Day 1 Speakers
Sarah Alter
Sarah Alter
Sarah Alter joined NextUp in 2017, and has wide-ranging executive leadership experience in the markets NextUp represents. Sarah has successfully expanded the scope of NextUp’s mission to include Advancing All Women, and has grown NextUp to be the largest non-profit of its type, with over 15,000 members representing over 900 organizations, 21 regions, and over 300 national and regional corporate partners. Over 50% of NextUp’s national corporate sponsors are on the Fortune or Global 500, and Sarah has built NextUp into an organization that spans industries from tech, to finance, to retail, to CPG. Additionally, she has focused NextUp on supporting women of color, building male allyship, the new generation coming into our workforce, and, more recently, how COVID-19 has impacted women in the workplace.
Welcome
See Agenda2:00 pm - 2:10 pm
Conference Close
See Agenda11:45 am - 12:00 pm
Priscilla Tuan
Priscilla Tuan
Priscilla Tuan serves as Chief Marketing Officer and member of the Senior Executive Team for Sovos Brands. Sovos Brands is a high growth, purposefully built food platform pioneering a new approach to packaged food with a portfolio of premium “one-of-a-kind” brands.
Priscilla has 22 years of experience in the CPG space building iconic brands consumers love. Her experience in both Fortune 500 and privately held companies, spans categories across Food, Beverage, Pet, Homecare, Laundry, Auto and Apparel. Priscilla previously held senior leadership positions at The Clorox Company across marketing and Innovation, including leading the billion-dollar Homecare portfolio. Throughout her career, she has championed the growth of recognized brands such as Clorox, Hidden Valley Ranch, Coca-Cola, and Glad, as well as passion brands like Rao’s Homemade, noosa yoghurt and Timberland. Under her leadership Rao’s Homemade was an Effie Finalist, Clorox was awarded Ad Age’s Top Ten brands of 2016 and Hidden Valley received a Bronze Anvil Award for PR. She has also launched new products including Rao’s Soup, Rao’s Frozen Entrees, noosa Frozen Yoghurt Gelato, Clorox Scentiva and Brita Bottle.
Priscilla served as Trustee of the Clorox Foundation from 2015-2017 and currently serves on the Board of CSA. Priscilla lives with her husband Collin and three children in Berkeley, California. Her guilty pleasure is Haagen Daz Swiss Almond Vanilla, and she is devoted to Pilates.
Transforming Leaders: Navigating Change and Uncertainty
See Agenda3:10 pm - 4:00 pm
Janice Dupré
Janice Dupré
As executive vice president, human resources, Janice Dupré is responsible for the global human resources strategy practices and operations that enable Lowe’s to attract, motivate, develop and retain outstanding associates. She joined Lowe’s in 2017. Janice has 15 years of human resources and diversity and inclusion experience. Prior to her current role, she was senior vice president, diversity and talent management, where she served as chief diversity officer. She worked closely with leaders across the enterprise to expand and develop solutions that support Lowe’s mission and core behaviors while making diversity and inclusion a signature priority for the company.
Transforming Leaders: Navigating Change and Uncertainty
See Agenda3:10 pm - 4:00 pm
Michael Del Pozzo
Michael Del Pozzo
Mike Del Pozzo is currently the President and General Manager of the Gatorade Performance Portfolio within PepsiCo Beverages North America. In this role, Mike leads Sales, Customer Management, Brand Building, and Strategy across Gatorade, Propel, Muscle Milk, Evolve, and the innovation portfolio. A 20-year PepsiCo veteran, Mike most recently served as Senior Vice President and Chief Customer Officer for Frito-Lay, where he oversaw Strategy, Sales Planning, and Commercialization for Frito Lay’s U.S. Customer Sales Organization, including retail, ecommerce, and food service businesses.
