Jennifer Cassetta
Author & High Performance Coach
The Art of Badassery: Unleash Your Mojo
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Feeling like a badass is your birthright. 
 
Based in Los Angeles, Jennifer Cassetta is a nationally recognized keynote and TEDx speaker, empowerment coach, self defense expert and author of The Art of Badassery: Unleash Your Mojo With Wisdom of the Dojo. She helps people feel strong, safe and powerful from the streets to the boardroom. 
 
Equipped with her 3rd degree black belt in Hapkido, Master’s degree in Nutrition, and health coaching certification, she’s been presenting her signature programming for the last two decades for corporate clients that include: Apple, American Airlines, British Airways, Del Monte, Nike, Uber, UBS and Visa. Jennifer has rocked hundreds of stages across the country with her super power combination of engaging content and contagious enthusiasm.  
 
Her skills have been featured on Good Morning America, The Today Show, The Doctors, Rachael Ray and she was a featured expert on ABC-TV’s My Diet is Better Than Yours. From national magazines to newspapers, Jenn is a go-to expert on safety and empowerment for dozens of publications. 

Jennifer's career highlights include: 
 
- Speaking over 50 times a year to professionals in the banking, hospitality, travel, real estate industries and more. 
 
- Speaking at over 55 universities around the country about empowerment, self confidence, safety and self-defense. Schools include: Cornell University, Fordham University, Loyola Marymount University, Dusquesne University, UC Boulder, UC Davis, UC Santa Barbary, San Diego State University, Penn State, St. John's University, Lenoir Rhyne, and many more.  
 
- Speaking at conferences such as Professional Business Women of California, Bacardi S.H.E. Summit, Meeting Planner's International, National Association of Realtors and SITE Global.  
 
- Media appearances on: Good Morning America, The Today Show, Inside Edition, E!, The Doctors, Rachael Ray, The Real, Bethenny Frankel, Marie Osmond and many more. 
 
- Created an online training program called She Warrior Self Defense. 

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Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 3:15pm to Monday, September 30, 2024 - 4:15pm
Jennifer Cassetta
Author & High Performance Coach
The Art of Badassery: Unleash Your Mojo
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Feeling like a badass is your birthright. 
 
Based in Los Angeles, Jennifer Cassetta is a nationally recognized keynote and TEDx speaker, empowerment coach, self defense expert and author of The Art of Badassery: Unleash Your Mojo With Wisdom of the Dojo. She helps people feel strong, safe and powerful from the streets to the boardroom. 
 
Equipped with her 3rd degree black belt in Hapkido, Master’s degree in Nutrition, and health coaching certification, she’s been presenting her signature programming for the last two decades for corporate clients that include: Apple, American Airlines, British Airways, Del Monte, Nike, Uber, UBS and Visa. Jennifer has rocked hundreds of stages across the country with her super power combination of engaging content and contagious enthusiasm.  
 
Her skills have been featured on Good Morning America, The Today Show, The Doctors, Rachael Ray and she was a featured expert on ABC-TV’s My Diet is Better Than Yours. From national magazines to newspapers, Jenn is a go-to expert on safety and empowerment for dozens of publications. 

Jennifer's career highlights include: 
 
- Speaking over 50 times a year to professionals in the banking, hospitality, travel, real estate industries and more. 
 
- Speaking at over 55 universities around the country about empowerment, self confidence, safety and self-defense. Schools include: Cornell University, Fordham University, Loyola Marymount University, Dusquesne University, UC Boulder, UC Davis, UC Santa Barbary, San Diego State University, Penn State, St. John's University, Lenoir Rhyne, and many more.  
 
- Speaking at conferences such as Professional Business Women of California, Bacardi S.H.E. Summit, Meeting Planner's International, National Association of Realtors and SITE Global.  
 
- Media appearances on: Good Morning America, The Today Show, Inside Edition, E!, The Doctors, Rachael Ray, The Real, Bethenny Frankel, Marie Osmond and many more. 
 
- Created an online training program called She Warrior Self Defense. 

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Lonnie Giamela
Partner
Fisher Phillips
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Lonnie Giamela is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Fisher Phillips and a co-chair of the firm's Pay Equity practice group.  Lonnie has handled a full range of labor and employment matters, from single-plaintiff to multi-plaintiff, in both federal and state courts in California, the California Court of Appeals, the California Supreme Court and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.  Lonnie also has extensive experience representing local, regional and national clients in class action wage-hour lawsuits as well as representative lawsuits brought under California’s Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA), having handled more than 200 such matters across the country. Lonnie also has experience as lead counsel in two wage-hour class actions that have gone to trial.  Additionally, Lonnie counsels employers on preventative measures to prevent litigation from arising on various issues including wage and hour compliance, independent contractor classification, mass layoff strategy, and management training. He has assisted in the preparation of more than 500 handbooks for clients and has developed policies and procedures manuals for both small businesses and national companies with multi-state operations.  Utilizing experiences from his family's restaurants in the San Fernando Valley, Lonnie prides himself on providing advice to the companies he represents. His prior business experience enables him to find practical, compliant legal solutions to clients’ everyday employee relations issues. Lonnie is a frequent lecturer on employment law topics and has presented over 350 seminars to various groups.

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Alyssa Dver
Founder & Chair
ERG Leadership Alliance
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Confidence Crusader, Neuro Nerd and Success Equalizer, Alyssa Dver founded and leads the American Confidence Institute, which uses brain science to teach the skill of confidence. She also is the founder & chair of the ERG Leadership Alliance, the largest global association of employee group champions working together to make all workplaces inclusive. Author of 8 books, her latest, Confidence is a Choice: Real Science. Superhero Impact.” and, ERG Intelligence: What every leader needs to know about employee groups.Her work has been endorsed by leaders at Harvard Medical & Business Schools, MIT, Wharton Neuroscience and UPenn Medical School, Yale, UC Berkeley, Amazon, Xerox, The World Bank, and many more.

