Theme: EDGE - Explore, Discover, Grow, Engage

The edge is usually the furthest point before the unknown. Human beings have been pushing the edge to explore, discover, grow, and engage the unknown.

Knight Auditorium
Babson College
231 Forest Street
Babson Park, Massachusetts, 02457
United States

Dennis Kenney

Public Speaking Coach and Lecturer at Harvard Business School

Dennis Kenney is a creative director, on-air personality, and media consultant. He has created numerous editorial campaigns for many heavy-hitting brands in the fashion industry as well as styled red carpet looks for Hollywood actresses and Broadway performers for every major award show, including the Academy Awards. He has worked for Good Morning America, ABC News, and QVC as an on-air expert, earning a reputation in the industry as a visionary. He also works as a public speaking expert for Harvard Business School, teaching both doctoral and undergraduate students the art of presenting. He also holds a degree from the prestigious drama program at Carnegie Mellon University.

Elle Davis

Interim Chief Development Officer + Author

LaTrice "Elle" Davis has more than 18 years of experience in the non-profit sector ranging from direct service to executive level. In addition to working directly with organizations, Elle founded The Ellevate Group, LLC, a boutique consulting firm supporting non-profits and small businesses.

Jerry Lee

Co-founder of Wonsulting

Jerry is the COO & Co-Founder of Wonsulting and an ex-Senior Strategy & Operations Manager at Google & used to lead Product Strategy at Lucid. After graduating from Babson, Jerry was hired as the youngest analyst in his organization by being promoted multiple times in his first 2 years. After he left Google, he was the youngest person to lead a strategy team at Lucid. Jerry started Wonsulting to help millions around the world land their dream jobs. Through his work, he’s spoken at 250+ events & amassed 1.3+ Million followers across LinkedIn, TikTok & Instagram and has reached 200M+ jobseekers globally. In addition, his work has been featured on Forbes, Newsweek, Business Insider, Yahoo! News, LinkedIn & elected as the 2020 LinkedIn Top Voice for Tech & Forbes 30 under 30.

Jose Rodriguez, Jr.

Babson Undergraduate Student

Given that Jose is a lifelong supporter of his brother Joel who has Asperger's syndrome, he has experience with the daily challenges and obstacles that come with navigating Autism. In addition, Jose has conducted several research projects deepening his knowledge and understanding of Autism, while learning and working with different organizations that support this demographic. He was also raised by a multitude of different family members that are special educators, who have shared their experience, knowledge and understanding of this group of people. Furthermore Jose is a student at Babson College where he continues to acquire more knowledge on how to go about running a successful venture.

Kathleen Jewby

Babson Graduate Student

The best word to describe Kathleen Jewby didn’t exist in English – so she decided to create it! Inpel©️ or inpelling©️ means to be internally driven to push forward. With a lifetime of experience as a creator and over fourteen years leading an award-winning inhouse student creative team, Kathleen carries this innovative attitude into work and life. Kathleen has written, designed, and printed an annual goal book about creating her life for the past ten years. This intentionality landed her at Babson College to pursue a social entrepreneurship MBA where she will gain the skills needed to start her own business in training and developing personal conflict management, which will fulfill her purpose of changing the paradigm of conflict avoidance.

Kedma Ough

Life Coach

When Kedma was in fifth grade her science teacher wrote in her yearbook “Keep believing in leprechauns, unicorns, and superheroes”. For the last twenty five years, Kedma has used her belief in the impossible to help thousands of inventors and entrepreneurs scale their business concept. Ough has lost her entire savings twice in her lifetime, and through the power of imaginary beliefs, she was able to rebuild her financial positioning. As the recipient of the SBA Champion of the Year, Ough has fought tirelessly to represent entrepreneurs and inventors especially when they are not bankable. In 2019, McGraw-Hill published her best-selling book Target Funding ® providing a navigation system to identify targeted grants and funds for small businesses. While Ough holds a Master’s in Business Administration, it is her ability to see the impossible before it is possible, that matters the most in helping clients achieve their outrageous dreams.

