2020 Speakers

JOANNE CHANG is a pastry chef and the co-owner of Flour Bakery and Myers + Change. She started as garde-manger cook, then worked as a pastry cook, and in 1995 was hired as Pastry Chef at Rialto restaurant in ...

MALLIKA CHOPRA is a mom, media entrepreneur, public speaker, and published author. Her latest books, Just Breathe: Meditation, Mindfulness, Movement and More and Just Feel: How to Be Stronger, Happier, Healthier, ...

RENEE CONNOLLY is the chief diversity, equity & inclusion officer and head of innovation HR engagement & inclusion at Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, where she drives the strategic advancement and cultural ...

KATHY HORGAN is executive vice president and chief human resources and citizenship officer at State Street Corporation, responsible for ensuring that employees feel engaged, valued, and committed to the markets ...

KELLI KIRWIN  is an award-winning and well-respected executive, currently serving as senior director of global software sales with Cisco Systems. Over her nearly 15-year career with Cisco, Kirwin has a proven track ...

GLORIA CORDES LARSON is a respected lawyer, public policy expert, Boston business leader, and former university president. She currently serves as a director on two public company boards, Unum Group and Boston ...

Host | Cultivating Creativity and Collaboration in Workplace Culture LAYSHA WARD is an accomplished ...

 AWKWAFINA is an award-winning Asian-American writer, actress and rapper. Her ...

DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN is a world-renowned presidential historian, public speaker and ...

CELESTE HEADLEE is a journalist, professional speaker, and author of the books We ...

ALICIA KEYS is a modern-day Renaissance woman—a fifteen-time Grammy Award-winning ...

LISA LING is the executive producer and host of This is Life on CNN, now in its ...

ELLEN McGIRT is a senior editor at FORTUNE, where she established the race and ...

JOANNE CHANG is a pastry chef and the co-owner of Flour Bakery and Myers + Change. ...

MALLIKA CHOPRA is a mom, media entrepreneur, public speaker, and published author. ...

RENEE CONNOLLY is the chief diversity, equity & inclusion officer and head of ...

KATHY HORGAN is executive vice president and chief human resources and ...

KELLI KIRWIN  is an award-winning and well-respected executive, currently serving as ...

GLORIA CORDES LARSON is a respected lawyer, public policy expert, Boston business ...

Host | Cultivating Creativity and Collaboration in Workplace Culture ...

MARIANA ATENCIO is a Peabody award–winning journalist, author and speaker, ...

RITU BHASIN is president of bhasin consulting inc., and an award-winning speaker, ...

RACHEL CARGLE is an Akron, Ohio born public academic, writer and philanthropic ...

DR. LISA DAMOUR is recognized as a thought leader by the American Psychological ...

DAN HEATH co-wrote four of the most-loved business books of the past decade, ...

ADMIRAL MICHELLE J. HOWARD was the first female U.S. Navy Four-Star Admiral. A ...

LAURA HUANG is the MBA Class of 1954 associate professor of business administration ...

DEBBY IRVING brings to racial justice the perspective of working as a community ...

TANIA KATAN is the CEO of Creative Trespassing, bestselling author, inspirational ...

STEPHANIE LAND is the author of the bestselling debut memoir Maid: Hard Work, Low ...

LISA NICHOLS is founder and CEO of Motivating the Masses, Inc., and one of ...

MEL ROBBINS is the international best-selling author of The 5 Second Rule and four ...

CAROLINE A. WANGA is currently the interim chief executive officer of Essence ...

ANNE MARIE BERNARD is a senior vice president and senior director of human resources ...

COLLEEN BEAUREGARD is head of global R&D communications at Takeda Pharmaceutical ...

ROMINA BONGIOVANNI is head of global communications at New Balance. She leads ...

NAEEMAH ELIAS is a managing director in the talent marketplace, responsible for ...

BURCU ERYILMAZ is head of US business operations and shared services for Sanofi ...

MARIANA FAGNILLI is vice president, global office of diversity and inclusion at ...

MEETA GULYANI is head of strategy, business development, and transformation at ...

JEN MERREDEW is the senior director of global marketing at Akamai ...

ALICE MONTEIRO is head of talent acquisition and diversity, equity, & inclusion ...

ERIN SMITH is a senior government relations manager at TD Bank, America’s Most ...

STEPHANIE WALTON is DVP of operations, where she leads a team of over 100 associates ...

Host | Cultivating Creativity and Collaboration in Workplace Culture ...

ALISHA A. ALAIMO is president of Biogen, U.S. Organization, and a board member of the ...

DANTAYA WILLIAMS is the chief human resources officer at Raytheon Technologies. She ...

ESTHER AYORINDE is senior director of CX Go-to-Market at Cisco. Ayorinde is a ...

KIMBERLY LOUNDS FOSTER is senior vice president of the global supply chain at Bristol ...

MICHELLE GARSHA is vice president, global women’s health diagnostics at ...

WENDY JOHN is the head of global diversity and inclusion for ...

CHRISTINE MAROULIS is currently the director of U.S. payer relations for the Johnson ...

JULIA McCARTHY is the executive vice president and head of client experience for ...

DR. IVA MORSE is the vice president and head of BioProcessing, commercial Americas at ...

ERIN SMITH is a senior government relations manager at TD Bank, America’s Most ...

SEAN BACCHUS is a talent acquisitions manager at Sanofi. He has over twenty years of ...

JASMINE GREENAMYER is vice president and head of global strategic partnerships at EMD ...

JENNIFER LEA, MS, CSCS, CPT, is a performance coach and the director of global ...

LISA WELKER-FINNEY is the vice president of human resources for Boston Scientific ...