Featured Workplace Flexibility Experts

Stepan Kazaryan is a Business Management Consultant focused on digital presence, professional evaluation, and how public information shapes decision-making in modern business environments. His work centers on helping organizations and professionals understand how they are perceived before direct interaction occurs. In search-driven systems, evaluation often happens silently and quickly. Stepan advises clients on building structured digital foundations that support credibility over time. His approach emphasizes clarity, consistency, and responsible positioning rather than short-term visibility tactics. He works with executives, founders, and professional service providers who recognize that digital footprints influence trust, partnerships, and opportunity flow. By aligning websites, public profiles, and third-party references, Stepan helps create stable professional narratives that reduce uncertainty during evaluation. Rather than focusing on reactive measures, his advisory framework prioritizes preparation. This includes analyzing how search results present a name, how information connects across platforms, and how inconsistencies affect perception. The goal is to strengthen long-term positioning in a way that feels natural and sustainable. Stepan frequently writes and speaks about digital identity, credibility signals, and the structural factors that influence professional trust in online environments. His perspective reflects a broader shift in how professionals are assessed in the age of search and public information accessibility. Through disciplined strategy and steady execution, Stepan Kazaryan helps clients maintain clarity in environments where perception often forms before conversation begins.

Dr. Chantal Lunderville, MD is a UCSF-trained family medicine physician and nationally recognized expert in medical wellness, aesthetics, compliance, and practice growth. She serves as the Medical Wellness Editor for Lipgloss and Aftershave, a leading spa industry publication with a reach of more than 250,000 readers and followers. She has been mentioned in Forbes, and she has been a featured speaker for global brands including L’Oréal and Epicutis. As the medical director for 20+ aesthetic and wellness practices across California, Dr. Lunderville specializes in helping doctors, nurses, and entrepreneurs build safe, compliant, and scalable practices. She and her team have developed proprietary software that enables medspas to track compliance, medical director oversight, and regulatory requirements- now being made available to the public to elevate industry standards. She has also hosted large-scale women's wellness events and professional trainings with sponsors such as goop Kitchen, AQ Solutions, UnderSkin, South Coast Psychiatry, and Reproductive Partners. A former medical spa owner turned national consultant, Dr. Lunderville empowers women in aesthetics to build legacy-driven, ethical businesses. She is also a leader in longevity and preventive wellness, blending evidence-based lifestyle wellness with advanced regenerative treatments. She is also an aesthetic and womens health trainer focusing on new practitioners. Dr. Lunderville is available for expert commentary on aesthetics, medical wellness, compliance, women’s entrepreneurship, and the future of longevity medicine.

Strategic HR Leader | Driving Culture Transformation | Data-Driven Talent Strategies for Future-Ready Organizations | HR Podcast Host & Conference Speaker 🚀

Frederik Joustra MSc is a workplace intelligence advisor, strategist, and industry expert with more than 15 years of experience at the intersection of workplace transformation, real estate, facilities management, and technology. His career spans leadership roles with global PropTech and software companies, including Workplaced, PointGrab, and Spacewell, part of the Nemetschek Group, where he worked extensively across Europe, North America, and emerging markets. He is widely recognized for his expertise in workplace analytics, occupancy intelligence, IWMS, smart buildings, hybrid work strategies, and digital transformation. Beyond his corporate experience, Frederik advises investors, consulting firms, technology providers, and enterprise organizations through leading expert networks including Guidepoint, AlphaSights, Dialectica, Third Bridge, and proSapient. His insights help organizations navigate complex decisions around workplace strategy, technology adoption, operational efficiency, and future-of-work initiatives. Known for challenging conventional thinking, Frederik combines data, psychology, business strategy, and real-world operational experience to help organizations create workplaces that are not only more efficient, but more human. His work focuses on a simple belief: the future of work is not about buildings or technology alone, but about understanding the relationship between people, place, and performance. Based in Sweden, Frederik works internationally as an advisor, speaker, consultant, and thought leader on workplace intelligence, PropTech, and the evolving world of work.