 

Alyssa delivers 100+ event keynotes and training workshops each year, frequently being asked back to the same group year after year. She also teaches at the MIT and Wharton innovation centers and is the official confidence educator for L’Oréal’s IT Cosmetics. Alyssa has been recognized by Chief Navigators as a Top 10 Pioneering Women Leaders in Business and the Stevie Awards as a Thought Leader. Check out her two TED talks and popular Real Confidence podcast.

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Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 10:00am to 11:00am
Alyssa Dver
Founder & Chair
ERG Leadership Alliance
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Confidence Crusader, Neuro Nerd and Success Equalizer, Alyssa Dver founded and leads the American Confidence Institute, which uses brain science to teach the skill of confidence. She also is the founder & chair of the ERG Leadership Alliance, the largest global association of employee group champions working together to make all workplaces inclusive. Author of 8 books, her latest, Confidence is a Choice: Real Science. Superhero Impact.” and, ERG Intelligence: What every leader needs to know about employee groups.Her work has been endorsed by leaders at Harvard Medical & Business Schools, MIT, Wharton Neuroscience and UPenn Medical School, Yale, UC Berkeley, Amazon, Xerox, The World Bank, and many more.

 

Alyssa delivers 100+ event keynotes and training workshops each year, frequently being asked back to the same group year after year. She also teaches at the MIT and Wharton innovation centers and is the official confidence educator for L’Oréal’s IT Cosmetics. Alyssa has been recognized by Chief Navigators as a Top 10 Pioneering Women Leaders in Business and the Stevie Awards as a Thought Leader. Check out her two TED talks and popular Real Confidence podcast.

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Monday, September 30, 2024 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
Alyssa Dver
Founder & Chair
ERG Leadership Alliance
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Confidence Crusader, Neuro Nerd and Success Equalizer, Alyssa Dver founded and leads the American Confidence Institute, which uses brain science to teach the skill of confidence. She also is the founder & chair of the ERG Leadership Alliance, the largest global association of employee group champions working together to make all workplaces inclusive. Author of 8 books, her latest, Confidence is a Choice: Real Science. Superhero Impact.” and, ERG Intelligence: What every leader needs to know about employee groups.Her work has been endorsed by leaders at Harvard Medical & Business Schools, MIT, Wharton Neuroscience and UPenn Medical School, Yale, UC Berkeley, Amazon, Xerox, The World Bank, and many more.

 

Alyssa delivers 100+ event keynotes and training workshops each year, frequently being asked back to the same group year after year. She also teaches at the MIT and Wharton innovation centers and is the official confidence educator for L’Oréal’s IT Cosmetics. Alyssa has been recognized by Chief Navigators as a Top 10 Pioneering Women Leaders in Business and the Stevie Awards as a Thought Leader. Check out her two TED talks and popular Real Confidence podcast.

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Janice Litvin
Workplace Wellness Speaker
Janice Litvin Speaks
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Janice Litvin is an award-winning workplace wellness speaker and author of Banish Burnout Toolkit. She is on a mission to help leaders and teams banish burnout in their organizations so they can retain top talent. She does this through keynotes, workshops and coaching groups.

What makes Janice unique is her 10 years in corporate IT, 20 years in tech recruiting, and a lifetime of working on her own work-life balance.

Janice is past president of National Speakers Association of Northern California, and is a member of SHRM, for whom she is a Recertification Provider.

For fun she leads Zumba Fitness classes.

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Monday, September 30, 2024 - 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Mike Horne
Executive Coach and Organization Development Consultant
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Mike Horn helps executives, aspiring leaders, and their teams avoid, minimize, or reduce poor outcomes related to people and culture actions and decisions. He coaches clients on how to close the gap between probable (the best they can do) and possible (what they are capable of doing).

⭐️ Coached an IT Security executive into success following being made redundant following organizational restructure
⭐️ Led an Engineering VP and his team through a significant organizational redesign to increase managerial opportunity and career development for software, hardware, and mechanical engineers
⭐️ Worked with a founder and CEO to re-imagine his career and leadership impact
⭐️ Developed a newly formed global HR team in the midst of an organizational contraction
⭐️ Coached a Biotech VP to seek new career success following failure at their current company
⭐️ Assisted a biopharma technical leader to advance their career for promotion

An expert in human and organization development who works with leaders with technical backgrounds (scientists, technologists, engineers, financiers), helping them excel at what they do while developing leadership skills - including the ability to influence others authentically.

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Nicole Jackson
Vice Provost
Golden Gate University
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Management Expert with over 15 years of diversified program management related experience including in business process improvement, organizational design and alignment, training, and risk mitigation for education, government, non-profit and private sectors. Demonstrated effectiveness in the design and delivery including the creation of IT to HR and academic programs and their alignment. Experience includes academic research and instruction positioned to mid and senior executive audiences in HR, Organizational and Leadership methods and practices, as well as program and risk assessments with a specific emphasis on organizational and leadership ambidexterity development (i.e., the balance between innovation and competency development) - critical to the digital transformation economy. Prior to graduate academia, five-years of experience as an IT Business Process Consultant, Training Manager, and Product Manager in both high compliance-driven client engagements and start-up environments. Extensive training in strategic stakeholder assessments, change management methodologies, curriculum design including external policy reviews, benchmarking, and use of quantitative and qualitative data collection such as surveys and interview methods for organizational change and design work.

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