Speakers, Presenters & Panelists

Jeri Dembak: -
Entrepreneurial/intrapreneurial global human capital strategic executive, cultural analyst and design systems thinker who sees the big picture and how Marketing, Sales, Operations, IT, Finance and HR fit together to create an agile organizational learning culture that can adapt to the needs of the organization by leveraging the continuous improvement of people, processes and technology through the alignment of the customer and employment experiences to organizational strategy to increase both productivity and profitability. My “why” is to empower others to be successful through emotional intelligence and servant-based leadership. Crediting her experience at Sedgwick in B2B consulting, she founded her business, TBTI., originally a translation company specializing in employee benefits communications that expanded into outsourced HR services - branding, talent acquisition, leadership development, SOPs, compliance & risk mgt., employee engagement, HRIS system evaluation & implementation. She was hired at Accor Hotels as the Director of Talent, Culture & Recognition during both cultural & digital transformations & mergers & acquisitions to support North & Central America & the Caribbean because of her experience as a consultant in the hotel industry but also as a customer who had organized large-scale events for the Latin Music community, corporate & community events. She also built an HR dept. from scratch to unite six stores and create a corporate leadership structure. Before moving to SFL, Jeri spent sixteen years in Washington, DC creating concerts & events; serving as a Smithsonian Teacher Leader teaching high school students to be digital natives and learn how to code, coaching fellow teachers on new technology programs, building a community center to provide life-skills & career services for immigrant parents & students and founded The SalsaNews securing top SEO ratings for 10 years. She is a servant-based leader that can fully align both employment & customer/guest experiences gathering data to assess, develop & deploy the organizational development plan to position for growth & sustainability.