Margaret Shaw Lilani is a staffing industry professional with over a decade of experience in leadership roles with global organizations. At Upwork, Margaret leads a globally distributed team of over 1500 in 98 countries, overseeing talent supply and delivery for Managed Services, Enterprise, and large Marketplace clients. Prior to joining Upwork, Margaret built and ran the legal staffing division at Epiq Systems, growing the group from concept to $100M+ in under three years, as Senior Director of Operations. Margaret has also served as Managing Director for the Northwest region at Kelly Services, and as SVP, Global Solutions at Fronteo/UBIC Co. Prior to her entry into the staffing industry, Margaret was an attorney in Boston, MA.

Margaret holds a J.D. from Suffolk University and a B.A. in Political Science and History from the University of Vermont. She lives in San Francisco with her husband, son, and dog.

Kevin M. Coleman is the Founder of KMC Empowerment, LLC where he provides executive coaching, empowering speeches, and professional development training to make individuals and organizations successful.  This is done through inspiring leaders to define clear vision, mission, and value systems that leads to exponential personal, professional, and business growth.  Kevin has vast experience in leading training for Entrepreneurs, Executives, Division Chiefs, Branch Chiefs, Mid-Level Managers, Supervisors, and Team Leads for over 35 years.  Kevin has demonstrated experience speaking for all audiences from three (4) to three thousand (4,000).  In addition, Kevin is a United States Army disabled veteran.

Prior to joining the private sector, Brynt worked for over 20 years in the Army where he earned the Combat Infantry Badge and three bronze stars.  After the service, he was a principal and partner for BMNT, a technology consulting firm in Palo Alto, CA; as a Science & Technology Policy Fellow for the U.S. Department of Energy in Wash, DC; as a Co-Founder and CEO of Call Sign Coffee, an e-commerce company in San Jose, CA; and as a Co-Founder and Director of Workforce Development for NextFlex, a Manufacturing Innovation Institute in San Jose, CA. He is currently a Senior Director at Walmart in Bentonville, AR, where he directs the enterprise strategy for non-traditional talent, and leads the Military & Veterans Affairs portfolio for the leading global retailer. He also serves as a Board Member for a National Science Foundation project on the Future of Work.

Steve is Managing Partner of OPX, a design consultancy focused on helping good companies work better. A recognized thought-leader, facilitator, speaker, panelist, educator and mentor, Steve has pioneered a new way of looking at organizations, operations, and culture. By infusing the practice of design with his innovative thinking on business performance, he has created a value proposition in the market through the integration of people, tools, and place with business operations and strategy.

With Steve’s input and support, OPX has also built innovative tools to help their clients work better in different ways. Vium is an app that helps people manage their work lives better, and ESP is an award-winning scenario planning tool that models the qualitative implications of design decisions in a work environment.

Steve is passionate about providing true value to his clients and is committed to open and honest working relationships. His hands-on project approach, paired with straightforward, meaningful communication, allows him to understand client viewpoints and interpret those needs into actionable and effective solutions for organizations around the world.

Clients Steve has served include AARP, Amtrak, Albright Stonebridge Group, ABC News, The College Board, DC Health, Hilton Worldwide, Hogan Lovells, The City of Turku Finland, Nelson Mandela’s Education Initiative, the National Science Foundation, The Institute for Justice, and many others.

As a founder of two businesses before OPX, Steve is also former adjunct professor at The Catholic University of America, and frequently a guest lecturer and panelist at colleges and universities including: Babson College, George Washington University, Virginia Tech, and Georgetown University. Steve lectures on Design Thinking, Demand Creation, Conscious Capitalism, and most recently the Post-Pandemic Workplace.

Steve is a member of and has served in leadership positions on a variety of corporate and non-profit boards, such as Eurasia Foundation, Global Impact UK Advisory Board, the Conscious Venture Lab, Daedalus Systems, Inc., The Smarter DC Challenge, the Krewe of Red Beans, and the Venture Advisory Collaborative. Polo also served two terms as board chair of Global Impact.

Internally, he supports and encourages the OPX team to continue to build an environment of creativity, learning and diversity throughout the company to best deliver on our promise to make good companies work better.