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Laura Shact
Principal
Deloitte Consulting
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Laura is a Principal at Deloitte Consulting and comes with almost two decades of experience in workforce strategy to achieve business outcomes. She leads workforce transformation for technology and media companies - using her passion for human-centered design, equity, and organizational change at scale.
She is currently focused on unlocking the potential of AI in Human Capital as the AI Strategic Growth Opportunity (SGO) leader, and the intersection with spatial computing for Deloitte’s Unlimited Reality business.
Laura has an MBA from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and an undergraduate degree from Northwestern University. She served as an Arbuckle Leadership Fellow while at Stanford and served on the Board of Directors for Stanford Pride for more than 10 years, Stanford University's LGBTQ alumni organization.
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Cecile Arsan
Neurodiversity Council Leader and AMER Sales Engineering Head of Operations
UiPath
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Cecile Arsan heads operations for the Americas Sales Engineering team at the AI Automation company UiPath. She also leads the company's Neurodiversity Council (Employee Resource Group) whose mission is to make UiPath a place where we celebrate all the ways our brains think and help neurodiverse talent find meaningful work in AI & Automation. Prior to UiPath, Cecile worked 10 years in ops, product marketing, and solution consulting at various technology companies. She holds a degree in Finance from McGill University. Based in Austin, Texas, she enjoys playing with her 3 kids, tending to her bees, and dancing the night away with her husband.
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Nichol Bradford
Executive-in-Residence for AI + HI
SHRM
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Nichol Bradford is a futurist, investor, and technology executive
dedicated to amplifying human potential through the thoughtful
integration of AI. As SHRM's AI + HI Executive-in-Residence, she
shapes global strategies impacting 362 million workers through
340,000 HR professionals across 180 countries. She is the Co-Founder
of Niremia Collective, a venture fund investing in the future of human
potential.
With over two decades of experience in technology and human
development, Bradford specializes in strengthening mental, emotional,
and social health (MESH) to drive innovation. She reaches over
100,000 people annually through thought leadership and speaking
engagements, including TEDx talks. Her unique approach combines
psychology, neuroscience, and organizational change to guide
companies through human-centered AI adoption.
Bradford's impressive track record includes operating World of Warcraft
in China, co-founding TransformativeTech.org, and building the largest
global network for human potential technology spanning 450+ cities.
Through her $22.5M venture fund, she targets the $8.5 trillion human
potential market. Her mission is clear: creating a future where AI
enhances human capabilities while strengthening social cohesion and
well-being.
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H. Art Taylor
President and Chief Executive Officer
BBB Wise Giving Alliance - give.org
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Herman “Art” Taylor is President and Chief Executive officer of the BBB Wise Giving Alliance - give.org As head of the Alliance, he oversees all aspects of the organization’s work, which includes setting standards for soliciting organizations, evaluating charities in relation to these standards, publishing the Wise Giving Guide, assisting local Better Business Bureau charity review programs, promoting charity accountability and providing a variety of materials on informed giving to individual, institutional and business donors and to government, hosting a weekly podcast, advancing collaboration among charitable organizations, developing giving tools and assisting charities in improving operations, governance and leadership.
Appointed to his position in July 2001, the Wise Giving Alliance Board of Directors selected Mr. Taylor President & CEO for his record of accomplishments in the non-profit arena and his business, professional and volunteer background.
Since he began in this position, the Alliance has increased the number of reports from 250 to over 1,400 of the nation’s most asked about and nationally soliciting charities. These reports complement more than 10,000 reports on local charities produced by local Better Business Bureaus. In addition, under Mr. Taylor’s lead, the organization introduced the Accredited Charity Seal, a symbol of trustworthiness, used by national and local charities that adhere to the holistic BBB Standards for Charity Accountability. It is estimated that more than 1 billion impressions of the charity seal exist in the public domain on solicitations, websites and other charity publicity giving donors a clear, concise and accessible means of knowing whether an organization is trustworthy.