Melissa DeLay is the award-winning founder and principal owner of TruPerception. With nearly two decades of strategic and corporate communication experience—including consulting for companies such as Ameriprise Financial and the State of Minnesota, as well as senior positions with 3M, Carlson Companies, Maytag and AmeriPride—Melissa knows how to deliver the right words in the right way to drive change, manage crises, boost engagement and build a stronger brand.

Her first book “The Truth About Scandal: The Everyday Guide to Navigating Business Crises,” details Melissa's years of first-hand experience coaching and consulting professionals through some of the toughest communications issues facing modern leaders today. 

25 years of experience as a practitioner of communications, inclusion and diversity strategies. Passionate about shaping organizations into inclusive spaces for people from all backgrounds and minimizing the barriers to career entry, advancement, and retention. Strong background in neuroscience research on inclusion and diversity strategies in the workspace, with an emphasis on mitigating the subtle and insidious forms of bias that negatively impact business decisions and perpetuate barriers to building high-performing teams and nurturing positive interpersonal relationships. Robin is a graduate of Georgetown University’s acclaimed Executive Strategic Diversity and Inclusion Management leadership program and has developed an expertise in using behavioral science interventions to improve business outcomes.

As head of global communications at TaskUs, a Santa Monica, CA-based, tech-enabled business services company delivering customer support, AI operations, and content security to the world’s most innovative companies, Robin creates and steers the vision and strategy for internal and external communications through an inclusive lens; oversees the communication and engagement strategy for senior leadership across the business; guides global PR; partners cross-functionally to support talent acquisition, employee engagement and client acquisition; and manages team partnerships with external consultants and agencies.

Dr. Steven G. Rogelberg, an organizational psychologist, holds the title of Chancellor’s Professor at UNC Charlotte for distinguished national, international and interdisciplinary contributions.  He is an award-winning teacher, award-winning and best-selling author, and recipient of the very prestigious Humboldt Award for his research. Adam Grant has called Steven the “worlds leading expert on how to fix meetings”.  Steven keynotes span the globe and he consults for small and large organizations, including IBM, TIAA, Cisco, Procter & Gamble, Family Dollar, 3M, Corning, KPMG, Siemens, and others. Due to his extensive outreach work, was the inaugural winner of the SIOP Humanitarian Award. 

This speaker is a member of the SHRM Speakers Bureau.

Lynn Shotwell has been leading organizations dedicated to helping employers build global workforces for over two decades. Lynn is SVP and Head of Global Operations & Outreach for SHRM, the world's largest HR professional society. 

Lynn currently serves as co-chair of the Business Mechanism of the Global Forum on Migration and Development and the Board of Trustees of World Education Services. She has also served on the European Union Expert Working Group on Economic Migration, on the B20 Employment Task Force, as chair of the Alliance for International Exchange, Compete America, Multinational Employers for Working Spouses and the Executive Working Group on Global Mobility Policies. Lynn is a frequent lecturer on mobility policy and has testified before the US Congress, United Nations, and World Trade Organization and has appeared on numerous television and radio shows.

Lynn graduated with distinction with a BA in International Relations from James Madison College at Michigan State University and received her law degree from the University of Michigan. She has lived in seven US states, France and Brazil. Lynn currently resides in Arlington VA with her husband, Andrew Shotwell, and their two daughters.

Peter T. Schiron, Jr., is an Associate General Counsel with Deloitte LLP in New York City, where he provides strategic legal advice and counseling to the organization on a wide range of immigration law and global mobility matters. In this role, he oversees Deloitte's global mobility legal function, and guides leadership and senior management teams in formulating U.S. and global immigration policies and best practices that ensure compliance with immigration laws and promote the success of Deloitte’s business models.

Additionally, Mr. Schiron co-leads Deloitte’s advocacy and legislative agenda in Washington, D.C. for passage of high-skilled immigration legislation and regularly engages with U.S. immigration regulators to promote consistent, predictable and fair interpretation of immigration laws, regulations, rules and policies. Mr. Schiron received his law degree from William and Mary School of Law in Williamsburg, VA, and a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. He is a frequent speaker on topics relating to business immigration and global employment practices.

Becky is responsible for the firm's China practice, supervising a team handling inbound and outbound visas and work permits.

As the leading professional in the increasingly complex area of China immigration, she is experienced in assisting multinational corporations, financial institutions, and other global employers with employment-based immigration and investor visas.

Becky also advises clients on immigration-related compliance, strategies for the transfer of expatriate workforce into China and throughout the country as well as Chinese companies transfer expatriate workforce to other countries. Becky is a regular speaker on immigration-related topics at seminars and conferences throughout China.

Becky has been listed in the International Who’s Who of Corporate Immigration Lawyers from 2011 to 2018. She is the Chairman of Human Resources Committee, Australian Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai.

Becky speaks English, Chinese and Shanghainese.

Justin D. Parsons is a Managing Attorney at Erickson Immigration Group’s office in Arlington, VA. Justin has been practicing immigration law for 15+ years – both in New York City and Washington, D.C. While well versed in non-immigrant visa processing, his current practice focuses on PERM, I-140s, I-485s, and I-9 worksite compliance issues.  He has been quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle and lectured on immigration law topics at George Washington University School of Law, George Mason School of Law, and the City University of New York.  Justin earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Sarah Lawrence College and his Juris Doctor degree from Brooklyn Law School.