Transforming Leaders: Navigating Change and Uncertainty
See Agenda3:10 pm - 4:00 pm
Abbe Luersman
Abbe Luersman
Abbe Luersman joined Otis Worldwide Corporation in July 2021 as Executive Vice President, Chief People Officer. Otis is the world’s leading elevator and escalator manufacturing, installation and service company. Otis moves 2 billion people a day and maintains more than 2 million customer units worldwide, the industry’s largest Service portfolio. Headquartered in Connecticut, USA, Otis is 69,000 people strong, including 40,000 field professionals, all committed to meeting the diverse needs of Otis’ customers and passengers in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. Otis was founded 168 years ago and is now circa $13 billion in revenue. Abbe couldn’t be more excited to be part of the company as they are transforming post their spin-off from UTC.
Transforming Leaders: Navigating Change and Uncertainty
See Agenda3:10 pm - 4:00 pm
Day 2 Speakers
Ida Liu
Ida Liu
Ida Liu is the Global Head of Citi Private Bank and a member of the Citi Global Wealth Leadership team. Ida leads the Private Banking activities in 50 offices across 18countries and delivers wealth management solutions to ultra-high net worth families and their businesses globally. Before becoming the Global Head, she was the Head of Citi Private Bank North America and held numerous other leadership roles. Ida created Citi Private Bank’s North America Asian Clients Group, and she started her career at Citi by launching and heading the Fashion, Retail and Entertainment Group.
Building a Seat at the Table that Fits
See Agenda9:15 am - 10:00 am
Sarah Alter
Sarah Alter
Sarah Alter joined NextUp in 2017, and has wide-ranging executive leadership experience in the markets NextUp represents. Sarah has successfully expanded the scope of NextUp’s mission to include Advancing All Women, and has grown NextUp to be the largest non-profit of its type, with over 15,000 members representing over 900 organizations, 21 regions, and over 300 national and regional corporate partners. Over 50% of NextUp’s national corporate sponsors are on the Fortune or Global 500, and Sarah has built NextUp into an organization that spans industries from tech, to finance, to retail, to CPG. Additionally, she has focused NextUp on supporting women of color, building male allyship, the new generation coming into our workforce, and, more recently, how COVID-19 has impacted women in the workplace.
Welcome
See Agenda2:00 pm - 2:10 pm
Conference Close
See Agenda11:45 am - 12:00 pm
Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman
Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman
Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman is an award-winning Ghanaian-American researcher, entrepreneur, and writer. She graduated from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 2019 with a Bachelors of Arts in Mathematics and a minor in Economics. Her new book, The Black Agenda: Bold Solutions for a Broken System, is the first collection to exclusively feature Black scholars and experts across economics, education, health, climate, criminal justice, and technology. The book has received praise from the likes of New York Times bestselling authors, Wes Moore, Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, and Chelsea Clinton. Currently, she is a graduate student at Harvard Kennedy School studying public policy and economics.
Creating A New World
See Agenda4:00 pm - 4:45 pm
Alberto Dominguez
Alberto Dominguez
Alberto Luis Dominguez is an experienced business executive with a diverse background and a proven leadership record. Currently leading the Kimberly Clark Customer Development team calling on Walmart, Inc., Al oversees sales strategy and execution supporting Walmart US; Sam’s Club and Walmart International. Prior to joining Kimberly-Clark, Al spent more than a decade at Walmart in senior merchandising roles. Al’s most recent role at Walmart was Senior Vice President of Snack, Beverage and Impulse Merchandising.
NextUp = Bold Solutions for a Broken System
See Agenda10:00 am - 11:00 am
Tamara Myles
Tamara Myles
Tamara helps leaders make work meaningful to engage employees and improve business performance. Her approach blends the latest research in Positive and Organizational Psychology with evidence-based strategies to deliver solutions that yield tangible business results. She focuses on organizational transformation and leadership development and has worked with high-performing organizations like Black Rock, Microsoft, KPMG, Unilever, and Best Buy. Tamara is the author of The Secret to Peak Productivity: A Simple Guide to Reaching Your Personal Best, which is published globally and has been translated to multiple languages. Her work has been featured in Business Insider, Forbes, and USA Today, among others.
