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Grace Ueng is founder and CEO of Savvy Growth, a leadership coaching and management consultancy founded in 2003.  Her great passion to help leaders and the companies they run achieve their fullest potential combined with her empathy and ability to help leaders figure out their “why” are what clients value most.  Savvy’s core offerings are one-on-one coaching for CEOs and their leadership teams - aka   the “corporate therapist and best friend at work” as well as conducting strategic reviews for companies at a critical juncture, aka the “secret weapon.”  A TED speaker, Grace teaches workshops: Six Steps to Success: Building a Savvy Personal Brand; The importance of Empathy, Vulnerability and Psychological Safety; and Speaking Success: Creating the Active Asian Voice. Having battled a genetic predisposition toward depression her entire life, Grace is a lifelong student of positive psychology and happiness; she is hired to give keynotes on Happiness and Mental Wellness. Grace held leadership roles at five high growth technology ventures that successfully exited through acquisition or IPO. She started her career at Bain & Company and then worked in brand management at Clorox and General Mills. She is a graduate of MIT and Harvard Business School and holds a positive coaching certification from the Whole Being Institute and is currently continuing her lifelong study of happiness under Tal Ben-Shahar, the creator of Harvard’s most popular course ever. Grace authors a weekly column on Happiness and Leadership. Grace and her partner, Rich Chleboski, a cleantech veteran, develop and implement strategies to support the growth of impact focused companies and then coach their leaders in carrying out their strategic plans. Their expertise spans all phases of the business from evaluation through growth and liquidity. http://savvygrowth.com 

Ludmila N. Praslova, Ph.D. (Industrial/Organizational Psychology) SHRM-SCP is the Director of Research and Professor with Graduate Programs in Industrial/Organizational Psychology at Vanguard University of Southern California. Her recent work is focused on supporting organizations in creating systems for inclusive thriving informed by an understanding of intersectional diversity. In addition to belonging, inclusion, and diversity, her areas of expertise include organizational effectiveness, organizational culture assessment and change, facilitating creativity and innovation, and training and training evaluation. Her peer-reviewed work was published in Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice; Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, and Assessment Update. She is the editor of the upcoming book “Evidence-Based Organizational Practices for Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging and Equity” (Cambridge Scholars). https://www.linkedin.com/in/ludmila-praslova/

Chris Lowney vice chairs the board of CommonSpirit Health, America’s largest nonprofit health system with $29 Billion in revenues and more than 150,000 employees. He is a one-time Jesuit seminarian and later served as a Managing Director of J.P. Morgan & Co on three continents. He is a popular keynote speaker who has lectured in more than two-dozen countries, on leadership, business ethics, decision-making and other topics.   He is the author of six books and has co-authored two more. The bestselling Heroic Leadership has been translated into eleven languages and was named to the recommended reading list of the Commandant of the United States Marine Corps. His A Vanished World relates fascinating stories of Christians, Muslims, and Jews in medieval Spain: Chris was featured in the PBS-aired documentary, “Cities of Light,” which echoed many of that book’s key themes. His other works include Pope Francis: Why He Leads the Way He Leads, which has been called, “a book for the ages.” He won a 2018 Catholic Press Association award for Everyone Leads: How to Revitalize the Catholic Church. His latest work is Make Today Matter: 10 Habits for a Better Life (and World), which won a 2018 Independent Press Award as a “Distinguished Favorite.” The book also won a Gold Medal in the 2019 Illumination Awards. www.chrislowney.com

Brian Underhill, Ph.D., PCC is the Founder and CEO of CoachSource, the world’s largest executive coaching firm, with over 1,100 coaches worldwide. He is also the co-editor of Coach Me! Your Personal Board of Directors, and Mastering Executive Coaching, the author of Executive Coaching for Results: The Definitive Guide to Developing Organizational Leaders, and author of numerous articles, chapters, and blogs in the coaching field. Brian is an internationally sought-after speaker, with presentations on 6 continents, including The Conference Board, International Coaching Federation (international and regional events), European Mentoring and Coaching Council, Asia Pacific Alliance of Coaches, Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Society of Consulting Psychology, World Business and Executive Coach Summit, Organization Development Network, and regional SHRM, ATD and other events. Brian was nominated as a Thinkers50 Leading Global Coach in 2019, is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Div.13 - Society for Consulting Psychology), and holds a Ph.D. and MS in Organizational Psychology. Brian resides in Silicon Valley where he enjoys racquetball, plays music as a worship leader and spends time with his family. www.coachsource.com  

