RONIT AVNI, CONSULTANT

Ronit Avni is a tech and media entrepreneur and Peabody award-winning producer. She is founder and CEO of Localized, a talent tech platform that connects university students and recent graduates from emerging markets to industry experts and employers looking for top talent. Ronit was twice named a “New DC Power Woman in Tech”. Previously, Ronit founded the media organization Just Vision. She has won dozens of media prizes including the Puma Creative Impact Award, and her team’s work was featured in nearly every major news outlet and viewed by tens of millions of people on TV, online and in influential settings from TED to the United Nations. Named a Young Global Leader through the World Economic Forum and a Halcyon Fellow, Ronit sits on the jury of the MacArthur Foundation’s 100 & Change Competition and the Global Teacher Prize. Ronit has been recognized with a variety of honors, including the Trailblazer Award from the National Council for Research on Women. A trained theater director and former voice over artist, she has trained thousands of individuals in public speaking and executive presence as an advisor to KNP Communications.

CHRISTINA CLARK, CONSULTANT

Christina is a cross-cultural workplace communicator, connector, motivator & mediator. Over the past 13 years she has worked across branding, advertising, media planning and buying, start-ups, in-house and across financial and corporate communications firms in the City of London - leading teams and privileged to deliver transformational projects on behalf of FTSE 100s, IBEX 35s, governments and agencies. She founded Workculturati during the pandemic as a place to have enlightened discussions about work culture and to bridge the communications gap between the C-Suite, HRs and employees through mediation, internal engagement and leadership coaching techniques. She aims to give toxic culture the boot through holistic workplace L&D. Christina is an accredited civil, commercial and workplace mediator from the London School of Mediation and brings a cross-border perspective to her work, having worked in the UK, Spain, Colombia, Australia and most recently, Luxembourg.

dave hanley, consultant

Dave Hanley is a serial entrepreneur who has had successful exits to Amazon and Deloitte. With a track record for finding innovation early, Dave excels at building entities that create value and have impact. With a career spanning industries as diverse as microcredit banking, social media marketing, digital music and financial technology, Dave is now founder and CEO of Tomorrow, a financial services app that aims to bring economic security to millions by empowering everyone to set family financial goals and accomplish them on their phones – including legal wills, trusts, savings, and life insurance. Dave founded Banyan Branch (acquired by Deloitte, 2013), a leading social media marketing agency; led product development for the Rhapsody Music Service, and joined Rhapsody colleagues to build a social network for readers called Shelfari (acquired by Amazon in 2008). Dave is a Fulbright Scholar, World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and recognized entrepreneurial innovator at TechCrunch Disrupt, Money2020, and SXSW. He serves on the boards of Thirst, Ragnar, Consumers Advocate, and Tomorrow.

deborah maloney-marsden, coach

Deborah a leadership coach and transpersonal psychotherapist. Over the years she has come to deeply understand human behavior and the effects various factors may have on our current situations. This potent skill, when married with leadership coaching, creates coaching with a depth and meaning that will often provide profound and long-lasting shifts, substantial change and expansion. Deborah’s style of leadership coaching is challenging, in-depth and progressive. Generally the people I work with are looking to make an impact on leadership and business by expanding and developing away from the traditional way of being in business and make real change. They want to use more of themselves and enable those working with them to do the same, creating an environment of collaboration, excellence, growth and expansion. Deborah works holistically and includes embodiment, body intelligence and emotional intelligence as a core part of her work. This helps to locate blind spots and leave clients with a better sense of integrated wholeness and the ability to work and be with all aspects of themselves. To get the most out of today we need to understand what from our past restricts and controls us. This enables deep inner development and growth both personally and professionally.

GINGER LEGON CPCC, COACH

Ginger’s work centers around growth and empowerment, whether through facilitating, coaching, or presenting. She works with individuals and teams to develop effective communication, harness potential and create thriving cultures. Her expertise is synthesizing research based practices from the field of positive psychology with leadership coaching to support clients define success for themselves and boldly move towards designing it. Before relocating to Los Angeles, she designed and facilitated leadership development trainings in struggling schools throughout New York City. She grew to manage the programs implemented by a team of 110 leadership trainers serving thousands of students annually. She created ongoing training and development of staff, including weekly offerings called The Leadership Classroom. She contributed to two published books: Building Family and HERstory. She has a private coaching practice, various collaborations and is partnering with Capital One to provide money coaching to the public for free. 

