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Sara Ross<\/h2>\n

Saturday, October 22 | 5:00-6:15 p.m.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Sara Ross <\/strong>and\u00a0her company BrainAMPED provide brain-based tools to decrease stress and exhaustion and increase leadership vitality by strengthening the skills of energy management, emotional intelligence and resilience. Her ideas and research are earning her a reputation as a fresh and thought-provoking voice in the discussions focused on the future of work.<\/p>\n

Before founding BrainAMPED, Ross spent a decade immersed in the neuroscience of emotional intelligence and performance at a leadership training company where she served as vice president and global head of leadership innovation, research and training. As head of faculty, she and her team led the development and delivery of award-winning leadership programs, assessments, coaching and accreditation programs, helping leaders from across the globe be their best, even in the most complex and pressure-filled moments.<\/p>\n

Ross has worked with Fortune 500 companies, tech companies, financial firms, pharmaceutical companies, educational institutions, healthcare companies and with the NBA\u2019s Orlando Magic. Balancing relevance and practicality with a contagious energy, she integrates cutting-edge science with real-life stories of success and failures. Her approach is guaranteed to challenge the status quo, provide new insights and inspiration, and most importantly, leave audiences with a blueprint of actionable strategies.<\/p>\n

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Baratunde Thurston<\/span><\/h2>\n

Sunday, October 23 | 10:45 a.m.-12:00 p.m.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Baratunde Thurston<\/b><\/span>\u00a0is an Emmy-nominated, multiplatform storyteller and producer operating at the intersection of race, tech, democracy and climate. He is the host of the PBS television series\u00a0<\/span>America Outdoors With Baratunde Thurston<\/span><\/span><\/a>, creator and host of\u00a0<\/span>How To Citizen With Baratunde,<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>which Apple named one of its favorite podcasts of 2020, and a founding partner of the new media startup\u00a0<\/span>Puck<\/span><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

His comedic memoir, How To Be Black<\/em>, is a New York Times<\/em> best-seller. In 2019, he delivered what MSNBC\u2019s Brian Williams called \u201cone of the greatest\u00a0<\/span>TED<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>talks of all time.\u201d He is unique in his ability to integrate and synthesize themes of race, culture, politics and technology to explain where our nation is and where we can take it. He serves on the boards of\u00a0<\/span>BUILD.org<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<\/span>Brooklyn Public Library<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>and lives in Los Angeles, California.<\/p>\n

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Dave Ulrich
<\/span>Monday, October 24 |\u00a02:30-3:45 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Dave Ulrich<\/strong>\u00a0is the Rensis Likert Professor at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and a partner at the RBL Group, a consulting firm focused on helping organizations and leaders deliver value. He is a Distinguished Fellow in the National Academy of Human Resources and is known for continually learning, turning complex ideas into simple solutions, and creating real value to those he works with in the fields of organizational development, leadership and human resources.<\/p>\n

