Jessica Miller-Merrell is the Founder of Workology, a workplace resource for HR, recruiting professionals and business leaders, and host of the Workology Podcast. The site has been listed twice as a top 75 career resource by Forbes. Jessica is the president and CEO of Xceptional HR, a human capital strategy and consulting agency. Because of her industry expertise and knowledge, Jessica’s expertise is sought after and sourced by publications and media including: The Economist, Forbes, CIO Magazine, CBS, Entrepreneur Magazine, and SHRM’s HR Magazine. Her new book, Digitizing Talent: Creative Strategies for the Digital Recruiting Age was published in 2023 by SHRM.

Lieutenant-Commander Dave King enrolled in the Canadian Forces in 1985 as a Naval Operations Officer. Following 14 years at sea, he jumped ship to the Human Resources field and was posted to National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa as the Career Manager for 800 sailors. Furthering his HR experience, he entered the recruitment stream and held the positions of Regional Director of Recruiting Operations for Atlantic Canada and strategic recruiting advisor to the Director General Recruiting and Military Careers in Ottawa. Dave is currently employed within the Directorate of Maritime Personnel working on future fleet personnel policy and establishment and early career retention strategies.

Mason Holloway, Senior Director of Consulting Services, oversees both the federal and commercial sides of Beacon’s consulting business line. He is an accomplished professional with over 20 years of experience in senior leadership, organizational effectiveness, strategy development, performance improvement, and change management. Mason is a senior analyst, performance technologist and experienced thought leader and practitioner of the HPI processes. He has proven skills and expertise in assisting organizations in meeting and exceeding aggressive and competitive organizational goals and improving overall business results. As a respected consultant in the areas of organizational effectiveness and performance, Mason applies the combination of his extensive real world business experience and acumen with a deep understanding of the fundamental principals of performance in the service of accomplishing business goals.

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Jennifer Kraft is a partner at Seyfarth Shaw with experience advising Fortune 500 companies on the myriad of complex laws impacting employee benefits. Jennifer assists clients with health care reform compliance as well as cost containment measures such as health savings accounts and wellness programs. She is a member of Seyfarth's cross-departmental Health Care Reform Team which is a team of firm lawyers from different practice areas working together to assess the different ways health care reform will impact our clients and develops strategies for response. Jennifer frequently presents to various industry groups on health care reform and how this quickly evolving area of the law impacts health plan design and administration.

With almost 15 years in HR and over half of those in leadership roles, Carrie has firmly established herself as a solid business partner with a proven ability to leverage HR & Staffing Strategy with business results. While leading the employment brand initiatives and recruitment marketing and media strategy for AT&T, Carrie has also been instrumental in launching the enterprise wide integration of social and mobile recruiting and subsequently breaking some of the traditional boundaries of HR. Additionally, Carrie occasionally teaches at both the adjunct faculty and professional development levels in the fields of Business Management and Human Resources and has been asked to speak at many of the national industry conferences, such as SHRM, ERE, NACE, COSD and DirectEmployers. Carrie holds a Bachelors degree in Business Management, an MBA with an emphasis in Human Resources, and she received her Senior Professional in Human Resource designation in 2007. In addition to her speaking credits, she has been quoted in publications such as The New York Post and Workforce Today.

Sarah Michel is a networking expert who works with organizations and associations to help their people leverage the power of their network to do their job faster, better and easier. Since 1996, she has been an in-demand international keynoter and corporate trainer helping people with perfecting their connecting. Sarah’s book, Perfecting Connecting; A Guide to Mastering Networking in the Workplace was published by Telos Publications in 2005. She is a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) awarded by the National Speakers Association in 2007 and served on their national board of directors for the past three years. Sarah is an active community volunteer serving on non-profit boards in Colorado Springs.

Stacey Hanke is author of the book; Influence Redefined…Be the Leader You Were Meant to Be, Monday to Monday®. She has trained and presented to thousands to rid business leaders of bad body language habits and to choose words wisely; Coca-Cola, FedEx, Kohl’s, United States Army, Navy and Air Force, McDonald’s and Nationwide.  Her team works with Directors up to the C-Suite.  In addition to her client list, she has been the Emcee for Tedx.  She has been a featured guest with; The New York Times, Forbes, Entrepreneur, Thrive, SmartMoney magazine, The Economist and Business Week. 

 

Christine Zebrowski is an Employment Lawyer, Arbitrator, Mediator and Trainer. She is an experienced legal practitioner in the employment law field and has served as an Associate Attorney for the law firm of LeBouef, Lamb, Green and MacRae (now Dewey & LeBoeuf), as in-house employment counsel for the National Geographic Society, and in her current role as the Owner of her own employment law boutique firm, Overbrook Law. Her experience in alternative dispute resolution includes serving as an Arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association, as a Mediator for the District of Columbia Superior Court, and as a representative of both plaintiffs and defendants in many forms of ADR. She also created a company-wide ADR program for the resolution of employment law disputes while serving as in-house counsel for the National Geographic Society, which is in its seventh year of successful operation.

Enrique Zaldivar is an international leadership development consultant, speaker, and executive coach, with over 30 years of leadership experience. Since 2001, he is a partner at Inspired-Inc.,international OD consulting firm dedicated to helping leaders and organizations manage change. To date, over 1,000 managers and executives have benefitted directly by the coaching, facilitating and training provided by Enrique. They are leaders in Fortune-500 multinationals, NGOs, governments and international organizations, in over 30 countries, 5 continents. Enrique is a board member of AKRI, teaches diversity/multicultural competency at AU/NTL, and holds advanced degrees from universities in México and the US. He enjoys practicing yoga and meditation daily, playing tennis, reading and painting oil canvases.

Shane A. Yount is a nationally recognized thought leader, author, and President of Competitive Solutions, Inc. (CSI), an international Business Transformation consulting firm that pioneered the acclaimed organizational development system known as Process Based Leadership® - A business transformation methodology designed to create a sustainable culture of clarity, connectivity, and consistency through the use of Non-Negotiable Business Processes. Since 1991 he has led the offices of CSI in becoming one of the nation’s most recognized Business Transformation consulting firms,  personally working with such organizations as Michelin, Genentech, Pfizer, Lockheed Martin, the Department of Defense, and many others.