We brought together more than two hundred visionary speakers for this summit - and the topics they spoke about were equally ambitious. The overall event was divided into central themes based on the topics we covered.

About This Session:

How can pride in one’s own heritage be taught along with a respect and appreciation for the cultural backgrounds and traditions of others? This panel explores the importance of fostering cultural pride and provides steps for how to integrate that confidence in educational practices, parenting and every day life. [SE2]

Maulik Pancholy

ACTOR/AUTHOR

Turquoise Devereaux

INDIGINEOUS CC

Melody Lewis

INDIGINEOUS CC

Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez

PEDIATRICIAN

About the Speakers:

• Rohit Bhargava: Rohit is the founder of Non-Obvious Company and the #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Non-Obvious Megatrends. He has dedicated his career to helping leaders and professionals learn to see what others miss. Rohit also co-founded Ideapress Publishing with his wife Chhavi and previously spent 15 years as a marketing strategist for Ogilvy and Leo Burnett. He also occasionally teaches marketing, innovation and storytelling at Georgetown University.
• Maulik Pancholy, Maulik Pancholy is a writer, actor, activist. He is an award-winning actor (from hit TV shows , animated series & the Broadway stage such as 30 Rock, Phineas and Ferb, Sanjay & Craig and It's Only a Play), the author of the Stonewall Honor-winning book - The Best At It, and the co-founder of the anti-bullying campaign ActToChange.org.
• Turquoise Devereaux, Co-Founder, Indigenous Community Collaboration - Turquoise works at the intersections of direct support to students, institutional and organizational process consulting, program evaluation, training facilitation on decolonizing approaches to practice and Indigenous Social Justice. (Salish/Blackfeet), Co-Founder
• Melody Lewis, Co-Founder, Indigenous Community Collaboration - Melody is a social entrepreneur dedicated to serving Indigenous Communities and Individuals within the systems of workforce development, education and economic development utilizing collaborative approaches rooted in Indigenous Identity, Public/Private Funding and Strategic Planning Strategies. (Mojave/Tewa/Hopi)
• Leela Ladnier, Actor + Voice of animated Disney character Mira from Mira Royal Detective.
• Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez, Pediatrician - Edith Bracho-Sanchez, MD is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Director of Pediatric Telemedicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center who has provided her expert observations on COVID-19 on NBC, PBS, and NPR.
  

About This Session:

In this powerful interview with philanthropist and women's empowerment advocate, we will talk about the evolution of Indrani's journey toward helping people through her foundation, the mission behind the Every Woman Treaty and how to shift the perspective of both those who commit domestic abuse and the ones who suffer from it. [HT4]

Rohit Bhargava

NON-OBVIOUS COMPANY

Indrani Goradia

INDRANI'S LIGHT FOUNDATION

About the Speakers:

• Rohit Bhargava: Rohit is the founder of Non-Obvious Company and the #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Non-Obvious Megatrends. He has dedicated his career to helping leaders and professionals learn to see what others miss. Rohit also co-founded Ideapress Publishing with his wife Chhavi and previously spent 15 years as a marketing strategist for Ogilvy and Leo Burnett. He also occasionally teaches marketing, innovation and storytelling at Georgetown University.
• Indrani Goradia: Indrani is the Founder of RAFT CARES. She has devoted herself to ending Domestic Violence globally, and created RAFT cares, Resilience for Advocates through Foundational Training, a non-profit that offers Leadership Workshops, to achieve this goal.

About This Session:

What are companies doing to dispel the bias against dads trying to create a more balanced lifestyle between work and parenthood? Discover how different companies handle paternity leave, shared parenting and go inside the ongoing fight for more work-life balance for fathers on the frontlines who want to be more than "stay-at-work" dads. [WK3]

Brendan Lewis

COMMUNICATIONS EXECUTIVE

Rohit Bhargava

NON-OBVIOUS COMPANY

Kwame Fluker

LOCKHEED MARTIN

About the Speakers:

• Jessica DeGroot, Jessica Degroot is the Founder and President of ThirdPath Institute, a company that assists individuals, families and organizations in finding new ways to redesign work—creating time for family, community and other life priorities.
• Brendan Lewis, Brandon is a Communications Executive with more than 20 years experience representing some of the world's best known brands.
• Rohit Bhargava: Rohit is the founder of Non-Obvious Company and the #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Non-Obvious Megatrends. He has dedicated his career to helping leaders and professionals learn to see what others miss. Rohit also co-founded Ideapress Publishing with his wife Chhavi and previously spent 15 years as a marketing strategist for Ogilvy and Leo Burnett. He also occasionally teaches marketing, innovation and storytelling at Georgetown University.
• Kwame Fluker, Kwame Fluker is the Senior Manager, Human Resources, for the Radar & Sensor Systems market segment within Lockheed Martin. He provides strategic human resources support and also serves as the
  human resources site lead for the Syracuse facility with over 1800 employees.

About This Session:

Shared parenting and equal responsibility of care for kids at home has been a growing topic over the past decade, but the pandemic made it urgent for parents around the world to create a new normal.. While some struggled to find the ideal balance, others used it as a chance to reinvent their family life for the better. How can any parents make shared parenting a reality, how can their companies support this shift and why does it matter for building a more diverse and equitable future. [HM2]

Emma Johnson

MOMS FOR SHARED PARENTING

Sergio Rosario Diaz

SOY SUPER PAPA BLOG

Leslie Forde

MOM'S HIERARCHY OF NEEDS

About the Speakers:

• Ripa Rashid, Head of Diversity and Inclusion, Cowen - Ripa is an internationally recognized subject matter expert and practitioner in the space of workplace diversity and inclusion, with a focus on gender, race and global talent engagement and development strategies. Prior to joining Cowen, Ms. Rashid was Managing Director at Culture@Work, Working Mother Media and Bonnier’s strategic advisory and custom research group.
• Emma Johnson, Founder, Wealthy Single Mommy - Emma Johnson is the Founder of WealthySingleMommy.com, the only site dedicated to helping professional single moms build lives through career, money, dating, sex and parenting.
• Sergio Rosario Diaz, Founder of Soy Super Papa - Sergio Rosario is the founder of Soy Super Papa, a community with the mission of empowering fathers that focus on highlighting their roles in society and within the family, “Drumming with Vets”, and drumming workshops for dads and kids.
• Leslie Forde, Mom’s Hierarchy of Needs - My research helps Mothers make space for self-care and employers retain working parents

About This Session:

How can you have a dialogue with a racist? Join host Rohit Bhargava in this special edition of the Non-Obvious Insights Show for this timely conversation with racial dialogue expert Dr. David Campt, who The Daily Show with Trevor Noah called the "white people whisperer." In this interview, we'll talk about his popular "White Ally Toolkit," why being anti-racist matters and what skills we can all employ to deal with friends and relatives who might be softly (or loudly) racist. [HM3]

Dr. David Campt

THE DIALOGUE GUY

About the Speakers:

• Rohit Bhargava: Rohit is the founder of Non-Obvious Company and the #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Non-Obvious Megatrends. He has dedicated his career to helping leaders and professionals learn to see what others miss. Rohit also co-founded Ideapress Publishing with his wife Chhavi and previously spent 15 years as a marketing strategist for Ogilvy and Leo Burnett. He also occasionally teaches marketing, innovation and storytelling at Georgetown University.
• Dr. David Campt, Founder and Principal, The Dialogue Company - With more than 25 years of professional experience, Dr. David Campt is considered a national expert in the areas of inclusion and equity, cultural competence, and intergroup dialogue.