Laura Maffucci is G-P’s Head of HR, and she leads the company’s global workforce, talent, and employee experience. She operates from a people-first mindset and strongly believes that diversity of thought is paramount for a healthy workspace. 

Laura previously held leadership positions in the Global Total Rewards team at G-P, from Sr. Director to VP. Before this, she led Total Rewards & HRIS at Progress, a tech company focused on products to develop, deploy and manage high-impact applications. Prior to Progress, she held roles of increasing responsibility with Ocean Spray Cranberries, where she was awarded HR Award for Innovation and Creativity (2016). Her tenure at Ocean Spray Cranberries was preceded by roles with an emphasis on compensation and HR practices.

In her 20+ year career in HR, Maffucci has spoken on global and national platforms about compensation, employee well-being and mental health. She’s a staunch advocate for the employee experience and creating a culture of inclusivity. Laura is passionate about the future of work, normalizing the value of work everywhere, and enabling employees across the globe to be their best selves and add value wherever they go and whatever they do.
Maffucci resides in Boston, MA with her family.
 

Lindsay is a human resources (HR) professional who is passionate about all things data, people, and culture. She holds the Certified Human Resources Professional (CHRP) designation and currently works as the Director of People and Culture at Cardata where she has helped to build out the HR function from the ground up, working with executive leaders across the organization to shape compensation, recruitment, performance, and development programming. Throughout her experiences, she has helped leverage the vast amount of data available to inform and shape people programs and practices. She loves helping others learn, and currently holds teaching roles at both George Brown and York University in their continuing education department. 

Kenny Latimer is the Director of Product Marketing at BambooHR where he leads go-to-market strategies, product messaging, and audience insights. Before BambooHR, Kenny held senior brand management and marketing positions at Melaleuca and NuSkin where he introduced home care and wellness products into domestic and international markets. He later joined a market research company, SSI, where he launched their first self-serve research and data tools. Now at BambooHR, Kenny and his team have launched countless HR-related tools to the market, including payroll, ben admin, time tracking, and employee experience surveys. He has spent the last 6 years deepening his understanding of HR and the people-related challenges faced by business leaders in a modern workforce. He is passionate about helping HR showcase its value to an organization and building great places to work.

Jessica Srikantia Field, Ph.D., PCC, ITCA, is Academic Director and Associate Professor of the Practice at Georgetown University's Institute for Transformational Leadership.  Jessica has engaged in global solidarity work with extraordinary leaders and communities facing extreme conditions and structural violence.  She is passionate about supporting people, teams and organizations to elevate and thrive through the currently unfolding shifts in consciousness and systems.  Jessica's gifts include sensing into the emerging future, purpose-led transformation and alignment, collective trauma healing, and liberating the creative, synergistic potential in conflict.  Her modalities range from organization development and coaching to energetics, and she is a trained coach supervisor and a professionally certified individual and team coach.  A Rhodes Scholar, Jessica earned an A.B. in History & Literature from Harvard University, a BA in Philosophy & Psychology from Oxford University, and a Ph.D. jointly in Psychology and in History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science from the University of Chicago. 

Sharon Newport is an organizational consultant, facilitator, speaker, and executive coach with clients in the nonprofit and for-profit sectors across the globe. Sharon also serves as adjunct faculty at Georgetown University's Institute of Transformational Leadership. Sharon spent over a decade as an association and nonprofit executive, successfully leading wide-scale strategic, operational, and cultural change, and her early career, she was a documentary television/film producer and actor. Sharon has earned the Certified Association Executive designation from American Society of Association Executives (ASAE), a certification in the Key Polarity Indicator™, a credential in the Foundations of Somatic Abolitionism, a certificate in the Neuroscience of Change, an Executive Certificate from Georgetown University in Organizational Consulting and Change Leadership, and her B.F.A. from the State University of New York, Purchase College, graduating Magna Cum Laude. Sharon was awarded a Leader of Distinction by digitalNow and is a proud ASAE Diversity Executive Leadership Program alumnus.

Terese Fogleman began her journey with Chick-fil-A and the Cathy family, owners of Chick-fil-A Inc. as a teenager working at their Girl's outdoor camp at Berry College. What followed was a long journey to becoming a franchisee owner in her 40's. Along the way, Terese developed her own business called Renaissance Design which specialized in Interior Design Consulting, Home Organization and Home Staging. She ran this business for 5 years. Her association with Chick-fil-A continued throughout her 15 years living in Atlanta. During that time she assisted with opening new stores, worked with Chick-fil-A Corporate Marketing at events such as the Peach Bowl, became certified as a Restaurant Marketing Director and helped with the daily Operations in a busy Chick-fil-A restaurant in Marietta, Georgia.  

In 2004, she and her family relocated to the beautiful Appalachian Mountains to open a franchise in Boone, North Carolina. In that franchisee, Terese served in a number of roles including Marketing Director, Catering Director and General Manager. She officially became the franchise owner in 2012. 

Terese has a passion for helping people grow and providing a fair, respectful and enjoyable workplace for all her Team members. In her pursuit of that passion, she became a member of SHRM in 2012. She has used their online resources for years then several years ago began attending annual conferences. She pursued the SHRM-SCP certification in 2023 and passed her exam the first time! She is now the proud recipient of that certification. In her free time, Terese enjoys spending time with her husband, Scott and their puppy, Cam. She also enjoys creating new recipes, cooking and feeding her family and friends.  

With a Chick-fil-A journey spanning 12 years, Adam has grown from a frontline Team Member to now working on staff at Chick-fil-A, Inc. Currently, Adam's focus is on providing optional resources to franchisees and their dedicated talent leaders through resources like SHRM and a first-ever talent conference for franchisees.

Outside of his career, Adam's most important role comes as a husband and father, embracing outdoor adventures with two amazing kids. Together, Adam and his wife are on a quest to run a race in all 50 states and visit every MLB stadium, all while drinking amazing coffee. 

DeRetta Rhodes, Ph.D. is the Executive Vice President & Chief Culture Officer of the Atlanta Braves, overseeing people capital initiatives, communications, community affairs, The Battery Atlanta, and Spring Training facility operations. 
 
Prior to joining the Braves, Rhodes was the Executive Vice President/Chief Human Resources Officer of the YMCA of Metro Atlanta and held leadership positions at First Data, Turner Broadcasting, EY and ADP to name a few. 
 
Rhodes received her undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia, her master's in business administration from Clark Atlanta University, and her Ph.D. in adult education from the University of Georgia.