The mission behind
AwakeTeams

Laura C. Wells, MBA

Laura brings together 15 years of consumer-packaged goods brand development, cross-functional and cross-border project management, six years of nonprofit leadership, and a longtime meditation practice to affect positive change in the business world. Positive change in the human and environmental impact of organizations as well as the development of human potential within organizations.

Paul van der Laken, PhD

Paul attained his PhD in people analytics, on the application, usage and deployment of statistical and algorithmic techniques in the Human Resources domain. Since then, he has been managing innovation and data analytics teams and projects at multinational companies. Paul also teaches professionals in effective data science deployment at various universities and on e-learning platforms.

Laura Isela Hazlett, MA

Laura is a PhD student in the Social and Affective Neuroscience Lab at UCLA. She studies how positive social emotions affect our brains and bodies. Laura seeks to understand why these emotions, such as gratitude and social warmth, have such a powerful effect on our health. She is also interested in studying and developing interventions that help cultivate these emotions.

Akanksha Sinha, MBA

Akanksha is an experienced Product Leader in the Digital Marketing Industry. During her 14-year career at Google, she led diverse roles spanning Product Leadership, Product Planning, Sales, and Marketing resulting in many successful product launches. She aims to delight customers by advocating for them and ensuring a seamless end-to-end product experience.

Barbara Boselli, MBA

Barbara led teams in global 100 companies for 15 years. She now coaches and leads workshops that combine emotional intelligence, mindfulness, and neuroscience to empower individuals and corporations to relate in a healthy way to today’s accelerated pace of change and high stress environments, resulting in more fulfillment and productivity.

Luigi Maria Fierro, MBA

Luigi, Head of ING HR Strategy and People Analytics, leads the HR strategic agenda globally with clear focus on developing advanced analytics solutions on the People analytic side. Prior to joining ING, Luigi worked with McKinsey & Co. for 10 years, where, among many other things, he contributed to the development of the Organizational Health Index.

René Janssen, MSc

René is Founder and Managing Director of Lepaya, an on-demand learning platform for corporations and individuals. Lepaya is based in Amsterdam, serves clients across Western Europe, and has grown rapidly since inception. Prior to this, he was Deputy Chief People Officer at Lazada, a Rocket Internet-founded business acquired by Alibaba.

Ravi Subramaniam, PhD

Ravi is a Distinguished Technologist at HP Inc where he leads and develops new concepts for future (3+ years) products and services. His current focus is on Machine Learning (models, SW infrastructure and SW/HW architectures) for efficient deployment for inference and training at the edge and on PC, IOT and device ecosystems.

Julia Geer, MS

Julia Geer is an executive specialized in commercialization and scaling of leading-edge technologies. She started her career in sales management and has progressed to leading sales, marketing, business strategy and product development in domestic and international markets. She has worked with startups and navigated multiple acquisitions.