Senior Advisor, IA

Mary is a talent strategist and business leader with almost 15 years' experience in helping organizations achieve their goals. After working on the Operations side of start-ups and small companies, Mary landed in HR by way of learning and development, with extensive experience in leadership and organizational development, coaching, key talent planning, talent acquisition, performance management, business partnering, HRIS, process and policy creation, and instructional design. In addition to her work within companies, Mary authors a leadership development blog (survivingleadership.blog) to continue the dialogue around the challenges of leadership – both being a leader AND being led. Mary is also the co-chair of the Denver chapter of DisruptHR - a new way to network and think about people and work.

SPHR, SHRM-SCP, Principal Analyst at Lighthouse Research & Advisory

Ben leads the human capital research practice at Lighthouse Research & Advisory, a firm dedicated to uncovering the trends and leading practices to help employers hire, engage, and retain their best talent. His research spans talent acquisition, talent management, learning and development, and other relevant topics. He also hosts the We're Only Human podcast, a show that focuses on the intersection of people and technology in the workplace. HIs book, Artificial Intelligence for HR, is the industry's most in-depth look at how AI will influence HR technology and practices for years to come.

Owner/Chief Innovations Officer, Talent Think Innovations, LLC.

Janine is the Owner/Chief Innovations Officer for Talent Think Innovations, LLC., a business strategy and management consulting firm. Her career spans fourteen years in HR and Talent Acquisition that has taken her through the world of pharmaceuticals, healthcare, staffing and R&D. Janine is a dynamic speaker, entrepreneur, and an important and respected voice bringing both a human touch and business savvy to the companies and businesses she works with.

Vice President, Individual Solutions Strategies, Creative Group Inc.

Paul Hebert is the Vice President, Individual Solutions Strategies at Creative Group Inc and a writer, speaker and consultant. Paul focuses on designing programs and processes that influence behaviors that drive business results. He is dedicated to creating true emotional connections with your channel partners, employees and even consumers, so often overlooked in our automated, tech-enabled world. Through the use of proven motivational theory, behavioral economics and social psychology he has driven extraordinary company performance for his clients. Paul is widely considered an expert on motivation and incentives.

President of Workforce

Charlie Judy is the President of Workforce - a burgeoning survey-based employee analytics platform from QuestionPro. After spending 25 years as a Human Resources Executive with some of the world’s most prominent professional services firms - including Deloitte, Navigant, and Baker Tilly - Charlie took a radical career detour into technology entrepreneurship. He built WorkXO®, the workforce culture management platform that’s helped organizations across the planet measure, analyze, and then activate their cultures. QuestionPro acquired the WorkXO platform in 2018. Since then, Charlie’s team has built the next generation of surveys and analytics that help organizations intentionally manage employee experience (EX).Charlie has traversed the global economy while living and working in Chicago, New Orleans, New York, St. Louis, Brussels, Belgium, and Hyderabad, India. He believes the future of work is not about better HR systems, technologies, or the next shiny object; it's not about any one best practice, secret recipe, or magic formula. Rather, it's about intentionally - yet, simply - engineering our workplace cultures to fuel a more meaningful career experience. He believes technology and the business intelligence it produces - if wielded wisely - can fuel a more connected, engaged, and productive workforce. Charlie is a graduate of Tulane University’s A.B. Freeman School of Business, a CPA, SPHR, and SHRM-SCP. He lives in Chicago with his family of five (dog included).