Transform 2025 | Transform Media | 17 March 2025 | Wynn Las Vegas, 3131 Las Vegas Blvd S, Las Vegas, NV 89109, USA

This event sits at the intersection of technology and the people transforming the workplace. The event brings together people-driven executives, future of work entrepreneurs, and workforce tech investors for three days of progressive programming, curated connections, innovative technology, and energizing after-hours networking.

2025 Speakers

Chris Albrecht
Head of Content, OpenWater

Justin Allamano
Co-Founder, PeopleTech Invest

Jolen Anderson
Chief People & Community Officer, BetterUp

Justin Angsuwat
Chief People Officer, Culture Amp

Sheryl Anjanette
Founder & CEO, Parsley360

Dan Bagley
SVP, Global Solutions Engineering, Leena AI

Brian Baker
Chief People Officer, Teneo

Jacqueline Baker
Founder, Scarlet

Deep Bali
Co-CEO, Chief Mentor, Inventor, Xcalibrate Sherlock AI

Julie Bank
Chief People Officer, Brighton Health Plan Solutions

Amira Barger
EVP, Health Comms & DEI Advisory, Edelman

Jim Barnett
Co-Founder & CEO, Wisq

John Barry
Co-CEO, HRBench

Steve Bartel
Co-Founder & CEO, Gem

Peter Beard
VP, Policy & Programs, US Chamber of Commerce Foundation

Ebony Beckwith
Executive Coach, Speaker, & Board Member, The Beckwith Group

Blair Bennett
SVP, Global Talent Acquisition, PepsiCo

Adam Berke
Chief Product Officer, The Predictive Index

Elizabeth Berman
Chief People Officer, Global Critical Logistics

Farah Bernier
VP of HR, The Walt Disney Studios

Naveen Bhateja
EVP & CHRO, formerly Medidata Solutions

Anna Binder
Head of People, Asana

Joseph Blass
CEO, Ezekia

Trey Boynton
Chief Diversity & People Officer, Chief

Puja Brahmasmi
Co-CEO, CPO, Co-Creator & Founder, Xcalibrate Sherlock AI

Bryan Breckenridge
Co-Founder, Partner, VITAL

Natalie Breece
Chief People & Diversity Officer, ThredUp

Barbie Brewer
Chief People Officer, Camunda

Angela Briggs-Paige
Chief People Officer, Acelero

Tim Brown
VP, Talent Acquisition, Chobani

Coco Brown
Founder & CEO, Athena Alliance

Alex Buder Shapiro
Chief People Officer, Jasper AI

Ailene Bui
Sr. Director, Employer & Labor Partnerships, GRAIL Inc

Ursula Burns
Chairwoman, Teneo

Maureen Calabrese
Chief People Officer, Modern Health

Jacqui Canney
Chief People & AI Enablement Officer, ServiceNow

Valerie Capers Workman
Chief Talent Engagement Officer, Handshake

Lindsey Caplan
Founder & Lead Consultant, The Gathering Effect

Jez Cartwright
Performance Psychologist & Coach, Performance Intelligence

Darcy Casarella
VP of Talent, New Enterprise Associates (NEA)

Keely Cat-Wells
Founder & CEO, Making Space

Angela Chee
Founder, Communication Coach, Author

Joel Cheeseman
Co-Host, The Chad & Cheese Podcast

Angela Cheng-Cimini
SVP, Talent & CHRO, formerly Harvard Business Publishing

Udai Chopra
Principal, FoW Partners

Jeremy Christensen
Co-Founder & CEO, REVVED TALENT

Brian Christman
Chief People Officer, Circle

Antoinette Chukudebelu
Chief People & Equity Officer, Murmuration

Mike Clementi
Founder & CHRO, ChangeBridge People Solutions

Brett Coin
Chief Transformation Officer, Findem.ai

Michael Cole
President, Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon

Bernard Coleman
SVP, People, Swing Education

Frank Congiu
EVP, Human Capital Strategy & Executive Partnerships, Randstad

Cerys Cook
Chief People Officer, Swift Medical

Jon Cooper
Co-Founder & CEO, Overalls

Jason Corsello
Founder & General Partner, Acadian Ventures

James Crouch
General Manager, The Leadership Collective

Angel Cruzado
Founder & CEO, Chief People Officer, Respiris

Anh Dang
Head of Product & Design, Founder, OpenWater

Erin Dangerfield
SVP, People & Culture, Golden State Warriors

Brooke Daniels
Founder & CEO, Holistic Hustler

Annie Dean
Global Head of Team Anywhere, Atlassian

Jenny Dearborn
Chief People Strategy Officer, Board Director, Founder, BTS, Plum, AAG

Mine Dedekoca
Founder, Happy Work Studio

Trisha Degg
Head of Global Talent Acquisition, Rush Street Interactive

Sumona De Graaf
CEO, idealis.

