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Kevin Wright
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Senior Racial Equity Facilitator/Consultant
Center for Equity and Inclusion
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"Raised in Las Vegas' Historic Westside with roots in African, Creole, and Indigenous heritage, Dr. Kevin Wright is a Senior Racial Equity Facilitator and Consultant. Kevin is responsible for raising consciousness, building skills and developing strategies to socialize and operationalize equity efforts throughout organizations. Wright's commitment to racial justice, equity, and inclusion is rooted in his approach with shifting cultures and processes one system at a time to advocate for individuals with historically marginalized identities. A TRIO alum and award-winning educator, Dr. Wright has impacted over 100,000 learners globally."

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Tuesday, November 5, 2024 - 10:30am to 11:30am
Cristina Jimenez
Senior Partner, Head of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging
RHR International
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Cristina Jimenez is a senior partner and global head of RHR Culture of Belonging, playing a key role in the firm’s cultural transformation. She advises C-suite leaders on scaling organizations, building high-performing teams, and fostering innovative cultures. Cristina is skilled at guiding leaders through complex political and business challenges, focusing on purpose and belonging as drivers of success. With a background in talent management, she partnered with executives to create purpose-driven cultures and minimize workplace toxicity. Cristina holds a bachelor's in psychology from Northeastern University and dual master's degrees in sociology and business research from Stanford University and Business School.

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Dr. Brittany Boone
Senior Consultant
VallotKarp Consulting
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Dr. Brittany Boone is an Industrial and Organizational Psychologist and experienced diversity and inclusion professional . Prior to transitioning into the D&I space full-time, Dr. Boone worked in the insurance industry and spent several years facilitating diversity and inclusion (D&I) trainings and discussions with Farmers Insurance. For the last several years Brittany has worked as a diversity and inclusion consultant, where she works with clients in the beauty industry, entertainment industry, law firms, financial services sector, museums, and a host of other organization types both in the U.S. and abroad, to design, facilitate and deliver diversity & inclusion trainings, review on-set wardrobe and footage, train production teams and on-air talent, conduct culture assessments, and assist clients with the overall implementation of D&I strategic plans and goals.

 Brittany holds a B.A. in Psychology from The University of Missouri-Columbia, an M.S. in Counseling Psychology from Avila University in Kansas City, and a PhD in Industrial and Organizational Psychology with a specialization in organization development and social change from Walden University.

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Diego Carvajal
Senior Consultant
VallotKarp Consulting
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Diego Carvajal is a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (“DEI”) Educator and Senior Consultant with VallotKarp Consulting. He works with global corporations, law firms, and museums in developing multi-year strategic DEI plans, global culture assessments, and educational seminars. He also works on-set and in consultation with TV shows including America's Got Talent, Project Runway, and the Real Housewives franchises.  His clients include NBC Universal, MGM Studios, Sidley Austin LLP, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and Bacardi Limited.

He began his career working as an associate for Cadwalader Wickersham and Taft and then as a senior associate with Hogan Lovells, where he represented sovereign countries and financial institutions on a broad range of international finance transactions in the U.S., Europe, Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East. He also worked as associate general counsel of Sterling National Bank.    

Diego holds a J.D. from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and a B.A. from New York University. He also proudly serves on the Lideres board of LatinoJustice, the country's foremost civil rights organization for Latinos.  

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Judy Ellis
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SVP, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Advisory
AMS
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As a DEI practitioner and organizational consultant, Judy leads strategic culture and diversity, equity, and inclusion transformations to build organizations where all employees thrive. For over 20 years, she has designed and delivered solutions for corporate, nonprofit and educational clients.

Judy leads the global DEI consulting practice of AMS (Alexander Mann Solutions), a Talent Acquisition and Workforce Solutions firm. She has designed diagnostic tools of end-to-end recruitment processes to foster inclusivity that she’s delivered for organizations including Barclays and Bristol Myers Squibb. She’s also developed DEI strategy, communication plans, career development frameworks and global training initiatives on Inclusive Leadership, Conscious Inclusion in Hiring, and Unconscious Bias for companies including Delta Airlines and MUFG. Prior to joining AMS, Judy led a certified Woman- and Minority-owned DEI consulting firm, Think People.

​Judy serves as an Adjunct Instructor in Workforce Diversity at the University of Cincinnati ‘s Master’s in Applied Psychology Program. She has a B.S. in Management & Organizations from Indiana University's Kelly School of Business. She holds certificates in Diversity & Inclusion from Cornell University, and Coaching with the International Coaching Federation; she is a Qualified Administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory®. She has been named a “Top Diversity Officer” by the National Diversity Council. Her expertise in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion has been featured in Forbes, DiversityQ magazine, the Recruiting Daily podcast and on numerous conference platforms, including SHRM’s Inclusion Conference.

