2024 Speakers

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Keynote Speaker

Shola Richards

Founder & CEO, Go Together Global & Best-Selling Author

Shola Richards is the CEO and Founder of Go Together Global™, the best-selling author of “Making Work Work”, and “Go Together”, and he is a civility writer with a passionate worldwide following. His articles and extremely popular “Go Together Movement” email series have been read by readers in over 160 countries, and his work has been featured on the Today Show, CBS This Morning, Forbes, Black Enterprise, Complete Wellbeing India, Business Insider Australia, and in numerous other outlets all over the world who recognize him as an authority on workplace happiness and engagement.

As a speaker, Shola has shared his transformative message with top universities, leading healthcare organizations, Silicon Valley, the motion picture industry, on the TEDx stage, and in his greatest honor to date, in September 2021, he was invited to testify in front of the House of Representatives on Capitol Hill to share his expert recommendations on how to bring more civility to Congress.

Last, but certainly not least, Shola is a father, husband, identical twin, and self-professed “kindness extremist” who will not rest until bullying and incivility is extinct from the American workplace.

Keynote

Unstoppable Resilience™:
The Keys to Staying Strong During Any Challenge

This is a uniquely difficult time for leaders and individual contributors in workplaces all over America. We are still managing the aftereffects of battling a deadly pandemic for over four years (and counting), there are deep divisions that have been exposed within our country, parents are overwhelmed as they balance their careers with raising their kids in this exhausting new reality, employees are feeling increased anxiety and mental health challenges, and according to recent studies, Americans are the unhappiest they have been in the past 50 years. Needless to say, navigating all of the aforementioned challenges can have a significant impact on one’s overall well-being, mental health and resilience. The Unstoppable Resilience™ keynote provides the audience with the highly-practical strategies to build unshakable strength within themselves and within their teams.

Feature Speaker

Meagan Johnson

Meagan Johnson is a nationally recognized multi-generational expert and generational studies enthusiast. Since 1997; she has researched, written and spoken about the multiple generations. Her focus is on how to build a culture of multi-generational collaboration… not alienation. Rather than promoting generational stereotypes, Meagan explores what drives a generation to succeed.

Meagan has worked with over a thousand clients, including Boeing, Women in Cable Telecommunication, Ingram Micro, CIT Bank, Intel Corporation, American Architectural Manufacturers Association, Hormel, Women in Trucking, Pepsi, Procter & Gamble and Sodexo.

She is the co-author of the best-selling book Generations Inc From Boomers to Linksters Managing the Friction between Generations at Work. She has been Quoted by the Indy Star, Weight Watchers, The Advocate, Chicago Tribune, CNNMoney.com and US News & World Report. Meagan has been heard and seen on; NEWSY.com, CBSN, ABC Talk Live, NPR and profiled on Conde’ Nast’s Portfolio.com. Recently, Meagan was recently quoted in the New York Times and a guest on the Dr. Phil show!

Her company, Meagan Johnson Inc. is based in Phoenix Arizona where she resides with her husband and 3 big dogs who drool A LOT! (The dogs, not her husband) 

Keynote

Zap the Generational Gap!
Transforming, Recruiting, Retaining and Engaging Multi-Generational Teams

Having a Generational Misunderstanding is nothing new. Many of us have walked away from a multi-generational interaction with less than stellar results. We are left scratching our heads, thinking, “is this a generational issue or a personality problem?” Combined with conflicting generational information and blatant generational stereotypes, it can be a challenge to forge a new path with the multi-generational people in our lives. The truth is, the workforce, and possibly your household, spans across five generations. On one end of the spectrum, the younger generations in the workforce, are beginning their careers during one of the largest global upheavals the world has experienced. On the other end, an entire generation, on the precipice of retirement, is learning how to conduct business in an increasingly digital environment. It can be a struggle to find the right balance between the sometimes-conflicting needs of each generation.

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Speakers

Dana Acabbo

Jerod Blakestad

Ross Bowie

Kareen Boyadjian

Felicia Cox

Matt Cullina

Kim Dandrea

Michael Daugherty

Diane Delaney

Pravesha Deosaran

Robert Donnelly

Ronald Fiamma

David Friedman

Wendy Goffe

Shirley Gordon

Leith Hatchett

Karen Hivry

Lindsay Holden

Deon Hornsby

Sheri Jamme

Trenton Johnson

Jon Kelly

Bryant Kolle

Ellen Kroesen

Dave Logan

Kevin Madden

Alison Marckstadt

Edward Marshall

Jason Moreland

Bryan Newman

Judith Pearson

Jason Polynice

Heather Posner

Brian Rabold

Caitlin Rascelles

Christopher Reid

Taylor Reilly

Ana Robic

Bradley Sawyer

Emily Selck

Rand Silver

Tajuana Snelling

Muys Snijders

Chelsea Tesei Bronstein

Kurt Thoennessen

Kathleen Tierney

Nonie Tompkins

Ashleigh Trent

Paul Vacquier

Will Van Den Heuvel

JP Wiley

Katja Zigerlig