Christine Bastian

Christine Bastian is the Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer at Western Digital.

Erin Dangerfield

Erin Dangerfield is the SVP, People and Culture at the Golden State Warriors.

Ije-Enu (Ije) Udeze Nwosu

Recognized as an industry “GameChanger” and voted one of the Top 10 Minorities in Healthcare to Watch by Modern Healthcare, Ije-Enu is a savvy thought leader, business strategist and sought after voice for driving impact. UK born, California raised, daughter of Nigeria, she is a global citizen. Leveraging humor and humanity, she brings this unique perspective to challenging workplace and societal norms. Her focus is simple – make the world better for all.

As the Vice President of Market Operations- Performance & Impact for Kaiser Permanente, she ensures the organizations spending decisions are economically viable, socially equitable and environmentally sustainable. Her portfolio includes: oversight of market operations strategy; environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategy; user experience; sustainability, supplier diversity; and economic & community impact. She also leads KP POWER, the initiative she spearheaded to amplify gender-focused activities that attract, retain and equitably advance women.

A committed community leader, Ije is dedicated to cultivating the needed leaders of today and decades to come. She serves on several boards, was named a “Top 40 under 40” executive by the San Francisco Business Times, is a recipient of the Corris Boyd Leadership Award, was recognized by Modern Healthcare with the “Up and Comer” award and is a Fellow of the Carol Emmott Foundation for senior women leaders in healthcare. She is the founder and host of The Pink Couch, a platform that seeks to change the world one uncomfortable conversation at a time.

Molly Delaney

Molly Delaney, Ph.D. is the Head of Insights and Experiences at X, the Moonshot Factory (formerly Google[x]). Working at the intersection of people analytics and employee experience, her mission is to create knowledge that helps people experience an optimized life, beginning with what motivates them to be their best at work. She is an adjunct professor at Santa Clara University’s Leavey School of Business and has previously worked for Google and several consulting firms.

Jon Greenawalt

Jon Greenawalt is the SVP of Customer Transformation at 15Five, and is accountable for the growth, expansion and delivery of the Transform education and coaching practice for leadership and management development, a key component of the company’s holistic, continuous performance management solution.

Jon is a people and culture expert, executive and strategic advisor with over 25 years of global, cross-industry experience working with management teams to build culture, values, leaders, and teams through progressive people strategies that accelerate and support business performance and organizational growth.

He is also the former Chief People Officer at SharkNinja, innovators of the popular Shark and Ninja household appliance brands, where he redesigned the global HR team to deliver the human capital strategy for IPO readiness. He modernized the function, helped re-positioned the global workforce for scale, created the Talent Development team, and was the chief architect and facilitator of the company’s core leadership development and team performance programs.

Jon received his MBA from the Duke University Fuqua School of Business, and his BA from the University of Pennsylvania.

Komal Chokshi

Komal Chokshi is the  UC Legal Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer/Principal Counsel at the University of California.

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.

Antoinette Hamilton

Antoinette Hamilton is the global head of inclusion and diversity at Lam Research. In her role, Ms. Hamilton drives the strategy for diversity and inclusion initiatives, ensuring alignment with executive and senior management; consulting on and embedding best practices across recruiting, employee development, and business processes; and developing key partnerships to foster a diverse workforce. She is also accountable for Lam’s progress on I&D metrics.

Ms. Hamilton was most recently vice president of diversity, inclusion and community experience at Xandr, an AT&T company. In her role, she drove the strategy for global diversity and inclusion initiatives. Prior to that, she served as the assistant vice president of diversity and inclusion at L’Oréal USA, working on strategic projects and innovation. She spent three years in Osaka, Japan where she taught culture and communication in support of the efforts of the Japanese Ministry of Education and Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Earlier in her career, Ms. Hamilton worked for INROADS, a non-profit organization dedicated to career advancement for college students from underserved communities.

Ms. Hamilton is a graduate of Hampton University, a historically Black university. Her honors include The Network Journal’s 40 Under 40 Achievers Award and the New York Coalition of 100 Black Women 2013 Beacon Award. Additionally, she serves on the board of Philipse Manor Hall, a New York State Historic Site. In September 2019, she was recognized by Profiles In Diversity Journal as a 2019 Woman Worth Watching.

Miriam Warren

Miriam Warren is the Chief Diversity Officer at Yelp and Board Chair of the Yelp Foundation, which counts non profits like La Cocina in San Francisco and Hot Bread Kitchen in New York among its grantees. Miriam joined Yelp in 2007, serving in a variety of marketing and operational roles, including leading the company’s expansion efforts internationally as Vice President of New Markets. Presently, she heads a team working at the intersection of culture, engagement, social impact and diversity, equity and inclusion.

