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Judy Whitcomb

Founder, Storybook Leadership Consulting LLC

Bio: 

Judy has more than 25 yearsʼ experience in a variety of HR and organizational development leadership roles. An award-winning learning and development strategist, speaker, facilitator and trainer, sheʼs worked with over 1,000 leaders – from emerging high potentials to C-suite executives – to help them take steps to close gaps preventing them from leading most effectively. Judy is a veteran CHRO and chief learning officer with experience in the transportation, financial services, hospitality, health care and not-for-profit sectors. Judyʼs coaching clients have included leaders from organizations such as Coca-Cola, Hallmark, 7-11, IRI, Beam Suntory, Conagra, General Mills, Potters Industries, Black and Decker, Hannaford Brothers, Vi Senior Living and Google X. Additionally, she has practical experience leading operations, business development, marketing and finance functions and has worked with boards on governance, organizational strategy and succession planning. In 2020 Judy was recognized by Crain’s Chicago Business as one of Chicago’s top HR executives. She is a certified Berkeley Executive Coach and holds assessment and coaching certifications from Gallup, Korn Ferry, Center for Creative Leadership, Hogan and EQi 2.0.

Justin Lombardo

Chief Human Resources and Staff Development Officer, Archdiocese of Chicago (Retired)

Bio: 

Justin Lombardo most recently served as chief human resources and staff development officer for the Archdiocese of Chicago, comprising 15,000 employees serving more than 2.2 million Catholics with 293 parishes and 199 elementary and secondary schools. He is now retired.

Prior to his role with the Archdiocese of Chicago, Justin was chief learning officer for the Baptist Health System in Florida. He also served as vice president of the Learning Institute and chief learning officer for Children’s Medical System of Texas. Prior to Children’s, he was chief learning officer at Northwestern Memorial in Chicago, where he developed the NM Academy, consolidating all the education resources of the system.

Justin's efforts to transform healthcare learning and development have been recognized by the Mayor of Chicago, Chicago Business Council, Working Mother magazine and other regional and national organizations.

Before working in healthcare, Lombardo spent 15 years at Motorola University, where he managed various global functions. Justin has served on training and development advisory boards at the national and international level, including a task force of the United Nations; the Center for Creative Leadership; the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University; and the Center for Nursing Excellence. He was appointed by the Governor of Illinois to the state’s task force on workforce development. He has held faculty appointments at Northwestern University, University of Alabama at Birmingham and Johns Hopkins University.

Justin is a long-time member of Chief Learning Officer's Advisory Board.

Kevin D. Wilde

Executive Leadership Fellow, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota

Bio: 

Kevin D. Wilde serves as an Executive Leadership Fellow at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. He teaches applied leadership in several graduate courses. His current research topics include leadership coachability, executive derailment and contemporary talent development. In 2015, he concluded a 34-year corporate career in leadership and talent development at General Electric and General Mills.

During his time at General Mills, the organization was consistently recognized for its innovative development work, highlighted by Fortune’s #2 ranking as one of the best companies in the world at leadership development, #1 listing by Leadership Excellence magazine, #1 Global Learning Elite ranking, and Training magazine’s “Hall of Fame” designation as a top company for employee development. In 2007, Chief Learning Officer magazine selected Kevin as CLO of the year.

Kevin continues to be an active contributor to the leadership and talent development profession with business advising and writing. His advisory work includes the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp) and GP Strategies.

His most recent book, “Coachability: The Leadership Superpower,” was published in 2022 and received a gold award from the North American Book Awards. His early books include “Dancing with the Talent Stars: 25 Moves that Matter Now” and “A CLO Leadership Reader: Chief Learning Officer Magazine’s Best for Today’s Learning Leader.” His writing for Talent Management magazine received a national award for editorial excellence from the American Society of Business Publication Editors. His work has also been published in over a dozen books, including “Coaching for Leadership,” the “Pfieffer Annual on Leadership Development” and “Forward Focused Learning.”

While actively researching, writing and teaching, he first and foremost considers himself a student of the game of leadership and believes there is always something new to learn.

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