Alana Karen is an award-winning tech leader, author, and speaker. During her 23+ years at Google, she built teams to develop and scale products like Search, Ads, Fiber, and Google Grants, impacting billions of users worldwide. 

Passionate about empowering others, Alana has spoken at numerous conferences on technology, leadership, DEI, talent, and innovation. 

Her best-selling book, "Adventures of Women in Tech: How We Got Here and Why We Stay," has received awards and been praised for its insightful stories. A second edition will be released in 2025, and a follow-up workbook was released in Spring 2022. 

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• Website

Anthony Moseley is a creative force who has served as the Creative Director of Collaboraction, a theater company in Chicago that inspires social change through theater and the arts, for over 25 years. He also co-hosts Collaboraction Radio, a fresh dialogue around the intersection of arts, activism, and social change, together with Carla Stillwell and Dr. Marcus Robinson.

Find Anthony & Collaboraction:

• Collaboraction Radio podcast: Apple | Spotify
• Website
• YouTube
• Instagram

Dr. John Mlinarcik is a psychologist and coach who founded and manages PCS Global, an organization that has provided counseling, coaching, and personal development for nearly 50 years. His team has touched hundreds of thousands of lives over that time. Dr. John's areas of expertise include psychotherapy with individuals, couples, and families; executive coaching, and business consulting (hiring, performance, team building, family business transitions, and organizational development).

As a speaker, Dr. John has led presentations and workshops throughout North America. As a coach, he's helped hundreds of companies and organizations. His current book, Under Heavy Construction: The Soft Skills are the Hard Skills, is due out shortly.

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• PCS Global
• Behavioral Styles Profile (BSP) Assessment

Kori Linn is a speaker, life & career coach, and the host of the Satisfied AF podcast. She teaches clients, audiences, and listeners how to create more satisfaction & delight in their lives, careers, and relationships.

Kori has coached hundreds of clients, guested on notable podcasts including Unf*ck Your Brain, You’ve Got Nerve, and The Marriage Life Coach Podcast, and spoken to audiences large and small at HBO, Zillow, Bank of America, and more.

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• Satisfied AF podcast: Apple | Spotify
• Instagram
• Kori's website
• Kori's newsletter

Linda Moss is an accomplished leader in the field of corporate education. She has over 25 years of experience as an executive at well-known tech companies including Google, Anaplan, Palo Alto Networks, NetApp, Juniper Networks and BMC Software. 

Linda was also MY Moss Boss! She managed me directly for 2 1/2 years, and supported me through both a significant role change when I joined her team and a period of acute burnout.

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• LinkedIn

Nina Black is an expert in physical fitness who has worked as an instructor and performer in fitness and acrobatics for over 20 years. Her mission is to help people achieve their physical health goals so they can live a fuller, more vibrant life. She is certified in personal training, stretching and flexibility, behavior change and nutrition through the National Academy of Sports Medicine, and holds a RYT 200 certification in yoga.

I have personally benefited from Nina's support and instruction - she's the bee's knees! I took nearly 50 fitness classes with her the past 2 years, and she routinely got my heart rate pumping more than my personal average over the same period.

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• Instagram

Pablo Signori is an expert in creativity - he has been a working multi-disciplined creative for over 20 years. His skills range from art direction, film/commercial composing, film production, podcast production and video/music editing. At its core, his goal is to share stories through ranging mediums; his tenet being art first, ego last.

Pablo co-hosts his own podcast, The Newb And the Knower, together with Fly Fishing Team USA medalist, and professional guide, Lance Egan.

Find Pablo:

• The Newb & The Knower podcast: Apple | Spotify
• Website
• Instagram

Sara Shookus is a Director in Google's Cloud Consulting business. She has been at Google for nearly 12 years, starting in the Ads side of the business and transitioning to the enterprise space in 2016. prior to Google, Sara was a technology consultant at Accenture after graduating from UNC Chapel Hill.

Sara has always been drawn to helping others, particularly women early in their careers. Outside work, Sara is very busy with her two (soon to be 3!) kids and husband. She is a lifelong athlete, recently reigniting her love of tennis and always on the lookout for a good race to run.

Sara and I worked together for many years at Google and have navigated many of the same challenges - most notably, climbing the career ladder as women in tech and navigating motherhood.

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• LinkedIn