As of April 20, 2026. Subject to change.
Diane Bohman
President, Elwood Staffing Services
Bohman is president of Elwood Staffing, a national provider of talent-based solutions and workforce intelligence operating more than 270 locations across the U.S. She joined Elwood in 2019 and was named the company’s first female and nonfamily member president in 2021, leading the organization through a period of growth, operational evolution, and technological change. Bohman brings a people-first perspective to AI and automation adoption, focused on improving efficiency while preserving the human connection central to staffing. With more than 27 years of leadership experience, she offers a seasoned, cross-generational view on navigating innovation in a rapidly changing industry.
Leticia Escamilla
CEO and founder, MindFuel in Motion
Escamilla is the chief executive officer and founder of MindFuel in Motion and a self‑leadership expert who helps leaders and teams thrive in high‑pressure environments. Through her MindFuel training program, Escamilla equips professionals with practical mindfulness tools—combining breathwork, emotional intelligence, and habit‑building—to turn stress and overwhelm into clarity, focus, and sustained performance. A certified meditation teacher and author of the Me Time journal, she brings a relatable, energizing approach that reframes mindfulness as a leadership advantage. Grounded in her own transformation, Escamilla inspires leaders to turn stress into strategy without sacrificing well-being.
Sarah Fulton
President of staffing, The Lee Group
Fulton is president of staffing at The Lee Group, where she leads the firm’s staffing operations with a strong focus on people, purpose, and performance. She oversees recruitment, training, and development while partnering closely with clients to support their evolving workforce needs. As a member of the leadership team, Fulton helps drive best practices for operational excellence and growth. Passionate about changing lives through meaningful work, she brings authenticity, clarity, and heart to everything she does—serving both clients and local communities.
Andy Jones
Founder and CEO, Tracker
Jones is the founder and chief executive officer of Tracker, an intelligent recruitment platform that helps staffing firms run their entire business in one place. With more than two decades of experience in product development and business transformation, he is passionate about building technology that empowers teams to excel and focus on what they do best—build and nurture meaningful relationships.
Lauren B. Jones
Founder and CEO, Leap Advisory Partners
A staffing industry powerhouse, workforce technology whiz, change management mastermind, fierce female leader champion, and professional storyteller, Jones is also the founder and now president of Leap Advisory Partners (formerly Leap Consulting Solutions). After decades as an innovator and influencer in the staffing industry, Jones founded Leap to make recruiting companies more efficient, more successful, and more human—by helping firms define and understand their technology needs, embrace change, and ensure adoption of a firm’s largest investment.
Kat Kibben
Keynote speaker and recruiting consultant; founder, Three Ears Media
Kibben helps organizations improve hiring outcomes by addressing the recruiting speed bumps that quietly derail them—unclear job posts, ineffective interviews, and misaligned hiring manager relationships. With more than 15 years of experience at global brands including Monster.com and Randstad Worldwide, Kibben is known for their extensive research on job descriptions and how teams navigate uncertainty with confidence. A LinkedIn Top Voice on Hiring, their insights have been featured in The New York Times and Forbes. They are also the author of two books: This Was All An Accident and The Bounce Back Factor: A Leader’s Guide to Liking Yourself While Leading People.
Erin MacKenzie
VP of solution engineering, Medical Solutions
At the forefront of health care and staffing technology strategy, MacKenzie helps clients ensure their systems work for them—not against them. As vice president of solution engineering at Medical Solutions, she leads the design and delivery of scalable managed service provider solutions that integrate applicant tracking systems, vendor management systems, predictive analytics, and artificial intelligence to address complex clinical staffing challenges. Known for her strategic mindset and relentless focus on return on investment, MacKenzie partners with clients to evaluate impact, optimize usage, and measure performance, turning innovation into measurable value. Her philosophy, “Every client has a voice,” remains central as she guides organizations through change, from foundational technology to cutting-edge AI.
Donny Payne
SVP of sales, Bullhorn
Payne leads sales and account management for Bullhorn across North America and is responsible for more than 1,000 customers ranging from $10 million to $1 billion in revenue. He works closely with staffing executives to help them modernize their technology stack; improve recruiter productivity; and drive profitable growth through automation, AI, and scalable operating strategies.
