As one of the co- founders of SoulPancake, Rainn Wilson has spent years exploring the ways we all seek connection, hope, truth, identity, and purpose. Dedicated to stimulating your brain, sparking your soul, and figuring out what it means to be human, Wilson and the SoulPancake team oversaw the creation of a decade- plus of award- winning content spanning digital, television, branded, and live engagements, until its acquisition by Participant Media in 2016. Wilson has continued on in the spirit of SoulPancake's mission in the years since, urging audiences to dig deep into life's biggest questions — of philosophy, creativity, spirituality, love, truth, science, mental health and so much more — with humor and honesty.

Adam Chekroud is the President and Co-founder of Spring Health, and an Assistant Professor Adjunct in Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine. Spring works with large employers like General Mills, Bain, DocuSign, and Instacart to provide their employees with free and immediate access to high-quality mental healthcare. Adam's research seeks to improve treatment outcomes in mental health, particularly depression. Specifically, he uses large datasets to develop predictive models to help clinicians make more effective treatment decisions. For example, he has developed statistical models that can: anticipate which patients will not initiate treatment; predict which treatment is most likely to help an individual patient (specific medications, psychotherapies, and exercise regimens); and estimate the risk of relapse upon recovery. His research has been featured in JAMA Psychiatry, Lancet Psychiatry, Molecular Psychiatry, and PNAS. Adam has a BA and MSc from Oxford University, and a PhD in psychology from Yale University. He was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 for 2018.

Joanna Lord is CMO at Spring Health and leads the brand, growth and product marketing functions. Prior to that she was CMO of Reforge, a leading EdTech platform, CMO of Skyscanner, the world's largest affordable flights engine, and CMO of ClassPass, a global booking platform in the wellness space. She is also a board member, advisor, angel investor and global keynote speaker. Over the past 20 years she has helped build and scale companies across a number of categories, business models, and audiences. She is an operator at heart, who is deeply passionate about understanding the art and science of markets, why people do what they do and how to build cultural conversations people want to be a part of.

Sarah Bowe is the Vice President of Customer Success at Spring Health. She oversees all aspects of the customer lifecycle from implementation to ongoing account management and contract renewal for Spring’s customers. Sarah has spent her career in healthcare, starting as a benefits consultant and moving into healthcare tech for several start-ups where she has built and scaled Customer Success teams. Sarah graduated from Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA, where she originally majored in dance and aspired to be a backup dancer on a major music tour!

Karishma Patel Buford leads Spring Health’s People Team focused on building and expanding talent acquisition, onboarding, learning and development, total rewards, DE&I, organizational development and culture initiatives to create a culture of Thriving. Before joining Spring Health, Karishma led various teams at OppFi including People, Communications, and Customer Success. Her team drove key business transformation initiatives including building the organization’s HR infrastructure and transitioning its succession and total rewards practices to those of a public company. Prior to OppFi she was at Groupon and BAE Systems where she built globally consistent and locally customized talent management initiatives. Karishma received her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Virginia and Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the Georgia School of Professional Psychology. She completed her internship and fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania Health System.

Amy Harris, PepsiCo’s Total Rewards Director of Global Benefits, has over 20 years at PepsiCo spanning business operations, human resources, and Total Rewards. Her long tenure in the business has provided her with a uniquely nuanced understanding of both frontline and salaried employee experiences, positioning her to design strategic benefits programs that support the health and well-being of all PepsiCo employees. Her current focus is on increasing employee engagement in PepsiCo’s Healthy Living programs, simplifying the benefits experience, and supporting U.S. sectors as relationship manager.

Penny Ferrell is the Executive Director of Employee Wellness & Work-Life Services for Wellstar Health System, a leading healthcare provider headquartered in Marietta, Georgia. With 15 years of service at Wellstar, Penny leads the development and implementation of comprehensive programs focused on team member well-being, fitness, and work-life integration. Recognizing the evolving needs of healthcare professionals, particularly during and following the pandemic, she spearheaded a transformative overhaul of Wellstar’s wellness and work-life program delivery. Key initiatives under her leadership include: Launching a partnership with Sharecare, integrating their award-winning digital platform to enhance team member engagement and well-being. Implementing a new mental health solution with Spring Health Securing funding and overseeing the creation of 17 team member wellness rooms across Wellstar’s facilities.

David has worked at Delta for 17 years in a variety of Supply Chain roles before joining Wellness in 2020 to help lead COVID testing and vaccine efforts. He now has responsibility for employee cafeteria and break room food elevating the availability of healthy options, quality, and affordability of the offerings. He also leads the Wellness programs employee engagement team as well as the Integration team responsible for project delivery of all programs across the Wellness portfolio. David attended The Georgia Institute of Technology where he received a B.S. in History, Technology and Society and MBA in Operations.

