Lori Goldberg is the Senior Director, Enterprise Talent Management for Cox Enterprises, a leading communications, media and automotive services company with more than 55,000 employees. 

In this role, Lori is responsible for enterprise-wide talent management strategies, processes and programs that support current business needs as well as future growth objectives across the company. Her scope includes employee engagement, cross-divisional career experiences, performance management, competency management, talent review, succession planning, executive assessment and career planning. She serves as a thought leader across the enterprise working with Cox leaders to drive employee engagement and retention to deliver on long-term growth objectives.

Lori joined Cox in 2012 from Boston Consulting Group where she supported the development of the firm’s intellectual property around talent management and leadership.  Prior to that, she was a Senior Consultant at Personnel Decisions International where she consulted with Fortune 500 companies on talent management, leadership development, executive coaching, workforce and succession planning, and executive assessment.

Lori holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Florida, and a master’s degree and Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the Pennsylvania State University.

James is a rare mix of management consultant, change specialist, adventurer and motivational speaker. James helps turn busy and over-worked managers into inspirational leaders.

Alicia Crittendon has spent 17 years in the public and non-profit sectors before joining SHRM as a Manager in the Certification department. In the certification department, Alicia has managed the day-to-day operations of the certification team and is now responsible for leading the certification engagement team. Prior to joining the SHRM team in September 2015, Alicia worked at the U.S. Department of Justice and CFRE International, the credentialing program for professional non-profit fundraisers. Alicia has a Management degree conferred from The School of Management at George Mason University. When she is not focused on building and growing the SHRM-CP and SHRM-SCP designations, Alicia enjoys reading, taking road trips and pinning on Pinterest. She also spends time volunteering and laughing with her daughter’s Girl Scout Senior Troop. Alicia can be reached via LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/acrittendon07.

When Sheri founded Power Presentations in 1993, she had two goals in mind. The first was to empower business professionals to look and sound dynamic while communicating in any situation. The second was to deliver training that professionals would leave saying, “That was the best training I’ve ever attended. Ever.” Since then, Power Presentations has successfully trained more than 22,000 professionals from a variety of Fortune 500 Companies and industry leaders such as FedEx, Bayer, Goodyear, Marathon Petroleum and NASA.

Sheri is the author of Tips for your Talk® and Master your Virtual Communications: A Webinars that Wow® Training Guide.

Founder of The Brave Initiative, Carol empowers audiences globally, and works with numerous Fortune 500 companies, International Associations, and individual leaders to get their brave on! She is committed to building braver workplaces - where every person brings all they are to all they do.

A dedicated mental health advocate, she’s the creator of the Brave Beyond Diagnosis community, and author of The Brave Healing Journal, a guided journey to find your brave and empower your life, one day at a time.

She’s lived in 16 countries, completed marathons and triathlons, bungee jumped in her birthday suit, and is a serious carpool karaoke-er!

Philip Gordon co-chairs the Privacy and Background Checks Practice Group of Littler Mendelson, the nation’s largest law firm representing only management in employment law matters.  He counsels employers on the full range of workplace privacy issues, including electronic monitoring; social media; “bring-your-own-device” programs; compliance with HIPAA; and security incident preparedness and response. He advises many U.S. multinationals on the application of non-U.S. data protection laws, including the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, on the handling and cross-border transfer of HR data.  Mr. Gordon received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University and his law degree from New York University School of Law.