Speakers
Doc Hendley
Opening General Session | 17 October 2023
DOC HENDLEYis proof that anyone, even a tattooed keg-tapper, can cure what ails the world.
In 2003, Doc Hendley dreamed up the concept of Wine to Water while bartending and playing music in nightclubs around Raleigh, North Carolina. In January of 2004 he held his first fundraiser and by August was living in Darfur, Sudan installing water systems for victims of the government-supported genocide.
When Doc returned home in 2005, the haunting memories of what he had seen in Darfur drove him to continue growing the organization he had started only two years earlier. And in 2007, after working two jobs and volunteering his time for over three years, Wine To Water became an official 501 (c)(3) and Doc’s dream finally became a reality.
Hendley’s work aims to help the 1.1 billion people worldwide who lack access to clean water, a figure estimated by the World Health Organization. Nearly two-thirds of that group lives in Asia. In sub-Saharan Africa, 42 percent of the population lives without yard taps, household connections or other improvements to sanitize water. Unclean water is the number one killer of children in the world. Water borne illnesses kill far more children the HIV/AIDS and Malaria combined. Every 15 seconds a child dies from unclean water.
Doc Hendley was named one of the Top 10 CNN Heroes for 2009 (chosen by a panel of judges including Gen. Colin Powell, Whoopi Goldberg, Ted Turner and Sir Elton John).
His book, Wine to Water: A Bartender's Quest to Bring Clean Water to the World (Avery: Penguin, Jan 2012), is a captivating story of an ordinary bartender who's changing the world through clean water.
Heather E. McGowan
Keynote | 18 October 2023
Future-of-work strategist HEATHER E. MCGOWAN helps leaders prepare their people and organizations for the Post Pandemic world of work. The last few years have forever changed where we work, who works, how we work and measure work, what we do for work and, most importantly, why we work.
McGowan is a sense maker, a dot connector, a deep thinker, and a pattern matcher who sees things that others miss. Heather gives people the courage and insight that illuminates their path forward. She’s transforming mindsets and entire organizations around the globe with her message about how the next phase of work will focus on continuous learning, rather than simply learning once in order to work.
Pulitzer Prize–winning NYT columnist Thomas Friedman frequently quotes Heather in his books and columns and describes her as “the oasis” when it comes to insights into the future of work. In 2020 Heather was recognized as one of the top 50 female futurists in the world by Forbes. Heather’s sessions help employees and leaders alike prepare for and adapt to jobs that do not yet exist.
McGowan has provided keynote addresses for audiences from start-ups to government organizations to universities to publicly traded Fortune 500 companies, including AMP Financial, Financial Times, Siemens, Microsoft, Biogen, Google, Facebook, Kaiser Permanente, JPMorgan Chase, Lockheed Martin, The US Army, Accor Hotels, AARP, Zendesk, Tableau, Fidelity, and The World Bank.
Heather addresses audiences in person from small summits for C suite executives to large events in the tens of thousands. Her virtual talks have reached hundreds of thousands. Often quoted in the media, notably in the New York Times, McGowan serves on the advisory board for Sparks & Honey, a New York–based culture-focused agency looking to the future for brands. McGowan’s academic work has included roles at Rhode Island School of Design, and Jefferson University, where she was the strategic architect of the first undergraduate college focused exclusively on innovation. In 2019 Heather was appointed as a faculty member of the Swinburne University Centre For the New Workforce in Melbourne, Australia.
In 2022, McGowan was awarded an honorary doctorate from Pennsylvania College of Art and Design in addition to earning her MBA from Babson College and her BFA in Industrial Design from Rhode Island School of Design. McGowan is the co-editor and author of the book Disrupt Together: How Teams Consistently Innovate and a Forbes contributor. McGowan’s latest book on the future of work, published in 2020: The Adaptation Advantage: Let Go, Learn Fast, and Thrive in the Future of Work, reached number three in business management books on Amazon and was recently named one of the best business books of 2021 by Soundview. McGowan’s next book on post pandemic work is due out by Wiley in 2023.
