Sinikka Waugh, President of Your Clear Next Step, spends her days helping people have better workdays. Sinikka is known for consistently helping people improve their emotional intelligence and find innovative ways to solve problems and get things done at work. Putting her 20+ year background in languages, literature, and project management to good use, Sinikka has provided compassionate leadership in transformation initiatives and helped over 50,000 people have better workdays since 2008. Her clients value how her results-driven professionalism blends seamlessly with her down-to-earth, “try this now” approach and her relentless passion for helping others achieve even better.

Jathan Janove, a former state bar Employment Lawyer of the Year and now Executive Coach and Organization Development consultant, writes SHRM’s “Putting Humanity into HR Compliance” column, and is a Master Coach and Practice Leader with the Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coaching organization, including writing its Ask the Coach column. He’s the author, most recently, of “Hard-Won Wisdom: True Stories From The Management Trenches” (HarperCollins 2017). He’s currently working on his next book, “From Compliance Cop to Culture Coach: Transforming the HR Profession.”

Ricardo Cabete is a Global Keynote Speaker helping corporate leaders engage their teams by using Emotional Intelligence and Employee Engagement skills through unique talks, masterclasses, and executive coaching. In a world of technology and artificial intelligence, Ricardo helps corporate leaders communicate with their teams in a way that sparks an emotional connection. The main outcome is higher employee engagement that boosts business results like staff retention, productivity and profitability.  He speaks at global corporate events and international conferences for several industries, including HR, Insurance and Banking.

Ricardo loves to create Keynotes and Masterclasses that are impactful for the audience and at the same time create high ROI results for his clients.  His signature keynotes, The Master of Emotions and The Engagement Sherlock Holmes, are best-sellers around the world, driving the audience into an interactive, insightful and powerful experience.

Ricardo is also a rock band lead singer! He performed at international rock festivals with bands like The Black Eyed Peas, The Prodigy or Iggy Pop.  Ricardo brings his 17 years of rock band lead singing experience to his engaging keynotes, helping the audience become high performing leaders and teams. He´s not only an expert, but he's also a performer! In 2017 he was awarded as the European Champion of Public Speaking by Toastmasters International, placing in the top 30 speakers in the world in a contest with more than 30.000 speakers globally. Ricardo speaks with emotion and always has a surprise impact element in his talks that make them memorable.

Get ready to feel engaged!

Corinne Weible is Co-Director at the Partnership on Employment & Accessible Technology (PEAT), supporting the Future of Work Initiative at the U.S. Dept of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy. In this role, she works to advance the accessibility of emerging workplace technology to increase employment opportunities for people with disabilities, from artificial intelligence (AI) to extended reality (XR). PEAT partners with the disability community, tech companies and the public to advance adoption of inclusive design and promising practices for tech accessibility.