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Drena Kusari
General Manager, Southwest & Hawaii at LyftDrena Kusari connects transportation with technology to improve the lives of millions in the Phoenix metro. As the first female General Manager for Lyft, Drena oversees growth strategy, marketing and operations. Under her leadership, in the last year, Lyft has added over $40 million in economic value in Phoenix, and expects that number to more than double this year.
Drena is a dedicated leader and mentor in the community, volunteers on multiple boards and serves as a mentor for Social Venture Partners. For two years in a row, Drena has also served as a judge in the March Venture Madness competition. Drena serves as a mentor to young girls interested in STEM and technology careers and has recently become involved with Phoenix’s Girls in Tech chapter. Drena is also a powerful champion in the advancement of children and women and has made that clear through her support of Junior Achievement, Fresh Start and Arizona Women’s Education and Employment (AWEE) organizations. As she is originally from Kosovo, Drena is also a mentor and advisor at GjirafaLabs, one of the leading technology incubators in the Balkans.
Drena graduated with dual honors and a double major (BA in Economics and BA in Diplomacy) from Occidental College and received an MBA from Harvard Business School in Boston.
Tracy Bullock
President & Owner at Bullock Training & DevelopmentTracy is a graduate of the University of Arizona, with a BSBA in Marketing. She started her career gaining 30 years of experience at Procter & Gamble; she developed Sales and Management teams, grew individuals' performance, and coordinated cross-department strategic planning with customers in the U.S. and globally. Tracy’s multi-functional experiences shaped her passion for developing people to accelerate business growth.
In 2016, Tracy was a finalist for both Tempe's Business Excellence Award and Business Woman of the Year. She is currently on the Board of the Tempe Chamber of Commerce, is a past chair of the Women in Business Council, and past facilitator for the mentoring program. Tracy was presented a Lifetime Achievement Award, Top Female Executive, and noted as one of the Top 101 Industry Experts for her work in Global Management Training Development by the University of Cambridge's Worldwide Who's Who.
Jeff Orr
Speaker and Author at DEPTHJeff Orr is an expert in leadership holding two masters degrees in Business and Leadership (MBA, MSL) from Grand Canyon University. He speaks to thousands in the private sector as well as University Campuses about leadership, discovering and leveraging purpose, and the critical importance for developing the next generation of leaders.
Jeff's passion for helping leaders grow comes through in his engaging and energizing keynotes using humor and sotry as a catalyst for professional and personal growth. His most recent TEDx keynote: Millennial Leadership: The Key to Your Organization's Success, has challenged thousands of leaders nationwide to rethink how to engage and develop Millenial leaders in their organizations.
Jeff's client list includes Google, GE, NBC, Chase, Verizon Wireless, PayPal, Merrill Lynch, Edward Jones, Grand Canyon University, Ottowa University, Huntington University and many others.
Jeff is the author of Succeed In The New Normal: Winning Strategies in an Unfamiliar World and is working on his latest book Inside the Mind of a Millenial Leader. He resides in Phoenix, Arizona with his wife of 29 years and his daughter. In his free time, Jeff enjoys writing fiction, creating music, mountain biking, and kayaking.
Jennifer Burwell
COO & Director of Programs at MAC6As COO and Director of Programs, Jennifer seamlessly integrates each of the MAC6 business units assuring that they are all being managed effectively towards the long term company vision.
She is also a student of human behavior as a Certified Professional Behavioral Analyst, with other certifications in Emotional Intelligence and Acumen. She uses this knowledge to work with businesses to facilitate culture focused leadership programs, which integrate the company’s values and create higher performing teams.
Jennifer is a valued member of the Tempe Chamber Women in Business Council and has served as co-chair and education lead in this year's programming.
Jennifer lives in the Phoenix area with her husband and three children.
Nicole Crites
Good Evening Arizona Anchor at 3TV AZ FamilyA two-time Emmy award winner, Nicole has been telling stories about valley newsmakers for more than a decade.
In addition to anchoring Good Evening Arizona weeknights, she is one of our main 3TV Originals contributors, focusing on in- depth features and investigations to bring context and perspective to concerns and trends in our community and our world.
Before joining 3TV, Nicole was the morning anchor at our sister station, CBS 5 for 10 years.
Nicole says the best part of her job is meeting new people and learning something new everyday.
She's an Arizona native who grew up in a family of eight down in Tucson where she met and married her high school sweetheart.
She got her first job in TV as an intern who worked her way up to part- time reporter and assignment editor listening to scanners and coordinating crews to cover breaking news at KVOA in Tucson.
She also spent a summer interning at 48 Hours in Manhattan.
After graduating from the University of Arizona, Nicole moved to the Inland Northwest, where she spent four years reporting and anchoring at KREM 2 News in Spokane, WA.
In 2004, she and her husband moved back to Arizona to start a family, she says they never had a seven-year itch, they had a seven-year baby!
Now they have 2 kids, Callie & Cayden, and love taking R-V road trips to explore our Arizona lakes and forests with their Jack Russell Terrier, Dash.
Nicole loves to read and keep busy with community service and crafts, like quilting baby blankets, something her mom taught her to do by hand in elementary school.
Nicole's passion for storytelling and helping others is why she got into journalism.
She won an Emmy for her field anchoring of the deadly Tucson shooting and assassination attempt of then-Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and another for her "Keeping the Promise" series on military struggles and success profiles.
She is an active board member for the nonprofit, Military Assistance Mission, supporting our Arizona military families and wounded heroes.