Leadership Summit speakers share their motivational insights, inspiring messages, and lessons they’ve learned from their businesses. View the speakers that appeared at Leadership Summit 2024!
Please note: 2024 Sessions will not be live streamed; however, we will continue to post session recordings after Summit concludes. These recordings will be available for 30 days. Additional details to come.
A widely known expert in association governance, Mark Engle is a principal with Association Management Center (AMC). Mark received his Doctor of Management degree in 2011 from Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, OH) with his study in nonprofit governance. Mark is continually striving to develop and share new research that leads to advancing the association management profession. He is a frequent author and speaker on governance and high performing organizations and is a faculty member of ASAE’s Exceptional Boards program. Mark serves on several Boards of Directors himself. He has been honored with the Samuel Shapiro Award for the year’s Outstanding CEO from Association Forum of Chicagoland, and he was inducted into the Chicago Area Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Association Executives and the Mandel Center for Nonprofit Leadership (Case Western Reserve University). He also is a BoardSource Certified Governance Trainer. Mark formerly served as a chief staff executive for trade associations and professional societies for 29 years. He has participated in over 300 Board meetings during his career.
Mark has taken his leadership a step further with a new book that debuted at the 2019 ASAE Annual Conference, Recruit the Right Board: Proven Processes for Selecting Critical Competencies. Written with Will Brown, PhD, of Texas A&M University, from their ground-breaking ASAE Foundation governance research, Recruit the Right Board explores case studies that helped identify the necessary competencies of highly effective board members. It also provides the framework and context for selecting the right board members to optimize your board’s performance and progress. These tools, samples, case studies, and techniques for building a board with the right mix of skills, knowledge, and traits, are often applied to our governance structure review projects.
Dr. Jessica Kriegel is driven by data and defined by results. She transforms corporate culture for success. As seen on CNBC, MSNBC, CNN, FOX Business, Yahoo Finance, New York Times, Forbes, NBC, The Today Show and more, Jessica is a household name for all workplace, labor, leadership, women in the workplace, and job markets. Her renowned “Culture Equation” was acquired by Culture Partners in 2021, where she is currently Chief Scientist of Workplace Culture.
As a member of the executive team at Culture Partner, Jessica leads groundbreaking research, strategy, and innovation alongside institutions like Stanford University.
Culture Partners is reshaping the DNA of Fortune 10 and Fortune 500 companies to increase revenue, drive sales, and ensure retention.
With a Doctoral degree in Human Resources Development, Educational Leadership, and Management from Drexel University, Jessica is one of the few females in her space uncovering the uncharted territories of culture and leadership. As a single mom, she is also a fierce advocate for women in the workplace and designing a job that works for you not a job you work for.
Her groundbreaking research is detailed in her debut book "Unfairly Labeled," a manifesto for equality and transformation in the modern workplace and disrupting the narrative that Baby Boomers and Gen Z are misaligned in the workplace. It's her mission to dispel the stereotype that unfairly labels workers today.
As a keynote speaker who is a force on the stage nationally and internationally, Jessica leads with data-driven results that amplify revenue and results. With an MBA and fluency in three languages, Jessica is an advocate for progress, innovation, and data-fueled transformation.
In a world where culture isn't just a concept but a catalyst, Jessica is scripting a narrative of evolution, empowerment, and enduring success.
Alan Murray is former CEO of Fortune Media, where he authored Fortune’s widely read CEO Daily newsletter and hosted the weekly Leadership Next podcast. He interviews hundreds of CEOs each year and is an inspirational speaker on the changing nature of CEO Leadership, as captured in his recent book Leadership Next: My Search for the Soul of Capitalism.
At Fortune, Murray led the reinvention of the storied century-old brand, focusing on the rise of purpose-driven business. He created the magazine’s Change the World list, celebrating companies addressing global social problems as part of their core business strategy, and led an historic meeting of CEOs with Pope Francis at the Vatican in 2016.
Previously, Murray was Chief Content Officer for Time Inc.; Washington Bureau Chief for CNBC and host of the network’s daily show Capital Report; and held multiple roles at the Wall Street Journal, including Deputy Managing Editor where he oversaw the newspaper’s website, conferences and video, and Washington Bureau Chief. He has written five books, including Tomorrow’s Capitalist, The Wall Street Journal Essential Guide to Management, Revolt in the Board Room, The Wealth of Choices and Showdown at Gucci Gulch.
Debbie Trueblood, a Senior Consultant with AMC’s Consulting team, has 20 years of progressive leadership experience in association management. She has served as Executive Director for several health care associations, including Illinois HomeCare & Hospice Council (Interim), Academy for Eating Disorders, and Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine.
Additionally, she has served as Executive Director for the International Association of Rehabilitation Professionals, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, and the Illinois Park and Recreation Association. Under her leadership, her former association engaged in a multi-faceted diversity, equity, and inclusion program incorporating research, education, networking, awards, mentoring, scholarships, a resource library, etc. anchored by a program to initiate "safe space" conversations with members around topics of racism, LGBTQ+, Latinx, etc. This program was later rolled out nationally. Debbie was granted the association’s Diversity Icon Award in 2019.
Debbie is an experienced association leader in crisis/turnaround environments, frequently presenting on the topic for the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) and Association Forum and featured in national publications. She is a regular speaker on a variety of topics, including association ethics, glass ceiling issues, job hunting, and designing mentoring programs.
Debbie is a skilled facilitator, leading discussions both in-person and virtually. Recently, she facilitated and executed a strategic plan for an organization requiring an extensive turnaround, as well as co-designing an emergency plan during the COVID era. She has partnered with other strategic planning consultants to design plans, including one deemed “a revolutionary plan.” Debbie also has experience facilitating sessions resulting in the design of new product lines.
During her leadership, her former association was honored with national awards for a leadership development program, a mentoring program, and a member engagement campaign, as well as being a finalist for a public relations campaign.
She has lobbied for home care and hospice as well as for osteopathic physicians, performing extensive research and analysis, to draft legislation, talking points, fiscal notes, etc. Debbie is currently Vice-Chair for the National Association of Park Foundations and Vice-Chair of the Association Forum’s Welcoming Environment Committee. In 2018-2019, she served as Chair of the ASAE Ethics Committee and led the team in publishing a national ethics toolkit for associations. She was a recipient of the Association Forum’s “Forty Under Forty” award and has a master’s in social work from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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