Track 1: Walk + Talk Wisdom – Burnout Prevention
See Agenda11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Driving Retention Through Meaningful Work
See Agenda2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Track 1: Walk + Talk Wisdom – Burnout Prevention
See Agenda9:00 am - 10:00 am
Teresa Sande
Teresa Sande
Teresa Sande is passionate about equity in the workplace, healthy corporate cultures, and growing leaders to be their best. She holds her master’s degree in Organizational Effectiveness and spent nearly 25 years as an executive with companies like Intel, Capital One, Cargill, and UnitedHealth Group. As the CEO and founder of Mirror Mirror Strategies, Teresa is a consultant, coach, author, speaker, and imposter syndrome expert. Her book on the topic, “Find Your Fierce: Interrupt Imposter Syndrome and Own Your Success”, debuted in early 2021.
Track 2: Walk + Talk Wisdom – Leaders for a New Era
See Agenda11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Track 2: Walk + Talk Wisdom – Leaders for a New Era
See Agenda9:00 am - 10:00 am
Karen Jones
Karen Jones
Karen leads the Learning, Development, and DEI&B work at NextUp. Her team manages the design and delivery of the leadership development programs and assessment processes for Partner organizations. Karen has worked within the Organization and Leadership Development disciplines for more than 20 years. She has led at the executive level within the corporate sector for Fortune 50 companies. Her experience provides a keen ability to design and deliver optimal solutions for Members and Corporate Partners alike. Karen has a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Grambling State University and a Master of Arts in Organization Leadership from Gonzaga University.
Track 2: Walk + Talk Wisdom – Leaders for a New Era
See Agenda9:00 am - 10:00 am
Track 2: Walk + Talk Wisdom – Leaders for a New Era
See Agenda11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Driving Retention Through Meaningful Work
See Agenda2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Dondeena Bradley
Dondeena Bradley
Dondeena Bradley leads the Wellbeing Center of Expertise for Mars where she serves as the global lead for the health & wellbeing portfolio strategic initiatives. In 2019, Tiller/Simon & Schuster published her book Living Full Circle: Simple Ancient Rituals for Modern Life that identifies the benefits of wellbeing practices and translates them into practical ways that people can adopt into their daily lives. She has spent thousands of hours challenging teams to deliver breakthroughs in areas focused upon human health and wellbeing with consistent success in diverse cultures at a number of companies including Campbell Soup, McNeil/Johnson & Johnson, PepsiCo, WW (formerly Weight Watchers) and Barilla
Track 3: Walk + Talk Wisdom – Mental Health Mastermind
See Agenda11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Track 3: Walk + Talk Wisdom – Mental Health Mastermind
See Agenda9:00 am - 10:00 am
Navigating the Mental Health Crisis
See Agenda10:30 am - 11:15 am
Veronica Fernandez
Veronica Fernandez
Veronica is Visa’s senior vice president and Regional Head of North America Business Solutions. Visa Business Solutions (VBS) enables businesses to thrive through products that provide better cash flow, administrative efficiency, control and acceptance. From small business to large corporate and governments, VBS products cover all forms of business spending, including Small Business, Commercial, and Virtual Cards. Veronica is responsible for the business, strategy and go to market for the U.S. and Canada.
Track 4: Walk + Talk Wisdom – Creating a Culture of Belonging
See Agenda11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Track 4: Walk + Talk Wisdom – Creating a Culture of Belonging
See Agenda9:00 am - 10:00 am
Jaime Halprin-Oesch
Jaime Halprin-Oesch
Global Marketing Leader with 15+ years of experience managing brands for CPG companies, spending the last 7 years with Kellogg’s, currently the Director of eCommerce/D2C. Through her time working abroad and across many cities in the US, Jaime leverages her cross cultural skills to be an engaging leader who drives influence and outcomes by enrolling and involving others. Additionally, Jaime is an active ally for EDI &B at Kellogg’s leading change as National Co-Chair for the Women of Kellogg’s+ Employee Resource Group (over 1300 members). At home she has two small children, Max (7) and Livia (3), and a stay at home husband, Florian. And in her free-time she is currently taking flying lessons to become a private pilot (because the world needs more female pilots).
