Who You Will Hear From
Keynote Speakers
Opening Keynote
Anne Bonney
President/Speaker, Different Shoe Enterprises
Ignite Your Team: Fired Up to Follow Leadership
Anne Bonney is a fun, energetic international keynote speaker and courage ignitor. She is an authority on Change Management, two-time author, host and creator of Dancing in the Discomfort Zone Podcast and an experienced virtual and in-person presenter. After 20 years in highly successful corporate and non-profit leadership positions, Anne now uses her experience, education, and expertise to ignite YOUR courage to build resilience in change, take on difficult communication and thrive with emotional intelligence.
Closing Keynote
Jenn Donahue
Founder, Dare to Rise
Becoming the Warrior
Jenn Donahue PhD is a retired US Navy Captain and former Commodore for an 1,800 personnel Regiment. She is also a civil engineer who works on large scale, high profile geotechnical projects. Over her 27-year military career, Jenn has built a bridge across the Euphrates River in the midst of the Iraq war, commanded an 800-personnel Battalion in Afghanistan, and constructed combat outposts in the middle of deserts filled with insurgents.
Jenn has led earthquake and tsunami reconnaissance missions in places like Samoa and Japan; designed the seismic plans for a bridge over the Panama Canal; and built roads by blasting and drilling in the coldest climes of Ketchikan. Astonishingly, Jenn has even served as the seismology expert at no fewer than five nuclear power plants.
Along the way she mentored scores of young leaders. Today Jenn runs JL Donahue Engineering. She also lectures at UC Berkeley and UCLA.
Power Skills Speakers
Anupama Kinatukara
ZNDKIN Solutions Inc./Maxwell Leadership Team
Anupama Kinatukara is the CEO and President of ZNDKIN Solutions Inc. and a certified DISC trainer, Motivational speaker, and Leadership coach. She has led individuals, teams and organizations internationally through many challenges and implemented various projects successfully in the corporate world. Anupama is on a mission to Empower and Equip leaders to BE CHALLENGED & LEAD ON so they can develop great leaders around them!
Spencer Horn
Altium Leadership & Coaching
Businesses globally look to Spencer as an enthusiastic, insightful source for counsel and advice on developing productive and focused corporate cultures. Spencer draws upon his 31 years of executive experience to reenergize seasoned and emerging professionals and increase organizational effectiveness. He inspires change, to develop: a powerful culture, effective communication, high performing teams, and engagement.
Sonal Sheth Zawahri
Tru You
Sonal Sheth Zawahri is an award-winning Author, Strategist Trainer, and Emotional Intelligence Coach. She holds a B.S. degree from Miami University and an M.S. degree from Ohio State University and has recently been awarded the Diversity and Inclusion Champion Award through Women & Hi Tech. As an EI strategist, Sonal empowers individuals to step into ACTION & develop the MINDSET they need to STRETCH & create the life they want!
Janice Litvin
Janice Litvin Speaks
Janice Litvin is on a mission to help leaders and teams banish burnout in their organizations through keynotes, workshops, and accountability groups. As a former software engineer, trainer and technology recruiter, she has lots of experience with burnout. Janice has worked with many associations (including ABA, PMI, SHRM, etc) and helps corporate clients at employee development days. Janice is president of NSA NC and is also a member of MPI, WELCOA, and SHRM (for whom she is a recertification provider).
Niel Magsombol
IN-VISION Consulting LLC
Niel is a Transformation Architect, Executive Leadership Coach, Keynote Speaker, and Author that has helped lead Enterprise Agile Transformations in Global Fortune 100 Companies such as Caterpillar, Prudential, Pfizer, Boston Consulting & Fidelity. He’s known as an insightful, energetic, and humorous motivational speaker that has presented at several Fortune 100 Companies, PMI, IIBA & Agile events around the world, universities, professional sports teams, and non-profit Organizations.
Alyssa Cox
Blue Swift Consulting
Specializing in organizational effectiveness and the power of connection, Alyssa Cox works with people at all stages of their career journeys to make the leap from subject matter experts to strategic partners. Alyssa is the founder of Blue Swift Consulting and brings over 15 years of coaching experience with Fortune 100 companies across a wide range of industries, including automotive, pharmaceuticals, software, and consumer products. She is passionate about helping people rethink the way they tap into their networks to achieve their goals and strengthen their communities.
Ways of Working Speakers
April Callis-Birchmeier
Springboard Consulting
April served on the ACMP Standard Working Group to develop the global professional standard for all change management practitioner’s worldwide and is CEO of Springboard Consulting, a change management consulting firm which provides enterprise implementation support, education, and exam preparation in organizational change management for Human Resource professionals.
