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Mo Fathelbab is founder and president of International Facilitators Organization, which provides training, certification, marketing services, education, and community for peer group facilitators and group facilitation services to businesses, organizations, and associations. Additionally, he is the founder and president of Forum Resources Network, LLC, a leading peer-to-peer learning and facilitation provider, and co-founder of Harvard Business School Alumni Forums. Mo is the author of two best-selling books, Forum: The Secret Advantage of Successful Leaders and The Friendship Advantage – 7 Keys to Building Relationships that Transform Culture and Drive Productivity. 

For nearly three decades, Mo has been at the forefront of creating and advocating peer groups and building communities. He has worked with over 20,000 CEOs and entrepreneurs in 30+ countries, delivering over 2,500 retreats, programs, and trainings to corporate clients and leading organizations, including Google, Pathstone Federal Street, Harvard Business School, SHRM, and Young Presidents’ Organization. 

In addition to being a highly sought-after forum facilitator and consultant to corporate leadership teams, Mo is a very engaging keynote speaker and emcee. He has delivered keynote addresses to large audiences, including TEDx, Conscious Capitalism, Scale Up, SOSi, and SHRM. 

Mo previously served as executive director of Entrepreneurs’ Organization (1991-1997), where he launched hundreds of CEO peer groups and grew the organization from 100 to 2,000 global members. 

Personally, Mo is dedicated to health and fitness. He loves skiing, sailing, yoga, and stand-up paddle boarding. He has completed three marathons, an Ironman, and, in 2018, placed first in USA Yoga’s Midwest regional championships for men over 50. Mo serves on the boards of Young Presidents’ Organization Washington and Baltimore Gold Chapter and Beyond CEO Coaching. Mo lives in Alexandria, VA with his much better half, Sally, and their son, Eli. 

Brian Peckrill is executive director of the William G. McGowan Charitable Fund, leading all operations of the Fund. He previously served as the fellows program director, where he was responsible for the design and implementation of this forward-thinking, ethics-focused experience for top MBA students, as well as fostering an active and engaged alumni community of young business leaders as they embark on and manage their careers.

Prior to joining the McGowan Fund, Brian served as vice president of WorldChicago, a Chicago-based nonprofit organization focused on engaging the world in person-to-person exchange-based, capacity building projects. There he gained extensive experience developing leadership programming programs across the globe, from Chicago to Ukraine, North Macedonia, and Japan.

He has a bachelor’s degree in English from Wheaton College, as well as an MPA from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.

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.

Laura Marzi is responsible for all external marketing, brand positioning, campaign management and internal communications supporting Group Benefits at The Hartford. Laura’s teams provide specialized marketing consultation to drive premium growth in core life and disability, as well as voluntary, absence management and association and affinity relationships. Prior to her role at The Hartford, Laura was responsible for wealth management marketing and communications at The Phoenix Companies, including targeted strategies to reach the high-net-worth demographic.  Laura has also held strategic positions in government relations and communications supporting United Technologies and MassMutual. She began her career in environmental advocacy, serving The League of Conservation Voters in Washington, DC as a grassroots public policy communicator and speech writer for the Clinton/Gore NH primary campaign team.

Laura earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Journalism from The University of New Hampshire and a Master of Arts degree in Communications from The University of Hartford. She currently serves on the board of Hartford Promise, a non-profit focused on providing college scholarships to academically motivated students from Hartford, Conn.

Virginia "Ginny" Clarke is a world-renowned conscious leadership expert, sought-after speaker, author, instructor and advisor who helps individuals and organizations based on conscious choices and personal accountability. 

She has over 30 years of experience in executive recruiting, talent management and commercial real estate. She has held leadership roles at Google and Spencer Stuart where she recruited senior leaders across sectors and functions, and specialized in diversity and internal mobility.

Ginny's focus on personal accountability and self-awareness empowers people to become radically accountable, creating a space for healthy, authentic leadership that inspires and transforms individuals and organizations.

Her approach to leadership is rooted in the Five Dimensions Of Conscious Leadership, which encourages leaders to deepen their self-awareness, speak their truth, inspire love,  expand their consciousness and activate their mastery.

Ginny is the author of Career Mapping: Charting Your Course in the New World of Work and hosts the Fifth Dimensional Leadership podcast. She holds an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and a BA in French and Linguistics from the University of California at Davis. Ginny is the single mother of an adult son, Julian, who works in the entertainment industry.

Diane is PwC’s US HR Transformation Leader, helping organizations modernize their HR function to support changing business and workforce needs and expectations. With tenacious curiosity, Diane welcomes the opportunity to explore the art of the possible with organizations to shape HR’s contributions to culture, careers, collaboration, and community. Working across multiple industry segments, she is passionate about helping organizations rethink and reimage HR’s role through new services and modern technologies, inspiring new ways to engage and deliver services to leaders, managers, and employees.      

With over 30 years of consulting, Diane has been a speaker at numerous conferences and internal corporate leadership events. Prior to her role as PwC’s US HR Transformation Leader, Diane was the PwC Global Workday Leader, growing the business organically from inception and driving PwC’s Global professional services business in delivering Workday services. She was also the Diversity & Inclusion Leader for our Industrial Products and Services market segment.      

A math and computer sciences graduate of the University of Texas - Arlington, Diane is a past board member of the YWCA, Dallas helping low-income women achieve stability and higher levels of self-sufficiency. She is also a volleyball and tennis mother, supporting her family’s multiple interests. Diane married a Texas native and now lives in Dallas with her husband, Robert, and son.

Jathan Janove, a former state bar Employment Lawyer of the Year and now Executive Coach and Organization Development consultant, writes SHRM’s “Putting Humanity into HR Compliance” column, and is a Master Coach and Practice Leader with the Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coaching organization, including writing its Ask the Coach column. He’s the author, most recently, of “Hard-Won Wisdom: True Stories From The Management Trenches” (HarperCollins 2017). He’s currently working on his next book, “From Compliance Cop to Culture Coach: Transforming the HR Profession.”

"Ben Erdel is the General Manager of ID Watchdog, an identity theft protection service under Equifax, dedicated to employee benefits. In his role, Ben oversees business strategy, product development, market insights, and go-to-market activities. His diverse experience across various functions and industries equips him to lead the organization in executing and innovating at the fast pace required by the ever-evolving cyber protection landscape.
Ben is deeply committed to safeguarding employees from identity fraud and guiding them through the intricate resolution process. Additionally, he is passionate about offering employers unique insights, enabling them to make more informed decisions about their benefit packages."

Kari Naimon, founder of AixHR, brings over two decades of Human Resources expertise. The advent of artificial intelligence transformed her career, turning personal fascination into a mission to help others harness AI's power.

Kari and her team create transformative experiences, sparking those pivotal “AHA” moments that unlock AI’s potential in their work. Kari's journey reflects her unwavering dedication to innovation and her commitment to empowering HR professionals to effectively integrate AI into their practices, thereby 'elevating, not eliminating' HR professionals worldwide.