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Eric Dishman is an Intel Fellow and director of Health Innovation in the Intel Architecture Group, responsible for driving Intel's cross-business strategy, research, and policy initiatives for healthcare information technologies.

An internationally renowned speaker, Eric is widely recognized as a global leader in healthcare innovation with specific expertise in home and community-based technologies and services for chronic disease management and independent living. He is also known for pioneering innovation techniques that incorporate anthropology, ethnography, and other social science methods into the design and development of new technologies. Eric and his team's work have been featured in publications including the New York Times, Washington Post, Business Week, and USA Today. Eric was also named one of "12 People Who Are Changing Your Retirement" by The Wall Street Journal.

Lisa Belkin wears many hats at The New York Times. She writes the blog Motherlode: Adventures in Parenting every day, and periodically writes the "Life's Work" column for Thursday Styles, chronicling the intersection (or, more accurately, the collision) of life and work. Lisa is also a social issues writer for The New York Times Magazine, as well as a regular Life/Work issues contributor to the NBC Today Show and the NPR radio program "The Takeaway."

Additionally, Lisa is the author of three books, First Do No Harm, about a hospital's ethics committee, Show Me A Hero, about a neighborhood torn apart by a judge's desegregation order, and Life's Work: Confessions of an Unbalanced Mom. Lisa has been the recipient of numerous awards for both her magazine work and her books, including the Front Page Award from the Newswoman's Club of New York, the John Barlow Martin Award for Public Interest Magazine Journalism, the American Medical Writer's Association Book of the Year and Salon Magazine's Top Ten Non-Fiction Books of the Year.

Todd DeGarmo has developed a strong expertise in guiding organizations through the complete design and construction process, including site search, strategic planning, and master planning exercises. In addition, he has considerable experience helping emerging companies envision new work environments that support and integrate their culture, work processes, technology, and brand.

Todd's recent projects include the award-winning Bloomberg LP headquarters in New York and E*Trade Bank's headquarters in Virginia, as well as the renovation of the Headquarters for the American Institute of Architects in Washington, DC. In 2007 Todd was inducted into Interior Design Magazine's Hall of Fame.

Rafiq R. Kalam Id–Din II, Esq. is the Founder & Managing Partner of Teaching Firms of America—Professional Preparatory Charter School, and recipient of the prestigious Echoing Green Fellowship for Social Entrepreneurs. Combining his backgrounds in teaching and law, Rafiq also served as Executive Director of the AnBryce Foundation, a Washington DC area nonprofit foundation that provides education programs and scholarships to socio-economically disadvantaged students.

Rafiq has also served as General Counsel to the Jerome Holland Scholarship Alumni Board, a founder of the Blackout Arts Collective, a member of Board of the Directors of the Lowell School, True Potential, and Generation Engage. Today, Rafiq serves as President of the Black, Latino, Asian and Pacific American Law Alumni Association of NYU Law and a member of the Board of Directors of Mobilize.org.

Ben Foss is Executive Director of Disability Rights Advocates. In this role, he leads this national civil rights law center that fights for the rights of people with disabilities. Previously, he was Director of Access Technology in the Health Group at Intel Corporation. His group focused on improving communication and access to information for all, including those who are dyslexic like him. There he was awarded two U.S. Patents and developed the Intel® Reader, a device that CNN called "too groundbreaking to ignore."

In 2003, Ben founded Headstrong, a California public benefit non-profit corporation, with the mission of forming a dyslexic community and encouraging LD people to join the disability rights movement. The non-profit's first film, Headstrong: Inside the Hidden World of Dyslexia and Attention Deficit Disorder, was recently broadcast across the U.S. on public television stations.

Melinda Wolfe heads Professional Development at Bloomberg L.P., overseeing a full continuum of human capital management responsibilities. Melinda has led talent management initiatives with a passionate focus on diversity at five major global companies over her career, including Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, and American Express.

In addition, Melinda chairs the National Council for Research on Women's Corporate Circle; co-chairs the Hidden Brain Drain Task Force; and serves as a Commissioner for the NYC Mayor's Commission on Women's Issues. She holds positions as Adjunct Faculty member and Advisory Board member at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. She is also a member of the Board of Planned Parenthood of New York City.

As Deloitte LLP's Vice Chairman and Chief Talent Officer, Cathy is leading a pioneering approach to solving the paradox between a high performance culture and career-life fit called the corporate lattice. She is also responsible for driving the organization's strategy to attract, develop and advance a highly skilled and increasingly diverse workforce.

Learn more in Cathy's latest book, The Corporate Lattice: Achieving High Performance in the Changing World of Work (Harvard 2010). In addition, Cathy's professional insights have been recognized in such publications as The New York Times, CNBC.com, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Strategy & Leadership, The Wall Street Journal and TIME, and through national radio, television and conference outlets.

Together Alexis Maybank and Alexandra Wilkis Wilson built Gilt Groupe, an online company dedicated to providing its members with invitation-only access to coveted fashion and luxury lifestyle brands at sample sale prices.

Alexis is the President of Premium Products and Services, while Alexandra serves as Chief Marketing Officer. Gilt Groupe has over three million impeccably dressed members.

Carmen, a personal finance expert and journalist, is the former host and co-creator of CNBC's daily personal finance show, On the Money. Carmen is also the author of two books, including the under-40 guide to personal finance, Generation Debt: Take Control of Your Money, and The Real Cost of Living: Making the Best Choices for You, Your Life and Your Money.

