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< Back To Speakers Kimberly S. Reed Global Diversity, Equality & Inclusion Executive Strategist | Award Winning Speaker Contact For Booking ​ ​ Be KIMpowered! KEYNOTES and POWER SESSIONS are KIMtastic! About Kimberly S. Reed, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion Executive Strategist, Best-Selling Author, Top Rated International Speaker and Corporate Trainer An award winning international speaker, author, corporate trainer and diversity, equality and inclusion executive, nationally recognized thought leader, expert, strategist and advisor to some of the world’s most influential organizations in global professional services, health care, financial services, consumer products and pharmaceutical industries. A seasoned leader in transforming organizations into high-performing enterprises and challenging leaders to live without limits, with more than 25 years’ of HR, talent acquisition and diversity & inclusion experience, successfully turning around troubled diversity practices by designing, building, leading and shaping high-performing cultures at global organizations with robust strategies, global employee development programs and enterprise-wide initiatives that have increased revenue growth and organizational brand eminence. Optimists Always Win! – Moving from Defeat to Life’s C-Suite, Kimberly’s highly anticipated book released on January 15, 2021 (Simon Schuster/HCI Communications) was on a best seller list in its first week. All book proceeds are being donated to two cancer charities. Kimberly’s infectious energy, lioness tone and inspiring sincerity engages audiences on topics, including: Innovation and evolution of diversity, equality, and inclusion Optimists Always Win! Defining Your Life’s C-Suite Unlocking Your Y.E.S. (You Empower Self) Factor The Power of Your Rearview Mirror Personal, professional and leadership development Entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship

< Back To Speakers Lauren Zajac Chief Legal Officer at Workhuman | Lawyer Contact For Booking ​ ​ As vice president, general counsel and data protection officer, Lauren oversees all legal, regulatory, and compliance affairs for Workhuman. With more than 15 years of experience, she has served as legal counsel for a broad mix of high-growth public and private companies. Prior to Workhuman, Lauren was vice president of corporate affairs and general counsel at Metatomix, Inc., a leading provider of semantic solutions that was acquired by Versata Enterprises in 2010. Previously, she held the role of vice president, general counsel at Riverdeep, an Irish-based, public educational software company. Lauren also served as senior counsel for Allaire Corporation, Macromedia, Inc., and counsel for Object Design, Inc. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Boston College and a Juris Doctorate from Hofstra University School of Law.

< Back To Speakers Eugene Gold Entrepreneur | Speaker | Author Contact For Booking Excuses Don’t Pay the Bills. No Investments, No Handouts, No Sponsorship, 100% Hustle. Growing up in poverty and immigrating to the U.S. at a young age, I always believed in the American Dream. Go to school, study, get good grades and you will have a shot. I studied just like many and graduated from High School in only 3 years. I got my Bachelor’s degree in Management in under 2 years and my MBA in 6 months. After all these accomplishments, my job/promotion was given to boss’s nephew. The American Dream is broken. Degrees do not guarantee success in life. Homes are no longer assets and your professional and financial future is no longer in your hands. I left my W-2 lifestyle and decided to take my personal, financial and professional future into my own hands. I always used rejection to grow and applied this philosophy in entrepreneurship. As a result, I was able to grow my company by 4400% in 3 years; ranking us #64 of the fastest growing companies on the prestigious INC5000 List. We hit the list again the following year and grew by another 200%. Furthermore, the hard work and dedication of my team has led us to become three-time recipients of the Entrepreneur 360 Award. This achievement was recognized during the 2019 NBA All-Star Weekend for business success and excellence.

< Back To Speakers Thomas Gordon Speaker | Strategist | Diversity Consultant | Transformational Leader Contact For Booking ​ ​ Tom, Founder of TAGA and has 35+ years of executive, enterprise, and systems performance IS experience in leadership development, change strategy, conflict resolution, communications, cultural competencies, team-building, and organizational dynamics. Tom has extensive consultation experience in aerospace and defense, banking, construction, education, energy, entrepreneurial, healthcare and biomedical, legal, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, retail consumer goods, and telecommunications domains as well as the public sector. In addition to executive coaching, he has advised on large-scale change initiatives –including designing and implementing strategic diversity initiatives, synergy assessments, team-building, competency modeling, leadership presentations, seminars, and retreats.

