2021
WIRexec Leadership Summit

Joanna Bloor, Founder of The Amplify Lab, believes that it’s time for us humans to rethink how we prepare for the future of work. The what, where, when and how of work is changing —and so is the who. Joanna’s on a mission to help us prepare for the big leap into the working future. To uncover and articulate our human value and our place in the next chapter of the working world. No big deal. A self-described “startup junkie”,  Joanna spent her career scaling and building brands like Ticketmaster, Cars.com, OpenTable and Pandora. Known for building teams, infrastructure and revenue strategies through their moments of acceleratin ggrowth and rapid change; Joanna did so in environments where there were no rulebooks, no career paths, no precedents of how things “should” be done. Joanna’s a veteran of playing in the undefined future. A fateful conversation in line at the TED 2016 Conference that led to her realization that the language of humans, how we talk about ourselves and others in the working world, needed to shift. “There isn’t a business leader today who doesn’t think about the potential of their business, products and technology – about how they will solve problems of and in the future. Yet when we talk about the people who create those businesses, products and technologies, we talk about their skills, productivity and titles -all linear and mechanistic language of the past. We need to shift the way we speak about human talent, after all, don’t we hire people to solve problems of the future? Shouldn’t we recognize those people for the future-focused work they do by using multidimensional, potential-oriented language?”–Joanna Bloor

Companies such as Microsoft, Philips, TED, Salesforce, GE, Content Asia, PayPal and Ernest Young have brought in Joanna to work with employees from recent grads to the executive teams (C-Levels).

Kristine Shine is the Founder and CEO of Shine Talent, an executive recruiting and professional development firm that focuses exclusively on sales and marketing talent. She is also the creator of Career Masters, a career development bootcamp that helps professionals level up in their careers, and the Shine Talent Network, a private professional development community that launches early summer 2021. Previously, Kristine led teams at Microsoft and Bloomberg Businessweek and was the CRO of POPSUGAR, as well as the President of the San Francisco Chronicle.

Gretchen consults with clients to inform their product strategy and improve team collaboration skills, and her book, Mastering Collaboration is available from O'Reilly. She spent the first part of her career in design consulting for firms like frog design, Cooper, and LUNAR. Recently, she was Head of Design at PG&E, California’s largest energy company, she has led the design of the hardware and software of a next-generation surgical system, and served as VP of Product at GreatSchools.org.

Her past clients include Virgin Records, Samsung, Johnson & Johnson, and Intel. Gretchen is a Bay Area native who left only long enough to get a bachelor’s degree from Harvard in History & Literature.

Laura helps leaders and businesses owners build impactful, profitable personal brands, to stand out in their niche as the confident expert they already are. She comes from two decades of media and brand storytelling experience – from National Geographic and Netflix to Microsoft and T-Brand Studios. Today, she’s passionate about helping fellow women business leaders find their story – and then effectively shout it to the world…  to be seen, influential and profitable.

Anese is devoted to helping people show up and bring their best selves to the table in order to create significant positive impact in their lives. She is the creator of the IEP Method®, an advisor and thinking partner to leaders and organizations around the world, a keynote speaker, and author (most recently of CONTAGIOUS YOU: Unlock Your Power to Influence, Lead, and Create the Impact You Want). She helps people unlock greater leadership potential, collaborate more inspiringly, create more openly, intuit more bravely, and lead more joyfully and effectively. Top innovators and executives in companies like IDEO, Zingerman’s, Cooper, GM Financial, Vistaprint, 15Five, Fitbit, Vivayic, Kaiser Permanente, and others have engaged with Anese to strengthen team health, maximize leadership impact, and optimize company culture. In addition to appearing in many leading publications, Anese has a column, “Showing Up” on Inc.com and writes regularly for AneseCavanaugh.com.

Lisa’s strategy for working with organizations is informed by two decades of witnessing people move through change and carefully observing what makes them thrive. In that time, she has delivered over 2,000 workshops, research presentations, and keynote speeches on leadership development and organizational change across the United States, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and the Middle East.

Lisa uses her keen sense for discovery to craft and deliver targeted experiences that create lasting change. She specializes in working with executive audiences and uses the Harvard case method and other experiential teaching and coaching techniques in order to explore and expand leadership perspective and performance.

