Matthew Bidwell’s research examines new patterns in careers and employment, focusing on causes and effects of more short-term, market oriented employment relationships. He is particularly interested in the different kinds of career paths that people take in the modern labor market.

Matthew’s work has been published in a variety of academic journals and has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Financial Times. It has also been recognized with a Scholarly Achievement Award from the Academy of Management Human Resources Division, the John T. Dunlop Outstanding Scholar Award from the Labor and Employment Association and the Scholarly Contribution Award from Administrative Science Quarterly. He has also won the Wharton Teaching Excellence Award several times. He has served as a Senior Editor at Organization Science and is currently a faculty co-director of the Wharton People Analytics Initiative and faculty director of the Wharton CHRO Program.

Matthew holds a Ph.D. from the MIT Sloan School, an S.M. in Political Science from MIT, and an M. Chem from Oxford.

Alex DiLeonardo is Chief People Officer for Citadel Securities. He is responsible for leading the complete career lifecycle for the firm’s global team, including recruiting, learning and talent development, performance management, and other critical aspects of the employee experience. Alex and his team support organizational development to ensure that Citadel Securities remains the premier destination for the world’s most talented traders, researchers, and engineers.

Alex joined Citadel Securities from Activision Blizzard, where he led the talent organization. Prior to that, he was a partner at McKinsey, where he supported some of the world’s leading organizations with their most pressing talent-related priorities.

Educated at Carnegie Mellon University, Alex holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the Tepper School of Business and a master’s degree in public policy and management from the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy.​

He is a guest lecturer at Harvard Business School, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, the Imperial College Business School in London, and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Rebecca Hinds is a leading expert on organizational behavior and the future of work. She is the Head of the Work AI Institute at Glean where she leads actionable research to help businesses evolve in the age of AI. Previously, Rebecca founded and led the Work Innovation Lab at Asana.

She is the bestselling author of Your Best Meeting Ever and a trusted advisor to leading organizations—helping teams tackle everything from meeting overload and hybrid work to the growing pains of AI transformation.

Rebecca holds a PhD from Stanford University and her work frequently appears in top outlets like Harvard Business Review, Inc., Forbes, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and TIME.