Ted Talk Inspired Presentations on Leadership, Authenticity and Innovation
Doors open at 7:30 AM.
General Session featuring Main Stage TED Talk Speakers covering message on leading in times of challenge for Volunteer Leaders.
Kenston Henderson, Sr.
Game Changers Unleashed: Your Journey to EPIC Leadership
Carol Schulte
What would you do if you were even braver?
In our competitive, ever-changing work environment, you have to be more than agile if you want to stand out and succeed. You have to be brave. Brave enough to change before you feel ready, to get messy, to fail. Brave enough to bring all of who you are to all of what you do.
In this empowering talk, we’ll explore the barriers that may be holding you back, and how to bust through them. You’ll learn why it’s time to stop chasing more gold stars, and own your unique brilliance. And you'll discover strategies to help you increase your visibility, get into action, and unleash your leadership potential.
Tucker Bryant
The Poet's Keys: The Artist's Guide to Unlocking Innovation
The last few years have been a merciless reminder to businesses that complacency will ruin us. And yet, despite the challenges that our rapidly evolving world poses, McKinsey finds that only 6% of leaders feel tapped into their potential to drive positive change as innovators. After spending a decade alongside world-class innovators at institutions like Stanford and Google, Tucker Bryant has discovered an unexpected perspective professionals can adopt to confront the future with confidence: the outlook of a poet. As a nationally renowned poet, Tucker has identified a handful of tools poets have relied on for millennia to innovate through language - tools that enable business leaders to drive disruption in the work we do. In this keynote performance, Tucker will reveal how The Poet’s Keys™ empower leaders to unlock creativity, collaboration, and competitive advantage in the areas of our work that matter most. Attendees will leave empowered to build a culture of creative disruption and bold exploration in the work we do so we’re set up to shape our organizations as industry leaders instead of remaining stuck in models of thinking that are bound for obsolescence.
Mary Cheddie, SHRM-SCP
Mary Cheddie, SHRM-SCP is Divisional Director, Membership Community.
Cheddie has more than 35 years of domestic and international experience in all aspects of human resources and training. She has extensive experience with strategic planning, M&As, and in starting and turning around businesses.
Prior to joining SHRM, she served as senior vice president of human resources for Interval Leisure Group, Inc. and its affiliated companies. The company was publicly traded on NASDAQ and the leading provider of vacation services with a global consumer membership base of nearly 2 million member families, more than 2,500 member resorts in over 75 countries worldwide, and has oversight for about 14,000 employees.
Cheddie also served as senior vice president, people with PRC, as well as vice president, human resources, strategic planning, office services, and facilities for The Orvis Company, Inc. in Manchester, VT.
She earned her MBA from Upper Iowa University, a bachelor’s degree from Thomas Edison State College in Trenton, New Jersey, and is certified as a SHRM-Senior Certified Professional.
Cheddie received the HR Award of Excellence, Hospitality in 2016 from South Florida Business & Wealth. Business Leader Magazine named Cheddie one of the 2011 Women Extraordinaire and in 2012 the National Diversity Council awarded her the Glass Ceiling Award.
She serves on the Board of Trustees for Upper Iowa University, Chairs the Human Capital Committee and is a member of the Governance and Advancement Committees, Chaired the Keiser Career College’s Advisory Board, was a member of the Board of Directors for the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) from 2003-2008 and chaired SHRM’s governance and compensation committees. Cheddie has more than 35 years of SHRM volunteer leadership experience at the national, regional, state, and local levels. She also served on the Waldorf College Alumni Board from 2004 through 2008 and was the President of the Dallas HR Association in 2000 (one of the largest affiliated SHRM chapters). She resides in South FL.
Art Gloria
Art Gloria, SHRM-CP is Director, Membership Community Initiatives for SHRM. In his role, he is responsible for member acquisition and retention, leadership development for volunteer leaders, chapters, and state councils, and creating the value-added proposition for SHRM.
Art Gloria is an award-winning, experienced professional in human resources, finance, and general business management with a demonstrated history of working in the government, health care, and diverse private business industries. Gloria has a very rich background in volunteer leadership, having been in various board roles with local SHRM chapters and state council, including most recently serving as the chapter president of El Paso SHRM. In addition, he serves on various non-profit boards in his home state Texas.
Art holds a Master’s in Business Administration from Regents University London. He attended the University of Texas at El Paso, where he earned his B.A. in Political Science.
Tucker Bryant
Tucker Bryant is a nationally renowned poet and keynote speaker. After nurturing his craft at Stanford University, Tucker worked as a Product Marketing Manager at Google where he discovered that the tools used by poets to innovate through language and introspection can be leveraged to drive creative thinking and innovative leadership in a professional context. After spending nearly a decade in Silicon Valley, Tucker left Google to challenge leaders to unlock innovation using The Poet's Keys™. His performances, which have garnered millions of views online, have been featured by TEDx, The New York Times, and dozens of other organizations across the globe. He has had the privilege of sharing on stages alongside Mark Cuban, Bill Belichick, Gary Vaynerchuk, Earvin “Magic” Johnson, and Mel Robbins as well as founders and executives from scores of Fortune 500 companies.
Kenston Henderson, Sr.
Kenston Henderson Sr., also known as "The Bias Disrupter" and "The Winning Conversations Enthusiast," is the CEO of Live With Lyfe, LLC, a talent development company. As an ICN leadership award recipient, TEDx Signature Speaker, and certified John Maxwell Leadership Speaker Trainer and Coach, he draws on over 20 years of Human Resources experience. Kenston's influence spans across 45 states and international regions, including Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and South America. Author of "Winning Conversations: How to Communicate Successfully and Courageously about Race" and "Parenting Like a Boss: Intentionally Committed," he also created the online course "Cultural Transformation in the Workplace: The 7 Keys to Create and Cultivate Racial Equity."
Carol Schulte
An authority on brave leadership and founder of The Brave Initiative, Carol has been educating, empowering, and entertaining audiences internationally for almost a decade. She is committed to helping building braver workplace cultures - where every person is brave enough to bring all of who they are to all of what they do. She holds a BFA in Theatre Performance, an MA in Communication, two postgraduate certificates in coaching and mentoring, and has worked with numerous Fortune 500 companies, International Associations, and thousands of leaders and individuals to get their brave on. Whether it be asking for a raise or promotion, nailing a presentation, or climbing Africa’s highest peak, her clients attribute her insights and inspiration to achieving what they never thought possible. She is also a dedicated mental health advocate, and founder of Brave Beyond Diagnosis, a community dedicated to empowering women living with mental health challenges. In speaking openly about her own experience with mental illness, she makes it okay to not be okay. Her work on creating safer spaces in the workplace, and inviting braver conversations around mental health, is changing the landscape on this important topic. Carol is a published author, been featured in numerous magazines and podcasts, and is a returning guest expert on Rogers TV in Canada. Having lived and worked in 16 countries including Ashrams in India and vans in New Zealand, rocked dreadlocks in Thailand and shaved her head for breast cancer, she certainly walks her talk and brings a global perspective to all she does. When she’s not traveling or speaking on stage, you can find her volunteering as a bereavement facilitator, training for her next triathlon, or practicing her serious carpool karaoke game!