Heather Bussing is a California employment attorney with over 30 years’ experience providing sensible and strategic advice to employers. Her deep experience with business, humans, technology, and work gives her a unique perspective focused on preventing and solving problems rather than fighting about them. 

 Heather has been interviewed and quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, Business Insider, and NPR. She writes a daily column on the latest in employment laws, covering pay equity and transparency, AI in HR Tech, and why compliance, diversity, and fairness are good business. 

Kent is as passionate about compensation and pay equity as he was in 1999 when he co-founded Salary.com with a goal of reinventing how employers and employees access compensation data. Kent has always believed pay equity is a two-sided coin and designed the business to support that belief. The company’s groundbreaking Salary Wizard was the first tool employees could access to understand their worth, effectively lifting the veil on salary information for millions of employees annually. On the B2B side, Salary.com has become the preeminent provider of compensation market data, software, and analytics, serving over 30,000 survey participant organizations, 8,000 business-to-business software subscribers, and 45+ million employees globally. 

Kent holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and A.B. in Economics and Government from Georgetown University. He is a three-time Inc. 500 CEO, a six-time Deloitte Fast 50 awardee and recipient of the 2007 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of Year Award for business services. Kent is accredited by WorldatWork as a Certified Compensation Professional (CCP®) 

Rob Magliaro is the Employer and Education Lead at Grow with Google, a team focused on economic mobility by providing training, tools, and resources to help students move into high-growth, in-demand careers through the Google Career Certificates and AI Essentials course. In this role, Rob leads the Google Employer Consortium, 150 + employers that commit to considering Google Career Certificate graduates for relevant open entry-level roles and leverage the certificates for upskilling/reskilling. Rob also leads Grow with Google's portfolio of 800+ education partners as well as non-profit and public sector partners. Prior to Google, Rob founded a career and technical education high school in New York City where he taught and was a school leader for almost fifteen years.

Shelle Randall is a certified economic developer with 20+ years in workforce development, staffing, project management and HR. She is VP, Jonesboro Regional Chamber of Commerce, and Director of Workforce Development, Jonesboro Unlimited.

Shelle’s career also includes working for an investment banker in Texas, and a defense contractor in Washington, D.C.

Shelle has a B.S. in Journalism/Science, serves on the Board of Arkansas Capital Corporation and formerly for AEDCE. She’s a graduate of U.S. Chamber’s BLFP, and Junior Auxiliary Life Member.

Shelle and her husband, Jeff, enjoy traveling, destination marathons, and lake life. They have seven delightful grandchildren.

Papia Debroy serves as the Senior Vice President and Chief Analytics & Research Officer at Opportunity@Work, a nonprofit social enterprise that is dedicated to improving economic mobility opportunities for workers who are Skilled Through Alternative Routes (STARs) instead of a bachelor’s degree. In her capacity, she oversees the research work that empower leaders across private, public and social sectors to drive positive change in the labor market, by harnessing the untapped potential of STARs, who collectively represent half of the American workforce.

Papia brings a wealth of experience to this role, having previously served as a Research Director at CEB, now Gartner, where she provided strategic guidance to major Fortune 1000 corporations on their workforce  practices.

Papia’s published work focuses on labor markets, employer behavior, and worker economic mobility opportunities in regional contexts. This body of work forms the foundation for Opportunity@Work’s collaborations with Fortune 500 executive teams, workforce development organizations, talent and education developers and policymakers.

Papia is currently a Non-Resident Senior Fellow with the Metropolitan Program at the Brookings Institution. She earned her Ph.D. and masters degree from the University of Michigan, and holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley.

Andy Tonsing is Vice President of Postsecondary Education at Stand Together. He is an experienced philanthropic and business leader in advancing innovative work and learning models that help people unlock their potential. He has a background in international education and online learning startups, including helping to establish the Pioneer Research Program, one of the premier academic summer programs for high school students in the US.

Lisa Durkin is a Director at Jobs for the Future (JFF) with an extensive background in employer practice change. At JFF, she specializes in helping employers implement fair chance and skills-first talent practices. She leads the organization’s partnership with SHRM providing technical assistance to employers implementing skills-first practices, in addition to leading a Skills-First Action Cohort with the Business Roundtable’s Multiple Pathways Initiative. She has a Bachelors in Psychology and English Literature from Washington University in St. Louis and a Masters in Leadership and Organizational Development from Saint Louis University.

Machael Sherry is a Principal Consultant and Executive Coach at Linkage, a SHRM company, with over two decades of expertise in the learning and development arena. Throughout her career, Machael has spearheaded the creation, implementation, and management of large-scale leadership development initiatives designed to foster self-awareness, inspire action, and drive impactful outcomes for individuals, teams, and organizations. Prior to her tenure at Linkage, Machael held esteemed senior leadership roles, where she consistently enhanced organizational performance by clarifying vision and strategy, nurturing talent, and cultivating inclusive cultures that prioritize people's value and investment in the organization's success. Machael holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Boston College, a Master of Science in Education from Pace University, and a Juris Doctorate from the University at Buffalo School of Law. She has further honed her coaching expertise through an Executive Certificate in Leadership Coaching from Georgetown University’s Institute for Transformational Leadership. As a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation (ICF), Machael also holds certifications in Linkage’s Advancing Women Leaders Assessment, Linkage’s Purposeful Leadership Assessment, the Hogan Assessments (HPI, HDS, and MVPI), and the EQ-i 2.0 Assessment. Her multifaceted background and unwavering commitment to excellence position her as a trusted advisor and catalyst for professional growth and organizational success.