The Global Chief Diversity Officer and Head of Workforce Development programs at State Street Corporation. Prior to joining State Street, Paul was a Managing Director and Co-Founder of Foster & Francisco LLC, an executive search and diversity consulting firm. Before Foster & Francisco, Paul led recruitment, consulting and relationship management functions at Bank of America, as well as Fidelity Investments, respectively. Early in his career he led recruitment efforts at Amica Mutual Insurance, and The Gillette Company.

Mary Campbell is a host of exceptional ability. Studies show that a vast majority of guests attending events by Mary have been known to leave more elated than visitors to Santa's Workshop, The Lost of Continent of Atlantis, and the Fountain of Youth.

MANJUSHA P. KULKARNI (Manju) is executive director of AAPI Equity Alliance, a coalition of over 40 community-based organizations which serve and represent the 1.5 million Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Los Angeles County. In March 2020, Kulkarni co-founded Stop AAPI Hate, the nation’s leading aggregator of COVID-19-related hate incidents against AAPIs. Recently, Kulkarni was one of five individuals awarded the Racial Equity Award by Bank of America for her service breaking down systemic racial barriers and creating economic opportunities for Black, Latino, Asian American and Native American individuals nationwide. In 2021, she was recognized by TIME magazine as one of the 100 most influential individuals and by Bloomberg/Business Week as one of 50 individuals “with the ability to move markets or shape ideas and policies” with the co-founders of Stop AAPI Hate, Cynthia Choi and Russell Jeung. Choi, Jeung, and Kulkarni were also awarded the 2021 Webby Social Movement of the Year. Kulkarni holds a BA from Duke University and a juris doctor degree from Boston University School of Law.

UTHRA SUNDARAM is head of global product & launch strategy at Takeda. She leads the organization’s focus on realizing the promise of our pipeline, driving global brand growth, and becoming a center of excellence for both asset strategy and launch success. Sundaram brings a passion for building connections between commercial and R&D, as well as a broad global background in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Sundaram joined Takeda as our global commercial leader for gastroenterology (GI) and moved into the USBU to build and lead our GI business unit. Her leadership principle is to inspire people with a clear and compelling vision while supporting them by elevating their cross functional skills. She believes in candid feedback, team empowerment, crisp decision-making, and being a role model of the values she advocates. Sundaram holds a degree in electronics and communication engineering, a post-graduate diploma in management, and an MBA from Yale School of Management. @takedapharma

PETER CAPPELLI, the George W. Taylor Professor of Management at The Wharton School and director of Wharton’s Center for Human Resources, is a leading expert on developing strategies to address 21st century changes in work. Author of The Future of the Office: Work From Home, Remote Work, and the Hard Choices We All Face, named by HR Magazine as one of the top five most influential thinkers in management and named one of the 50 influencers in the field of aging. Cappelli has studied and written extensively on managing a multigenerational workforce with differing values. He co-authored the book Managing the Older Worker: How to Prepare for the New Organizational Order, which provides key steps to recruiting and retaining workers who are older by becoming more purpose-driven, emphasizing social connections and tailoring benefits to elderly people’s needs. As the population becomes progressively “greyer,” devising a strategy for the older worker now will give you a competitive advantage. Cappelli is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Mass. Elected a fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources, he received the 2009 PRO award from the International Association of Corporate and Professional Recruiters for his contributions to HR. He serves on several advisory boards, including the Global Agenda Council on Employment for the World Economic Forum. Cappelli has degrees in industrial relations from Cornell University and in labor economics from Oxford, where he was a Fulbright Scholar.

NICOLE D. SMITH is the editorial audience director for Harvard Business Review, where she and her team create strategies to sustain, build, and find new digital readership. Prior to HBR, Smith was the senior arts and entertainment editor for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She has held editorial and social media strategist roles at CNN, Essence magazine and Bounce TV. Smith has written articles for Upscale Magazine and the Harvard Business Review including “I Was a Manager in an Ageist Workplace.” She also writes and moderates for From Day One. Smith is an active board member of the Center for Collaborative Journalism at Mercer University and tech training organization Per Scholas. She also serves on the DEI committee for mentoring program Girl Talk, Inc. Smith earned an MA in education and human development, with a focus on organizational leadership and learning, from The George Washington University and holds a BA in journalism from the University of Georgia. She is an adjunct professor of journalism at Morehouse College in Atlanta.