Adam Galinsky is the chair of the Management Division at the Columbia Business School. He has published more than 200 scientific articles and  co-authored the critically acclaimed and best-selling book, Friend & Foe (Penguin Random House, 2015). Professor Galinsky’s Ted talk, How to Speak Up for Yourself, has over 6.9 million views since its release in November 2016. In recognition of his teaching and research, Poets and Quants selected him as one of the World’s 50 Best B-School Professors (2012). He has been a Producer on six award-winning documentaries, including two that were short-listed (final 15) for Best Documentary at the Academy Awards. Finally, he has been an expert in numerous legal cases involving defamation.

As a dynamic, hands-on, highly technical leader with a wealth of knowledge and experience building education, training, and organizational development programs, Dr. Hickman champions complex projects in research and development that uncover the need for continuing education and training throughout the organization. Dr. Hickman is a visionary leader who delivers growth and profit through technological innovations, customer experience, leadership development, and networking. He is a well-known published scholar with expertise in organizational and leadership development at Partners, a Walt Disney Company. 

Aga Bajer is the founder and CEO of Aga Bajer Culture Strategy, a boutique consultancy helping global organizations codify, activate and evolve their culture and make work synonymous with fun, meaning, and belonging.

Aga is a passionate community builder. She founded a thriving, first-of-its-kind global community for culture leaders called CultureBrained™ where members learn how to navigate the complexities of cultivating thriving company cultures in this brave new world of remote and hybrid work.

She is also the author of Building and Sustaining a Coaching Culture, and the creator and host of one of the most popular podcasts on organizational culture, the CultureLab. She’s currently working on her second book, A CultureBrained Leader.

Aga grew up in communist Poland and lived in twelve cities and five different countries. After spending the past 10 years in Italy, Aga has recently moved to Athens in Greece with her husband Nassos and their adorable french bulldog, Ollie. Her early career aspirations included becoming a pirate, an explorer, a healer, and a writer — and she feels lucky to tap into all of these personas in her work as a culture strategist .In her spare time, Aga learns Argentinean tango and sailing.

Alice Wastag, Senior People Science Consultant, is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.  She has helped organizations and leaders create high performance organizations and improve employee engagement for over 10 years. Alice has presented her work at professional conferences, including the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and the American Society for Healthcare and Human Resources Administration. Her work has been published in Chief Learning Officer business magazine. Alice has a graduate degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology and an MBA from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. She has consulted with Fortune 500 organizations of various sizes and sectors.

Alex is a highly experienced employee engagement consultant, trainer and speaker. For over 15 years she has helped HR and business leaders implement strategies that drive true culture change. Her wealth of knowledge comes from coaching and training thousands of managers from a wide range of industries across the globe. Alex focuses on providing organizations with proven practices that drive results for varied leadership styles and the multiple generations in the modern workforce. Her presentation will leave you motivated and better equipped to lead your organization on a path to a more engaged workforce, making the world a better place to work.

Amelie is currently Global Head of People Capability for Standard Chartered Bank, building and
accelerating the learning across the bank for building the best experts for today and building
global citizens and CEOs for the long term. She also leads SCB’s focus on reskilling and building
future skills.
Before SCB, Amelie was Global Head of UBS University, and before this, Global Head of
Business Leadership Development for Google. Amelie spent nearly 20 years as a consultant, first
in mergers and acquisitions, then at Duke Corporate Education and The Corporate Executive
Board.
Amelie has been fascinated by transformation at market, organisational and individual level since
the beginning of her career on a trading floor in Hong Kong during the Asian Financial Crisis. She
has dedicated her work since then to helping clients and organisations see and seize opportunity
through turbulence. She has three children and is a competitive amateur horse rider in her spare
time

Amy Parker is currently the Senior Global Director, Talent Development at Acquia. Amy is a builder and a connector, and energized by connecting the business to the right people solutions, and people to the business strategy. She is motivated by building people enablement programs that impact the whole of the business, and bringing a creative approach to talent development and management.

Over the past 15+ years, Amy has worked primarily in high-tech, advertising, and digital marketing environments and have built and launched programs for integrated talent development and talent management: redesigning the approach and processes for talent acquisition and performance management, selecting and deploying HRIS and Learning solutions, and building a talent pipeline through organizational design, learning, and coaching programs. Amy’s skills and experience reflect her drive and passion to focus on key business objectives and work collaboratively with peers and external partners to bring about solutions. A bit of an interesting trek for a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer focused on Fisheries in Zaire.

Amy is fluent in Spanish and English, and conversant in French, Portuguese, and Swahili. In her spare time, Amy co-teaches Black and White darkroom workshop courses at the New England School of Photography, and donate time & services to local non-profits. Amy is an avid underwater photography, always searching the sands for unusual critters.