Strategies for Taking Your Seat at the Table

Speakers

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  Kimberly Morgan Senior Director, Culture & Team Member Engagement, GOJO Industries
  

  Kimberly Morgan

  Senior Director, Culture & Team Member Engagement, GOJO Industries

  Kimberly Morgan is a leader in the HR space with over 25 years of professional experience leading diversity, culture, and engagement efforts. She currently serves as the Culture and Team Member Engagement, Sr. Director for GOJO Industries. In her current role she is responsible for working with organizational leaders and team members across the enterprise to design, launch, scale, and sustain efforts designed to ensure all team members feel they belong at GOJO, such as building community through thriving Employee Resource Groups and Supply Chain Councils, promoting inclusive leadership, and championing the sharing of team member stories through heritage and other celebratory months.

  Kimberly seeks to create new opportunities for team members to provide feedback across all the ways and places we work, and advocates for all team members to ensure our culture-building initiatives contribute to a future where team members desire not only to continue to contribute and have an impact at Team GOJO, but to recommend GOJO to others as a great place to work. She is also responsible for shepherding the WBE efforts of the organization, as GOJO is a Women Owned Business.

  Previously, Kimberly was at USA Track and Field for 5 years and the National Collegiate Athletic Association for 14 years. Among her professional accomplishments, she includes being selected to serve on numerous leadership boards as well as being recognized as one of 25 “Women Making a Difference”, as a Distinguished Baylor Black Alumni and awarded the Mayor of Indianapolis Workforce Diversity Award for the internal inclusion efforts at the NCAA regarding, “One Team, One Future”.

  Kimberly earned both her undergraduate B.S. Ed and M.S. Ed – sports management degrees from Baylor University where she was a scholarship student-athlete in track and field. She is currently pursuing a doctorate degree from Indiana Institute of Technology in Global Leadership – Organizational Management. Kimberly is actively involved in many community endeavors including her church, The Links, Incorporated, and her sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Kimberly’s biggest personal and professional champion is her husband of 8 years Lee Morgan.

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  Linda Silverman Executive Chair, Board of Directors, Maintex
  

  Linda Silverman

  Executive Chair, Board of Directors, Maintex

  Linda Silverman began her career as a sales consultant at Maintex in 1978. She subsequently served in other management positions until 2010 when she assumed the role of president. Linda, her brother Stu Silverman and nephew Danny Silverman own the company which is a chemical manufacturer/ JanSan distributor located in Southern California. Linda currently serves as Executive Chairwoman of Maintex.

  Linda has been very involved in the cleaning industry serving on numerous local and international boards in a variety of capacities.  She began her active participation at ISSA as a District Director prior to becoming the second women to serve as ISSA President and International Director in 2000.

  Linda was a two-term board member and secretary of the ISSA Foundation, the charitable organization affiliated with ISSA which has become ISSA Charities. Today, Linda is an ISSA Charities Board member. 

  In 2016, Linda became a founding Hygieia Network Council member. In 2020-2022 she served as co-chair.

  In addition to industry association activities, Linda is a board member of several community organizations.

  She received her B.S. in Psychology from UCLA in 1975. 

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  Heidi Solomon Head of Global Strategy, Kimberly-Clark Professional
  

  Heidi Solomon

  Head of Global Strategy, Kimberly-Clark Professional