Brian Grim

Brian is founding president of the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation. Brian is the world’s leading expert on the relationship between religious freedom and the economy.

Full CV

Brian holds a doctorate in quantitative sociology from Penn State and is author of scores of academic articles and books. He is former chair of the World Economic Forum’s global council on the role of faith and a speaker at Davos. Brian was previously a senior researcher and director of international data at the Pew Research Center in Washington, DC. He lived and worked in China, Central Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the former USSR, where he was instrumental in setting up the first western-style business school in the Soviet Union, which was dissolved in his office building.

Brian’s recent widely reported research finds that religion contributes $1.2 trillion to the U.S. economy annually, more than the combined revenues of the top 10 technology U.S. companies including Apple, Amazon and Google.

Brian also supports and works closely with the “Business for Peace” platform of the United Nations Global Compact. He is also a member of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and a regular speaker at the annual Forum on Workplace Inclusion.

Ambassador Suzan Johnson Cook

The Hon. Suzan Johnson Cook (Ambassador Sujay) is owner of Charisma Speakers and founder of the Global Black Women's Chamber of Commerce. Nominated by Secretary Hillary Clinton and appointed by President Barack Obama, she was the third U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, becoming the first woman, first African American and first faith leader to hold this post. Previously, she was the first female chaplain for the New York City Police Department, where she served 21 years and was on the frontlines Sept. 11. She was a founding member of A Partnership of Faith, served as a senior parish pastor for three New York City congregations and was the first female president of the historic Hampton University Ministers Conference, the largest conference of African-American clergy in the world.

John Garvey

John Garvey became the 15th president of The Catholic University of America July 1, 2010.

Garvey is a nationally recognized expert in constitutional law, religious liberty, and the First Amendment. He has won distinguished fellowships and teaching awards and served as the 2008 president of the Association of American Law Schools. Garvey is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including What are Freedoms For? (1996); Religion and the Constitution (2011), which won the Alpha Sigma Nu Jesuit book award; and Sexuality and the U.S. Catholic Church (2007), which won the Catholic Press Association Award. The second of eight children, Garvey was born in Sharon, Pa. From childhood, his Catholic faith has held a central place in Garvey’s life. His father, a small town lawyer, attended daily Mass with Garvey and his brothers and sisters before school. His extended family included devout grandparents on both sides who counted priests and religious among their siblings, nieces, and nephews.

Garvey received his A.B. summa cum laude from Notre Dame in 1970, having participated in an open program of study, then called the Committee on Academic Progress, that waived major requirements for a few students. Garvey took the opportunity to read political science, philosophy and French, and otherwise chose courses of any kind (music, English, art history, German) taught by the best teachers he could find. After graduation, Garvey entered Harvard Divinity School on a Danforth Fellowship, leaving after one semester. He entered Harvard Law School the following year. He graduated in 1974, clerked for United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit Chief Judge Irving R. Kaufman, then joined the law firm of Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco.

In 1976, he began teaching law at the University of Kentucky, an appointment he held until 1994. He spent the 1985-86 school year as a visiting professor at the University of Michigan. From 1981 to 1984 he was assistant to the solicitor general of the United States. He argued several prominent cases before the United States Supreme Court, including Silkwood v. Kerr-McGee Corporation and Heckler v. Campbell, which addressed disability regulation within the Social Security Administration. He was elected to the American Law Institute at age 33.

Garvey served as a professor of law at the University of Notre Dame from 1994 to 1999, when he was appointed dean of Boston College Law School. During his tenure as dean from 1999 to 2010, he hired 20 new faculty, established an Alumni Association and Board of Overseers, rebuilt the administrative infrastructure, and confirmed an institutional sense of Jesuit, Catholic identity. Through the years of his leadership at The Catholic University of America, Garvey has emphasized the importance of a distinctively Catholic education in every school and discipline. During his inaugural year, Garvey hosted a series of prominent intellectuals in disciplines, such as history, music, literature, and science, who presented lectures on the interplay between their ideas about virtue and their scholarly work.

Under Garvey, Catholic University launched the School of Business and Economics in 2013, to provide a rigorous business education that fully integrates Catholic Social Doctrine in every aspect of the curriculum. Garvey has also continued to be a prominent public voice on many contemporary issues in higher ed, culture, law, Catholicism, and religious liberty. He has twice given testimony to the House of Representatives on issues of anti-Semitism (2013) and religious liberty (2012),

His writing has been published in mainstream news outlets including the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Atlantic, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. Garvey has appeared on major news networks including ABC, CBS, Fox, PBS, MSNBC, CNN, National Public Radio, and BBC. Additionally, Garvey has written for and been interviewed by many Catholic news outlets and publications including EWTN, Catholic TV, Vatican Radio, America, Catholic News Agency, Catholic World Report, Famille Chrétienne, First Things, National Catholic Register, Our Sunday Visitor, Religion News Service, and Touchstone, among others. He is a regular columnist for Catholic News Service.

Garvey and his wife Jeanne Walter Garvey have five children, 21 grandchildren, and a rescue dog named Gus.

Brian Grim

Brian is founding president of the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation. Brian is the world’s leading expert on the relationship between religious freedom and the economy.

Full CV

Brian holds a doctorate in quantitative sociology from Penn State and is author of scores of academic articles and books. He is former chair of the World Economic Forum’s global council on the role of faith and a speaker at Davos. Brian was previously a senior researcher and director of international data at the Pew Research Center in Washington, DC. He lived and worked in China, Central Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the former USSR, where he was instrumental in setting up the first western-style business school in the Soviet Union, which was dissolved in his office building.

Brian’s recent widely reported research finds that religion contributes $1.2 trillion to the U.S. economy annually, more than the combined revenues of the top 10 technology U.S. companies including Apple, Amazon and Google.

Brian also supports and works closely with the “Business for Peace” platform of the United Nations Global Compact. He is also a member of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and a regular speaker at the annual Forum on Workplace Inclusion.

Sandra Rivera

Sandra L. Rivera is executive vice president and chief people officer at Intel Corporation. She leads Intel’s Human Resources organization and is responsible for driving greater business results through a culture that embraces diversity and inclusion as well as being responsible for the company’s policies and programs related to human resources worldwide.

Before assuming her current role, she led the Network Platforms Group, which was a global organization of over 3,000 employees that drove the transformation of network infrastructure to Intel-based solutions and enabled breakthrough ways to integrate Intel’s silicon and software portfolio to create greater customer value.

The organization was one of the Data Center Group’s fastest growing businesses, enabling Intel to become a market leader for network logic silicon, an annual $20 billion market segment.

Rivera joined Intel in 2000 as a marketing director after the acquisition of Dialogic Corp. Before joining Intel, Rivera co-founded and served as president of The CTI Authority and served as president of the computer telephony division at Catalyst Telecom.

Rivera holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Pennsylvania State University. She sits on the Equinix board of directors; she is a member of Berkeley’s engineering advisory board and a member of the Intel Foundation Board; and she is part of Intel’s Latinx Leadership Council.

Alison Taylor

Alison Taylor is Chief Customer Officer for American Airlines and also a member of the Board of Directors of the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA), the world’s largest business travel association.

As American Airline's Chief Customer Officer, Taylor works to create a welcoming environment for the airline’s customers on every step of their journey. She is responsible for the American Airlines Vacations, Customer Experience and Reservations, Global Sales and Distribution, and Marketing and Digital Customer Experience teams.

She has served in many leadership roles in two of the world’s top travel organizations. Before joining American in September 2016, she led the Sales team at Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide as Senior Vice President of Global Sales, based in New York. Her prior roles at Starwood include Senior Vice President of Sales and Revenue Management and Vice President of Sales, Revenue Management and Digital Marketing. She has lived and worked in eight countries, including more than 20 years in Asia.

In 2015 and 2016, Successful Meetings magazine named her one of the most influential people in the meetings industry, and in 2017 leading travel publication Business Travel News named her as one of their Top 25 most influential people in business travel. Under her leadership, the American Airlines team accepted seven awards in 2017 from Global Traveler, including Airline of the Year. In 2019, she was named Outstanding Woman of the Year and recognized among the Top 25 Women in Travel by WINiT by the Global Business Travel Association.

She grew up in Australia and later lived in London. She returned to Australia to attend Victoria University in Melbourne, earning a Business degree.

Ellen Barker

Ellen Barker is a senior vice president and chief information officer of Texas Instruments responsible for the Information Technology Services organization. She is also Executive Sponsor to Christian Values ERG.

Previously, Barker served as vice president and controller of TI’s Silicon Valley Analog business. Throughout her career, Barker has also held several other leadership positions within the company’s Analog, Embedded Processing, manufacturing and former defense divisions, including vice president of High Performance Analog finance and operations.

Barker joined TI in 1984. She holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Texas, Austin and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Dallas. In addition to her role at TI, she is on the board of directors for High Tech High Heels and Tech Titans.

Rafael Lizardi

Rafael Lizardi is a senior vice president, chief financial officer and chief accounting officer of Texas Instruments. He is also Executive Sponsor to the Muslim Employees ERG.

Previously, Lizardi served as the corporate controller. During his career at TI, he has held a number of leadership positions in finance and operations including, controller for the company’s High Volume Analog and Logic business and the director of corporate financial planning.

Lizardi joined Texas Instruments in 2001 as part of the company’s finance development program after serving five years as an officer in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point, a Master of Business Administration from Stanford University and is a certified management accountant.

In addition to his role at TI, he serves on the board of directors for the Texas Instruments Foundation, the Dallas Children’s Theater and the Dallas Regional Chamber.

Amichai Ron

Amichai Ron is a senior vice president of Texas Instruments responsible for the Embedded Processing business. He is also Executive Sponsor to the Jewish Employees ERG.

Previously, he served as the vice president and general manager of TI’s Amplifiers business. Throughout his career, he has held a number of business leadership roles in TI’s Precision Analog, High Speed Data Converters and Embedded Connectivity Solutions organizations. Ron started his TI career in 2000. He earned a bachelor’s and master’s degree in electrical engineering from Tel Aviv University.

