Pamela Harding, SHRM-SCP
CEO
Metzano LLC
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Pamela is a renowned expert in online social community management, who has spoken on the subject at events in the US and internationally. She manages the nearly 1M member LinkedIn group, Linked:HR (http://bit.ly/L1nkedHR) as well as smaller groups geared to specific HR roles – including Talent Acquisition (http://bit.ly/LHRTalentAF).

She believes in the power of social media, providing guidance on personal branding and to introduce products to HR professionals. Through her groups she stays abreast of current trends and issues facing the HR profession on a global scale.

Pamela spent 24 years in the US Navy then 18 years in traditional HR roles from Analyst to Director in Public, Private and Non-Profit sectors in a variety of industries. She now is CEO of Metzano (http://bit.ly/MTZOhome) providing social media consulting and online community management. She is expanding Metzano to include on demand HR services for small businesses with less than 100 employees. You can reach her at Pamela@Metzano.com

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Lisa Ling
acclaimed journalist
OWN & CNN
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Lisa Ling is currently executive producer and host of This is Life on CNN. For the show, Lisa has explored the scourge of prescription pill addiction in Utah, the recent influx of women in North Dakota’s boomtown and a town in the rural Midwest where young men aspire to be priests.  

For five seasons prior, Ling executive produced and hosted Our America on OWN: the Oprah Winfrey Network.  Lisa embedded in a Midwest town ravaged by an onslaught of heroin, got exclusive access inside an anti-gay religious movement, witnessed the manifestation of PTSD in returning veterans of war and went undercover to investigate the under-age sex trafficking of minors in the nation’s capitol. She has also profiled Americans living beneath the poverty line for the first time and people serving unimaginably lengthy prison sentences for crimes they did not commit.

As the former field correspondent for The Oprah Winfrey Show, contributor to ABC News' Nightline and National Geographic's Explorer, Lisa Ling has reported from dozens of countries, covering stories about gang rape in the Congo, bride burning in India, the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda, and the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang in Central America among other issues that are too often ignored.

Lisa got her start in journalism as a correspondent for Channel One News where she covered the civil war in Afghanistan at 21 years of age as well as stories in dozens of countries around the world.  She later went on to become a co-host of ABC Daytime's hit show The View, which won its first daytime Emmy during her time at the show.

Lisa is the co-author of Mother, Daughter, Sister, Bride: Rituals of Womanhood and Somewhere Inside: One Sister's Captivity in North Korea and the Other's Fight to Bring Her Home, which she penned with her sister, Laura.  

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Rahuldeep Gill
speaker, author, igniter for social change
rahuldeepgill.com
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Rahuldeep Gill, Ph.D., is a Speaker, Author, and Igniter for social change, whose life goal is to develop effective and heartful leaders with broad perspectives to drive innovation. He recently published his first book, Drinking from Love’s Cup, with Oxford University Press, and he is currently writing two more books about leadership and pluralism. He is a tenured professor and Campus Interfaith Strategist at California Lutheran University and is the visiting Professor of Sikh Studies at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. He has twice been voted Cal Lutheran's Diversity Professor of the Year and lives in Los Angeles with his family. 

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Rahuldeep Gill
speaker, author, igniter for social change
rahuldeepgill.com
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Rahuldeep Gill, Ph.D., is a Speaker, Author, and Igniter for social change, whose life goal is to develop effective and heartful leaders with broad perspectives to drive innovation. He recently published his first book, Drinking from Love’s Cup, with Oxford University Press, and he is currently writing two more books about leadership and pluralism. He is a tenured professor and Campus Interfaith Strategist at California Lutheran University and is the visiting Professor of Sikh Studies at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. He has twice been voted Cal Lutheran's Diversity Professor of the Year and lives in Los Angeles with his family. 

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Monday, October 23, 2017 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
Jeanetta Darno, SPHR
CEO
Strategic HR Advisors
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Jeanetta Darno is the CEO of Strategic HR Advisors a company focused on enabling leaders and leadership teams to achieve peak performance through inclusion and engagement. She started her company to deliver the services and products she wished were available when she was a HR Leader & Global Chief Diversity Officer. She is sought after consultant and speaker on the topics of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion. 

Ms. Darno is a military veteran who served as an airborne officer in the US Army where she led teams in the Middle East, Asia, Egypt, Operations Desert Shield and Storm.  She is the recipient of numerous diversity awards and under her leadership companies have been recognized for inclusive cultures and best places to work by a range of business publications, government agencies and professional organizations.

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Sara Taylor
President and Founder
deepSEE Consulting
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Sara Taylor, President and Founder of deepSEE Consulting, has 35 years of extensive experience, nationally recognized as in the practice of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion serving local, national and global clients. While her areas of specialty are in both Diversity and Leadership Development, Sara has become a thought leader particularly in the field of Cultural Competence. Her bestselling book, Filter Shift: How Effective People SEE the World, is used by numerous individuals and organizations to increase success and create greater effectiveness. Sara holds a Master's degree in Diversity and Organizational Development and, prior to founding deepSEE, held positions such as Chief Diversity Officer and Leadership and Diversity Specialist.

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Wednesday, October 25, 2017 - 9:45am to 10:45am
Jean Setzfand
vice president of Financial Security
AARP
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Jean C. Setzfand is the Senior Vice President of AARP Programs that produces interactive educational programming designed to address Health, Wealth and Personal Enrichment concerns for consumers 50 and over.  Additionally, Programs drives towns, counties and cities to be more livable for all ages through educational programming aimed at local leaders, policy makers, planners and citizen activists. 

In addition to her work at AARP, Ms. Setzfand serves on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Investor Advisory Committee and the Advisory Committee on Seniors for the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA). 

Ms. Setzfand has been with AARP since 2002.  Prior to joining AARP, she worked as a strategic management consultant serving domestic and international financial services institutions.  She holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.  

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Wednesday, October 25, 2017 - 8:30am to 9:30am
Miguel Joey Aviles
Personal Pronouns
He/Him/Él
Chief Belonging Officer
MJA & CO, LLC
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Miguel is the Chief Belonging Officer of MJA & CO, a Minority-owned consulting firm helping leaders leverage DEI as a catalyst to improve recruitment, engagement, and retention.  Recognized as a LinkedIn's Top Voice in Racial Equity, Top 15 Champion of Diversity by Diversity Global Magazine, a Top 100 Executive by Diversity MBA Magazine, and featured as an Inclusion Innovator by SHRM.

Miguel served as the first civilian Chief of D&I in the history of the US Coast Guard.  He started his career as diversity recruiter and for over a decade held several leadership positions in 3 major Federal Departments. Miguel is a TEDx speaker, featured at the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, and Telemundo.

 You can learn more about him by visiting www.migueljoeyaviles.com

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Wednesday, October 25, 2017 - 8:30am to 9:30am