Sara Taylor
President and Founder
deepSEE Consulting
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Sara Taylor, President and Founder of deepSEE Consulting, has 35 years of extensive experience, nationally recognized as in the practice of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion serving local, national and global clients. While her areas of specialty are in both Diversity and Leadership Development, Sara has become a thought leader particularly in the field of Cultural Competence. Her bestselling book, Filter Shift: How Effective People SEE the World, is used by numerous individuals and organizations to increase success and create greater effectiveness. Sara holds a Master's degree in Diversity and Organizational Development and, prior to founding deepSEE, held positions such as Chief Diversity Officer and Leadership and Diversity Specialist.

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Gennady Babankov
Manager, Exchange Visitor Program
SHRM
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Gennady Babankov, J.D. is a Manager of SHRM Exchange Visitor (J-1) Program. Babankov oversees two private sector exchange programs for foreign trainees and interns and helps develop, implement, and promote SHRM benefits portfolio for global mobility and immigration members.

Babankov has more than 20 years of experience building and managing global education and training programs for students and professionals. He has experience in teacher training, study abroad, cross-cultural training, and language acquisition, and has directed field operations in Russia, Central Asia, Middle East, and the Caucasus.

Prior to joining SHRM in 2019, Babankov managed several education and training programs sponsored by the federal government, including the Flagship Overseas Language Program (U.S. Department of Defense), Fulbright Teacher Exchange Program (U.S. Department of State), and the Open World Program (Library of Congress).

Babankov earned his J.D. degree from the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, a master’s degree from the Johns Hopkins University, and a bachelor’s degree from the Lomonosov Moscow State University in Russia.

Babankov has lived in the United States since 1994 and currently resides in Fairfax, VA.

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Mary Cheddie, SHRM-SCP
Divisional Director, Membership Community
SHRM
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Mary Cheddie, SHRM-SCP is Divisional Director, Membership Community. 

Cheddie has more than 35 years of domestic and international experience in all aspects of human resources and training. She has extensive experience with strategic planning, M&As, and in starting and turning around businesses.

Prior to joining SHRM, she served as senior vice president of human resources for Interval Leisure Group, Inc. and its affiliated companies. The company was publicly traded on NASDAQ and the leading provider of vacation services with a global consumer membership base of nearly 2 million member families, more than 2,500 member resorts in over 75 countries worldwide, and has oversight for about 14,000 employees. 

Cheddie also served as senior vice president, people with PRC, as well as vice president, human resources, strategic planning, office services, and facilities for The Orvis Company, Inc. in Manchester, VT.

She earned her MBA from Upper Iowa University, a bachelor’s degree from Thomas Edison State College in Trenton, New Jersey, and is certified as a SHRM-Senior Certified Professional.

Cheddie received the HR Award of Excellence, Hospitality in 2016 from South Florida Business & Wealth. Business Leader Magazine named Cheddie one of the 2011 Women Extraordinaire and in 2012 the National Diversity Council awarded her the Glass Ceiling Award.

She serves on the Board of Trustees for Upper Iowa University, Chairs the Human Capital Committee and is a member of the Governance and Advancement Committees, Chaired the Keiser Career College’s Advisory Board, was a member of the Board of Directors for the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) from 2003-2008 and chaired SHRM’s governance and compensation committees. Cheddie has more than 35 years of SHRM volunteer leadership experience at the national, regional, state, and local levels.  She also served on the Waldorf College Alumni Board from 2004 through 2008 and was the President of the Dallas HR Association in 2000 (one of the largest affiliated SHRM chapters). She resides in South FL.

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Andrew Morton
Director, Veterans and Certification Affairs
SHRM
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As SHRM’s Director of Certification and Veteran Affairs Andrew Morton works with the military and veterans' organizations to develop workforce readiness pathways for veterans and military-families. As part of SHRM’s Speaker’s Bureau Andrew informs and empowers organizations in their inclusion-hiring efforts across many populations including Veterans, individuals with disabilities, and Returning Citizens as part of SHRM’s Getting Talent Back to Work Initiative.  He is the contributing author to Justin Constantine’s SHRM published book “From We Will to At Will- A Handbook for Veteran Hiring, Transitioning and Thriving in Today’s Workplace.” 

