Professor & Department Chair, University of Michigan

Dr. Cameron is currently the William Russell Kelly Professor of Management and Organizations at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. His research on downsizing, corporate culture and the development of leadership excellence has been published in more than 120 academic journals and 13 books. Dr. Cameron co-founded the Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship at the University of Michigan and has served as Dean at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University and Associate Dean at the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University.

Head of Mental Health Research Unit & Author, University of Derby

At the University of Derby, Paul Gilbert, Ph.D. is the head of the Mental Health Research Unit and Professor of Clinical Psychology. He has a degree in Economics (Wolverhampton, 1973), Masters in Experimental Psychology (Sussex, 1975), Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology (Edinburgh, 1980) and a diploma in Clinical Psychology awarded by the British Psychological Society (1980). He was also made a fellow of the British Psychological Society for contributions to psychological knowledge in 1993, was president of the British Association for Cognitive and Behavioural Psychotherapy in 2003, and served on the government depression NICE guideline committee. Paul published and edited 21 books, over 100 academic papers and 39 book chapters, and is an editor for a 'compassionate approaches to life difficulties' series. Paul's current research is exploring the neurophysiology and therapeutic effectiveness of compassion focused therapy.

Co-Founder & CEO, Impact HUB Oakland

Konda Mason is a social entrepreneur, earth and social justice activist and spiritual teacher. Konda is the Co-Founder and founding CEO of Impact Hub Oakland, a beautiful co-working space that supports socially engaged entrepreneurs and changemakers. She is the Strategic Director of the Runway Project Oakland, a micro-lending fund for African American entrepreneurs intended to close the “Friends & Family” gap funding that is often unavailable to them. Additionally, Konda is the co-founder of the annual COCAP (Community Capital) conference in Oakland, with a focus on “Building the We Economy”. Konda is also a co-founder of Jubilee Partners, a new business of wisdom keepers and wealth holders, focused on joyfully preparing the next generation of investors to meet this moment and to defend the sacred. Konda's Brown Rice Hour podcast quilts a fabric of connection between Land, Race, Money, Culture & Spirit that engages with the most inspiring and cutting-edge thought leaders today, pointing toward our collective healing and liberation.

Konda was introduced to Tibetan Buddhism in 1982. Her love for Vipassana began in 1996, working with Jack Kornfield at the Vallecitos Retreat Center. She has been a regular yoga teacher at Spirit Rock starting in 1997, teaching many retreats including the annual Metta Retreat and many of the POC retreats. Konda’s dharma training includes the East Bay Meditation Center Commit to Dharma program, Spirit Rock Community Dharma Leader and she is currently in the 2020 Spirit Rock Teacher Training program. Konda has taught daylongs, retreats and workshops. She sits on the Boards of Directors of Spirit Rock Meditation Center, On Being with Krista Tippett, Good Work Institute and on the Advisory Board of the Namchak Foundation Learning Circles.

Strategy Officer at The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation

Lori is the Strategy Officer at the Hewlett Foundation. A member of Hewlett’s Effective Philanthropy Group, she works with staff in all six program areas as they develop, implement, refresh and exit their strategies. She also leads foundation-wide implementation of Outcome-Focused Philanthropy, Hewlett’s framework for strategic philanthropy. Lori has worked in philanthropy since 2000. Previously, she was a senior director at the Pew Charitable Trusts. Lori has been cited in a range of national and state media, including the New York Times and Associated Press, and has appeared on Fox Business News, C-Span and dozens of radio stations. An Idaho native, she earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism and philosophy from the University of Southern California and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.

Professor & Former Vice-Provost, University of California - Berkeley

Christina Maslach is a Professor of Psychology at the University of California at Berkeley. She is probably best known for her pioneering research on the topic of job burnout and the development of the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI). Professor Maslach was nationally recognized as Professor of the Year in 1997. At the University of California at Berkeley, she has received the Distinguished Teaching Award, the Berkeley Faculty Service Award, and the Berkeley Citation (highest honor). She received her B.A., magna cum laude, in Social Relations from Harvard-Radcliffe College in 1967, and her Ph.D. in Psychology from Stanford University in 1971.

