Amy Gallo is a workplace expert who writes and speaks about effective communication, interpersonal dynamics, gender, difficult conversations, and feedback. She is the best-selling author of Getting Along: How to Work with Anyone (Even Difficult People) and the HBR Guide to Dealing with Conflict, as well as hundreds of articles for Harvard Business Review. 

For the past four years, Amy has co-hosted HBR’s popular Women at Work podcast, which examines the struggles and successes of women in the workplace. She is frequently sought out by media outlets for her perspective on workplace dynamics, conflict, and difficult conversations. Her advice has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, and Marketplace, as well as on NPR, WNYC, the BBC, and ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).

Amy is an acclaimed speaker, who has delivered keynotes and workshops at hundreds of companies and conferences, including SXSW (Featured Speaker), the Conferences for Women, the World Economic Forum, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Google, Adobe, and the American Chambers of Commerce in Finland and Sweden. In 2019, she delivered a talk at TEDxBroadway about the positive benefits of conflict.

Mariana Atencio took the world by storm in 2017 when her TEDx talk on authenticity "What makes YOU special?" went viral. To date, it has over 22 million views and has been translated into 13 languages. Her book, Perfectly You: Embracing the Power of Being Real, was an Amazon Best Seller and selected by Audible and AppleBooks.

In the last decade, Mariana worked at Univision and NBC News as an anchor and reporter, and has since founded GoLike, a media company named among the 100 most powerful Latina businesses in the U.S. She has quickly become one of the most sought-after virtual speakers and secured global events, keynotes and partnerships with Microsoft, YouTube, Spotify, Deloitte, Pepsi, Clinique, AT&T, McDonald’s, UBS, Procter & Gamble, Citi Private Bank, Airbnb, LinkedIn, the World Health Organization and the United Nations, among others.

Mariana is featured in the award-winning HBO series "Habla Now" as one of the leaders defining the Latinx Experience in the U.S. Her work has been honored with a Peabody, a Gracie Award, Columbia University’s “First Decade Award” and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists Presidential Award. She is a spokesperson for the American Latino Museum in Washington, D.C. and a 2020 fellow at the Aspen Institute.