ACG NJ Monthly Event - May 16, 2023

Kimberly is Vice President, Workplace Strategy on the Markets Workplace team. In her role, Kimberly specializes in workplace planning where she works in tandem with JLL’s brokerage teams on scenario development and portfolio-wide approaches for our clients. Kimberly’s background in Corporate Real Estate paired with her formal training in design and years working with top architecture and design firms globally offers a unique perspective for her to assist the diverse client mix of today in reaching culturally relevant workplace solutions.

Ken has 25 years of experience with a proven track record of building successful leaders and high-performing teams. He is a strategic leader, trusted advisor and provides valuable coaching to his clients through a combination of diverse business experiences and talent development skills. Ken has led teams as a Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer and Head of Consulting Practice for a Fortune 50 company - Prudential Financial. He provides solutions, workshops, and designs programs for clients seeking to develop leaders for their organizations. Through a strong business foundation and dynamic approach, he creates engagement, winning strategies, and successful business outcomes with his clients. A talented leadership and International Coaching Federation certified coach, he builds deep relationships of trust with his clients and elevates them through heightened self-awareness and authentic dialogue, resulting in improvement of individual and organizational performance.

For more than two decades, Cali Williams Yost has been a leading authority on high performance work flexibility. A visionary workplace futurist, strategist, and author, Yost is the Founder and CEO of the Flex+Strategy Group, a solutions company helping organizations unlock performance and engagement by reimagining how, when, and where work is done.

Called “one of the most sophisticated thinkers” on the transformation of work by The New York Times, Cali has been one of the leading commentators on the pandemic’s impact on work and life, across premiere media platforms including in the WSJ, HBR, USA TODAY, NPR and the TODAY Show.  She has also written two books on the subject. 

Laura Crothers Osborn is a highly regarded speaker, author and expert in HR and Leadership. She is the Owner and President of Crothers Consulting, a boutique HR consulting, coaching and soft skills training firm servicing middle market businesses for over 10 years.  They work with organizations to determine the best ways to attract, integrate, develop, engage and retain their talent. 

Laura is a Human Resource expert with over twenty-five years of experience coaching and assisting senior and mid-level leaders. Laura opened Crothers HR Consulting in 2010 to fuel her passion for helping leaders achieve organization and strategic clarity.  She and her team have successfully guided business leaders and HR executives, providing a clear line of vision as they face the many challenges associated with growing their company or engaging in mergers or acquisitions. Her candid, down-to-earth approach allows her to connect quickly and deeply with people.