The 2026 Leadership Summit — Virtual Event
2026
SPEAKERS
A curated assembly of visionaries and practitioners convening virtually to speak plainly about leadership, AI, workforce, and institutional trust.
Dr. Rachel-Yvonne Talton
CEO, Synergy International Limited
Every organization in this room is navigating the same invisible crisis. Technology is accelerating faster than trust can keep up. Dr. Talton has spent more than two decades studying exactly what happens when trust breaks down inside organizations and what it takes to build it back up. She is Founder and CEO of Synergy International Limited, one of the world’s leading practitioners in leadership trust and psychological safety, and author of the number one Amazon bestseller Flourish.
Core Conversations
Strategic Panels & Deep Dives
Panel 1 — Leadership & Workforce
Panelist
Monica Dominic
Chief Client Officer & Co-Owner
PSI (Proteam Solutions)
What does it take to walk into a company, earn the trust of its people, master every level of its operations, and then buy it? Monica Dominic did exactly that. As Co-Owner and Chief Client Officer of PSI, she operates daily at the pressure point this summit is designed to address — placing the human capital organizations depend on to execute their most critical technology initiatives.
Panelist
Becky Ruppert McMahon
President and CEO
Cleveland Leadership Center
Becky Ruppert McMahon leads Cleveland Leadership Center, one of Northeast Ohio’s most respected institutions for developing civic and organizational leaders. She brings to this panel a practitioner’s understanding of what it takes to build institutional trust from the inside out.
Panel 2 — Intelligent Systems, Infrastructure & Community Trust
Panelist
Felicia Williams Johnson
Senior Executive Client Partner & Digital Transformation Leader
AI Adoption, Business Value & Digital Transformation
Your organization is standing at a crossroads. AI is no longer coming — it is already here. Felicia Williams Johnson has spent more than 30 years helping Fortune 500 companies and Global 2000 enterprises answer the hardest question in the room: how do you embrace AI strategically without losing the people and culture that make your business work?
Panelist
Summer Crenshaw
Co-Founder & CEO
Enterprise Technology Association (ETA)
Before most organizations knew what skills-based hiring meant, Summer Crenshaw was already building the infrastructure for it. As Co-Founder and CEO of the Enterprise Technology Association, she convenes the leaders, companies, and regions navigating AI adoption at scale — and brings the question most infrastructure conversations skip: who gets left behind?
All-Speaker Virtual Roundtable
Moderated by Dr. Rachel-Yvonne Talton
All four panelists return to the virtual stage alongside Dr. Talton for a 20-minute synthesis conversation — responding to what the panels surfaced and sending the audience home with a final, unified thought on the future of leadership.
Dr. Rachel-Yvonne Talton
Moderator
Monica Dominic
PSI
Becky Ruppert McMahon
Cleveland Leadership Center
Felicia Williams Johnson
AI Adoption