Future Fluency

Speaker Bios: 

• Maryanne Hancock: CEO of Y Analytics, the arm of TPG responsible for the impact and ESG mandates of the firm. Previously, Hancock spent ~20 years at McKinsey and Company, where she was a senior partner.
• Melody Meyer: Director, BP, AbbVie, and National Oilwell Varco; President, Melody Meyer Energy LLC and Women with Energy LLC
• Melissa Paschall: Director, Governance, Ceres Accelerator for Sustainable Capital Markets, ...

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Ram Charan

Ram Charan is a world-renowned business consultant, author, and speaker who has spent the past 40 years working with many top companies, CEOs, and boards. Charan was first introduced to business while working in the family shoe shop in a small town in northern India, where he was raised. He served on the faculties of Harvard Business School and Northwestern University before pursuing consulting full-time. C...

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Ram Charan

Ram Charan is a world-renowned business consultant, author, and speaker who has spent the past 40 years working with many top companies, CEOs, and boards. Charan was first introduced to business while working in the family shoe shop in a small town in northern India, where he was raised. He served on the faculties of Harvard Business School and Northwestern University before pursuing consulting full-time. C...

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David Rock

Dr. David Rock is the Co-founder and CEO of the NeuroLeadership Institute (NLI). The Institute is a 23-year-old cognitive science consultancy that has advised over 50% of the Fortune 100. With operations in 24 countries, the Institute brings neuroscientists and leadership experts together to make organizations better for humans through science. Rock has authored four successful books including Your Brain at...

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Ruth V. Aguilera

Ruth V. Aguilera (Harvard University, Ph.D.) is the Darla and Frederick Brodsky Trustee Professor in Global Business and Distinguished Professor, International Business and Strategy at Northeastern University’s D'Amore-McKim School of Business. She is also a Visiting Professor at ESADE Business School in Spain. Her research interests lie at the intersection of strategic organization and global strat...

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Shai Akabas

Shai Akabas is BPC’s director of economic policy. He has conducted research on a variety of economic policy issues, including the federal budget, retirement security, and the financing of higher education. Akabas joined BPC in 2010 and staffed the Domenici-Rivlin Debt Reduction Task Force that year. He also assisted Jerome H. Powell, now Chairman of the Federal Reserve, in his work on the federal ...

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Kim Parker

Kim Parker is director of social trends research at Pew Research Center. She oversees research on emerging social and demographic trends, manages major survey projects, and writes and edits reports. Parker was previously the associate director of social and demographic trends research and the research director for the Center’s political unit. Prior to joining Pew Research Center, she worked as a re...

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Leah Rozin

Leah Rozin joined the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) in 2019 as the senior manager of Research. Prior to joining NACD, she was Vice President at ISS Corporate Solutions (ICS) where she served as the principal advisor for the Sustainability Suite working with corporate clients understand the ESG landscape and improve disclosure practices. She joined ICS in 2015 from the Corporate...

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Esther Aguilera

EstherAguilerabrings together accomplished executives at the highest levels of corporate governance to advance diversity in the boardroom. She is recognized as a social entrepreneur and turnaround specialist leading scale-up, innovative change and managing high performance teams. She brings a 25-year record of success executing strategic business plans to drive organizational effectiveness, gr...

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Eric Lopez

Eric Lopez is the Director of Corporate Accountability at the Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility (HACR). He is responsible for the collection and analysis of diversity and inclusion data from U.S. based companies across the country, including HACR Corporate Members and Fortune 500 companies to understand current trends in the advancement of Hispanic inclusion in Corporate America. Thr...

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Nate Wong

Nate Wong leads the day-to-day operations of the Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation at Georgetown University that seeks to scout, surface, and scale promising ecosystem-centered solutions in the impact space. The Center works directly with leading practitioners and students around its two main portfolios centered around making finance more equitable and improving how governments use the t...

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Kian Bakhtiari

Kian Bakhtiari is the founder of The People, an award-winning youth powered consultancy. He was formerly Head of Strategy at Dentsu Aegis Network, one of the largest media and advertising groups in the world. For his contributions to marketing, he has been named as one of the Top 50 Future Leaders by the Financial Times. He is also a global judge for the Festival of Media, a One Young World Amb...

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Jennifer Glass, Ph.D.

Jennifer Glass is the Centennial Commission Professor of Liberal Arts in the Department of Sociology and the Population Research Center of the University of Texas, Austin.  She has published over 60 articles and books on work and family issues, gender stratification in the labor force, mother’s employment and mental health, and religious conservatism and women’s economic attainment, with...

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Jennifer Glass, Ph.D.

Jennifer Glass is the Centennial Commission Professor of Liberal Arts in the Department of Sociology and the Population Research Center of the University of Texas, Austin.  She has published over 60 articles and books on work and family issues, gender stratification in the labor force, mother’s employment and mental health, and religious conservatism and women’s economic attainment, with...

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Shai Akabas

Shai Akabas is BPC’s director of economic policy. He has conducted research on a variety of economic policy issues, including the federal budget, retirement security, and the financing of higher education. Akabas joined BPC in 2010 and staffed the Domenici-Rivlin Debt Reduction Task Force that year. He also assisted Jerome H. Powell, now Chairman of the Federal Reserve, in his work on the federal ...

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Stephanie J. Creary, PhD

Stephanie J. Creary, PhD is an identity and diversity scholar and field researcher, an assistant professor of management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and affiliated faculty member of Wharton People Analytics.  Dr. Creary’s research investigates the work that people in organizations do to manage identity and diversity and improve the quality of relationships...