Athena has over 7 years of experience as a project manager and has spent her career working for higher education, government agencies, and museums. She is currently a Program & Portfolio Manager II for Georgia Tech Human Resources, where she oversees projects, develops dashboards to drive business decisions, and serves as Smartsheet Administrator. With a passion for process improvement, Athena leverages Lean methodology to improve HR processes and advocates for continuous improvement.  

Wandie Toledo’s drive for Diversity Equity and Inclusion can tracked back to her pre-professional days as an INROADS intern in Boston.  As a beneficiary of DEI program, she understands the impact a recruiter can make on a young person’s life.   

Christina Setzer-Poole is a 30-year veteran of the payments industry.  Currently, she is Executive Vice President over the Business Services Delivery Group at Global Payments. She started her career at Prudential Bank and Trust company where she learned and executed project management practices.  From there, she continued to expand her project management knowledge and experience.  Today she manages an organization that has multiple project management offices, compliance and data governance.

Mr. Carter is a PMI-Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with fifteen years’ experience in project and program management, leadership, instruction, team building and people development worldwide. At Toyota North American headquarters, Carter is the executive GM responsible for portfolio management for all Toyota & Lexus new model infotainment systems, including various technology life cycle activity.

Alex Aljets is the Assistant Director for Digital Transformation & Content Delivery with University Information & Technology at Oregon State University. In this role, she leads initiatives to improve the student and employee experience by digitizing processes and connecting people with the training and information they need to use technology tools in their work. Alex is excited about applying process improvement and human-centered design techniques in higher education.

Scott Emery is the Director of IT Organizational Development at Oregon State University. In this role, he is responsible for creating and driving organization-wide improvement and increasing workforce engagement across the OSU IT community, including central and distributed IT, aligning organizational culture, strategy, and desired outcomes.

For nearly 30 years, Sonia has been helping organizations create high performing cultures by engaging and mobilizing people. Since 2014, she has led Georgia Tech’s organizational effectiveness consulting team.  This internal team serves academic, research, learner support, and administrative units by providing strategy development, process improvement, change management, organizational design, and services to strengthen the culture.