Johnny C. Taylor, Jr. is President and Chief Executive Officer of the SHRM (pronounced “SHERM”). Mr. Taylor’s career spans more than 20 years as a lawyer and an executive with not-for-profit and for-profit organizations, including IAC, Paramount Pictures, Blockbuster Entertainment Group and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, among others. He has served as chairman of the President's Advisory Board on Historically Black Colleges and Universities and on the White House American Workforce Policy Advisory Board. He is a Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees at his alma mater, the University of Miami; Independent Director of the Flores & Associates corporate board and member of the corporate boards of Guild Education, and XPO Logistics (NYSE: XPO). Mr. Taylor is a weekly contributor to USA Today, a Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources and a SHRM Certified Professional.

Matt Glowacki has delivered messages of diversity to over a million people and two sitting presidents of the United States. He also has had the honor of being the most-booked diversity speaker on college campuses for the past 10 years. Matt’s presentations teach students how to find happiness, develop better understanding of social justice and diversity, and how to see potential in themselves while overcoming personal disabilities and challenges. Voted Campus Activities Magazine’s Best Speaker and Best Diversity Artist, Matt would be the perfect fit for educational events and workshops.

David Archer served as the longest-tenured Ivy League Football Coach in the history of Cornell University despite never having a winning season. Because of his relationship building and strong team culture, his teams met or outperformed expectations during 90%of his seasons. They beat the League Champions two of the last four years, and pulled off what many call the greatest upset in Ivy League history! Dubbed “The People’s Coach” by the Cornell Daily Sun, Archer is a lifelong overachiever (when he was hired at age 30, he was the youngest coach in Division 1 football) and has compiled the best lessons that he taught and learned from his team. His high energy and fast-paced, passionate presentation will serve as a great kickoff to this year's conference!

Amanda Grappone Osmer is the fourth generation of her family to own and help operate Grappone Automotive, established by her great-grandparents as a single gas station in 1924. Today Grappone represents five new car manufacturers with sales, service, and retail and wholesale parts departments. They employ about 375 Team Members and are located in Bow, NH. Team Grappone operates in an environment in which the whole person is asked to show up and participate at work with the company's mission in mind: to build lifelong relationships with team members, guests, and the community by serving with integrity, kindness, and respect. In 2017 Amanda launched Leadership Grappone, a program that seeks out the company's emerging leaders and challenges them mentally, emotionally, and physically over a nine-month period with the goal of uncovering their true leadership potential. Faith and volunteer work are central to Amanda’s life purpose, and she has served on many nonprofit and advisory boards in her career. One project near to her heart is the co-founding of The Dewey School, a nature-based preschool located at Canterbury Shaker Village. She lives in Sanbornton, NH with her husband, a high school coach and all-around amazing human being, their three children, dog and other critters, and fruit and veggie gardens.