2024 Annual Meeting Speakers & Entertainment
Brian Moynihan
Chair of the Board and CEO, Bank of America
Brian Moynihan leads a team of more than 210,000 employees dedicated to making financial lives better for people, companies of every size, and institutional investors across the United States and around the world.
Bank of America was named 2023 World’s Best Bank by Global Finance and has been selected as World’s Best Bank by Euromoney magazine twice in the last five years while winning 15 of the magazine’s Awards for Excellence in 2023, including World’s Best Bank for Markets, Financing, Diversity and Inclusion and Digital Bank. The company was also named America’s Most JUST Company and Top Company for Workers by JUST Capital, and it has been recognized as a leader in financial services, including on Forbes magazine’s list for World’s Best Employers and World’s Top Female-Friendly Companies as well as Fortune magazine’s list of World’s Most Admired Companies and Best Companies to Work For. Bank of America also was named on People’s Companies that Care list and is the top global bank on Fortune’s Change the World list. The company has been ranked four times on LinkedIn’s Top 50 Companies in the U.S. list, and also is recognized annually as a top employer by Working Mother, LATINA Style, Black Enterprise, Military Times and U.S Veterans Magazine.
Moynihan participates in several organizations that focus on economic and market trends, including the World Economic Forum’s International Business Council Stakeholder Capitalism Metrics Initiative (chair), the Financial Services Forum, the Bank Policy Institute, the Business Roundtable, The Clearing House Association (chair), the American Heart Association CEO Roundtable (co-chair), the Steering Committee of the Council for Inclusive Capitalism (co-chair), and the Business Council. He also is chair of the Sustainable Markets Initiative, which was founded by His Majesty King Charles III in his former role of His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales.
Moynihan serves as chair of the company’s Global Diversity and Inclusion Council and is a member of the advisory council for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. He is also a member of the Brown University Corporation's Board of Fellows and the Watson Institute Board of Governors (chair), the Catalyst Board of Directors, the Council on Competitiveness Board (chair) and the Appeal of Conscience Board of Trustees.
Moynihan works with public officials, businesses and civic leaders at the local level through his participation on the Charlotte Executive Leadership Council, the Massachusetts Competitive Partnership (chair) and the Partnership for Rhode Island.
Carla Harris
Senior Client Advisor, Morgan Stanley
Carla Harris is a Senior Client Advisor at Morgan Stanley. She was most recently a Vice Chairman responsible for increasing client connectivity and penetration to enhance revenue generation across the firm. She was the founder and creator of the award-winning Multicultural Innovation Lab at Morgan Stanley, and the award-winning podcast, Access and Opportunity. She formerly headed the Emerging Manager Platform, the equity capital markets effort for the consumer and retail industries and was responsible for Equity Private Placements. In her 30+ year career, Ms. Harris has had extensive industry experiences in the technology, media, retail, telecommunications, transportation, industrial, and healthcare sectors. In August 2013, Carla Harris was appointed by President Barack Obama to chair the National Women’s Business Council.
For more than a decade, Ms. Harris was a senior member of the equity syndicate desk and executed such transactions as initial public offerings for UPS, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Ariba, Redback, the General Motors sub-IPO of Delphi Automotive, and the $3.2 Billion common stock transaction for Immunex Corporation, one of the largest biotechnology common stock transactions in U.S. history. Ms. Harris was named to Fortune Magazine’s list of “The 50 Most Powerful Black Executives in Corporate America”, Fortune’s Most Influential List, U. S. Bankers Top 25 Most Powerful Women in Finance (2009, 2010, 2011), Black Enterprise’s Top 75 Most Powerful Women in Business (2017), and “Top 75 African Americans on Wall Street”, and to Essence Magazine’s list of “The 50 Women Who are Shaping the World”, Ebony’s list of the Power 100 and “15 Corporate Women at the Top” and was named “Woman of the Year 2004” by the Harvard Black Men’s Forum and in 2011 by the Yale Black Men’s Forum.
Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Carla received an MBA, Second Year Honors from Harvard Business School and an AB in economics from Harvard University, Magna Cum Laude. Carla has also received Honorary Doctorates of Laws, Humanities and Business from Marymount Manhattan College, Bloomfield College, Converse College, Jacksonville University, Simmons College, the College of New Rochelle, St. Thomas Aquinas College, Babson College and Fisk University, Wake Forest University and Felician University respectively. Carla Harris is actively involved in her community and heartily believes that “we are blessed so that we can be a blessing to someone else.”
She is the past Chair of the Board of the Morgan Stanley Foundation and of The Executive Leadership Council, and sits on the boards of Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO), The Sesame Workshop, Mother Cabrini Health Foundation and is an active member of the St. Charles Gospelites of the St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church. She was a member of the board of overseers of Harvard University and is a member of the board of directors of the Walmart Corporation, Cummins Corporation and MetLife. Ms. Harris was co-chair of the National Social Action Commission of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated. She has been named to the New Jersey Hall of Fame (2015) and has received the Bert King Award from the Harvard Business School African American Alumni Association, the 2005 Women’s Professional Achievement Award from Harvard University, the Pierre Toussaint Medallion from the Office of Black Ministry of the Archdiocese of New York, the Women of Power Award given by the National Urban League, the Women of Influence Award from The Links, Incorporated and many other awards. In her other life, Carla is a singer who has sold out concerts at Carnegie Hall and the Apollo Theatre, and released 4 Gospel CDs: “O This is Christmas” (2021) “Unceasing Praise” (2011), “Joy Is Waiting”(2005), and her first CD entitled, “Carla’s First Christmas”(2000), was a bestseller on Amazon.com in New York and was featured on the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather in his “American Dream” segment. She is also an internationally renowned public speaker. She was named one of the top 50 speakers in the world by Real Leaders Magazine (2023) and one of the Top 40 female Speakers (2020). She is the author of the books Strategize to Win (2014), Expect to Win (2009) (Hudson Press) and Lead To Win (2022).
Jonathan Greenblatt
CEO, Anti-Defamation League
Jonathan Greenblatt is CEO of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the world's leading anti-hate organization with a distinguished record of fighting antisemitism and advocating for just and fair treatment to all. Jonathan joined ADL in 2015 after serving in the White House as special assistant to President Obama and director of the Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation. He joined the government after a distinguished career in business as a successful social entrepreneur and corporate executive: he co-founded Ethos Brands, the company that launched Ethos Water (acquired by Starbucks, 2005), founded All for Good (acquired by Points of Light, 2011), and served as a senior executive at realtor.com (acquired by News Corp, 2014).
Since becoming CEO, Jonathan has modernized ADL while refocusing it on the mission it has had since its founding in 1913: to fight the defamation of the Jewish people, and to secure justice and fair treatment to all. Under Jonathan, ADL has modernized its operations, innovated its approaches to counter antisemitism from all sides and enhanced its efforts to combat extremism in all forms.
Jonathan’s first book was published in 2022. It Could Happen Here: Why America is Tipping from Hate to the Unthinkable—And How We Can Stop It, is a bracing primer on how we—as individuals, as organizations, and as a society—can strike back against antisemitism and hate.
Radhika Dirks
CEO & Co-Founder of XLabs and Ribo AI
One of Forbes’ 30 Women in AI to Watch
Artificial Intelligence Pioneer
No one is better equipped than Radhika Dirks to answer both the big questions and the practical considerations about generative AI. She’s been a crucial voice in the AI conversation for years, was named to Deloitte’s top women in the AI world, and has been featured everywhere from Fast Company to the BBC (and many more). She founded and led the only other moonshot factory that exists outside of Google.
In uniquely human, powerfully hopeful talks, she places generative AI in the context of what’s already happened in the AI space and what’s on the horizon, then breaks it down into the strategy and tactics that every leader needs to gain an edge in the AI future. She shows you how the rapid advance of this technology has brought moonshots—our biggest, most ambitious ideas—within reach for everybody. It has never been easier or faster to make your dreams a reality, and Radhika can show you how.
With powerful leadership, Radhika’s Artificial Intelligence includes co-founding Seldn, an AI start-up that accurately predicted the rise of ISIS two weeks before The New York Times coined the term, and her work as CEO and co-founder of XLabs, a moonshot factory for Artificial Intelligence innovations that is already solving huge problems—like getting closer to the cure for cancer. At Ribo AI, her technology found potential cures for 11 cancers within its first 1.5 years.
Radhika was also a founding member of Shell’s $1.5B venture capital group and was COO of Rotary Gallop, a game theory-based fintech firm. Her work on quantum computing and Artificial Intelligence has been cited hundreds of times. She holds a Ph.D. in Quantum Computing and an M.S. in Nanotechnology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Robyn Faucy
CEO and Co-Owner, Results 1st
TEDx Speaker
Robyn Faucy guides organizations to achieve aggressive and transformative results. Her specialties are revenue development, culture-shifting, strategy activation, and guiding individuals, teams, and organizations to achieve greater success.
Robyn has held leadership roles with Sylvan Learning Centers and the American Cancer Society. Robyn’s leadership resulted in significant financial growth and increased volunteer engagement and client achievement. Prior to taking the helm of Results 1st, she was the Chief Executive Officer of Neuro Challenge Foundation for Parkinson’s, in Sarasota, FL, where in her five-year tenure she increased income, financial reserves, and participant engagement by over 100%.
In 2018, Robyn created the Parkinson’s Expo, the largest educational experience of its kind in the nation. Over 1,400 participants attend and get actionable education and resources. The Expo grew to become a significant source of income to fund Neuro Challenge’s programs.
Robyn is a TEDx Speaker. Her talk – Helping Others Active Access to Social Capital – outlines an actionable three-step approach to help others increase their social capital.
Robyn has been featured in Style Magazine and was recognized as an Amazing Suncoast Woman by ABC7. She earned an undergraduate degree in social sciences from Florida State University and a master’s degree in management from the University of South Florida.
When Robyn is not guiding leaders and organizations to greater achievement, she enjoys time with her loved ones, being near the water, and being active. She currently lives in Bradenton, FL and was raised in Sarasota, FL when her parents moved from Massachusetts in the early 80’s.
Robyn attributes her relentless determination to help groups succeed to her upbringing by her blue-collar, hardworking parents. Neither of her parents graduated from high school and her father died when she was 12, leaving her mother to be a single parent. Robyn was also a single mother for the first 16 years of her son’s life. She has lived many of the circumstances that participants in nonprofit organizations face. She feels these experiences have built her “hustle muscle” and desire to help others overcome challenges through change.
Stacy Strazis
Emmy Award-winning Journalist, Storyteller, Producer
The Oprah Winfrey Show, Tamron Hall Show, Disney/ABC News, HBO, CNN
Oprah Winfrey trusted her to tell her most shocking family secret to the world. Jane Goodall asked her to share legacy impact ideas over glasses of neat Irish whiskey at Christmastime. Richard Branson praised her storytelling saying it “raised the bar.” And Tom Hanks hired her to direct tributes to veterans for HBO and his documentary on “The Seventies” for CNN.
Stacy Strazis is an Emmy Award-winning journalist and storyteller, executive producer, and communications consultant recognized for her excellence in creating outstanding content and compelling strategic branding—making what’s important interesting and inspiring meaningful connection, dialogue, and impact. Her work has contributed to changes in laws, policies, and the lives of those whose stories she tells. In 2010, a team she co-led was presented the prestigious Television Academy Honors Award for "Television with a Conscience.” She has also won an Emmy Award and three First Place Awards for National Arts & Entertainment Journalism from the esteemed Los Angeles Press Club for short documentaries and special programming that she executive produced.
From Mount Kilimanjaro to Moscow, Beijing to Bali, London to Los Angeles, Stacy has created more than 7,000 hours of high-rated award-winning television. She has interviewed thousands of people, from presidents to princes, world-class athletes to A-list artists, history-makers to high-fashion designers, and extraordinary, everyday people. She is one of a few American journalists to report live from London at Princess Diana’s funeral—one of the most viewed events in history. Her expertise and fearlessness in navigating high-pressure breaking news earned her even more critical assignments, including covering September 11th, Hurricane Katrina, and the Ferguson protests, where she and other journalists were tear-gassed.
Stacy's career highlights include working as a co-producer for the legendary global phenomenon Oprah Winfrey Show. There, for eleven history-making seasons, she made a lasting imprint on the platform and a worldwide audience of 150 countries and 40 million weekly viewers. Oprah often personally selected Stacy to lead and produce many of her most delicate stories, challenging profiles, demanding ground-breaking episodes, and life-changing campaigns.
Prior to joining The Oprah Winfrey Show, Stacy worked as an on-air journalist for broadcast networks including NBC, CBS, FOX, Discovery Channel, Sunshine Network, Fox Sports, and ESPN. She began her television career in her home state of Florida delivering local news in Tallahassee, Orlando, and finally in Florida’s largest TV market, Tampa. There, as an award-winning news anchor and reporter, Stacy earned the highest weekly newscast ratings in the state at the time, often beating national programming.
Her professional experience also includes teaching in Chicago’s public schools where she initiated and developed a character education program aimed at building the confidence, talents, and passions of new immigrant and inner-city students.
Stacy worked her way through college to become the first in her family to earn a degree, graduating with a B.A. in international relations and comparative government at the University of Central Florida. She has volunteered with orphanages in Haiti; rural education programs in Cambodia, Laos, Kenya and Tanzania; and with children’s cancer and art therapy programs across the United States. During her free time, Stacy enjoys reading, hiking, snow skiing, water sports, and most of all, feeding her insatiable wanderlust with adventure and cultural travels. She has journeyed to nearly 50 countries. That number is most certainly to grow, as Stacy is happily infected by a travel bug for which there is no known antidote.
Stacy Strazis is currently a Supervising Producer for Disney/ABC News on the Emmy Award-winning Tamron Hall Show.
General (Ret.) Stanley A. McChrystal
Former Commander of U.S. and International Forces in Afghanistan
Former Leader of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC)
Co-Founder of The McChrystal Group and Author of My Share of the Task: A Memoir, Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World, Leaders: Myth and Reality, and Risk: A User’s Guide.
“For years, we have argued that technology has changed the nature of warfare – it is undeniable that it has changed the nature of diplomacy as well. For leaders, it is imperative to adapt to a world where humanity remains the anchor of our relationships but also leverages the power of tech statecraft.”
A one-of-a-kind commander with a new perspective on organizational dynamics, General Stan McChrystal is known for helping elite teams tap into the potential of their people to better compete in a complex and interconnected world. Called “one of America’s greatest warriors” by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, few can speak about leadership, teamwork, technology, and international affairs with as much insight as he can.
After retiring from the U.S. Army as a four-star general, General McChrystal turned his expertise to the business world. He is the Founder and CEO of the McChrystal Group, which helps Fortune 500 Companies strike the right balance between hierarchical and decentralized team mindsets and structures. The mission of the McChrystal Group is to deliver innovative leadership solutions to organizations from General McChrystal’s unique perspective—the intersection of business, academia, and the military. In particular, he and his firm focus on the power of network analysis and machine learning to strengthen how companies connect, internally and externally. As the author of the best-selling management books, My Share of the Task: A Memoir, Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World, Leaders: Myth and Reality, and Risk: A User’s Guide, General McChrystal offers a battle-tested system for detecting and responding to risk.
In a tech-driven world where things are moving at a speed we’ve never experienced, we need leaders more than ever. After thirty-four years of service in the U.S. Army—including as commander of US and International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF) Afghanistan and commander of the nation’s premier counter-terrorism force— General McChrystal can deliver innovative advice on leadership, in addition to solutions for businesses across the world to help them transform and succeed in challenging, dynamic environments. More than that, though, he hopes to act as an advocate for using technology to advance foreign policy, human rights, and the way that we all connect on a human level.
Will Sparks
TED Speaker, Amazon #1 Best Selling Author, Award-Winning Teacher and Researcher
Will Sparks serves as the Dennis Thompson Distinguished Chair & Professor of Leadership at the McColl School of Business at Queens University of Charlotte, where he also serves as the Director of the Office of Leadership Initiatives. He received the Fuqua Distinguished Educator Award for excellence in teaching at Queens in 2003 and 2005, and was awarded the inaugural McColl School Leadership in Teaching Award in 2009. He was awarded both the McColl School Leadership in Teaching and Research Awards in 2020.
Will has published numerous research papers and book chapters and has appeared on several media outlets, including The Washington Post, Inc., and NPR. His TED Talk “The Power of Self Awareness” was released in 2018. He is the author of “Actualized Leadership: Meeting Your Shadow & Maximizing Your Potential” (2019, SHRM Publishing), which debuted as an Amazon #1 Best Seller and is based on the “Actualized Leader Profile,” a leadership assessment that he designed and validated and that has been translated into nine languages. He is the co-author (with Peter Browning) of the book “The Director’s Manual: A Framework for Board Governance” (2016, Wiley). He is the author of the forthcoming book “Actualized Teamwork” (SHRM Publishing, 2024).
While on sabbatical from Queens in 2015-2016 he served as Global Vice President of Talent with EnPro Industries (NYSE: NPO), a $3B global manufacturing company headquartered in Charlotte, NC. In this role he was responsible for all corporate-wide leadership, human resource and talent management initiatives.
Will serves as the Managing Director for William L. Sparks & Associates, LLC, a professional services firm founded in 1997 focused on leader and team development, executive coaching and change management. He also serves as a Partner with Peter Browning Partners, LLC, a consulting firm providing board governance services. In 2023 he founded The Center for Human and Organizational Potential, a 501c3 not-for-profit research and educational organization focused on human performance and flourishing.
He completed his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior and Development under the direction of Dr. Jerry B. Harvey from The George Washington University’s School of Business and Public Management, where his research focused on group dynamics, organizational culture, and leadership. He resides in Charlotte, North Carolina with his wife Erin, son Bennett Lee and Cavapoo Shelby.
Randall Vitale
Cornerstone Class 32 & College Class 3
President, BBX Capital Partners
Randall Vitale is the President of BBX Capital Partners, a division of BBX Capital, supporting the companies within the BBX Capital portfolio in acquisitions, business development, capital raising, strategic partnerships, and other strategic initiatives. He previously served as President of Hoffman’s Chocolates, a BBX Capital company. Prior to this role, he spent 17 years in the banking industry, leading teams that focused on private banking and wealth management in South Florida.
Randall has been a proud member of Leadership Florida for 25 years. He is a member of College Leadership Florida Class 3 (1999), Class Co-Chair for College Leadership Florida Class 4 (2000), Cornerstone Class 32 – Ice Ice Baby!, and Class Chair for Cornerstone 38 – The Untouchables.
Randall’s current community involvement includes serving on the board of directors and executive committee of the Broward Workshop and the Florida College System Foundation, where he is the chair. He is also on the Board of Governors for the FSU College of Business, chair of the Broward County Transportation Surtax Appointing Authority, a trustee for Florida Tax Watch, and on the board of directors of the Florida Chamber of Commerce. Randall is a member of YPO, and a board member for Christ Church School in Fort Lauderdale, where he recently became chair.
His past community involvement efforts include serving as the chair of the City of Fort Lauderdale’s Visioning Committee, caucus member for the Florida Chamber Foundation’s Six Pillars Caucus System, chair of the Broward Housing Council and as the founding co-chair of both Emerge Broward and the Ghost Light Society. He has served on the board of directors and executive committee for Leadership Florida®, Leadership Broward Foundation, Riverwalk Fort Lauderdale, and Business for the Arts Broward. Randall also served two terms as the president of the Seminole Club of Broward County.
Born and raised in Miami, he graduated from Miami Killian Senior High School and Florida State University where he received dual Bachelor of Arts degrees in Business Management and Multi-National Business Operations. Randall is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional.
Randall has been recognized for his community service with the Broward Workshop’s Chairman’s Award (2016 and 2023), the Leadership Florida® Distinguished Member award (2023), the Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility’s Young Hispanic Corporate Achiever Award (2011), and as a “Rising Star” in Florida by Florida Trend magazine (2009).
Robens Elusme
Connect Class 13
Founder & CEO, R&E Entertainment Group
Robens Elusme is a charismatic brand development professional with knowledge across sports and entertainment, strategic planning, business development, licensing, and marketing research and analysis.
Upon graduating from Johnson and Wales University in North Miami with a Bachelor of Science in sports, events, and entertainment management, Robens joined Neostar Sports and Entertainment as an intern and quickly transitioned from an intern to the talent marketing director under the mentorship of renowned sports agent Mr. Ralph Stringer. His diligence and intense work ethic granted him many professional accolades, including an MBA with a concentration in business revenue generation from Nova Southeastern University. With over a decade of strategic brand development and entertainment experience, Robens hopes to leverage his skills to help Florida continue to thrive.
Carolyn Gosselin
Cornerstone Class 26
Franchisee, Chicken Salad Chick
Carolyn Gosselin, along with her husband and business partner, Bob, is one of the five original franchisees of Chicken Salad Chick, one of the fastest growing fast-casual restaurant concepts in the country. The concept now boasts 265 units in 21 states. Carolyn worked with founders, Stacy and Kevin Brown, to brand the concept and position it for franchising. Prior to owning her own marketing and branding firm and subsequently becoming a franchisee, Carolyn spent more than 30 years with national companies leading their marketing, branding and public affairs.