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Jeff Harry combines positive psychology and play to heal workplaces, help teams build psychological safety and assist individuals in addressing their biggest challenges through embracing a play-oriented approach to work. Jeff was selected by BambooHR & Engagedly as one of the Top 100 HR Influencers and has been featured in the NY Times, Mashable, Upworthy, Shondaland, & Wired. Jeff has worked with Google, Microsoft, Southwest Airlines, Adobe, the NFL, Amazon, and Facebook, helping their staff to infuse more play into the day-to-day.

Scott Flear is the CEO of Rugby Warfare which is a rugby clothing brand based in the UK. Scott is a self-taught internet marketer having built and sold his first fitness site by age 19. Rugby Warfare started as a side-hustle whilst working as head of SEO for a luxury games room retailer and then Performance Marketing Manager for a social sports club in London. He's an avid Rugby fan and player and saw a gap in the market for a Rugby brand to deliver the 3 Cs, content, community and clothing.

Katherine McGraw Patterson, known as KP, is a brand and business strategist who works with small businesses and entrepreneurs to close the gap between where they are and where they want to be. A fourth-generation entrepreneur, KP started her first business in Hong Kong in 1999. Since then, she's helped businesses here in the US, Canada, and across the world build actionable strategies that results in revenue growth, increased clarity and focus, and greater satisfaction in their operations. KP is the founder of WEBO Network, a professional development and networking group for women entrepreneurs and business owners and is the author of a new book on networking, "Lunching with Lions: Strategist for the Networking-Averse" that helps professionals in all industries identify the right groups and connections to achieve their professional and business goals.

Michelle Pellizzon is the founder of Holisticism, a wellness-tech company providing affordable, accessible holistic wellness care. A former professional dancer-turned-tech founder, she started Holisticism after overcoming an epilepsy diagnosis at 17 using holistic medicine. After spending 6 years in Silicon Beach working at various startups like Thrive Market and Laurel & Wolf, Michelle started Holisticism as a passion project and has quickly grown it to a community of over 45k people.

Carisa is the CEO of tilr, a company that uses an algorithm to blindly match qualified workers with companies to fill their immediate placement needs. She drives tilr’s strategic vision and day-to-day execution with a relentless passion for the new workforce marketplace and providing it with innovative, sustainable solutions. In her role, Carisa works closely with the board, internal team, strategic partners and clients as part of her efforts to ensure aggressive scale and success. She's a serial entrepreneur who honed her digital recruitment skills at Careerbuilder.com, where she spent over seven years building multi-million-dollar business units