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.

Carol Quinn is the world’s leading expert on interviewing and hiring effectiveness. She is the creator of motivation-based interviewing, an interviewing method specifically developed for hiring “High Performers.” She is the author of the #1 SHRM-published book on hiring – and it’s been their #1 best-seller on hiring for the past five years straight. She is passionate about making sure organizations and their interviewers know how to single out those job candidates who will go above and beyond from those merely pretending. But there is one thing that Carol is even more passionate about… and that’s sharing her wisdom with others.

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.

Alan Fine is considered the pioneer of the modern-day coaching movement and is the co-creator of the widely recognized GROW® Model. Alan is a New York Times Bestselling Author, international performance expert, and well-respected business executive and professional athlete coach. He has dedicated the past 35 years to helping people elevate their performance and unlock potential. From the golf course to the boardroom, Alan has worked with many respected athletes and organizations.

Internationally known consultant, speaker, and author, John has worked in 12 countries for some of the most successful organizations in the world. A portion of the profit he earns from Knowledge Capital Consulting underwrites most of the operating costs of Project Be The Change. John is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of The University of Iowa where he received the Collegiate Scholar Award the university’s highest academic honor. He went on to receive an Honorable Mention from the National Science Foundation. John earned an MBA with an International Distinction from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, one of the top 5 business schools in the world. He has been invited to speak to students at numerous schools including University of Chicago, Carnegie Mellon, and Oxford University (UK).

Christopher is Chief Executive Officer at TalentKeepers. Chris has over 20 years of experience in the human resources industry, the majority of which has been in the employee engagement, selection, assessment, and retention arena. Chris co-founded TalentKeepers in 2000. Under the direction of Chris, TalentKeepers products have twice been recognized as “Top Training Products of the Year” by Human Resource Executive Magazine for their innovative and effective approach to employee on-boarding, engagement, and retention. He has worked with organizations around the world such as Accenture, AT&T , BMW, Coke, EDS, GE, Kelly Services, Hilton, The Hartford, Sprint, Starwood, UPS & the U.S. Navy.

Prior to co-founding TalentKeepers, Chris was the Vice President of Business Development for AlignMark, a division of The Thomson Corporation, a multi-billion dollar and leading global e-information and solutions company serving the business and professional marketplace. Previously with AlignMark, Chris was the Vice President of Sales. In this capacity, he was responsible for guiding and implementing the Fortune 1000 market place sales strategy as well as leading the direct sales force of AlignMark, and its predecessor organization, Electronic Selection Systems (ESS) Corporation, for six years. Under Chris' leadership, revenues grew from $3M to over $35M with an average operating income of 20%.

Dennis Connelly has a record of entrepreneurship spanning 30 years. He's founded, co-founded, and built eight companies from start-up to scalable to maturity, that were either sold, merged, or remain on-going, and he has learned powerful lessons that apply to any company in any industry. His primary skill is finding solutions to seemingly intractable problems, using creativity, team work, and sometimes the sheer force of will.

Dennis' specialties include executive leadership, sales management, business growth and development, and raising capital. He has substantial experience in sales development, product creation, training, coaching, and operations management.

Prior to joining Kurlan & Associates, Dennis built a nationwide network of manufacturers to serve his distribution clients, and trained and coached hundreds of existing sales personnel in the channel. He also hired and trained his own sales force and expanded operations from two to seven manufacturing locations in five years.

With core experience in strategy, growth, finance, and operations, Dennis provides C-level perspective to help clients get unstuck, make necessary changes, and achieve the success they envision for their companies and themselves.

Jennifer Millman specializes in driving organizational performance to new heights through talent and performance management and development strategies. She has been applauded for her uncanny ability to quickly and accurately assess talent and makes courageous recommendations on the most effective structure of existing talent as well as finding rare A+ external talent to fill the gaps and upgrade the overall talent bench of an organization.

With more than 15 years’ experience leading strategic HR teams, mostly in the technology industry, from global Fortune 500 corporations to entrepreneurial firms, as well as Consulting engagements across all industries, Jennifer is well-positioned to assist HR professionals strategically align with business leaders to effect real, immediate impact through increasing existing performance and significantly affecting the bottom line through creating and maintaining a workforce of A+ players.

Jennifer currently leads the Talent Acquisition function at Vology, an Inc. 500 Company and a Fast 50 Technology company.  Jennifer is also a writer, speaker, consultant, foodie, and mother of a 5-year-old superhero son.

Areas of Expertise:
Strategic Planning, Talent Management, Change Management, Succession Planning, Performance Management, Topgrading, Organizational Development, Executive Searches, Creative Recruiting Programs, Social Media.

Follow Jennifer on Twitter on @Jenny_Millman.