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Anthony leads PwC’s human capital consulting business, and is relentlessly passionate about executive leadership, workforce experience and driving bottom line results through human capital (and red wine).

Under Anthony’s leadership, PwC strives to be the industry leading advisor preparing clients for the workforce of the future. To do that, we solve client issues around HR and workforce strategy, behavioral change, and rewards and well-being. This includes employee experience, transformational leadership, talent architecture and next-gen change management. As a strategist and thought leader, Anthony has led extensive research on the global trends shaping today's workforce and have been named an HR Trendsetter for SHRM and Top 25 Consultant by The Consulting Report.

Anthony’s passion also comes through in social media - check out his LinkedIn blog at https://www.linkedin.com/in/apabbatiello/recent-activity/shares/ or follow on twitter @apabbatielloPWC

Adam Gerstein is a senior leader known for his human approach to successful transformation. As a principal on PwC’s workforce transformation team, he partners with leaders during watershed moments to drive growth and performance, evolve culture and employee experience, and strengthen trust among companies and their stakeholders.

Prior to joining PwC, Adam created and led the business transformation team at Edelman. He advised C-suite and senior executives on authentically leading transformational change. He collaborated on dozens of transactions, turnarounds, and business repositioning efforts for many of the world’s most recognized companies. Adam served in a similar capacity at Capgemini Consulting, where he was the leader of the people and performance practice in North America.

Adam began his private sector career at Citigroup, where he helped form the Corporate Affairs function following the merger of Travelers and Citicorp. Adam was a core member of the global team that oversaw corporate reputation; executive positioning; and internal and HR communications for 300,000 employees in more than 100 countries.

Adam got his start in local government where he was the speechwriter for New York City Council Speaker Peter F. Vallone, Sr.

Guru is a Managing Director in PwC's Consulting Solutions segment and leads the practice area - Workforce Analytics and Products. He has rich experience in people analytics and is passionate about building high growth businesses-powered by innovation in data, AI, and cloud tech. Most recently, Guru was at Mercer as Chief Data and Analytics/Digital Officer and drove commercial data monetization priorities in their human capital business. Six months before the advent of ChatGPT, he spearheaded the delivery and launch of a Gen AI-infused product. Prior to that, over a 25-year career, he was a Chief Product Officer in Deloitte Digital and at a PE-backed/Softbank company and held several leadership roles in product and technology in the wireless industry.

Kris Khanna is the driving force behind the SuccessFactors practice at PwC. With extensive experience in global HR and Payroll Transformations powered by SAP/SuccessFactors, Kris is dedicated to helping clients achieve success.

As a trusted advisor, Kris collaborates with complex, global clients, focusing on companies with intricate employee bases. His expertise lies in transforming Human Resource and workforce strategies, enhancing HR service delivery, and optimizing organizational structures with a business-driven approach. By leveraging strategic planning, organization design, process transformation, technology deployment, and governance, Kris works closely with large enterprises to generate tangible business value through effective human capital management.

Recognizing the value of collaboration, Kris emphasizes the strength of the partnership between PwC and SAP. Together, they offer a value equation that accelerates company-wide transformations, enabling organizations to thrive in the next generation. Leveraging PwC's profound sector expertise and business-led perspective, combined with SAP's cutting-edge software, they create systems of innovation that sustain continuous growth.

Dr. Mark Luetzelschwab leads the PwC Saratoga benchmarking team which provides hundreds of workforce benchmarks in over 20 major industries. In his 30+ years leading initiatives around skills and skill development, Mark has helped launch seven successful startups, led a division of a major non-profit, and created innovative new models for Amazon and PwC. His current focus is making sure everyone has access to the right data to make good decisions about their workforce.

Diane is a HR Transformation partner, helping organizations modernize their HR function to support changing business and workforce needs and expectations. With tenacious curiosity, Diane welcomes the opportunity to explore the art of the possible with organizations to shape HR’s contributions to culture, careers, collaboration, and community. She is passionate about helping organizations rethink and reimage HR’s role through new services and modern technologies, inspiring new ways to engage and deliver services to leaders, managers, and employees.

With over 30 years of consulting, Diane has been a speaker at numerous conferences and internal corporate leadership events. Prior to her current role, Diane was the PwC Global Workday Leader, growing the business organically from inception and driving PwC’s Global professional services business in delivering Workday services. She was also the Diversity and Inclusion Leader for our Industrial Products and Services market segment.

A math and computer sciences graduate of the University of Texas - Arlington, Diane is a past board member of the YWCA, Dallas helping low-income women achieve stability and higher levels of self-sufficiency. She is also a volleyball and tennis mother, supporting her family’s multiple interests. Diane married a Texas native and now lives in Dallas with her husband, Robert, and son.

Jason Cerrato is the Vice President of Talent-centered Transformation for Eightfold, focused on the capabilities of our comprehensive Talent Intelligence Platform and the future of work. Prior to Eightfold, he was with Gartner as a Senior Research Director, focusing on HR technology and transformation.

With extensive experience in talent acquisition, Jason spent more than a decade with United Technologies Corporation (now RTX), where he was the Senior Director of Talent Acquisition, serving as the workstream owner for recruiting and onboarding for an enterprise-wide global HR transformation initiative. Jason has a master’s degree in human resource development and received the Global Fellow in Talent Management certification from the Talent Management Institute and the Wharton School of Business.

Jason has been recognized by HR Executive as a Top 100 HR Tech influencer and also co-hosts The New Talent Code podcast, which provides insights and open discussion with industry leaders on all things talent and HR tech.