Guerry Professor and UC Foundation Professor of Psychology, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Christopher J. L. Cunningham, PhD is a Guerry Professor and UC Foundation Professor of Psychology at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where he is also the Industrial and Organizational Psychology Graduate Program Director and the director of the Healthy and Optimal Work lab. He holds an adjunct clinical assistant professor position for research and evaluation at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine-Chattanooga and is the Chief Science Officer for Logi-Serve (a provider of science-based talent assessments and talent management technologies). He teaches graduate-level...
Senior Assistant Director, Graduate Student Services and Program
Caitlin DeClercq earned a Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley with a previous M.S. degree in Health Professions Education from the University of Rochester. Her doctoral research investigated the social, historical, and built environment contexts of bodily education in American institutions of higher education, an endeavor that integrated her previous experience as a college health educator with her interests in...
Head of Business Transformation, ISS North America
Jeremy Macdonald is the Head of Business Transformation for ISS North America. He harnesses experience and perspective from multiple disciplines including design, procurement, operations and maintenance, and sustainability. He has developed partnerships for large design and construction projects, as well as global services in the facilities industry. He leads teams for startup and renewal processes, including technology enablement, and also focuses on creating workplace-based experiences that leverage company values, culture and vision to maximize well-being, health and productivity. In...
Joan Price brings more than 30 years of professional services marketing, business development and community outreach. Most recently, Joan was a Principal with Gensler, a global design firm leading the firm’s Client Relationships and Strategic Accounts Hub. Additionally, Joan co-managed Gensler’s San Francisco office leading a team of 400 design professionals. With her eye focused firmly on impact and results, her work in the community is now her calling. She is on the Board of Project Color Corps, a non-profit bringing communities together through the power of color . Joan was the Northern...
Kevin Sauer is a senior workplace strategy professional with more than 20 years of global experience building high performing workplace strategy teams and programs in fortune 500 companies. Kevin’s passion and expertise lies in researching and understanding the impact of the changing nature of work through emerging and innovative technologies, people strategies, and the use of space. Most recently he developed Amazon’s Workplace Intelligence program to gather and interpret qualitative and quantitative data to uncover new and emerging work patterns and practices, and their impact on the...
Walter is a senior employment law attorney with more than 30 years of experience advising employers on challenging workplace issues and providing practical solutions that minimize legal exposure in a heavily regulated business environment.
Walter represents some of Silicon Valley’s most dynamic corporate players, from Big Tech giants and high-profile tech-adjacent foundations to emerging businesses and ambitious startups.
He frequently operates as outside general counsel on employment law, meaning that major clients rely on him as their first point of contact when employment...
Director, Labor Occupational Health Program, UC Berkeley
Laura Stock is the director of the Labor Occupational Health Program (LOHP). She directs and administers LOHP’s programs providing training, research support, materials development and technical assistance for workers, employers, health professionals, and the general public. She also provide direction to staff on translating research findings to practice and to public policy (R2P2P). In her over thirty years at LOHP, she has developed various training programs and educational materials on occupational safety and health issues and have provided technical assistance and consultation to...
Gervais Tompkin has been working for Gensler for 25 years as a studio director, consulting practice area leader, global design leader, and management committee. During his time there, he made significant improvements to their technology and consulting practices. Some of his most notable projects included helping the FBI navigate the change from post-crime forensics to pre-crime intelligence, rethinking the passenger experience for SFO, creating an analytical methodology for Google to better support diverse business units with space design, and helping scores of companies better support...