Nooshin Nathan is the Chief Human Resources Officer at JM Eagle, where she manages a global HR staff for a $2.2 billion dollar manufacturer of plastic pipes. She is responsible for all aspects of human resources including talent acquisition and development, organization development, employee relations as well as compensation and benefits. Ms. Nathan chairs the retirement committee, co-manages twenty-two indirect reports at plants throughout the United States, Mexico and China. In 2011 Ms. Nathan was recognized and awarded as an employee that demonstrates exemplary leadership.  Ms. Nathan received her undergraduate Psychology degree from California State University Northridge and her Masters in Psychology degree from Pepperdine University.  She spent three years working as a Psychotherapist before joining Assessment Solutions in New York City where she delivered a broad array of assessment services used for performance improvement and talent acquisition processes in the telecommunication, financial, information technology and healthcare sectors. 

Ms. Nathan volunteered over fifteen hundred hours of community service through the Help Group and Jewish Vocational Services. As a board member of the Personnel Practices Committee of this organization she provides guidance and direction on HR best practices.  She has received commendations from the State of California and City of Los Angeles for her volunteer work in mentoring other human resource professionals and now served as the keynote speaker for this organization.   Ms. Nathan holds the Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) designation and is a member of HARRT at UCLA, a network of senior executives responsible for the design and execution of human resources strategy and policy in their organizations. 

In 2014 Ms. Nathan received the Day One Retirement Innovator Award from Prudential Financial for the improvements implemented on their company retirement plans.

Kyle A. Adamonis is Sr. Vice President of Human Resources & Legal at Taco, Inc., a manufacturer of HVAC products and systems.  She has been with Taco since early 1985, holding several different positions. Her present role encompasses human resources, environmental, health and safety, corporate legal matters, real estate and construction, acquisitions and support of the company Foundation.  

Kyle serves on The White Family Foundation Board and the Roger Williams University Alumni Board. She is a member of the Labor Relations Committee for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.  She is a past President and Board member of the Rhode Island Business Group on Health and a past President and Vice President of the Human Resource Management Association of Rhode Island.  

Kyle received her BS in Paralegal Studies from Roger Williams University and her Masters in Business Administration from Johnson & Wales University.  She is certified as a Professional in Human Resources (PHR).

Kenneth Matos, Ph.D., is Senior Director of Research at Families and Work Institute and serves as a member of the senior leadership team. He conducts research on a wide range of workforce and workplace issues, including diversity, mentoring, work-life fit, and workplace effectiveness. His responsibilities include identifying emerging employment issues and trends, conducting analyses, writing reports and speaking on the findings from the Families and Work Institute’s ongoing nationally representative studies—the National Study of Employers and the National Study of the Changing Workforce. He also co-directs When Work Works, a project on workplace flexibility and effectiveness, in collaboration with the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). When Work Works sponsors the Sloan Awards for Effective and Flexible Workplaces, which recognizes employers for providing workplaces that are beneficial to both employers and employees.

Nancy Volpe, SHRM-SCP is currently Chief People Officer for the Center for People Solutions LLC. She has 20+ years of Executive HR practitioner experience in the manufacturing, retail and non-profit service industries. In addition to her HR practitioner experience, she has held employment with the U.S. Department of Labor, OFCCP and U.S. Department of Justice. She is a long-standing SHRM volunteer wherein she has held board positions at the local, regional and national level. Volpe has traveled internationally to learn HR practices in Canada, Mexico, China, India, Brazil, Singapore, and Europe; and attained her GPHR in 2007. Volpe inherited current union activity when she went to work for a food manufacturing company and was the lead company facilitator resulting in a certification of results. In her current position at the Center for People Solutions LLC, she trains and coaches HR professionals to be more strategic and credible within their HR role and consults with companies to enhance HR’s value.

Patricia A. Wise is a labor and employment lawyer at Niehaus Wise & Kalas Ltd and is certified by the Ohio State Bar Association as a specialist in that area of practice.  Patty has received Martindale-Hubbell's AV-Preeminent rating for her  legal ability and high ethical standards.  She represents clients of all sizes in a variety of businesses, industries, and professions and focuses her practice on the areas of:

Employment and Labor Law
Business Litigation and Banking
Civil Rights

Patty is a former senior vice president and in-house counsel for a billion dollar bank holding company and continues to serve many financial institution clients.  She is a frequent speaker for state banking associations and serves on the faculty of the Graduate School of Banking at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. In addition to her legal practice, Patty has been a Visiting Professor or Adjunct Professor at The University of Toledo College of Law since 1999, teaching employment law as well as civil and political rights.  Patty trains and speaks extensively on employment law issues. She recently completed the third edition of her book, Understanding and Preventing Workplace Retaliation, published by the Thompson Publishing Group, Inc. and her article "Harassment in the Workplace:  Sexual, Racial and Religious Complaints," was published in the Thompson Publishing Group, Inc. in 2012.

As the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employment and Training, Portia Wu works to advance job-driven skills training. Previously, she served in the White House as Special Assistant to the president for labor and workforce policy and spent seven years handling labor and pension issues for the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee.

Chuck Blakeman is a Best-Selling Business Author and World-Renowned Business Advisor who has built eight businesses in seven industries on four continents, and now uses his leadership experience to advise others. His company, Crankset Group, provides outcome-based mentoring and peer advisory for business leaders worldwide in the U.S., Europe, Africa, and Asia.
Chuck sold one of his businesses to the largest consumer fulfillment company in America and led three other $10-$100 million companies through repositioning in the Marketing Support Services industry. He presently leads the Crankset Group and a for-profit business based in Africa, focused on developing local economies to solve poverty.

Mr. Blakeman is a results leader, and has decades of sales, marketing and operations experience leading companies in marketing, import/export, fulfillment, call centers, website development, printing and direct mail processing.

He is a convention speaker, writer, and non-profit board member. His first book, “Making Money is Killing Your Business”, was named #1 Business Book of the Year by the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB), the largest business owner association in America. His newest book, Why Employees are ALWAYS a Bad Idea, has already been named a Top Ten Business Book of the Year and is required reading at the University of Georgia’s MBA Program.