Filippo Tattoni-Marcozzi, CONSULTANT

Filippo Tattoni-Marcozzi is an international art advisor and curator, with experience in building private and public collections, non-profit organizations, fundraising, event management, media relations, publishing, and brand development. As a gallery and foundation director, he curated exhibitions, managed acquisitions, press and museum relations, and consulted on overall strategy and operations. For British brand Clark's he created a series of traveling events and exhibitions to celebrate the 60 years anniversary of their iconic Desert Boot with a number of limited edition desert boots designed by leading British artists supporting land mine clearance charity The Halo Trust. As brand ambassador for Italian fashion house Etro, he is involved in expanding the brand presence and client base in the US by managing VIP relations and hosting special events. He has also served in the host committees for fundraisers events benefitting MTV Re:Define-MTV Staying Alive Foundation, Amfar, Unicef USA, The Dallas Contemporary, The Terence Higgins Trust in London, The Glass House in Connecticut and The Dupont Underground in Washington DC.

JOSIE COX, CONSULTANT

Josie is a journalist, columnist, broadcaster and communications consultant with a passion for gender equality and responsible business. She started her career as a journalist for Reuters in Germany and Switzerland before she joined The Wall Street Journal as a European correspondent in London. Between January 2017 and January 2019 she served as the youngest ever business editor of The Independent. Today she writes for Forbes.com and a host of other publications including Fortune, The Guardian, Huffington Post, The Telegraph, New Statesman and Quartz. She is a frequent guest on the BBC, is an experienced moderator, has co-costed a national breakfast radio show, and has guest lectured at the University of Cambridge. In July 2020, Josie was named a Knight Bagehot Fellow by the University of Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism. She lives in New York City with her husband and daughter. Her first book, on the subject of responsible business and the future of work, is due out in 2021.

kirsten goodwin, coach

For over a decade, Kirsten Goodwin built a successful career in the UK Civil Service, operating at the highest levels in some of the toughest roles - including negotiating with the EU, and as Head of Strategy in the National Crime Agency. She learned how to build and lead high-performing teams in the Cabinet Office, Home Office and Foreign Office; grow her authority and make an impact as a much younger woman in a male-dominated world; and how to achieve her goals in complex organizations through negotiation, networks, and influence. But she came close to burnout: her body would regularly shut down from her inability to handle stress. This went on for years. Luckily, she learned transformational “mind-body” techniques that reset her approach to stress, and helped her thrive. Now she uses her skills and experience to help other ambitious professionals achieve their career goals with ease and balance through coaching, workshops, and speaking.

Laurent Grill, Consultant

Laurent is an Entrepreneur turned Venture Capitalist who works with start-up founders to successfully build scalable teams, strong company cultures and disruptive products. Laurent believes that there is a fundamental need for additional support in the early stage ecosystem in Los Angeles and other budding technology hubs around the US and globally. This desire to support these growing tech communities led him to his current role as the Lead Investor at Luma Launch, a pre-seed to seed corporate venture and accelerator. Luma Launch is focused on earlystage startups at the convergence of evolving technology and content markets, capitalizing on internal and external resources to create successful products.

LESLEY EVERETT, CONSULTANT

Lesley Everett is an internationally recognized specialist coach and speaker on creating personality, authenticity and differentiation in your professional brand with Personal and Leadership Branding. She has delivered her Walking TALL Methodology in 28 countries across 5 continents to date, and has worked with 1000’s of business owners and professionals in many different cultures, helping them to identify their unique messaging, and package and project that brand consistently and effectively. Her clients include Salesforce, Oracle, HSBC, Deloitte, Marriott Hotels and JetBlue as well as various charities and associations. Lesley is well-known for working with her clients to creatively define and articulate their authentic brand, and for enhancing their visibility and profile in their chosen target market. She has a style that is direct, insightful and personable and her clients often tell her that she holds them accountable to getting the results they desire.

