CaMesha Reece is an HR Consultant and Coach with over 10 years of experience managing a full spectrum of human capital management initiatives and coaching executives. CaMesha earned a Bachelor’s of Art degree from the University of California, Berkeley and continued her education with a Master’s of Art degree in Organizational Management from Antioch University Los Angeles. She utilizes a strengths based, pragmatic, and results oriented approach to help her clients achieve their organizational and individual goals. By day, she is an HCM Strategist and Relationship Manager for a Fortune 500 company responsible for a book of business valued at over $2 million dollars and growing. By night, she is living her passion of helping other professionals love the work they do through Executive and Career Coaching with her Signature Coaching Program, The Elevation Academy.  When she is not working on her own growth or others, she can be found spending time with her family, reading, volunteering, or traveling the world.

Louis R. Lessig, Esquire, SHRM-SCP, SPHR is a Partner at the law firm of Brown & Connery, LLP in Westmont, NJ in their labor and employment group.  He regularly counsels clients, conducts training sessions and represents clients in federal and state court as well as before administrative agencies. Also known as The Employment Law Translator®, Mr. Lessig speaks across the country and regularly writes articles that appear in publications nationwide including XpertHR.  In 2018 he won the Delaware Valley HR Consultant of the Year Award. He is a member of the National Speakers Association (NSA) and a Past President of the Philadelphia chapter.  Mr. Lessig is an active volunteer for The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) as the Northeast Membership Advisory Council (MAC) Representative.

Karl Ahlrichs specializes in helping professionals make order from chaos. He is a national speaker, author, and consultant, presenting on the people issues in all industries, and is often quoted in the local and national media. 

Karl’s experience is ideally suited to times of organizational change as he pulls on risk management and organizational development theories to replace “best practices” with “next practices”. He owes much of his communications mastery to working as a writer and editor in daily media, to on-the-job writing experience and to the process of becoming a published author.

He joined Gregory & Appel in 2010 after serving as a founding partner of ExactHire, bringing his HR, operations, diversity & belonging, and learning & development skills with him. Karl’s affinity for design, composition and learning started at a very young age, by taking and examining thousands of boring pictures with the goal of improving his craft. He loves deploying that practice-to-improve approach with all manner of hobbies including writing haiku, mastering cutting-edge technology and learning Spanish.

In 2003, he was named the SHRM Human Resource Professional of the Year for the State of Indiana. He is on the Boards of several organizations, including the Maryland CPA Society.  He has lived in Scotland and Spain and lives to explore new experiences with his wife and family.

Erica started her career designing and facilitating training for social impact organizations. She quickly realized her calling: arming organizations with the capability needed to evolve. Since joining SHRM four years ago, Erica has held three roles. She began her career at SHRM in Research, then moved onto the founding SHRMLabs team. SHRMLabs explores the intersection of work and technology. Now, Erica oversees the enterprise client experience as the Manager of Solution Architecture.

Erica holds a master’s degree in industrial/Organizational Psychology, with a focus in instructional systems design. She earned her SHRM-SCP and consistently speaks on behalf of SHRM on workplace tech, the future of work, DEIB, and upskilling. Outside of work, you can find Erica tending to her indoor and outdoor garden, and giving her cat, Suki, more attention than she wants.    

CaMesha Reece is an HR Consultant and Coach with over 10 years of experience managing a full spectrum of human capital management initiatives and coaching executives. CaMesha earned a Bachelor’s of Art degree from the University of California, Berkeley and continued her education with a Master’s of Art degree in Organizational Management from Antioch University Los Angeles. She utilizes a strengths based, pragmatic, and results oriented approach to help her clients achieve their organizational and individual goals. By day, she is an HCM Strategist and Relationship Manager for a Fortune 500 company responsible for a book of business valued at over $2 million dollars and growing. By night, she is living her passion of helping other professionals love the work they do through Executive and Career Coaching with her Signature Coaching Program, The Elevation Academy.  When she is not working on her own growth or others, she can be found spending time with her family, reading, volunteering, or traveling the world.

Valerie helps companies improve their bottom line by elevating employees from tactical thinkers to strategic leaders.

She served in senior leadership roles at RollsRoyce Aircraft before helping to found InterActiveCorp, parent company to Expedia, Home Shopping Network and TicketMaster. She then went to work for Oprah Winfrey, helping to found the Oxygen channel which was later sold to NBC Universal.

Valerie obtained her mechanical engineering degree from Kettering University and her MBA from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business. Val’s book, Clash of the Generations: Managing the New Workplace Reality, helps leaders manage multiple generations in the office.

Caron is a Senior HR Expert with over 24 years of diverse experience in all HR management systems. She led a team of 22 professionals in the Telecommunications industry and led the Selection system update with international ICT consultants for its flagship Customer Relationship Management upgrade. Caron and her team provided strategic support to the corporation’s achievement of business critical objectives.

Ms. Greaves successfully created and deployed job enrichment (inclusive of company orientations for all levels of staff) and developmental programmes geared towards enhancing the talent pool of not only company assets but also the youth of Trinidad and Tobago. She has continued her family’s tradition of wealth creation by successful creating and executing her unique business seminar – Innovation is Serious Business, since 2016. Caron is so committed to HR capacity development that she founded the H2H Leadership Forum in 2017 to nurture leadership talent and advocate for diversity awareness as a champion of women’s and management’s right in Trinidad & Tobago.

Caron is a Senior lecturer at one of the premier educational institutions in Trinidad and facilitates Masters Students reading for the HRM and Employee Relations modules of the Edinburgh Business School (EBS) programme. Additionally, Ms. Greaves is the EBS’ virtual tutor for the global online revision course. She attained her Post Graduate Certificate in Higher Education with the University of Greenwich - 2016. 

In 2014, Ms. Greaves realized one of her life’s dreams by opening her HR consulting organisation – Choice HR Limited; which brings a brand of purposeful HR services to Trinidad & Tobago and the region. In August, Ms. Greaves delivered life skills and professionalism to young professionals as a partner of the Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs.

Caron is the MD - Options for Choices, a Laventille based wealth creation NGO dedicated to providing quality education and youth development opportunities within the Laventille community.