Sally De Rosa
SHRM-SCP, President, HRWize

Julie Develin
Sr. Partner, HCM Advisory & Human Insights, UKG

Rajeeb Dey
Founder & CEO, Learnerbly

VENI DHIR
Director, ADP Ventures

Jeff Diana
High Growth Consultant, Advising For Impact

Liz Dias
Well-Being & Benefits Sr. Manager, Latham & Watkins

Donna Dorsey
EVP, Chief People & Culture Officer, International Motors

Matt Dowal
SVP, Leena AI

Gianna Driver
Chief People Officer, formerly Lattice & Exabeam

Samanntha DuBridge
VP, Benefits, Culture, People Care, HPE

Heather Dunn
Chief People Officer, Brex

Jamie Durling
VP of HR, Luxury & Retail

Brian Elliott
CEO, Work Forward

Torin Ellis
Principal, The Torin Ellis Brand

Chris Ellis
CEO, Thatch

Shawn Ellis
Managing Partner, Distributed Ventures

Benjamin Encz
Co-Founder & CEO, Ashby

Jason Fan
Co-Founder & CEO, Forma

Danielle Farage
Founder & Head of Insights, Danielle Farage LLC

Cori Faro
VP, Talent Acquisition, Okta

Rachel Feldman
Director, Writer, Producer, LILLY

John Ferguson
CHRO, NASCAR

Mark Fischer
Head of Product & Co-founder, Benepass

Michele Floriani
CMO, Sequoia

Craig Forman
Founder, CultureC Consulting

Kyle Forrest
Principal, Deloitte Consulting

Joe Gage
Chief Administrative Officer, Bon Secours Mercy Health

Marie-Noëlle Gagnon
Chief Talent Officer, Cirque du Soleil

Cathy Gao
Partner, Sapphire Ventures

Anjelica Garcia
EVP & CHRO, Red Bull

John Geyer
CEO, Sprout Advisors

Janine Gianfredi
Chief Marketing Officer, Transcarent

David Gill, PhD
VP, HR Officer, Team Member & Family Services, Northwell Health

Jason Goecke
Managing Partner, Cultiv8 Ventures

Manish Goel
Strategic Advisor, Talent Alpha

Joshua Goodfield
Executive Director, VC Platform

Mayank Goyal
Co-Founder & Head of AI, Leena AI

Dane Groeneveld
CEO, LEAD3R

Beth Grous
Chief People Officer, Generate Biomedicines

Juan Guerra
VP, Global Total Rewards and Operations, Coursera

Will Guillaume Foussier
Co-Founder & CEO, AceUp

Danny Guillory
Chief People Officer, Glassdoor

Tina Gupta
SVP, Talent Management, New York Life

La Nise Hagan
CHRO, OneTen

Lorna Hagen
Co-Founder, WIN Consulting

Q Hamirani
Chief People Officer, HighLevel

David Hanrahan
SVP, People Success, SolarWinds

Taylor Hansen
Executive Director, Policy & Programs, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation

Deborah Hanus
Co-Founder & CEO, Sparrow

Jensen Harris
Co-Founder & CEO, Textio

Steven Hatfield
Retired Principal, Deloitte Consulting

Christine Heckart
CEO, Xapa

Courtney Hills McBeth
Chief Academic Officer & Provost, Western Governors University

Aaron Hintzsche
AVP, Strategic Programs & Chief of Staff, Assurant

Kyle Holm
VP, Compensation Advisory, Sequoia

Ellen Hootman
Leadership Advisor & Consultant, Ellen Hootman Consulting

Rocki Howard
Founder & Chief Diversiologist, Diversiology.IO

Steven Huang
Director of People, Finance, & IT, Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies

Mark Hull
Co-Founder & CEO, Exceeds AI

ERIC HUNN
Chief People Officer, Premier Protein

Haris Ikram
CEO, CandorIQ

Samara Jaffe
Co-Founder & GM, Transform

Iraisa Jones
CHRO, Infinity Consulting

Bree Jones
Founder & CEO, Parity Homes

Jordana Kammerud
SVP, CHRO, Corning

Dan Kaplan
Managing Partner, ZRG Partners

Tiana Kara
Lead, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging, Nextdoor

