Julia is a trusted partner to Fortune 500 C-suite leaders focused on driving people strategies that promote performance excellence through innovative HR strategies, talent development, and inclusive workplace environments. She is known for seamlessly integrating business strategies with cultural transformations to build the high-performing workplaces of tomorrow.

She has been a key figure in building operations and cultures from the ground up along with revitalizing faltering business models by leveraging a dynamic and strategic approach to drive positive change and achieve sustainable success for the teams and organizations she serves.

Starting her career in consulting, Julia led global projects working as the second employee at a boutique start up as well as at Gartner and PwC Consulting before joining IBM Consulting. Julia’s consulting clients include The New York Times, Verizon, Marriott, and General Motors. She has deep experience with HR technology and has led global teams through growth, transformation, and new ways of working.

Her expertise centers on customer insight, relationship building, and delivering business results. She has led over 30 M&A deals, managing everything from due diligence to establishing the growth ramps and talent integration.

At Kyndryl, Julia was Chief Talent Officer for 88,000 employees across 63 countries, where she designed and delivered best in class programs. Her efforts contributed to Kyndryl’s recognition as one of Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces for four consecutive years.

Currently, Julia is Vice President at IBM working in Software where she leads the HR integration for Confluent, IBM’s second largest acquisition for $11B in 2025. She is active in HR and business networks, supporting the future of work and AI-driven innovation. Julia lives near NYC with her family and is involved in philanthropy in support of education and healthcare.

Pascale Thomas is Managing Director and Head of Employee Benefits & Wellbeing at BNY, one of the world’s most influential financial institutions, trusted globally for safeguarding more than $47 trillion in assets under custody and administration. In this role, she leads enterprise-wide benefits and wellbeing strategy, shaping programs that support a high-performance culture across a global workforce and advancing BNY’s commitment to employee experience, resilience, and long-term wellbeing.

Pascale’s career spans more than 25 years across some of the world’s most iconic and industry-defining brands. She previously served as Vice President of Enterprise Employee Benefits & Wellbeing at The Walt Disney Company, where she led global benefits for 230,000 employees across 50+ countries. Her leadership drove major cultural transformation and award-winning innovations recognized by PLANSPONSOR, Pensions & Investments, and the Business Group on Health. Her earlier executive roles include senior benefits and total rewards leadership at Thermo Fisher Scientific, Newell Brands, Hearst Corporation, Becton Dickinson, Unilever, and Verizon.

Pascale is also a respected voice in national health policy and employer innovation. She currently serves on the Business Group on Health Board of Directors as the Chair of the Governance Committee and the Hyacinth Foundation Board of Trustees.

Scott Turner, a Partner at Mercer, is architecting the emerging blueprint of how work gets done in the Age of AI and how great companies will design their new employee value proposition to win. In an era of immense human consequence, he's delivering the "New Architecture of Work."

Unlike most AI commentators, Scott's vision is based on boots-on-the-ground experience leading engineers, product managers, and designers delivering rich AI experiences. Most recently as a technology leader at Disney, reporting directly into the Chief Digital Officer, he architected and delivered Agentic AI-powered systems to improve the guest experience for millions of daily users.

Scott's current obsession is solving the dual crisis facing executives today: how to make defensible people decisions at scale while deploying AI responsibly, and how to design employee value propositions that help humans truly thrive alongside intelligent systems—not despite them.

His approach bridges human strategy and agentic systems—designing the handshakes between what humans do, what AI does, and where they collaborate.

He believes the organizations that master this new architecture won't just survive the AI transformation—they'll define it.

Paul Tiesler is Senior Vice President of Talent Development at Moody's Corporation, where he leads global learning strategy and enterprise talent capabilities for 14,000 employees across 40+ countries. He specializes in AI-enabled workforce transformation, skills-based organizational design, and data-driven talent analytics. 

Most recently, Paul architected Moody's enterprise GenAI upskilling initiative, achieving 99% adoption across the global workforce and earning a Brandon Hall Excellence Award for learning innovation. He is currently leading the company's transition to Agentic AI enablement and building skills-based infrastructure including AI-powered career pathing and enterprise learning analytics.

Paul is a member of Harvard University's Learning Innovations Laboratory (LILA), an invitation-only consortium of CHROs and Chief Learning Officers exploring cutting-edge research in learning, leadership, and organizational development. He holds a BA in Drama and Economics from Hofstra University and is Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certified. Before entering corporate learning, Paul managed high-volume retail operations and performed professionally as an actor—experiences that inform his unique approach to executive presence, storytelling, and change leadership.