The Omidyar Network, Vice President of Human Capital

Susan joined Omidyar Network in early 2009 following more than 20 years in consumer marketing and people development roles. She provides marketing and organizational expertise to portfolio organizations as part of Omidyar Network's human capital efforts. Previously, Susan led the firm's marketing and communications function, managing media relations, internal communications, brand development, and marketing programs. Prior to joining Omidyar Network, Susan held increasingly senior positions at eBay, Inc. From 2006 to 2008, as vice president of global marketing at PayPal, she oversaw a 120-person organization, growing customer accounts from 105 million to 141 million and contributing to over 35 percent annual revenue growth. Susan earned her MBA in marketing and organizational behavior at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a BA with distinction in rhetoric and communications studies at the University of Virginia. She is a certified Integral Coach and Myers-Briggs facilitator.

Entrepreneur, CEO & Author

Margaret Heffernan produced radio and television programs for the BBC for 13 years before coming to the US where she spearheaded multimedia productions for Intuit, The Learning Company and Standard & Poors. She was Chief Executive of InfoMation Corporation, ZineZone Corporation and then iCast Corporation, and was named one of the Top 25 by Streaming Media magazine and one of the Top 100 Media Executives by The Hollywood Reporter. Margaret now blogs regularly for BNET and the Huffington Post. She teaches at the University of Bath in the UK as well as Simmons College, Boston and Babson College. She's published two books about women and business: The Naked Truth: A Working Womans Manifesto, Women on Top: How Women are Changing the Rules for Business Success. She also published Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at our Peril, which was shortlisted for the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Best Business Book Award 2011.

Organizational Consultant, Board First Consulting LLC

Joann McNutt, Ph.D., joined Board First Consulting, LLC, in 2008. Prior to joining Board First Consulting, she served boards and senior executives of public and non-profit organizations across multiple sectors, including healthcare, performing arts, energy, retail, charitable giving, professional associations, education, and social services. She has served over 12 years in the U.S. Army Reserve Medical Service Corps, where she held various leadership roles. She was the Company Commander of the 352nd Combat Support Hospital based in Oakland, CA, and was a cadre member of the 63rd Regional Readiness Command’s Company Team Leadership Development Program, where she taught change management. Prior to receiving her commission through ROTC, she was an enlisted soldier in the Army Reserve where she trained as a surgical technician.

Racial Justice Educator & Writer

Debby Irving brings to racial justice the perspective of working in non-profit organizations and education for 25 years without understanding racism as systemic, or her own whiteness as an obstacle, to grappling with it. Though she struggled to make sense of racial dynamics she could feel but not explain, it wasn’t until a graduate school course, Racial and Cultural Identities, gave her the answers she’d been looking for and launched her on a journey of discovery. Debby now devotes herself to working with people exploring the impact whiteness can have on perception, problem solving, and creating equitable, racially diverse work teams and communities. A graduate of the Winsor School in Boston, she holds a BA from Kenyon College and an MBA from Simmons College. Her award-winning book, Waking Up White, tells how she went from well-meaning to well-doing.

Author & Professor, University of Southern California

Professor James O’Toole is founding Director of the Neely Center at USC. He began his academic career at the USC business school in 1973 where he held the University Associates' Chair of Management, served as Executive Director of the Leadership Institute, and editor of New Management magazine. O'Toole's research and writings have been in the areas of leadership, ethics, and corporate culture. He has addressed dozens of major corporations and professional groups, and has over one hundred published articles. Among his seventeen books, Vanguard Management was named "One of the best business and economics books of 1985" by the editors of Business Week. O'Toole received his Doctorate in Social Anthropology from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He served as a Special Assistant to Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Elliot Richardson, as Chairman of the Secretary’s Task Force on Work in America, and as Director of Field Investigations for President Nixon's Commission on Campus Unrest. Recently, he was named one of “the top 100 thought leaders on leadership” by Leadership Excellence magazine.

