Dr. Tiffenia Archie has worked in higher education for almost 30 years in a variety of positions. Affectionately known as “Tiff,” students and colleagues look to her for direction in advancing social justice.

Though she lectures on a number of topics, most of her research involves issues related to race, class and gender, with a focus on minority faculty, staff, and student recruitment and retention, racial microaggressions, and African-American Muslim women and veiling. Archie holds undergraduate degrees in psychology and sociology and earned her PhD in sociology from Temple.

Jim Austin, a former senior executive at Baxter Healthcare, combines business strategy and organizational development theory with extensive industry experience.  His expertise is in working with senior management on strategic planning, organizational change, strategy execution and new business growth. In June 2016, Springer published his book, “Leading Strategic Change in an Era of Healthcare Transformation,” co-authored with two other Brown University faculty, for healthcare leaders trying to drive transformational change in their institution. In April 2018, the Health Administration Press published Jim’s second book, Transformative Planning: How Your Healthcare Organization Can Strategize for an Uncertain Future.

Todd Henshaw is a Senior Fellow, Center for Leadership and Change Management, The Wharton School. Prior to coming to Wharton, Todd was a Professor at Columbia University, and Academy Professor and Director of Leadership Programs at the United States Military Academy at West Point. A key architect of West Point’s Leadership Development System, Todd also served as the inaugural Director of the Eisenhower Leader Development Program, a graduate partnership with Columbia University that prepares Army captains to develop future officers.

Michelle Histand is the founder of Inkling Design Collaborative, a consultancy focused on working with organizations of all sizes to rethink and redesign programs, processes, services and culture. She also serves as the Deputy Director for Ready.Set.Philly!, a collaborative effort between business leaders, the Chamber of Commerce of Greater Philadelphia, and the City of Philadelphia to bring workers back to the city following the COVID shutdown. 

Michelle is also the Executive Director of the M. Night Shyamalan Foundation, where she works with global leaders of emerging nonprofits who are using innovative practices to change their communities and combat poverty and injustice. Michelle identifies, vets, and supports Foundation leaders through the grant process.

Jackie Linton has more than 20 years of executive leadership experience and is President of JL HR Solutions, LLC, a full-service HR consulting firm focusing on talent management strategies; HR strategic planning; HR policies and process improvements; diversity and inclusion training and improvement strategies; and executive coaching.

During her career, Jackie has held leadership roles in operations, engineering, and human resources with a primary focus on process improvements in each of these areas.

Faisal Khan is the founder of 1ExtraordinaryLife, LLC, a business that helps organizations optimize their talent through research-based practices and data science. He specializes in leadership, employee engagement, employee well-being, and resilience.

In addition to his substantial leadership experience in corporate finance and technology, Faisal is an expert in applied positive psychology, the science of human flourishing, and its application in organizations. He helps individuals and organizations flourish through consulting, executive coaching and training.

Faisal holds master’s degrees from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and a Master in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a professional certified coach, and organization and relationship systems coach, and a certified certified Dare to Lead facilitator (based on the research of Brene’ Brown).

Mario Moussa is an award winning author, keynote speaker, and management consultant who advises senior leaders about top team effectiveness, organizational culture, and large-scale change initiatives. He has delivered workshops on leadership, strategic persuasion and collaboration to thousands of executives in New York, San Francisco, Beijing, Shanghai, Mumbai, Sao Paulo, London, Istanbul and other major cities around the world. His work has been featured on National Public Radio as well as in leading publications, including Time Magazine, Business Week, U.S. News and World Report, Fortune, Forbes, Inc., Entrepreneur, The Economist, The Financial Times, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. 

Rebecca (Becca) Smith is an assistant professor of marketing at the Fox School of Business and a project executive with Fox Management Consulting, where she manages consulting engagements and leads marketing strategy for the practice. She has professional experience in entrepreneurial ventures, marketing, sales and nonprofit fundraising. Her consulting experience includes market evaluation for a financial services software company, new market development for a regional lender, sales training for loan officers at a local community bank, a U.S. market entry strategy for an Australian beverage company, a business model and revenue strategy for a fashion-related social media app and a turnaround strategy for a local performing arts center. Becca earned an MBA from Temple and a BA in English from Loyola University, Chicago.