He also earned a Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago.

Bessie Gray

Bessie Gray is a Vice President and Ethics Director at Texas Instruments. She is also Executive Sponsor to Christian Values ERG.

Maggie Buggie

Maggie Buggie is SVP and Chief Business Officer at SAP Services. She is also the executive sponsor for the new SAP Interfaith Alliance employee resource group.

In this role, Maggie leads Strategy, Go-to-Market, Innovation Services & Solutions, Ecosystem, Cloud Experience and Education for SAP Services. Her team’s focus is on creating and commercially delivering the vision and strategy for SAP's global Customer Success Services business. The unit’s purpose is to create valuable outcomes and experiences for SAP customers, helping them build their future business through the lens of their economic, environmental and societal impact and contribution.

Prior to this role, Maggie was general manager and global head of Innovation Services and Solutions at SAP, helping customers make innovation real for their business via unique innovations.

Maggie was recently named one of the world’s first Top 50 Most Powerful Women in the Data Economy by Data Economy magazine, marking her commitment and contribution to innovation within the technology industry.

She has significant experience building fast-growth digital businesses and previously led Digital Sales, Markets and Industries globally at Capgemini and Global Cloud Sales & Consulting for Fujitsu.

Maggie is on the Companions Board of the Chartered Management Institute in the UK, and was the 2013 winner of the ‘Women in the City’ technology category award in recognition of her achievements. She is on the next generation committee at Leap, a charity that helps young people manage conflict. She is also a member of the Sustainability and AI Ethics councils at SAP.

Maggie holds both a Master of Letters and a BBS Lang in Business and French from Trinity College, Dublin. She also holds a degree from the Grande École de Commerce de Rouen, France. She has two young children and is an avid fan of Crossfit and a novice horse-racing jockey.

Alan Gallo

Alan Gallo is EVP and Chief Audit Executive at American Express.

Tomas Flier

Tomas Flier, Google’s Global Diversity and Inclusion Lead, will deliver a keynote presentation at the 2nd annual National Faith@Work ERG Conference, Feb. 9-11, 2021 hosted by the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation (RFBF) and the Busch School of Business at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC.

In Flier’s keynote, he will tell the story of how building a culture of belonging for all at Google includes religious inclusion.

“We are excited to hear from Mr. Flier how religious inclusion benefits not only Google’s global workforce but also all of us who rely on the many innovative products and services provided by Google every day,” said Brian Grim, RFBF President.

At Google there are currently 16 Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) with more than 250 chapters globally – providing community, personal and professional development opportunities for Googlers from underrepresented communities. Google’s Inter Belief Network (IBN) aims to create a culture of inclusion, tolerance, and mutual understanding at Google for a diversity of beliefs, where Googlers of all beliefs feel welcome, included, and supported.

IBN also works to ensure that the voices of belief-based communities are represented in Google’s products. IBN consists of multiple member chapters representing specific communities of interest, including but not limited to: Buddhists, Christians, Jewglers, Muslims.

Tom De Vries

Tom De Vries joined the Global Leadership Network (GLN) in 2017 as President and CEO. He brings a wealth of expertise to the GLN’s year-round leadership development efforts and the leadership of producing The Global Leadership Summit (GLS). With more than 300,000 people attending the GLS annually in over 120 countries and in 60 languages, the GLS is recognized as the premier global leadership event of the year. Prior to joining the GLN, Tom was the General Secretary of the Reformed Church in America (RCA), the oldest continuing Protestant denomination in the United States with over 200,000 members and 100 missionaries serving in 40 countries around the world. Tom has a B.A. in Sociology from Wheaton College, a Master of Divinity from Fuller Seminary, and a Doctor of Ministry in Leadership from Western Seminary. Tom has provided leadership in both the ministry and nonprofit environments serving as a church planter, large church lead pastor and multisite pastor. He served on the central committee of the World Council of Churches and the governing board of the National Council of Churches. Additionally, Tom served on the Board of Trustees for New Brunswick Theological Seminary and Western Theological Seminary. Tom played a key leadership role in the launching of a nonprofit focused on food insufficiency in young children and today Hand2Hand feeds more than 8,000 children each weekend through school-church partnerships. He has been a featured guest on NPR, the Salem Radio Network, Life Today Live, Newsmax TV, Moody Radio, the WOW Factor, and Common Good. He has also taught as an adjunct professor at Western Theological Seminary.

Naomi Kraus

Naomi Kraus is a Senior UX Content Strategist at Google who's been with the company for almost 9 years and works on a variety of projects, most for well-known products, such as Google My Business and Google Maps. She has an M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University, a Certificate in Digital Publishing from NYU and over 22 years of professional experience producing quality content. She is a founding member and current Global Chair of the Inter Belief Network ERG at Google, as well as the Global Lead of the Jewglers subchapter.

Barbara Phillips

Barbara Phillips is a Founding Member & Global Chair of Google's Inter Belief Network (IBN), Co-Lead of the Google Christian Fellowship chapter (GCF), and Economics Business Partner to Google's Chief Economist. Barbara is passionate about diversity and inclusion in the workplace. She seeks to strengthen employee relations, broaden product inclusion, and amplify the inclusive space by focusing on education, equity, and allyship.

Shirin Taber

Shirin is Iranian-American and directs Empower Women Media. She is the author of Muslims Next Door and the co-author of Islam and North America. With a background in media and cross-cultural training, Shirin assists multiple organizations in faith-based initiatives. The Los Angeles Times, Detroit Free Press, NYTimes.com, and Christianity Today have featured her writing and work among Muslims and Christians alike. She is a graduate of the University of Washington and is fluent in English, French and Farsi. Currently, she is pursuing a PhD focused on the intersection of women’s rights and religious freedom. shirin@visualstory.org & www.empowerwomen.media.

Nancy Sawyer  Schraeder

Nancy Sawyer Schraeder is the Creative Director of the Empower Women Film Competition. A writer and producer, Nancy scripted MAGDALENA: RELEASED FROM SHAME, a feature film which premiered at the United Nations and has been translated into over 170 languages. She also wrote and produced LIVE WHAT YOU BELIEVE, a media-driven eCourse promoting freedom of belief. PORTIONS, a compelling film she wrote and produced, won Best Short Fiction Film at the World of Women Film Fair in Dubai. Her directorial debut was EQUATIONS, which won 2nd runner up in the Religious Freedom Film Competition.

After graduating Magna cum Laude from Wheaton College, Nancy completed a Master of Professional Writing in Drama/Screenplay at the University of Southern California. A passionate teacher and speaker, she has taught writing and film at universities and at media summits in Los Angeles, Cairo, London, Tunisia and online.

Anila Jivanji

Anila Jivanji is the Sr. Diversity Inclusion & Belonging Specialist at Bell Flight. She joined the company in January 2021 after 22 years of service to American Airline. She gained diverse experience in human resources, global sales strategy and analytics, account management, and customer experience training. In her last role, Anila was the Inclusion & Diversity, Senior Specialist responsible for developing and growing external partnerships, ERG coordination, diversity advisory council lead and I&D programing and project management. She was awarded the American Airlines Chairman Award of Excellence in 2016 for her exemplary commitment and dedication in advancing the inclusion and diversity narrative at American Airlines and supporting the vision and company imperatives.

Anila continues to serve under-represented groups thru affiliations with organizations including RFBF. She is considered a subject matter expert in delivering innovative strategies to promote accountability and create a culture of belonging through driving employee engagement and building key partnerships in the community. Anila was born and grew up in South Africa, studied in India in a Christian convent school run by a congregation of Irish nuns, and then graduated from the University of Mumbai with a degree in Microbiology. This alone demonstrates that she is a living example of diversity

Barbara Phillips

Barbara Phillips is a Founding Member & Global Chair of Google's Inter Belief Network (IBN), Co-Lead of the Google Christian Fellowship chapter (GCF), and Economics Business Partner to Google's Chief Economist. Barbara is passionate about diversity and inclusion in the workplace. She seeks to strengthen employee relations, broaden product inclusion, and amplify the inclusive space by focusing on education, equity, and allyship.

Naomi Kraus

Naomi Kraus is a Senior UX Content Strategist at Google who's been with the company for almost 9 years and works on a variety of projects, most for well-known products, such as Google My Business and Google Maps. She has an M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University, a Certificate in Digital Publishing from NYU and over 22 years of professional experience producing quality content. She is a founding member and current Global Chair of the Inter Belief Network ERG at Google, as well as the Global Lead of the Jewglers subchapter.

Lori Joe Brown

Lori Joe Brown is Global Onboarding Manager, Colleague Experience Group (formerly HR) at American Express.

Sabrina Khan

Sabrina Kahn – American Express - Director of Inclusion & Diversity, Colleague Experience Group (formerly HR)

Paul Lambert

Paul Lambert is a Distinguished Fellow at the Religious Freedom Center of the Freedom Forum Institute, where he is responsible for the design and development of religious liberty education programs for business leaders throughout the world. He is also a Distinguished Business Fellow at the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation.

Lambert also works with several other organizations focused on religious freedom, such as the Religious Freedom Project at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs. Lambert also serves as a visiting lecturer at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University where he teaches about leadership in turbulent and uncertain environments.

Lambert is also an adjunct professor at the National Defense University in Washington DC where he teaches courses on religion in foreign policy and national security. Before joining Georgetown University, Paul was at the National Defense University in Washington DC. Lambert served as professor and academic director of the American Studies Program, teaching on U.S. politics, international relations, and national security.

Lambert is a graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and Brigham Young University. He is also a graduate of the Seminar XXI Fellowship Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for International Studies. He and his wife Joelle are the parents of three children.

Asha George

Asha George is Vice President of Global Diversity and Inclusion at Dell. In this role, she partners with leaders and team members across the organization to deepen and advance Dell's culture of inclusion as a fundamental business imperative.