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Jennifer Dulski
Founder & CEO
Rising Team
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Jennifer Dulski has a wide range of executive experience including leadership roles at Facebook, Google, and Yahoo!, and founder, CEO and president roles at early stage and scaling startups.

She is currently CEO and founder of Rising Team, a team performance platform that helps companies increase engagement, strengthen culture, and scale leadership development by equipping managers to lead science-backed, interactive team sessions without an outside facilitator.

She is also a member of the faculty at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and teaches a course called "Managing Growing Enterprises."

She writes about leadership for LinkedIn Influencers, Fortune, and Fast Company, and her first book, Purposeful, was published by Penguin Portfolio in 2018 and is a Wall Street Journal Bestseller.

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Jennifer Dulski
Founder & CEO
Rising Team
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Jennifer Dulski has a wide range of executive experience including leadership roles at Facebook, Google, and Yahoo!, and founder, CEO and president roles at early stage and scaling startups.

She is currently CEO and founder of Rising Team, a team performance platform that helps companies increase engagement, strengthen culture, and scale leadership development by equipping managers to lead science-backed, interactive team sessions without an outside facilitator.

She is also a member of the faculty at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and teaches a course called "Managing Growing Enterprises."

She writes about leadership for LinkedIn Influencers, Fortune, and Fast Company, and her first book, Purposeful, was published by Penguin Portfolio in 2018 and is a Wall Street Journal Bestseller.

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Jennifer Dulski
Founder & CEO
Rising Team
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Jennifer Dulski has a wide range of executive experience including leadership roles at Facebook, Google, and Yahoo!, and founder, CEO and president roles at early stage and scaling startups.

She is currently CEO and founder of Rising Team, a team performance platform that helps companies increase engagement, strengthen culture, and scale leadership development by equipping managers to lead science-backed, interactive team sessions without an outside facilitator.

She is also a member of the faculty at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and teaches a course called "Managing Growing Enterprises."

She writes about leadership for LinkedIn Influencers, Fortune, and Fast Company, and her first book, Purposeful, was published by Penguin Portfolio in 2018 and is a Wall Street Journal Bestseller.

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Jennifer Dulski
Founder & CEO
Rising Team
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Jennifer Dulski has a wide range of executive experience including leadership roles at Facebook, Google, and Yahoo!, and founder, CEO and president roles at early stage and scaling startups.

She is currently CEO and founder of Rising Team, a team performance platform that helps companies increase engagement, strengthen culture, and scale leadership development by equipping managers to lead science-backed, interactive team sessions without an outside facilitator.

She is also a member of the faculty at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and teaches a course called "Managing Growing Enterprises."

She writes about leadership for LinkedIn Influencers, Fortune, and Fast Company, and her first book, Purposeful, was published by Penguin Portfolio in 2018 and is a Wall Street Journal Bestseller.

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Jennifer Dulski
Founder & CEO
Rising Team
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Jennifer Dulski has a wide range of executive experience including leadership roles at Facebook, Google, and Yahoo!, and founder, CEO and president roles at early stage and scaling startups.

She is currently CEO and founder of Rising Team, a team performance platform that helps companies increase engagement, strengthen culture, and scale leadership development by equipping managers to lead science-backed, interactive team sessions without an outside facilitator.

She is also a member of the faculty at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and teaches a course called "Managing Growing Enterprises."

She writes about leadership for LinkedIn Influencers, Fortune, and Fast Company, and her first book, Purposeful, was published by Penguin Portfolio in 2018 and is a Wall Street Journal Bestseller.

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Jennifer Dulski
Founder & CEO
Rising Team
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Jennifer Dulski has a wide range of executive experience including leadership roles at Facebook, Google, and Yahoo!, and founder, CEO and president roles at early stage and scaling startups.

She is currently CEO and founder of Rising Team, a team performance platform that helps companies increase engagement, strengthen culture, and scale leadership development by equipping managers to lead science-backed, interactive team sessions without an outside facilitator.

She is also a member of the faculty at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and teaches a course called "Managing Growing Enterprises."

She writes about leadership for LinkedIn Influencers, Fortune, and Fast Company, and her first book, Purposeful, was published by Penguin Portfolio in 2018 and is a Wall Street Journal Bestseller.

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