Brad Heber
Co-Founder
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Giselle Wellman
Top Chef Season 13 Competitor
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Top Chef Season 13 competitor Giselle Wellman's Jewish-Mexican family instilled a love of food in her at an early age and inspired a career. After attending culinary school in Mexico City at Le Cordon Bleu, she honed her skills alongside internationally renowned chefs, including Thomas Keller,  Jean George, Grant Achatz, and Lidia and Joe Bastianich before becoming the youngest female Executive Chef in Los Angeles at the age of 26.

Now, Giselle works at San Diego Jewish Academy as the Culinary & Garden Programming Director. This position allows her to fulfill her passion for regenerative practices while working directly with students in the school garden and teaching them the importance of caring where our food is coming from. “I still get to cook, but finally I feel a deep sense of fulfillment as I teach students the important role we as humans have to our earth.”

Read more about Giselle’s culinary journey in Forbes magazine.

 

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Matt May
Founder & CEO
Premier Team Building & Interactive Experiences
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After several years producing and facilitating team building programs for a variety of companies, Matt May recognized that there was an alternate way to provide engaging, interactive experiences. As a result, he created Premier Team Building & Interactive Experiences®, delivering programs nation-wide, and abroad. As the company’s president, he is responsible for the design & development of its experiences, overseeing the production and facilitation of these programs, customer support, and staff training. Additionally, in his career, May has served as a producer, director, manager, administrator, educator, and consultant for various event and live entertainment, theatrical, and educational organizations.

 

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Tuesday, June 13, 2023 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Matt May
Founder & CEO
Premier Team Building & Interactive Experiences
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After several years producing and facilitating team building programs for a variety of companies, Matt May recognized that there was an alternate way to provide engaging, interactive experiences. As a result, he created Premier Team Building & Interactive Experiences®, delivering programs nation-wide, and abroad. As the company’s president, he is responsible for the design & development of its experiences, overseeing the production and facilitation of these programs, customer support, and staff training. Additionally, in his career, May has served as a producer, director, manager, administrator, educator, and consultant for various event and live entertainment, theatrical, and educational organizations.

 

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Monday, June 12, 2023 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm
Hunter Lott
owner
HunterLott.com
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Hunter Lott is an HR problem solver. He has delivered over 4000 “on stage” events, over 17,000 presentation hours and reviewed over 1200 employee handbooks. Hunter won accolades as a senior course leader for the American Management Association. Hunter is an award winning speaker with Vistage and has earned Speaker of the Year, Impact Speaker of the Year and Top Performer Vistage honors.

Hunter attended Tulane University in New Orleans, graduated from Iowa State and has a Master’s Degree in Employment Law from NSU Shepard Broad College of Law.

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Wednesday, June 14, 2023 - 10:30am to 11:30am
Kathy Kacher
President
Career/Life Alliance Services, Inc.
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Kathy Kacher, President of Career/Life Alliance Services, (CLAS) and Cofounder of The SMART Workplace, is a workforce transformation expert with a focus on workplace mobility, change management and leadership engagement. She is also a faculty member with World at Work.

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Trina Hoefling
Adjunct Faculty
University of Denver
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Hoefling has been supporting cross-functional leadership change teams to transform the workplace, while achieving organization strategy for over 30 years. Author of Working Virtually: Transforming the Mobile Workplace, Trina is an accomplished thought leader with passion for elevating the workplace experience, speaking frequently about high-performance teaming in the mobile work world. Trina teaches at the University of Southern California, HR Management M.S program.

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Sarah White
CEO and Head of Research
Aspect 43
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As the founder of Aspect43 and HRTechCircle, Sarah is dedicated to revolutionizing the way we work, with a focus on using technology to improve the hiring, managing, and retention experiences for both employers and employees. Her team partners with practitioners and companies through surveys, interviews and focus groups to fully understand the challenges they are facing today and expect to face in the future and works with the technology and service providers to help build the next generation of technology. Sarah White is a highly sought-after advisor, strategist, analyst, speaker, and innovator in the HR, Talent & Work technology space. 