Co-Founder & Producer, Somersault Innovation

Ashley co-founded Somersault Innovation with the belief that everyone can innovate. She helps organizations build sustainable capability to innovate, and have fun along the way. As Producer, Ashley takes a strategic view to ensure that each piece of an engagement fits together, is meaningful. An advocate and practitioner of Human-Centered Design, she’s a certified facilitator of ExperiencePoint’s Design Thinker simulation. Prior to launching Somersault Innovation, Ashley spent 20 years as a business development executive at Interaction Associates. She managed a mixed portfolio of clients across industries with domestic and global reach. The engagements she led included Culture Change initiatives, Innovation (Design Thinking) Development, Leadership Development, Team Effectiveness, Senior Team Alignment, and Collaborative Skill development.

Global Board Director & Former CEO

Peter Waller has broad global leadership experience as a board director and as a CEO in public and private companies, ranging from market entries to multi-billion dollar enterprises. His priority and passion in these companies has been the personal and professional growth of the employees, and the development of a healthy culture and outreach to the community. Until December 2010, he served as CEO at Corinthian Colleges, a large private sector post-secondary education company. Earlier, Peter had a twenty-five year international career in Europe, the South Pacific and North America with Procter and Gamble, Gillette and PepsiCo restaurant business, including three years as President of Taco Bell. He is currently a Board Director of Websense. Peter received his Masters degree from Oxford University.

Director, Giving Voice to Values, Senior Research Scholar, Babson College

Dr. Gentile consults on management education and values-driven leadership. In her ten-year tenure at Harvard Business School, she developed and taught the schools first course on managing diversity, and helped design and taught its first required module on ethical decision-making. Currently she is director of the Giving Voice to Values curriculum and senior research scholar at Babson College. Her articles have appeared in Harvard Business Review, strategy+business, BizEd, CFO Magazine, and Risk Management, and she has written several books on ethics and diversity.

Founder, Nygren Consulting LLC

Dr. David Nygren established Nygren Consulting, LLC in 2007 after ten years as Senior Partner at Mercer Delta Consulting, LLC. There, he founded the Corporate Governance Consulting Group. He specializes in board effectiveness, organizational strategy, and executive leadership. Dr. Nygren earned an MA in psychology and a Ph.D. in social/organizational psychology from Boston University, and holds Masters degrees in social ethics, systematic theology, and comparative literature from Harvard University's Institute for Educational Management.

CEO & Co-Founder, Solazyme

As the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Solazyme, Jonathan Wolfson oversees the management and strategic direction of the company. Prior to Solazyme, Mr. Wolfson held a variety of positions including Vice President of Finance and Business Development for 7thOnline, Co-Founder, President and COO of InvestorTree, and Business & Legal Analyst for Triarc Companies. In 2009, he was awarded the Green Leap Award from the Clinton Global Initiative for his commitment to commercializing Solazymes breakthrough technology for renewable oil production for fuel and food. Mr. Wolfson holds a J.D. from the NYU School of Law and an M.B.A. from the NYU Stern School of Business.

Executive VP, Worldwide Human Resources, Warner Bros. Entertainment

Based at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, Washington is responsible for managing the company’s human resources department on a worldwide basis, including organizational planning and development, recruitment, compensation and benefits. Washington joined Warner Bros. in August 2000 as Senior Vice President, Worldwide Human Resources. He came from parent company Time Warner, where he served as Vice President, Human Resources Planning and International Human Resources Management, working with the human resource professionals across Time Warner’s divisions to create a career development initiative with the objective of guaranteeing that the most talented and diverse pool of candidates was readily available to the company at all times.

Director of Compassion Education for CCARE, Stanford University

Leah Weiss, Ph.D., MSW, is a mental health expert at Stanford, and founder of Skylyte, a company focused on building healthy teams in a hybrid work world. Dr. Weiss is the principal teacher and founding faculty for Stanford's Compassion Cultivation Program, conceived by the Dalai Lama. She is an expert on metrics driven, behavior change methods for cultivating resilience, belonging and psychological safety at the team and organizational level. Her acclaimed book, “How We Work: Live Your Purpose, Reclaim Your Sanity, and Embrace the Daily Grind” (HarperWave) has been translated into 10 languages. Her work guides the mental health and well-being strategies of over 100 companies and has been covered by news outlets around the world, including BBC, the New York Times, TED, the Financial Times, Harvard Business Review.

Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

Max H. Bazerman is the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, and has an international consulting, teaching, and lecturing practice. In addition, Max is formally affiliated with the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Harvard’s Psychology Department, the Harvard University Center on the Environment, and the Program on Negotiation at the Harvard Law School. Max’s research focuses on decision making, negotiation, and ethics. He is the author, co-author, or co-editor of nineteen books (including Blind Spots [with Ann Tenbrunsel], Princeton University Press, 2011; and, Judgment in Managerial Decision Making [with Don Moore], Wiley, 8th edition, 2012), and over 200 research articles and chapters. In 2008, Max was named as Ethisphere’s 100 Most Influential in Business Ethics, was named one of Daily Kos’ Heroes from the Bush Era for going public about how the Bush Administration corrupted the RICO Tobacco trial, and received the Distinguished Educator Award from the Academy of Management. In 2006, Max received an honorary doctorate from the University of London (London Business School), the Kulp-Wright Book Award from the American Risk and Insurance Association for Predictable Surprises (with Michael Watkins), and the Life Achievement Award from the Aspen Institute’s Business and Society Program.

Rex & Alice A. Martin Professor of Business Ethics & Director of the Institute for Ethical Business Worldwide

Ann E. Tenbrunsel (Ph.D., Northwestern University; M.B.A. Northwestern University; B.S.I.O.E. University of Michigan) is a professor in the College of Business Administration at the University of Notre Dame and is the Rex and Alice A. Martin Research Director of the Institute for Ethical Business Worldwide. Her current research interests focus on the psychology of ethical decision making, examining why employees, leaders and students behave unethically, despite their best intentions to behave to the contrary. Ann is the author, co-author, or co-editor of six books on this topic—including Blind Spots (with Max Bazerman), Behavioral Ethics: Shaping an Emerging Field (with David De Cremer), Codes of Conduct: Behavioral Research into Business Ethics (with David Messick)—and over 50 research articles and chapters. Her research has been featured in interviews airing on MSNBC and National Public Radio, and adaptations, excerptions and references to her work have appeared in a variety of publications, including the New York Times, US News and World Report, AP, NBC, ABC, Sports Illustrated, ESPN, The Guardian, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Huffington Post, Washington Post, Washington Examiner, The Globe and Mail, Ethisphere Magazine, Investor's Business Daily, and in blogs for Psychology Today and Freakonomics. Ann teaches at the executive, MBA, and undergraduate levels.

Media Consultant, Producer & Educator

Michelle Smawley is an award-winning non-fiction and news television producer, director, writer, educator and media consultant whose work over the last 20 years has been featured on all three major television networks, PBS, cable and independent. Michelle has produced, directed and developed stories for NOW on PBS, 20/20, Primetime Live, 60 Minutes and Biography on A&E, to name a few; on topics as diverse as an examination of the controversy surrounding doctor participation in lethal injection, an exploration of the lives of foreign guest workers, an investigative profile of international shoplifting rings, and an award wining special on teenage sexuality. Michelle is currently on the faculty of the Graduate Program in Social Documentary at the School of Visual Arts and holds a Master of Arts Degree in Journalism from the University of Missouri as a Gus Ridgel Fellow, a fellowship for exceptional students of color, and a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from New York University.

Chair & Director, Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology

Erik M. Gregory, Ph.D. specializes in positive psychology, a field that examines healthy human functioning such as courage, hope, optimism, and happiness. He worked internationally with children and adolescents as a psychotherapist and consulted with leaders in higher education, media, and business. He serves as the Executive Director of the Media Psychology Research Center of Boston and is actively involved in animal rights and arts promotion. After completing recent studies at the Harvard Kennedy School in 21st century leadership, he developed the first doctoral program in the world in Leadership Psychology at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology where he is the Director of the Organizational and Leadership Psychology Program.

