Kim is the Chief Operations Officer for Bass, Berry & Sims and has served as the firm’s Executive Director since January 2016. She is responsible for all aspects of the firm’s financial transactions, planning and reporting and firm-wide diversity as well as providing leadership for other administrative functions including talent management for staff, training, benefits, information technology, facilities, and general administrative services of the firm.

Prior to joining the firm, she worked for Gaylord Entertainment Company (now Ryman Hospitality Properties) for more than 20 years in a variety of corporate leadership positions, including positions in finance, information technology and human resources. Kim also spent two years at American Standard Companies where she assisted in establishing an HR Shared Services Center in Nashville.

Kim is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management, the Association of Legal Administrators and the National Association of Female Executives. She also is a past president and founding chair of the Past President Council of the Middle Tennessee Association for Legal Administrators, a graduate of Leadership Nashville Class of 2001, a past president of the Middle Tennessee Chapter of the American Diabetes Association, a member of the Finance and HR Committee and Board of Alive Hospice, and a former board member of the Belmont University Ethics Board. Kim earned her B.S. in accounting from David Lipscomb University.

Rosanna Catalano's varied background as a lobbyist, trial attorney, television news producer, professor, university dean, career coach, and chief agency administrator allows her to provide her clients and audiences with a unique perspective and skill set for solving problems, storytelling, and creating successful strategies. For more than two decades, she has advocated on behalf of clients and organizations and made hundreds of presentations. As a result, she is able to assist clients with getting the right door opened at the right time with the right message. She has worked with clients in various industries including but not limited to: law, energy, healthcare, technology, aviation, local government, research, education, transportation, and insurance. She has helped many clients looking to change their professional trajectory through professional branded video streams and podcasts. She is a graduate of the University of Florida with a degree in broadcasting and a law degree. She has also worked for various media outlets including the Florida's News Channel, WPLG-TV, and WTVJ-TV.

Samuel J. Catanese, CPA, holds the position of Leading Partner of Catanese Group, a CPA and business advisory firm located in Western Pennsylvania. Mr. Catanese is an expert in the management and administration of professional service companies and often performs profit plan engagements. These engagements involve evaluating the administrative and management procedures of the firms under review and working with owners and managers to formulate efficient and effective operating systems. Mr. Catanese developed his cost accounting and profit planning system while at Harvard Business School. Mr. Catanese is a frequent lecturer on topics such as strategic planning and business consulting.

Margaret Cicchetti (partner and co-founder of Pivot Legal Solutions) has decades of experience in law firm leadership. She managed the DWT Portland office and served in regional administration and paraprofessional development. She focused on creating a culture that embraces change, continuous improvement, and a growth mindset. She served as a trusted advisor to firm leaders and consistently advocated for making human-centered business decisions.

Margaret understands the crucial role law firm staff play in delivering value to clients and believes paraprofessional legal staff are often underutilized. She led an innovation initiative to redefine the role of legal assistants, empowering them to do higher value work while delegating routine tasks to entry level personnel. She developed a 12 week certification program for staff, with modules on delegation, time management, teamwork, collaboration and project management. Over 100 legal assistants became certified over a three-year period, resulting in increased engagement and higher level of support to lawyers. Margaret is passionate about leadership development, and focuses on enhancing compassion, empathy and respectful communication. Margaret is particularly interested in coaching legal support leaders in their roles as innovators and change agents in the organizations they serve.

Lida Citroën, author of "CONTROL THE NARRATIVE: The Executive's Guide to Building, Pivoting And Repairing Your Reputation", is an award-winning branding and reputation management expert who designs and enhances the identities of executives, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders globally. As CEO of LIDA360, LLC, Citroën is sought-after for her knowledge of personal brand development, reputation management, leadership communication, and online positioning. A popular past ALA Conference speaker, Citroën is a professional keynote speaker and presenter, whose well-known TEDx talk and multiple courses on LinkedIn Learning showcase her empowering delivery style and message. She regularly presents business workshops on reputation management, personal branding, executive presence, leadership communication, and using social media to self-promote to companies such as The Walt Disney Company, Sirius XM, Google, GE Healthcare and more. Citroën has authored several books: "Reputation 360: Creating power through personal branding"; "Your Next Mission: A personal branding guide for the military-to-civilian transition"; "Engaging with Veteran Talent: A quick and practical guide to sourcing, hiring, onboarding, and developing Veteran employees"; and "Success After Service: How to Take Control of Your Job Search and Career After Military Duty". She is often featured in media such as MSNBC, Access Hollywood, The Hallmark Channel, Bloomberg, Kiplinger's Personal Finance, Forbes, and more, for her expertise and insight around reputation, personal branding, and career growth and challenges.

Michael S. Cohen is a partner in the Philadelphia office of Duane Morris’ Employment, Labor, Benefits and Immigration Practice Group. Michael concentrates his practice in the areas of employment law training and counseling. He has trained and counseled employers throughout the country on subjects including harassment prevention; workplace diversity; discipline and discharge; hiring and recruiting practices; performance evaluations; FMLA, ADA and FLSA compliance; leave of absence policies; performance management; workplace privacy; sexual orientation and gender identity in the workplace; substance abuse testing; workplace violence; records retention; conducting background checks; teens in the workplace and managing attendance problems. Michael also has conducted investigations into claims of harassment and discrimination and has drafted employee handbooks, employment agreements, non-compete agreements and post-termination agreements. Michael has conducted nearly 300 trainings in each of the past two years. He has represented clients throughout the country in EEO and other administrative proceedings.

Michael has been cited as a national authority on employment issues by The New York Times, The Associated Press, USA Today, MSNBC.com, HR Magazine, SHRM On-Line, Employment Law 360, Inside Counsel Magazine, as well as many other publications. Michael serves as a Board Member of The Independence Business Alliance and Serve, Inc. Michael is a 1997 magna cum laude graduate of Temple University Beasley School of Law and a cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.