Michal Lev-Ram

Michal Lev-Ram covers the technology and entertainment sectors for Fortune, writing profiles and in-depth features about the biggest personalities and trends within both industries. She also serves as the editorial director of Fortune Live Media, helping to steer the company’s growing portfolio of global conferences. In addition to her broader role as the editorial lead for Fortune Live Media, Michal co-chairs Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit and Brainstorm TECH, an annual technology gathering.

Outside of Fortune, Michal is the co-creator, writer, and host of Operation Firewall, an Audible Original podcast series about a groundbreaking cybercrime investigation that took place in the early 2000s. Previously, she was a staff writer at Business 2.0. and contributed to CNNMoney, Fast Company, and Popular Science. Michal has appeared on CNBC, CNN, NBC, and other TV and radio outlets. Born in Israel, she holds a degree in journalism from San Francisco State University and lives in the Bay Area with her husband, three kids, and miniature poodle.

Spencer Whitney

Spencer Whitney is currently a Digital Editor for KQED News. Prior to joining KQED News, Spencer worked as the Multimedia Editor at the Oakland Post and an Assistant Editor in the Editorial department at the San Francisco Chronicle. In those positions, he was responsible for organizing and producing web-based content on a daily basis while also writing columns and reporting on local politics, community news and education around the Bay Area. He attended Howard University as an undergraduate and interned with SiriusXM. He holds a master’s degree from UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism and wrote for the hyperlocal news sites Richmond Confidential and Oakland North. He has volunteered at San Quentin Prison to help produce content for the monthly news publication San Quentin News.

Rebecca Dishotsky

Rebecca Dishotsky leads employee communications at eBay. She has been at the company for 15 years working in a variety of roles including C-suite and leader communications for product and technology, business units and corporate functions including significant M&A transactions as well as a budget and operational role for the Communications function. She founded the employee communications function at PayPal, just as it was reaching $1B in revenue, prior to its separation from eBay. Earlier, Dishotsky was a government and politics pro. She worked in a statewide gubernatorial campaign and as a staffer on Capitol Hill in the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. She was the first woman to serve as chief of staff to a Mayor of San Jose, the 10th largest city in America. Dishotsky is a California native who graduated from UCLA and lives in the Bay Area with her husband and two children. She is also a pet mom to a dog, cat and a horse.

Skye King

Skye King is the Senior Vice President, Resilience & Social Change at Ogilvy.

Chad Nico Hiu

Chad Nico Hiu [@chadnico] is Senior Vice President for Strategy, Equity and Impact for the YMCA of San Francisco, which operates 14 branches in the Bay Area. He is a Hawaii-born New Yorker and student of the world, having previously served with the YMCA of the USA (Y-USA) Diversity, Inclusion & Global (DIG) team since 2011, including as Senior Director of Diversity & Inclusion. In that role, Chad helped to build local, state-wide, national and global capacity to engage diverse, vulnerable, underserved and marginalized communities, co-led Y-USA’s DIG strategy and network, and led integration of diversity, equity and inclusion policies, practices and programs towards community bridge-building and social cohesion for all in the 10,000 communities the Y serves across the U.S.

Previously, Chad served as Director of International Operations & Youth Exchanges for the YMCA of Greater New York, where he was part of an era of dynamic growth in cultural exchanges, collaborations, and global education/inclusion programming. A strategic, effective and passionate NGO professional for more than 20 years, Chad holds a Bachelor’s degree in Human Services Administration & Youth Development and a Master’s degree in Organizational Management and Leadership from Springfield College in Massachusetts and a Global Studies Certificate from the University of Pittsburgh.

Chad serves on the Board of Directors for Howard Brown, one of the nation’s largest LGBTQ health care networks, the Board of Trustees for the Tyler Clementi Foundation, dedicated to ending bullying in all forms, the Chicago Fair Trade Board of Directors supporting workers rights and global social responsibility, has traveled to 40 countries on almost every continent of the world, participated in the globally recognized Semester at Sea study abroad program, volunteered with the CASA YMCA youth shelter in Tijuana, Mexico, represented Y-USA in global settings and the World YMCA at the United Nations, keynoted at numerous national events. He is known as an effective, inclusive and compassionate facilitator of ‘brave space’ conversations on topics of racial equity, LGBTQ+ inclusion, community-police relations and inclusive faith among others, lived in Hong Kong for two years, provided policy and voter engagement support to political campaigns, and served as Youth Director with the YMCA of Honolulu.

Evan Graner

Evan Graner is the VP, Employee Experience at Edelman.