Kevin Sutherland
SI Delivery Consulting
Kevin is an independent consultant focused on helping teams, leaders, and organizations deliver software to users, customers, and citizens. Through his independent practice, he discovered a passion for creating collaborative environments, facilitating continual improvement, and delivering value…and constantly learning/growing throughout the process.
Saby Waraich
PMSTAC
Energetic … engaging … lively … enthusiastic … inspiring … words that are often used to describe Saby. A speaker with the uncanny ability to look at the normal and see something quite different. Saby shares his life stories and have a fun way to look at life as well as live life. You are guaranteed to learn a thing or two on your journey from his unique perspective.
Kristian Bainey
K-PIC Systems Inc
Kristian’s areas of focus include driving business and directing digital transformation, AI, data management, operations, continuous improvement, and change management structures, processes, and systems for medium to large-sized organizations. He possesses a comprehensive understanding of the entire software development life cycle, having worked on numerous business-related IT projects across public, private, and academic sectors as a consultant. Additionally, he has spent years part-time lecturing at the university and college levels, teaching PMP and SCRUM Master part-time and coaching students to attain their PMP.
Neil Magsombol
IN-VISION Consulting LLC
Niel is a Transformation Architect, Executive Leadership Coach, Keynote Speaker, and Author that has helped lead Enterprise Agile Transformations in Global Fortune 100 Companies such as Caterpillar, Prudential, Pfizer, Boston Consulting & Fidelity. He is also a proud member of the Maxwell Leadership Certified Team, & DISC Behavioral Analysis Trainer, and is one of only 140 people worldwide to have earned an SPCT, the highest level of certification from Scaled Agile.
Chris Craft
iSeek Solutions Inc.
Chris’ primary focus was on systems thinking, while working in fields such as manufacturing, logistics, business analysis, and project management. Over the last 15 years, he has spent time as a coach and a consultant for non-profit organizations (churches, recovery programs, missions organizations), professional organizations (IIBA, PMI), and consulting firms. He has studied leadership and coaching through both traditional education (with two college degrees) and self-education for over 20 years, and is a certified Mental Health Coach through AACC.
Business Acumen Speakers
Julie Kowalski
Founder / Managing Partner, Spizzerinctu, Group
Julie Kowalski is a seasoned thought leader, inspiring coach, and superb facilitator, who elevates other’s performance. Through her own working history, Julie has gained valuable insight and acumen into the science of what it takes to start and grow successful businesses. She was named one of the “World’s Most Creative Thinkers” by bestselling author Seth Godin (Purple Cow) and she has successfully started and managed multi-million-dollar companies.
David Barrett
ProjectBites.com
David Barrett is a professional speaker, regular blogger, podcast host, author of 8 books and project management education advisor to numerous universities in Canada. David’s career includes the creation and directing of a project management conference business called ProjectWorld / ProjectSummit, a training company, a software development firm, a speaker bureau, a project management portal called ProjectTimes.com and a project management event series called ProjectTalks.
Most recently, he has launched a virtual, project management education platform called ProjectBites.com.
Steven Haines
Business Acumen Institute
Steven Haines’ ideas and books have contributed to corporate growth strategies for over two decades. His enthusiasm and focus have contributed to best-selling business books, including the Product Manager’s Desk Reference (3e), The Product Manager’s Survival Guide (2e), Leading Product Management, The Business Acumen Handbook, and How to Create a Winning Strategy.
Sinikka Waugh
Your Clear Next Step
Anupama Kinatukara is the CEO and President of ZNDKIN Solutions Inc. and a certified DISC trainer, Motivational speaker, and Leadership coach. She has led individuals, teams and organizations internationally through many challenges and implemented various projects successfully in the corporate world. Anupama Kinatukara is the CEO and President of ZNDKIN Solutions Inc. and a certified DISC trainer, Motivational speaker, and Leadership coach.
Keith Kmett
Medallia
In his career spanning 20+ years, Keith has developed customer experience strategies for financial services, automotive, insurance, healthcare, and manufacturing. A number of his experiences include managing and building customer experience and value-driven programs in the US and Latin America. Research and insights into customers, journey mapping, and CX measurement are Keith’s areas of expertise.
Gurjit Toor
PnG Ventures Inc.
Gurjit is always on the lookout to expand her horizons and use her experiences to build breadth, perspective and foresight into both her personal and professional life. She has gained valuable lessons from growing up surrounded by entrepreneurs, finding herself as the only woman in computer science lecture theatres, being the only person of color in most of her corporate meetings, and starting businesses in construction, fitness, speaking, coaching, fine arts… and counting!