Other GWS speakers include:
Rob Taylor
Partner & Shareholder
Erickson Immigration Group
Shannon Doyle
Head of Global Mobiliy
Pinterest
Heather McGowan
Future-of-Work Strategist & Author
Katie Adams
CRP, GMS, GDS
Vice President, Corporate Relocation Services
Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Ambassador Realty
Kelechi Anyanwu
Regional Head of Solution Strategy, Customer Experience
Qualtrics
Madalina Badea
GMS
Manager Global Mobility and Immigration
Moderna
Stacy Baker
CRP
Manager, Consulting Services
Aires
Sandy Beyer
CRP, GMS
Director, Global Talent Mobility
Salesforce
Laura Bloniarz
Senior Associate
WR Immigration
Randi Brazinski
Senior Strategy Specialist
Amazon
Amanda Brown
Senior Manager of Global Mobility
Salesforce
Whitney Brownlow
Ogletree
Rob Burns
CEO
IOR
Ryan Carrell
CRP
Partner
Carpenter Realtors
Chris Chalk
SCRP, SGMS
Global Mobility Leader
Graphic Packaging
Jason Chancellor
Chief Information Officer
BAL
Scott Chapman
GMS-T
Prime Lending
Alex Chatzieleftheriou
Co-Founder & CEO
Blueground
Salman Cheema
Manager, Mobility Strategies
Amazon
Anindita Chowdhury
Founder and Managing Attorney
USiLaW
Andy Conduit-Turner
Director, Growth Enablement—Opportunity & Solutions Development and Co-chair of the Cartus Sustainab
Cartus
Deb Convery
GMS-T, SPHR
Head of Talent Mobility
Stripe
Tom Crosby
Director of Consulting Services
Manpreet Dhami-Magne
Newland Chase
Joseph Dudek
CRP, GMS-T
Senior Account Manager
Rocket Mortgage
Samantha Elliott
CRP, CCHP
Cain Elliott
PhD
Head Legal Futurist
Filevine
Kenneth Flornes
Chief Development Officer
Primestone Partners
Jennifer Fontaine
GMS-T
Senior Analyst of Global Mobility
Gates Foundation
Brett Furlong
Starwood Pet
Erin Gough
Senior Manager Global Mobility
Reckitt
Tonya Hamilton
SCRP, GMS
Partner/Vice President Relocation and Business Development at Woodmont Realty.
Woodmont Realty
Christine Haney
SCRP, GMS, SGDS
Executive Vice President, Global Relocation & Referral Services
Global Relocation & Referral Services
Billy Ho
Senior Manager of Talent Mobility
Electronic Arts
Addie Hogan
GMS
Managing Partner
Corporate Immigration Partners
Brian Ito
Mobility Specialist
Amazon
Jack Jampel
SCRP
Sr Manager Global Mobility
Stryker
Michael Johnsen
Vice President, APAC/ANZ
Arpin
Kevin Jusino
Senior Marketing Manager
Relocity, Inc.
Ray Kirby
CRP, GMS-T
Sr. Manager Global Mobility
Qualcomm
Santiago Laidlaw
Global Mobility Manager
The Clorox Company
Laura Levenson
Global Practice Leader
Weichert Workforce Mobility
Des McKell
VP Adisory Services UK & ireland and Global Strategic Partnerships
NetExpat
Jacob Medina
GMS
Senior Manager Global Mobility
Grammarly
Meredith Morris
SHRM-CP, CRP, GMS
Director, International Development
Global Expansion
Corinne Mossman
CRP
VP Business Development & Client Services
John L Scott Real Estate
Charles Oppenheim
Director of Visa Consulting and former Chief of the Immigrant Visa Control
WR Immigration
Angelo Paparelli
Vialto