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Tammy Edwards
Director, Inclusion & Diversity
Sprint Nextel


As Director of Inclusion and Diversity for Sprint Nextel, Tammy Edwards is responsible for leading the company's efforts to attract and retain diverse talent and customers, and build brand awareness and strategic partnerships with diverse organizations. Edwards also directs the Sprint Nextel Inclusion Council.

Her board service is numerous, including Chair of the Board of Directors for INROADS/KC, and member of the Board of Directors for the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Kansas City. She holds a BBA in Marketing and a MBA in Finance from the University of Missouri.


ELE 4 Disciplines Facilitator
Harvey Young
Leadership Consultant
FranklinCovey


FranklinCovey's Harvey Young believes that, like an iceberg, the parts of leadership and personal development that run deep - those not immediately obvious - are often the most important. He is passionate about developing leaders who will become stewards over an organization's precious resources - especially its people.

Prior to his work with FranklinCovey, Harvey enjoyed a successful, 30-year career in finance and management. He now assists several boards and organizations by lending his expertise in leadership, finance, and other development activities. Young, a graduate of Temple University with a B.S. in Finance.

Andrés Tapia
Chief Diversity Officer and Emerging Workforce Solutions Leader
Hewitt Associates

In addition to being a published writer and prominent speaker, Andrés Tapia is responsible for leading internal and external diversity vision and strategies for Hewitt Associates—the world's largest provider of multi-service HR business process outsourcing (BPO). As a journalist, Tapia has covered social trends in the U.S. and Latin America via articles appearing in publications such as the Baltimore Sun, the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, VOCÊ (Brazil),Benefits Quarterly, and Hemispheres magazine. He has been interviewed by major media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and FORTUNE magazine in the U.S., La Nación and El Clarín in Argentina, El Mercurio in Chile, VOCÊ, Valor, and Revista Amanhã in Brazil, and HR industry publications such as HR Magazine, Benefit News, and Benefits Canada Magazine.

His experiences in the U.S., Canada, the UK, Spain, India, Kenya, and throughout Latin America and his native Peru have equipped him with a true global perspective. By working with Hewitt, and with dozens of its FORTUNE 500 multinational clients, Tapia is grounded in the cross-industry implications of achieving a diverse, high performing workforce.

He holds a B.A. in History with an emphasis in journalism and political science from Northwestern University.


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