Concurrent Session

Jennifer Dulski
Founder & CEO
Rising Team
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Jennifer Dulski has a wide range of executive experience including leadership roles at Facebook, Google, and Yahoo!, and founder, CEO and president roles at early stage and scaling startups.

She is currently CEO and founder of Rising Team, a team performance platform that helps companies increase engagement, strengthen culture, and scale leadership development by equipping managers to lead science-backed, interactive team sessions without an outside facilitator.

She is also a member of the faculty at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and teaches a course called "Managing Growing Enterprises."

She writes about leadership for LinkedIn Influencers, Fortune, and Fast Company, and her first book, Purposeful, was published by Penguin Portfolio in 2018 and is a Wall Street Journal Bestseller.

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Jennifer Dulski
Founder & CEO
Rising Team
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Jennifer Dulski has a wide range of executive experience including leadership roles at Facebook, Google, and Yahoo!, and founder, CEO and president roles at early stage and scaling startups.

She is currently CEO and founder of Rising Team, a team performance platform that helps companies increase engagement, strengthen culture, and scale leadership development by equipping managers to lead science-backed, interactive team sessions without an outside facilitator.

She is also a member of the faculty at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and teaches a course called "Managing Growing Enterprises."

She writes about leadership for LinkedIn Influencers, Fortune, and Fast Company, and her first book, Purposeful, was published by Penguin Portfolio in 2018 and is a Wall Street Journal Bestseller.

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Amy J. Wheelock
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Amy J. Wheelock is Chief of the Verification Division (VER) in the Immigration Records and Identity Services (IRIS) Directorate of USCIS. Ms. Wheelock has led initiatives that improve the agency’s ability to process cases, manage work and prepare for and embrace change by leveraging technology and process efficiencies. At VER, she is optimizing the use of technology in mission execution and applying agile concepts to managing knowledge work. She is focused on enhancing the integrity, accuracy, and efficiency of the E-Verify and SAVE programs while streamlining and improving the digital experience for employers, employees and benefit granting agencies and applicants.

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Jennifer Dulski
Founder & CEO
Rising Team
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Jennifer Dulski has a wide range of executive experience including leadership roles at Facebook, Google, and Yahoo!, and founder, CEO and president roles at early stage and scaling startups.

She is currently CEO and founder of Rising Team, a team performance platform that helps companies increase engagement, strengthen culture, and scale leadership development by equipping managers to lead science-backed, interactive team sessions without an outside facilitator.

She is also a member of the faculty at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and teaches a course called "Managing Growing Enterprises."

She writes about leadership for LinkedIn Influencers, Fortune, and Fast Company, and her first book, Purposeful, was published by Penguin Portfolio in 2018 and is a Wall Street Journal Bestseller.

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Adam Patrick
Sr. Program Lead, Team Member Experience
Chick-fil-A, Inc.
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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. 

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Scott Tillema
Partner
The Negotiations Collective
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Scott is an internationally recognized crisis negotiator, advisor, trainer and keynote speaker. He is known and respected for his experience negotiating in highly charged situations, with high stakes and when the situation requires sensitivity to the human element. Clients, audiences and students alike, find Scott’s teachings, insightful, inspiring and pragmatic.   

Scott worked as a hostage/crisis negotiator with one of the largest regional SWAT teams in the United States for many years before moving into the role of a negotiations speaker and trainer. He has over 20 years of law enforcement experience and retired from a Chicago area police department in 2023 at the rank of Lieutenant. He was trained by in negotiation by the FBI and has studied at the Harvard University Program on Negotiation, at IMD Business School, and he continues to receive training from the world’s top negotiators.  

​Scott is a prolific trainer within the negotiation field and travels the country and around the world speaking to a wide variety of audiences. He has taught negotiations at Harvard University, for the FBI, and has keynoted for companies such as Microsoft and Bosch.  In 2016, he was invited to give a TEDx talk titled “The Secrets of Hostage Negotiators”, which has received over 1 million views.  His visibility as a speaker and educator through TEDx and other venues has reached global status.  
 
Scott currently resides in the Chicago area and is a Partner and co-founder with the Negotiations Collective, where he works with organizations and their leaders on how to have difficult conversations to resolve conflict and increase their influence.    

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Nathan Wigert
Senior Talent Strategy Advisor, Indeed
Indeed
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Nathan blends data with industry trend analysis to share Indeed’s story and bring the value of the company’s programs and solutions to life. In his role, he focuses on crafting holistic, strategic solutions for clients to aid in solving their hiring challenges. With nearly ten years of experience within the HR and Staffing industry, Nathan still looks to challenge himself and learn from others every chance he gets. Prior to entering the private sector, Nathan worked for the Fire Department in Southern California for ten years. Nathan’s experience in public service is evident in his passion to deliver Indeed’s mission to “Help People Get Jobs.”

