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Liz Bohannon
Leading workplace connection expert
Liz’s dedication to fostering dynamic, authentic and vulnerable partnerships is evident in her international companies, where she has built and fostered community-driven organizations named by B Corp as the Best in the World in Building Community. What sets Liz apart as a transformative voice of authority in this domain is her unwavering commitment to designing organizations that foster and prioritize relationships, empathy, and human connection.
Through her innovative Community Agreements and The Community Quotient™ framework, Liz provides actionable tactics and strategies for cultivating workplaces where every member feels valued, understood, and supported. Her genuine belief in the inherent worth of each individual and the strength of collective collaboration resonates deeply, making Liz Bohannon an unparalleled advocate for authentic connections and thriving communities within organizations.
Named a Forbes Top 20 Public Speaker in the U.S. Liz has been featured in dozens of publications including, Vogue, Redbook, O Magazine, Inc, Fortune and others. Among other notable honors, Liz was named a Top Three Transformation Leader by John Maxwell while Bloomberg Businessweek named her as a top social entrepreneur.
Her Bestselling Book Beginner’s Pluck: Build Your Life of Purpose & Impact Now has inspired a successful podcast called Plucking UP, where Liz delves deeper into authentic and vulnerable conversations that explore how the most successful people turn “Pluck Ups” into opportunity for growth and deeper connection with themselves and others.
Erika Bantz
Principal, Butler Street
Crystal Blackwell
President and CEO, Staffing One Inc.
Blackwell is president and chief executive officer of Staffing One Inc., which she founded in Atlanta in 1996; the firm now provides administrative, accounting, legal, and engineering technician staffing across 47 states. With over 40 years in staffing services, she previously held senior leadership roles at regional and national staffing firms in Atlanta, Boston, and New York. A 37-year ASA member, Blackwell is past president of the Georgia Staffing Association, a past ASA state chapter board member, and currently co-chairs the THRIVE Live Taskforce. She is a founding board member of The National Staffing Alliance and Go Beyond Profit.
Katie Breault
Chief delivery officer, YUPRO Placement
Breault is chief delivery officer at YUPRO Placement, where she leads sales, recruiting, and client delivery across a national skills-first staffing and workforce solutions business. Her career spans workforce development, staffing, and revenue leadership, with a track record of driving growth, expanding enterprise partnerships, and building teams and operating models that adapt as the business evolves. Breault brings a practical leadership perspective shaped by years of balancing performance with people—helping teams stay clear on priorities, make good decisions under pressure, hold a high bar for accountability, and sustain a pace of performance built to last.
Natasha Davis
Founder and CEO, BridgeVoice Interpreters
Davis is the founder and CEO of BridgeVoice Interpreters and I Am Advisory Group, but she will be the first to tell you she never had a roadmap. In under five years she went from brand new to the staffing industry to vp of operations, building teams, driving delivery, and navigating rooms where she was often the youngest, the only, and the one without a blueprint. A 2024 SIA 40 Under 40 in Staffing honoree, Davis knows firsthand what it costs to lead in spaces that were not designed with you in mind and what becomes possible the moment you stop waiting for permission. She is also the founder of I AM Because She Was, a nonprofit honoring young women who have lost their mothers, because she knows personally what it means to build a life and a legacy without one. She does not speak about reinvention. She is the reinvention.
Daphne Dolan
Chief executive officer, City Staffing
Joining the City Staffing team as chief executive officer in 2000, Dolan brings a unique blend of HR, marketing, and education to her important role. She began her career as an English/History teacher and coach, spending several years developing the minds and athletic abilities of her students. She later joined AC Nielsen in Ireland, where she was responsible for the maintenance and development of relationships with key Fortune 500 accounts such as Coca Cola, Guinness Brewing Company, Mars/Master Foods, and Kraft. After being transferred to AC Nielsen in Chicago, Dolan's creative market approach and customer focus yielded continued success. Eventually trading her marketing savvy for a career in human resources, she quickly earned a reputation for excellent talent development while providing outstanding customer service in the Chicagoland area. She has held a board position with Pro Nurse, is an active member of the Union League Club, and has been involved for many years with various industry organizations.
Jaime Donnelly
President, Integrity Staffing Solutions
Since joining Integrity in 2000, Donnelly held roles across nearly every operational area, with a strong focus on finance. This broad experience shapes her approach as president and CEO, enabling her to lead crossfunctional teams with empathy, trust, and collaboration. Donnelly believes in empowering associates with the tools and support they need to succeed and grow. She is deeply involved with clients—designing tailored solutions, negotiating contracts, and ensuring compliance best practices. She prioritizes leadership development and building strong supplier partnerships that drive efficiency and innovation
Lauren B. Jones
Founder and president, Leap Advisory Partners
A staffing industry powerhouse. Workforce technology whiz. Change management mastermind. Fierce female leader champion. Professional storyteller. Jones is all of these things as well as 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. How? By helping firms define and understand their technology needs, embrace change, and ensure adoption of a firm’s largest investment.
Erin MacKenzie
VP of solution engineering, Medical Solutions
MacKenzie is a senior healthcare staffing and workforce technology leader with deep expertise in contingent labor strategy and MSP solutions. She partners with health systems and enterprise organizations to design scalable workforce programs that balance cost control, quality, and clinician experience. With a background spanning technology strategy, solution engineering, and operational delivery, MacKenzie is known for bridging the gap between people, process, and technology, simplifying complexity, and helping organizations get real value from the systems they already have. She is a trusted advisor to executive leaders, a frequent speaker and podcast host, and a passionate mentor committed to building future leaders.
