Laura Putnam is the award-winning author of the #1 Amazon Hot New Release in HR & Personnel Management book, Workplace Wellness That Works, and CEO/founder of Motion Infusion, a leading provider of well-being and human performance services. Her work has been covered by MSNBC, The New York Times, Fox News, TODAY, US News & World Report, Entrepreneur, Business Insider, and NPR.

As an Inclusive Workplace Wellness Advocate, Vivian Acquah advises managers on how to keep their team members engaged, energized, and safe in a sustainable manner.
A clearly defined Workplace Wellness strategy & implementation program fixes your hidden revenue losses along with missed opportunity revenues. It achieves this by improving talent retention, engagement, employer branding, and connection with diverse talent. It prevents your company from leaving money on the table. It also makes your organization a better place to work and be a part of.
Vivian Acquah is making topics related to workplace wellness & DEI accessible to everyone. She provides people with the right tools, at the right time, to embrace inclusive changes. Vivian motivates people to think consciously and inspires them to take action.

Jason Horay is the Manager of Health Strategy and Well-Being at Curi, a company committed to helping physicians in medicine, business, and life. In this role, he serves as Program Manager for the North Carolina Medical Society Employee Benefit Plan, where he partners with brokers, producers, and vendors in supporting nearly 500 medical practices and 11,000 covered healthcare professionals.
Jason has also held well-being leadership roles at Duke University, IBM, and Cisco Systems and is a graduate of Leadership North Carolina.
He continually strives towards the active pursuit of enabling healthcare leaders to discover true wellness and realize their full potential, and through this work, he was featured as a WELCOA Member Spotlight and voted as a Top 100 Health Promotion Professional.
Jason earned a bachelor’s degree in Sports Medicine from High Point University and a master’s degree in Health Promotion from Mississippi State University. He is a Certified Member of the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. (CHES) and teaches a variety of undergraduate and graduate health promotion and public health courses.
In his free time, Jason enjoys deep sea fishing, exercising, gardening, and spending time with his two teenage sons, Caden and Cole.

Born and raised in Grand Forks, North Dakota, Patty graduated from Stanford University in 1989 after receiving a full-athletic scholarship. She was a 9-time NCAA All-American in the Shot Put and Discus and competed at the 1988 Olympic Trials. In 1995, she founded TimeOut Services, which by 2008, earned $5 million in yearly revenue and employed over 100 team members. Patty and her team were instrumental in designing the original wellness programs for Google, Cisco, Yahoo!, Safeway and KLA-Tencor.
In 2009, Patty sold the corporate wellness division, and trademarked Community BootCamp program, to Plus One of New York (now part of Optum). Patty's awards include: The Key to the City of Grand Forks, North Dakota, Business Journal Top Women in Business, and the Top 50 Influential Women of Silicon Valley.
Today, she supports the wellness initiatives across the Stanford Enterprise, which includes: Stanford University, Stanford Health Care, Stanford Children’s Health, and Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC).

Jermey Taylor is a Health & Wellness Specialist, Entrepreneur, and Artist from New York City. Over the last 10 years, Jermey has developed, implemented, and expanded wellness programming for non-profits, schools, and city government across the NYC metro area. Jermey uses his artistic background infused with an equity lens to create engaging health promotion resources and health programming that anyone can enjoy no matter one’s age, background, education, or other experience.
Jermey earned his Master’s of Public Health from the Rutgers School of Public Health and his undergraduate degree from the University of Kentucky. He currently leads the Worksite Wellness Program for the NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene.

Leslie is a Wellbeing, Leadership and Enneagram Coach, and a facilitator of workshops and programs for individual and group transformation. She is the former Wellness Director for the visionary women’s clothing company, Eileen Fisher, and as such, she helped to build a culture of wellbeing, connection, and caring.
A Soulful Facilitator™ for the Symponia Institute For Global Compassionate Healing, she supports leaders and organizations to consciously make compassion and deep connection an integral part of their cultures.
She is also a facilitator of Finding Us in Music™, a methodology for working groups and teams that enhances deep listening, understanding, and empathy while igniting individual and collective creativity.
Leslie is a mindfulness practitioner and teacher, a professional singer, and a licensed massage therapist, and she brings her wide experience in life to her work and connection with her clients.
She believes that the path of self-discovery, to our deepest humanity and compassion, is what will heal our world. This is her passion and her purpose.

After spending 25 years building software products and serving as a vice president of engineering at Macromedia and Adobe, Karen Catlin witnessed a sharp decline in the number of women working in tech. Frustrated but galvanized, she knew it was time to switch gears.
Today, Karen is a leadership coach and an acclaimed author and speaker on inclusive workplaces. In 2014, she started the Twitter handle @betterallies to share simple, actionable steps that anyone could take to make their workplace more inclusive. That Twitter handle became the inspiration for her books, "Better Allies™: Everyday Actions to Create Inclusive, Engaging Workplaces" and "The Better Allies™ Approach to Hiring".
Karen is a highly sought-after and engaging presenter who has delivered talks at hundreds of events. In addition to speaking herself, Karen is determined to bring more diversity to speaker lineups at tech industry events. To support this goal, she coauthored "Present! A Techie's Guide to Public Speaking" with Poornima Vijayashanker.

Ryan leads Gallup’s health and wellbeing initiatives through strategic partnerships with its research team, benefits department, and external medical and wellness partners. He administers In The Zone, Gallup’s wellbeing program, which provides Gallup associates, spouses, and family members with opportunities to pursue greater wellbeing through the framework of Gallup’s research. He is an international speaker, presenting research and tactical advice to enhance wellbeing and work within organizations. Ryan earned a bachelor’s degree in exercise science from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, a master’s degree in business administration from Nebraska Methodist College, and is currently pursuing a doctorate degree at Nebraska Methodist College. Ryan’s top five CliftonStrengths are Discipline, Achiever, Futuristic, Activator, and Harmony.