I am a trailblazing people and culture executive with experience building high-performing organizations in the life sciences, biotech, pharma, manufacturing, tech, telecommunications, logistics, fashion, travel and aviation sectors. I combine strategic vision with deep empathy and cross-functional relationship building to unlock both individual and business potential, specializing in scaling people operations for high-growth companies. My approach centers on authentic leadership and harnessing data-driven decision-making to consistently deliver demonstrated success. Throughout my career, I've driven significant organizational transformations, including growing companies 588% in headcount, reducing new hire turnover by 35%, and delivering $3.5M+ in cost savings through innovative talent management solutions. As a trusted C-suite advisor and board partner, I've led 7+ successful M&A integrations with up to $1.1B in value, built elite P&C functions from the ground up, and championed initiatives that resulted in recognition as an employer of choice. I am a passionate people leader who thrives in fostering cultures where employees thrive and businesses excel. I am an impeccable relationship builder with expansive industry experience & expertise with a relentless dedication to creating transformational people experience teams that drive employee engagement, disrupt the status quo, and position the company for maximum performance, competitive advantage, and bottom-line growth.

Most people are taught to measure success by how much they can carry. Alexandria Damouni built her philosophy around a different truth. What has no foundation eventually asks to be rebuilt. Alexandria is the founder of Alexandria Design House, a Spatial Event Visionary, and the creator and sole owner of The Spatial Method™. Since 2010, she has shaped corporate events, fashion activations, weddings and cultural experiences through a framework that places clarity, structure and human experience before aesthetics. That framework became a philosophy: Foundation First. Her speaking work examines ambition, identity, reinvention, leadership and the difference between burnout and misalignment. She speaks candidly about building something successful, recognizing when success no longer feels true, and having the courage to dismantle what works in order to create what belongs. Alexandria is currently writing a memoir exploring ambition, illness, identity, self abandonment and the decision to rebuild a life from its foundation. Her work asks one question across every room, every career and every life: What becomes possible when the foundation is finally true? Speaking themes * Foundation First * Burnout versus misalignment * Reinvention after forty * Building a category the market cannot yet name * Creative leadership without self abandonment * The courage to choose fewer, higher stakes engagements * What spatial architecture teaches us about identity and human behaviour The page should conclude with: Speaking · Interviews · Editorial Contributions · Podcast Conversations Invite Alexandria to the Conversation

I’m Theresa White, a Career Clarity Expert and 5x Certified Career Coach dedicated to helping professionals find purpose and direction in their careers. With a background in HR and a deep commitment to empowering others, I’ve guided hundreds of professionals to uncover fulfilling and impactful career paths. My work is more than just career coaching; I’m a clarity strategist, known for using my unique insights and proven methods to unlock the potential within my clients. Through my proprietary Career Clarity Formula, I deliver rapid, transformative results for clients who are tired of feeling stuck and uncertain about their professional futures. My approach combines practical tools, like the Sparketype® Assessment, with research-backed techniques to help people uncover their true strengths and aspirations. These “aha moments” are the core of my work, and they’re what allow my clients to move forward with confidence, clarity, and purpose. Through y program, I've transformed career coaching into a results-driven journey that brings clarity and purpose, while reducing the time traditionally spent on finding direction. This approach has empowered my clients to find careers they love, often with improvements in income, work-life balance, and overall satisfaction. As a leading voice in career clarity and career change, my work has been recognized by clients and industry leaders alike. I’ve seen firsthand the transformative effect that career clarity can have, especially for professionals in corporate roles who feel disconnected from their work. Helping them achieve a renewed sense of purpose and motivation has become a central focus of my work, and it’s one of the most rewarding aspects of what I do. If you’re a journalist covering career development, employee engagement, or women’s professional empowerment, my perspective might be of interest to your audience. I’m passionate about reshaping the field of career coaching with actionable, purpose-driven strategies that tap into people’s potential. Through my programs, speaking engagements, and client success stories, I’m redefining career clarity as a pathway to true fulfillment, purpose, and long-lasting success. I would be honored to share my insights and success stories with your audience, offering a fresh take on how people can achieve meaningful, sustainable career change.