She is an experienced HR executive with over 20 years of experience ranging from acquiring and integrating new businesses to leading business transformations and shaping long-term relationships with top global clients. She accelerates business performance with leading edge strategy, innovation and signature practices across the talent and culture ecosystem.

Asha is a passionate advocate for women in technology and a proponent of driving businesses to reach their full potential through diversity & inclusion as a business imperative. She enjoys providing mentorship to middle school girls, traveling and exploring new cultures.

Asha earned an MBA in human resources management from the University of Houston and a BA in biology from Baylor University. She resides in Austin, Texas, with her husband, Joseph, and her two children, Rebecca and Elijah.

Shawn Trotter

Shawn Trotter is Vice President of North American Channel Inside Sales. She has responsibility for driving sales, and she is committed to providing an excellent customer experience for Dell's large channel partner community. Shawn is an experienced people first sales leader with 20+ years of inside sales experience in the Public Sector, Federal, and the Channel community. She is passionate about her team and her customers, and she has a track record for delivering excellent sales, customer, and employee satisfaction results.

Her love of team building and organizational growth extends to her family and community. While contributing at Dell, she also managed a family business for eight years. This business was awarded the Chamber of Commerce Small Business of the Year Award for outstanding customer service. She was part of the founding board for Dell's company-wide Veterans Employee Resource Group as well as the Global Interfaith Employee Resource group, which she continues to lead. She enjoys mentoring young ladies in her church youth group and doing volunteer work for the Lone Star Paralysis Foundation.

She earned her BA in Business Management from Concordia University in Austin. She resides in Round Rock, Texas, with her husband, Wil, and her two children, Drake and Matteson.

Markee Johnson

Markee Johnson, Sales Enablement, Dell Technologies, Interfaith Co-lead

Glenda Cameron

Glenda Cameron has been with Dell Technologies for 11 years, currently working as a Customer Escalation Manager. She is also serving as one of the Global Co-Leaders for the Interfaith ERG. Glenda is a graduate of the University of DE School of Business and a Pennsylvania resident for 22 years. She is happily married with two grown children and two grandsons. Glenda enjoys gardening, reading, and serving the local community as a church volunteer in her spare time.

Joe Pacheco

Joe is a Director for Dell Technologies Marketing. In his role, Joe connects Dell Technologies with new and existing customers through global marketing campaigns. Joe's objective is to bring the Dell Technologies portfolio of products to life for organizations worldwide that are relentlessly moving forward in today's digital world.

Joe is a leader in the Dell Technologies Interfaith employee resource group (ERG) and a Latino Connections ERG member.

Paul Lambert

Paul Lambert is a Distinguished Fellow at the Religious Freedom Center of the Freedom Forum Institute, where he is responsible for the design and development of religious liberty education programs for business leaders throughout the world. He is also a Distinguished Business Fellow at the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation.

Lambert also works with several other organizations focused on religious freedom, such as the Religious Freedom Project at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs. Lambert also serves as a visiting lecturer at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University where he teaches about leadership in turbulent and uncertain environments.

Lambert is also an adjunct professor at the National Defense University in Washington DC where he teaches courses on religion in foreign policy and national security. Before joining Georgetown University, Paul was at the National Defense University in Washington DC. Lambert served as professor and academic director of the American Studies Program, teaching on U.S. politics, international relations, and national security.

Lambert is a graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and Brigham Young University. He is also a graduate of the Seminar XXI Fellowship Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for International Studies. He and his wife Joelle are the parents of three children.

Marsie Sweetland

Marsie Sweetland, a Client Executive entrusted with two of Equinix's largest global cloud customers, is the longest-tenured sales employee at the company. She's also the longest-tenured woman at Equinix, outside of acquisition. Marsie joined Equinix in 2000 for the opportunity -- and she stayed for the people.

D.R. Carlson

D.R. has worked at Equinix for almost six years as a manager for global messaging channels. He also worked as VP, Sales and Strategic Partnerships for Neovera. He has a degree from James Madison University in Virginia.

Yasmin Khaliq

Yasmin is Marketing Director for Growth & Emerging Markets (GEMS) in EMEA region, responsible for market strategy and direct & channel marketing for Equinix global interconnection and data center company. Striving to become the trusted center of a cloud-first world. Based in Dubai at the Equinix IBX, Yasmin works closely with Finance, Enterprise, Content & Digital Media, Networks and Cloud & IT industry verticals. Yasmin has over 20 years of marketing leadership experience with a focus on ICT, Mobile Networks, Enterprise Market, Innovation Management, Cloud Computing and Machine-to-Machine. She holds a bachelors degree in Applied Economics and has successfully completed a series of executive education programs in Big Data, Marketing Management and Telecoms. Yasmin also enjoys delivering keynotes at industry conferences addressing key topics of Strategic and Digital Marketing, IoT ,AI and Big Data.

David Rosenberg

David is Sr. Sales Director, Global Accounts at Equinix

Radhika Narayanan

Radhika Narayanan works on an IT Products team as a Business Systems Analyst and has been with Equinix for close to seven years.

Paul Lambert

Paul Lambert is a Distinguished Fellow at the Religious Freedom Center of the Freedom Forum Institute, where he is responsible for the design and development of religious liberty education programs for business leaders throughout the world. He is also a Distinguished Business Fellow at the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation.

Lambert also works with several other organizations focused on religious freedom, such as the Religious Freedom Project at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs. Lambert also serves as a visiting lecturer at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University where he teaches about leadership in turbulent and uncertain environments.

Lambert is also an adjunct professor at the National Defense University in Washington DC where he teaches courses on religion in foreign policy and national security. Before joining Georgetown University, Paul was at the National Defense University in Washington DC. Lambert served as professor and academic director of the American Studies Program, teaching on U.S. politics, international relations, and national security.

Lambert is a graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and Brigham Young University. He is also a graduate of the Seminar XXI Fellowship Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for International Studies. He and his wife Joelle are the parents of three children.

Siraj Akhtar

Siraj is part of the Muslim Initiative at Texas Instruments.

Karen Jacobs

Karen is part of the Christian Values Initiative at Texas Instruments.

Jason Rosen

Jason is part of the Jewish Initiative at Texas Instruments.

Sumreen Ahmad

Sumreen Ahmad is Global Change Management Lead for Accenture.

Sheldon Maye

Sheldon Maye is North America Diversity & Inclusion Executive; Strategy Advisor for Accenture.

Elan Kogutt

Elan Kogutt is a Strategy Consultant at Accenture |for Innovation, Public Sector, and Organizational Transformation.

Yvette Molina

Yvette Molina is an Employee Relations Manager at Accenture.

Anyssa Chebbi

Anyssa Chebbi is a Management Consultant at Accenture.

Paul Lambert

Paul Lambert is a Distinguished Fellow at the Religious Freedom Center of the Freedom Forum Institute, where he is responsible for the design and development of religious liberty education programs for business leaders throughout the world. He is also a Distinguished Business Fellow at the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation.

Lambert also works with several other organizations focused on religious freedom, such as the Religious Freedom Project at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs. Lambert also serves as a visiting lecturer at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University where he teaches about leadership in turbulent and uncertain environments.

Lambert is also an adjunct professor at the National Defense University in Washington DC where he teaches courses on religion in foreign policy and national security. Before joining Georgetown University, Paul was at the National Defense University in Washington DC. Lambert served as professor and academic director of the American Studies Program, teaching on U.S. politics, international relations, and national security.

Lambert is a graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and Brigham Young University. He is also a graduate of the Seminar XXI Fellowship Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for International Studies. He and his wife Joelle are the parents of three children.

Sharon Fast Gustafson

Sharon Fast Gustafson, General Counsel of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), will deliver a keynote presentation at the 2nd annual National Faith@Work ERG Conference, Feb. 9-11, 2021. The conference – to be held virtually – brings together representatives of Fortune 500 companies who are members of faith-and-belief employee resource groups (ERGs).  It also is a national convening point for workplace chaplains and corporate leaders interested in ethical leadership. (Conference registration opens week of Dec. 21.)

“We are honored to have General Counsel Gustafson participate in the Faith@Work conference as a strong advocate for nondiscrimination on the basis of religion in America’s workplaces. It is a wonderful opportunity for companies to hear directly from the EEOC General Counsel on how religious nondiscrimination and accommodation is integral to the success of American workplaces,” said Dr. Brian Grim, president of the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation.

The conference is co-sponsored by the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation and the Busch School of Business at the Catholic University of America in Washington DC to support the growing movement of top companies that are adopting faith-friendly policies that make their workplaces religiously inclusive. The 2021 program builds on the 2020 Faith@Work conference at the Busch School of Business in Washington, D.C., co-sponsored by American Airlines and Tyson Foods, and on the 2019 Faith@Work conference at the corporate HQ of Texas Instruments in Dallas, both cosponsored with the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation.

During the conference, the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation will release its annual Corporate Religious Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (REDI) Index, which benchmarks the state of corporate America’s inclusion of religion as an integral part of its diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. The 2021 REDI Index will report on faith inclusion in Fortune 200 companies.

Gustafson was confirmed as EEOC General Counsel by the U.S. Senate on August 1, 2019 for a term ending in 2023. She is the first woman to serve as General Counsel at the EEOC. Gustafson has practiced employment law for 29 years. She earned her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, cum laude, and began her legal career in the labor and employment law group at Jones Day in Washington, D.C., where she practiced for four years. Prior to joining the EEOC, Gustafson advised and represented both employees and employers in employment-related legal matters as a solo practitioner in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia.

Julia Oltmanns, J.D.

Julia is Assistant Vice President & Assistant General Counsel at Zurich North America.

Kent Johnson, J.D.

Kent Johnson is Senior Corporate Advisor for the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation (RFBF) and a management consultant on religious diversity at work. Kent works with RFBF to help companies adopt and practice best practices regarding religious diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

Kent Johnson recently retired from his role as a Senior Counsel at Texas Instruments Incorporated and now serves as a consultant to multinational companies on topics related to religious accommodation and faith in the workplace. Kent helps companies see the appropriate role of religious expression and religious diversity at work, in order to strengthen corporate cultures of trust, mutual respect and organizational effectiveness.