Track 4: Walk + Talk Wisdom – Creating a Culture of Belonging
See Agenda11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Track 4: Walk + Talk Wisdom – Creating a Culture of Belonging
See Agenda9:00 am - 10:00 am
Rob Goldberg
Rob Goldberg
Rob is a principal with Deloitte, providing cyber risk services to clients across consumer industries. Rob leads Deloitte’s cyber practice for the retail, wholesale, and distribution industry sector, and has over twenty-seven years of experience in cyber risk management and information technology. Rob began his career as a software engineer, developing client-server systems in the telecommunications industry before moving into information security where he spent several years as an ethical hacker and security architect. Throughout his career, Rob has delivered projects across security strategy, governance, identity management, business continuity, disaster recovery, cyber due diligence for M&A, and privacy.
Track 5: Cybersecurity Mastermind
See Agenda11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Track 5: Cybersecurity Mastermind
See Agenda9:00 am - 10:00 am
Hee-Sook Alden
Hee-Sook Alden
Hee-Sook Alden, Vice President of Team Development and Public Affairs, is responsible for customer satisfaction, governmental program compliance, and education and development of Gelson’s associates. Working her way through the University of California, Santa Barbara, Hee-Sook earned a bachelor’s degree and started her grocery industry career with Vons as a courtesy clerk, then checker. She joined Gelson’s in 1989, advancing through Store Management to Store Operations while leading special projects, specifically identifying best practices and areas of opportunity for the CEO.
Track 7: Women on Boards Mastermind
See Agenda11:30 am - 12:30 am
Track 7: Women on Boards Mastermind
See Agenda9:00 am - 10:00 am
Subriana Pierce
Subriana Pierce
In September 2014, Subriana joined her husband to become a Managing Partner of Navigator Sales and Marketing. The mission of the company is to help brands navigate the corporate retail environment to win in the marketplace. In 2020, she and her husband launched a 501c3, the Navigator Lighthouse Foundation focused on helping women and minority owned entrepreneurs succeed in the grocery retail space. Prior to Navigator, Subriana served as Senior Vice President, Sales and Merchandising for Albertsons Southern California Division.
Track 7: Women on Boards Mastermind
See Agenda11:30 am - 12:30 am
Track 7: Women on Boards Mastermind
See Agenda9:00 am - 10:00 am
Shirley S. Cho
Shirley S. Cho
Ms. Cho has more than twenty five years’ experience advising key stakeholders in some of the most complex chapter 11 reorganizations in recent history. She has represented the largest companies in America to restructure billions of dollars of debt, dozens of official committees of unsecured creditors across a variety of industries, purchasers of assets out of bankruptcy, and creditors to successfully pursue significant claims in chapter 11. She has served as an expert on U.S. insolvency law in foreign proceedings and regularly speaks on insolvency topics around the world.
Track 7: Women on Boards Mastermind
See Agenda11:30 am - 12:30 am
Joe Roy III
Joe Roy III
Joe Roy has had a passion for falconry since he was a boy, and has hunted hares and rabbits with hawks for more than twenty years. He is a professional bird trainer and owns Aerial Predators and Ecology, a company dedicated to conservation efforts through education. He’s the author of the book Duck Hawking, published in 2005. Joe lives with his family in California. Joe’s work at Terranea in bird abatement has now become one of Terranea’s most requested and talked about activities. To spend time with Joe, learning about his passion for the sport of falconry and watching him work, is one of the most unforgettable and unique offerings Terranea has to offer.
Track 8: Problems or Possibilities?
See Agenda11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Track 8: Problems or Possibilities?
See Agenda9:00 am - 10:00 am
Gail Phinney
Gail Phinney
Gail is an educator, art historian, curator and writer with 40 years of museum experience. A passionate advocate for arts education, she is inspired to make the arts accessible through innovative programming and creative collaborations. She is an adjunct professor of art history at Marymount California University and enjoys a rewarding career as PVAC’s Community Engagement Director. Her Artful Daze reflections can be found on pvartcenter.org.
