she/her/hers Collins is responsible for cultivating an inclusive and equitable culture that celebrates differences, attracts diverse talent and inspires an environment that enables all employees to do their best work. Prior to Ellucian, she worked at Bank of America as a Senior Vice President for 20 years in various leadership positions. Collins transitioned into DEI
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she/her/her Ashley T Brundage started her career as a means of survival. Fighting discrimination, harassment, and homelessness she found employment as a part time associate then rose to national VP of Diversity and Inclusion in less than 5 years at a major financial services organization, PNC. She captured this process of career development in her
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he/him/his Steve Yager has over 25 years of experience in the Telecommunications and Information Technology industries. Steve is currently a Vice President in Cisco’s Customer Experience (CX) organization where he is responsible for Service Providers in the Americas. CX is the Cisco Business Unit devoted to accelerating customer outcomes by ensuring the successfully adoption and
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she/her/hers Ariane Panter is the Senior Director, Global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy and Corporate Function Support for McDonald’s. She was formerly the McDonald’s Senior Counsel, Global Labor and Employment and the NBA Associate General Council. Leveraging 12+ years of experience to provide practical, business-enabling and human-centered diversity, equity and inclusion strategy. Passionate about creating
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he/him/his Ed Summers is a blind software engineer and an accessibility specialist. He has a B.S. in Computer Science and 25 years of professional experience as a software developer and a development manager. Ed’s personal mission is to enable people with disabilities to realize their full potential in the classroom and the 21st century knowledge economy.
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she/her/hers Recognized by the media for redefining leadership, Payal Nanjiani is a globally acclaimed Indian-American leadership speaker, top executive coach, and New York award-winning author. She is the founder of Success Within Leadership, a training and coaching company dedicated to developing transformed leaders who influence, inspire, and innovate with speed and serenity. As a world-renowned
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she/her/hers Jess Evans serves as the Senior Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Specialist at Wolfspeed. In this role, she works to build an environment where inclusivity is real and active rather than theoretical and static. Prior to joining Wolfspeed, Jess built a 14-year career in higher education holding positions at Virginia Tech, Duke University, and UNC
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he/him/his Courtney J. White, an award-winning leader, executive coach, and speaker, is the head of Human Resources for North America; Global Seeds & Traits; and Global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for BASF Agricultural Solutions. He is accountable for leading the development and implementation of strategies to engage and harness the dynamic power of people. Having
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he/him/his James Barron is Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the UNC Health Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. His duties focus on system-wide initiatives in the development and implementation of an Employee Resource Groups Inclusion Initiative and development on a DEI Strategy to enhance inclusion and equity programming that delivers on the mission
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he/him/his D. Keith Pigues is the founder and CEO of Luminas Strategy – a business strategy and value proposition consultancy based in Research Triangle Park, NC. The firm helps Fortune 1000 companies develop winning value propositions to accelerate profitable organic growth with the use of its proprietary Customer Value Xcelerator® and Stakeholder Value Xcelerator℠ offerings.
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