Author & Psychotherapist

Linda Graham, M.F.T., is a full-time psychotherapist in private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area and leads trainings nationwide on the emerging integration of relational psychology, mindfulness and neuroscience. She is the author of Bouncing Back: Rewiring Your Brain for Maximum Resilience and publishes a monthly e-newsletter Healing and Awakening into Aliveness and Wholeness, archived at www.lindagraham-mft.net .

Founder & CEO, Ready-Aim-Aspire.com

Marilyn Nagel founded Ready-Aim-Aspire, an executive presence consulting practice after an exemplary career in the corporate and non-profit world. Most recently, she served as CEO of Watermark - leading strategic initiatives designed to help exceptional women enhance their personal and professional impact. Prior to joining Watermark, Marilyn was Chief Diversity Officer at Cisco. She was a recognized as a thought leader in creating inclusive environments, and a co-chair of the Conference Board Global Diversity Group as well as senior advisor to the Center for Talent and Innovation. She has served on the Board of Directors of Watermark, Professional Business Women of California, the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, Inc. (NACME), Family and Children Services, and currently serves on the advisory board of The Everest Project, Proformative Academy, and Big Pink Ribbon. Listed multiple times in "Who's Who – Women in Business," winner of the Women of Influence Award, the Women Leading the Way TWIN Award, Women Worth Watching award from the Diversity Journal, Black Enterprise Top Executives in Diversity, and Diversity Officer Leadership Award, Marilyn is a frequent speaker on the topics of Building Meaningful Connections, Board Access, Executive Presence, as well as Building a Culture of Inclusion. Marilyn is a regular blogger for the Huffington Post and frequently contributes to Forbes, Inc, Fast Company, HBR and numerous publications.

Principal & Co-Founder, Berriern O'Brien Incorporated

Curt Berrien is a Principal and co-founder of Berrien O’Brien Incorporated, a management-consulting firm based in Berkeley, California. He's taught Strategic Thinking for the Monitor Group, a strategy-consulting firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts and was a member of Monitor’s Leadership Model Building executive coaching staff. Before starting his own firm in 1994, Curt was President of The Bay Group, an international training and consulting organization specializing in the education of executives on ethics and the installation of systems and management practices that support ethics and social responsibility. Prior to the Bay Group, Curt was senior-vice-president, member of the board, and western division manager for the Forum Corporation, an international management-training firm. He's taught worldwide and began teaching as the designer and instructor of a public administration curriculum at Nepal's Tribhuvan University in Nepal and Nepal’s Center for Economic Development. Curt has completed major consulting and executive development assignments with over 200 global corporations including Bank of America, Citigroup, Dodge and Cox, Heidrick and Struggles, Wells Fargo Bank, J.P. Morgan Chase, Standard Chartered Bank, Toronto Dominion Banking Financial Group, Fidelity Investments, Microsoft, Merck, DuPont, Agilent, Xerox, IBM, Levi Strauss, Mattel, C.B.S, Marriott, Chevron, Shell, Watson Wyatt Worldwide, The Monitor Group, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, and Suffolk Construction.

Sociologist & Senior Fellow, UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center

A sociologist and senior fellow at UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, Christine Carter, Ph.D., is the author of The Sweet Spot: How to Find Your Groove at Work and Home (January 2015) and Raising Happiness (2011). A sought-after keynote speaker, Dr. Carter loves to share her work with new audiences. Combining scientific research and practical application, she offers audiences not only a way to cope with modern pressures, but a way to truly thrive. Speaking to executives, general audiences, and parents, Dr. Carter looks at living life from our “sweet spot”—that place of both power and ease. Dr. Carter also writes an award-winning blog, which is frequently syndicated on the HuffingtonPost, PsychologyToday.com, PositivelyPositive.com, Medium.com, and several other websites. Dr. Carter has been quoted or featured in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post, the Boston Globe, as well as Good Housekeeping, Parenting, Martha Stewart’s Whole Living, Fitness, Redbook, and dozens of other publications. She has appeared on the “Oprah Winfrey Show,” the “Dr. Oz Show”, the “TODAY” show, the “Rachael Ray Show,” “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” “CBS Sunday Morning,” “ABC World News with Diane Sawyer”, PBS, as well as NPR and BBC Radio.

