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Saturday, September 12, 2020
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Guest:
 Jennifer McCollum
CEO
Linkage, Inc.
Jennifer McCollum is CEO of Linkage, where she oversees the strategic direction and global operations of the Boston, MA–based leadership development company. With a mission to “Change the Face of Leadership,” Linkage has dedicated 30 years to improving leadership effectiveness and equity in hundreds of organizations globally. Linkage provides assessments, training, coaching, consulting and conferences designed to accelerate purposeful leaders, advance women leaders and create inclusive cultures.
Jennifer has 20 years of experience building and leading businesses in the leadership space. Her expertise includes bringing analytic rigor to critical talent decisions by linking leadership behavior to corporate performance outcomes. The products she and her teams build help global organizations across industries make the right bets on their current and future leaders at critical decision points: when identifying high potentials, developing leaders and planning for succession.
Background & Experience
Prior to Linkage, Jennifer spent a decade growing businesses within Korn Ferry and Corporate Executive Board (CEB), now Gartner. At CEB, she led product management within the leadership division, driving innovative solutions that helped organizations select, develop and place leaders at all levels. She also ran CEB’s Leadership Academies business, which developed more than 30,000 professionals in 2,100 companies throughout 50 countries and grew revenue at a 97% combined annual growth rate across five years.
Previously, Jennifer served as CEO of IntraVision, a leadership consultancy she founded and grew over the course of eight years. She worked with public companies, start-ups, associations and nonprofits. Her passion is creating vision, executing strategy and managing cohesive teams toward aspirational goals, with a special focus on supporting women in leadership roles.
She is an avid tennis player and skier, and lives in Bethesda, MD, with her husband and three children.
Education & Training
Jennifer has a master’s degree in communications from the University of Stirling in Stirling, Scotland, and an undergraduate degree from Wake Forest University in psychology and communications.
Saturday, September 5, 2020 @10am
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Our Guest:
 Kate Simpson,
Co Author and Developer
Take Two A Journal of New Beginnings
Mental Resiliency in the Workplace –
Kate is the co-author of Take Two: a Journal for New Beginnings (www.taketwojournal.com) a concept that originated from research on how to build resilience. She also works in the sustainable investment field for ValuesAdvisor, a platform that helps investors align their investments with their values.
Kate has a master’s degree in international comparative education from Stanford University and an undergraduate degree in secondary education from Boston College. She lives in Maine with her three children.
Saturday, August 29, 2020 @10am
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Our Guest:
Mark Gonska, EVP
Chief Connections Officer
Dise & Company
Mark Gonska leads the Outplacement Practice for Dise & Company. He helps employers avoid the second most costly mistake they can ever make: retaining employees they should release. Also known as America’s Career Coach, Mark has assisted over 8,000 people moving forward in their careers. He also works with groups on plant closings and job relocation projects nationally and globally.
He designs and delivers leadership and executive coaching with a method combining People, Process and Passion.
Over the last 20 years, Mark has built a significant network of contacts in business, industry, education and not-for-profit organizations. Nurturing thousands of personal contacts has proven vital to his success.
Mark’s earlier employment included international marketing and product management positions in a Fortune 200 corporation, successful start-up and development of a technology based company and entrepreneurial roles. He holds a BA in communications from Bowling Green State University (Ohio) and completed additional human resources study at Baldwin-Wallace College (Ohio). He is a certified Birkman consultant.
Mark has served on the Board for the Cleveland Society for Human Resource Management and is on the Faces of Hope committee for the Volunteers of America. A nationally certified professional resume writer, he contributed to the book The Five O’Clock Club Guide to Building a Great Resume.
Mark speaks with enthusiasm and candor on many career related topics. He’s been interviewed on television, radio and on-line webcasts. Mark enjoys cycling, connecting with his six children and has yet to convince his wife he should skydive and SCUBA dive on the same day.
Mark Gonska can be reached at or mgonska@diseco.com.
Saturday, August 22, 2020 @10am
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Guest:
 G. Shawn Hunter
President & Founder
Mindscaling
Shawn is a dynamic, practical, entertaining and ‘high content’ leadership development keynote presenter, coach, corporate educator and author. Shawn speaks and advises on the intersection of leadership, organizational culture and innovation. Shawn’s new book Small Acts of Leadership: 12 Intentional Behaviors That Lead to Big Impact (October, 2016) is a Washington Post bestseller.
Until July, 2015 Shawn was Executive Producer & VP for Leadership Solutions at Skillsoft. For over a decade he has interviewed, and filmed, hundreds of leading business authors, executives, and business school faculty in an effort to assemble video learning solutions.
Shawn’s first book, Out•Think: How Innovative Leaders Drive Exceptional Outcomes (Jossey-Bass) released August, 2013. Shawn’s most recent book Chasing Dawn, is an adventure in experiential learning and leadership. The book chronicles his summer of 2017 cycling across America with his son, two other fathers and their teenage kids.
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