Natasha Kehimkar
CEO, Malida Advisors

Yigal Kerszenbaum
Managing Partner, JFFVentures

Jonathan Kestenbaum
Managing Director, AMS

Usman "Oz" Khan
SVP, ADP Ventures

Courtney King
SVP, People & Culture, BeatBox Beverages

Shannon Kirk
Chief People Officer, California Pizza Kitchen

Donald Knight
GSVP, People & Culture, Warner Bros. Discovery

Monica Pool Knox
CEO & General Partner, Good Trouble Ventures

Brad Kogut
Head of Talent, Anywhere Real Estate

Sarah Koo
Head of Product, Gem

Cassie Kozyrkov
CEO, Chief Decision Scientist, formerly GOOGLE

Jeff Krautkramer
CHRO, Madison Air

Alex Kweskin
EVP, CHRO, Banc of California

Kyle Lagunas
Head of Strategy, Aptitude Research

Joel Lalgee
Founder, The Realest Recruiter

Ekta Lall Mittal
HR Leader & Connector, Formerly Morgan Stanley

Sarika Lamont
VP, People, Vidyard

David Landman
Former Head of Talent, Goldman Sachs/Startup Advisor

Tiffany Lanier
Keynote Speaker & Facilitator, Change is the Catalyst

George LaRocque
Founder and Principal Analyst, WorkTech

Jill Larsen
Chief People Officer, Synopsys

Matthew Lavery
Global Dir., Talent Acquisition & Onboarding, UPS

Katya Laviolette
Chief People Officer, 1Password

Terah Lawyer
President, CROP Organization

Tracy Layney
Chief HR Officer, Formerly Levi Strauss & Co.

Lan Lee
VP, People & Culture, San Francisco Giants

Eugene Lee
Partner, OMERS Ventures

Linda Lee
Talent Partner, AI Fund

Annie Lee
Head of People, Candidly

Jane Lee Choe
Chief Commercial Officer, Midi Health

Jevan Lenox
Chief People Officer, insitro

Dr. Scott Leuchter
Chief People Officer, Ideal Tridon Group

Rob Lewis
Music Producer | AI & Creativity Speaker | TEDx Speaker, 19 in the 4th Entertainment Group

Sanja Licina, PhD
President, QuestionPro

Lin Ling
CEO, Modus

Mark Lipscomb
Sr. VP, Employee Experience, Adobe

Brian Little
Chief People Officer, Altera, an Intel Company

Sandra Loughlin, PhD
Chief Learning Scientist, EPAM Systems

Kaleen Love, PhD
U.S. Chief People & Culture Officer, Philip Morris International

Stephanie Lucchesi
VP, People, Ritual

Stela Lupushor
Founder, Reframe.Work Inc.