Andrew, a retired Infantry-Officer, served in several leadership roles during multiple overseas and combat tours (Iraq, Bosnia, Macedonia and Egypt) in his 21-year Army career. He also served as the Chief of Marketing and Advertising for the Army Reserve.   Prior to his arrival at SHRM in 2014 Andrew previously served as public relations director for a PR firm in Alexandria. 

Andrew is passionate about awareness and resources in support of mental health within our workforce and society at large and is currently completely his Masters in Mental Health Counseling at the College of William and Mary.       

 

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Alexander Alonso, Ph.D., SHRM-SCP
Chief Data & Insights Officer
SHRM
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Alexander Alonso, PhD, SHRM-SCP is the Society for Human Resource Management's (SHRM's) Chief Data & Insights Officer leading operations for SHRM's Certified Professional and Senior Certified Professional certifications, research functions, and the SHRM Knowledge Advisor service. He is responsible for all research activities, including the development of the SHRM Competency Model and SHRM credentials.

During his career, he has worked with numerous subject matter experts worldwide with the aim of identifying performance standards, developing competency models, designing organizational assessments, and conducting job analyses. He was also responsible for working on contract task orders involving the development of measurement tools for content areas such as job knowledge (like teacher knowledge of instructional processes) and organizational climates (like organizational climate forecasting in military health care).

Dr. Alonso received his doctorate in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from Florida International University in 2003. His works have been recognized for their contribution to real-world issues. They include being recognized by the Society for Industrial Organizational Psychology (Division 14 of the APA; SIOP) with the 2007 M. Scott Myers Award for Applied Research in the Workplace for the development of the federal standard for medical team training, TeamSTEPPS; being awarded a 2009 Presidential Citation for Innovative Practice by the American Psychological Association for supporting the development of competency model for team triage in emergency medicine; and receiving the 2013 SIOP Distinguished Early Career Contributions for Practice Award.

Throughout his career, he has published works in peer-reviewed journals such as Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, Journal of Applied Psychology, International Journal of Selection and Assessment, People and Strategy, Personality and Individual Differences, Quality and Safety in Health Care, and Human Resources Management Review. He has also authored several chapters on community-based change initiatives in workforce readiness, as well as co-authoring Defining HR Success: A Guide to the SHRM Competency Model in Practice.

Dr. Alonso also served as a columnist analyzing major trends in the workforce for The Industrial Psychologist and HR Magazine. In addition, he has served on several professional society boards including the SIOP and the Personnel Testing Council of Metropolitan Washington.

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Saturday, September 11, 2021 - 11:30am to 12:30pm
De'Anna Randle
Manager of Diversity & Inclusion
Morgan Stanley
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De’Anna Randle is a Manager on the Diversity and Inclusion, Segment Strategy HR team at Morgan Stanley. Prior to joining the firm, De’Anna has over 13 years of experience in the financial services industry, including over 5 in Human Resources. Her career in Human Resources began at E*TRADE Financial, now Morgan Stanley, on the Talent Management team with a specific focus on performance management, employee engagement, career development and diversity and inclusion spaces. She is new to her current role and has now shifted her focus to developing and implementing programming geared towards developing, retaining and promoting diverse and underrepresented talent in leadership roles across the firm. 

De’Anna holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics and a Master of Business Administration with a concentration in Human Resources.   

