George Fleming is the founder of InsightAction and is an executive coach, consultant and trainer to several Fortune 500 companies. George began his career with General Electric before moving into marketing with several Fortune 500 firms including Hewlett-Packard, Amazon, and Lucent Technologies. George combines the problem solving expertise of his Mechanical Engineering degree, his skills as an accredited corporate coach and organizational trainer and his understanding of human performance through his Masters in Psychology. George's expertise is in the areas of leadership, creating inspired workplaces, employee engagement and team performance. Using highly interactive, humorous, rich-content and relevant programs, George makes sure every event is a breakthrough for attendees! George is consistently one of the highest-rated speakers at both state and national SHRM events. George’s clients include Roche Pharmaceutical, RE/MAX, Genentech, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Penn State University, Square D and Volvo.

Joseph Grenny is a New York Times bestselling author of eight books, including the communication classic, Crucial Conversations. His whose work has been used by nearly half of the Forbes Global 2000 and has helped millions of people achieve better relationships and results. He cofounded Crucial Learning, one of the world’s most respected learning and organization development firms, offering courses in communication, performance, and leadership.

Agnes Vivaldi Blumberg, SPHR, CPP joined Coca-Cola Refreshments in 1997 as an Employee Relations Manager, where she provided HR Business Partner support to various Corporate functional groups. She then transitioned into a Field based role as a HR Director in the Northeast. In 2009, she transitioned into a Senior Manager, Field Employee Relations at the beginning of the centralized model where she assumed team leadership responsibilities, and currently has a focused alignment with the CCR Southeast. Prior to joining CCR, she held various HR Generalist roles for Hyatt Hotels and EG&G Services. Agnes earned her Bachelor’s in Business Administration from James Madison University and her Master’s in Human Resources Management from Marymount University.

Andy Sieg is Head of Global Wealth & Retirement Solutions (GWRS) for Bank of America Merrill Lynch. GWRS provides a comprehensive set of investment products and services, as well as retirement solutions, to the company’s clients and financial advisors globally.

Andy first joined Merrill Lynch in 1992 as an analyst in the Global Wealth Management business, later serving in senior strategy and field leadership roles during the next 13 years. Before rejoining the company in 2009, Andy led the Emerging Affluent Client Segment within Citigroup Global Wealth Management from 2005 to 2009.

Prior to his career at Merrill Lynch, Andy served in The White House as an aide to the assistant to the President for Economic and Domestic Policy. Andy earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Penn State University. He also holds a Master in Public Policy (MPP) degree from the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and serves as a member of the HKS Dean’s Council.

Andy serves on the boards of ReadWorks.org, a non-profit dedicated to ensuring students in our nation’s neediest public schools have literacy skills to compete and succeed in life, and The Peter Westbrook Foundation, which helps inner-city children develop life skills through the sport of fencing, academic support and mentoring. Andy also represents Bank of America Merrill Lynch on the board of the Global Coalition on Aging, an organization of industry leaders committed to advocating for aging populations and to reshaping how society prepares for this profound demographic shift.

Dr. Hogan is a scholar-practitioner, strategic adviser, consultant and an executive leadership coach. He is a champion of and an internationally recognized subject matter expert on diversity, equity, inclusion, and civil discourse. He is an enabler of executive leadership and organizational excellence. His distinction is the ability to promote transformational leadership development by creating incidents of cognitive dissonance and opportunities for self-reflection, self-discovery and self-awareness by using the arts as an agent-of-change.

Dr. Hogan is a Professor of Practice in Human Resource Management at the Pennsylvania State University, School of Labor and Employment Relations. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in-residence and on-line. His signature class is Ethics in the Workplace. Dr. Hogan’s action research interests include Global Leadership Development, Global Diversity and Inclusion, Business Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability, and the convergence of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and human beings in the workplace. He is the founder of the School’s Academy of Human Capital Development and served as Director from 2011 - 2018.

Currently, Dr. Hogan serves as a Scholar-in-Residence at the Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State, College of Arts and Architecture and serves as a member of the Community Advisory Council. In March 2019, he was selected to serve as a scholar for the Penn State Student Engagement Faculty Academy for Academic Years 2019 – 2021.

In this role, he will conduct research and serve as a faculty champion for student engagement and engaged scholarship, and serve on a steering committee responsible for designing, developing, and deploying a university-wide student engagement portal. The portal will incorporate Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

He has been appointed to serve as Diversity Director and voting board member of the Pennsylvania SHRM Council for a two-year term beginning January 2020. In August 2019, he was selected to serve on the 2019 – 2020 Governance Committee of the Penn State Alumni Council. The Alumni Council is the governing body of the Penn State Alumni Association where he is serving a three-year term as an appointed member.

Dr. Hogan has over 30 years of experience as a practitioner and has served in leadership positions in higher education and the corporate sector. Prior to joining the Penn State University School of Labor and Employment Relations, he held the position of Interim Associate Provost, Office of Faculty Affairs at the University of Maryland University College (UMUC). Prior to working for UMUC, he spent 23 years with AT&T in a variety of assignments including sales, sales support, business development, marketing and human resources. In his last assignment at AT&T, Dr. Hogan served as Director of Strategic Talent Acquisition and Retention, Workforce Diversity and EEO/AA.

Dr. Hogan currently is a member of the U.S. Technical Advisory Group of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). In this role, he is involved in developing and representing the U.S. position on global HR standards to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). In December 2016, he was appointed to the ISO Work Group responsible for developing a global HR standard on diversity and inclusion. In November 2016, he was appointed and continues to serve on the SHRM Diversity and Inclusion Special Expertise Panel. Dr. Hogan served on the SHRM 2016 Ethics/Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability Special Expertise Panel. Dr. Hogan also served on the Penn State University President’s Commission on Racial/Ethnic Diversity from 2015 – 2018. He was elected Co-Chair for Academic Year 2017-18. He served as a Scholar-in-Residence at the Penn State University Sustainability Institute from 2014 – 2019. He provided leadership on the implementation of the Penn State University 2016 – 2025 Strategic Plan as a member of the Stewarding our Planet's Resources Steering Committee and the Infrastructure and Support Steering Committee from 2017 - 2019.

Dr. Hogan earned a Doctor of Management Degree (International Operations emphasis) from the University of Maryland University College and a Master of Public Administration and a Master of Regional Planning Degree from Penn State University. He earned a BA Degree in Behavioral Sciences from Point Park College. In August 2017, he graduated from the Georgetown University Institute of Transformational Leadership with a certificate in executive leadership coaching.

Jathan Janove, a former state bar Employment Lawyer of the Year and now Executive Coach and Organization Development consultant, writes SHRM’s “Putting Humanity into HR Compliance” column, and is a Master Coach and Practice Leader with the Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coaching organization, including writing its Ask the Coach column. He’s the author, most recently, of “Hard-Won Wisdom: True Stories From The Management Trenches” (HarperCollins 2017). He’s currently working on his next book, “From Compliance Cop to Culture Coach: Transforming the HR Profession.”