November Virtual: Productivity

Stephanie Stanton, GPHR, PHR, SHRM‑CP, has 15 years of HR experience leading people strategy, HR operations, and talent initiatives across North America. In her career, she has overseen HR Business Partners, Talent Acquisition, Total Rewards, HR Systems, Compliance, and Payroll for a multi‑state, multi‑country workforce. Stephanie has been involved in major organizational transformations, including global HRIS implementations, large‑scale acquisitions, high growth hiring, and flexible work models. Known for building scalable people processes and operational effectiveness, she brings a practical, business‑focused approach to HR strategy, change management, and employee engagement.

Roisin Daly is the Head of People Solutions at Stripe Inc.

Robert Ryder is a vision-driven, crisis-tested executive with more than 25 years of experience transforming complex, politically sensitive, and highly unionized organizations into financially disciplined, service-excellence enterprises. He is trusted to lead high-visibility, high-stakes environments and build the systems, governance, and leadership infrastructure required for sustainable growth and organizational resilience.

Throughout his career, Robert has stepped into major universities, regional portfolios, commercial divisions, and national networks to stabilize operations, strengthen performance, and create scalable operating models. He is particularly experienced in navigating complex labor relations and multi-party negotiations, bringing executives, boards, unions, and frontline teams together around shared goals.

Robert has developed enterprise-wide service excellence and operating frameworks spanning more than 300 higher education accounts and 40,000 employees. He has also led high-stakes turnarounds and labor crises involving more than $120 million in managed volume, including serving as chief strategist during a strike involving more than 600 employees. Through disciplined contingency planning and stakeholder leadership, he maintained operations and service levels while completing the response $430,000 under budget.

His areas of expertise include enterprise operations and turnaround leadership, labor relations and union negotiations, stakeholder alignment, governance and operating-model design, crisis management, organizational stabilization, scalable growth, margin improvement, and service transformation.

Alana Lovett is a Client Success Partner at ThinkHuman and the founder of That Girl Reimagined, a career reinvention coaching brand for high-achieving women. She spent years leading partner development at HubSpot and now helps SaaS companies build partner strategy. She also helps ambitious women rewrite their next chapter on their own terms. A self-described recovering overachiever, Alana brings a practical, no-fluff perspective on leadership, reinvention, and building a career that actually fits your life.

Ella Wright is a learning and development strategist and facilitator with 9+ years of experience helping organizations build stronger leaders and more effective teams. As Head of Customer Experience & Learning Strategy at Campfire, she partners with HR and business leaders to design and deliver leadership development programs that address real organizational challenges. Ella has led initiatives for 30+ organizations, from small businesses to large enterprises, and facilitated hundreds of sessions for emerging managers, senior leaders, and executives. Her work spans translating company values into leadership behaviors, navigating change, strengthening communication, and improving cross-team collaboration. Drawing on hundreds of hours working directly with leaders, Ella brings a practical, conversation-driven approach that helps people challenge assumptions, learn from one another, and turn insights into meaningful action.

Corinne Lestch works with high-level executives to shape their stories into impactful op-eds, Substacks and nonfiction books. She is an award-winning journalist who recently served as deputy editor at Forbes, where she oversaw content by contributors across Careers, Leadership Strategy and ForbesWomen. Her work has been published in Bloomberg Law, The London Reader, The Washington Post, and many other outlets.