Greg Landmark is the Senior Vice President of Total Rewards and People Analytics for Travelers. He has been with Travelers for more than 25 years leading Total Rewards, including Compensation and Benefits, for over 20 years. Before joining Travelers, Greg worked as an Actuarial Consultant with Hewitt and as an HR Strategies Consultant with Deloitte. Greg serves on the board at the Ordway Center for Performing Arts in St. Paul, Minnesota. He has also been actively involved with youth sports, coaching more than 30 youth sports teams.

With over a decade of experience in senior leadership roles, Kim Doyle is an expert in the fields of Health Benefits, Total Rewards Strategy and Operations, and Enterprise Well-being. Currently serving as the Senior Director of Health Benefits and Well-being at Target, she is responsible for crafting and executing comprehensive strategies to enhance the health and well-being of Target’s 400,000+ team members. Prior to her role at Target, Kim held various leadership roles at Nike in both International Benefits strategy and design and Total Rewards Operations. A successful leader committed to enhancing employee well-being and engagement, Kim combines strategic acumen with hands-on operational expertise to create innovative, best-in-class programs and services to improve the lives of the team members she serves. She has a Master of Science (MS) in Human Resources Management from Chapman University and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in European Studies from Vanderbilt University.

Dr. Martin Paulus, a leading figure in mental health research, is the Scientific Director and President of the Laureate Institute for Brain Research. With over 700 publications and an h-index of 126, he has significantly advanced our understanding of anxiety, depression, and addiction. His research uses neuroimaging to improve treatments and predict outcomes. Dr. Paulus' work focuses on the neural mechanisms of mental illness, stress, and pharmacology, and aims to develop personalized psychiatry approaches.

Mary Kay Gilhooly, MS, is a global leader in health and well-being at Adobe, recognized for her expertise in strategic design and implementation of employee wellbeing programs. With a proven track record in Fortune 500 companies across industries such as retail, manufacturing, healthcare, and technology, Mary Kay is passionate about transforming corporate health and wellness by embedding wellbeing into company culture to drive meaningful business outcomes. Her vision is to empower organizations and individuals to adopt holistic strategies that address the whole person—how we work, lead, and connect as a community. She believes building a culture of wellbeing stems from every aspect of an organization, from program offerings and workspace design to leadership behaviors.

Sonja Kellen, CEBS, is the General Manager of Global Health and Wellbeing for Microsoft Corporation. She provides leadership in the design, governance, and execution of Microsoft's worldwide health, wellness, and safety programs, aligned with business strategy, while striving to elevate wellbeing as a key aspect of corporate culture.

Tracy started with Allstate in 2003 in Product Operations as a Product Management Analyst. She held several roles in the product pricing space focused on customer data analytics, competitive intelligence, and implementation, strategy & execution. In 2015, Tracy transitioned to HR to take over management of Allstate’s Good Life wellbeing program, with a focus on physical, emotional, work/life, and financial wellbeing. She currently has ownership of the development and execution of Allstate’s wellbeing strategy as well as oversight of day to day operations of wellbeing programming and facilitation of Energy for Life, course content to enhance human performance led by 6 performance coaches. Tracy also has accountability for data analytics of the Health & Welfare benefit programs leveraging Allstate’s data warehouse vendor partners and other employee data sources to drive decisions that support our employee value proposition.

Anna Binder is the Chief People Officer at Asana (NYSE: ASAN), the leading enterprise work management platform. Anna has spent most of her career leading people teams at technology companies, connecting organizations’ cultures and values to business outcomes via people programs. She has served in similar roles at MuleSoft, Readyforce, and IronPort Systems/Cisco Systems, with experience ranging from founding teams through to IPO. She has a B.A. from the University of Oregon and an MBA from IESE in Spain. She serves on the Board of Directors at Culture Amp. Originally from Austria, she lives in San Francisco with her husband and daughter.

For the past 20 years, Phil has been interested in the mind and brain, how they relate to one another and how those relations break down in serious mental illnesses like schizophrenia - giving rise to hallucinations and delusions. He has used functional neuroimaging, behavioral testing and computational modeling of behavior to build and test models of how these symptoms arise. He focuses on creative solutions to difficult problems and critical stress tests of accepted theories. He is an iconoclast with an appetite to build better and more veridical understanding of the processes that drive human behavior and brain function. He also collects Adidas sneakers and once met Jackie Chan.

In a world of increased anxiety and uncertainty, the best thing we can do for our wellness and mental health is search for meaning, not happiness. That’s the vital message at the core of Emily Esfahani Smith’s bestselling book, The Power of Meaning, which outlines four pillars essential to living a life that matters: belonging, purpose, transcendence, and storytelling. From her popular TED talk—viewed over 15 million times—to her viral Atlantic article “There’s More to Life Than Being Happy,” Smith helps us through difficult times, not by telling us to ignore our grief, but by setting us on the path to discover new meaning.