As a managing partner and co-founder of n-gen People Performance Inc., Adwoa has dedicated the last 10 years to working with industry leaders across North America, in both the private and public sectors, to build strategies and programs that target, motivate and engage a multigenerational workforce.

With over 15 years of training and performance consulting experience, she has leveraged her expertise to create solutions in five practice areas – sales & customer service; leadership, team building, Gen Y and HR. Adwoa has presented to international audiences, has written numerous whitepapers, and co-authored two books: Loyalty Unplugged: How to Get, Keep & Grow All Four Generations and Upgrade Now: 9 Advanced Leadership Skills.

Dr. Hogan is a scholar-practitioner, strategic adviser, consultant and an executive leadership coach. He is a champion of and an internationally recognized subject matter expert on diversity, equity, inclusion, and civil discourse. He is an enabler of executive leadership and organizational excellence. His distinction is the ability to promote transformational leadership development by creating incidents of cognitive dissonance and opportunities for self-reflection, self-discovery and self-awareness by using the arts as an agent-of-change.

Dr. Hogan is a Professor of Practice in Human Resource Management at the Pennsylvania State University, School of Labor and Employment Relations. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in-residence and on-line. His signature class is Ethics in the Workplace. Dr. Hogan’s action research interests include Global Leadership Development, Global Diversity and Inclusion, Business Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability, and the convergence of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and human beings in the workplace. He is the founder of the School’s Academy of Human Capital Development and served as Director from 2011 - 2018.

Currently, Dr. Hogan serves as a Scholar-in-Residence at the Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State, College of Arts and Architecture and serves as a member of the Community Advisory Council. In March 2019, he was selected to serve as a scholar for the Penn State Student Engagement Faculty Academy for Academic Years 2019 – 2021.

Mary-Claire Burick is a dynamic and strategic leader whose focus is on improving communications, building engagement and leading change. She develops realistic strategies, ties individual and group actions to business outcomes and ensures that employees have the skills, resources and training to achieve their goals. 

Mary-Claire is the President of the Rosslyn Business Improvement District, an organization that works with businesses, residents and county government to ensure that Rosslyn flourishes as one of the world’s most successful urban centers. Previously, Mary-Claire was President of MC Strategy, a consulting firm helping leaders build healthy and effective organizations.  Prior, she was Vice President of Operations for Allbritton Communications, managing ABC-7, NewsChannel 8 and POLITICO.  Earlier in her career, she helped launch the Fox NewsChannel, where she served as Operations Manager. 

She was named Washington Business Journal’s Women Who Mean Business and has a certificate in Organizational Consulting and Change Leadership from Georgetown University and a BA in Communications from University of Delaware.

Follow Mary-Claire on Twitter @MaryClaireBuric.

Sheila E. Murphy is Principal of Executive Advisement, LLC, an Arizona-based consulting firm specializing in providing a wide-array of diagnostic, strategic communication and developmental performance management services that are custom designed to meet the unique needs of progressive organizations seeking to become the “best in class” and/or ensure their sustainable competitive relevancy in their respective sector/industry.

Dr. Murphy brings extensive experience in private and public business sectors and a wealth of consulting and educational depth in designing solutions for optimizing organizational performance. In partnership with Arizona State University’s Ramsey Executive Education Program, Dr. Murphy developed and continues to instruct the first, and to-date only, exclusively online Certified Public Manager (CPM) program in the United States. The program consists of 24 separate weeks of instruction, and is recognized by 28 States as the signature certification of public sector leaders. Dr. Murphy has also authored numerous studies and published articles in the areas of organizational capacity, organizational performance diagnostics and problem-solving, system-based program implementation, collaboration, and financial integration. Her signature capability in diagnosing executive communication development and her unique personal engagement with professionals at all levels has guided hundreds of individual and organizational clients. Dr. Murphy’s areas of primary expertise and interest include Executive Advisement™, Strategic Communication, Organizational Leadership, Performance Analysis, and Succession Planning.