liz varones, consultant

Liz Varones is a marketing consultant known for her ability to guide brands to their full potential, invigorating their best ideas and empowering them to thrive. She founded Anthos Consulting Group, through which she offers services in brand narrative development, visual representation and aligning core offerings to customer and market needs. With more than fifteen years of global sales and marketing experience, she has the ability to drive change and innovation, even in the midst of shifting market dynamics or ambiguity. One of her key specialties is to cultivate new concepts that exist in the “white space” and to create a structured approach to bring them to life.

marco esposito, consultant

Marco started his first company at 19 years old. As one of the first digital innovators in Italy, he has worked in industries such as business intelligence, social network and digital strategies. He now serves as a mentor and consultant for innovative digital startups across Italy and Europe. Marco created the course “Digital Companies - How to Turn an Idea Into a Project”, which helps people across the globe stay motivated and get involved in the digital world.

matthew kohut, consultant

Matthew Kohut is the managing partner of KNP Communications. He has prepared CEOs, elected officials, entrepreneurs, ambassadors, scientists, and best-selling authors for events ranging from television appearances to board meetings to TED talks. He also leads KNP’s development of customized training and coaching programs for corporations, universities, and nonprofit organizations. Matt has held appointments at George Washington University and Bennington College. He is the co-author of Compelling People: The Hidden Qualities that Make Us Influential, and his writing has appeared in publications ranging from Harvard Business Review to Newsweek. He holds degrees from Johns Hopkins University and Harvard Kennedy School.

nancy borowick, consultant

Nancy Borowick is an internationally renowned photographer, author, teacher and speaker, delivering over 50 speaking engagements each year around the world, bringing her personal story to universities, hospitals, oncology units and community groups globally. Nancy is a graduate of the International Center of Photography and has exhibited her work in over 100 cities world-wide. Working regularly with the New York Times since 2013, Nancy has told the intimate stories of people and places from every corner of the globe winning her major accolades and awards, such as World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year International and most recently the 2018 Humanitarian Award from the organization Women That Soar for her photography and recent monograph, The Family Imprint. Over the last decade, Nancy has narrowed the focus of her work, telling stories of health, struggle and personal relationships, using compassion, humility and trust as tools to connect with and explore the lives of her subjects. Her work has been featured in numerous newspapers and magazines, including National Geographic, Time Magazine, CNN, Stern Magazine, PDN, O the Oprah Magazine, The Washington Post, Glamour Magazine and the Wall Street Journal. In 2019, she was invited to become a Sony Artisan of Imagery, as well as a Kickstarter Thought Leader and was recently elected to the trustee board of the International Center of Photography.

NICOLE BARNARD, CONSULTANT

Nicole is passionate about helping companies, individuals and brands to grow their presence and expand their reach on Instagram. Instagram has nearly 1 billion active users per month, and with the right processes, is an amazing platform that enables businesses to reach out to potential new clients and influence thousands of people a day. The combination Nicole’s knowledge of Instagram itself, individual developing processes and experience, gives her a high level of insight which enables her to create and grow Instagram accounts for clients. She also offers coaching to develop individuals own understanding and use of this platform. Nicole has a proven track record of success with her own personal account and those of her clients. Her processes include; specialized and focused interaction with each account’s target audience, strategic posting times to maximize impact, studying analytics and helping adapt my clients’ content to increase engagement.

raghu appasani mD, CONSULTANT

Dr. Raghu Kiran Appasani is a Psychiatrist, Neuroscientist, Mental Health Advocate, and Social Entrepreneur focused on bridging the gap between western and eastern practices to create a wholesome society. He is the Founder & CEO of The MINDS Foundation, a mental health nonprofit, for which he has been recognized as a World Economic Forum Global Shaper, One Young World Delegate Ambassador, StartingBloc Fellow, Nexus Global Delegate, EchoingGreen, MassChallenge, and Kellogg Innovation Network Delegate. Through his extensive scientific research, he has published over 35 peer-reviewed articles and edited five books. He has given over 50 talks on mental health, entrepreneurship, global health, and consciousness in parallel with authorship for ThriveGlobal, The Better India, and The Huffington Post. His commitment to wellness has led to the development of initiatives focused on reliance and empathy in physicians, resulting in him receiving the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award from the Gold Humanism Honor Society. He most recently launched CircleSpace, a new wellness company that specializes in addressing the growing subclinical mental health space.

