Dr. Kaslow, clinical psychologist, is a professor and Vice Chair for Faculty Development at the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University School of Medicine. She is also Chief Psychologist at Grady Memorial Hospital, Director of Psychology Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in Professional Psychology, and Chair of Emory Medical Care Foundation Research Committee.

She is Board Certified in Clinical Psychology, Couples & Family Psychology, and Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology. She holds several academic appointments, professional memberships, and serves on a number of community boards, including the Women’s Resource Center to End Domestic Violence. She has also won numerous awards, including APA’s Distinguished Contributions to Education & Training Award, the Mentoring for Leadership Award, and the Florence Halpern Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Clinical Psychology.

Brodie Riordan joined McKinsey & Company in early 2016. Her work focuses on helping partners of the firm develop their counseling skills, use feedback they receive to fuel their growth and development, and develop an “operating model” that enables them to achieve their personal and professional goals. Brodie is also an internal coach at the firm.

Prior to joining McKinsey Brodie was a senior consultant with CEB (Corporate Executive Board, previously PDRI) where she partnered with clients in a variety of sectors and industries to address their most challenging needs in leadership development, talent and performance management, and coaching. Earlier in her career, Brodie was a manager of Global Leadership Development at Procter & Gamble where she led the global performance management process and coaching program. Brodie also spent time as a visiting faculty member at Washington & Lee University in Lexington, VA, where she was the first I/O psychologist on the faculty.

Brodie has published over 2 dozen journal articles, books, and book chapters on coaching, feedback, and leadership, including Using Feedback in Organizational Consulting, in the APA Fundamentals of Consulting Psychology Series (under her maiden name, Jane Brodie Gregory). She completed her leadership coach training at Georgetown University and is an ICF certified coach. Brodie has a MA and PhD in Industrial/Organizational (I/O) Psychology from the University of Akron and a BA in psychology from Washington and Lee University. Brodie is on the Board of Back on My Feet DC, which helps homeless individuals reinvent their lives through running.

Ernesto J. Poza (BS Yale University; MBA, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) is an internationally recognized, top-rated speaker and consultant to family-controlled and family-owned businesses. He is Professor Emeritus of Global Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise at Thunderbird’s School of Global Management. As a speaker, consultant and board member he challenges business owners to revitalize mature businesses through strategic thinking, succession planning and change management. His work on governance, the key role of nonfamily management and succession has been featured on CNN, NBC, and NPR, as well as in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Business Week, Family Business Magazine, Inc., El Pais, Excelsior, Expansión, and El Nuevo Día. Poza has served on the editorial boards of the Family Business Review and the Journal of Family Business Strategy.

Ernesto Poza has advised top managements of family-owned and family-controlled companies in strategic management, succession planning, growth and governance. Among the firms served in the U.S., Latin America and Europe are: Chiquita Brands, E. W. Scripps Company, Gonzalez Byass, S.A., Catalana de Occidente, and Almirall (wine, insurance and pharmaceuticals respectively, Spain). Also Grupo Alfa and Grupo Femsa (conglomerates, Mexico), El Nuevo Día (news media, Puerto Rico), Huber & Co, Mars Inc., Scripps Media and Simpson Investments in the U.S. Poza has also consulted with substantial family offices and smaller, yet equally wonderful, privately-held family firms and family offices in their efforts to keep the business successful and the family united during the often turbulent generational transition period.

In recognition of his contribution to the field of family business, the Family Firm Institute awarded him the third ever granted Richard Beckhard Practice Award in 1996 and its highly coveted International Award in 2010. His research interests are in the areas of family business continuity, global growth opportunities, family business governance, and leadership of change, family offices and family entrepreneurship. Poza is the author of Governing Family Enterprises (2014, Palgrave Macmillan), Family Business, 5th edition, (2017, Cengage Publishing), Empresas Familiares (2005, International Thomson Ed.), Family Business (2004, Thomson Publishing), and Smart Growth: Critical Choices for Continuity and Prosperity (1989).

He is a founding member and Fellow of the Family Firm Institute and serves on the boards of several family-controlled corporations. He lives with his wife in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Katerine Osatuke, PhD. Katerine Osatuke earned her doctorate in clinical psychology in 2005. She is the Research Director at the Veterans Healthcare Administration (VHA) National Center for Organization Development, the internal consulting group that provides customized data-driven assessments, consultations, and leadership support to all employees of Veterans Affairs. Katerine's team provides data analytic support to VA leaders and nationwide assessments. Katerine co-authored over 60 publications studying clinical and organizational change within individuals and systems.

Dee Ramsel, PhD, MBA. Dee Ramsel’s credentials include a doctorate in clinical psychology and an MBA, as well as experience as a clinician, mental health executive, organization development consultant, and medical college professor. Since 2012, she serves as the Executive Director of VHA’s National Center for Organization Development, and stays active in professional societies and community organizations. She is Past President of both the Society of Psychologists in Management and the Society of Consulting Psychologists/APA Division 13.

