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Advisory Committee

Conference Academic Program Advisors

Ellen Ernst Kossek, Conference and Advisory Board Chair
Basil S. Turner Professor of Management and Research Director of Susan Butler Center for Leadership Excellence
Purdue University 

Nadia Brown
Professor and Chair Women's and Gender Studies
Georgetown University
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Nathalie Duval-Couetil
Associate Professor of Technology, Leadership, and Innovation; Director, Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program; Associate Director, Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship; Courtesy Faculty of Engineering Education

Meara M. Habashi
Director, Brock-Wilson Center for Women in Business
Clinical Assistant Professor
Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business
Purdue University

Jamie Ladge
Patrick F. & Helen C. Walsh Research Professor
D’Amore-McKim School of Business
Northeastern University

Kyung-Lee Lee
Research Scholar
Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business & Susan Butler Center for Leadership Excellence
Purdue University 

Denise Lloyd Lewin
Associate Professor of Business Administration and Vernon Zimmerman Faculty Fellow
Gies College of Business
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Laura Little
Synovus Director of the Institute for Leadership Advancement and
Associate Professor
Terry College of Business
University of Georgia

Margo Monteith
Professor of Social Psychology
College of Health and Human Sciences
Purdue University

Catherine Tinsley
Professor of Management
McDonough School of Business
Georgetown University

Alexis Nicole Smith
Associate Professor of Management
Spears School of Business
University of Oklahoma

Diversity and Inclusion Leaders Advisory Board

Ellen Ernst Kossek, Conference and Advisory Board Chair
Basil S. Turner Professor of Management and Research Director of Susan Butler Center for Leadership Excellence
Purdue University

Barb Soria
2021 Conference and Advisory Board Co-Chair
Senior Vice President, Human Resources
Capital Group

Ellen Zawacki
Senior Sales Manager at American Funds
Capital Group

Sri Vemuri
Senior Vice President and Director Internal Sales
Capital Group

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Christine Krull
Director, Diversity and Inclusion
Roche Diagnostics

Candy King
Director, Strategic Projects – Diversity and Inclusion
Roche Diagnostics

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Kristen McCain
Consultant, Leadership Development – Manufacturing and Quality
Eli Lilly and Company

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Susan Jischke
HR Offering Manager, Employee Recognition
IBM

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Alan Roncevic
Senior Manager HR Business Partner
Sales Force

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Carolyn Johnson
Associate Vice Provost for Diversity and Inclusion and
Director of Diversity Resource Office
Purdue University

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Nadia Conti

Customer Insights, Jet Pro Pilots

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Conference Organizing  Leaders

Kyung-Lee Lee
Research Scholar
Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business & Susan Butler Center for Leadership Excellence
Purdue University

Sherry Fisher
Administrative Assistant
Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business & Susan Butler Center for Leadership Excellence
Purdue University