In these times of increasing distrust, fear and discord, he focuses on promoting mutual expression and understanding across religions and groups in ways that strengthen recruitment, engagement, retention, morale, ethics and personal fulfillment.

He is a diplomatic adviser who supports and enables effective strategic partnerships, corporate acquisitions and alliances across cultural boundaries. He is a peacemaker and facilitator, helping companies move beyond “tolerance” to embrace respectful, caring relationships among groups that all too often are thought of as opposed (e.g., evangelicals and employees who embrace other faiths or atheism, groups of widely diverse ethnic, national and racial backgrounds, GLBT employees and working parents).

A passionate advocate of diversity and inclusion, Kent also helps companies in certain jurisdictions navigate their legal obligation to accommodate employees’ religious expression while carefully avoiding any impression of compulsion to participate in or agree with such expressions.

Richard Foltin

Richard T. Foltin is a Fellow with the Freedom Forum's Religious Freedom Center. Previously, he served in a number of positions at the American Jewish Committee, most recently as director of national and legislative affairs in the AJC’s Office of Government and International Affairs in Washington, D.C., from 2009 to 2018. In that last role, Mr. Foltin was responsible for a broad range of AJC policy and legislative activities, including religious liberty, civil rights, immigration, energy security, and combatting domestic anti-Semitism and anti-Israel boycott efforts. Prior to coming to AJC, he was an associate with the litigation department of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, a New York law firm.

Mr. Foltin has testified before congressional committees and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, including at several congressional hearings on religious discrimination in the workplace. He serves on the governing council of the American Bar Association’s Section of Civil Rights and Social Justice and as co-chair of the section’s Religious Freedom Committee; he previously served as chair and co-chair of the section’s First Amendment Rights Committee. Mr. Foltin is a member of the Committee on Religious Liberty, founded by the National Council of Churches and today convened by the Religious Freedom Center of the Freedom Forum Institute. A native of New York City and a child of Holocaust survivors, Mr. Foltin received his B.A. magna cum laude with honors in Political Science from New York University and his J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School. He is a member of the bars of New York State, Washington DC, and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Paul Lambert

Paul Lambert is a Distinguished Fellow at the Religious Freedom Center of the Freedom Forum Institute, where he is responsible for the design and development of religious liberty education programs for business leaders throughout the world. He is also a Distinguished Business Fellow at the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation.

Lambert also works with several other organizations focused on religious freedom, such as the Religious Freedom Project at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs. Lambert also serves as a visiting lecturer at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University where he teaches about leadership in turbulent and uncertain environments.

Lambert is also an adjunct professor at the National Defense University in Washington DC where he teaches courses on religion in foreign policy and national security. Before joining Georgetown University, Paul was at the National Defense University in Washington DC. Lambert served as professor and academic director of the American Studies Program, teaching on U.S. politics, international relations, and national security.

Lambert is a graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and Brigham Young University. He is also a graduate of the Seminar XXI Fellowship Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for International Studies. He and his wife Joelle are the parents of three children.

Greg Clark

Greg is an international attorney with extensive experience in non-profit charitable entities. He serves as the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation’s vice president as well as a partner with the law firm Hughes, Fields & Stoby (USA) PLLC.

Greg served as an officer in the United States Marine Corps and then obtained a law degree from the University of Idaho College of Law. He has worked domestically for Exxon Company USA and internationally for Occidental Petroleum Corporation, focusing on international oil and gas transactions, including the negotiation of offshore oil and gas concessions with the State of Qatar, and Heads of Agreements with the governments of Albania and Russia. Greg served as Occidental’s Legal Manager in Ecuador for 3 years, developing an oil field located in the Amazon Jungle. He then worked as Occidental’s Legal Manager for its offshore oil projects located in Doha, Qatar. Greg became Occidental’s Managing Counsel for the Middle East, overseeing Occidental’s legal activities in Oman, Pakistan, Qatar and Yemen. Greg lived and worked in Qatar for 7 years.

Greg also supervised the legal affairs of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Mexico, Central America, Brazil the Caribbean countries and northern South America for more than a decade, while living in Lima, Peru, São Paulo, Brazil, and the Dominican Republic. Greg was also Of Counsel with the law firm of Kirton McConkie for 3 years in Salt Lake City. Greg is also a Senior Fellow at the International Center for Law and Religion Studies of the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University.

Heather Bell Atria

Heather is Manager of Legal Affairs at American Express.

Paul Lambert

Paul Lambert is a Distinguished Fellow at the Religious Freedom Center of the Freedom Forum Institute, where he is responsible for the design and development of religious liberty education programs for business leaders throughout the world. He is also a Distinguished Business Fellow at the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation.

Lambert also works with several other organizations focused on religious freedom, such as the Religious Freedom Project at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs. Lambert also serves as a visiting lecturer at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University where he teaches about leadership in turbulent and uncertain environments.

Lambert is also an adjunct professor at the National Defense University in Washington DC where he teaches courses on religion in foreign policy and national security. Before joining Georgetown University, Paul was at the National Defense University in Washington DC. Lambert served as professor and academic director of the American Studies Program, teaching on U.S. politics, international relations, and national security.

Lambert is a graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and Brigham Young University. He is also a graduate of the Seminar XXI Fellowship Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for International Studies. He and his wife Joelle are the parents of three children.

Kent Johnson, J.D.

Kent Johnson is Senior Corporate Advisor for the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation (RFBF) and a management consultant on religious diversity at work. Kent works with RFBF to help companies adopt and practice best practices regarding religious diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

Kent Johnson recently retired from his role as a Senior Counsel at Texas Instruments Incorporated and now serves as a consultant to multinational companies on topics related to religious accommodation and faith in the workplace. Kent helps companies see the appropriate role of religious expression and religious diversity at work, in order to strengthen corporate cultures of trust, mutual respect and organizational effectiveness.

In these times of increasing distrust, fear and discord, he focuses on promoting mutual expression and understanding across religions and groups in ways that strengthen recruitment, engagement, retention, morale, ethics and personal fulfillment.

He is a diplomatic adviser who supports and enables effective strategic partnerships, corporate acquisitions and alliances across cultural boundaries. He is a peacemaker and facilitator, helping companies move beyond “tolerance” to embrace respectful, caring relationships among groups that all too often are thought of as opposed (e.g., evangelicals and employees who embrace other faiths or atheism, groups of widely diverse ethnic, national and racial backgrounds, GLBT employees and working parents).

A passionate advocate of diversity and inclusion, Kent also helps companies in certain jurisdictions navigate their legal obligation to accommodate employees’ religious expression while carefully avoiding any impression of compulsion to participate in or agree with such expressions.

Hadi Sharifi

I'm a software developer and a data scientist at Intel. My ultimate dream is to have a successful business. In the latter, I am not there yet. But this quote from Churchill really keeps me going:

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. If you're going through hell, keep going. Never, never, never give up."

Aaron Bell

Aaron is a software engineer at Intel.

Craig Carter

Craig Carter ia a Product Line Manager IoT Business Intelligence, Finance Systems Controller at the Intel Corporation.

Kent Johnson, J.D.

Kent Johnson is Senior Corporate Advisor for the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation (RFBF) and a management consultant on religious diversity at work. Kent works with RFBF to help companies adopt and practice best practices regarding religious diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

Kent Johnson recently retired from his role as a Senior Counsel at Texas Instruments Incorporated and now serves as a consultant to multinational companies on topics related to religious accommodation and faith in the workplace. Kent helps companies see the appropriate role of religious expression and religious diversity at work, in order to strengthen corporate cultures of trust, mutual respect and organizational effectiveness.

In these times of increasing distrust, fear and discord, he focuses on promoting mutual expression and understanding across religions and groups in ways that strengthen recruitment, engagement, retention, morale, ethics and personal fulfillment.

He is a diplomatic adviser who supports and enables effective strategic partnerships, corporate acquisitions and alliances across cultural boundaries. He is a peacemaker and facilitator, helping companies move beyond “tolerance” to embrace respectful, caring relationships among groups that all too often are thought of as opposed (e.g., evangelicals and employees who embrace other faiths or atheism, groups of widely diverse ethnic, national and racial backgrounds, GLBT employees and working parents).

A passionate advocate of diversity and inclusion, Kent also helps companies in certain jurisdictions navigate their legal obligation to accommodate employees’ religious expression while carefully avoiding any impression of compulsion to participate in or agree with such expressions.

Patricia Papadopoulos

Patricia is a Product Advocate at PayPal.

Claudia Igbrude

Global Learning and Talent Development Technology Manager at PayPal.

Gulrez Khan

Sr Data Scientist at PayPal.

Deep Dhillon

Deep is a Sr Program Manager at PayPal.

Bhawna Saxena

Bhawna Saxena is a Software Development Manager at PayPal.

Yulonda Burris

Yulonda Burris ia Diversity & Inclusion Manager at PayPal.

Paul Lambert

Paul Lambert is a Distinguished Fellow at the Religious Freedom Center of the Freedom Forum Institute, where he is responsible for the design and development of religious liberty education programs for business leaders throughout the world. He is also a Distinguished Business Fellow at the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation.

Lambert also works with several other organizations focused on religious freedom, such as the Religious Freedom Project at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs. Lambert also serves as a visiting lecturer at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University where he teaches about leadership in turbulent and uncertain environments.

Lambert is also an adjunct professor at the National Defense University in Washington DC where he teaches courses on religion in foreign policy and national security. Before joining Georgetown University, Paul was at the National Defense University in Washington DC. Lambert served as professor and academic director of the American Studies Program, teaching on U.S. politics, international relations, and national security.

Lambert is a graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and Brigham Young University. He is also a graduate of the Seminar XXI Fellowship Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for International Studies. He and his wife Joelle are the parents of three children.