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De’Anna Randle
Manager of Diversity & Inclusion
Morgan Stanley
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De’Anna Randle is a Manager on the Diversity and Inclusion, Segment Strategy HR team at Morgan Stanley. Prior to joining the firm, De’Anna has over 13 years of experience in the financial services industry, including over 5 in Human Resources. Her career in Human Resources began at E*TRADE Financial, now Morgan Stanley, on the Talent Management team with a specific focus on performance management, employee engagement, career development and diversity and inclusion spaces. She is new to her current role and has now shifted her focus to developing and implementing programming geared towards developing, retaining and promoting diverse and underrepresented talent in leadership roles across the firm. 

De’Anna holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics and a Master of Business Administration with a concentration in Human Resources.   

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Chauncey Nartey
Global Head of DEI
General Assembly
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Chauncey is the Managing Partner of the Adult Learning Leaders Institute (ALL IN) and the Global Head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at General Assembly. Chauncey began his career as a Teach for America corps member in Philadelphia, teaching US and global history at the middle and high school levels before taking on a variety of leadership roles across the nonprofit and private sectors. Chauncey holds a BA in Political Science and Public Policy from Duke University, and a MA in Urban Education from the University of Pennsylvania. He currently resides in NY with his partner, Andrea, and daughter, Amelia. 

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Daniel Horgan
CEO
CoLabL
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At 18, Daniel pioneered the first youth-led America’s Promise effort in Pittsburgh under Retired General Colin Powell, landing him a seat on the national board of directors and recognition from President George W. Bush. Daniel has 20+ years of experience working in the business and nonprofit sectors, fueled by his commitment to increasing others’ access to relationships and growth opportunities. 

At CoLabL, Daniel is working at the intersection of talent development and community building, creating and facilitating brand, relationship and skill-building experiences that support existing and future talent. 

He has worked with brands including Starbucks, Nike, Apple and LinkedIn, schools, nonprofits and government agencies. Daniel has served on boards including City Year DC, Community Foundation of the National Capital Region, Team Kids, and Greater Pittsburgh Nonprofit Partnership. Named one of Pittsburgh’s 40 Under 40 Honorees, Daniel has facilitated hundreds of training experiences, published articles on Forbes.com, and authored Tell Me I Can’t…and I Will.  

 

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De’Anna Randle
Manager of Diversity & Inclusion
Morgan Stanley
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De’Anna Randle is a Manager on the Diversity and Inclusion, Segment Strategy HR team at Morgan Stanley. Prior to joining the firm, De’Anna has over 13 years of experience in the financial services industry, including over 5 in Human Resources. Her career in Human Resources began at E*TRADE Financial, now Morgan Stanley, on the Talent Management team with a specific focus on performance management, employee engagement, career development and diversity and inclusion spaces. She is new to her current role and has now shifted her focus to developing and implementing programming geared towards developing, retaining and promoting diverse and underrepresented talent in leadership roles across the firm. 

De’Anna holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics and a Master of Business Administration with a concentration in Human Resources.   

 

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Eric Garvey
Director of People Experience
Zwift
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Eric Garvey is a HR leader based in Los Angeles, CA who is currently a Director of People Experience at Zwift, a fitness company born from gaming. Over the course of his career he has been responsible for practices focused on engaging and developing employees in the areas of leadership development, coaching, performance management, diversity and inclusion, and broader human resources. He's worked for companies such as Insperience, Riot Games, Target Corporation, and Korn Ferry. He obtained his Master's in I/O Psychology at Minnesota State University, Mankato and his Bachelor's in Psychology at the University of Minnesota. 

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Paul Luangkhot
Employee Benefits Consultant
The Culture Insurance Group
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Paul is a business professional who helps HR professionals streamline their internal processes. His super power is his ability to connect people and resources. So much that he was asked to join and serve on two Boards: San Diego SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) and San Diego Chapter of CalCPA (California Society of Certified Public Accountants). He has helped many individuals with their careers; whether it is students to their first internship or job, people with career transitions, or even development in their own business development roles. He considers vulnerability to be the best characteristic someone should have or something you should work on. Because vulnerability is having the strength to ask for help. 

 

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