rochel leah bernstein, consultant

Rochel Leah Bernstein is the founder and executive director of Child Safety Pledge, an organization committed to prevent and combat child sexual abuse in the United States. A parent, mother of four and survivor herself, she has worked for the past eight years with youth-serving organizations, funders and parents to ensure strong policies and best practices to prevent, detect, and respond to child sexual abuse. Together with her team ,she is focused on collaborating with purpose-driven companies, foundations and empowering a national grassroots movement dedicated to keeping all children safe from sexual abuse in YSOs and physical environments. She has a passion for philanthropy, travel and street art.

Sarah-Marie Hopf, COACH

In an ever-changing and uncertain world, Sarah-Marie helps purpose-driven, growth-oriented leaders craft a life of greatest contribution, integrity, and wellbeing. She is an integral coach, social innovation strategist, mindfulness meditation teacher, and the founder of Thriving in a Noisy World. Through a highly customized and developmental approach, she supports her clients in embodying new ways of being so they can consciously navigate their work and life with greater creativity, effectiveness, and resilience. To her work, Sarah-Marie brings experience at the intersections of leadership development and coaching, institutional change, human-centered design, systems change, and social impact. She has been fortunate to work with individuals and organizations globally, including mission-driven startups, top universities, high impact nonprofits, and Fortune 500 companies. Sarah-Marie is a Certified Integral Coach through New Ventures West, an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) through the International Coach Federation (ICF), a member of the International Mindfulness Teachers Association (IMTA), and a summa cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College.

sharan jaswal, consultant

Sharan Jaswal is an engaging youth and adult education specialist with over 15 years’ experience in designing, delivering and scaling award-winning education programs. A graduate of the London School of Economics & Political Science, Sharan has worked internationally across Asia, India, Europe and the Americas.

Former Education Director at MyBnk, the leading financial education provider in the UK, she is an experienced project manager, facilitator and learning experience designer. Sharan now works as an independent Educator and Changemaking consultant for global businesses, governments and non-profits.

Snigdha Suvarna, CONSULTANT

Snigdha Suvarna specializes in project management, business consulting & strategic marketing. She has an extremely diverse range as she has worked across both the public and private sectors having worked at UNICEF, Vox Media, and the L.A. Mayor's Office. Currently, Snigdha focuses on small business consulting engagements as she is extremely passionate about using entrepreneurial and design thinking methods to help struggling businesses. Snigdha is the founder and CEO of YORKonnection, an alumni mentorship platform aimed to help undergraduate students with their career development. She also runs a podcast called “Career Diaries” where she interviews industry professionals about their career journey. In her free time, Snigdha enjoys reading books, doing pilates, and trying out new food places.

TEE TWYFORD, COACH

Tee Twyford is on a mission to enable millennial leaders to bring out the best in themselves and those around them. As a coach, she leverages a powerful combination of both strong and honest challenge with kind and encouraging support. This creates an ideal environment for you to reflect upon your current reality, lean-in to the powerful possibilities that exist within you and access the next steps to initiate this for yourself. Tee’s background is in digital marketing, social media and creative content strategy in the luxury fashion and beauty industry in Europe. Her experience working in-house and as a consultant for brands like Burberry, Charlotte Tilbury, Boden, Jack Wills and Tommy Hilfiger, allows her to pivot and establish rapport quickly at all levels of a business, connecting with both senior and junior leaders.

TESS FENN, CONSULTANT

Tess Fenn (MA, Social Innovation) is an impact, strategy and communications consultant with a passion to help us deliver compelling stories. With a dedicated mission to imagine how our talents and systems can unite to catalyze social progress, Tess has instilled that ethos into every organization she has been a part of. Tess thrives in managing the intersection of art, policy and business most recently working closely with creatives across film and theater. Her additional background with award winning experiential marketing campaigns and as a founder of Global Gaming Initiative, a leader in the games for good movement, makes her a dynamic attribute to the GLEOW team.