Stephanie Lemek, SPHR, MBA | Founder & CEO, The Wounded Workforce® | Executive Director, Center for Construction Mental Health™ Stephanie Lemek is a trauma-informed workplace expert, speaker, and organizational mental health strategist with more than 20 years of HR leadership experience across high-risk, high-stakes industries. She is the founder of The Wounded Workforce®, a consulting and education practice built on a foundational belief that resilience is a systems outcome, not an individual trait, and the Executive Director of the Center for Construction Mental Health™, the first organization dedicated exclusively to advancing mental health infrastructure in the construction industry. Stephanie developed the 7 Principles of Trauma-Informed Workplaces, a proprietary framework that translates clinical trauma-informed care principles into practical, scalable organizational culture change. She is the creator of the Building Resilience Construction Mental Health Certification®, a workforce training program that equips leaders and practitioners to build psychologically safe environments from the ground up. Her practitioner background includes senior HR leadership roles at some of the most recognized contractors in the country, giving her a credibility that is rare in the consulting space: she has held the seats her clients now occupy. That grounded perspective shapes every keynote, training, and organizational engagement she delivers. Stephanie holds credentials as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR), an MBA, and certifications in trauma-informed workplace practices. She is currently at work on her first book, The Resilience Myth: Why Pushing Through Is Failing Everyone at Work, which challenges the cultural assumption that individual grit is the solution to systemic dysfunction. She is a sought-after speaker on employment trauma, psychological safety, burnout, and the organizational conditions that either protect or erode workforce mental health.

With a passion for advocating outstanding workplace environments, I co-founded Amazing Workplaces , an integrated HR platform dedicated to enhancing, enriching, and endorsing the best practices that form the foundation of successful organizations. As a Culture & Best-Practices Evangelist, I specialize in guiding companies to strengthen their employer brand through our 9-pillar framework, which includes Culture, Leadership, DEI, and more.My journey in the HR space has been driven by a commitment to transparency, innovation, and the belief that every organization can create an inspiring and supportive work culture. From launching certification programs to conducting employee satisfaction surveys, my work is focused on building and celebrating Amazing Workplaces around the globe.Connect with me to discuss how we can collaboratively enhance your organization's people management strategies, creating a more engaging and inclusive workplace for you and your people while elevating your employer brand.

I am the founder of Create Potential®, where I work with founders, business leaders, and creative professionals to apply creativity as a strategic capability for better decision-making, complex problem-solving, meaningful goal achievement, and navigating change in work and life. As a creativity researcher and a multidisciplinary artist, I work at the intersection of cognitive science and creative practice. I approach creativity not as a niche talent or aesthetic skill, but as a fundamental human capability that can be cultivated and applied across domains. Trained by the Flow Research Collective, I publish research-informed writing, host a podcast on creativity and flow, and work with individuals and organizations through keynotes, workshops, facilitated sessions, and long-form learning experiences. Drawing on research in creativity science, flow state research, neuroscience, psychology, and human performance, my work examines how creativity supports thinking, innovation, adaptation, and achievement in real-world contexts. I translate this research into practical frameworks that strengthen clarity, creative problem-solving, effective innovation, resilience, and sustained performance during periods of growth, uncertainty, or transition. My work centers on creative wayfinding: exploring how creativity functions as a practical navigation skill for decision-making, adaptation, and forward progress when direction is unclear or familiar paths no longer apply. My perspective is also shaped by lived experience as the mother of a medically complex child, which informs my work on resilience, adaptive thinking, and purpose when conditions are unpredictable. SIGNATURE TOPICS ✧ Creativity as a Strategic Capability for Decision-Making and Change ✧ Creative Thinking & Decision-Making Under Pressure ✧ Flow, Focus & Sustained Performance ✧ Navigating Uncertainty & Change Through Creative Wayfinding ✧ Resilience, Meaning & Thriving Through Creativity