Track 9: Perspective Shifts
See Agenda9:00 am - 10:00 am
Track 9: Perspective Shifts
See Agenda9:00 am - 10:00 am
Bob Merchant
Bob Merchant
Bob merchant lives on the Palos Verdes peninsula with his wife, son, and 2 daughters. Bob’s love for archery started when his son, Carter, picked up his first bow 10 years ago. This led Bob into coaching, and getting his Level 2 Archery certification teaching Olympic recurve. Bob travels with Carter, coaching him competing locally and nationally. In 2020, Carter became the US junior national recurve champion and is now aiming for the 2024 Olympics. Bob joined the Terranea team and initiated the archery program at Terranea in 2018. He has turned archery (and kayaking) at Terranea beach cove into a family business with his son and twin daughters coaching alongside him.
Track 10: Taking Aim at What’s Next
See Agenda11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Track 10: Taking Aim at What’s Next
See Agenda9:00 am - 10:00 am
Annie Duke
Annie Duke
Annie is an author, corporate speaker, and consultant in the decision-making space. Annie’s latest book, How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices, was released in the fall of 2020 from Portfolio, a Penguin Random House imprint. Her previous book, Thinking in Bets, is a national bestseller. As a former professional poker player, she has won more than $4 million in tournament poker. During her career, Annie won a World Series of Poker bracelet and is the only woman to have won the World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions and the NBC National Poker Heads-Up Championship. She retired from the game in 2012. Prior to becoming a professional poker player, Annie was awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship to study Cognitive Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.
How to Decide
See Agenda4:00 pm - 4:45 pm
Diana Marshall
Diana Marshall
Diana Marshall is executive vice president of the Southwest BU for Walmart U.S. operations. In this role, she leads five regions across 12 different states and about 750 Walmart U.S. Supercenter stores. Diana joined Walmart more than 17 years ago. Beginning her work as a replenishment trainee in consumables, Diana subsequently spent a large portion of her career leading various merchandising teams. She possesses a deep understanding of retail merchandising, specifically in Sporting Goods, Baby, Consumables and Hardware/Paint. Diana also holds a breadth of supply chain knowledge that will be beneficial as we continue to evolve the Pickup and Delivery business for the customer and associate.
How to Decide
See Agenda4:00 pm - 4:45 pm
Valerie R. Love
Valerie R. Love
Valerie Love is a trusted advisor and passionate leader with demonstrated experience in the areas of talent and performance management, organizational design, succession planning, compensation, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and executive coaching. Prior to roles in Human Resources, Valerie has also had extensive work experience in Finance, Operations and Labor Relations whereshe successfullybuilt anddeveloped world-class business teams across different industries, functions and geographies. Valerie’s passion is rooted in her belief that talent, leadership and culture are keys to successful businesses.
Unlocking the Power of Diverse Talent
See Agenda4:45 pm - 5:30 pm
Tamiko Olabintan
Tamiko Olabintan
As COO, Tamiko is responsible for managing all hands-on operational aspects of NextUp. She is Sarah Alter’s right hand, and leads our high performing teams to be productive, efficient, and effective. Tamiko is not new to NextUp, as she was the NextUp Membership Coordinator for PepsiCo. She also volunteers her time as a Mentor for Million Women Mentor (MWM) where she mentors students in South Dallas, and is the Chair for the Women Inclusion Network, which is geared to helping women develop leadership skills. Tamiko came to NextUp in 2022 from PepsiCo-Frito Lay division, where she worked from 2015. Within PepsiCo, Tamiko held multiple executive roles, most recently leading a $3.5 billion Customer Sales Team for the South Central Region as the Sr. Director of Sales.
