Assistant Vice President of Employee Experience, Lincoln Financial
Bio: Zoe Kasper is Assistant Vice President of Employee Experience at Lincoln Financial, responsible for employee engagement, with a focus on performance management, employee listening and feedback, recognition and the onboarding and new hire experience.
Zoe has nearly 18 years of industry experience working in workplace culture and HR technology roles. Prior to joining Lincoln Financial in 2022, she spent 15 years consulting with large organizations to design and implement employee listening strategies, analyze data and synthesize feedback to support company culture through actionable engagement insights.

Deanna brings 30+ years of progressive human resources experience in leadership and generalist roles across multiple industries including; technology - software, consumer electronics, financial services, fintech, healthcare, and retail services. She brings her experience to companies to drive the design and implementation of programmatic solutions to align talent and culture to top level organizational goals. These solutions include leadership development, employee upskilling, engagement programs, and activities to support creating and maintaining a great employee experience.

Deanna currently serves as the Senior Director, Global Head of Talent Development at LivePerson, a global leader in delivering AI-powered conversations between brands and consumers. In this role, Deanna’s focus is on leading a team focused on creating a great employee experience throughout the employee lifecycle including redesigning a modern, streamlined performance management process through the use of Betterworks performance platform.

Stacia focuses on talent management, DEIB, employee engagement and experience, people analytics, and HR technology. She co-founded RedThread Research in 2018 after leading talent research for eight years at Bersin by Deloitte and conducting research at CEB / Gartner. Stacia has an MBA from UC Berkeley and a master’s degree from the London School of Economics. She grew up riding horses in the Sonoran Desert around Tucson and can’t stand scooping ice cream.

Vidya Krishnan is the Chief Learning Officer of Ericsson, leading Ericsson’s Global Learning and Development team as part of Ericsson’s Global People organization, and amplified by an incredible extended community of learning leaders across the company. Vidya and her team have responsibility for transforming capability creation for every one of Ericsson’s 95,000+ people in over 180 countries around the world. Ericsson is empowering an intelligent, sustainable, and connected world by enabling the full value of connectivity—and lifelong learning and leadership are vital to success.

Before becoming CEO at Betterworks in 2018, Doug was the CEO of Alfresco and President of SuccessFactors. He spent 11 years at Cisco Systems, Inc. [CSCO], and 10 years at 3Com Corporation, and began his technology career as an HP sales representative in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is also a published co-author of the book, Make Work Better. Doug holds a Bachelor’s degree from Arizona State University. He is married and has 4 children.

Cheryl Johnson is a visionary leader, advocate for diversity and inclusion, and change agent with a proven track record of driving growth in disruptive software companies. As the Chief Product and Technology Officer at Betterworks, she brings her wealth of experience and strategic leadership to the organization.
Prior to joining Betterworks, Cheryl held similar roles at early-stage startups. Notably, she was instrumental in generating tremendous growth during her 13-year tenure at Salesforce while growing the company's nonprofit and education business to hundreds of millions in just 4.5 years.

John Schneider is the CMO at Betterworks, responsible for marketing, which includes brand, product marketing, public and analyst relations, demand generation, events, and customer marketing. In this role, he develops growth strategies based on market and segmentation strategies, positioning, and competitive dynamics aimed at developing the market for Betterworks products.

Prior to joining Betterworks, Schneider was Vice President of Platform and Solutions Marketing at Intapp. In this role, he was responsible for evolving product positioning to a platform-based solution that drove increased value for customers, expanded the business into new markets, and led to successful acquisitions of adjacent technologies to fulfill Intapp’s position as the market leader. His work at Intapp directly contributed to accelerated revenue growth, which ultimately resulted in a $1 billion+ IPO.