Carmen can be seen regularly on NBC's The Today Show, MSNBC, CBS's The Early Show, and CNN, and is an expert contributor to The Dr. Oz Show as well as GLAMOUR magazine and iVillage.com. A former special projects editor at MONEY magazine, Carmen writes for The New York Times, PARADE magazine, and Good Housekeeping, and has been the financial advice columnist for LATINA magazine, ESSENCE, and Men's Health magazine. Carmen's advice has been highlighted in U.S. News & World Report, The Washington Post, ELLE, SELF, Redbook, Yahoo! Finance, and many other national publications.

Jay Mulki is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at Northeastern University, and spent more than 20 years in business holding management positions in Fortune 500 companies. Jay has been recognized for his research and work in the development and implementation of service programs to increase customer satisfaction, promoting new electro technologies, and the implementation of one of the largest energy efficiency programs in the country by Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA and DOE, Washington.

Jay's primary research interests are in the areas of personal selling and sales management and services marketing. His most recent research has focused on remote workers and how they and the companies they work for can thrive. He has received awards and recognition for both his teaching and research, and has been published in MIT Sloan Management Journal, International Journal of Human Resources Management, Journal of Business Research, Psychology & Marketing, Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management, International Journal of Service Industry Management, Journal of Marketing Theory & Practice, and Journal of Business Ethics.

Tory Johnson is all about spark and hustle at work. She's an award-winning business leader, national network television contributor, popular speaker and bestselling author devoted to career success. In 1999, she founded Women For Hire, which hosts high caliber diversity career expos across the country, attracting talented women and leading employers. More than 5,000 people attended her recent New York career expo.

Tory can also be seen on ABC's Good Morning America, as a regular workplace contributor where viewers appreciate her no-nonsense career advice. She is author of Fired To Hired, her fifth book and Will Work From Home: Earn Cash Without the Commute, which was both a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller.

Annie Perrin is Senior Vice President at The Energy Project, a company that helps individuals and organizations fuel energy, engagement, focus and productivity by harnessing the science of high performance. At The Energy Project, Annie has coached senior leaders at organizations including Barclays Bank, Google, Sony Pictures Entertainment, the Cleveland Clinic and Wachovia Bank. She has also delivered keynotes at a range of organizations including Ernst and Young Women’s Conference, the Visiting Nurses of New York and Morgan Stanley.

Prior to The Energy Project, Annie spent 15 years as a psychotherapist with a focus on trauma survivors. Annie is a National Certified Counselor, and was honored in 2004 by the Sanctuary Institute with the "Sanctuary Hero Award" for her outstanding work in the field of trauma. Annie is also one of the co-authors of Understanding The Dance Therapy Group.

Jake Barton is principal and Founder of Local Projects, a media design firm for museums and public spaces. Jake is recognized as a leader in the field of interaction design for physical spaces, as well as collaborative storytelling projects where participants generate content. 

Local Projects is creating the media design for the 9/11 Memorial Museum, StoryCorps, Give a Minute, and the Frank Gehry designed Eisenhower Presidential Memorial. Local Projects is a two-time National Design Award finalist and was named the second most innovative design firm by Fast Company for its redefinition of emotional storytelling. Current clients include the BMW Guggenheim Lab, Cleveland Museum of Art, Seaworld, the 9/11 Memorial, Liberty Mutual, and the National Museum of African-American History and Culture.

Sylvia Ann Hewlett is the founding president of the Center for Work-Life Policy (CWLP), a nonprofit think tank, where she chairs a task force focused on identifying, developing and promoting corporate policies and practices that support the ambition, work and life needs of highly qualified talent. In addition she directs the Gender and Policy Program at Columbia University. Hewlett is also a well-known speaker on the international stage, including keynoting International Women's Day at the IMF and giving the featured address at Pfizer's Emerging Markets Leadership Summit in Dubai.

Bill Taylor is a best-selling writer, speaker and entrepreneur who shapes the global conversation about the best ways to compete, innovate and succeed. As a cofounder of Fast Company, Bill has earned a passionate following among executives and entrepreneurs. His latest book, Practically Radical, debuted at #6 on the Wall Street Journal Hardcover Business List.

Practically Radical is a guide for leaders who aspire to boost their organizations, launch new initiatives and rethink the logic of leadership itself with an agenda of renewal. The book offers proven methods to foster energy and creativity from employees while forming stronger bonds with customers.

Nadira Hira is an award-winning writer, editor, speaker, and television personality whose diverse work combines the study of culture, economics, and Generation Y in a 21st-century mashup all her own. Nadira has become a leading voice on Gen Y, the fastest-growing segment of the American workforce, through her journalism at Fortune magazine and her insight as a Gen Yer herself. She has been recognized on the NewsBios "30 Under 30" list, and has been nominated three times for the National Association of Black Journalists Salute to Excellence award.

Nadira frequently shares her expertise on leadership, management, and all things Gen Y at industry conferences and such companies as Walt Disney Imagineering, AT&T, Kohler, and Eli Lilly. She has also been a featured personality on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, VH1's The Fabulous Life, and CNBC's The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, among others, and an expert commentator on many major outlets, including CBS, CNN, MSNBC, MTV, HGTV, NPR, and BBC-A.