Unlocking the Power of Diverse Talent
See Agenda4:45 pm - 5:30 pm
Chastity Brown
Chastity Brown
Chastity Brown is a storyteller in the blues tradition. The Minnesota-via-Tennessee songwriter and musician tells stories populated by marginalized characters to stake her own space as a queer black woman and to speak to other experiences oftentimes ignored. The daughter of a black blues musician and white Irish mother who was raised in Tennessee, she’s made a home in Minneapolis for more than a decade. She was signed by Red House Records and released her acclaimed album Silhouette of Sirens in 2017, going on to tour nationally and internationally, sharing the stage and supporting artists such as the Indigo Girls, Ani Di Franco, Andrea Gibson, Jayhawks, The National, and Michael Kiwanuka. Chastity Brown’s latest record, Sing To The Walls, was released in June 2022 and is available everywhere now.
Make Way for a Woman Bold
See Agenda4:45 pm - 5:00 pm
Day 3 Speakers
Tamara Myles
Tamara Myles
Tamara helps leaders make work meaningful to engage employees and improve business performance. Her approach blends the latest research in Positive and Organizational Psychology with evidence-based strategies to deliver solutions that yield tangible business results. She focuses on organizational transformation and leadership development and has worked with high-performing organizations like Black Rock, Microsoft, KPMG, Unilever, and Best Buy. Tamara is the author of The Secret to Peak Productivity: A Simple Guide to Reaching Your Personal Best, which is published globally and has been translated to multiple languages. Her work has been featured in Business Insider, Forbes, and USA Today, among others.
Track 1: Walk + Talk Wisdom – Burnout Prevention
See Agenda11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Driving Retention Through Meaningful Work
See Agenda2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Track 1: Walk + Talk Wisdom – Burnout Prevention
See Agenda9:00 am - 10:00 am
Teresa Sande
Teresa Sande
Teresa Sande is passionate about equity in the workplace, healthy corporate cultures, and growing leaders to be their best. She holds her master’s degree in Organizational Effectiveness and spent nearly 25 years as an executive with companies like Intel, Capital One, Cargill, and UnitedHealth Group. As the CEO and founder of Mirror Mirror Strategies, Teresa is a consultant, coach, author, speaker, and imposter syndrome expert. Her book on the topic, “Find Your Fierce: Interrupt Imposter Syndrome and Own Your Success”, debuted in early 2021.
Track 2: Walk + Talk Wisdom – Leaders for a New Era
See Agenda11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Track 2: Walk + Talk Wisdom – Leaders for a New Era
See Agenda9:00 am - 10:00 am
Karen Jones
Karen Jones
Karen leads the Learning, Development, and DEI&B work at NextUp. Her team manages the design and delivery of the leadership development programs and assessment processes for Partner organizations. Karen has worked within the Organization and Leadership Development disciplines for more than 20 years. She has led at the executive level within the corporate sector for Fortune 50 companies. Her experience provides a keen ability to design and deliver optimal solutions for Members and Corporate Partners alike. Karen has a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Grambling State University and a Master of Arts in Organization Leadership from Gonzaga University.
Track 2: Walk + Talk Wisdom – Leaders for a New Era
See Agenda9:00 am - 10:00 am
Track 2: Walk + Talk Wisdom – Leaders for a New Era
See Agenda11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Driving Retention Through Meaningful Work
See Agenda2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Dondeena Bradley
Dondeena Bradley
Dondeena Bradley leads the Wellbeing Center of Expertise for Mars where she serves as the global lead for the health & wellbeing portfolio strategic initiatives. In 2019, Tiller/Simon & Schuster published her book Living Full Circle: Simple Ancient Rituals for Modern Life that identifies the benefits of wellbeing practices and translates them into practical ways that people can adopt into their daily lives. She has spent thousands of hours challenging teams to deliver breakthroughs in areas focused upon human health and wellbeing with consistent success in diverse cultures at a number of companies including Campbell Soup, McNeil/Johnson & Johnson, PepsiCo, WW (formerly Weight Watchers) and Barilla
Track 3: Walk + Talk Wisdom – Mental Health Mastermind
See Agenda11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Track 3: Walk + Talk Wisdom – Mental Health Mastermind
See Agenda9:00 am - 10:00 am
Navigating the Mental Health Crisis
See Agenda10:30 am - 11:15 am
Veronica Fernandez
Veronica Fernandez
Veronica is Visa’s senior vice president and Regional Head of North America Business Solutions. Visa Business Solutions (VBS) enables businesses to thrive through products that provide better cash flow, administrative efficiency, control and acceptance. From small business to large corporate and governments, VBS products cover all forms of business spending, including Small Business, Commercial, and Virtual Cards. Veronica is responsible for the business, strategy and go to market for the U.S. and Canada.