Lisa Lutz
President/CEO, SOLID

Matt MacInnis
CPO, Rippling

Camye Mackey
EVP & Chief People, DEI Officer, Atlanta Hawks / State Farm Arena

Carol MacKinlay
CHRO, Velocity Global

Laura Maffucci
Head of HR, G-P

Payal Maheshwari
Partner, People Catalysts

Mita Mallick
Wall Street Journal & USA Today Best Selling Author, Wiley

Kate Manahan
Chief People Officer, Bus Patrol

Maya Marcus
Chief People Officer, Abnormal Security

Rachel Marcuse
COO & Managing Partner, ReadySet

Brett Martin
Founder & President, Fonzi.ai

Dr. Ken Matos
Director of Market Insights, HiBob

Larry McAlister
Head of Digital Transformation, Nutanix

Becky McCullough
VP, Talent Acquisition & Mobility, HubSpot

Barbry McGann
SVP & Managing Director, Workday Ventures

Gracie Mercado
EVP, People & Culture, Macmillan Publishers

Elle Meza
Advisor & Consultant, Elle Meza Consulting

Amit Mohindra
CEO, People Analytics Success

Dani Monaghan
SVP, Global Talent Acquisition, Expedia Group

Ariana Moon
VP, Talent Planning & Acquisition, Greenhouse Software

Carolyn Moore
Principal & CEO, CultureFluence Consulting

Shelly Morales
Founder & CEO, MoralesHR

Suzan Morno-Wade
EVP & CHRO, formerly Xerox Corporation

Neil Motwani
Managing Director, TD Securities

Jeet Mukerji
Co-Founder & CEO, Kinfolk

Cher Murphy
Founder & Advisor, Murphy Advisory

Apple Musni
Chief People Officer, REI

Cole Napper
VP, Research & Innovation, Lightcast

Melanie Naranjo
Chief People Officer, Ethena

Shannon Nash
Board Director, Netscout Systems & SoFi Bank

Dr. Nancy Nazer
CHRO, OMERS

Jim O'Gorman
Chief People Officer, Included Health

Becky Ospina
VP, People & Culture, FiberLight

Rhency Padilla
Human Capital & Culture Consultant, G42

David Paffenholz
CEO, Juicebox

Elaine Page
Chief People Officer, TaxJar

Jennifer Paisley
SVP, HR, Valmont Industries

Tushar Pandit
Chief People Officer, SPINS

Judy Park
Senior Advisor/Investor, FoW Partners

Dr. Martin Payne Ed.D
Chief Commercial Officer, Empowerly

Torin Perez
L&D Partner & Executive Producer, Seaenna

Tammy Perkins
Chief People Officer & Advisor, formerly ProService

Peter Phelan
Founder & CEO, ValuesCulture

Prudence Pitter
Global Head of HR, Auto & Mfg, AWS

Matt Poepsel, PhD.
VP & Godfather of Talent Optimization, The Predictive Index

Rebecca Port, PhD
Chief People Officer, 10x Genomics

Adam Posner
Founder, Podcast Host, The POZcast

Bryan Power
Head of People, Nextdoor

Rhett Power
Co-Founder & CEO, Accountability

Raghavendra (RVP) Prabhu
CEO, Tezi

Hannah Pritchett
Head of People, Anthropic

Virginie Raphael
Founder & Managing Partner, FullCircle

Amy Reichanadter
Chief People Officer, Databricks

Jason Resendez
President & CEO, National Alliance for Caregiving

Jonathan Reyes
VP, People & Talent Operations, Databricks

Sarah Reynolds
Chief Marketing Officer, HiBob

DeRetta Rhodes, PhD
EVP & Chief Culture Officer, Atlanta Braves

Dan Riley
Co-Founder, RADICL

Brianna Rizzo
Ecosystem Partner, VMG

Kerry Robert
CHRO, Entrada Therapeutics

Nico Roberts
Chief Business Officer, Fountain

Don Robertson
Senior Advisor, Northwestern Mutual

Beth Robertson
Co-Leader, Health & Benefits, NFP

Laurie Ruettimann
Founder, Punk Rock HR

Martha Ruiz
Global Head of People, Thoughtworks

Maggie Ruvoldt
CHRO, LEARN Behavioral

Kati Ryan
VP, Learning & Development, StartupExperts

Tim Sackett
CEO, HRUTech.com

Brandon Sammut
Chief People Officer, Zapier

J.P. Sanday
Partner, Menlo Ventures

Chandra Sanders
CEO, Heels N Hustle

Bala V. Sathyanarayanan
EVP & CHRO, Greif

Marcus Sawyerr
Founder & CEO, EQ.app

Vickie Saxon
Daughter of Lilly Ledbetter

Anthony Scattone
Deputy Chief People Officer, Aon

Lars Schmidt
Founder & CEO, Amplify Talent

Raquel Scott
Sr. Associate, SemperVirens Venture Capital

Joshua Secrest
VP, Marketing & Client Advocacy, Paradox

Alex Seiler
Chief People Officer & Start Up Advisor, Alex Seiler LLC

Deepak Sekar
Co-Founder & CEO, Prof Jim

Guru Sethupathy
Founder & CEO, FairNow

Jeremy Shapiro
Associate VP, Workforce Analytics, Merck

Gaurav Sharda
Chief Technology Officer, Beacon Mobility

Adi Shetty
VP, Digital HR & Analytics, Verizon

Yaniv Shimoni
Co-Founder, Take2 AI

Mari Sifo
EVP & CHRO, Host Hotels

Samantha Simmons
Chief People & Internal Operations Officer, LPGA

Justin Simpson
Co-Founder & Publisher, Here.Now.AI.

