Gloria Chan Packer
International Mental Wellness Educator, TED Speaker, Experienced Corporate Leader
Recalibrate
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Gloria Chan Packer is an international mental wellness educator, keynote speaker, and experienced corporate leader. Her TED Talk was one of the most viewed talks of 2022, garnering over 2 million views. She is the founder of Recalibrate, a workplace mental wellness provider that takes a uniquely modern, science-backed, and realistic approach to mental wellness learning for client organizations all over the world.

Gloria founded Recalibrate after an unexpected medical battle led her to re-examine her relationship with stress, inspiring her to improve mental health education for fellow busy professionals by promoting science over stigma. Gloria has been featured as a guest expert at SXSW, Business Insider, the TED Business podcast, the How to Be a Better Human podcast, and more.

Prior to Recalibrate, Gloria led an established career in management consulting as a senior leader specializing in technology strategy and implementation for various Fortune 500 clients in cable, healthcare, financial services, energy, and nonprofit industries.

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Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 12:35pm to 1:35pm
 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 3:30pm to 3:45pm
 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 2:25pm to 2:40pm
 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 11:35am to 11:45am
 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 10:35am to 10:45am
 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 9:35am to 9:45am
 
Tuesday, November 19, 2024 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Jim Link, SHRM-SCP
Chief Human Resource Officer
SHRM
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Jim Link is the CHRO for SHRM.  With more than 340,000 members worldwide, SHRM is the largest HR professional association in the world and the leading voice for matters related to workers and the workplace.

Jim’s career includes roles of increasing responsibility across various industries and companies, including General Electric, the Pillsbury Company, Porsche Cars, and Randstad.  In his most recent role as CHRO for Randstad North America, he led a global team of 150 HR professionals who were instrumental in transforming the company into an award-winning, inclusive, and sustainable global leader.

Jim has served as a volunteer leader in several organizations including the SHRM Foundation Board, the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank Human Capital Advisory Board, and the Human Resources Leadership Forum.

Jim holds undergraduate and master’s degree from Murray State University.  Born and raised on a working family farm in western Kentucky, he currently resides in Atlanta and Alexandria, VA. 

Jim is an adjunct instructor in the Executive MBA program at the University of Poznan (Poland) School of Economics and Business and the University of Liège (Belgium) Asia-Pacific campus in Taipei, Taiwan.

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Nyle DiMarco
Deaf Activist, Author, & Winner of Dancing with the Stars & America’s Next Top Model
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Nyle DiMarco, winner of  Dancing with the Stars  and  America’s Next Top Model, empowers audiences to believe they can do and be anything they want in life, no matter the obstacle. 

He won the mirror ball trophy on ABC’s  Dancing with the Stars  (season 22) and was the last model standing on The CW’s America’s Next Top Model  (cycle 22), now Nyle is winning over audiences as an influential leader and ambassador for the deaf community. 

Born into a multigenerational deaf family, he is an honorary spokesperson for Language Equality and Acquisition for Deaf Kids (LEAD-K) and founder of the Nyle DiMarco Foundation, which works to improve the lives of deaf people around the world. Nyle has produced the 2018 return to Broadway of  Children of a Lesser God  starring Joshua Jackson and Lauren Ridloff. Nyle was also a creative collaborator on The ASL App, created by native deaf signers to teach conversational American Sign Language. 

His debut book,  Deaf Utopia: A Memoir and a Love Letter to a Way of Life  (April 2022), tells of his upbringing and how it was utopian in that he was born into a fourth-generation deaf family. DiMarco was an executive producer on Netflix's Oscar-nominated short documentary,  Audible  (2021). 

With a passion for language, literacy and advocacy within the deaf community and beyond, Nyle shares his barrier-breaking story as a deaf man who has risen above stereotypes to take the world by storm. Believing that his deafness is “an asset rather than a limitation,” he builds a bridge between the deaf and hearing by shining a light on not only the struggles, but also the triumphs of the deaf culture. Above all, Nyle shows audiences that with a sense of community, commitment to your goals, and belief in yourself, you can accomplish anything. 

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Thursday, November 7, 2024 - 10:30am to 11:30am
Nyle DiMarco
Deaf Activist, Author, & Winner of Dancing with the Stars & America’s Next Top Model
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Nyle DiMarco, winner of  Dancing with the Stars  and  America’s Next Top Model, empowers audiences to believe they can do and be anything they want in life, no matter the obstacle. 

He won the mirror ball trophy on ABC’s  Dancing with the Stars  (season 22) and was the last model standing on The CW’s America’s Next Top Model  (cycle 22), now Nyle is winning over audiences as an influential leader and ambassador for the deaf community. 

Born into a multigenerational deaf family, he is an honorary spokesperson for Language Equality and Acquisition for Deaf Kids (LEAD-K) and founder of the Nyle DiMarco Foundation, which works to improve the lives of deaf people around the world. Nyle has produced the 2018 return to Broadway of  Children of a Lesser God  starring Joshua Jackson and Lauren Ridloff. Nyle was also a creative collaborator on The ASL App, created by native deaf signers to teach conversational American Sign Language. 

His debut book,  Deaf Utopia: A Memoir and a Love Letter to a Way of Life  (April 2022), tells of his upbringing and how it was utopian in that he was born into a fourth-generation deaf family. DiMarco was an executive producer on Netflix's Oscar-nominated short documentary,  Audible  (2021). 

With a passion for language, literacy and advocacy within the deaf community and beyond, Nyle shares his barrier-breaking story as a deaf man who has risen above stereotypes to take the world by storm. Believing that his deafness is “an asset rather than a limitation,” he builds a bridge between the deaf and hearing by shining a light on not only the struggles, but also the triumphs of the deaf culture. Above all, Nyle shows audiences that with a sense of community, commitment to your goals, and belief in yourself, you can accomplish anything. 

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