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Emily Gregory
Coauthor
Crucial Learning
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Emily Gregory’s gift is to create for her audience a moment of self-discovery that leads to change.
Clients praise Emily for her nuanced mix of vitality and credibility. Emily’s depth of experience, academic background, and rigorous intellectual reasoning that provides the solid foundation for her message.
For 15 years, Emily led Crucial Learning teams including Product Development, Training and Consulting, Delivery Operations, and Sales.
Emily is also the coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High and travels the world speaking and presenting on the crucial skills for improving results and relationships.
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Karlyn Borysenko
Principal
Zen Workplace
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Karlyn Borysenko, PhD is the force behind Zen Workplace. An organizational psychologist and executive/performance coach, she is a leader in integrating mindfulness strategies at work to increase productivity and creativity, reduce stress, and create better work experiences. Her practice is based in the greater Boston area and serves clients all over the world. She holds an MBA and a PhD in Psychology, is an experienced trainer and facilitator, coach, and award-winning speaker. She is the author of Zen Your Work: Create your ideal work experience through mindful self-mastery.
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Gerry Valentine
Founder
Vision Executive Coaching
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Gerry Valentine inspires people to build resilience—to overcome setbacks, to look at challenges in new ways, and to understand that adversity can become a source of resilience. Gerry’s a public speaker, executive coach, and business advisor with more than 25 years of Fortune 100 leadership experience. As the founder of Vision Executive Coaching, he is a trusted advisor to corporate executives, entrepreneurs, and entire companies.
Gerry is a TEDx speaker, is a contributor to Forbes.com, and has taught executive leadership at Colorado State University. Gerry earned a BS from Cornell University and an MBA from New York University.
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Audra Jenkins, SHRM-SCP
chief diversity and inclusion officer
Randstad US
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As chief diversity and inclusion officer, Audra is responsible for working with Randstad’s U.S. operating companies to further diversity strategies both internally and externally. With more than 20 years of human resources, diversity and compliance experience, Audra provides clients across the organization with guidance for effective strategies in diversity, inclusion, veterans and compliance. Audra also helps run Randstad’s Hire Hope program to provide career readiness training and job placement services to underserved and at-risk women, including survivors of exploitation and trafficking. Audra holds a Master’s in Business Administration with a Human Resources concentration, and a Bachelor’s in Finance, from the University of North Carolina. A member of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM); she is also a Certified Diversity Professional (CDP), a certified Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR), a SHRM Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP) and a Six Sigma Green Belt. Audra is known for her speaking engagements at diversity conferences and has published white papers in her area of expertise.
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Michael Lyons
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Michael Lyons is a professional member of the National Speakers Association, and an author, actor, and former business executive for 40+ years in the hospitality industry.
Mike delivers talks in the U.S. and abroad on numerous topics, with a focus on leadership development and personal branding. His book “Set Yourself Free: Daydream it… Believe it… Achieve it!” was released in 2017 to widespread acclaim.
A professional actor since 1990, Mike has dozens of credits in major films, TV shows, and commercials including speaking parts in “The Sixth Sense”, “All My Children”, “Veep”, “What Would You Do”, “Outsiders” and “House of Cards”, among others.
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Claire Shipman
Senior National Correspondent, Good Morning America
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Claire Shipman is the co-author of two New York Times bestsellers: The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance—and What Women Should Know (April, 2014), an informative and practical guide to understanding the importance of confidence—and learning how to achieve it—for women of all ages and at all stages of their career and Womenomics: Write Your Own Rules for Success (2009) which addresses how today's women's management style is ideally suited for the 21st century business world as it produces more profitable companies with happier employees.
She wrote the books with her colleague Katty Kay of the BBC. Their groundbreaking take on women and work has kept Shipman in high demand everyplace from corporations and law firms, to women's forums and girls' schools.
Shipman has also hosted many panel programs at the White House, the state department, and around the world on women's issues.
Before turning to writing, Shipman was a regular fixture on network television, most recently a appearing on Good Morning America and other national broadcasts for ABC News. She joined the morning broadcast in May of 2001, based in the network’s Washington, D.C., bureau. Shipman regularly interviewed influential newsmakers for the network. Over the years she has conducted in-depth interviews with Presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Vice Presidents Dick Cheney and Al Gore, Queen Rania of Jordan, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and numerous others.
Prior to joining ABC News in 2001, Shipman served as White House correspondent for NBC News where she regularly reported on presidential policy and politics for NBC Nightly News and TODAY.
Before moving to NBC News, Shipman worked at CNN for a decade. During that time she gained widespread recognition for her White House press coverage. Shipman also spent five years at CNN's Moscow bureau, where she won international praise for her coverage of Boris Yeltsin's 1993 assault on the Russian Parliament building.
Shipman's Moscow reporting helped CNN earn a National Headliners Award and her coverage of the aborted Soviet coup and 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union won the network a coveted Peabody Award. She also received a Dupont Award and an Emmy as one of the key contributors to CNN's coverage of the 1989 Tiananmen Square student uprising, as well as a Dupont Award for CNN's coverage of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
She lives in Washington, DC with her husband, Jay Carney, who served as White House Press Secretary for the Obama Administration (2011-2014) and their children.