Continuing the Keynote Conversation – Cynthia Billops

Time: 10:15am-11:45am Friday

Location: Riverview Room

Speaker(s): Cynthia Billops, VP Operations, Membership and Belonging at One Step Closer & J.E.D.I. Collaborative

Following on our Friday Keynote address “Food: Justice, Equity, Diversity – Why and how you should care”, and on her Thursday Workshop “Operationalizing J.E.D.I. – Successes, Challenges, and the Future”, this is an additional opportunity engage with Cynthia on the work we’re all committed to – to make a more inclusive and diverse Natural Products industry.

BIO:
Cynthia Billops is a business strategy and operations expert who has spent the last few decades planning, designing and launching complex IT, Web and SaaS services. She earned her Doctorate in Educational Leadership from Mills College – focusing on small group interactions and the importance of each individual’s contribution to optimal success. She is an inspired, “human-first” leader of people, projects and organizations and a practiced facilitator – using inclusive practices to build and sustain equitable, diverse, transparent work cultures. She has guided multiple leadership teams through periods of great change, accelerating growth and expansion within the constraints of broader economic and environmental challenges.