Her coaching practice focuses on C-suite and Mid-level leaders who desire to elevate their effectiveness, presence, and growth through specialized one-on-one interaction that addresses both “vertical” and “horizontal” growth.

Lisa was most recently an Executive Leadership Advisor and Faculty Member at The Advisory Board Company, a Washington DC based research, technology and consulting firm. Her role included teaching, speaking, coaching, consulting, and field testing emerging leadership concepts. She also served as a Faculty member for the ABC Fellowship, an 18-month accelerated MBA-style leader development experience that equips high potential leaders to run organizations of the future.

Lisa completed her Coaching training at Georgetown’s Institute for Transformational Leadership and mastered the Art and Craft of Discussion Leadership through Harvard’s Case Method Teaching Seminar. She is constantly scanning the leadership horizon for the latest thinking in the field.

You can usually find her in one of three places: outdoors exploring the Bay Area’s natural beauty, in the kitchen cooking from scratch or on the computer plotting her next International adventure.

Heidi Dickert’s personal passion and mission in life is dedicated to helping women fulfill their potential. Heidi has been creating personal development sessions that lead women through the reflective and inspiring process of Intention setting for over a decade.

Heidi's "day job" as a marketing consultant utilizes over 20 years of international consumer, technology and B-to-B marketing and research expertise to help companies research, develop and launch new product offerings in a variety of innovative market arenas. Past clients include: Google, Facebook, Levi’s, Cliff Bar, Delicato Wines, MarketTools, ICOM/Alliance Data/Epsilon, Clorox, Autodesk, MMetrics/Comscore, Microsoft, Yes to Carrots, Goodby Silverstein & Partners, and Visa.

Heidi has also had roles as SVP, Global Account Director for the Kantar group, and VP of Panels and New Products at MarketTools where she created and launch several new products including MarketTools Mobile, MarketTools Hispanic Reach, and MarketTools Health & Wellness. Prior to this, Heidi led both new and established brand research groups and supported Latin American and US Hispanic product development for the flagship laundry brands at Clorox.

Earlier in her career, Heidi created and implemented market research programs in Europe and Africa for companies such as DHL Worldwide Express and SC Johnson. She taps into her knowledge of international markets to assess and strategically develop new products that meet the international needs of clients around the world. Heidi earned her Bachelor’s degree at University of Wisconsin –Madison.

Learn more at www.heididickert.com.

Deb Katz is a consultant with The Conscious Leadership Group. She has more than twenty years experience pioneering new models in conscious leadership in the organizational world. She coaches leaders 1:1, facilitates teams and consults for organizational and cultural transformation. Not only is she an industry expert, she is known to radiate warmth and presence, tell it like it is, and to walk her talk with a gentle and playful fierceness. When not coaching or consulting, Deb is likely to be dancing, hiking, working in the garden or on her stand up paddle board.

Heidi Dickert’s personal passion and mission in life is dedicated to helping women fulfill their potential. Heidi has been creating personal development sessions that lead women through the reflective and inspiring process of Intention setting for over a decade.

Heidi's "day job" as a marketing consultant utilizes over 20 years of international consumer, technology and B-to-B marketing and research expertise to help companies research, develop and launch new product offerings in a variety of innovative market arenas. Past clients include: Google, Facebook, Levi’s, Cliff Bar, Delicato Wines, MarketTools, ICOM/Alliance Data/Epsilon, Clorox, Autodesk, MMetrics/Comscore, Microsoft, Yes to Carrots, Goodby Silverstein & Partners, and Visa.

Heidi has also had roles as SVP, Global Account Director for the Kantar group, and VP of Panels and New Products at MarketTools where she created and launch several new products including MarketTools Mobile, MarketTools Hispanic Reach, and MarketTools Health & Wellness. Prior to this, Heidi led both new and established brand research groups and supported Latin American and US Hispanic product development for the flagship laundry brands at Clorox.

Earlier in her career, Heidi created and implemented market research programs in Europe and Africa for companies such as DHL Worldwide Express and SC Johnson. She taps into her knowledge of international markets to assess and strategically develop new products that meet the international needs of clients around the world. Heidi earned her Bachelor’s degree at University of Wisconsin –Madison.

Learn more at www.heididickert.com.