HC Executive Dinner in Dallas

Kelly Monahan is a researcher, advisor, and speaker who helps leaders navigate complexity they were never trained for. Her work focuses on how leadership systems drift over time, and how organizations can realign work around people, performance, and reality in an era shaped by AI and rapid change. Kelly brings deep credibility from having worked inside some of the world's most influential organizations, including Accenture, Meta, and as the founding Managing Director of the Upwork Research Institute. She is a best-selling author and TEDx speaker known for reframing "people problems" as system failures and showing leaders how to fix them.

Tony Buffum is a renowned HR and workforce strategy executive and Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Human Cloud. He brings more than two decades of experience leading global HR and talent transformation, including senior roles as CHRO at FLIR Systems, VP of HR at Stanley Black & Decker, and VP of HR Client Strategy at Upwork, where he was a leading voice in flexible, on-demand "Talent Access" strategies.