Track 4: Walk + Talk Wisdom – Creating a Culture of Belonging
See Agenda11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Track 4: Walk + Talk Wisdom – Creating a Culture of Belonging
See Agenda9:00 am - 10:00 am
Jaime Halprin-Oesch
Jaime Halprin-Oesch
Global Marketing Leader with 15+ years of experience managing brands for CPG companies, spending the last 7 years with Kellogg’s, currently the Director of eCommerce/D2C. Through her time working abroad and across many cities in the US, Jaime leverages her cross cultural skills to be an engaging leader who drives influence and outcomes by enrolling and involving others. Additionally, Jaime is an active ally for EDI &B at Kellogg’s leading change as National Co-Chair for the Women of Kellogg’s+ Employee Resource Group (over 1300 members). At home she has two small children, Max (7) and Livia (3), and a stay at home husband, Florian. And in her free-time she is currently taking flying lessons to become a private pilot (because the world needs more female pilots).
Track 4: Walk + Talk Wisdom – Creating a Culture of Belonging
See Agenda11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Track 4: Walk + Talk Wisdom – Creating a Culture of Belonging
See Agenda9:00 am - 10:00 am
Rob Goldberg
Rob Goldberg
Rob is a principal with Deloitte, providing cyber risk services to clients across consumer industries. Rob leads Deloitte’s cyber practice for the retail, wholesale, and distribution industry sector, and has over twenty-seven years of experience in cyber risk management and information technology. Rob began his career as a software engineer, developing client-server systems in the telecommunications industry before moving into information security where he spent several years as an ethical hacker and security architect. Throughout his career, Rob has delivered projects across security strategy, governance, identity management, business continuity, disaster recovery, cyber due diligence for M&A, and privacy.
Track 5: Cybersecurity Mastermind
See Agenda11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Track 5: Cybersecurity Mastermind
See Agenda9:00 am - 10:00 am
Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman
Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman
Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman is an award-winning Ghanaian-American researcher, entrepreneur, and writer. She graduated from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 2019 with a Bachelors of Arts in Mathematics and a minor in Economics. Her new book, The Black Agenda: Bold Solutions for a Broken System, is the first collection to exclusively feature Black scholars and experts across economics, education, health, climate, criminal justice, and technology. The book has received praise from the likes of New York Times bestselling authors, Wes Moore, Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, and Chelsea Clinton. Currently, she is a graduate student at Harvard Kennedy School studying public policy and economics.
Creating A New World
See Agenda4:00 pm - 4:45 pm
Hee-Sook Alden
Hee-Sook Alden
Hee-Sook Alden, Vice President of Team Development and Public Affairs, is responsible for customer satisfaction, governmental program compliance, and education and development of Gelson’s associates. Working her way through the University of California, Santa Barbara, Hee-Sook earned a bachelor’s degree and started her grocery industry career with Vons as a courtesy clerk, then checker. She joined Gelson’s in 1989, advancing through Store Management to Store Operations while leading special projects, specifically identifying best practices and areas of opportunity for the CEO.
Track 7: Women on Boards Mastermind
See Agenda11:30 am - 12:30 am
Track 7: Women on Boards Mastermind
See Agenda9:00 am - 10:00 am
Subriana Pierce
Subriana Pierce
In September 2014, Subriana joined her husband to become a Managing Partner of Navigator Sales and Marketing. The mission of the company is to help brands navigate the corporate retail environment to win in the marketplace. In 2020, she and her husband launched a 501c3, the Navigator Lighthouse Foundation focused on helping women and minority owned entrepreneurs succeed in the grocery retail space. Prior to Navigator, Subriana served as Senior Vice President, Sales and Merchandising for Albertsons Southern California Division.
