Leadership & Navigation

Carol Leonie Maria Schulte
Founder
The Brave Initiative
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Founder of The Brave Initiative, Carol empowers audiences globally, and works with numerous Fortune 500 companies, International Associations, and individual leaders to get their brave on! She is committed to building braver workplaces - where every person brings all they are to all they do.

A dedicated mental health advocate, she’s the creator of the Brave Beyond Diagnosis community, and author of The Brave Healing Journal, a guided journey to find your brave and empower your life, one day at a time.

She’s lived in 16 countries, completed marathons and triathlons, bungee jumped in her birthday suit, and is a serious carpool karaoke-er!

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David Lewis
founder, president and CEO
OperationsInc.
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David Lewis is the founder, president, and CEO of OperationsInc, one of the nation’s largest human resources consulting firms. OperationsInc has grown steadily since its inception in 2001, and now engages a team of over 90 professionals providing HR, Payroll, Training, and Recruiting support to a base of over 1,600 clients. David is leveraging a 30-plus year career in human resources and operational management for leading firms including Merck/Medco and Computer Associates. He serves as an on-air subject matter expert in the areas of human resources, workplace management, and small business issues for MSNBC, FOX, CBS Radio and NPR, and regularly appears in national publications like The New York Times, Inc., and The Wall Street Journal.

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Magi Graziano
CEO
KeenAlignment
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Magi The Evolutionist

Catalyst for Positive Change

Personal - Interpersonal - Team - Organizational

Using a unique combination of experiential coaching, science-backed development tools, and actionable strategies, Magi empowers leaders to evolve themselves and their organizational culture to meet the moment. Whether it’s change initiatives, new leadership, or cultural transformation, she partners with teams to catalyze positive change.

Magi has spent her life reinventing herself. From a single mother at 19 working at the first Cable TV company, to leading one of the fastest growing consultancies and becoming a best selling author in her field of expertise, Magi has continually taken challenges and failure as lessons and learned to move beyond her limits (both real and perceived) to live a life that inspires and contributes. Her body of work cuts through the personal, group, and organizational malaise stifling happiness, joy, and fulfillment at work. Her uplifting talks and groundbreaking courses uncover, catalyze, and optimize human potential, unite teams, and raise organizational effectiveness. 

 

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Monday, June 24, 2019 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Richard Ramsey
vice president, HR - Walt Disney International
The Walt Disney Company
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Richard joins Kedge as Head of Organizational Transformation after a 38-year career with the Walt Disney Company. In his most recent role as Vice President of Human Resources, leading Communications and Collaboration for Walt Disney International, he was responsible for a Global Futures Team engaged in Strategic Foresight work across 45 countries. Throughout this effort, Richard partnered with Kedge to form, train and sustain 12 Futures Teams, locally-led by a business leader, and populated with a cross-functional team of passionate and engaged Futurists. While he has broad Human Resources expertise, he has been deeply involved in organizational design, change and culture transformation.

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Frank Spencer
founder
Kedge, LLC
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Frank is a published author and speaker, delivering presentations and workshops around the globe. He holds a MA in Strategic Foresight from Regent University. With a strong background in both business and academic foresight, Frank was the creator and lead instructor of The Futures Institute: Shaping The Future Now at the Duke University Talent Identification Program Institute. He has worked on foresight for companies like Kraft, Mars, and Marriott. Frank also led the effort to establish foresight as a leadership competency across The Walt Disney Company, training over 300 employees across the globe. Frank is co-founder of The Futures School, a multi-disciplinary Strategic Foresight training program. He is also the founding partner at Kedge, a foresight, innovation, creativity and strategic design firm.

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Jim Link, SHRM-SCP
CHRO
SHRM
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Jim Link is the Chief Human Resources Officer for the Society for Human Resource Management.  With more than 315,000 members around the world, SHRM is the largest HR professional association in the world and the leading voice for matters related to workers and the workplace.

Jim’s career includes roles of increasing responsibility across a variety of industries and companies including General Electric, the Pillsbury Company, Porsche Cars, and Randstad.  In his most recent role as CHRO for Randstad North America, he led a global team of 150 HR professionals who were instrumental in transforming the company into an award-winning, inclusive, and sustainable global leader.

Jim has served as a volunteer leader in several organizations including the SHRM Foundation Board, the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank Human Capital Advisory Board, and the Human Resources Leadership Forum.

Jim holds undergraduate and master’s degree from Murray State University.  Born and raised on a working family farm in western Kentucky, he currently resides in Atlanta and Alexandria, VA.

Jim is an adjunct instructor in the Executive MBA program at the University of Poznan (Poland) School of Economics and Business and the University of Liège (Belgium) Asia-Pacific campus in Taipei, Taiwan.

 

 

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Amanda Haddaway
Managing Director
HR Answerbox
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Amanda Haddaway is an award-winning HR consultant and corporate trainer. In her role as the managing director of HR Answerbox, she serves small businesses and start-ups as a talent optimization expert. She has more than 40,000 hours of experience in HR and holds the two highest professional certifications, SPHR and SHRM-SCP, as well as a Master of Jurisprudence degree in Labor and Employment Law from Tulane University Law School, a Master’s degree from George Washington University and a Bachelor’s degree from James Madison University.

She has been recognized as the Most Influential Woman in HR Training - USA by Acquisition International and the Gamechanger of the Year (US-East Coast) by ACQ Global Awards.

She is also the creator of New Manager Bootcamp and the author of two books.

 
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Serely Geraldine Alcaraz
Country head
ITD World Philippines
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Ms. Serely Alcaraz has been in the human resource and organization development profession for 25 years. She is the Executive Director of ITD World Philippines and previously worked as the Manager for Marketing and Instruction at Dale Carnegie Training and Associate Consultant at Development Dimensions International (DDI). She is a master trainer of Thomas Crane’s The Heart of Coaching, certified facilitator of John Maxwell and Jack Canfield programs, DDI and Dale Carnegie Courses. She has developed over 100,000 leaders globally in the areas of coaching and mentoring, creativity and innovation, talent development and engagement, among others. She was the 2006 President of the Philippine Society for Training and Development and 2015-2016 President of ARTDO International.

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Tuesday, June 25, 2019 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Constantine Vasilios Kiritsis, SHRM-SCP
founder and CEO
StudySmart
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Constantine (Dino) - entrepreneur, public speaker, author - founder of StudySmart & International Curriculum Development Expert consultant for PwC. He is a world-class inspirational professional who has delivered over 15,000 hours of professional qualifications and corporate training in the past 20 years in over 40 countries globally. Dino has developed the curriculum, methodology and mapping procedure for PwC’s Mini MBA programme being offered globally by PwC Academies. ACCA has named him in 2017 as a ‘tutor guru’ to help in rolling out its Strategic Business Leader (SBL) exam and has licensed his innovative interactive flowchart as a resource for candidates.

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Scott Wintrip
president
Wintrip Consulting Group
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Scott Wintrip is the author of High Velocity Hiring: How to Hire Top Talent in an Instant, named a must-read book by HR Magazine. Over the past 20 years, Scott has led the Wintrip Consulting Group, a global consultancy that has helped more than 23,000 organizations build talent-rich companies that have eliminated their hiring delays. For five consecutive years, Staffing Industry Analysts, a Crain Communications company, awarded Scott a place on the “Staffing 100,” a list of the world’s 100 most influential leaders. He’s a member of the Million Dollar Consultant Hall of Fame and Staffing 100 Hall of Fame.

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Kirk Ginn
vice president, HR
Atlas Sand
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