Stacey Lewis is the CHRO/Director of Human Resources for the Port of Long Beach, the second-busiest seaport in the United States, with approximately 530 employees and generates annual operating revenues in excess of $300 million. Stacey has over 30 years of professional human resources experience, both in the private and public sectors. Prior to joining the Port, Stacey established her own Human Resources consulting company and worked as the Human Resources Manager – Civil Service for the City of Torrance. A dynamic and well-sought after “transformational” speaker and self-proclaimed disruptor, Stacey received her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of the Pacific. She also holds a Human Resources Management Certification from Loyola Marymount University, as well as several professional HR designations/certification. Stacey is a former Commissioner for the Long Beach Unified School District Personnel Commission, as well as she holds several leadership positions on a number of local boards. Never losing sight of her passion to re-engineer the HR agenda, Stacey is the Creator and Chief Influencer of HR Interrupted., an online community for HR Influencers with GRIT who unapologetically interrupt historical workplace ideologies/practices through inspiration and insight.

In addition to being tenacious about her professional career and following her purpose and passion to encourage people, especially women to live their very best lives, Stacey formerly served as a Host on everywaywoman.com, a local cable and internet talk-show committed to celebrating everyday women in every way. She also hosted a local radio show on Accelerated radio.net. Her professional, relationship and parenting advice has been featured on several websites, publications and TV shows including the Rachael Ray Show and Ebony and Parenting magazine. Yet, after being everything to everybody for so long, Stacey took a step back (both personally and professionally) and decided to spend some quality time with and on herself. Due to her amazing story and journey of weathering abuse, she was selected as one of America’s Women Heroes for the ABC day-time talk show, The Revolution. Most recently, Stacey was one of the main stage presenters for the YPO International Conference, where she electrified the 5000 plus attendees with her story of personal healing and redemption. However, at the end of the day, when the business meetings and interviews have concluded and the cameras stop rolling, Stacey finds complete solace with her husband of 28 years and their three children

Mrs. Conway joined WTW in 2015, assisting clients in employee benefits, funding, plan design and compliance strategies.

In November 2019, she joined the Employee Benefits Compliance (EBC) team as a Practice Lead. She regularly speaks on MHPAEA, ERISA and most recently on COVID-19 impacts to employee benefits administration.

Education and Credentials

Mrs. Conway previously worked at the U.S DOL - EBSA as a Benefits Advisory.

She earned her Bachelor’s in Political Science from Bates College and a Juris Doctor from Northeastern School of Law.

Liz is a Senior Behavioral Scientist at Coachhub, where she marries her expertise in organizational psychology, employee experience, and organizational development to close the gap between coaching research and practice. Prior to Coachhub, Liz worked for two employee experience HRTech companies, Limeade and Qualtrics, where she built global advisory teams to deliver on customer employee experience programs and provide expertise in the design of new product features and solutions.  During her time as Director of Organizational Development at Healthfirst she supported the organization’s transformation toward integrated talent management through: building employee listening strategies, assessing and supporting culture transformation, transforming performance management, delivering 360-degree feedback programs, and designing talent reviews and succession planning. In her early career, Liz was a Consultant for Towers Watson and Paris Phoenix Group, partnering with world-class organizations across industries, her client work ranged from employee engagement, culture assessment and change, competency design and implementation, career architecture, and conducting custom research to address complex business issues. Liz earned her Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from Seattle Pacific University and is an ICF Certified Professional Coach. Liz is an active member of the Society of Industrial-Organizational Psychology (SIOP), International Coaching Federation, and Portland Women in Tech.

Jeremy Spake is a senior principal on the Thought Leadership & Advisory Services team at Cornerstone OnDemand, a leading global SaaS-based talent management solution provider. In this capacity, he works to develop continuous performance management, data-driven compensation, and succession strategies to advise organizations on how to drive people theory into practice. Central to this work is providing guidance to embed talent management strategy with Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging (DEIB) initiatives for clients. Spake has led pay equity initiatives, Employee Resource Groups, advocated for inclusive benefits offerings and regularly leads talent management strategy workshops for Cornerstone’s clients.

Mark Gindick is a professional actor, clown, physical comedian, director, teacher and writer/creator. Mark has appeared in major feature films and has been on The Late Show with David Letterman and Late Night with Conan O’Brien. He was also featured in The PBS mini-series CIRCUS and performed at the Edinburgh Theatre Festival. He has performed in circuses such as Cirque Du Soleil, Ringling Brothers and the Big Apple Circus. Mark’s unique blend of vaudeville, dance, and physical comedy earned him three Golden Nose Awards.

Mark currently teaches at SUNY Purchase College and hosts live and virtual games for The Game Agency.

I'm passionate about building high-quality content ecosystems from the ground up. I consider myself a content generalist that can think of and execute big ideas while also tackling the small details.

I have extensive experience in establishing editorial brands, from founding and growing a college-centric publication (Fresh U) to 100,000 monthly unique visitors and 300+ nationally distributed writers, to my work at RippleMatch, where I have established and continue to grow our entire editorial brand from the ground up.