Director, LLP Consulting & Founder of The Career Psychologist

Rob is a Chartered Psychologist and management consultant with 18 years’ board-level experience in both public and private sectors. Rob provides training, coaching and consultancy for a wide range of clients including BP, Mars, Allen & Overy, 3M, Bain & Co, Laing O’Rourke, Macquarie Bank and Danske Bank along with a number of elite sporting teams. Rob’s work is centered on increasing psychological flexibility in the workplace. He currently runs two London-based consultancies: Founder of The Career Psychologist – pioneering the use of ACT in career coaching; Director at LPP Consulting – specializing in clinically-based training and coaching for clients in professional and financial services, oil, gas, construction, FMCG and elite sports. Rob’s interest in ACT stemmed from training under Professor Frank Bond at the University of London. He is also an Accredited Executive Coach at Ashridge Business School. He regularly delivers ACT training in the UK and internationally, and has presented at five world ACBS conferences. He also co-authors a leading ACT-consistent blog called Working with ACT, which deals specifically with the implementation of ACT in organizational settings.

Senior VP, Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer, Merck

Ashley Watson is Merck’s Senior Vice President, Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer. She leads a team of attorneys and compliance professionals responsible for Merck’s policies, programs and investigations to ensure ethical decision making and compliance with laws and regulations globally. Prior to joining Merck in March 2015, she served as Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer for Hewlett-Packard, as well as the company’s Executive Director, HP Company Foundation. She was named Chief Compliance Officer of the Year by Women in Compliance in 2014. Earlier in her career, Ashley served as senior litigation counsel for the BellSouth Corporation, handling a range of antitrust, securities, class actions and intellectual property litigation. Ashley received her J.D. from the University of Georgia and her B.A. in political science from the University of North Carolina.

Founder/CEO, Samara

Nina's the founder and CEO of a company focused on helping parents and young adults build happy, loving families and lives of compassion and meaning. Previously, Nina was a publisher for the largest global publishing companies, creating more than 100 successful science textbooks with leading science educators and Nobel Prize-winning authors. Her academic research has garnered more than 1000 peer-reviewed journal citations. Nina's environmental policy work and diplomacy with the United Nations, OECD, ISO, multiple White House administrations, and federal agencies here and abroad saves thousands of lives around the world each year.

Co-Founder & Facilitator, Beyond Separation

Gregory Mengel, Ph.D. is an educator and writer committed to social, racial, and ecological healing. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness from the California Institute of Integral Studies, where he did research on the intellectual history of evolutionary theory. Gregory is cofounder of Beyond Separation, which offers classes and workshops for white-identified people on racism and the culture of whiteness. He also teaches programs for white people with the Untraining and the East Bay Meditation Center.

Founder & Managing Partner, Fifth Era

Alison is a global strategist, finance professional and governance expert with deep expertise in the financial services and payments sector. Prior to Fifth Era, Alison was the Managing Partner of Belvedere Capital Partners focused on investing in banks and financial services and prior to that served as CFO of Barclays Global Investors - now Blackrock. Earlier in her career Alison spent 15 years in strategy consulting with McKinsey and AT Kearney. Her work focused on Strategy, Organization and Leadership working as an advisor to Fortune 500 CEOs, Boards and executive teams. Alison built and led the Global Financial Services Practice of AT Kearney to be one of the largest and most respected in the world. She continues to consult on issues of relevance to the Boards and Executive teams of leading multi-national clients. Alison is an experienced public and private company board director. She is currently a director of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), Diamond Foods (DMND), Fiserv (FISV), Unisys (UIS), and Ooma and is a former director of City National Bank (CYN), First Data Corporation (FDC), Xoom (XOOM) and was the Chairman of LECG (XPRT) until its sale in 2011. She is also Chairman of the Advisory Board of BlockChain Partners. Ms. Davis received a BA and MA degree from Cambridge University, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She is a dual UK/US citizen and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.