He and his colleagues have shaped the HR profession by focusing on HR outcomes, governance, competencies and practices, and he has been called the \u201cfather of modern HR\u201d and \u201cHR thought leader of the decade.” He edited\u00a0the book\u00a0Human Resource Management <\/em>and\u00a0<\/span>spearheaded a \u201cgift\u201d book on the future of HR (The Rise of HR<\/em>) in which 70 thought leaders freely shared their insights.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Michael J. Sorrell<\/a><\/h2>\r\nSunday, October 20 | 5:00-6:15 p.m.\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n\r\n\"\"\r\n\r\nDr. Michael J. Sorrell\u00a0<\/b>is the longest-serving president in the 146-year history of Paul Quinn College. During his 11 years of leadership, Paul Quinn College has become a small, private, minority-serving institution that, by focusing on the most persistent, prevalent and pressing problems of our society, is remaking higher education and becoming a movement.\r\n\r\nDuring President Sorrell\u2019s tenure, Paul Quinn College has won the HBCU of the Year, the HBCU Student Government Association of the Year and the HBCU Business Program of the Year. Additional achievements include the college being recognized as a member of the President\u2019s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, the creation of the New Urban College Model, achievement of full-accreditation\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\n
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Whitney Johnson<\/a><\/h2>\r\nMonday, October 21 | 8:30-10:15 a.m.\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n\r\n\"\"Whitney Johnson<\/strong>, CEO of WLJ Advisors, is an innovation and disruption theorist, best-selling author, sought-after executive and performance coach, and management consultant. She is recognized as one of the world\u2019s most influential management thinkers by\u00a0Thinkers50<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Fortune<\/em>. Johnson specializes in helping leaders grow their awareness, building the skills needed to achieve maximum success in their organizations. Senior executives seek out Johnson\u2019s coaching and consulting expertise because she understands that productive workplace cultures begin with the leader. She excels at helping leaders break through to new levels of personal and organizational effectiveness. Johnson\u2019s services utilize her exclusive proprietary tools, such as her S-Curve coaching framework and team disruption diagnostics, which were first developed after co-founding the Disruptive Innovation Fund with Harvard Business School\u2019s Clayton Christensen. At WLJ Advisors, she has mastered her formula for helping executives and organizations harness the unpredictability of change so they can thrive in today\u2019s volatile business environment.\r\n\r\nJohnson\u2019s best-selling book,\u00a0Build An A-Team: Play to Their Strengths and Lead Them Up the Learning Curve,\u00a0<\/em>is being used by leaders globally to build the culture and attract the talent they need to reach their big goals. This follow-up to her critically acclaimed\u00a0Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work (2015),\u00a0<\/em>outlines the key strategy to having an engaged, productive and innovative workforce, which is having a plan for developing all employees \u2014 no matter where they are on their personal learning curves. Using her book\u2019s frameworks, Johnson works with leaders to shape how their organizations embrace and manage disruption by leading individuals and teams up the S-curve of change.\r\n\r\nPrior to WLJ Advisors, Johnson was an award-winning Wall Street analyst. She is one of Marshall Goldsmith\u2019s original cohort of 25 for the #100 Coaches Project, is a coach for the Harvard Business School\u2019s Executive Education program, frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, a LinkedIn influencer and hosts the Disrupt Yourself Podcast.\r\n\r\n
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Michele Norris<\/a><\/h2>\r\nTuesday, October 22 | 8:00-10:15 a.m.<\/strong>\r\n

\"\"<\/h2>\r\nMichele Norris<\/strong>\u00a0is a Peabody Award-winning journalist, founder of The Race Card Project and executive director of The Bridge, The Aspen Institute\u2019s new program on race, identity, connectivity and inclusion.\r\n\r\nFor more than a decade Norris served as a host of NPR\u2019s\u00a0All Things Considered\u00a0<\/em>where she interviewed world leaders, American presidents, Nobel laureates, leading thinkers and groundbreaking artists. She has also produced in-depth profiles, interviews and series for NPR News programs as well as special reports for\u00a0National Geographic<\/em>,\u00a0Time Magazine,\u00a0<\/em>ABC News and Lifetime Television. Norris created The Race Card Project, an initiative to foster a wider conversation about race in America, after the publication of her family memoir,\u00a0The Grace of Silence<\/em>.\r\n\r\nBefore joining NPR in 2002, Norris spent almost 10 years as a reporter for ABC News in the Washington Bureau. She has also worked as a staff writer for\u00a0The Washington Post<\/em>,\u00a0Chicago Tribune\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0The Los Angeles Times<\/em>. In 2014, Norris earned a Peabody award and the Distinguished Dialogue Award for her work on the Race Card Project.\r\n\r\nIn 2009, she was named \u201cJournalist of the Year\u201d by the National Association of Black Journalists. The NABJ recognized Norris for her coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign \u2014 when she co-hosted NPR\u2019s Democratic presidential candidates\u2019 debate, covered both conventions, anchored multi-hour election and inauguration live broadcasts and moderated a series of candid conversations with voters on the intersection of race and politics. That series earned Norris and\u00a0Morning Edition\u00a0<\/em>Host Steve Inskeep an Alfred I. DuPont -Columbia University Award for excellence in broadcasting.\r\n\r\nNorris was honored with NABJ\u2019s Salute to Excellence Award, for her cove","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-454","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/annual2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/annual2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/annual2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/annual2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/annual2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":75,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/annual2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2894,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/annual2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/454\/revisions\/2894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/annual2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}