Ambassador Suzan Johnson Cook

The Hon. Suzan Johnson Cook (Ambassador Sujay) is owner of Charisma Speakers and founder of the Global Black Women's Chamber of Commerce. Nominated by Secretary Hillary Clinton and appointed by President Barack Obama, she was the third U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, becoming the first woman, first African American and first faith leader to hold this post. Previously, she was the first female chaplain for the New York City Police Department, where she served 21 years and was on the frontlines Sept. 11. She was a founding member of A Partnership of Faith, served as a senior parish pastor for three New York City congregations and was the first female president of the historic Hampton University Ministers Conference, the largest conference of African-American clergy in the world.

Dr. Johnny Parker

As an executive coach and relationship architect, Dr. Johnny Parker helps men and women achieve success by viewing their lives as a story. Through his “Turn the Page” system, CEOs, pro athletes, coaches, and other high-impact men and women have gained high-definition clarity and discovered the story they were born to live.

Johnny is an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University where he teaches Introduction to Positive Psychology, an evidence-based approach that focuses on conditions leading to happiness and flourishing. Recognizing that families and organizations share similar relational dynamics, Johnny uses his clinical background and research in positive psychology to help people revolutionize their relationships, work and lives.

His work on developing healthy, fulfilling lives and strong relationships has been featured on CNN International and national media outlets. In May, 2008, Johnny was a part of a select group of marriage educators and researchers invited to the White House to discuss ways to strengthen marriages in America.

Dr. Caretha Crawford

Dr. Caretha Franks Crawford is an award- winning writer, creative designer, dance minster, pastor, and speaker dedicated to educating, equipping, and empowering God’s people to fulfill their divine assignments. She is the founding pastor and senior minister of The Gateway to Wholeness Church Ministries in Largo, Maryland. Its mission is “Rebuilding Broken Lives through the Power of Jesus Christ.” She also organized Caretha Crawford Ministries International, which serves as a ministry arm for many outreach ministries.

Some of these ministries include: In Pursuit of His Presence Worship Arts Ministries, established in 2010 to provide biblically-based education and mentorship to a generation of individuals who desire to consistently pursue the presence of God through the worship arts. And, the Father’s Table which, provides a safe place for addressing and healing deep wounds sustained due to father relationship “flaws.”

Dr. Crawford is an author of 6 published books; Dance, God’s Gift to You, Hold On to Your Dream, Determined to Succeed, Relax and Receive, Jump-start Your Mornings With Jesus and Promises and Prayers for Uncertain Times. She is also a contributing author to Soul Sisters, published by, Ambassador Suzan Johnson Cook. She is also the founder and owner of SoAllMayKnow Publishing.

Additionally, Crawford designs create and market inspirational greetings cards under the trademark Kingdom Greetings 4U®, a line of handmade Christian greeting cards (they have been featured in national industry publications).

Rev. Tisha Williams

Reverend Tisha Williams is a proud product of Brooklyn, NY. She currently serves as the Sr. Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Bridgehampton. She answered the divine call of sharing Christ with the world in June 2008 and was licensed as a preacher and teacher of the Gospel in October of the same year. Reverend Williams was ordained in October 2014.

“Reverend Tish” as she is affectionately known, has a servant’s heart and is passionate about ministry and the work that God has called her to do. She has a special heart for God’s people and a passion for new believers, young adults and women’s ministry. As the creator and facilitator of Who’s That Lady?, she exercises this passion by conducting in-depth bible studies and workshops that highlight women of the bible, revealing how their lives mirror ours in this present day proving that through it all, God’s mercy still endures.

Together with her husband, she created the marriage ministry program, “Your Marriage T.H.D. – Touched, Healed and Delivered”. It is their sole objective to share this program and use it to fortify and bless married couples all over the world. Using biblical principles and focused exercises, they help couples better understand marriage and God’s plan for it.

Paul Lambert

Paul Lambert is a Distinguished Fellow at the Religious Freedom Center of the Freedom Forum Institute, where he is responsible for the design and development of religious liberty education programs for business leaders throughout the world. He is also a Distinguished Business Fellow at the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation.

Lambert also works with several other organizations focused on religious freedom, such as the Religious Freedom Project at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs. Lambert also serves as a visiting lecturer at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University where he teaches about leadership in turbulent and uncertain environments.

Lambert is also an adjunct professor at the National Defense University in Washington DC where he teaches courses on religion in foreign policy and national security. Before joining Georgetown University, Paul was at the National Defense University in Washington DC. Lambert served as professor and academic director of the American Studies Program, teaching on U.S. politics, international relations, and national security.

Lambert is a graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and Brigham Young University. He is also a graduate of the Seminar XXI Fellowship Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for International Studies. He and his wife Joelle are the parents of three children.

Juliet Funt

Juliet Funt, WhiteSpace at Work CEO, Global Keynote Speaker and Fortune 500 Advisor, to Keynote 2nd Annual National Faith@Work ERG Conference

In partnership with the Global Leadership Network, the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation (RFBF) is pleased to announce that in-demand corporate speaker Juliet Funt,  founder and CEO of WhiteSpace at Work, will deliver a high-energy, content-rich keynote on how to thrive in the Age of Overload in which we all live and work.

“It is an honor to have Juliet Funt, daughter of Candid Camera’s Allen Funt, speak at a time when the pandemic has blurred the boundary between work and home, More than ever,” said RFBF President Brian Grim. Indeed, Juliet is just what the doctor ordered for a time like this. She was born with fun in her blood. She’s a high-energy, hilarious motivational keynote speaker who helps audiences crack the code of the Culture of Insatiability—where nothing we do is ever enough.

A warrior against busyness in the modern workplace that saps our creativity, productivity and engagement, Funt is a force for change in organizations around the world. She empowers overwhelmed leaders and employees to redefine their definition of productivity, revamp their workflows and reclaim “WhiteSpace” — strategic pausing and thinking time — that is essential for high performance.

Through speaking, training and consulting, Funt is an evangelist for unburdening talent from low-value busywork and unleashing their full potential. She has worked with major international organizations such as Spotify, In-N-Out Burger, National Geographic, Anthem, Abbott, American Express, P&G, Costco, Pepsi, Nike, Wells Fargo, Sephora, Sysco, Hershey’s, Hyatt and ESPN.

Funt is a charismatic keynote speaker who activates audiences to make real, lasting change. She’s spoken at many premiere industry-leading associations and events globally with impressive lineups of luminaries such as Simon Sinek, Marcus Buckingham, Seth Godin and Condoleezza Rice.

Funt’s 2017 address to the Global Leadership Summit, the largest leadership event in the world that streams to 400,000 people from more than 123 countries, was one of the highest rated talks of the event. She has also delivered a keynote address for Leadercast, which live streams to 85,000 leaders, and the Nordic Business Forum in Finland, with a live English-speaking audience of 7,500 and a streamed audience of 30,000.

Tom De Vries

Tom De Vries joined the Global Leadership Network (GLN) in 2017 as President and CEO. He brings a wealth of expertise to the GLN’s year-round leadership development efforts and the leadership of producing The Global Leadership Summit (GLS). With more than 300,000 people attending the GLS annually in over 120 countries and in 60 languages, the GLS is recognized as the premier global leadership event of the year. Prior to joining the GLN, Tom was the General Secretary of the Reformed Church in America (RCA), the oldest continuing Protestant denomination in the United States with over 200,000 members and 100 missionaries serving in 40 countries around the world. Tom has a B.A. in Sociology from Wheaton College, a Master of Divinity from Fuller Seminary, and a Doctor of Ministry in Leadership from Western Seminary. Tom has provided leadership in both the ministry and nonprofit environments serving as a church planter, large church lead pastor and multisite pastor. He served on the central committee of the World Council of Churches and the governing board of the National Council of Churches. Additionally, Tom served on the Board of Trustees for New Brunswick Theological Seminary and Western Theological Seminary. Tom played a key leadership role in the launching of a nonprofit focused on food insufficiency in young children and today Hand2Hand feeds more than 8,000 children each weekend through school-church partnerships. He has been a featured guest on NPR, the Salem Radio Network, Life Today Live, Newsmax TV, Moody Radio, the WOW Factor, and Common Good. He has also taught as an adjunct professor at Western Theological Seminary.

Debbie Allen

Debbie Allen is Executive Director of the Secular Coalition For America. Debbie Allen became involved in the freethought movement in 2007 after her search for nonreligious, likeminded social justice advocates led her to local humanist and atheist groups in San Diego. While assuming leadership roles in several organizations, she started a Recovering from Religion support group, a Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers Meetup, a chapter of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and she volunteered two summers for Camp Quest West. Debbie has been the local coordinator of the San Diego Coalition of Reason since 2009, and from 2015 to 2017 she served on the board of Reason Rally 2016. She has also served on the boards of the American Humanist Association, the Humanist Society, and the Freethought Equality Fund PAC. Before becoming a secular activist, Debbie was a psychotherapist in private practice and a research associate in neuropsychology at UCSD Medical Center. When not listening to her favorite podcasts, she loves to dance, hike, visit museums, watch films and eat spicy ethnic food.

Kent Johnson, J.D.

Kent Johnson is Senior Corporate Advisor for the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation (RFBF) and a management consultant on religious diversity at work. Kent works with RFBF to help companies adopt and practice best practices regarding religious diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

Kent Johnson recently retired from his role as a Senior Counsel at Texas Instruments Incorporated and now serves as a consultant to multinational companies on topics related to religious accommodation and faith in the workplace. Kent helps companies see the appropriate role of religious expression and religious diversity at work, in order to strengthen corporate cultures of trust, mutual respect and organizational effectiveness.

In these times of increasing distrust, fear and discord, he focuses on promoting mutual expression and understanding across religions and groups in ways that strengthen recruitment, engagement, retention, morale, ethics and personal fulfillment.

