Sarder Talks are exclusive networking and panel discussion events for target leaders – those who oversee initiatives for their enterprises’ workforce, customer, suppliers and partners. We present leaders the opportunity to network with peer level professionals, while learning new ideas and strategies that they can replicate within their own organizations, to build a best practices culture.60 Videos

The New York Hall of Science

The New York Hall of Science, also known as NYSCI, is a science museum located in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in the New York City borough of Queens. NYSCI was founded at the 1964–65 World’s Fair and has evolved into New York’s center for interactive science, serving a half million students, teachers, and families each year. NYSCI serves schools, families and underserved communities in the New York City area, offering informal, hands-on learning through various products and services that use the “design-make-play” method of bringing delight and play to educating Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM).47 Videos

Global General Manager, Talent & Learning at Microsoft

Karen leads Microsoft’s global talent and learning experiences efforts focused on identifying, co-creating and operationalizing the big and small moments that matter so all employees are empowered to do their best work. Through desired, energizing, high quality and repeatable experiences employees become promoters and influencers. This virality, at the heart of the team’s aspiration, uses community and social interaction to fuel continuous improvement, growth and change. The value driver is employees opting into talent and learning processes and programs because they believe in them as a means of addressing business objectives. Prior to this role Karen led Microsoft’s 21st century jobs, skills and employability global initiative. Before joining Microsoft Karen was an HR/talent executive and Chief Learning Officer for Cigna.35 Videos

Author of Engineering Trustworthy Systems

Mr. O. Sami Saydjari is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Cyber Defense Agency, where he provides vision, leadership and expertise for building a Research and Consulting concern that creates effective systematic defenses for high-value systems against aggressive cyber-attack. He has published more than a dozen technical papers in the field of information security and is the author of the book Engineering Trustworthy Systems.31 Videos

Author & Faculty Member at Stanford University

Jack Nasher is a visiting faculty member at Stanford University and a professor at Munich Business School. Oxford-educated and formerly with the German Mission to the UN in New York City, the European Court of Justices, and leading Wall Street law firm Skadden, he is the founder of the NASHER Negotiation Institute and has been recognized in the media as one of the leading experts on negotiation and deception detection. Nasher is the author of Convinced!: How to Prove Your Competence & Win People Over.30 Videos

Author of The Membership Economy

Robbie Kellman Baxter is the author of The Membership Economy. She brings over twenty years of strategy consulting and marketing expertise to her book and to Peninsula Strategies, her full-service strategic marketing consulting firm. Robbie's clients have included start-ups and mid-sized venture-backed companies as well as industry leaders such as Netflix, Yahoo!, Oracle and eBay. Over the past ten plus years, Peninsula Strategies has advised nearly one hundred organizations on growth strategy.29 Videos

Author & Founder of CommonWise

Cheryl Heller is the Founding Chair of the first MFA program in Design for Social Innovation at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, and is President of the design lab CommonWise. She is the recipient of the AIGA Medal for her contributions to the field of design, and a Rockefeller Bellagio Fellowship. Her clients have included Ford Motor Company, American Express, Pfizer, Mars Corporation, Seventh Generation, L’Oreal, and The World Wildlife Fund. She created the Ideas that Matter program for Sappi in 1999, which has given over $13 million to designers working for the public good. Her book, The Intergalactic Design Guide, was published by Island Press in 2018.28 Videos

Best-Selling Author & Founding Partner at Outstand

Jeffrey Gitomer is an best-selling author, professional speaker, and business trainer, who writes and lectures internationally on sales, customer loyalty, and personal development. Also known as "King of Sales", Jeffrey has been helping people succeed since 1988. He latest book is the Truthful Living: The First Writings of Napoleon Hill.27 Videos

Author of Legacy in the Making

Lucas Conley is the executive editor at The Legacy Lab, the author of Obsessive Branding Disorder (one of Strategy + Business’s best books of 2008), and the coauthor of The Method Method (listed as a “top ten” marketing book in 2011 by Advertising Age). A former researcher for The Atlantic and staff writer for Fast Company, he has written for The Boston Globe, ESPN: The Magazine, SPIN, and The Wall Street Journal Magazine. A journalist with an eye for stories that change how we see the world, Conley has appeared on The Colbert Report, ABC World News, CNN’s BookTV, NPR, and at South by Southwest.26 Videos

Senior Director, Education at CA Technologies

Douglas is an award-winning education services, leadership and customer success professional with over 20 years experience building and growing results-oriented organizations. Known for developing innovative mobile, digital and traditional education offerings that deliver measurable value for employees, partners and customers.26 Videos