Marissa Waldman

Alicia Cafarelli

Alicia Cafarelli is the VP, Client Experience at Blueboard. She has been in the client success space for about 13 years, and is an advocate for transparency and authenticity in her workplace and on her team. She is passionate about creating a team culture of curiosity, empathy and recognition. She has spoken at Girls in Tech events and many Blueboard webinars around the topics of creating a culture of appreciation and the importance of employee recognition, wellbeing, and fulfillment.

Outside of work Alicia loves volunteering and contributing to the San Diego community. She currently sits on the board of directors for the Think Red Project, a local San Diego charity. She also enjoys listening to the San Diego Symphony and attending any Broadway show available.

Odessa Jenkins

Odessa Jenkins is the Founder of the Women’s National Football Conference (WNFC), and sought after executive leader. She most recently served as the Head of Business Develop for Parity, and VP of Support/Ops at YourCause. An in demand national speaker, Jenkins is also the founder of multiple nonprofits. She is a recognized market leader in CSR, DE&I, Team Dynamics, and SAAS technology with multiple years of leadership experience in private funded start-ups, joint ventures and fortune 100 public companies. Jenkins served for several years as an executive leader at YourCause, a start-up which helped to revolutionize the CSR industry.

As a disrupter in sports, Jenkins is paving the way to create inclusion and equity in sports for women and girls. She was an inaugural participant in the NFL’s first Women’s Career in Football Forum and is one of the first women to obtain the coveted NFL Bill Walsh Diversity Internship in an on-field position (Running Backs Coach – Atlanta Falcons). Featured on Fox, Sport Illustrated, CBS, ESPN, Yahoo Sports, The Undefeated and more, Jenkins was recently recognized as one of the most influential and powerful women in sports by Sports Illustrated (Unrelenting).

Jenkins has 22 years of coaching and leadership experience, is a Hall of Fame, a 5X National Champion, 2X USA National Team captain, 2X Gold Medalist, and heralded as one of the top leadership experts in the country.

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.

Sarah Sheehan

Sarah began her career in Human Resources at companies like SiriusXM, Coach, and Gilt Groupe before transitioning to the role of Head of Sales at Gilt City—the company’s luxury lifestyle experiences arm. In this role, Sarah ran a 65-person sales team, managed $60 million in yearly revenue, and expanded the brand to top cities across the U.S. It was there that she identified the direct correlation between culture and the bottom line—when employees failed to address their issues with colleagues and managers, revenue suffered.

Before co-founding Bravely, Sarah launched an EdTech company (accepted into the acclaimed 500 Startups accelerator) that helped educate kids on the importance of environmental and wildlife conservation.
Sarah’s experience in HR, team management, and tech—combined with an ongoing obsession with helping people gain the confidence they need to find meaning in their work—inspired her to co-found Bravely in 2017.

Davida Rivens

Davida leads Product Management & Sales for E4E Relief, expanding the field of employee relief through our offerings, future enhancements, and innovating grants to individuals around the world.  Coupled with her philanthropic consulting background, Davida has a deep understanding of corporate social responsibility.

She is recognized as a national expert in employee relief, including compliance with program policies and IRS regulations. Through the Napa Valley Disaster Response Fund and Brave of Heart Fund, she has led efforts for applying relief more broadly to communities in crisis. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has completed the Essentials of Business for Nonprofits through Wake Forest University.

Rebecca Taylor

Rebecca brings her years of experience in the HR and People space to GoCoach as the first official employee and Co-Founder. Throughout her 10 years in HR, she developed programs that optimized talent acquisition, employee retention, upskilling/reskilling, employee engagement, employee experience, succession planning, and more. She used this expertise to build People strategies that made her companies successful and protected their most valuable asset – the people. At GoCoach, she works cross-functionally to deliver solutions and experiences that push learners beyond their perceived limitations to unlock their potential. She aligns with key stakeholders to ensure they see ROI and continue making learning more accessible within their organizations. Her goal is to empower people to invest in themselves and their teams, to increase employee engagement, retention, and performance.

Matt Orozco

Matt Orozco has spent over 12 years working in HR Technology across both the public and private sectors with organizations ranging in size from 10 – 100,000+ employees. He has worked with organizations such as Staples, Alaska Airlines, Volvo, State of Pennsylvania, and Fort Lauderdale County in various functions including sales, marketing, analyst relations, and consulting. Matt was focused on consulting with current and potential customers at Peakon prior to the Workday acquisition, and he is currently overseeing a mindset focused leadership development program for sales leaders and high-potential candidates at Workday!

