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.

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.

Cy Wakeman is a drama researcher, global thought-leader, and New York Times best-selling author who is recognized for cultivating a counter-intuitive, reality-based approach to leadership. Backed by 20 years of experience, Wakeman’s philosophy offers a new lens through which employees and executives alike, can shift their attention inward, sharpen their focus on personal accountability, and uncover their natural state of innovation simply by ditching the drama.

Deemed “the secret weapon to restoring sanity to the workplace,” Wakeman has helped companies such as Google, Facebook, NASA, Pfizer, Bank of America, and United Healthcare learn to harness energy wasted in workplace drama and reinvest that effort into achieving profound business results.

Based in San Diego, CA

Yael Zofi has facilitated countless presentations and team meetings throughout her 20+ year career. Topics of interest ranged from managing change and transitions to managing performance. Currently she delivers presentations around the issues that drive organizations today – creating and maintaining the human connection that fosters business success. Specific topics from recent presentations include: Virtual Teams, Cross Cultural Communications and Global Leadership as well as Networking Skills and Managing Up.Ms. Zofi is a frequent guest speaker, has served on the faculty of New York University’s business and graduate curriculum (1995-Present), and currently teaches Virtual Teams & Global Communications.  Recently she has spoken at ODNNY, AMA, PMI, and HR.com.

David Larson is a licensed psychologist, life coach, and leadership trainer.   He is the founder of the Institute For Wellness, a counseling and educational organization serving the Upper Midwest. He works from a holistic perspective to integrate the health of mind, body and spirit. He has been a talk-show host for KTCI TV's Health Connections and Family Connections programs in Minnesota. David is the author of three books, including the recently updated work, Stepping Stones to Success with DeePak Chopra and Jack Canfield.