Nancy Yanchus, PhD. Nancy Yanchus completed her doctoral training in Industrial/Organizational Psychology at the University of Georgia (2006) with later training as a postdoctoral researcher at the Veterans Healthcare Administration National Center for Organization Development (VHA NCOD). She is a member of the Research team at NCOD, where she conducts qualitative analyses of large federal datasets. Her interest areas concern the healthcare workforce, including their experiences with turnover, job satisfaction, engagement, burnout, psychological safety, and servant leadership.

Jill Draime, PsyD. Dr. Jill Draime serves as the Acting Executive Director, Change Management, supporting VA’s transformation to a modernized EHR. She received her doctoral degree from Spalding University and is a graduate of Wharton’s AMP. Previously in VHA, she served as the Associate Director for Office of Patient Centered Care, Acting Chief of Staff, and Deputy Chief of Staff, and Director of OD Consultation for National Center for Organization Development. Dr. Draime joined VHA in 1998.

Dr. Waters is the RVP of Behavioral Science at BetterUp and professor at Georgetown University. She’s a certified coach and holds a PhD in I-O Psychology with over 18 years’ experience in applied research, coaching, and consulting. She has published in a variety of peer-reviewed journals, HR Magazine, and books, including The Practical Guide to HR Analytics. Related topics include agility, adaptive performance, the future of work, and the impact of artificial intelligence on talent.

Dr. Roberts is an architect of personal and professional alignment who helps leaders to unlock the pathways for constructing, sustaining and restoring positive identities at work. She has published her work on authenticity, identity, diversity, strengths, and value creation in her edited book, Exploring Positive Identities and Organizations (Roberts & Dutton, Eds.) and in over 30 articles, book chapters, and case studies. She is the co-founder and Principal of R-PAQ Solutions, LLC, an Atlanta-based research and consulting firm that brings strength-based practices to leaders who seek extraordinary performance and personal fulfillment.

Faculty appointment have included: Harvard Business School | University of Michigan | Wharton | Simmons School of Management.

Dr. Ken Nowack is a licensed psychologist (PSY 13758) and President & Chief Research Officer of Envisia Learning. He provides strategic vision/leadership, conceptual product design and development, research, public relations, and advanced client relations.

Ken has over thirty years of experience in the development and validation of human resource systems, assessment tools, organizational climate surveys, questionnaires, simulations, and tests. He has developed 360° feedback systems, assessment centers, employee selection, succession planning, performance appraisal, and management development training programs for a number of clients in the public, private and not for profit sectors.Ken has conducted research and published extensively in the areas of 360-degree feedback systems, health psychology, survey research, training evaluation, assessment and personnel testing. He has also authored numerous assessment instruments and interactive software programs.

Dr. Nowack is an active participant in professional associations and has made numerous presentations to both national and local association conferences and community groups.

Ken also serves as Chief Learning Officer of Organizational Performance Dimensions and is a member of the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Educational Psychology at the University of California, Davis, and his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles where he is a lecturer at the Anderson School of Management. Ken also serves as Associate Editor (APA Division 13) of Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research.

Elizabeth Roll is the Senior Strategist and an Executive Coach at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM. She is the primary architect for strategic planning activity, consulting to the organization’s senior-most executives. Elizabeth is also the Lead Coach for the Lab’s flagship leadership development program for high-potential executives.

Elizabeth’s expertise is in strategic planning, change management, and leadership development. Elizabeth is a Gestalt Professional Coach, a Board Certified Coach (BCC), and certified by the International Coaching Federation (ICF) as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC).

George Watts is Chairman of Top Line Talent, a coaching and training consultancy, Clients include Fortune 100 and mid-size companies. TLT has developed an innovative, on-line program that teaches professionals how to provide “strategic value”. The firm also helps companies build formidable sales teams. George is the author of several books including Becoming Your Own Business Coach (Praeger) and Becoming a Strategic Leader as well as numerous articles.

George started his career as a sales trainer and moved into the “C” suite. He has been a CEO of a mid-cap publicly traded human capital company, and EVP of two large service companies. He has consulted to and coached many global leaders. George is a member of the Society for Psychologists in Management. George is a board member of two IT firms and was a popular radio talk show host in Chicago where his program “The Business Doctor” was on air for eight years. George received his doctorate from William and Mary in Counseling, and an MS in Psychology from James Madison University. He resides in Oak Park, Il.

Maria leads the research function at MRG. Her research explores contemporary themes in leadership and motivation. She regularly presents her research around the world and has been published in a number of journals. Maria holds a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Massachusetts Boston, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Psychology from Vanderbilt University. Before joining MRG in 2017, Maria was an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Murray State University.