He is a diplomatic adviser who supports and enables effective strategic partnerships, corporate acquisitions and alliances across cultural boundaries. He is a peacemaker and facilitator, helping companies move beyond “tolerance” to embrace respectful, caring relationships among groups that all too often are thought of as opposed (e.g., evangelicals and employees who embrace other faiths or atheism, groups of widely diverse ethnic, national and racial backgrounds, GLBT employees and working parents).

A passionate advocate of diversity and inclusion, Kent also helps companies in certain jurisdictions navigate their legal obligation to accommodate employees’ religious expression while carefully avoiding any impression of compulsion to participate in or agree with such expressions.

Paul Lambert

Paul Lambert is a Distinguished Fellow at the Religious Freedom Center of the Freedom Forum Institute, where he is responsible for the design and development of religious liberty education programs for business leaders throughout the world. He is also a Distinguished Business Fellow at the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation.

Lambert also works with several other organizations focused on religious freedom, such as the Religious Freedom Project at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs. Lambert also serves as a visiting lecturer at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University where he teaches about leadership in turbulent and uncertain environments.

Lambert is also an adjunct professor at the National Defense University in Washington DC where he teaches courses on religion in foreign policy and national security. Before joining Georgetown University, Paul was at the National Defense University in Washington DC. Lambert served as professor and academic director of the American Studies Program, teaching on U.S. politics, international relations, and national security.

Lambert is a graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and Brigham Young University. He is also a graduate of the Seminar XXI Fellowship Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for International Studies. He and his wife Joelle are the parents of three children.

Markee Johnson

Markee Johnson, Sales Enablement, Dell Technologies, Interfaith Co-lead

Becky Pomerleau

Director, Finance Risk Management and Global Co-lead Believe, Interfaith@PayPal

Ben Christensen

Ben Christense is Director, Global Purpose Partnerships, Purpose and Sustainability Marketing at SAP. He is also Co-Chair, SAP Interfaith Alliance,

Batool Hussain

Head of Americas Sustainability Services - Ventures at SAP

Paul Lambert

Paul Lambert is a Distinguished Fellow at the Religious Freedom Center of the Freedom Forum Institute, where he is responsible for the design and development of religious liberty education programs for business leaders throughout the world. He is also a Distinguished Business Fellow at the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation.

Lambert also works with several other organizations focused on religious freedom, such as the Religious Freedom Project at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs. Lambert also serves as a visiting lecturer at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University where he teaches about leadership in turbulent and uncertain environments.

Lambert is also an adjunct professor at the National Defense University in Washington DC where he teaches courses on religion in foreign policy and national security. Before joining Georgetown University, Paul was at the National Defense University in Washington DC. Lambert served as professor and academic director of the American Studies Program, teaching on U.S. politics, international relations, and national security.

Lambert is a graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and Brigham Young University. He is also a graduate of the Seminar XXI Fellowship Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for International Studies. He and his wife Joelle are the parents of three children.

Frank Torres

Frank Torres is the Director of Public Policy in Microsoft’s Office of Responsible AI, part of the company’s Technology and Corporate Responsibility group. Frank helps to develop, advocate for, and work to implement, Microsoft’s public policy positions on the responsible development and deployment of AI. Previously, Frank spent 17 years in the company's US Government Affairs (USGA) team in Washington, DC, where he was Director of Consumer Affairs and Sr. Policy Counsel. In that role, Frank led USGA's privacy, lawful access, and AI policy efforts. Frank also has been responsible for the company's relationship with privacy, consumer, and other civil society advocates. Frank is a member of the Board of Public Knowledge and Pro Bono Net. Frank served as the Executive Secretary of the Partnership on AI. Prior to joining Microsoft Frank was Sr. Policy Counsel at Consumers Union. He is a graduate of Georgetown University and The George Washington Law School.

Meenaz Merchant

Meenaz Merchant is the Partner Group Program Manager – Bing Search and Web Experiences at Microsoft. He holds undergraduate and masters degrees in computer science respectively from Maharashtra Institute of Technology and Stanford University, and an MBA from UC Berkeley. Meenaz is an active leader and worships with his family at the Iman Center in Kirkland, Washington.

Brian Green

Brian Green is the director of technology ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. His work is focused on the ethics of technology, including AI and ethics, as well as on the relationship of technology and religion. Brian teaches AI ethics in Santa Clara’s Graduate School of Engineering. He holds doctoral and master’s degrees in ethics and social theory from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, and his undergraduate degree is in genetics from the University of California, Davis.

Nathan Colaner

Nathan Colaner, Ph.D., is a senior instructor in the Departments of Management and Philosophy at Seattle University, focusing on business ethics with particular research emphasis on big data management and business use of artificial intelligence. He has been instrumental in the formation of the University’s new Center for Science and Innovation.

Thomas Arnold

Thomas Arnold is a Research Associate at the Human-Robot Interaction Lab at Tufts University and also a lecturer in the Computer Science Department there. His work at Tufts focuses on the ethical evaluation and design of AI systems for interactive contexts, including how moral norms will shape how social robots are judged. Thomas is an author and co-author of numerous peer-reviewed articles on AI ethics and human-robot interaction. He is nearing completion of his PhD dissertation for Harvard’s Committee on the Study of Religion.

Rear Adm. Margaret Grun Kibben

Retired Navy Rear Adm. Margaret Grun Kibben is chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives. Kibben is the first female congressional chaplain since Congress' founding in 1789.

"Kibben brings decades of decorated experience in the military and the ministry, as a retired Rear Admiral who served as the U.S. Navy's Chief Chaplain and the chaplain of the Marine Corps," Pelosi said in a statement. "Her integrity, experience and patriotism will serve the Congress and the Country well, as she ministers to the needs of Members. "

As chaplain, Kibben leads House members in a daily opening prayer as well as other ceremonies. The chaplain also provides pastoral counseling to House members, coordinates the scheduling of guest chaplains and arranges memorial services for House members and staff. Kibben was selected by a bipartisan committee of House members, whose recommendation was accepted by Pelosi and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.

Kibben's military career spans more than 30 years. On top of her bachelor's degree, Kibben received her doctorate of ministry and a master's of divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary. She also studied national security and strategic studies at the Naval War College.

Patricia Shaw

Patricia Shaw is CEO and Founder of Beyond Reach Consulting Ltd, supporting organisations in the delivery of ‘ethics by design’ to build trust with customers, industry and wider society. Beyond Reach advises on the design and implementation of bespoke ethical governance frameworks, including providing expert advisory services and curation of Data and Ethics Advisory Boards, in the field of AI. Patricia has over 20 years’ experience providing legal, regulatory, government affairs, and risk management advice in the Data, Tech, and Financial Services sectors.

Nicoleta Acatrinei

Nicoleta Acatrinei is an Associate Research Scholar, and Project Manager of TIP (The Integration Profile) in the Faith & Work Initiative at the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education of Princeton University. Nicoleta started her business career in banking. Her recent work has focused on religion/spiritual-based motivations and behaviors, altruism and our inclination to interact socially, and the significant changes in the workplace as a result of the introduction of AI.

Michael Quinn

Michael J. Quinn (moderator) serves as Dean of the College of Science and Engineering at Seattle University. As a faculty member at the University of New Hampshire and Oregon State University, he did pioneering research in the area of parallel computing. In the early 2000s Dean Quinn refocused on ethical issues related to computing. His textbook, Ethics for the Information Age, is in its 8th edition and has been used by more than 125 colleges and universities.

Yaqub Chaudhary

Yaqub Chaudhary, PhD, (co-presenter) is a former/recent Research Fellow in AI, Philosophy and Theology at Cambridge Muslim College in Cambridge, England. His research interests are in the fields of AI, cognitive science and neuroscience in connection with Islamic conceptions of the mind, intelligence, human reasoning, cognition, knowledge, and the nature of perception and consciousness. In addition to professional and academic journals, he writes on current topical issues at https://www.mqbc.co.uk/ Dr. Chaudhary holds a Masters of Engineering degree and was awarded his PhD in physics by Imperial College in London.

Michael Paulus

Michael Paulus (co-presenter) is University Librarian, Assistant Provost for Educational Technology, and Director and Associate Professor of Information Studies at Seattle Pacific University. His administrative, teaching, and scholarly interests focus on the history and future of information and communication technologies.

Yasmin Ali

Yasmin Ali (discussion leader) is a computer scientist and the founder of Skillspire, an education startup headquartered in Bellevue, Washington that offers technology boot camps for immigrants, refugees and women, largely taught by part-time instructors who work in technology. Yasmin was an early visionary member of the Muslim Association of Puget Sound and remains active in leadership there

David Brenner

David is the board chair of AI and Faith and a Seattle attorney with 35 years of experience in counseling clients and litigating claims related to technology, risk management and insurance. He attends West Side Presbyterian Church and is actively involved in programs that integrate faith, science and technology with faculty of the University of Washington, Seattle Pacific University, and Seattle University. He is a graduate of Stanford University and UC Berkeley’s Law School.

Paul Taylor

Paul Taylor is a teaching pastor and elder at Peninsula Bible Church in Palo Alto, California. He explores the intersection of technology and theology through his blog and podcast at allthingsnew.tech. Paul graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Industrial Engineering and worked for Oracle Corporation as a Senior Product Manager designing software solutions before moving into leadership at PBC in 2007.

Brigitte Madrian

Brigitte C. Madrian is the Dean and Marriott Distinguished Professor in the Brigham Young University Marriott School of Business where she has a joint appointment in the Department of Finance and the George W. Romney Institute of Public Service and Ethics. Before coming to BYU, she was on the faculty at the Harvard Kennedy School (2006-2018), the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School (2003-2006), the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (1995-2003) and the Harvard University Economics Department (1993-1995). She is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and served as co-director of the NBER Household Finance working group from 2010-2018.

Dr. Madrian’s current research focuses on behavioral economics and household finance, with a particular focus on household saving and investment behavior. Her work in this area has impacted the design of employer-sponsored savings plans in the U.S. and has influenced pension reform legislation both in the U.S. and abroad. She also uses the lens of behavioral economics to understand health behaviors and improve health outcomes.

