Kristy McCann

CEO & Founder, 127 Ventures, HR Evangelist

Kristy McCann Flynn has spent over two decades doing one thing: helping people grow. As a Strategic HR Leader, Change Manager, and Organizational Development Expert, she held senior roles at Pearson Education, and Constant Contact before becoming an accidental entrepreneur with a very deliberate mission. Frustrated by the way companies were treating people and throwing talent away instead of developing it, Kristy co-founded SkillCycle and now leads Relate, building tools and platforms that replace broken performance systems with real, human-centered development. A Forbes Coaching Council member, sought-after speaker, and self-described evangelist for people enablement, Kristy believes that skill development is never a one-time event. It is evergreen. Her goal, in every room she walks into, is simple: educate everyone.

Susan Childs

Impactful Executive HR strategist

Susan Childs is an entrepreneur, business and executive coach, global human resource expert, post doctorate lecturer and internationally requested public speaker with an emphasis on people, culture, business growth, leadership and career strategies inside of workplaces, C-Suites and communities. As a multiple decade part of the biopharma industry, she has had a varied client portfolio of multi-national corporations, life science start-ups, CEOs and professional association leaders and their affiliates. She is also a guest lecturer for the Texas Medical Center and an academic professor's coach for Ethics, Entrepreneurship, Engagement and Emotional-Social intelligence. Her unique focus on business performance excellence underscores the fact that people and culture power the right results, especially profitability. She views the essential "how-to" conversations of leadership excellence, business delivery and workplace inclusions (vs. exclusions) to be a matter of humanity; not a political one. Susan’s expertise spans various domains, including human resources management and strategy, workforce and business dynamics, executive development, sales, advertising, marketing, promotions, and internal communications. Throughout her career, she has worked at prominent companies such as Takeda, Shire, AstraZeneca, HSBC, ESPN, Disney, NBC Universal, Starz-Liberty Media, and WL Gore, enriching her understanding of different industries and organizational challenges.

Victoria Farris

Equity & Inclusion Expert

Dr. Victoria Farris is a transformational leadership coach, facilitator, and culture consultant who believes that the way we lead shapes the way people experience their lives at work. She helps leaders develop the skills to lead human-first, creating teams that are not only high-performing, but deeply engaged and inclusive. She works with individuals and organizations to build high-trust cultures that drive innovation, retention, and long-term success.

Nancy Fallon

Director of Business Operations @AdaMarie

My name is Nancy Fallon, and I serve as the Director of Business Operations at AdaMarie, where I focus on the intersection of business operations, marketing, and community building.

Denise Bronner

Founder, Empactful Ventures

Denise N. Bronner, Ph.D. is a scientist-turned-strategist whose career path has been anything but linear and she's made that her superpower. From PhD microbiologist to pharma director at Johnson & Johnson, VC ecosystem builder, and founder of Empactful Ventures, she has navigated every stage of a complex career with intention and a few hard-won lessons along the way. Since starting her consultancy, Denise has secured $20M+ in capital and contracts for her 15 clients. She has delivered 70+ speaking engagements, mentored founders through TechStars, Village Capital, and Charles R. Drew University's BIP Accelerator, and serves as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Duke's I-Cubed Innovation Center. She is also a board member at We Are ILL, a chronic illness patient advocacy organization. She doesn't give advice she hasn't lived and she's ready for whatever you bring to the table.

Archana Vaidheeswaran

Program Director, Algoverse | AI Safety

I oversee several programs for AI Safety including Algoverse and PRISM, I oversee AI Research programs and help grow global AI safety initiatives through fellowships and community-building. PRISM (Peer-vetted Research Initiative for Safety Methodologies) under Women Who Do Data, a 16-week AI safety research program that uses peer selection to scale mentorship and turn the senior-researcher bottleneck into a multiplier. Our EleutherAI SOAR pilot produced two accepted papers (NeurIPS 2025, ICASSP 2025) at a 25:1 researcher-to-mentor ratio. When I'm not thinking about AI, you'll probably find me cheering on indie game creators as a Community Director at International Game Developers Association (IGDA).

Renesha L. Davis, CPA

Managing Partner at The Money Council®️

Renesha L. Davis, CPA, is an entrepreneur, author, and financial strategist who helps business owners make better financial decisions. She is the Managing Partner at The Money Council®, a boutique accounting and advisory firm that has served more than 500 small businesses. Before joining The Money Council®, Renesha spent nearly a decade in corporate finance, helping Fortune 50 companies improve their bottom lines by $1.6 billion. She later used that experience to create opportunities for other professionals, families, and business owners. Renesha’s journey began long before she became a CPA. As a fourth grader, she volunteered as a student teller through a school banking program and discovered that she enjoyed helping people understand money. She went on to become a first-generation college graduate and built a career that combines accounting, leadership, education, and service. Known professionally as The Legacy CPA®, Renesha teaches that a career is not only about earning an income. It is also about discovering your strengths, solving meaningful problems, and creating something that benefits others. Her story reminds students that their early interests can become clues to their future, and that careers rarely move in a perfectly straight line. Sometimes the experiences that interrupt the plan help reveal the work a person was always meant to do.