Born and raised in Madison, Wisconsin, Nick Lombardino is a social entrepreneur and community builder with experience leading teams across Marketing, Business Development, Operations, HR, and Finance. He’s the co-founder of CultureCon and a faculty member at Edgewood College, where he teaches Social Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management.

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Outside of work (and sometimes during), he enjoys cribbage, soul music, lunch buffets, and most things you'd find in a senior living community.

Zach Blumenfeld is a seasoned entrepreneur with a track record of launching and exiting multiple businesses. His sweet spot: growth strategy, innovation, sales, and workplace culture. Zach has scaled companies across industries including InsurTech, FinTech, SaaS, HR Tech, and Pet Insurance.

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 Outside of work, Zach loves travel, sports (Go Badgers!), collecting sports cards, and lunch buffets. He’s also been known to pop up as a background actor on TV.

Nikki Lewallen Gregory is the Founder and Chief Meaningful Work Officer at PeopleForward Network, a podcast collective and community dedicated to helping people-first leaders build better workplaces. She’s also the host and guest host of several podcasts where she interviews culture-driven changemakers to share real strategies for employee engagement and leadership.

A passionate connector and purpose-driven entrepreneur, Nikki’s work centers on helping individuals and organizations align with what truly matters at work and in life.

Heather Haas is the Owner and CEO of ADVISA, where she leads a team of leadership and culture experts dedicated to helping organizations build trust, alignment, and cultural competitive advantage through data-driven, values-based leadership development. A former teacher and principal with degrees in education and leadership, Heather has coached thousands of leaders and is certified in a range of tools including Predictive Index®, EQ-i 2.0, and Coaching for Sales Growth™. She’s passionate about serving others—both professionally and through her volunteer work with organizations that support children, families, and those facing homelessness.

Heather lives in Indiana with her husband and three children, and finds joy in the mountains, good music, great books, and her faith.

BJ is the Director of New Client Acquisition at ADVISA but you may know him as an entrepreneur, leadership or sales coach. In his 13 years with ADVISA, BJ has worked with hundreds of companies and has trained hundreds of leaders, managers, and sales professionals. From small start-ups to Fortune 100 companies, you’ll find him working to building meaningful connections between results, business strategy and the teams, leaders and cultures that drive them.

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Outside of work you’ll find BJ enjoying time with his wife and six children.

Hattie is the Founder and Strategy Chief at Fauna, a global employee experience creative consultancy built by agency veterans with decades of expertise in designing experiences that lead to happier people, stronger teams, and better businesses. With 18 years of experience shaping strategies and reimagining employee journeys for some of the world’s top brands, Hattie is passionate about human-centered design that drives real business impact. She believes there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to people and champions employee-led solutions in culture transformation, leadership development, and experience design that empower individuals to do their best work.

Elaine Paige is a seasoned Chief People Officer with over 20 years of experience leading HR and business transformation across high-growth startups and Fortune 500 companies. Known for aligning people strategy with business goals, she’s led M&A integrations, IPO readiness efforts, and culture transformations in fast-paced, high-change environments. From scaling TaxJar to acquisition by Stripe—the largest fully remote acquisition in U.S. history—to co-founding The Good Trouble Company, Elaine brings a sharp mix of operational excellence, strategic vision, and people-first leadership to every challenge.

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