Mala Singh
Chief People Officer, Electronic Arts

Krista Skalde
Operating Partner and Chief Talent Officer, Inovia Capital

Lisa Skinner Källström
Chief HR Officer, Teamtailor

Mary Ellen Slayter
CEO, Rep Cap

Tigran Sloyan
Co-Founder & CEO, CodeSignal

Robyn Smith
CHRO, Jackson Healthcare

Khalil Smith
VP, ID&E, Akamai Technologies

Landon Smith
Benefits Program Manager, CHG Healthcare

Stephen Sokoler
Founder & CEO, Journey

Steve Sonnenberg
CEO, Awardco

Keith Soura
VP of Engineering, Better Mortgage

Chad Sowash
Co-Founder & Co-Host, The Chad & Cheese Podcast

Tanya Spencer
Co-Founder, Build Lead Succeed

Tracie Sponenberg
Founder & Chief People Officer, Tracie Sponenberg, LLC

Kat Steinmetz
Founding General Partner, Good Trouble Ventures

Joseph Steinrock
VP, Product Strategy, ADP

Mark Stelzner
Founder/Managing Principal, IA

Rebecca Stern
Sr. Dir., Leadership Dev. & Interim CLO, Udemy

Tiffany Stevenson
Chief People Officer, WeightWatchers

Kelley Steven-Waiss
Chief Transformation Officer, ServiceNow

Kim Sullivan
Chief People Officer, Proofpoint

Gregory Summers
CEO, Orion Talent

Jessica Swank
Chief People Officer, Box

Conor Sweeney
Global Head of Talent & Development, WeightWatchers

Adil Syed
GM of Startups & Head of Investor Relations, Rippling

Josh Tanenbaum
Managing Partner, Rebalance Capital

John Tarnoff
Executive & Career Transition Coach, Reinvention Group

Desiree Therianos
Fractional CHRO, The Joy Agenda

AJ Thomas
Founder & General Partner, Good Trouble Ventures

Erin L. Thomas, PhD
VP, Culture, Inclusion & Leader Engagement, Upwork

Solome Tibebu
Founder & CEO, Behavioral Health Tech

Jesse Tinsley
Founder & CEO, Recruiter.com

Naomi Titleman
Co-Founder, future foHRward

Paul Tripp
Master Certified Team Coach, AceUp

Eli Tsinovoi
Head of AI, UKG

Dalia Turner
Chief People Officer, Raketech

Julie Turney
Founder & CEO, HR@Heart Consulting

Natasha Valani
SVP, HR, Tubi Media Group, Fox Corporation / Tubi

Allison Vendt
VP, People Operations, Dropbox

Lindsay Verstegen
Chief People & Diversity Officer, Detroit Lions

Julianna Vitolo
Investor, OMERS Ventures

Deepali Vyas
CEO, ProFolios

Barbara Wachsman
Senior Advisor, Frazier Healthcare Partners

Pat Wadors
SVP, CHRO, Intuitive

Brett Waikart
CEO, Skillfully

Peter Walker
Head of Insights, Carta

Michael Walters
CHRO, Samsung Semiconductor

Tammy Wang
CEO & Co-Founder, Simsola AI

Brad Warga
Global Managing Partner, Heidrick & Struggles

Tobias Washington
Exec. Dir., HR Tech & PMO, CHRISTUS Health

Nate Watters
VP, Ambetter Health

Dr. Theresa Watts
SVP, HR & DEI, True Religion

Adam Weber
Executive Coach, Adam Weber Coaching

Tom Whitty
CRO, Upflex

Paul E. Wolfe
Human First Leadership Advocate, Paul E. Wolfe

Janet Xu
Senior Principal, Distributed Ventures

Janine Yancey
Founder & CEO, Emtrain

Michael Yang
Sr. Managing Partner, OMERS Ventures

Jen Yeh
General Counsel & Head of People, Checkr

Julie Yoo
General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz

Hebba Youssef
Chief People Officer, Workweek

Matthew Zakreski, PsyD
Clinical Psychologist, The Neurodiversity Collective

Carla Zaldua
CEO, Emotional Hub

Serena Ziskroit
Founder & Chief People Officer, Mighty One People

2025 Sponsors

TITLE SPONSORS:
• Aceup
• Deloitte
• Rippling
• Sequoia
• Sparrow
• Transcarent

GOLD SPONSORS:
• ADP Ventures
• Ambetter Health
• Ashby
• Awardco
• Benepass
• Betterhelp Business
• CandorIQ
• Checkr
• Cocoon
• Culture Amp
• Empowerly
• Forma
• Fountain
• Gem
• G-P
• Grail
• Greenhouse
• Guardian
• Handshake
• HiBob
• HRBench
• Juicebox
• Modern Health
• Overalls
• PeopleTech Partners
• Sana
• SemperVirens
• Textio
• Tezi
• PI The Predictive Index
• Velocity Global
• WISQ

SILVER SPONSORS:
• BambooHR
• Candidly
• Carrot
• Emtrain
• Fidelity
• Findem
• Included Health
• Journey
• Leena AI
• Newfort
• OpenWater
• Paradox
• Payscale
• Remote
• Reperio
• Revved Talent
• Summer
• Talentful
• Tribute
• UKG
• Upflex
• US Chamber of Commerce Foundation
• Wagmo

BRONZE SPONSORS:
• Anthem
• Delta Dental
• Leader
• MarshMcLennan Agency
• Mavericks
• MidiHEalth
• Printfection