WELCOME YOUR INSTRUCTORS

Troy Aichele
CEO
Breslin Strategies Inc.

Christopher Asaro
President

David Ashcraft
President
Advantage Learning Systems

Denise M. Berger FAIA

Nic Bittle
Founder
Work Force Pro

Mark Breslin
CEO
Breslin Strategies Inc.

Bill Curran
Leadership and Talent Consultant

Kevin L. Dougherty
Consultant, Speaker, Author

Steve Duvel
Senior Vice President and Division Leader of New England Gilbane Building Company

Ralph Esposito
President, Northeast & Mid-Atlantic Region
Suffolk

Joseph Freund
Designer, Application Specialist
Microsol Resources

Michael Gamsby
Director of Outreach and Clinician Modern Assistance Program

John J. McNamara

Miranda Jones
Partner
O’Reilly, Grosso, Gross and Jones, P.C.

Stephane McShane
Director
Maxim Consulting Group, LLC

Anna Liza Montenegro
Bluebeam Certified Support Representative
Microsol Resources

James Murphy
LEED-AP Vice President
Turner & Townsend Gov LLC, PMCM

Francisco Pineda
Faculty
Columbia University

Paul Reimer
President
Gleeds America

Gregg Schoppman
Partner
FMI

David Spergel
Bluebeam Certified Support Representative
Microsol Resources

Tanya Pope
Founder and Principal Owners
The Pope Consulting Group
Tanya Pope is a multi-faceted professional with a deep understanding of government, construction and large organizations. Pope is the Founder and Principal Owner of The Pope Consulting Group, LLC (TPCG), a company dedicated to program design and development in Supplier Diversity, procurement, workforce capacity, diversity research and strategic diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Pope also serves as Assistant Vice President, University Supplier Diversity at Columbia University within Columbia University’s Facilities and Operations Department. She is responsible for sourcing capable, diverse vendors to support the University’s construction projects and business initiatives, that have paid out over $1.2 billion to diverse firms in the past decade, Pope holds a B.S. in Communications Management and an M.S. in Leadership and Strategic Management, from Manhattanville College. She earned her MPA from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.
ABOUT THE POPE CONSULTING GROUP, LLC
The Pope Consulting Group, LLC (TPCG) is a company dedicated to program design and development in Supplier Diversity, procurement, workforce capacity, diversity research and strategic diversity, equity and inclusion programs. She has worked for over fifteen years to support Supplier Diversity programs that intelligently and innovatively help diverse firms and workers succeed and excel in gaining new contracts and opportunities with large firms.
Pope partners with two other consultants in a collaboration designed to bring consulting solutions to complex building projects. For more information, visit: www.diversityagenda.com/consulting

Alison Caton
Acting Director of Training
Massachusetts Commission Against
Discrimination [MCAD]
ABOUT THE MASSACHUSETTS COMMISSION AGAINST DISCRIMINATION [MCAD]
The Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination [MCAD] is a public service organization with Massachusetts whose mission is to eradicate discrimination in the Commonwealth by investigating and prosecuting Complaints of Discrimination that occur in Employment, Housing, Public Places, Access to Education, Lending, and Credit. MCAD also offer training to help prevent discrimination from occurring.

Renee Sacks, Ph.D.
Executive Director,
Women Builders Council, Inc.
President,
Sacks Communications
ABOUT DIVERSITY AGENDA
Dr. Sacks also publishes a periodic publication, Diversity Agenda, featuring news and conversations in diversity, equity and inclusion. www.diversityagenda.com She is also a partner is a collaborative consulting team, PSP Consultants, which specializes in designing diversity solutions for complex construction projects. For more information, visit: www.diversityagenda.com/consulting
ABOUT THE WOMEN BUILDERS COUNCIL, INC.
Established in 2004, the Women Builders Council (WBC) is the leading association representing women in the construction industry on several important fronts: legislative advocacy, new business and professional development with a special focus on leadership.For more information, visit: www.wbcnyc.org

Lorraine D’Angelo, Esq., CCEP, LPEC
President
LDA Compliance Consulting, Inc.
ABOUT LDA COMPLIANCE CONSULTING, INC.
LDA Compliance Consulting Inc., a full service legal and regulatory risk management compliance advisory firm specializing in solution-oriented, preventative corporate ethics and compliance program design, assessment, auditing, monitoring, investigations, education and training. For more information, visit: www.ldacomplianceconsulting.com

Willie Mae Veasy
President
Covenant Business Concepts LLC
Veasy received her bachelor’s in organizational leadership from Pillar College and she holds several certifications in Instructional Design, Project Management, Change Management, and Talent Management.
ABOUT COVENANT BUSINESS CONCEPTS
Covenant Business Concepts is a consulting firm that specializing in Professional Development and Management Training with 15+ years of experience in the Talent Management arena. Our innovative social learning concepts can be facilitated in a traditional classroom format and/or virtually via Adobe Connect, WebEx or Illuminate. Adapting our learning solutions to these virtual environments has helped to make us the learning organization of choice, amongst Generation X, Y and rising leaders in the NY Tri-State Area. For more information visit: https://www.covenantbusinessconcepts.com/