Annette Coffey is a Global Business Transformation Executive in Human Resources at IBM.  In her current role, Annette is responsible for driving HR business process and technology transformation and simplification, supporting a variety of HR processes, including Global Talent, Recruitment, Compensation, Learning and Leadership Development.  Annette also works closely with IBM Business Development to coordinate HR process and application integration for newly acquired companies.  In addition, Annette collaborates with her Global HR Diversity colleagues on a variety of Diversity/LGBT initiatives.

Annette began her IBM career in San Jose in 1984.  She held a number of management positions in the Software Division at the Silicon Valley Lab in San Jose, California.  She became an Executive Assistant to the General Manager of Database Solutions, and in 1999,  Annette accepted an assignment in Toronto, Canada to lead the Customer Service Delivery organization, supporting IBM customers around the world.  In 2002, Annette moved to a Software Product executive position where she led a large global development organization to deliver software solutions to Fortune 500 customers.

Annette joined IBM's Global HR organization in 2005 and led the successful world-wide deployment of Global Opportunity Marketplace, IBM's first global recruiting solution.  She also led the Global HR Technology organization, with employees in over 25 countries.  Recently, as part of IBM's Smarter Cities initiative, Annette spent a month in  Brazil working with local government agencies to develop a plan to manage their population growth in a sustainable fashion, engaging citizens and communities to be co-responsible for city conservation and development.  Annette's IBM assignments have allowed her to travel extensively around the world, experiencing new cities and meeting new people is one of her favorite activities.  Annette earned a Bachelor's Degree with Honors from San Jose State University and is a member of the Society for Human Resources Management.



 

Todd Corley is Carhartt’s SVP of Inclusion, Sustainability and Community. In this role, he leads the 135-year-old global workwear brand’s strategy on environmental and social impact.

His research on What Has (Hasn’t) Changed About Being A Chief Diversity Officer published by Harvard Business Review, traces the journey of more than 40 diversity officers.

A life-long learner, he has supported the next generation of inclusive leaders by co-creating two DE&I strategy graduate programs. His pioneering work as Abercrombie & Fitch’s chief diversity officer is the subject of the Netflix documentary, White Hot: The Rise and Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch.

Kathryn G. Levine is Vice President, Corporate Marketing and Customer Experience at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan. Levine is responsible for monitoring and improving the customer experience. She leads departments that focus on customer experience, marketing strategy, digital strategy and market research. She was named to her current position in 2011. Prior to joining the Michigan Blues she was vice president of Collins Consulting and was a director with Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield in New York.

Maryella Gockel is the EY Americas Flexibility Strategy Leader and a member of the EY Americas Inclusiveness Center of Excellence. In this role, she is focused on embedding a sustainable inclusive and flexible culture to enable EY professionals to achieve their potential and make a difference, wherever they come from and whatever their characteristics.

Maryella is a noted speaker on flexibility in the workplace and has been featured in media outlets such as The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Working Mother Magazine and Good Morning America. She is the recipient of the 2012 Ted Childs Life Work Excellence Award and Families and Work Institute’s 2009 Work Life Legacy Award.

Maryella joined Ernst & Young in the US in 1980 as a client service professional after completing her M.B.A. in accounting from Rutgers Graduate School of Management. She also completed her CPA certification during that time. She then transitioned to becoming a Human Resources professional, serving as a People Leader for numerous business units in Ernst & Young LLP before taking her current EY Americas role. She also consults with other EY member firms around the world, including Latin America, Europe and Asia, to help make flexibility initiatives locally relevant in those cultures and locations.

During Maryella’s leadership tenure, Ernst & Young LLP has been the recipient of numerous awards and accolades for its inclusive and flexible culture, including 15 consecutive years on FORTUNE’s 100 Best Companies to Work For^® list and the 2012 Great Place to Work^® Top 25 World’s Best Multinational Workplaces list. The firm has also achieved 16 consecutive years on the Working Mother100 Best Companies list, the past seven as a Top 10 employer.