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Vanessa Danziger Has Been Asking What People Would Do Since the Sixth Grade
Long before she marketed workforce technology, Danziger won a science fair by studying how children make ethical choices. The same curiosity now runs through a career built around people, data, and purpose.
Russ Richmond Is Building Software for the People Stuck Between Strategy and the Shift
The Laudio co-founder has spent a quarter-century turning healthcare data into action. His product insight is disarmingly simple: software should give a manager time back, then get out of the way.
Heidi Morin Put a Number on What the Hospital Floor Already Knew
A nurse director was asked to trim her workforce. Her own calculator found the unit was 9.6 full-time nurses short - and gave Heidi Morin the blueprint for a company built between the bedside and the budget office.
Joanna Riley Is Teaching AI to See the People a Résumé Misses
A rowing scholarship, an FBI post and a public-company flameout gave the Censia co-founder an unusual education in patterns, pressure and reinvention. Her next bet is that better data can help employers see potential before pedigree.
Dawn Klinghoffer
Dawn Klinghoffer is Vice President of HR Business Insights at Microsoft, where she leads people analytics for one of the world's largest technology companies. A mathematics major from Bucknell University who started as an actuary in Hartford, Connecticut, she joined Microsoft's fledgling people analytics team in 2003 and spent over 25 years turning HR data into strategic decisions. Her most recognized contribution: replacing the industry's standard 'employee engagement' metric with 'employee thriving' - a framework adopted by Microsoft in 2022 that has influenced HR practices globally and was published in Harvard Business Review.
Scott Morello
Scott Morello is VP of HR Business Insights for Activision Blizzard King at Microsoft, a role he stepped into in October 2023 after building the people analytics function at Activision Blizzard. Before corporate life, he was a marine ecologist - his PhD from UMass Boston studied species interactions in Gulf of Maine intertidal zones. That pivot from counting mussels to measuring workforces defines his unusual edge: he brings the precision of population ecology to questions about how organizations actually behave.
Brian Sharp
Brian Sharp is the CEO of Time Doctor, a workforce analytics platform trusted by over 10,000 organizations globally. A 27-year veteran of building and rebuilding companies, Sharp started his first business at 22 after spinning records as a DJ at 14, and has since navigated every stage of company-building - from bootstrapped startups to $100M+ enterprises. Appointed CEO in February 2026, he champions a philosophy he calls 'Help & Hustle': the belief that high performance and personal happiness are not a tradeoff. He hosts the podcast 'High Performance Happiness' and runs a course called 'Burnout to Balance' for remote leaders.
Colleen Gallagher
Colleen Gallagher is the CEO of Textio, an AI-powered HR tech company helping organizations attract and develop top talent through bias-aware communication tools. A US Navy veteran turned finance executive, she rose through the ranks at Textio - from CFO to COO to CEO - bringing operational rigor and a conviction that most hiring fails because it mistakes likability for competence. Under her leadership, Textio launched Lavalier, an interview intelligence platform designed to replace gut-feel hiring with structured, evidence-based evaluation.