Michelle L. Christian

Chief of Staff, Canadian Mental Health Association, Toronto

Michelle is Chief of Staff at CMHA Toronto, the city’s leading community mental health agency, integrating health and social care, including mental health care, housing, crisis response, employment, community connections, and primary health care. Michelle is an experienced executive administrative professional and strategist who partners with boards, CEOs, and executive teams in the health and community care, performance marketing, and healthcare philanthropy sectors. Before her current role, Michelle spent over a decade as a board administrator and corporate officer. Michelle is a Level 3 Innovation Governance Program (iGP) graduate. iGP is an executive leadership program that trains current and future board members in key areas of importance in the intangible economy. Michelle runs a boutique corporate governance advisory firm and last year earned her certificate in AI Governance.

Diarmaid Ó Corrbuí

CEO, Carmichael Centre for Voluntary Groups

Diarmaid Ó Corrbuí is CEO of Carmichael, Ireland's oldest and biggest shared services facility for the non-for-profit sector. Its core services are focused on providing governance training and organisational support. Diarmaid has extensive experience both as a board member and working with boards and providing governance support and advice. He is a member of the Charity SORP (Financial Reporting Standards) Committee for the UK and Ireland and the founder of the Good Governance Awards for nonprofits in Ireland. He is also a faculty member of the Corporate Governance Institute and Duke Corporate Education on their Corporate Governance programmes, a member of the BoardEffect Governance Expert Advisory panel and a guest lecturer in University College Dublin and Technology University Dublin.

Symone Morales

Executive Director, OneGoal

Symone Morales is the Executive Director for OneGoal in the Bay Area where she works closely with schools, district leaders and communities to transform postsecondary advising and ensure all students are able to achieve their greatest postsecondary aspirations. Prior to joining OneGoal, Symone served as the Associate Dean of Students and Director of the First Generation and/or Low-Income Student Success Center (FLISSC) at Stanford University, where she led efforts across the university to enhance the FLI student experience and ensure persistence through graduation. Throughout her career, she has held multiple positions, ranging from K-12 to university level, supporting and advocating for marginalized and underrepresented minority students to have equitable access to education. She has developed and built programs that focus on matriculation and retention and is an expert in supporting low-income and first-generation college students. In 2016, Symone assisted in inaugurating and overseeing the undergraduate first generation college program at UCLA called First To Go. This program laid the framework for many of the first-gen initiatives that developed across all ten UC campuses over the past seven years.

Symone holds a BA in Sociology and African American Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Master's degree in Student Affairs from UCLA. Symone was born and raised in Durham, North Carolina and has spent the past ten years across the state of California working at various postsecondary institutions leveling the learning landscape for all students.