Our Sponsors
for DisruptHR @ Santa Cruz
Join these companies in Sponsoring DisruptHR @ Santa Cruz 02.07.25 and be featured to organizational Change Agents and Decision-makers.
ARCx Consulting
Best Western Inn
Achilles Restaurant
Dwight Davis
a Talent Development Executive with 15+ years of experience leading teams and programs in global tech companies ranging from 400 to 20,000+ employees, including Head of Global Employee Learning & Development & Sr Talent Development Manager at Intuit. Passionate about building healthy, high-performing teams, Dwight fosters inclusion, innovation, and authenticity in the workplace. He leverages human-centric design, scalable technology, and data analytics to ensure continuous improvement and lasting outcomes.
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Will AI Take My Job???
Andrea Rob
Andrea Rob has been a thought leader in talent transformation for 25 years, driving change at Airbnb, Autodesk, Lucasfilm, and Levi Strauss & Co. Her work in organizational design has been featured by The New York Times and McKinsey/LeanIn. Collaborations with Stanford’s VMware Women’s Leadership Innovation Lab and belonging expert Dr. Greg Walton highlight her commitment to workplaces where everyone thrives. She recently contributed to the book 8 Ways to Ditch Dogma: Free Yourself and Unleash A Better Future of Work on Amazon.
A visionary strategist, Andrea excels at scaling and transforming organizations. Her human-centered, data-driven approach delivers meaningful workplace impact.
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Fairness: Why DEI Sabre-Rattling Clouds Common Ground
Amil Patel
Co-Founder & CEO of Meeko Health, Amil has a passion for challenging the status quo of healthcare. Meeko works with innovative employers to focus on foundational healing for high acuity members - improving outcomes and reducing costs. He has earned a Doctor of Pharmacy and has had an expansive career covering many aspects of healthcare administration including at Express Scripts, Walgreens. He was the VP of Pharmacy at Alto, helping the company take care of thousands of patients and generating over 1 Billion in revenue.
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Prescription for Change: Fixing the Formula for Better Healthcare
Jessica Martinez
Jessica is a business and culture transformation leader and the founder of Tomorrow’s Office, a performance consulting firm focused on empowering employees to do their best work while living their best lives without sacrificing business performance. She has over a decade of experience driving operational change, communications, and employee experience at Fortune 500 companies, including through two of the largest mergers and acquisitions in tech and entertainment history. She most recently served as the Head of Culture at Blizzard Entertainment, where she led the company through a redefinition of its mission and the evolution of 15 year old values.
A Mom first, Jessica frequently writes and speaks on culture, leadership, and the intersection of career and parenthood.
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Office Politics for Good: Change our Culture by Changing yours
Nicole Lopez-Conti
Nicole Lopez-Conti is a corporate leadership and communications coach, committed to supporting clients in their journey to thrive. Her work spans tech, biotech, finance and nonprofit. She helps clients understand their neurobiology and establish habits and practices that lead to thriving as a whole person.
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Thriving in Circles
Glodean Champion
Glodean is a 2x TEDx Speaker and Keynote Speaker with over 20 years of experience as a leader, executive coach, group and team facilitator, LEAN Six Sigma expert and master educator. Glodean specializes in storytelling to align teams, and develop leaders. She is the author of the award-winning novel, Salmon Croquettes, and her latest book, “It’s All About You/It Ain’t About You”, inspired by her experiences from her own cancer journey. Glodean is a master storyteller whose thought-provoking ideas force people to re-examine and often shift their perspectives. Her approach to everything she does is with love, honesty, authenticity, and the intention to leave people and organizations better than she found them.
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