John Ruffini
VP of professional development, HealthTrust Workforce Solutions
Ruffini is the vice president of professional development for HealthTrust Workforce Solutions. He and his team focus on training and development for the entire organization in an effort to help employees be the best they can be at whatever role they are playing within the company. His passion is recruiting, and every recruiter hired at HealthTrust goes through a two-week boot camp training he developed that has improved new-hire ramp-up time by 30%. Ruffini started on a perm desk and developed a knack (or sickness!) for starting branches from scratch in new markets or rebuilding struggling ones. While he has been in the recruiting and staffing industry for almost 30 years, he has spent the last 10-15 years in roles that have focused on training, mentoring, and developing individual contributors and managers. He is past chair of the ASA health care section council, education and certification committee, and search and placement section council. Ruffini also had the honor of being the ASA Volunteer of the Year in 2024. He is the author of Money Makers—Proven Ways to Increase Sales and Productivity in the World of Professional Recruiting, which has been an Amazon bestseller and is used by staffing firms across the country to train their recruiters and instill recruiting fundamentals. In 2023 he published his first nonfiction work, A Quest for Alex, which rose to No. 1 on the Amazon bestseller list in two categories.
Sabrina Alexis Sayoc
AI technology and innovation lead, Kelly Science, Engineering, Technology, and Telecom
As a digital native and tech-forward strategist, Sayoc is at the forefront of how the next generation of leaders will interact with AI. Currently serving as the AI technology and innovation lead for Kelly SETT, she specializes in the intersection between people, processes, and technology. Having started her career as a science and clinical recruiter, Sayoc’s approach to innovation is deeply rooted in the “human” side of staffing, ensuring that as we accelerate AI and emerging technology adoption we never lose sight of people, equity, and accessibility as the drivers. With a master of business administration degree and master of science degree in business analytics from Indiana University, she brings a fresh, future-ready perspective to the industry and is a dedicated advocate for inclusive tech adoption. Additionally, Sayoc serves as a founding and advisory council member for the nonprofit Women of Color in Staffing, outgoing chair of the ASA social responsibility committee, and programming chair of Kelly’s disability inclusion employee resource group, Unlimited.
Annette Wehrli
Consultant; coach; and founder, Effectivity Consulting
Wehrli works with business owners, executive teams, and leaders who are good at running their business but know something is in the way of what’s next. With more than 20 years on the corporate team at MRINetwork as a leader, speaker, consultant, and executive coach, she knows what strong search and staffing firms look like from the inside, and what holds them back. With a respected reputation for asking the questions others avoid and simplifying what feels complicated into what’s actionable, Wehrli helps leaders get results they can’t get on their own.
Ana Welsh
Wharton lecturer, workplace dynamics speaker, and Next Gen Talent developer
Welsh is a Wharton lecturer, workplace dynamics speaker, and Next Gen Talent developer who helps emerging professionals become the kind of talent organizations trust, promote, and fight to retain. A former vice president in a high-growth, private equity-backed health care organization, Welsh helped scale the business from two to 93 locations while building an award-winning culture and reducing turnover from 60% to 21%. She understands firsthand what drives performance, retention, and long-term success across both employees and the organizations that hire them. Today, she partners with companies across industries to strengthen the human effectiveness skills that impact hiring outcomes, team performance, and client relationships—equipping early-career talent to communicate clearly, think strategically, and deliver without hand-holding. Welsh teaches at the Wharton School and works with organizations including Comcast, SAP, WSFS, and Zeta Global.
Jessica D. Winder
Chief people officer, Winder Law Firm; founder, Hidden Gem Career Coaching
Winder believes most people are invisible at work and don’t even realize it. As chief people officer at Winder Law Firm and founder of Hidden Gem Career Coaching, she has built a reputation for saying the things most leaders won’t—especially when it comes to hiring, power, and how careers actually move forward. With an audience of more than 100,000 professionals, Winder teaches one thing clearly: If you don’t build your own brand, your company will build one for you—and you probably won’t like it. Her work focuses on helping professionals create leverage, not just loyalty, by building a personal brand that drives real opportunities inside and outside of corporate. At THRIVE Virtual 2026, she will show leaders exactly how to stop being overlooked and start being intentionally known.
Jenny Wood
Founder, Own Your Career
Wood is a former Google executive and New York Times bestselling author of Wild Courage. During her tenure at Google, she led large‑scale operations teams that helped drive billions in revenue and founded Own Your Career, a leadership program adopted by more than 56,000 employees across nearly 100 countries. Featured in Harvard Business Review, Bloomberg, and CNBC, Wood is known for helping leaders build confidence, make bold decisions, and thrive under pressure to accelerate both personal and organizational success.
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