Anita I. Jivani is the Head of Innovation at Avanade Northeast and Director of the NYC Innovation Center, where she is focused on advising organizations on the Future of Work, Innovation, and Organizational Strategy and Design. She has spent time dissecting how shifts in our ecosystem are impacting how we live and reframing the way we work. She has counseled organizations on how these megatrends impact their strategy and how investing intentionally can prepare leaders for the future. Her interest in innovation and cross-sector collaboration stems from her work as a Fulbright Scholar, in which she examined the role of business in improving sociopolitical relations between the United States and Mexico.

Stephanie is the Global Head of Benefits for Moelis & Company, a global independent investment bank headquartered in New York, NY. She has spent 12 years focused on cost-effective and strategically aligned employer-sponsored plans in the US, UK, APAC, and EMEA. She has served on the Board for multiple years as a Co-Chair of Education and Treasurer. Stephanie is focused on creating a value member proposition for chapter members and CEBS students.

With extensive experience in government agencies, for-profit development, and real estate finance, Jerryck Murrey has dedicated his career to tackling the housing crisis. His mission to promote affordable housing was shaped by his own childhood experiences of housing insecurity, moving frequently until college. This deep understanding of housing’s impact on quality of life inspired him to found Annum, a company revolutionizing corporate benefits by providing access to housing. Together with his highly skilled team, Jerryck aims to make "Housing as a Benefit" a standard that enhances the lives of workers everywhere.

Cadie Thompson is an executive editor at Business Insider. She oversees the trending business desk, politics, and the legal affairs team. Previously, she was the deputy executive editor of business news, overseeing all tech, media, transportation, and retail coverage. She also led the emerging tech team at Tech Insider. 

Natalie is Paradigm’s Co-Founder and the Managing Director of the Strategy and Learning Teams. Paradigm’s Strategy Team helps forward-thinking companies assess, design, implement, and benchmark their talent and culture strategy through long-term partnerships. Her work with the Learning Team helps scale these strategies through live workshops and keynotes on topics spanning leadership, communication, talent management, and the future of work. Natalie also helps develop new products and services, including Paradigm’s AI-native talent and culture intelligence platform, Surface. Natalie has led engagements with dozens of companies across industries and across the world, and has partnered with executives at innovative companies including Airbnb, Box, Capital One, GE, IDEO, NerdWallet, Lyft, Amazon, American Express, Greenhouse, Paramount, and Stripe.

Before co-founding Paradigm, Natalie was a part of Google’s People Analytics team, developing and analyzing a wide range of talent and culture initiatives. During her time at Google, Natalie was one of the original facilitators of Google’s Unconscious Bias training, delivering hundreds of sessions across the United States and Europe. Natalie received an impact award for her meaningful work with Gayglers, Google’s LGBTQ+ employee resource group, where she organized an effort to bring Gayglers from around the world to celebrate Global Pride in India. 

Natalie holds a master's degree in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University’s Teachers College.

Sallyanne Oettinger is a Managing Consultant in HR & Talent Advisory at LHH, where she partners with senior leaders to shape the future of work through leadership, culture, and organizational transformation. She brings a unique blend of consulting and industry experience, helping organizations navigate complex change while building the capabilities needed to thrive in an evolving workplace.

Sallyanne has spent her career exploring how shifts in business, technology, and human expectations are redefining how we work—and what people need to succeed. She has advised Fortune 50 companies, high-growth organizations, and global NGOs on leadership alignment, talent strategy, and large-scale transformation, translating ambitious strategies into practical, people-centered solutions that drive real impact.

Her approach is both pragmatic and creative, grounded in the belief that meaningful change happens at the intersection of business performance and human experience. She is particularly passionate about helping leaders build cultures where people can do their best work, grow, and adapt in a rapidly changing world.

Vivek Ravisankar is the Co-founder and CEO of HackerRank. He has built a community of over 30 million developers who use the platform to hone their skills.

Vivek grew up in India, studied Computer Science at NIT Trichy, and worked at Amazon before starting HackerRank with his college classmate Hari Karunanidhi. Both were on interview panels, inundated with endless hours of resume reviews, phone screens, and onsite interviews. They watched unqualified candidates make it through while some of their most capable friends were passed over because of their GPA or lack of a prestigious degree. That broken system became the problem they set out to fix. HackerRank was the first India-based company accepted into Y Combinator and is now a global platform where every second, two candidates take a HackerRank assessment.

We are in a pivotal moment in tech. AI is redefining the developer role, and engineers today are becoming orchestrators of AI agents. Vivek and the HackerRank team are at the center of this shift, helping developers and the companies that hire them adapt in real time.

