Laura Stack is America's Premier Expert in Productivity™. In 1992, Laura founded her company, The Productivity Pro, Inc., which specializes in business performance, strategy execution, and employee productivity. As a highly-regarded speaker and author, Laura shares her vision and methodologies around the globe on creating Maximum Results in Minimum Time®. A sought-after thought leader, Laura writes on high-performance cultures, human potential, and peak performance in her columns in The Business Journal, Success, Training, Productive, and Time Management Magazines. Widely regarded as one of the leading experts in the field of human performance and workplace issues, Laura has been featured in the New York Times, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur, and Forbes magazine. Laura is bestselling author of six books by major publishers including Random House, Wiley, and Berrett-Koehler, most recently Execution IS the Strategy.

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Amy Hirsh Robinson, M.B.A., is Chief People Officer for King’s Hawaiian, a global producer of irresistible Hawaiian food. Amy was brought on to King’s Hawaiian to re-envision the employee experience and transform the People function from traditional HR to a strategic driver of business growth. During her time at the company she has worked to radically redefine the purpose, structure and activities of HR with significant results. Prior to her role as CPO, Amy ran a successful human capital consulting firm, The Interchange Group, helping executives and HR professionals retool and adapt their strategies to rapidly changing workforce expectations and business landscapes.

Joe Urbanski believes an Undeniable Culture™ inspires its people to unleash their best selves, take home more wins and less stress to their families, and create incredible value for the company, its customers, and community. For more than two decades, he has worked with HR and training departments, consulting and coaching 750+ executives and leaders at 400+ global organizations, and facilitating 800+ kickass trainings, strategic retreats, and leadership programs for 480,000 people. Joe has a remarkable understanding of how to transform the workplace experience. Plus, you’ll have more fun and laughs than you’d expect.

Joe Gerstandt brings greater clarity, action, and impact to organizational diversity and inclusion efforts.

Joe has worked with Fortune 100 corporations, small non-profits, and everything in between. He speaks at numerous conferences and summits, and blogs at joegerstandt.com. He is a featured contributor for the Workforce Diversity Network Expert Forum and his insights have been published in Diversity Executive, HR Executive, and numerous other print and on-line journals.

A strong advocate for resetting the diversity and inclusion conversation, Joe sees these issues as poorly understood and often misunderstood.

Valerie helps companies improve their bottom line by elevating employees from tactical thinkers to strategic leaders.

She served in senior leadership roles at RollsRoyce Aircraft before helping to found InterActiveCorp, parent company to Expedia, Home Shopping Network and TicketMaster. She then went to work for Oprah Winfrey, helping to found the Oxygen channel which was later sold to NBC Universal.

Valerie obtained her mechanical engineering degree from Kettering University and her MBA from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business. Val’s book, Clash of the Generations: Managing the New Workplace Reality, helps leaders manage multiple generations in the office.

When Maren walks into the room, you know it. She is a natural and dynamic leader one is drawn to for her energy, charisma and her diverse knowledge and background.

Her experience in coaching top performers has brought her clients in diverse areas: from Fortune 500 companies, to U.S. Government, to leaders in the Arts. Maren’s clients are consistently recognized for improved relationships and moving large projects forward swiftly and effectively. Her focus is on developing her clients’ interpersonal and communication skills so that they can lead their teams with a higher degree of engagement and effectiveness.

Prior to coaching as owner of a management consultant company, Maren worked with clients such as the Annenberg Foundation, White House Project, AIG and Blackstone Group. Standout projects include the management of the International Women Leaders Global Security Conference and Initial Public Offerings for Blackstone Group and Genworth Financial.

Glen  E. Kraemer, a founding and managing partner of the employment law boutique firm Hirschfeld Kraemer LLP, is nationally recognized for his “best practices” training programs relating to workplace harassment, bullying, violence prevention, and investigations.  From 2005 – 2021 Glen has been voted a California employment “Super Lawyer,” and in 2020 and 2021 ranked by Chambers USA as a top Labor & Employment Law attorney.  Named by Lawdragon as one of 500 Leading U.S. Corporate Employment Lawyers, he has also received the “Elite Boutique Trailblazer” award from the National Law Journal, and garnered “Top Speaker” recognition for each of his SHRM Annual Conference presentations from 2009 - 2019.

Cathy Muldoon is the Founder of Growth-Passion-Success LLC. Cathy's enthusiasm and excitement can be felt throughout her programs. Her infectious personality, high energy, and abundant enthusiasm motivate audiences to become engaged and passionate about who they are and what they do!

As a speaker, trainer, and recruitment expert, Cathy inspires audiences to take their careers and their organizations to the next level.  Having worked as an executive recruiter for the past 14 years, Cathy brings a wealth of experience to her clients providing seminars, executive coaching and training on a variety of HR related issues. Cathy connects the dots on hiring the best people, career development, employee engagement, and leadership.

With 20 years of experience in global talent development, Donal has  designed and delivered learning programs for more than twenty of the  world’s largest corporations. He is considered an industry leader in  designing and delivering dynamic talent management, leadership and  B2B sales and marketing learning programs that transcend borders,  languages and cultures.  Before establishing Donal Conn Associates, Donal held executive  positions with multiple Global Fortune 500 organizations. Most  recently, he served as Chief Learning & Talent Officer of Momentive Performance Materials (formerly GE Advanced Materials), an  engineered materials company with $7.5 billion in annual sales  and over 12,000 employees doing business in 119 locations in 23 countries. Previously, Donal served as Vice President of a global advertising and communications agency with clients in the consumer, pharmaceutical, medical device and manufacturing sectors and has held senior talent management roles with State Farm Insurance and KeyCorp. Throughout his career, Donal has repeatedly been honored with numerous industry awards, including winning the prestigious ‘Vanguard Executive of the Year’ award from Chief Learning Officer magazine in 2009. As a recognized thought leader, he regularly authors articles for trade magazines and frequently serves as a keynote speaker at industry conferences around the world.

As Managing Partner of Competitive Solutions, Inc., Seth runs the day to day operations of the Atlanta office.  He joined CSI in 1997 as Director of Sales and Marketing.  Prior to joining CSI, he worked in the printing and publishing industry serving as Southeast Regional Director for Enterprise Communications.  Seth is a popular speaker at   Human Resource, Operational Excellence and Quality Conferences.  He believes organizations today must create and sustain a culture with three non-negotiable attributes.  Those attributes include:  a sense of urgency, a clear and concise business focus and leadership driven, shared accountability. He has assisted a wide variety of organizations in the development of their key business metrics, documented communication strategy and established a collective accountability across the company.  Organizations Seth has worked with include Pfizer, Genentech, Genzyme, Goodwill Industries, Revlon, Michelin Tire, Gerber Legendary Blades, National Institute Severely Handicapped (NISH), and several Army Depots.  He is a graduate of Presbyterian College.