Belle Walker is the Founder and CEO of Belleview Consulting, a TEDx speaker, and the international bestselling author of Generation Innovation: Business, Family, and the Journey to Success. As the only Organizational Efficiency Engineer she knows, Belle takes her clients from Friction to FunctionTM by aligning structures and processes with strategic goals. She has recaptured lost efficiency and engagement for clients across sectors from tech companies to nonprofits, professional services, cannabis, and more.
Catherine Burns is the Senior Trainer & Content Developer on the Learning & Development team at UCOP. Her area of focus is supporting the development of emotional intelligence and people skills in leaders at every level to create organizations that are more cohesive, inclusive, and impactful. Prior to her work at UCOP, she trained and coached teams, managers, and CEOs throughout the Bay Area as a Leadership Trainer at LifeLabs Learning, and developed leadership curriculum for girl-identified youth and the adults who serve them as the National Training Director at Girls Leadership....
Chris Wilson is a rare blend of aviator, entrepreneur, and career thought leader.
He’s spent over 14 years as a Commercial Helicopter Pilot and an Aircraft Maintenance Engineer. He’s accustomed to working in high-stress and high-pressure environments in the most remote parts of Canada. Overcoming numerous layoffs and enduring turbulent times for nearly a decade.
While proud of his aviation success, Chris is passionate about entrepreneurship. He’s a mentor at e@UBC—Entrepreneurship at The University of British Columbia—and LOI —League of Innovators—Canada’s largest startup...
Danyelle Gibson-Grant, is a Master Certified Professional Coach (MCPC) with over 25 years of corporate Human Resources experience, specializing in talent acquisition and leadership development.
Certified in DISC, Diversity & Inclusion and The Fascinate System, she is dedicated to empowering senior leaders and executives from diverse backgrounds to align their careers with their personal values and purpose.
Diana is a Silicon Valley native who believes in the power of putting people first. For over 20 years, Diana built and led global product teams - discovering launching people is even more rewarding than launching products. This awareness led her to focus on coaching, combining extensive product leadership experience with a human-centered approach to help ambitious product leaders unlock their full potential.
Through coaching, Diana partners with clients to develop a deeper self-awareness, aligning actions with vision, and embracing an authentic leadership style. Diana believes every...
Diego A. Holguin (he/they) is an alumni of UC Berkeley and a College Advisor for the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS). Diego's journey from student employee to professional staff embodies the transformative power of education and community engagement. Currently, Diego Co-Leads an informal gathering of colleagues that provides a network of support, a toolkit of resources, and an opportunity to build community among supervisors of student employees.
Originally from Compton, Diego has embraced the Bay Area for over 8 years....
Currently Berkeley Career Engagement’s Assistant Director for Environmental Design, Dinorah Meyer, MS, NCC, RYT 500, C-IAYT, has 25 years’ experience as a career counselor/coach, including 20+ years at Cal and in private practice. She enjoys integrating yoga concepts and practices with Western career counseling approaches to engage clients holistically in exploration and problem-solving. She has offered yoga-infused career development workshops for several audiences, including two within People & Culture’s NOW Encore Series for staff. Dinorah has an MS in Counseling, a...
Dr. Christopher Bell is a nationally recognized, award-winning speaker and scholar focused on helping audiences discover the power of storytelling in building healthy relationships, workplace cultures, and organizations. He is the President at Creativity Partners and the Executive in Residence in the College of Media, Communication, and Information at the University of Colorado. Chris is a 1.3+ million views TEDx speaker and a David Letterman Award winning media scholar with a passion for using storytelling and play to unlock creative innovation for organizations.
A native of The Bahamas, Dr. Lorneka is a pharmacist, speaker, and coach helping professionals merge wellness with work. She’s been hired by Citi Bank, The Florida Bar Association, Orange County Government, and Arkansas State University, delivering workshops on resilience, productivity, and mental health.
Founder of Brightly Awake, Dr. Lorneka empowers individuals to embrace holistic success. She believes success isn’t about doing more—it’s about working well. No stranger to media, she’s been featured in Forbes magazine and Comcast. She enjoys time...
Emilie Mitchell (she/her) is the Violence Prevention and Education Program Coordinator at the Center for Support and Intervention. At CSI, Emilie oversees Bears that Care, a student-led Active Bystander initiative, and directly supervises nine peer-educators who facilitate discussions on Social Identity and Microaggressions, Mental Health, Alcohol Intervention, and more for the campus community. She comes with over five years of violence prevention education experience. Emilie graduated from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign with her Bachelor's of Science in...
