ABOUT OUR SPEAKERS AND HOSTS

Russell Robinson, EdD, Founder at Amplified Research & Consulting 

Experienced Director of Organizational Development with a demonstrated history of working in the government administration industry. Skilled in Employee Engagement, Empowerment, Change Management and Communications. He is a strong healthcare services professional with a Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) focused in Human Organizational Learning from The George Washington University. Russell is also Senior Training & Engagement Advisor at U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Jennifer Bouyoukos EVP, Global HR at Entertainment One

Jennifer Bouyoukos is a savvy award-winning HR professional with more than 20 years’ experience in leading and transforming HR teams at high-performing companies, including Workbrain, SAP, Manulife, Kobo, and RBC. She is currently EVP, Global HR at Entertainment One and leads the HR integration office after recently being acquired by Hasbro. In these roles, Jennifer has partnered with leaders around the globe to deliver modern and high-impact people strategies. Her expertise in strategy, talent management, M&A, recruitment, and total rewards has made her a strong contributor and an advisor to leaders focused on effective people practices and processes.

Jennifer is one of 20 Canadian HR leaders recognized on HRD’s Global 100, the definitive list of the best and brightest people practitioners of 2021. Under her lead, Entertainment One received a Canadian HR award for Canadian HR Team of the Year (Fewer than 500 Employees) in 2020. A certified Prosci Change Manager and HR tech pioneer, Jennifer is recognized as a global expert in her field by organizations such as LinkedIn, Forbes.com, and Socialmedia.org. 

Lorena Pacheco Scott, Chief People Officer at CaseWare International Inc.

Lorena is a Colombian born entrepreneur and investor, who now proudly calls Toronto “home”. As a member of the Canadian tech community, Lorena is super passionate about supporting women entrepreneurs and women in tech. Currently, Lorena is Chief People Officer at CaseWare, a global software company leading the digital transformation of the audit and accounting industry. Lorena was previously Global Head of People of Operations at Ritual.co, and helped grow the team 10x and markets by 10x across the US, Canada, Europe and APAC during her tenure.

Rob Bromage, Founder & CEO of intelliHR

Rob is an HR technology specialist with 20 years of experience in the industry. His entrepreneurial flair and continuous, forward-thinking improvement is fuelled by his passion for HR and high-performing businesses. Rob’s career has centered around the field of building validated performance prediction models, developing his expertise in human capital management analytics.

Laura Tatham, Career Development Manager at Flipp and Founder and Coach at Make Waves Coaching.

Laura is an InnovateWork Toronto meetups host and Career Development Manager at Flipp. In 2021 she founded Make Waves Coaching. Laura is a coach and human resources professional who develops and facilitates engagement programs to improve the employee life cycle! An avid cook, health enthusiast and studying to become a certified life coach on the side!

Bill Banham, Co-founder at InnovateWork

Bill Banham is Editor and Publisher at The HR Gazette magazine, Co-Founder of the InnovateWork event series for HR, Talent and Tech pros and President at Iceni Media Inc. He has 13+ years experience in B2B publishing and events. Bill’s previous roles include Editor at HRreview magazine and Marketing Manager at Sprigg, the performance management tech platform.

Rob Catalano, Co-founder at InnovateWork

Rob Catalano is passionate about helping companies succeed – by helping them focus on their employee experience. With his unique experience in HR Technology as a founding employee at Achievers, Rob co-founded WorkTango – software that helps give employees a voice and companies actionable insight. He has recently been named as a 2019 Top Global Employee Engagement Influencer, and is the Canadian Chairperson for The Enterprise Engagement Alliance, with a mandate to lead and help educate corporate, government and not-for-profit management on a formal process for implementing engagement across the enterprise community. He is an avid hockey and volleyball player, traveller, and in his own terms a ‘pointaholic’ – he collects loyalty points for everything and anything!

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