Speakers

Leanne Meyer

Executive Coach, Author, and Leadership Expert

With more than thirty years of senior-level consulting and executive development experience with global Fortune 100 companies, Leanne’s mission is to help leaders reenergize their lives and their work with passion and purpose, using evidence-based methods to change business practices around the world. Her work focuses on equipping leaders to develop impactful new skills, successfully navigate critical career inflection points, and create alignment between their professional identities and their goals and aspirations.

Leanne directs the Carnegie Mellon Women’s Executive Leadership Academy and is the former executive director of the university’s Accelerate Leadership Center at the Tepper School of Business. She is the author of the bestselling Climbing the Spiral Staircase, a critical guide empowering women with the tools they need to accelerate their careers and gain control of their professional paths.
Leanne’s career and creativity are anchored in leadership development—in helping people discover their potential, stand strong in their values, claim their worth, and believe in their talents to become the leaders they want to be in ways that embrace possibility and potential. Her calling is to help leaders clarify their goals and build the skills they need to achieve them. Her work has taken her to three continents where she has served in corporate, academic, and not-for-profit settings as a business leader, program designer and developer, facilitator, speaker, educator, and coach.

Nicole Bruno

Co-founder, DigitalxNature
CEO, BrunoPR and Social

Nicole is the founder and CEO of LA-based agency Bruno PR & Social. Nicole helps companies passionate about health, wellness, and equality own their narrative and authentically engage and convert diverse audiences to brand advocates. With over 10 years of experience in digital strategy, content development, and PR support, Nicole has worked with clients across various industries, such as mental health, non-profit, food and beverage, higher education, finance, manufacturing, retail, environmental advocacy, arts and culture, and matchmaking services. She is a creative and insightful content creator, skilled at engaging audiences through written media and visually stimulating digital marketing. Nicole has a track record of increasing online presence and growing overall digital efforts for her clients, such as boosting Facebook engagement by 144% and improving social engagement rate metrics. She is also a resilient and accomplished collaborator, who works with multi-disciplinary teams, vendors, and senior leadership to deliver high-quality results. Nicole co-founded the DigitalxNature Digital Marketing Academy.

Chris Daley

Co-founder, DigitalxNature
Sr. Director, Digital Marketing, UPMC Health Plan

Chris is an award-winning marketing executive with 20 years of marketing experience and has been teaching marketing strategy and digital marketing at Duquesne University for 10 years. Chris oversees a large team of digital marketers to develop strategies and campaigns across web, social, email/sms, search, paid, audio/video and more. A 40 Under 40 honoree for digital innovation, Chris has spearheaded digital brand partnerships with UBER, Fred Rogers Productions, and Forbes. His teaching philosophy is to find unique takes on common use cases in digital marketing and create a fun and digestible curriculum to build participants’ marketing muscle memory. He also is licensed by TED to organize TEDxPittsburgh’s annual conference and serves as a speaker coach.