Manali Mohanty

Design Consultant | Strategy & Service Design

Manali is a design director, strategist, and certified yoga teacher. She has 20+ years of experience using her design thinking expertise to help clients build and launch products. She co-founded an Incubator at a Fortune 500 company and has partnered with Fortune 100 corporations, startups, and public sector entities in N. America, Europe & Asia on projects that bring transformative change to their organizations, products, and services. Manali’s recent work focuses on design interventions for behavioral health. She has guest-lectured and mentored students at the Parsons School of Design, SCAD and Polimoda. Manali holds degrees from the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design and the Parsons School of Design. She has lived and worked in the USA, Costa Rica, and India. She loves learning new languages and considers herself a planet warrior.

Matt Clark

Coach

Have you ever struggled with imposter syndrome? Matt Clark, speaker and team strategist expert, struggled with imposter syndrome for twenty years. Despite experiencing success as a five-time NASCAR championship Pit Crew Coach for drivers Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson and being an on-air analyst for FOX Sports, he couldn’t ditch his feelings of not being enough. His journey to conquer imposter syndrome and crush his own limiting beliefs led him to focus on the neuroscience of belief formation and core belief transformation. Matt’s purpose in life is to help ignite transformation in others so they experience the freedom and power of creating an intentional belief system that leads to personal fulfillment and professional success.

Reynaldo Santana

Founder & President of ESG Housing Inc.

Reynaldo is a leading PropTech innovator, co-founder of Hausible3D, and VP of the 3D Home Builder Association. With a decade of experience in emerging technologies and a BBA from the UMass Lowell, he is revolutionizing the construction industry using 3D printing. Reynaldo holds a master's degree in Leadership from Northeastern University and is certified by MIT and Harvard Business School. He is currently pursuing a doctorate in Strategic Leadership, specializing in 3D printing construction. Reynaldo is also the founder and President of ESG Housing Inc, a non-profit organization dedicated to building sustainable and affordable communities worldwide. His goal is to positively impact 1 billion people with this innovative technology and invites others who share his vision to join him on this journey. Reynaldo's trailblazing leadership in PropTech and sustainable housing sets him apart as a visionary and changemaker in the industry.

Rich Palmer

Entrepreneur in Residence

With nearly 20 years of experience, Rich Palmer rises above the crowd as the co-founder and CTO of Gravyty, the leading AI company for social good which garnered him awards, patents, and accolades such as the Boston Business Journal’s coveted 40 Under 40 and Babson College’s esteemed Entrepreneurship Award where he also graduated Summa Cum Laude. After a highly successful exit, Rich became Managing Director of Launchpad Venture Group and an EIR at Babson College. He has invested in dozens of promising startups. He holds a dual major BS from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and began his career on Wall Street where he led product at Relationship Science and was head of portfolio analytics for S&P CapitalIQ’s quantitative intelligence team.

Ron Carucci

Consultant

Ron is co-founder and managing partner at Navalent, working with CEOs and executives pursuing transformational change for their organizations, leaders, and industries. He has a thirty-year track record helping executives tackle challenges of strategy, organization and leadership. From start-ups to Fortune 10’s, non-profits to heads-of-state, turn-arounds to new markets and strategies, overhauling leadership and culture to re-designing for growth. He has helped organizations articulate strategies that lead to accelerated growth, and design organizations that can execute those strategies. He has worked in more than 25 countries on 4 continents. He is the author of 9 books, including the Amazon #1 Rising to Power and the recently released multi-award winning To Be Honest, Lead with the Power of Truth, Justice & Purpose. He is a popular contributor to the Harvard Business Review, where Navalent’s work on leadership was named one of 2016’s management ideas that mattered most.

Sandra Bravo

Marketing Professor

Sandra Bravo is an Associate Professor of Practice in Marketing at Babson College specializing in marketing strategy. In addition, she is the Founder and President of the 440K Project, Inc., a 501(c)(3) whose mission is to educate the nation about the plight of foster children and make fundamental and substantial changes to the foster care system for better outcomes for children. Sandy is the former founder and owner of Bravo Communications, a consulting company which provided strategic and communications marketing initiatives to small and medium sized organizations in the New England region. She holds an M.B.A. from Babson College and a B.A. from UMass Dartmouth.

Sarah Gaer

Mental Health, Suicide Prevention & Trauma Recovery Consultant & Trainer

Sarah Gaer holds a Master’s Degree from Antioch University in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and has 25 years experience in mental health care. Her early career was started working with children in residential programs, therapeutic schools, therapeutic outreach, and substance use treatment. Sarah focused her graduate degree work on military veterans and trauma.