< Back To Speakers Lola! Love Author | Motivational Speaker | President and CEO of LHB Consulting & Coaching Contact For Booking ​ ​ Lola! Love is an author, life coach, and practitioner. As a high-energy life coach and practitioner, Lola! 's clients know that you must feel better for you to do better, and feeling better is all about vibrating with high energy and then going after everything you want. Love is a Bronx-born, Los Angeles based certified Law of Attraction Life Coach, Speech Coach, Reiki Master, and Entertainment Consultant. A former dancer with Mr. James Brown has toured the world as his star dancer and as an ambassador of goodwill and the arts representing the United States of America. Lola! went on to become a very successful Hollywood talent manager where she managed many young up-and-coming talents that you see on television and in movie theaters today. Lola! Love's background and expertise include working for the New York City Board of Education as a speech pathologist. Lola! Served as Vice President of the Talent Managers Association, Hollywood's largest and most respected Entertainment Managers organization. Now Lola! has the recognition and respect of her peers to be an honorary member because she served the organization and community of talent with excellence and integrity. Lola! Love is a Distinguished Toastmaster and is called upon to speak, facilitate and lead workshops throughout her district in Los Angeles, CA, and present to clubs worldwide. Lola! 's coaching clients come from all aspects of life. It doesn't matter if you are a mother who desires to communicate better with her children or her spouse, a business owner, a lawyer who aspires better presentation skills, or a young actor who wants to book an acting job. Lola! teaches them all the secrets of self-love. Once you understand who you are, what you believe, and how you perceive the world, then she says, decide what you want, why you want it, and how you will feel when you get it, then you can have everything that you want.

< Back To Speakers DeeDee Trotter Keynote Speaker | Olympic Champion | Chef Contact For Booking I CAN . I MUST . I WILL ! ​ DeeDee’s 13 years as a professional track and field athlete has given her a tremendous story. In 2008 a devastating knee injury should have ended her career. While this injury knocked her from the very top to the bottom, Deedee learned how to transform failure, loss, fear, and doubt into power and use it to create a winning formula that allowed her to reach her greatest success, not only in sports, but in life! It’s a journey of perseverance, determination, overcoming obstacles and a profound perspective on winning and what it really means to be a champion. DeeDee has traveled to over 20 countries spreading her motivational message at over 500 events worldwide. It’s a story of a comeback and a true Champion that audiences can't get enough of! Keynote Topics I Can. I Must. I Will!™️ DeeDee’s most requested motivational message. In this high energy presentation, DeeDee teaches how to transform pressure into positive power, and how to utilize other internal forces that we all have access to in order to transform our lives, businesses and relationships. Unleash Your Inner Champion Truly ignites a fire within every person in the room as they share in DeeDee’s Olympic story. This message will open the audiences’ hearts & minds and enable them to understand the true meaning of the word “champion”. Teamwork Makes the Dream Work This message encourages teams to work as a unit and focus on a common goal.

< Back To Speakers Joyel Crawford S P E A K E R , A U T H O R , C O N S U L T A N T Contact For Booking ​ ​ Joyel Crawford, MBA, CPCC, PHR is a Certified Professional Career Coach, Certified Virtual Presenter and Leadership Development Consultant at Crawford Leadership Strategies with over 20 years of experience in Human Resources and career management. Crawford Leadership Strategies provides Leadership consulting, Keynotes and Hybrid Solutions to provide your organization with the tools, knowledge and skills to RISE and thrive in the global workplace. Crawford is the host of a podcast called Career View Mirror®. She's also the author of Amazon Bestseller- "Show Your Ask: Using Your Voice to Advocate for Yourself and Your Career. SPEAKING TOPICS Out of Sight but Not Out of Mind: How to Increase Your Visibility While Working Remotely RISE:4 Steps to Creating Your Personal Brand Speak UP: Effective Negotiation Skills to Raise Your Voice and Your Value Oops I Did It Again! How to RISE and Reframe Your Life With Resilience How to Be A Goal Digger: Goal Setting Action Planning Breaking Balance: How to improve Work/LifeHarmony

< Back To Speakers Irfan Khan Innovator | Angel Investor and Board Member | CEO and President of CLOUDSUFI | Author Contact For Booking Accept no limits, embrace alternative thinking. Every business has its own needs, requirements, and routines. There is no such thing as one-size-fits-all. Irfan Khan has more than twenty years of leadership experience in large- and medium- sized organizations. In 2014 Irfan was named president and chief executive officer of Bristlecome, a United States based start-up that provides supply chain consulting and implementation services on the systems, applications, and products (SAP) platform. During his tenure he has engineered partnerships with MIT and guided Bristlecome to create high performance ecosystems and foster innovation via Bristlecome Labs and has successfully led organizational changes and process improvements in markets across the Americans, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. A Microsoft alum sought after guest speaker, and recognized thought leader, Irfan’s insights on technology and the future of business have been featured in Forbes, the Huffington Post, and Inc. Magazine. He has successfully led organizational changes and process improvement in market across multiple continents.