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Mary Ann McLaughlin
Managing Partner
McLaughlin serves as managing partner and co-owner of Butler Street, a consulting, training, and research firm comprised of experienced C-Level executives who help companies achieve lasting results in the two most challenging areas they face: Client Development and Talent Development. She is on the George Washing University Women in Leadership Advisory Council and is a volunteer member and mentor of the American Staffing Association's (ASA) Women in Leadership. Additionally, she serves as member of the Regional Foundation board of AMITA Health in Chicago and is an active member and fundraiser for CASA, an organization that supports underserved and underrepresented foster children in the court system.
At Butler Street, in addition to providing consulting and training on strategy, sales transformation and talent development, she is a sought-after executive coach, and key note speaker. Her experience as a sales professional, sales manager, operations leader and C-suite executive across companies ranging from highly acquisitive Private Equity backed organizations to publicly held, multi-billion dollar international corporations has given her the experience and insight to excel at consulting, coaching and training to help companies and their people grow.
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Nicole McNamara
Head of AI go-to-market, Google; founder, Catalyst Innovation; former vice president, Salesforce
McNamara has built her career across marketing, nonprofit leadership, media, and big tech, giving her a rare vantage point on how change actually plays out across very different kinds of organizations. Along the way, she led teams at Salesforce through some of the most ambitious transformation initiatives at major companies, giving her a front-row seat to what makes change actually stick versus what makes it stall. Today, she's head of AI go-to-market at Google, where she brings deep AI fluency, real transformation leadership, and hard-won emotional intelligence to help leaders navigate change without losing themselves in it.
Dawn Meyers
Chief executive officer, Malone Workforce SolutionsÂ
Meyers has been the chief executive officer of Meyers Workforce Solutions since 2021. Her overall responsibility is to expand Malone’s geographic reach and service offerings and ensure Malone is at the leading edge of talent acquisition. Prior to this role, she was the COO, vp of operations, and director of operations for Malone’s commercial staffing division. Meyers has 20 years of experience in the staffing industry with specific expertise in the implementation of technologies that drive efficiencies and growth in the operations of the organization.
Jeri Meyers
President, QPS Employment Group
In nearly three decades with QPS, Meyers' natural ability to build lasting and trusting relationships has allowed her to rise from a sales representative to division president of accelerate and skilled. She’s been involved in every aspect of QPS’ book of business since starting in 1996. She has made a positive impact not just on QPS and her clients, but on the lives of the people she’s helped place while starting and growing QPS’ Professional division. A graduate of University of Wisconsin - Madison, Meyers serves on the board of ROW - Recruiters of Wisconsin and Wisconsin Association of Staffing Services.
Liz McConnell
Chief operations officer, iLabor
With more than 15 years of experience in the staffing industry, McConnell has built her career transforming complex vendor / supplier ecosystems into compliant, predictable, and scalable programs. As chief operations officer of iLabor and VeeBee, she leads operations, customer success, and strategic partnerships. Her experience spans IT staffing, vendor management, and operational leadership, shaping an approach that begins with people and process and then incorporates technology that teams will genuinely embrace. Under her leadership, iLabor has earned Best Place to Work honors and recognition on the Inc. 5000 list. McConnell is also an active leader within the staffing community, serving on the American Staffing Association’s Women’s Leadership Council and as an ASA 2026 Mentor.
Myla Ramos
Co-founder, SearchPros
Ramos is a dynamic leader whose journey from a small province in the Philippines to the helm of a nationally recognized workforce solutions firm embodies resilience, drive and unwavering purpose. She immigrated to the U.S. at 15, bringing with her a deep-rooted belief in hard work, humility and the power of relationships – values that continue to shape SearchPros today. She has been recognized by the Staffing Industry Analysts as one of the 100 Most Influential People in Staffing and one of the Global Power 150 Women in Staffing. She has also earned honors such as Most Admired CEO and Women Who Mean Business Awardee from the Business Journal, Leadership Award from USPAAC, Woman Business of the Year from NAWBO, and was a Finalist for Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year. Through her leadership, SearchPros has grown into a people-first organization known for exceptional service, diversity and results that scale.
Kristi Stark
Director, strategic client delivery, YUPRO Placement
Stark is a strategic leader who thrives on building strong teams and bringing out the best in the people around her. She has a gift for spotting emerging trends and turning them into practical, sustainable processes that fuel growth and strong results, always with an eye on the data behind the decisions. What sets her apart is the balance she strikes between big-picture vision and hands-on rigor - she's as comfortable setting direction as she is digging into the details that make it work. At her core, she's driven by empowering the people she leads, helping organizations stay nimble, and delivering results that matter.
Kerri Sullivan
Senior vice president and practice leader, Marsh McLennan Agency
Sullivan is a senior vice president and practice leader of the staffing & PEO practice at Marsh McLennan Agency Midwest region, setting the overall vision and strategy of the team. As a member of the practice since 2008, she draws upon her extensive knowledge of both the staffing industry and insurance coverage to enable her team to execute on a niche specific service platform. She is also responsible for creating and maintaining strategic relationships with insurance carriers and vendor partners to provide solutions tailored to the unique needs and exposures of staffing firms & PEO’s. She is passionate about advising our clients on topics affecting their business operations and risk management through white papers and blogs, presenting webinars and speaking on panel discussions.
