Judd B. Kessler is the inaugural Howard Marks Endowed Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His research and writing have been featured in leading media, such as The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Harvard Business Review, NPR, Hidden Brain, and Freakonomics, among others.

He is a sought-after speaker and an award-winning teacher. His courses in Wharton’s Business Economics and Public Policy Department are popular among undergraduates, MBAs, PhD students, and executives.

He received a bachelor’s degree, MA, and PhD from Harvard University and an MPhil from the University of Cambridge. He is the author of LUCKY BY DESIGN: The Hidden Economics You Need to Get More of What You Want, which was released by Little, Brown Spark in 2025.

Jeff is the Executive Director of The Anne and John McNulty Leadership Program at The Wharton School and a Lecturer at Wharton and the School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania.

As Executive Director, Jeff leads the team that designs and delivers Wharton’s portfolio of curricular and co-curricular leadership development initiatives for undergraduate, MBA, and executive audiences.  He is also a co-founder of the Penn Athletics Wharton Leadership Academy, working with Penn’s student athletes and coaches, as well as the Lipman Family Prize, a philanthropic prize that has distributed more than $3.5 million to exemplary civil society organizations around the world over the past 15 years.

Jeff is the Executive Director of the Advanced Management Program, Wharton’s flagship 5-week program for senior executives, and part of the founding team for the newly established Owner, President, CEO Program.  Jeff’s work with managers and executives, in partnership with the Aresty Institute for Executive Education, also includes Creating and Leading High Performing Teams, The Leadership Edge:  Strategies for the Emerging Leader, and High Potential Leaders.

He has worked with a variety of corporate, nonprofit, and governmental clients, including Alcoa, the Aspen Institute, Audia, AXA, Breakthrough, the City of Philadelphia, Deloitte, the Estee Lauder Companies, the Fire Department of New York (FDNY), FINRA, Google, iDE, Komaza, Merrill Lynch, the Mt. Rainier Institute, the National Football League, the National Outdoor Leadership School, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, the Opportunity Finance Network, Outward Bound, the Philadelphia Eagles, the Pig Iron Theatre Company, Summer Search, Tokio Marine, Toyota, the United Nations, Vanguard, Vertical, and the World Economic Forum.

Jeff is an honors graduate from Penn State University (BA, BS) and the Wharton School (MBA), and earned his doctorate (Ed.D.) in Educational Leadership from Penn’s Graduate School of Education.  Prior to his career as an educator, he spent 10 years in corporate finance with AT&T and its cable unit, AT&T Broadband, as the Executive Director of Financial Planning and Analysis and the CFO of the cable telephony product line.

Throughout his life and career, Jeff has grown his appreciation for authentic and accountable leadership and a willingness to learn through action and reflection.  Jeff’s partner in life is Heidi, an accomplished educator and a wonderful wife; they have two kind and curious adult children, Samantha and Jakob.  Jeff loves the outdoors, live music, his family and friends, and Philadelphia.

Dawn Klinghoffer is the former Vice President of the HR Business Insights team. Her responsibilities included advanced people analytics & research for Microsoft’s business units globally, including ownership of the employee listening systems, as well as analytics and reporting support for HR programs, including Global Diversity & Inclusion, Global HR Services, Talent Management, and Learning & Development.

The team’s work has been published in HBR, NY Times, Forbes, MIT Sloan Management and other news journals. Dawn has been at Microsoft for over 20 years and has held positions in HR and Finance.

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 Penn.

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,  and National Public Radio.

He has taught MBA and Executive MBA courses for 15 years, receiving teaching awards for courses on negotiation, influence, organizational behavior and human resources. He also co-teaches Wharton’s “People Analytics” MOOC on Coursera. Massey is faculty co-director of Wharton People Analytics, co-host of “Wharton Moneyball” on SiriusXM Business Radio, and co-creator of the Massey-Peabody NFL Power Rankings for the Wall Street Journal. He lives in Center City Philadelphia.

Renita Miller is Executive Director of Wharton Community Engagement at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where she leads the school’s strategy for community engagement and civic partnerships. She also plays a central role in developing and advancing the Penn–CCP Entrepreneurship Academy on behalf of Penn, working in close collaboration with the Academy’s executive and faculty leadership to expand access to entrepreneurship education and resources for Philadelphia business owners. She previously served as Associate Dean and Executive Director of the Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Initiative in Princeton’s Graduate School, where she also lectured in the Politics department, and earlier held academic administrative posts as Director of Studies at Princeton and Dean of Berkeley College and Lecturer in Political Science at Yale University.