Prior to starting Aspect43 (Formerly Accelir Insights), she founded an HR software selection firm (acquired 2007) and held interim and full-time strategy roles for B2B SaaS Technologies, including CSO/CMO & Principal roles at HRTech vendors and Analyst/Advisory Firms. She has more than a dozen exits as a board member, advisor, and founder. Her expertise and thought leadership has earned her widespread recognition as one of the most influential people in Recruiting and HR Tech for over a decade by more than 40 outlets, including HR Executive Magazine and TA Tech Association.

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Ben Granger, Ph.D.
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Chief Workplace Psychologist
Qualtrics
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Dr. Benjamin Granger is Chief Workplace Psychologist and Head of EX Advisory Services at Qualtrics. He has over a decade of experience building Experience Management (XM) programs across the globe and leads EX thought leadership and research initiatives across Qualtrics and the XM Institute. His research has been featured in academic and practitioner forums, including Forbes, the Journal of Business and Psychology, the International Journal of Training & Development, the Academy of Management, and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Ben is a certified XM Professional and earned his Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology from the University of South Florida.

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Jordan Katz
Global Head of Employee Experience Transition Programs
Qualtrics
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Jordan is the Global Head of Employee Experience Transition Programs and Global Head of Employee Experience Strategy – Public Sector for Qualtrics.  In his practice, he focuses on advising organizations on the effective and impactful use of data and analytics to develop strategies that predict outcomes and increase performance.  He specializes in providing thought leadership to companies that transition from traditional Employee Engagement programs to more sophisticated Employee Listening Programs particularly as they impact growth, profitability, customer experience, patient experience, and clinical outcomes.

Jordan received a B.S. from Vanderbilt University, his M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Booth Graduate School of Business and a Certificate in Data Science and Analytics from M.I.T.

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Tuesday, June 13, 2023 - 7:30am to 8:30am
Ben Granger, Ph.D.
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Chief Workplace Psychologist
Qualtrics
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Dr. Benjamin Granger is Chief Workplace Psychologist and Head of EX Advisory Services at Qualtrics. He has over a decade of experience building Experience Management (XM) programs across the globe and leads EX thought leadership and research initiatives across Qualtrics and the XM Institute. His research has been featured in academic and practitioner forums, including Forbes, the Journal of Business and Psychology, the International Journal of Training & Development, the Academy of Management, and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Ben is a certified XM Professional and earned his Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology from the University of South Florida.

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Jordan Katz
Global Head of Employee Experience Transition Programs
Qualtrics
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Jordan is the Global Head of Employee Experience Transition Programs and Global Head of Employee Experience Strategy – Public Sector for Qualtrics.  In his practice, he focuses on advising organizations on the effective and impactful use of data and analytics to develop strategies that predict outcomes and increase performance.  He specializes in providing thought leadership to companies that transition from traditional Employee Engagement programs to more sophisticated Employee Listening Programs particularly as they impact growth, profitability, customer experience, patient experience, and clinical outcomes.

Jordan received a B.S. from Vanderbilt University, his M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Booth Graduate School of Business and a Certificate in Data Science and Analytics from M.I.T.

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Monday, June 12, 2023 - 10:30am to 11:30am
Ryan Ellis
Managing Partner
Ryan Ellis Law Corporation
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Ryan Ellis, a distinguished litigation attorney, boasts considerable expertise in state and federal employment law. Proficient in representing both employers and employees as an attorney,
Ryan's experience also spans business consulting and leading MatrixHR, a comprehensive human resources provider. Proactively assisting clients before lawsuits are filed, he effectively
mitigates risks and fosters harmonious workplace environments. With unique insights and a wealth of expertise, Ryan stands as a trusted authority in the ever-evolving realms of HR and
legal consulting. Licensed in California, Michigan, Nevada, and Texas, his reach extends across multiple jurisdictions.

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