Dr. Madrian received her Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and studied economics as an undergraduate at Brigham Young University. She is a recipient of the Skandia Research Prize for outstanding research on “Long-Term Savings” with relevance for banking, insurance, and financial services (2019), the Retirement Income Industry Association Achievement in Applied Retirement Research Award (2015) and a three-time recipient of the TIAA Paul A. Samuelson Award for Scholarly Research on Lifelong Financial Security (2002, 2011 and 2017).

Andrew Abela

Andrew Abela is the founding dean of the Busch School of Business and Associate Professor of Marketing at The Catholic University of America, in Washington, D.C. His research on the integrity of the marketing process, including marketing ethics, Catholic Social Doctrine, and internal communication, has been published in several academic journals, including the Journal of Marketing, the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, the Journal of Business Ethics, and the Journal of Markets & Morality, and in two books. He is the co-editor of A Catechism for Business, from Catholic University Press, and winner of the 2009 Novak Award, a $10,000 prize given by the Acton Institute for “significant contributions to the study of the relationship between religion and economic liberty.”

Dr. Abela also provides consulting and training in internal communications; recent clients of his include Microsoft Corporation, JPMorganChase, and the Corporate Executive Board. Prior to his academic career, he spent several years in industry as brand manager at Procter & Gamble, management consultant with McKinsey & Company, and Managing Director of the Marketing Leadership Council of the Corporate Executive Board. He holds a B.Sc. from the University of Toronto, an MBA from the Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Switzerland, and a Ph.D. in Marketing and Ethics from the Darden Business School at the University of Virginia. He and his wife, Kathleen, live in Great Falls, Virginia with their six children.

Sue Warnke

Senior Director Content & Communication at Salesforce, Global Lead, Faithforce

Sue Warnke has 20 years of experience in the technology industry and is currently the Senior Director of Content & Communications Experience at Salesforce, the world leader in Customer Relationship Management software. Other roles include Director of Innovation and Leadership, where she worked with Microsoft, Uber, Nike, SAP, Intuit, Sony, GAP, and Warner Bros. She has a Masters in English and was profiled in Liz Wiseman’s best-selling leadership book, Rookie Smarts. After a lifetime as an agnostic, Sue became a Christian in 2017 and now leads Christians@Salesforce as well as Faithforce San Francisco, Salesforce's Interfaith Employee Resource Group that is sparking conversation on Faith Diversity in the Marketplace.

Sue lives in Pacifica, California with her husband, Chris, and three teenagers. She shares best practices for integrating faith and work in her blog, Leanership, which you can subscribe (link is external) to.

Kent Johnson, J.D.

Kent Johnson is Senior Corporate Advisor for the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation (RFBF) and a management consultant on religious diversity at work. Kent works with RFBF to help companies adopt and practice best practices regarding religious diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

Kent Johnson recently retired from his role as a Senior Counsel at Texas Instruments Incorporated and now serves as a consultant to multinational companies on topics related to religious accommodation and faith in the workplace. Kent helps companies see the appropriate role of religious expression and religious diversity at work, in order to strengthen corporate cultures of trust, mutual respect and organizational effectiveness.

In these times of increasing distrust, fear and discord, he focuses on promoting mutual expression and understanding across religions and groups in ways that strengthen recruitment, engagement, retention, morale, ethics and personal fulfillment.

He is a diplomatic adviser who supports and enables effective strategic partnerships, corporate acquisitions and alliances across cultural boundaries. He is a peacemaker and facilitator, helping companies move beyond “tolerance” to embrace respectful, caring relationships among groups that all too often are thought of as opposed (e.g., evangelicals and employees who embrace other faiths or atheism, groups of widely diverse ethnic, national and racial backgrounds, GLBT employees and working parents).

A passionate advocate of diversity and inclusion, Kent also helps companies in certain jurisdictions navigate their legal obligation to accommodate employees’ religious expression while carefully avoiding any impression of compulsion to participate in or agree with such expressions.

Sam Dunn

Sam Dunn is Assistant Dean and Business Career Center director at the BYU Marriott School of Business. He joined BYU after a successful career as a senior Finance officer with Walmart. During 28 years with that company, he served in various leadership roles including: CFO of Sam’s Club and Walmart.com, Divisional Controller for Walmart US, and the top Administrative Officer in both Japan and Mexico. At the time of his retirement, he was Senior Vice President leading strategy and planning for Walmart Global Leverage Services.

Sam is a member of several business and professional associations, including: Financial Executives International and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He sits on the National Advisory Council of the BYU Marriott School of Business. He is active in church and community. His non-profit Board positions have included: Area President for the Boy Scouts of America in Arkansas/Oklahoma, Board President of Open Avenues adult development center in Rogers Arkansas, and Finance Chair for the American School Foundation in Mexico City.

Sam is a Certified Public Accountant, a Certified Global Management Accountant and an Investment Advisor Representative (Series 65). He has been recognized with the Alumni Achievement Award by the BYU Marriott School, the Silver Beaver and Silver Antelope Awards by the Boy Scouts of America, and the Sam M. Walton Award of Excellence by Walmart.

Sam served a full-time church mission in Montevideo, Uruguay. He and his wife Mary have four married children, and make their home in Draper, Utah. When he is not assisting students and meeting with hiring firms, you can find Sam with his family, or hiking, running and biking on the trails and roads in Utah.

Paul Lambert

Paul Lambert is a Distinguished Fellow at the Religious Freedom Center of the Freedom Forum Institute, where he is responsible for the design and development of religious liberty education programs for business leaders throughout the world. He is also a Distinguished Business Fellow at the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation.

Lambert also works with several other organizations focused on religious freedom, such as the Religious Freedom Project at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs. Lambert also serves as a visiting lecturer at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University where he teaches about leadership in turbulent and uncertain environments.

Lambert is also an adjunct professor at the National Defense University in Washington DC where he teaches courses on religion in foreign policy and national security. Before joining Georgetown University, Paul was at the National Defense University in Washington DC. Lambert served as professor and academic director of the American Studies Program, teaching on U.S. politics, international relations, and national security.

Lambert is a graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and Brigham Young University. He is also a graduate of the Seminar XXI Fellowship Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for International Studies. He and his wife Joelle are the parents of three children.

Mohammed Farris

Mohammed Faris is an international coach, author, and speaker who helps individuals and teams live the best versions of themselves - spiritually, physically, and socially. He’s the founder of The Productive Muslim Company and author of “The Productive Muslim: Where Faith Meets Productivity.

Jason Brown

Jason Brown started with Marketplace Chaplains in February of 2002 as the first region level staff member dedicated solely to new client development. He came with 20 years of sales and marketing experience that included Procter & Gamble, National Sales Manager for Wrangler Outerwear, Computer Resale Technologies, and now leads our International Team of Company Expansion Directors and is responsible for marketing communications, branding and future strategic initiatives. Jason was also a professional athlete and won the 1991 World Champion Saddle Bronc Rider title, while also serving as the rodeo’s National Spokesman Coordinator. Jason graduated from Texas Tech University with a degree in Marketing from the Rawls School of Business where he also co-founded the Young Entrepreneur Society. In addition to having owned and operated a successful commercial real estate business, Jason has served his community as a County Election Judge, and served on the Long-Range Planning Committee, as Chairman of Membership Committee then Chairman of House Committee and Board of Directors (Secretary, Executive Committee) for The Dallas Athletic Club. He is a US Lacrosse Level II Certified Coach and was on the Executive Committee of the DFW Lacrosse League, a Master Scuba Diver and a Contest Director for the International Miniature Aerobatic Club. He also serves on the Boards of The Last Well and 4Word for Women and is frequently asked to speak at events and conferences. In January 2020, Jason received the OnCon2020 Top 100 Marketer Award selected by his peers. Jason has helped lead Marketplace Chaplains' expansion with year over year double-digit growth both in North America and abroad. Jason and his wife Cyndi, who is President of The Council of PTAs for Rockwall Independent School District, are the proud parents of twin boys, Layton and Parker, who enjoy competitive bass fishing and will attend Dallas Baptist University (DBU) in the fall of 2020.

Kwabea Francis

Kwabea Francis is Director of Operations, South Florida, for Marketplace Chaplains. Marketplace Chaplains is the largest and longest continuing provider of workplace chaplains to corporate America today. Over 1,600 chaplains now serve from California to Massachusetts, providing personal care for more than 790,000 employees and family members.

Hector Perez

Hector Perez is Director of Operations, Southern California, for Marketplace Chaplains. Marketplace Chaplains is the largest and longest continuing provider of workplace chaplains to corporate America today. Over 1,600 chaplains now serve from California to Massachusetts, providing personal care for more than 790,000 employees and family members.

Kent Johnson, J.D.

Kent Johnson is Senior Corporate Advisor for the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation (RFBF) and a management consultant on religious diversity at work. Kent works with RFBF to help companies adopt and practice best practices regarding religious diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

Kent Johnson recently retired from his role as a Senior Counsel at Texas Instruments Incorporated and now serves as a consultant to multinational companies on topics related to religious accommodation and faith in the workplace. Kent helps companies see the appropriate role of religious expression and religious diversity at work, in order to strengthen corporate cultures of trust, mutual respect and organizational effectiveness.

In these times of increasing distrust, fear and discord, he focuses on promoting mutual expression and understanding across religions and groups in ways that strengthen recruitment, engagement, retention, morale, ethics and personal fulfillment.

He is a diplomatic adviser who supports and enables effective strategic partnerships, corporate acquisitions and alliances across cultural boundaries. He is a peacemaker and facilitator, helping companies move beyond “tolerance” to embrace respectful, caring relationships among groups that all too often are thought of as opposed (e.g., evangelicals and employees who embrace other faiths or atheism, groups of widely diverse ethnic, national and racial backgrounds, GLBT employees and working parents).

A passionate advocate of diversity and inclusion, Kent also helps companies in certain jurisdictions navigate their legal obligation to accommodate employees’ religious expression while carefully avoiding any impression of compulsion to participate in or agree with such expressions.

