Jennifer B. Kahnweiler, Ph.D.
Personal Pronouns
She/Her/Hers
Author, Speaker
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Jennifer B. Kahnweiler is a bestselling author and one of the leading speakers on introverts in the workplace. Her pioneering books, The Introverted Leader, Quiet Influence, The Genius of Opposites, and Creating Introvert-Friendly Workplaces have been translated into 18 languages. The Introverted Leader was named one of the top 5 business books by The Shanghai Daily.

Jennifer has partnered with leading organizations like Amazon, Merck, Kimberly Clark, NASA, Bosch, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. She has delivered her signature presentations from Singapore to Spain. She holds the Certified Speaking Professional designation, awarded to a small percentage of speakers, and serves as a mentor to many professional women.

A native New Yorker, Jennifer calls Atlanta, GA home.

 

 

 

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Tuesday, October 3, 2017 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Randy G. Pennington
president
Pennington Performance Group
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Randy Pennington helps leaders deliver positive results in a world of accelerating uncertainty and change. His clients include many of world’s best-managed companies, associations, government agencies, and universities. Additionally, Randy serves as an adjunct instructor in the Cox Business Leadership Center at Southern Methodist University.

Randy is author of three books: Make Change WorkResults Rule!; and On My Honor, I Will . His ideas have been featured in leading media outlets including CNN, PBS, Fox News, ABC Radio Network, the BBC, Fast Company, and The New York Times. He is a contributor to CIO.com and the Huffington Post.

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Tuesday, October 3, 2017 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Natasha Bowman
founder
Performance ReNEW
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Natasha Bowman JD, SPHR has been leading organizations through the complex, fast-changing human resources landscape for over ten years. She has developed a reputation as an expert consultant and thought leader for organizations like The Heritage Foundation, Knowledge International, and Wiley Publishing and many others. Her expertise spans human resources management, talent management, employment law, organizational development, sourcing and recruiting, collective bargaining, and ethics and compliance. Because of her ability to diagnose workplace issues and provide proven solutions to organizations, she is often referred to as The Workplace Doctor. She is the author of YOU CAN'T DO THAT AT WORK! 100 Legal Mistakes That Managers Make in the Workplace. 
 
Apart from rich expertise and cross-sector experience, she brings an ardent intellectual commitment to the field. Her law degree has equipped her to guide million-person companies through HR crises by designing policies, training company leaders, directing investigations and keeping the pulse of emerging trends in employment and labor law.
 
Most importantly, she is committed to developing the next generation of organizational leaders. She is one of the most sought after speakers and teachers. She has spoken and taught at some of the prestigious corporate classroom and graduate business schools across the country such as: Fordham University, Walmart Stores Inc., Manhattan College, Northwell Health (formerly North Shore LIJ Health System) Georgetown University, and the Jack Welch Management Institute. 
 
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Stacy Kesten
leadership consultant
Integrated Leadership
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Stacy Kesten is a Leadership Consultant for Integrated Leadership Systems (ILS) in Los Angeles, California where she provides coaching, consulting and leadership development training to various types of organizations. She has helped numerous leaders and executives to be more effective through training in self-awareness and communication. After receiving her certification in mindfulness facilitation through UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center, Stacy was invited to become a teacher for UCLA. She has since taught mindfulness practices to thousands of students in the Los Angeles area through speaking engagements, classes, workshops and retreats. She specializes mindful communication as well as other “outside the box” versions of mindfulness such as mindful creativity and mindful improvisation. Stacy also has a B.A. in psychology and communications and she lives with her husband Brian and two cats in Los Angeles. In her free time she loves to paint, write, travel, meditate, hike, and generally be in nature as much as possible. 

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Tuesday, October 3, 2017 - 10:15am to 11:45am
Stacy Kesten
leadership consultant
Integrated Leadership
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Stacy Kesten is a Leadership Consultant for Integrated Leadership Systems (ILS) in Los Angeles, California where she provides coaching, consulting and leadership development training to various types of organizations. She has helped numerous leaders and executives to be more effective through training in self-awareness and communication. After receiving her certification in mindfulness facilitation through UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center, Stacy was invited to become a teacher for UCLA. She has since taught mindfulness practices to thousands of students in the Los Angeles area through speaking engagements, classes, workshops and retreats. She specializes mindful communication as well as other “outside the box” versions of mindfulness such as mindful creativity and mindful improvisation. Stacy also has a B.A. in psychology and communications and she lives with her husband Brian and two cats in Los Angeles. In her free time she loves to paint, write, travel, meditate, hike, and generally be in nature as much as possible. 

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Cammie Dunaway
author, board member, CEO advisor
Dunaway Company
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Throughout her career as an executive for Frito Lay, Yahoo!, Nintendo and KidZania, Cammie has earned a stellar reputation as a brand-builder and inspirational leader.

Hoping to share what she has learned, she recently wrote the book, “Fit Matters”. In it she addresses practical ways to explore, “what could happen for all of us, and for the world, if more people actually LOVED their jobs?”

Cammie currently serves on the boards of Red Robin, Nordstrom FSB and Go Health. She’s been featured in numerous publications and is a frequent speaker at companies and universities. Her MBA is from Harvard Business School. 

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Tuesday, October 3, 2017 - 10:15am to 11:45am
Cammie Dunaway
author, board member, CEO advisor
Dunaway Company
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Throughout her career as an executive for Frito Lay, Yahoo!, Nintendo and KidZania, Cammie has earned a stellar reputation as a brand-builder and inspirational leader.

Hoping to share what she has learned, she recently wrote the book, “Fit Matters”. In it she addresses practical ways to explore, “what could happen for all of us, and for the world, if more people actually LOVED their jobs?”

Cammie currently serves on the boards of Red Robin, Nordstrom FSB and Go Health. She’s been featured in numerous publications and is a frequent speaker at companies and universities. Her MBA is from Harvard Business School. 

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Carita Ducre
managing partner
Insight Strategies
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Carita Ducre is a Managing Partner at Insight Strategies, Inc. For 15 years, she has worked with employees and leaders alike on simplifying workplace communication. Carita’s dynamic presentations and customized training sessions are energetic and interactive, providing tools that can immediately improve communication at work—and even at home! An accomplished writer, Carita has written more than 250 business-related communications, including writing for the C-Suite.

She holds a BA in English from the University of Notre Dame and an e-Learning Instructional Design certificate from the Association for Talent Development (ATD).

Carita also provides one-on-one coaching to achieve effective business results.

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Tuesday, October 3, 2017 - 10:15am to 11:45am
LaFern K. Batie
professional speaker/author, business strategist & executive coach
The Batie Group
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As a Business Strategist and Executive Coach, LaFern Batie leads The Batie Group, LLC, a business consulting and leadership development firm serving organizations around the globe. With extensive Fortune 500 corporate leadership experience and widely recognized expertise, she works with international organizations and leaders across diverse industries to maximize their collective and individual performance. Leaders value her high business acumen, ability to quickly connect with teams, thorough and efficient approach to identifying challenges and commitment to helping them achieve results that exceed their expectations. 

Follow LaFern on Twitter @LaFernBatie.
 

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