Learn from Vivek what HackerRank is seeing across thousands of companies and millions of developers, and what it means for hiring, upskilling, and building teams in the age of AI.

Nicole is the VP of B2B Partnerships of Rula Health, a behavioral healthcare provider group enabled by technology. Rula’s mission is to make mental healthcare work for everyone through improving access, equity, quality, and a modern consumer experience to over 120m members that Rula covers today. Nicole has a proven track record in developing new channel opportunities, managing key partnerships, and leading high-performing GTM teams, she's achieved outstanding results across B2B verticals, with a special focus in the HR, healthcare, and wellness industries, most recently at ClassPass, Preply, and Kaiser Permanente. Nicole lives in San Francisco with her husband and their cat, and enjoys traveling, skiing, hiking and sharing a great meal with friends.

Michele Moskowitz is Group Head of Talent at TP ICAP, a FTSE 250 global financial services firm operating across 20+ countries, where she has shaped and scaled the firm’s Talent function into a global capability underpinning its £70M enterprise transformation. She reports regularly to the Board on organizational health, employee engagement, and D&I, and has delivered a 15% lift in engagement scores alongside a 50% reduction in talent acquisition costs through end‑to‑end redesign of company values, recognition, learning & development, talent acquisition, and employee listening strategies.

Operating at the intersection of people strategy, technology, and business performance, Michele brings a rare dual lens to her work. Before moving into HR leadership, she spent more than a decade as a strategic partner and transformational change leader for C‑Suite executives at Liquidnet, and for consulting clients prior to that, giving her a grounded, operator’s view of how organizations actually function and scale. She is also an early champion of AI in HR, serving as executive sponsor for one of the firm’s first agentic AI solutions and leading the integration of AI into talent, learning, and employee experience design.

Michele is the creator and host of TP ICAP’s first internal podcast, Shift In Sight, which explores how individuals, leaders, and emerging technologies are reshaping the firm’s culture and future of work.

An executive coach and SHRM‑SCP, Michele is an engineer at heart who believes the best solutions are discovered through curiosity, experimentation, and continuous learning. She is driven by a simple conviction: there is always a better way and everyone has the potential to discover it and turn it into impact.

Jon Simon is the Vice President and Head of Sales at CareBenefits by Care.com, where he helps organizations reimagine how they support the health and wellness of their employees. With more than two decades of experience in employee benefits, Jon brings a rare depth of expertise and a genuine passion for connecting people with the care they need. When he's not championing better benefits, he's at home in Northern Virginia with his wife and three children.

Bill Beegle is a Senior Global Business Solutions Architect at Degreed, where he partners with enterprise HR and L&D leaders to design AI-powered, skills-based learning ecosystems to solve real business challenges. Working hands on with customers, he uses generative AI developer tools to rapidly prototype solutions to their toughest learning problems. He advises clients on multi-agent architectures and the use of Model Context Protocol (MCP) to embed learning directly in the flow of work, turning every employee tool into a moment of growth. Internally, Bill is reshaping how solutions architecture is practiced at Degreed, leveraging AI to deliver significant efficiency gains. Previously, as an Associate Director at Verizon, he launched the company's enterprise Learning Experience Platform and helped architect its emerging AI learning strategy.

Owen O’Neill is a strategic leader in HR technology and operations with over 20 years of experience supporting global organizations to optimize the employee lifecycle and drive meaningful business change. He has a proven track record of leading high-performing teams and delivering large-scale transformation initiatives across more than 20 countries.

Known for his ability to bring clarity to complex challenges, Owen partners with diverse stakeholders to challenge conventional thinking and unlock new possibilities. His hands-on, pragmatic approach enables organizations to navigate ambiguity and implement sustainable change.

Outside of his professional work, Owen has a keen interest in rugby and current affairs, and enjoys hiking in the countryside with his dog, Alfie.

Naomi Dishington is the Director of consulting at Workhuman. Naomi is a seasoned leader who heads a team of Strategic Advisors, offering consultative services to global organizations seeking to cultivate high-trust, high-performing, and resilient cultures. Specializing in the design, implementation, and adoption of engagement programs, she helps businesses achieve measurable ROI across key metrics. Naomi is a strong advocate for leaders who aim to shape their organizational culture through recognition, growth, and authentic human connections, providing them with the tools and insights to build sustainable, thriving workplaces. Naomi received her MEd, as well as her BA in english language and literature from Framingham State University.

John Grossman, PT, DPT is a Clinical Specialist at Sword Health.