Paul Lambert

Paul Lambert is a Distinguished Fellow at the Religious Freedom Center of the Freedom Forum Institute, where he is responsible for the design and development of religious liberty education programs for business leaders throughout the world. He is also a Distinguished Business Fellow at the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation.

Lambert also works with several other organizations focused on religious freedom, such as the Religious Freedom Project at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs. Lambert also serves as a visiting lecturer at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University where he teaches about leadership in turbulent and uncertain environments.

Lambert is also an adjunct professor at the National Defense University in Washington DC where he teaches courses on religion in foreign policy and national security. Before joining Georgetown University, Paul was at the National Defense University in Washington DC. Lambert served as professor and academic director of the American Studies Program, teaching on U.S. politics, international relations, and national security.

Lambert is a graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and Brigham Young University. He is also a graduate of the Seminar XXI Fellowship Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for International Studies. He and his wife Joelle are the parents of three children.

Jeanette Robért

Jeanette has a passion to serve Executive Leaders in business by providing support for them to be successful in intentionally caring for their people. From management with the Nordstrom company working across the United States to commercial lending with Wells Fargo, Associated Bank and Hillcrest Bank she has engaged with numerous industries and privately held business’ and has established a respect and acumen for Business Leaders. In her current role as Executive Director of Expansion with the employee care service, Marketplace Chaplains she travels the country educating and serving C-Suite leaders of public and private companies as they intentionally and proactively care for their employees and families. Speaking to the Mental Health of employees in the workplace Jeanette has covered topics such as, “Managing Personal Stress,” “Leveraging Technology for Improved Mental Wellness,” “Staff-Centered Care,” “Mental Health and Workplace Chaplaincy,” and has been presenter for various conferences such as Workology, SHRM, Chamber of Commerce, CHRO Exchange, etc. Jeanette holds a BS in Management & Communications from Corban University, a MBA with an emphasis in Human Resource Management and International Business from Regent University and currently in the process of completing her DMIN with an emphasis in Leadership from The King’s University. Jeanette resides in North Texas and is a proud Auntie of two nephews and six nieces who are the joy of her life.

Paul Lambert

Paul Lambert is a Distinguished Fellow at the Religious Freedom Center of the Freedom Forum Institute, where he is responsible for the design and development of religious liberty education programs for business leaders throughout the world. He is also a Distinguished Business Fellow at the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation.

Lambert also works with several other organizations focused on religious freedom, such as the Religious Freedom Project at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs. Lambert also serves as a visiting lecturer at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University where he teaches about leadership in turbulent and uncertain environments.

Lambert is also an adjunct professor at the National Defense University in Washington DC where he teaches courses on religion in foreign policy and national security. Before joining Georgetown University, Paul was at the National Defense University in Washington DC. Lambert served as professor and academic director of the American Studies Program, teaching on U.S. politics, international relations, and national security.

Lambert is a graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and Brigham Young University. He is also a graduate of the Seminar XXI Fellowship Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for International Studies. He and his wife Joelle are the parents of three children.

Rear Adm. Margaret Grun Kibben

Retired Navy Rear Adm. Margaret Grun Kibben is chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives. Kibben is the first female congressional chaplain since Congress' founding in 1789.

"Kibben brings decades of decorated experience in the military and the ministry, as a retired Rear Admiral who served as the U.S. Navy's Chief Chaplain and the chaplain of the Marine Corps," Pelosi said in a statement. "Her integrity, experience and patriotism will serve the Congress and the Country well, as she ministers to the needs of Members. "

As chaplain, Kibben leads House members in a daily opening prayer as well as other ceremonies. The chaplain also provides pastoral counseling to House members, coordinates the scheduling of guest chaplains and arranges memorial services for House members and staff. Kibben was selected by a bipartisan committee of House members, whose recommendation was accepted by Pelosi and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.

Kibben's military career spans more than 30 years. On top of her bachelor's degree, Kibben received her doctorate of ministry and a master's of divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary. She also studied national security and strategic studies at the Naval War College.

Fr. Greg McBrayer

As a Bivocational Priest, Father Greg McBrayer has worked and served in the aviation industry for over 40 years. As Chief Flight Controller and Chaplain at American Airlines Flight Operations Center IOC in DFW, his career includes more than 35 years as a licensed airman in Part 121 Commercial Flight Operations.

As a Bivocational Priest, Father Greg serves as a Priest at Saint Barnabas Anglican Church in Fort Worth Texas. He also serves as Chaplain and the EAP Representative for (PAFCA) The Professional Airline Flight Controllers Association at American Airlines and is a member of the Emergency Response Care Team. He is the founder and former president of the IOC “Monday Ministry Chapter” of American Airlines Christian Employees Business Resource Group (CEBRG). He currently serves as the Christian Employees Business Resource Group Senior Global Lead overseeing 20 Christian Ministry Chapters worldwide at American Airlines. He is the Executive Director of DFW Airport Interfaith Chaplaincy and leads weekly and special worship services at DFW Airport’s D40 Meadows Chapel.

Throughout his career, he has chaired and served on numerous committees, boards, and outreach ministries within the church, aviation, and military community. In 2018 he honored to receive American Airlines coveted “Chairman’s Award” for decades of employee support and Pastoral Care within American Airlines. Contact Fr. Greg McBrayer at: gsmcbrayer@aol.com - Cell 412-721-7128 or visit his web site at www.ourfaithatwork.com.

Karen Diefendorf

Chaplain Karen J. Diefendorf was born and raised in Vallonia, a small rural town in southern Indiana. Desiring to remain within her own “denomination,” the independent Christian Churches and Churches of Christ, she sought endorsement for Army chaplaincy which was granted in 1985 and entered active duty in 1986. Diefendorf served 20 years as an active duty Army chaplain, assigned to various commands all over the world including the Pentagon where she worked on the Constitutionality of the Chaplaincy. Chaplain Diefendorf also contributed to the revision of the Army’s Field Manual on Leadership as it related to belief systems. She retired as a Lieutenant Colonel to answer her church’s call to become the Academic Dean at Lincoln Christian University’s Undergraduate College, Lincoln, IL. Over three years later she was recalled to active duty on special assignment, serving as Director of Training and Development, US Army Chaplain Center and School for an additional four years, totaling 24 years of active service. Chaplain Diefendorf received multiple military awards to include two awards of the Legion of Merit and Instructor of the Year at the Army Chaplain Center and School. She was also the first female chaplain to become a paratrooper. Following return to retired Army life, Karen accepted a chaplain position with Hospice Care of South Carolina and later added a part-time chaplain position with Tyson Prepared Foods plant, Columbia, SC. That introduced her to the breadth of Tyson’s chaplain program where she currently serves as Director, Chaplain Services for Tyson Foods, Inc., in Springdale, Arkansas.

Paul Lambert

Paul Lambert is a Distinguished Fellow at the Religious Freedom Center of the Freedom Forum Institute, where he is responsible for the design and development of religious liberty education programs for business leaders throughout the world. He is also a Distinguished Business Fellow at the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation.

Lambert also works with several other organizations focused on religious freedom, such as the Religious Freedom Project at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs. Lambert also serves as a visiting lecturer at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University where he teaches about leadership in turbulent and uncertain environments.

Lambert is also an adjunct professor at the National Defense University in Washington DC where he teaches courses on religion in foreign policy and national security. Before joining Georgetown University, Paul was at the National Defense University in Washington DC. Lambert served as professor and academic director of the American Studies Program, teaching on U.S. politics, international relations, and national security.

Lambert is a graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and Brigham Young University. He is also a graduate of the Seminar XXI Fellowship Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for International Studies. He and his wife Joelle are the parents of three children.

Kent Johnson, J.D.

Kent Johnson is Senior Corporate Advisor for the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation (RFBF) and a management consultant on religious diversity at work. Kent works with RFBF to help companies adopt and practice best practices regarding religious diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

Kent Johnson recently retired from his role as a Senior Counsel at Texas Instruments Incorporated and now serves as a consultant to multinational companies on topics related to religious accommodation and faith in the workplace. Kent helps companies see the appropriate role of religious expression and religious diversity at work, in order to strengthen corporate cultures of trust, mutual respect and organizational effectiveness.

In these times of increasing distrust, fear and discord, he focuses on promoting mutual expression and understanding across religions and groups in ways that strengthen recruitment, engagement, retention, morale, ethics and personal fulfillment.

He is a diplomatic adviser who supports and enables effective strategic partnerships, corporate acquisitions and alliances across cultural boundaries. He is a peacemaker and facilitator, helping companies move beyond “tolerance” to embrace respectful, caring relationships among groups that all too often are thought of as opposed (e.g., evangelicals and employees who embrace other faiths or atheism, groups of widely diverse ethnic, national and racial backgrounds, GLBT employees and working parents).

A passionate advocate of diversity and inclusion, Kent also helps companies in certain jurisdictions navigate their legal obligation to accommodate employees’ religious expression while carefully avoiding any impression of compulsion to participate in or agree with such expressions.

Brian Grim

Brian is founding president of the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation. Brian is the world’s leading expert on the relationship between religious freedom and the economy.

Full CV

Brian holds a doctorate in quantitative sociology from Penn State and is author of scores of academic articles and books. He is former chair of the World Economic Forum’s global council on the role of faith and a speaker at Davos. Brian was previously a senior researcher and director of international data at the Pew Research Center in Washington, DC. He lived and worked in China, Central Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the former USSR, where he was instrumental in setting up the first western-style business school in the Soviet Union, which was dissolved in his office building.

Brian’s recent widely reported research finds that religion contributes $1.2 trillion to the U.S. economy annually, more than the combined revenues of the top 10 technology U.S. companies including Apple, Amazon and Google.

Brian also supports and works closely with the “Business for Peace” platform of the United Nations Global Compact. He is also a member of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and a regular speaker at the annual Forum on Workplace Inclusion.