Leading Through the Mess: Finding Clarity in Chaotic Times

Christine Perfetti is CEO of Lift Up Connections, a product and UX strategy consultancy bringing together a collective of powerhouse leaders in tech. Christine built the product discovery programs at GoFundMe, Carbonite, Acquia, and TuneIn, and has led collaborative product visioning workshops for Harvard Business School, WeSpire, HubSpot, Curriculum Associates, and Penn Medicine, among others.

Tamara Adlin has 20+ years of experience in product strategy, executive alignment, and user-centered design (including early Amazon). She is co-author of the groundbreaking Persona Lifecycle books. Tamara specializes in untangling complex challenges, aligning leadership around shared vision, and guiding teams to execute with clarity and purpose. Whether you're navigating a major transformation, redesigning customer experience at scale, or aligning leadership on strategic direction, she bring a structured-yet-human approach that results in traction and transformation.

Malini Rao is a results-oriented UX Executive with a proven track record of scaling UX functions, driving innovation, and delivering exceptional user experiences for enterprise B2B applications. She's been a UX leader and led teams at UKG, Acquia, Oracle, and Red Hat. Malini's passionate about aligning design strategy with both business objectives and customer outcomes, while defining and tracking concrete experience metrics to measure success.

Alla Weinberg is a psychological safety consultant and coach who has incorporated 20 years of product, service, and experience design with the principles of neuroscience, positive psychology, and relationship research to help establish safe workplaces. In her book, of 𝘈 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘢𝘧𝘦𝘵𝘺: 𝘉𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘌𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘗𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘊𝘢𝘯 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬, 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘦, Alla delves into the tools, practices, and rituals that help leaders create physical, emotional, and psychological safety.