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Nathan Wigert
Senior Talent Strategy Advisor, Indeed
Indeed
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Nathan blends data with industry trend analysis to share Indeed’s story and bring the value of the company’s programs and solutions to life. In his role, he focuses on crafting holistic, strategic solutions for clients to aid in solving their hiring challenges. With nearly ten years of experience within the HR and Staffing industry, Nathan still looks to challenge himself and learn from others every chance he gets. Prior to entering the private sector, Nathan worked for the Fire Department in Southern California for ten years. Nathan’s experience in public service is evident in his passion to deliver Indeed’s mission to “Help People Get Jobs.”

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David Hudzinski
Senior Manager, Global Product Commercialization - Resume and Candidate Management, Indeed
Indeed
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David Hudzinski is a product strategy and go-to-market leader with a diverse background in technology, commercial, operations, product, and strategy. His core career passion is in helping customers solve problems with technology. At Indeed, David’s focus is on launching and scaling products that Help People Get Jobs. Recently, his team was instrumental to the launch of Indeed Smart Sourcing – Indeed's newest AI-powered sourcing solution – that is geared towards helping customers hire more efficiently and at-scale. 

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Heidi Laki
Senior Product Director, Marketplace Product & UX, Indeed
Indeed
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Heidi Laki is a product leader with a decade of experience with AI and its application across industries. She's passionate and committed to guiding and creating human-centered AI technologies and applications. At Indeed, Heidi focuses on using AI to improve recruiter efficacy with personalized messages, matching algorithms, and enhanced candidate evaluation.

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Tuesday, June 25, 2024 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
Jonathan A. Segal
Partner
Duane Morris, LLP
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Jonathan is a partner at Duane Morris LLP in its Employment Group.  He also is the Founder and managing principal of the Duane Morris Institute, which provides training on employment issues to HR professionals, in-house counsel and other leaders.

The core of Jonathan’s practice is helping employers maximize legal compliance and minimize legal risk with regard to harassment, discrimination, retaliation and reasonable accommodations.
Over the past few years, Jonathan has focused on religion in general and antisemitism in particular. In addition to helping clients, Jonathan has delivered a number of talks on antisemitism on behalf of the EEOC as well as to field directors of the EEOC.
 
Jonathan has provided training to federal judges and other members of the federal judiciary on various employment issues for more than 20 years.

 

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Victoria Lipnic
Lead of Human Capital Strategy Group
Resolution Economics
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Victoria A. Lipnic is a Partner at Resolution Economics. She leads the Company’s Human Capital Strategy Group. The Human Capital Strategy Group combines the Company’s expertise in data analytics and deep knowledge of regulatory requirements with an interdisciplinary approach to advise organizations on the full range of their human capital needs and reporting requirements including recruitment, selection, promotions, DE&I, pay equity, and ESG, especially as to equal employment opportunity and anti-discrimination issues.

Ms. Lipnic joined Resolution Economics in 2021. She has broad experience in the full range of human capital, labor and employment issues, especially from the regulatory enforcement perspective. Prior to joining the Company she served as Commissioner of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) from 2010 to 2020 and Acting Chair from 2017 to 2019. She was appointed to the EEOC by President Barack Obama and confirmed by unanimous consent by the U.S. Senate. At the EEOC she worked on policy, cases, and regulations falling under all of the statutes enforced by the Commission including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Equal Pay Act (EPA), the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA). While at the EEOC she participated in numerous agency regulatory initiatives including the final GINA regulations, the ADA, as amended, regulations, and the revisions to the EEO-1 form to include pay data reporting. She organized the agency’s first public meeting on Big Data in Employment, created its Chief Data Officer position, oversaw development of the Office of Enterprise Data and Analytics and published a significant report on age discrimination. She co-chaired the EEOC’s Select Task Force on the Study of Harassment in the Workplace, and co-authored its seminal report, issued in 2016, before the #MeToo movement. Prior to the EEOC, she practiced law with Seyfarth Shaw.  She also served as Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employment Standards from 2002-2008, appointed by President George W. Bush, where, among other regulatory enforcement agencies, she oversaw the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs and the Wage and Hour Division. In 2021-22 she chaired the Artificial Intelligence – Technical Advisory Committee for the Institute for Workplace Equality.

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Sharon Newport, CAE
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Principal
Sharon Newport LLC
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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.

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Jessica Srikantia Field, Ph.D, PCC, ITCA
Academic Director and Associate Professor of the Practice
Georgetown University
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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. 

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Tuesday, June 25, 2024 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm