Professor Eric T. Bradlow is the K.P. Chao Professor, Professor of Marketing, Statistics, Education and Economics, Chairperson of Wharton’s Marketing Department, and Vice Dean of AI & Analytics at Wharton. An applied statistician, Professor Bradlow uses high-powered statistical models to solve problems on everything from Internet search engines to product assortment issues. Specifically, his research interests include Bayesian modeling, statistical computing, and developing new methodology for unique data structures with application to business problems.

Eric is a fellow of the INFORMS Society for Marketing Science, a fellow of the American Statistical Association, a fellow of the American Educational Research Association, is past chair of the American Statistical Association Section on Statistics in Marketing, past Editor-in-Chief of Marketing Science, is a past statistical fellow of Bell Labs, and worked at DuPont Corporation’s Corporate Marketing and Business Research Division and the Educational Testing Service.

A prolific scholar, Professor Bradlow’s research has been published in top-tier academic journals such as the Journal of the American Statistical Association, Psychometrika, Statistica Sinica, Chance, Marketing Science, Management Science, and Journal of Marketing Research. He also serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of the American Statistical Association and the Journal of Marketing Research, and is on the Editorial Boards of Marketing Letters, Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing Research, Quantitative Marketing and Economics, and the Quarterly Journal of Electronic Commerce.

Professor Bradlow has won numerous teaching awards at Wharton, including the Linback Award for Distinguished PhD Teaching and Mentoring, the Anvil Award for MBA Education, MBA Core Curriculum teaching award, the Miller-Sherrerd MBA Core Teaching award and the Excellence in Teaching Award. His teaching interests include courses in Statistics, Marketing Research, Marketing Management and PhD Data Analysis, as well as any material related to customer analytics.

Professor Bradlow earned his PhD and Master’s degrees in Mathematical Statistics from Harvard University and his BS in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Siri Chilazi is a senior researcher at the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School and an internationally recognized expert in advancing women and promoting gender equity in organizations. As an academic researcher, Siri specializes in identifying practical approaches to close gender gaps at work by de-biasing structures and designing fairer processes.

As an advisor and speaker, she collaborates with organizations including start-ups, large multinational companies, top professional services firms, governments, non-profits, and academic institutions to advance gender equity through evidence-based insights. Siri’s work regularly appears in leading media outlets and she has spoken on gender equity at hundreds of large events around the world.

Siri is the coauthor, with Iris Bohnet, of Make Work Fair: Data-Driven Design for Real Results (HarperCollins, 2025). Siri has an MBA from Harvard Business School, a Master in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School, and a BA in Chemistry and Physics from Harvard College.

Karalee Close is Accenture’s Global Lead for the Talent & Organization practice and a member of the company’s Global Management Committee. She is dedicated to reinventing work, driving change and enhancing the employee experience to boost productivity, drive growth and make work more meaningful.

Karalee is expanding the Talent & Organization practice to further help clients fuel sustainable growth by connecting people and technology to unlock human ingenuity; find new ways to access, create and unlock talent; and design organizations that thrive in the context of constant change. She drives Accenture’s talent, organization and change agendas across the full range of capabilities and ecosystem partners and leads asset and offering development.

Karalee is a respected and innovative leader whose career spans more than two decades of senior regional and global leadership roles while based in Toronto, Calgary, Paris and London. She has had a passion for working at the intersection of strategy, technology and people for her entire career and has deep expertise in organizational change and digital & AI transformation services, coupled with a highly successful track record of CxO advisory. In recent years, Karalee worked for a top-tier consulting firm where she held a variety of regional and global industry-based leadership roles in addition to her client work. With clients, her focus is large-scale digital, AI and technology transformation and innovative approaches to accelerating value and speed through integrated approaches to technology, people and ways of working.

Karalee is a renowned author, TED and event speaker, an invited lecturer and CEO advisor who enjoys exchanging ideas across sectors and disciplines. She is a passionate supporter of women in technology and leadership, thought diversity, psychological safety and new ways of working. Karalee also leads a full and enriching life as a mother of two teenagers, wife, daughter, sister, aunt and friend. She enjoys outdoor adventures, traveling and cooking and spent a glorious “gap year” sailing across the Atlantic with her family! She received her Master of Business Administration from University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management and is based out of Vancouver, Canada.

Professor Stephanie J. Creary is an organizational behavior scholar and an Assistant Professor of Management at The Wharton School. Her research explores how identity, emotions, and power dynamics influence the quality of relationships across differences, allyship, and diversity work. She has published her research in leading academic journals, including the Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, American Psychologist, and Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion. She has received a Best Student Paper Award, the Dorothy Harlow/McGraw Hill Best Paper Award, and the Phillips and Nadkarni Outstanding Paper Award from the Academy of Management for her research contributions. Insights from Professor Creary’s research have also appeared in top popular press outlets, including Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, strategy+business, the New York Times, Bloomberg, NPR, Marketplace, and Time Magazine. She currently hosts the Knowledge at Wharton Leading Diversity at Work Podcast Series where she engages in conversation with a variety of academic and practitioner experts. From 2022-2024, she was an inaugural visiting faculty fellow at the Harvard Business School Institute for Business in Global Society. For these contributions to management research and thinking, she was selected to the Thinkers50 Radar Class of 2023 which includes people whose ideas are predicted to make an important impact on management thinking in the future and received an NACD Directorship 100 award which recognizes the most influential directors and leaders in the corporate governance community.

Amy C. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School, a chair established to support the study of human interactions that lead to the creation of successful enterprises that contribute to the betterment of society.

Edmondson has been recognized by the biannual Thinkers50 global ranking of management thinkers since 2011, and most recently was ranked #1 in 2021 and 2023; she also received that organization’s Breakthrough Idea Award in 2019, and Talent Award in 2017. She studies teaming, psychological safety, and organizational learning, and her articles have been published in numerous academic and management outlets, including Administrative Science
Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Harvard Business Review and California Management Review.

Her 2019 book, The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation and Growth (Wiley), has been translated into 15 languages. Edmondson’s latest book, Right Kind of Wrong (Atria), builds on her prior work on psychological safety and teaming to provide a framework for thinking about, discussing, and practicing the science of failing well. First published in the US and in the UK (Penguin) in September, 2023, the book is due to be translated into 24 additional languages, and was selected for the Financial Times and Schroders Best Business Book of the Year award.

Michael Fraccaro is the chief people officer of Mastercard. In this role, he is responsible for all human resources (HR) functions globally, including driving cultural transformation, building leadership capability and creating a company that is “most valued to work for”. He is a member of the company’s management committee.

From 2012 until assuming his current role, Michael served as executive vice president of human resources for the company’s Global Products and Solutions business. In this role, he supported the company’s growth in key businesses and markets and optimized talent programs in a competitive environment. He also was responsible for leading the global HR integration of new acquisitions and joint ventures.

Prior to joining Mastercard, Michael was a core member of the HR leadership team at HSBC Group for nearly 12 years, based in Hong Kong. Earlier, he held senior HR positions in banking and financial services in Australia and the Middle East, working extensively across different cultures.

Michael holds a Masters of Applied Science, Communication Management from the University of Technology, Sydney, and a Bachelor of Education from the Australian Catholic University. He also has accreditation in change management from the Australian Graduate School of Management and attended leadership programs at Duke Fuqua and INSEAD.

David Green is recognised worldwide as one of the most influential leaders in the fields of people analytics and HR technology. He is an author, speaker, and executive consultant on people analytics, data-driven human resources and the future of work. His book, Excellence in People Analytics, co-authored with Jonathan Ferrar, was published in July 2021.

As Managing Partner at Insight222, David works with chief human resources officers and people analytics leaders in global companies to help them create more value and impact from people analytics. This includes delivery of the Insight222 People Analytics Program® that supports the advancement of people analytics in over 100 global organisations.

David is regularly invited to chair and speak at industry conferences. His research, articles and the Digital HR Leaders Podcast he hosts have built up an extensive and loyal following.

Prior to co-founding Insight222, David accumulated over 20 years experience in the human resources, technology and people analytics fields, including as Global Director of People Analytics Solutions at IBM, as well as at companies including: Cielo, Capita Amadeus and Reed.

Practitioner-researcher with deep expertise leading teams that identify underlying problems, derive analytical insight, and deliver results. Currently leading People Analytics research at Google. Previous positions leading Google’s People Innovation Lab, an applied R&D lab in HR; Senior Product Manager with Excite@Home focusing on Web-based communications products; Operations Manager with a start up in the early days of the internet (Throw, Inc.); program development consultant and trainer in the non-profit sector.

Press coverage of work includes the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, ABC’s Nightline, Fast Company, Slate, and Harvard Business Review. Invited talks include WIREDHealth, TEDMed, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, RAND Corporation, The Conference Board’s Onboarding Leadership Conference, Academy of Management. UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, Columbia University, and NYU.

Cade Massey is a Practice Professor in the Wharton School’s Operations, Information, and Decisions Department. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago, and taught at Duke University and Yale University before moving to the University of Pennsylvania. Massey’s research focuses on judgment under uncertainty — how, and how well, people predict what will happen in the future. His work draws on experimental and “real world” data such as employee stock options, 401k savings, the National Football League draft, and graduate school admissions.

His research has led to long-time collaborations with Google, Merck and multiple professional sports franchises. Massey’s research has been published in leading psychology and management journals, and covered by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, The Economist, The Atlantic, and National Public Radio. He has taught MBA and Executive MBA courses for 15 years, receiving teaching awards from Duke, Yale and Penn for courses on negotiation, influence, organizational behavior and human resources. Massey is faculty co-director of Wharton Sports Analytics and Business Initiative, co-host of “Wharton Moneyball” on SiriusXM Business Radio, faculty director of the Wharton People Lab, and co-creator of the Massey-Peabody NFL Power Rankings for the Wall Street Journal.

Ingrid M. Nembhard, Ph.D., M.S., is the Fishman Family President’s Distinguished Professor, Professor of Health Care Management, and Professor Management with a focus on Organizational Behavior at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining the faculty at The Wharton School, she was the Ira V. Hiscock Tenured Associate Professor at the Yale School of Public Health, Associate Professor at Yale School of Management, Associate Director of the Health Care Management Program at Yale, and Director of the Yale Training Program in Health Services Research.

Professor Nembhard’s research focuses on how characteristics of health care organizations, their leaders, and staff contribute to their ability to implement new practices, engage in continuous organizational learning, and ultimately improve quality of care. She uses qualitative and quantitative research methods to examine health care delivery from provider and patient perspectives, and to evaluate organizational performance. She is currently studying leadership and psychological safety in teams, organizational learning from different types of experiences, the use of patient feedback via narratives to drive quality improvement by clinicians and administrators, the contributors to high performance in challenging work environments, and the implementation of care coordination in primary care groups, including the effects on patients and clinicians. She was the recipient of the 2023 Mid-Career Achievement Award from the Academy of Management’s Health Care Management Division.

Professor Nembhard received her Ph.D. in Health Policy and Management, with a concentration in Organizational Behavior from Harvard University through a joint program between Harvard Business School and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. She received her M.S. in Health Policy and Management from Harvard University School of Public Health, and her B.A. in Ethics, Politics and Economics and in Psychology from Yale University.

DJ Patil is an entrepreneur, investor, scientist, and leader in public policy. He has held senior roles in industry, academia, and government and his work has been featured in two Michael Lewis books (The Fifth Risk and Premonition). As a General Partner at GreatPoint Ventures he focuses on building companies in healthcare, enterprise technologies, and national security.

Notable early stage investments include Figma, Confluent, Ola in India, Monte Carlo, Chronosphere, Sumologic, RelateIQ, Peoplehood, and Rebellion Defense.

He is a board member for Devoted Health where he was an executive on the founding team and CTO with the mission to build a health care system that takes care of every member like they were family. Previously he led the product teams at RelateIQ which was acquired by Salesforce, and was founding board member for Crisis Text Line which works to use new technologies to provide on demand mental and crisis support. At LinkedIn he was Chief Scientist, Chief Security Officer and led the data efforts which included recommendation systems like People You May Know, Who Viewed My Profile, and Jobs You May Like; new technologies like Kafka; co-coining the term Data Scientist. He has also held a number of roles at Skype, PayPal, and eBay.

Dr. Patil public policy work includes being appointed by President Obama to be the first U.S. Chief Data Scientist where his efforts led to the establishment of nearly 40 Chief Data Officer roles across the Federal government. Establishing new health care programs including the Precision Medicine Initiative (now the NIH All of Us program) and the Cancer Moonshot, new criminal justice reforms including the Data-Driven Justice and Police Data Initiatives that cover more than 94 million Americans, as well as leading the national data efforts. He also has been active in national security and for his efforts was awarded by Secretary Carter the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service which is the highest honor the department bestows on a civilian.

He is a member of the Defense Science Board, a member of the Board of Visitors for National Defense University, and the Dean’s Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley.

As a member of the faculty at the University of Maryland, his research focused on nonlinear dynamics and chaos theory and he helped start a major research initiative on numerical weather prediction. As an AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow for the Department of Defense, Dr. Patil directed new efforts to leverage social network analysis and the melding of computational and social sciences to anticipate emerging threats to the US. He has also co-chaired a major review of US efforts to prevent bioweapons proliferation in Central Asia and co-founded the Iraqi Virtual Science Library (IVSL). And if you’ve read this far, he barely graduated from high school because of his math grades.

More details can be found on his LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/dpatil and can be followed on twitter @dpatil

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Ben Waber is recognized worldwide as one of the leading thinkers at the intersection of management, data, workplace, and people. He is currently a visiting scientist at MIT, where he received his PhD, and a senior visiting researcher at Ritsumeikan University. He was previously the president and CEO of Humanyze, a workplace analytics company he co-founded based on his research, and a senior researcher at Harvard Business School. Waber’s book, People Analytics, is an international bestseller and was published in 2013 by the Financial Times press. In addition, he frequently writes pieces for the Harvard Business Review, HBR Japan, Wired Japan, Bloomberg, and Quartz, among other publications. Waber regularly appears in many media outlets such as NPR, the New York Times, CNBC, and the Wall Street Journal.