JoDee is the Founder of Purple Ink, a human resources consulting firm in Indianapolis, IN. They serve a wide array of organizations with recruiting, HR consulting, leadership training, and HR outsourcing services.

JoDee serves on the Indiana SHRM State Council and is the chair of the Indiana SHRM conference.

Dr. Victoria Mattingly (Dr. V) is CEO of Mattingly Solutions, a woman-owned diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) consulting firm that uses data and science to improve the human experience at work. She is a professional speaker, adjunct professor, DEI practitioner, and co-author of the globally-acclaimed book, Inclusalytics: How DEI Leaders Use Data to Drive their Work. Dr. V helps her clients take a more data-driven approach to their DEI efforts by helping them better measure and track DEI outcomes. She earned her PhD in organizational psychology, specializing in inclusive behaviors and workplace allyship.

Skipper T. Ryan Davis is a 20+ year Retired Naval Officer with 4,000 hours of flight time encompassing multiple deployments in support of combat operations around the globe.  His most recent assignment was as the Commanding Officer for Patrol Squadron 47, a P-8 squadron responsible for executing the nation’s maritime strategy.  During that tour of duty, Commander Davis led his team of 300 Sailors through organizational culture change resulting in the highest morale on record across all VP squadrons, being awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Association Leadership Award, and earning the Battle “E” award for efficiency.  CDR Davis has proven himself a passionate leader who cares about people. 

Ryan is the Founder of Take Flight Leadership, an organization helping individuals and organizations achieve their goals.  He is the author of Take Flight: Cultivating Culture Through Trust, Teamwork, Purpose, & Ownership.  Ryan certified as a SHRM Senior Certified Professional, a Resilience-Building Leader Program Trainer, and as a BCSP Associate Safety Professional to better help him serve the teams he works with.

Daniel Combs is the North America Talent Acquisition Director of Campus Recruiting at Proctor & Gamble. For the past 4 years, Daniel has led a multi-functional early talent engagement strategy that hires over 1200 intern and entry level campus hires every year. Leading the region’s efforts through the pandemic, his focus has been on maximizing the candidate experience through a balance of digital outreach and high touch engagement. In addition to Campus Recruiting, Daniel has expertise in Employment Branding & Initiative work and Commercial (Business) Function recruiting.

Renee leads Business, Technical and University Recruiting at Duolingo. Prior to Duolingo, Renee has built, led and scaled early talent teams at various organizations including UberATG, Arconic and rue21.
 

Lorne Epstein, SHRM-SCP, MSOD, is a social scientist, keynote, and Vistage speaker who consults with senior leaders on improving decision-making outcomes by reducing biases. Over 50,000 professionals have taken his workshops worldwide. He has been quoted in Forbes, Cosmopolitan, Christian Science Monitor, and other publications. His research focuses on improving decision-making and reducing the impacts of unconscious bias in the workplace. Lorne has been leading experiential workshops since 1993. His book, You're Hired! Interview Skills to Get the Job has been downloaded over a half-million times worldwide. Lorne is currently studying cognitive neuroscience at the master’s level at George Mason University. He was admitted to the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society and Psi Chi, The National Honor Society of Psychology.

I was a talent acquisition leader for 23 years supporting teams in the United States, Brazil and India. Many of my teams won awards for their performance. I wrote the National Talent Acquisition and Diversity Hiring plan for the United States Forest Service.

Phyllis G. Hartman, SHRM-SCP, President, PGHR Consulting, Inc. has 30+ years in HR currently work with small and mid-sized organizations.

She’s worked in NFP management and manufacturing and holds an MSHR from La Roche University.

Phyllis served on the board of the Homeless Children’s Education Fund and volunteers for the Bayer Center for NFP Management.

Phyllis presented sessions for SHRM and business groups and she’s served as a Visiting Professor for La Roche University.

She authored: A Managers Guide to Developing Competencies in HR Staff; Looking to Hire an HR Leader? and Never Get Lost Again: Navigating Your HR Career.

As an innovation director and the founder of Gensler’s Innovation team, Amanda works with leaders to develop inclusive, social innovation platforms. Through 20 years of experience, Amanda has developed organizational programs, campus master plans, workplace prototypes, innovation adoption campaigns and change accelerators across virtually every industry sector, from not-for-profit institutions to Fortune 500 companies. Having developed a keen understanding of the purpose-driven employee and the impact physical space can have on experience, Amanda works closely with chief innovation officers, chief people officers, and interdisciplinary teams to employ a collaborative and creative process that produces demonstrable results.