Renita received her Bachelor’s in Business Administration from Baylor University and her Master’s and PhD in Political Science from Rice University, where her research focused on political rhetoric, deliberation, and leadership within political institutions. Prior to Princeton, she taught political science courses at Texas A&M and Rice University and held research fellowships with the Project on Equity, Representation, and Governance at Texas A&M and the Kinder Institute for Urban Research at Rice. Earlier in her career, she worked as an education policy consultant and a pharmaceutical sales representative and trainer.

As IBM’s Vice President, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Chief Impact Officer, Justina Nixon-Saintil drives the initiatives that enable IBM and its employees to transform their altruism into reality for communities and the planet.

Justina leads IBM’s efforts across skilled employee volunteerism, education partnerships, and curricula to invest in the future of work, with a groundbreaking commitment to skill 30 million people worldwide by 2030. Through a strategic focus on IBM’s free education program IBM SkillsBuild, Justina’s global team provides access to  coursework in topics such as AI, sustainability, and cybersecurity to adult learners, high school and university students, and university faculty.

In 2022, Justina led the launch of IBM’s Sustainability Accelerator, which received the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s “Best Sustainability Program” 2023 award. The IBM Sustainability Accelerator is a pro bono social impact program that applies IBM technologies and an ecosystem of experts to scale projects that support communities vulnerable to environmental threats, including climate change. Under Justina’s leadership, the program is already working with 20 organizations in projects related to sustainable agriculture, clean energy, resilient cities, and water management.

Justina also spearheads corporate practices that underpin the company’s tradition of uncompromising ethics and transparency in its operations and environmental footprint, including launching IBM’s first ESG framework, IBM Impact, and leading IBM’s ESG strategy and disclosures.

Previously, as director of Corporate Social Responsibility at Verizon, Justina created and led programs to make education more inclusive. She also led Verizon’s ConnectED commitment during the Obama Administration.  She was also an Engineer for the U.S. Department of Energy.

Justina earned her Master of Business Administration from the New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business and her bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo.  She’s an Aspen Institute First Movers Fellow and is on the boards of Carnegie Learning and the New York Climate Exchange. She’s also part of the Goldman Sachs Inclusive Growth Corporate Network. She previously served as a board member for the Princeton Area Community Foundation.

Nancy Rothbard is the David Pottruck Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She served as the Chair of the Management Department from 2016 – 2021.  She is currently the deputy Dean of the Wharton School. Nancy earned her A.B. with honors in History from Brown University and her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from the University of Michigan. She began her career in organizational behavior as a Research Associate and case writer at the Harvard Business School.  Prior to joining Wharton, she was on the faculty at the Kellogg School of Management as a post-doctoral fellow. Since joining the Wharton faculty in 2000, Nancy has taught in the undergraduate, MBA, WEMBA, PhD, and executive education programs, receiving the Wharton Teaching Commitment and Innovation Award and numerous Wharton Teaching Excellence Awards. She is faculty director for several Executive Education programs including the Women’s Executive Leadership.

She studies what motivates people to bring their full selves to work and how this affects their work engagement, performance, and relationships.  In particular, she examines how people navigate the boundary between work and personal lives in the context of diverse organizations and technological change.  She has worked with companies in a number of industries focusing on issues such as work motivation and engagement, teamwork, leadership, emotions, identity, the changing nature of work, and work-life balance issues.

She is an award winning scholar and teacher who brings the latest thought leadership to her consulting and teaching.  She has published her research in top academic research journals in her field and her work has been discussed in the general media in outlets such as ABC News, NBC News, Business Week, CNN, Forbes, National Public Radio, The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Toronto Globe and Mail, The New York Times, US News & World Report, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.

Professor LMN is the Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard University where she has taught since the mid- 1970s. She obtained a B.A. from the University of Chicago in 1959, a J.D. in 1961 and a Master of Comparative Law in 1963, also from Chicago. She was named Learned Hand Professor of Law in 1993. Her primary research interests lie in Comparative Constitutional Law in the United States and Europe, International Human Rights, Comparative Law, and the Legal Profession. She has published five leading monographs and a dozen peer-reviewed articles in top journals. She is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences.

Jeremy leads the Workforce Analytics function at Merck, focused on empowering leaders with analytical thinking regarding our talent and AI enablement. Prior to Merck, Jeremy created the HR Analytics function at Morgan Stanley.

He has served as adjunct faculty at Cornell University’s ILR Professional School and is the co-author of “Competing on Talent Analytics”, Harvard Business Review, 2010.

Jeremy holds an MSIS degree from NYU’s Stern School of Business and BA in Economics from Rutgers University. He serves as an advisor to the SemperVirens VC fund and PeopleTech Partners.