As an Executive Advisor and Inclusive Workplace Culture Consultant, Stacey anchors action using change management principles while facilitating mindset shifts. She combines nearly two decades of recruiting, career development, diversity and workplace culture to focus on reworking how companies work; including how they inclusively recruit, hire and engage employees, effectively creating inclusion and belonging for all. The founder of Rework Work and author of the popular DEI book, UNBIAS: Addressing Unconscious Bias at Work., Stacey has been published in Forbes, Fast Company and Harvard Business Review and her Unconscious Bias course was the number 1 most watched course on the LinkedIn Learning platform.Book Stacey to speak at https://www.reworkwork.com/contact-us/Learn how to do DEI differently with Unconscious Inclusion for you and your team: http://unconsciousinclusion.com

Founder of makeSpace. I support organisations to retain working parents by strengthening manager capability—because policy alone doesn’t shape culture. Leadership behaviour does.

Founder, The HX Coach · Chief People Officer · Board Advisor · Host, The HX Podcast Stacie Baird helps companies build the people function their business actually needs. As Founder and Strategic Lead of The HX Coach, she delivers CPO-level people strategy to organizations navigating growth, change, and complexity by pairing human discernment with AI and technology enablement through her proprietary HX Frame™. Her perspective is grounded in 25+ years of executive HR leadership spanning Fortune 50 boardrooms, high-growth PE- and VC-backed organizations, and mission-driven nonprofits. In-seat as Chief People Officer across companies with double-digit growth mandates, she led the change management, corporate communications, and strategic planning alignment behind five successful exits and transactions. She has served on and curated four nonprofit Boards of Directors; including Great Hearts Academies and Mesa United Way; shaping governance, workforce development, and strategy. For 7+ years on her nationally syndicated HX Podcast—360+ episodes and counting—she has elevated the Human Experience for staff, customers, and patients across industries. Stacie writes at the intersection of the questions defining work in 2026: how AI reshapes the people function without displacing human judgment, why trust has become the operating currency of leadership, and what it takes to build talent, benefits, and leadership systems that scale through M&A and beyond. Her work is built on a conviction the data now echoes—technology accelerates faster than the systems leaders rely on, and the organizations that win pair automation with discernment, not one at the expense of the other. Selected results: -Five PE/VC exits and transactions—strategic planning alignment across double-digit-growth organizations scaled to acquisition -Scaled headcount 20% while cutting cost-per-hire 85% -Double-digit year-over-year healthcare cost savings through whole-person benefits design -Leadership programs delivering 94% positive-impact scores; led M&A integration and IPO prep -7+ years national podcast syndication, 360+ episodes Focus areas: People Strategy · AI in HR · Change Management · Strategic Planning · Board Governance · Workforce Development

Jennifer Doherty, MIRHR, is CEO of ProvenHR, where she helps organizations align people strategy with business goals. With over two decades of HR leadership across legal, media, IT, and regulatory sectors, Jennifer brings a pragmatic, business-focused approach to complex workplace challenges. She developed the HR Excellence Matrix, a framework that helps founders and executives manage people-related risk and results with the same rigour as financial metrics.

Cassandra James helps small business owners transform two things: how they think and how they work. On the personal side, she believes that business growth starts with personal growth—shifting mindsets, breaking through limiting beliefs, and building the confidence to lead. On the practical side, she teaches DIY business automation—so you can build Fortune 500-level workflows without the Fortune 500 price tag or the consultant ego. Her flagship course, Facebook Posting on Auto Pilot, replaces a $50/month subscription with a one-time workflow that runs itself. Cassandra isn't a coach who just talks about mindset, and she isn't a techie who forgets you're human. She's the bridge between the two. Available for commentary on small business strategy, automation for non-techies, the future of work, and the intersection of personal growth and operational efficiency.