< Back To Speakers Dr. Argie Allen-Wilson CEO | Speaker | Executive Coach and Relationship Transformationalist | Author Contact For Booking You can overcome any situation that enters your life with the right mental tools. If we are courageous enough to have the conversation, the outcome leads to us connecting with ourselves and the people who matter to us most. Dr. Argie Allen-Wilson recently published her first book “Courageous Conversations Connect” (A Pathway To Reset Your Mindset With Intentional Thoughts From The Inside Out). Dr. Allen-Wilson is a national television and radio personality, you may have seen her on some of the “Today Show” major segments, and she is a frequent guest in the fourth hour with Hoda and Jenna Bush of The Today Show, Mel Robins Show, Tamron Hall Show, MSNBC, CNN, Radio One The Tom Joyner Morning Show with Jacque Reid, iHeartRadio WDAS Patty Jackson “Rewind-Real Relationship Talk” Segment every Sunday morning, Radio One WRNB 100.3 “Philly Speaks” with Senator Vincent Hughes, Good Day Philadelphia on Fox29 News and in 2015 Dr. Argie received an (Emmy Nomination Mid-Atlantic) to add to her achievements for her expertise in a Fox 29 News segment called “All Teched Out” by Special News Reporter, Joyce Evans. In 2017, Dr. Argie was recommended and appointed by PA State Senator Vincent Hughes and PA State Democratic Leader, Jay Costa to the Advisory Committee on College Suicide Prevention. More recently, Dr. Allen-Wilson host a daily engagement on the Facebook, YouTube and Instagram platforms called “Courageous Conversations Connect Space” (Quarantine Talks) where she facilitates a live non-clinical discussion on and all things surrounding mental health and relationship issues as it relates to the COVID19 pandemic.

< Back To Speakers Dr. Britta M. Wilson-Uter Chief Engagement Strategist & Former Pixar Executive | Champion of Authentic Narratives & Inclusive Cultures | Author & Speaker Contact For Booking ​ ​ Storytelling connects us. In the world of storytelling with thoughtful representation and engaged workplace cultures, Dr. Britta M. Wilson-Uter emerges as a pivotal figure. She inspires leaders to forge organizations that emphasize genuine authenticity and active engagement, both in their internal and external communication strategies. As a former Vice President of Inclusion & Outreach at the renowned Pixar Animation Studios, Britta's legacy lies in amplifying diverse voices to craft universal narratives that resonate deeply and authentically with audiences. Most recently, Britta served as the Vice President, Inclusion & Outreach at the renowned Pixar Animation Studios, where her work was rooted in enabling a workplace and leaders who were committed to belonging and amplifying untapped voices to craft universal narratives that resonate deeply and authentically with audiences. Britta's business and organizational insights traverse a vast landscape, ranging from efficacious leadership, inclusive narratives and social responsibility against the backdrop of the shifting terrain of employee expectations and audience’s content consumption. These have been spotlighted in notable media outlets, including Bloomberg, CNBC, The Washington Post, CNN, and MSNBC. In addition to her deep and diverse organizational exposures, Britta offers well-rounded and tactical blueprints rooted in her academic anchors that include a Doctorate, Education and an Executive MBA from Pepperdine University, complemented by a BA in Sociology from UCLA. Speaking Topics: • Building Inclusive Culture in The Workplace • Planet Sh*t Hole: How to Address and Work through Grief • Helping Employees Tackle Grief • Why Corporate Social Responsibility and Creating Cultures of Belonging is the Next Frontier of DEI • Overcoming biases in talent acquisition and retention

< Back To Speakers Dr. William Watson ​ Contact For Booking ​ ​ Dr. William Watson first learned democracy watching his Mississippi parents risk their lives (and his) in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. Defying odds set by poverty and alcoholism, Watson earned a social justice focused doctorate from San Francisco State University and completed a Presidential Fellowship for College Excellence with The Aspen Institute’s partnership with Stanford University. After prototyping equity innovations in higher education for over twenty years, he founded Waterbrook, LLC, (williamwatson.org) a USA democracy project that works for peace and prosperity through justice then liberty for all, inspired by MLK's Beloved Community. He is the author of Twelve Steps for White America and three companion workbooks: #12SWA for Individuals & Bookclubs; #12SWA for Higher Education; and #12SWA for Companies & Non-Profits. Keynote Topics/Titles Twelve Steps for White America (Recovery Principles for a Nation) It says “White People” on the Cover: Who is White? What is White? Rigged Advantage: Older Than The USA Repentance, Atonement, Renewal: Sounds So Preachy Unshackle the Past; Strengthen U.S. Security and Global Competitiveness; Make Way for All – Our Best Days to Come Intro to Contextualized Family History: 2 – hour Practice Workshop Compassion and Respect: Let Love Linger

< Back To Speakers Shannon Cassidy Executive Coaching | Facilitation | Keynote Speaking | Mentoring Programs Contact For Booking ​ ​ Shannon Cassidy is a certified corporate Executive Coach and a renowned authority on behavioral modification and communication. The incremental tweaks and adjustments she recommends are as easily and instantly executable, as they are effective. Cassidy is the author of The 5 Degree Principal: How Small Changes Lead to Big Results, Grounded in Gratitude, and V.I.B.E.: Who You Are Impacts How You Lead, as well as the host of the podcast, R.O.G. Return on Generosity. Speaking Topics: • Generous Leadership • Allyship at Work • V.I.B.E.: Authentic Leadership • The 5 Degree Principle: How Small Changes Lead to Big Results Instagram: @bridgebetweeninc Twitter: @shannoncassidy LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/shannoncassidybb