Matthew Effland is the Vice President – Employment Counsel for KAR Auction Services, Inc.  KAR is a provider of vehicle auction services in North America, facilitating the used vehicle marketplace by providing auction services for sellers of used, or whole car, vehicles and salvage vehicles through its auction locations and multiple internet venues. The Company has a network of 65 whole car auction locations and 164 salvage auction locations, as well as offering a variety of online and financing services.  In his role, Matt provides guidance and support to KAR’s Human Resources department, drawing on his 14 years of management-side private practice.  Matt is licensed in both California and Indiana, and is the author of the recently-published SHRM Book ”The Perils and Pitfalls of California Employment Law: A Guide for HR Professionals.”

Michelle Donovan, Ph.D., is a member of Google's Talent Team where she is responsible for designing and delivering programs to help identify and develop critical talent and leaders. Prior to this role she managed a People Analytics team, which specialized in surveys, focus groups, and metrics to drive people-related decisions. Prior to her work at Google she worked in HR Research at Intel Corporation for six years where she managed their annual survey and consulted on surveys and focus groups. Before Intel she was a consultant with Terranova Consulting Group, an HR consulting firm, where she worked on HR audits, training needs analyses, job analyses and surveys. She earned her Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has served as an officer of the Bay Area Applied Psychologists and IT Survey Group, is a regular speaker and contributor to the Society of Industrial/Organizational Psychology annual conference and has published her work in journals, such as the Journal of Applied Psychology and Personnel Psychology.

A native of Montreal, Canada, Shannon is the Director of People Operations - Strategy, M&A and Staffing at Google. He has also served as Google's People Operations head of Global Sales and Business Development.

Shannon joined Google after several years in media and publishing, including as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company in New York City. He has lived in Malaysia, Hong Kong and Japan, where he led business development efforts in Asia for two of Canada’s largest financial institutions. From 1993 to 1996, Shannon was the Chief of Staff and Senior Policy Advisor on Asia to the Canadian Secretary of State. He has also served as a special assistant to former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. Prior to his career in public service, Shannon was a professional hockey player with the Los Angeles Kings organization.

Shannon has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Vermont, where he received the university’s Most Outstanding Student award. He also holds a Master of Philosophy degree in International Studies from Ireland’s Trinity College, Dublin, and an MBA from the Yale School of Management.

Jeanetta Darno is the CEO of Strategic HR Advisors a company focused on enabling leaders and leadership teams to achieve peak performance through inclusion and engagement. She started her company to deliver the services and products she wished were available when she was a HR Leader & Global Chief Diversity Officer. She is sought after consultant and speaker on the topics of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion. 

Ms. Darno is a military veteran who served as an airborne officer in the US Army where she led teams in the Middle East, Asia, Egypt, Operations Desert Shield and Storm.  She is the recipient of numerous diversity awards and under her leadership companies have been recognized for inclusive cultures and best places to work by a range of business publications, government agencies and professional organizations.

Dr. Lynn Dailey is the Moor Endowed Chair in Business and Economics and a professor in the School of Management and Leadership at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. She teaches in both the undergraduate and MBA programs and has been actively engaged in business consulting for national clients, non-profits and small businesses for the past 15 years. Her areas of expertise include business skills training, marketing strategy, marketing plans, business plans, customer behavior, and customer research. Dr. Dailey has published in the Journal of Business Research and Journal of Marketing for Higher Education and has presented her research at numerous national conferences including the American Marketing Association and the Association for Consumer Research.

Leonard Court is a nationally recognized management lawyer who speaks at seminars throughout the United States. He was inducted into the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers in 1997 as part of the second group to be so honored. He has been recognized as a "Star Individual" by Chambers USA- America's Leading Lawyers for Business. He chairs the Wage, Hour and Leave Subcommittee of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Labor Relations Committee. He was inducted in 2006 into the Oklahoma State University Alumni Association Hall of Fame-the highest honor given by that organization.