Track 7: Women on Boards Mastermind
See Agenda11:30 am - 12:30 am
Track 7: Women on Boards Mastermind
See Agenda9:00 am - 10:00 am
Gloria Lee
Gloria Lee
Gloria is a Partner at Rutan & Tucker, LLP, one of the largest full service law firms in California. She has over 15 years of legal experience advising companies in technology, real estate, consumer retail, biotechnology, media, and restaurant and hospitality. She is also a Venture Partner at Ethos Fund and an early stage investor in each of these industries. Gloria is an independent director for Hanmi Bank (NASDAQ: HAFC) and currently serves on the Audit, Nominating and Corporate Governance, and Compensation and Human Resources committees.”
Track 7: Women on Boards Mastermind
See Agenda9:00 am - 10:00 am
Joe Roy III
Joe Roy III
Joe Roy has had a passion for falconry since he was a boy, and has hunted hares and rabbits with hawks for more than twenty years. He is a professional bird trainer and owns Aerial Predators and Ecology, a company dedicated to conservation efforts through education. He’s the author of the book Duck Hawking, published in 2005. Joe lives with his family in California. Joe’s work at Terranea in bird abatement has now become one of Terranea’s most requested and talked about activities. To spend time with Joe, learning about his passion for the sport of falconry and watching him work, is one of the most unforgettable and unique offerings Terranea has to offer.
Track 8: Problems or Possibilities?
See Agenda11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Track 8: Problems or Possibilities?
See Agenda9:00 am - 10:00 am
Gail Phinney
Gail Phinney
Gail is an educator, art historian, curator and writer with 40 years of museum experience. A passionate advocate for arts education, she is inspired to make the arts accessible through innovative programming and creative collaborations. She is an adjunct professor of art history at Marymount California University and enjoys a rewarding career as PVAC’s Community Engagement Director. Her Artful Daze reflections can be found on pvartcenter.org.
Track 9: Perspective Shifts
See Agenda9:00 am - 10:00 am
Track 9: Perspective Shifts
See Agenda9:00 am - 10:00 am
Bob Merchant
Bob Merchant
Bob merchant lives on the Palos Verdes peninsula with his wife, son, and 2 daughters. Bob’s love for archery started when his son, Carter, picked up his first bow 10 years ago. This led Bob into coaching, and getting his Level 2 Archery certification teaching Olympic recurve. Bob travels with Carter, coaching him competing locally and nationally. In 2020, Carter became the US junior national recurve champion and is now aiming for the 2024 Olympics. Bob joined the Terranea team and initiated the archery program at Terranea in 2018. He has turned archery (and kayaking) at Terranea beach cove into a family business with his son and twin daughters coaching alongside him.
Track 10: Taking Aim at What’s Next
See Agenda11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Track 10: Taking Aim at What’s Next
See Agenda9:00 am - 10:00 am
Tamarah Duperval-Brownlee, MD, MPH, MBA, FAAFP
Tamarah Duperval-Brownlee, MD, MPH, MBA, FAAFP
Dr. Tamarah Duperval-Brownlee is Accenture’s Chief Health Officer, responsible for creating and innovating strategies to enhance the health, safety, and wellbeing of our people and their families across the globe. Together with her team and expert partners, she is working to create conditions and enable resources for people to experience wellness, thereby allowing human ingenuity to flourish and deliver on Accenture’s promise. Aboard certified Family Physician, her career demonstrates a strong track record of clinical and operational experience, the development and implementation of community and population health strategies, and improvement of healthcare delivery and quality.
Navigating the Mental Health Crisis
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Mike Walsh
Mike Walsh
Mike Walsh is the CEO of Tomorrow, a global consultancy on designing companies for the 21st century. For the past twenty years, he has been a leading authority on disruptive innovation, digital transformation and new ways of thinking. A global nomad from a diverse ethnic background, futurist and author of three bestselling books, Mike advises some of the world’s biggest organizations on reinvention and change in this new era of machine intelligence.
New Rules for a New World
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