Carol Ann Small, Corporate Trainer, Keynote Speaker, is founder of Laughter with a Lesson works with organizations to banish burnout, stress less and create a bette work life balance. Carol Ann teaches "SMALL" SHIFTS NOW FOR BIG IMPACT LATER! She has been educating, engaging and enlightening audiences on screen and off for over 20 years. She currently speaks to Fortune 500 companies, corporate, healthcare, dental, and association audiences. BSSP Speech Communication and Performing Arts, DISC Behavioral Facilitation. Other careers: Court Reporter, Higher Education, Commonwealth of MA, Event Planner. HAPPY EMPLOYEES ARE PRODUCTIVE EMPLOYEES. AREAS OF EXPERTISE:* Work/Life Balance* Banish Burnout* De-Stress and Get Motivated* Corporate Wellness Programs * Science of Happiness * Create a Positive Work Environment * Convention speaker, keynote. Breakout sessions, Virtual workshops* High energy keynote and breakout speaker carolann@smallspeak.comwww.carolannsmall.com 781-662-2078 ENGAGE, ENERGIZE AND ENLIGHTEN.

People Experience leader and Architect of Company Culture. Culture runs deep - culture is the ecosystem in which we see, feel, think, say and do. I live and breathe the inner workings of culture creation and intentionally help shape work culture on value pillars that support teammates to be HUMAN. I imagine a world where employees and customers are thriving, doing meaningful work, and have mastery, autonomy and a deep sense of belonging as we create our own destinies in life and in business. I'm a Remote Pioneer - I work from the beach, my home, a camper van or a coffee shop, wherever there's surf, sun and wifi- I'm there. Lover of all dogs (mine is a Golden Retriever named Blanche), people, travel, cultures and the distributed workforce. Committed to never working any other way than #REMOTE. Named Top 50 Remote Thought Leader in 2019 Speaker and Influencer Writer Teacher for @remotehow Certified in Remote HR Distributed Course Director at one of Forbes Best Startups 2020

I've always believed that organisations grow when their people do, and so I thrive on my work to enable just that. I bring a pragmatic and values-driven approach to developing and implementing innovative HR solutions across complex environments. Embracing a philosophy of ‘Nowism’ – the ability to deliver instant impact while maintaining strategic intent.

Hello! My name is Alayna (she/her) and my superpower is illuminating the talents in others. As an HR professional, my guiding goal is to identify and remove hurdles that keep individuals from thriving. In my role as Retention Strategist at Magnet Culture and as a representative of the new workforce myself, I am dedicated to staying at the forefront of industry trends and providing the most effective turnover solutions to equip managers to become Retention Champions. I'm certified by TTI in DISC, EQ, and 12 Driving Forces. You can also find me teaching HR fundamentals to undergraduate students at my alma mater, the University of Texas at Dallas, serving on the Board of Directors for Human Rights Initiative, and working with multiple organizations to create engaging, values-based environments that support current and future employees. Let's get connected and see the impact we can make together!

Essence of education and experience can be summed up as fully developed competencies of:Planning and formulating prudent policies as well as implementing various Human Resource interventions.Anticipating future needs, evolving alternative solutions, evaluating efficacy of each and implementing the optimum solution.Detecting causes of failures of systems in advance and taking preventive actions to minimize damage to hardware and software in large organizational systemUnderstanding and anticipating employee expectations and responses;Designing and modifying services maintenance systems for optimizing employee satisfaction, always remaining close to ground realities and keeping superior organizational objectives in sight;Comfortably dealing with large groups of people and maintaining harmony at work-place.