Tyana Owings

Tyana Owings is the director of people for Cloverleaf, which provides automated coaching for work teams. Previously, she has led learning and development, as well as leadership development, at organizations including Lovingly, Visionworks of America, and the University of Cincinnati. She has an MS in Human Resources Development from Xavier University and a degree in music (vocal performance) from Cincinnati Christian University.

Stephanie Denton

Stephanie Denton is the People Operations Lead at Northstar, the financial wellness platform for employees. With over 13 years of HR experience, Stephanie specializes in recruiting, employee engagement, benefits, employee relations, leadership coaching, and DEIB (Diversity, Equity, Inclusivity, and Belonging). Previously at Uber, Postmates, Twitch, and KIXEYE, Stephanie focuses on providing education and guidance for employees to be their best personal selves at work. At a very young age, Stephanie was taught to give back and volunteer in the community and to this day is passionate about serving traditionally underserved communities, which is why she joined Northstar.

Andrew Holm

Andrew Holm is Saltalks’s Sales Trainer and Leader. Having a strong passion for people and helping them experience their best life to the fullest, he joined Saltalk on their mission to bring quality meals, prepared by professional food entrepreneurs in Saltalk’s commercial kitchens, of which are the heart and foundation of America: building their American dream for them and their family, and serving their quality family meals to the world.

Tom Griffiths

Tom is the CEO and co-founder of Hone, the enterprise talent development platform for modern teams delivering live learning at scale to enable behavior change, human connection, and continuous development.

Prior to founding Hone, Tom was Chief Product Officer and co-founder of gaming unicorn FanDuel, where, for a decade, he helped create a multi-award winning product, a new industry, and a thriving distributed team. He has a lifelong passion for education, technology, and business and is grateful for the opportunity to combine all three at Hone. Tom earned his Bachelors in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge in England, and his MSc in Machine Learning from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Tom regularly speaks and writes about leadership development, equitable access to learning, management training, and the future of work. He lives in San Diego with his wife and young family.

Caitlyn Metteer

Caitlyn Metteer is the Director of Recruiting at Lever, the modern recruiting software that tackles the most strategic challenge that companies face – how to grow their teams. Caitlyn has been at Lever for over three years, bringing a decade of education and recruitment leadership experience to the company. She is proud to focus on Lever’s mission everyday with the people-focused team and customers to create a better overall hiring experience.

Matt Frank

Heather Sheldon

Heather Sheldon is a Sales Executive who advises and consults companies on using the Blackbaud YourCause Employee Engagement solutions.

Heather’s unique background spans traditional and non-traditional. From empowering people through transformative life coaching, supporting mental and physical wellbeing as a reiki practitioner, to inspirational speaking and more traditionally nonprofit management and leading global Diversity & Inclusion, ERG and Corporate Social Responsibility programs at a Fortune 500 company. Her career has been fueled by a passion for serving others and a belief that businesses hold a unique position to influence social impact. In her current role at Blackbaud, she consults with organizations on how to take a holistic approach to corporate social responsibility strategies in creating cultures of fulfillment and belonging.

Scott Thurm

Scott Thurm is a senior editor at The Information. He has been living in and covering Silicon Valley for more than 25 years. Most recently, he was business editor at Wired. Previously, he spent 18 years as a reporter and editor at The Wall Street Journal, and earlier at the San Jose Mercury News. He shared a Pulitzer Prize for work at the Louisville, Ky., Courier-Journal and is a two-time winner of the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism.

Esther Kaplan

Justine Waldman

Justine Waldman is an Anchor & Reporter at KRON-TV.

Kenneth Howe

Ken is the co-managing editor at the San Francisco Examiner, helping to revive a legendary publication in the Bay Area. A few years ago, I returned to California after a decade as a financial journalist in China and Hong Kong, where my experience was wide-ranging: Founding managing editor at Caixin Global, an English-language platform for China’s independent financial magazine, Caixin; Asia editor at the Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones working on the relaunch of Market Talk – a running blog of the Asia’s financial markets; and Deputy editor of the South China Morning Post, where I was head of the night desk and production.

After returning from China but before joining the Ex, I was a freelance journalist. I wrote a script for a documentary on the interaction of COVID and climate change and a book on the origins of high frequency trading. I also wrote for publications at Stanford University and UC Berkeley on a variety of topics, especially China and Hong Kong issues. As an editor I worked with the San Francisco Examiner and EdSource, an online education website. I was also a journalism instructor for the University of Hawaii. In addition, I’ve written a novel, The Black Kite, which takes place in San Francisco, Hong Kong and China.

Before heading for Asia, I was business editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, where earlier I had been a finance and consumer reporter, then later as well as a member of the investigative team.