Phyllis Sarkaria is a certified coach, facilitator, and trusted adviser.  She has held executive roles in government affairs and human resources and has had responsibility for functions as diverse as strategic planning, merger integration, and team effectiveness.  She has led multi-million-dollar system implementation and integration initiatives and has worked closely with Commercial and R&D leaders to build capability in their functions and improve individual and organizational outcomes. Phyllis is the author of Courageous Clarity: Navigating the way forward on your leadership journey, the essential guide for leaders who want to inspire, influence, and engage their teams for greater results, Phyllis is also a published scholar on authentic leadership. www.sarkariagroup.com

M Ó N I C A G U Z M Á N is a bridge builder, journalist, and entrepreneur who lives for great conversations sparked by curious questions. She’s director of digital and storytelling at Braver Angels, the nation’s largest cross-partisan grassroots organization working to depolarize America; host of live interview series at Crosscut; and cofounder of the award- winning Seattle newsletter The Evergrey. She was a 2019 fellow at the Henry M. Jackson Foundation, where she studied social and political division, and a 2016 fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, where she researched how journalists can rethink their roles to better meet the needs of a participatory public. She was named one of the 50 most influential women in Seattle, served twice as a juror for the Pulitzer Prizes, and plays a barbarian named Shadrack in her besties’ Dungeons & Dragons campaign. A Mexican immigrant, Latina, and dual US/Mexico citizen, she lives in Seattle with her husband and two kids and is the proud liberal daughter of conservative parents. www.monicaguzman.com   www.braverangels.org

Diana Wu David, formerly an executive with the Financial Times, is a work futurist and CEO/board whisperer. She helps people and organizations understand the future to create inspiring futures that matter. Her clients have included Hashkey Digital Assets, JP Morgan, Credit Suisse, London Stock Exchange, Mandarin Oriental, Wharf, Expedia, the World Bank and KPMG. She also teaches at HKU and Columbia Business School in Asia. She began her career and leadership education as an assistant to Dr. Henry Kissinger. A contributor to Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Inc, Global Focus and Nikkei Asia, she is also author of best-selling Future Proof: Reinventing Work in the Age of Acceleration, a book about how to adopt more agile mindsets and practices to prepare for success in a fast-changing world, across a 100-year life. www.dianawudavid.com

Davin Salvagno is the Founder & CEO of PurposePoint, the Cofounder of The Purpose Summit, and the author of “Finding Purpose at Work." He is an inspirational speaker and thought leader known for connecting purpose, people, and performance. Having spent nearly two decades serving in various leadership roles in finance, human resources, operations, and marketing with Fortune 500 companies, his insights and talks have helped hundreds of organizations across the world engage their purpose and inspire their people. https://www.purposepoint.com https://www.thepurposesummit.com

Becky Robinson is the Founder and CEO of Weaving Influence, a full-service marketing agency that specializes in digital and integrated marketing services and public relations for authors, business leaders, coaches, trainers, speakers, and thought leaders. Since launching nearly a decade ago, the firm has provided a wide range of services to help clients launch more than 150 books, enabling authors to build their brands, acquire more business customers, and increase book sales. Becky’s newest book with Berrett-Koehler Publishers is “Reach: Create the Biggest Possible Audience for Your Message, Book, or Cause,” which shares how to create the biggest possible audience for an idea, book, business, or cause. www.beckyrobinson.com www.weavinginfluence.com

Louis Carter is founder and CEO of Best Practice Institute and author of more than 10 leadership/management books including the recent In Great Company. He was voted as one of Global Gurus Top 10 Organizational Culture thinkers.  He hosts Leader on Newsweek Tuesdays at 12pm on LinkedIn Live and other Newsweek social channels. His newest book is “In Great Company: How to Spark Peak Performance by Creating an Emotionally Connected Workplace” (McGraw Hill)  Louis Carter is known for creating the full system programs in leadership development, starting with his first book with Warren Bennis, Best Practices in Leadership Development, which profiled 12 Fortune 500 organizations and their leadership development programs including Bose, Imasco, Abbott, Colgate-Palmolive, and more.  He is a partner with Newsweek to publish the Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces and runs a separate BPI branded entity to provide benchmarking and data insights to Most Loved Workplace companies. www.louiscarter.com www.mostlovedworkplace.com www.bestpracticeinstitute.org