Kaitlin Desselle, MS
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Vice President of Business Development
Strategic Diversity Initiatives
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Kaitlin brings over 10 years of inclusive leadership experience and business innovation to her diversity, equity, inclusion, and access work. With a strong corporate background in crisis and change management, her superpower is building empowered teams and organizational cultures that interrupt systems of oppression and marginalization. As a queer woman and fat liberation activist, Kaitlin is passionate about creating safer spaces where all bodies are celebrated and have agency.

Kaitlin lives on the Little Feminist Farm just outside of Atlanta, where she and her partner enjoy sustainable homesteading and host social justice workshops and sanctuary retreats.

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Lisa Brown Alexander
President & CEO
Nonprofit HR
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Lisa set out to build a market where one didn’t exist. She founded Nonprofit HR, the leading talent management firm in the U.S. that works exclusively with the nonprofit sector. Lisa’s goal is to ensure that every Nonprofit HR engagement inspires social sector leaders to strengthen their most important asset: their people. Over the course of her career, Lisa has presented to hundreds of organizations, staff and leadership teams. Today, fueled by the passion of their 100-plus employees and consultants nationwide, Nonprofit HR is helping many of the nation’s most impactful nonprofit organizations get ahead through smart people management strategies.

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Joy Chen
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CEO
Multicultural Leadership Institute
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Joy Chen, CEO of the Multicultural Leadership Institute, is a trailblazer in global leadership development. A former Deputy Mayor of Los Angeles and executive recruiter with Heidrick & Struggles, she brings unique cultural insights to modern leaders.

Joy’s pivot to leadership development was serendipitous, fueled by her blog's viral success in China, establishing her as founder of global training organizations that have served millions. Joy's contributions to global cross-cultural leadership have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Economist, CNN and Vogue China.

Join Joy to hone your ability to excel in a world rich with possibilities.

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Monday, June 24, 2024 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Vicki Greene
President of GED Testing Service
SVP of Pearson Workforce Skills
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Vicki Greene holds the positions of President and CEO at GED Testing Service, as well as Senior Vice President of Americas for Pearson's Workforce Skills Division. She leads the GED Testing Services, which includes programs such as GED, GEDWorks, and Accelerated Pathways. Vicki is passionate about empowering learners and engaging with all GED audiences: learners, educators, administrators, employers, and legislators. She is committed to creating innovative methods that cater to the diverse learners enrolled in GED programs. GEDWorks helps organizations improve employee retention programs through tuition assistance. Accelerated Pathways Program is a non-traditional online college experience that focuses on building upskilling plans to meet the needs of learners.

She holds a BA in Public Relations from Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota. Vicki lives in Minnesota with her husband, an educator and dean of students. They have three children.

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Sara Piper
Executive Director of People and Talent Acquisition
Fontainebleau Las Vegas
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Kim Virtuoso
Chief People Officer
Fontainebleau Las Vegas
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Peter Carr
VP of Client Services
Shaker Recruitment Marketing
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Peter Carr
VP of Client Services
Shaker Recruitment Marketing
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Kim Virtuoso
Chief People Officer
Fontainebleau Las Vegas
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Sara Piper
Executive Director of People and Talent Acquisition
Fontainebleau Las Vegas
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Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 12:00pm to 12:20pm
Lori Kleiman, SHRM-SCP
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Managing Director
HR Topics
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Been there – done that!  With 30 years of HR and business experience – Lori has walked in your shoes.  A recovered HR Generalist, she built a consulting company that she sold to Arthur J Gallagher after 7 years and then reinvented her current business – HR Topics -  training, speaking and developing content for HR professionals.  Lori delivers facts, tips, tricks and best practices in a way that appeals to human resource and business leaders: with a sense of humor, a bias toward actions that improve their operations right away, and practical resources and tools to support their progress.  As an annual speaker at the National SHRM conference, she has leveraged her masters in HR, SPHR and SHRM-SCP background to elevate the position of all HR professionals!

 

 

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Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 10:30am to 10:50am
Kiran Ahuja
Director
U.S. Office of Personnel Management
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Kiran Ahuja serves as the Director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM). After more than two decades in public service and executive nonprofit work, she was nominated by President Joe Biden for her current role before being confirmed by the United States Senate on Tuesday, June 22, 2021. Director Ahuja is the first South Asian American and first Asian American woman to lead OPM. 

In her role, Director Ahuja leads OPM in its work to recruit, retain, and honor the American workforce that’s landing rovers on Mars, fighting climate change and cancer, and building the country back better.

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