of Product Management in 2021. He has over 20 years of experience leading the development of software solutions, from start-ups to multi-billion dollar corporations. Shawne holds a BS in computer science from Manhattan College, MS in computer science from USC (southern California) and an MBA from Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.

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.

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.

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.

Dr. Natalie Baumgartner

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.

Kat Belloli

Kat Belloli is the Global Head, Learning, Leadership & Development at Verizon Media.

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.

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.

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.

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.