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Robin Jones is the U.S. Workforce Transformation Leader at Deloitte Consulting. With 22 years of organization and workforce transformation consulting experience, she advises business leaders through complex business transformations. With a focus on the Future of Work, Robin advises senior executives as they contemplate how data, technology and societal changes are impacting the organization's work, workforce, and workplace. At Deloitte, she serves on the Consulting CEO’s Marketplace Leadership Team. Robin holds a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Georgia Tech and an MS in Architecture and BS in Interior Design from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.

Dr. Elizabeth J. Altman is associate professor of management with tenure at the Manning School of Business, University of Massachusetts Lowell, and guest editor for the MIT Sloan Management Review Future of the Workforce research project. Altman was a visiting professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point and visiting scholar at Harvard Business School. Altman teaches in undergraduate, MBA, doctoral, and executive education programs. Her research focuses on strategy, innovation, platform businesses and ecosystems, leadership, organizational change, and future of work/workforce topics.

Altman was a vice president at Motorola with roles in industrial design, product development engineering, manufacturing, marketing, and strategy. Awarded a U.S. Dept. of Commerce and Japanese government fellowship, Altman worked as an engineer for Sony in Japan. She lectures and consults worldwide and has served on corporate and non-profit boards.

Altman’s research has been published in the Harvard Business Review (HBR), MIT Sloan Management Review (MIT SMR), Academy of Management Annals, Journal of Management Studies, Marketing Letters, and other journals and books. Her article with Andrei Hagiu was included in “HBR's 10 Must Reads 2019: The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review,” and in “HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Business Model Innovation,” and "HBR's 10 Must Reads on Platforms and Ecosystems." Altman co-authored the forthcoming book, “Workforce Ecosystems: Reaching Strategic Goals with People, Partners, and Technologies” (MIT Press), and The Innovator’s Guide to Growth: Putting Disruptive Innovation to Work” (Harvard Business Press).

Altman holds a Doctorate in Business Administration from Harvard Business School, a Master’s of Science in Mechanical Engineering and Master’s of Science in Management from M.I.T., and a Bachelor’s of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University where she served on the Board of Trustees and is on the Library Advisory Council. Altman is a life member of the Cornell University Council and emeritus member of the Cornell College of Engineering Advisory Council and the President’s Council of Cornell Women. Altman was named one of Boston Magazine's “Top 100 Most Influential Women in Boston,” and one of Boston Business Journal’s “40 Under 40” top business and community leaders. She is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Jeff is a advisor on the future of work to Deloitte Consulting where he is a retired senior partner. He is a recognized global advisor and thought leader and the author of WORK DISRUPTED. Jeff is the Vice President of Insights and Impact at Gloat, the world's leading start up creating enterprsie talent marketplaces driven by AI. He is an adjunct professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Business.

He has been a consulting partner for 25 years and he has extensive experience in workforce and workplace transformation, work redesign, and human capital issues in global and growth markets. He has lived in and led practices in the US, India, Russia, Belgium, Israel and Kenya. He most recently created and led the US Consulting Future of Work research and practice; he is the co-founder and was the US lead partner from 2016-2019 for Deloitte Catalyst in Tel Aviv (the US-Israel Innovation Tech Terminal), and he has been the global editor and senior researcher for 10 years of Deloitte’s Global Human Capital Trends report, one of the world’s leading annual reports on the future of the workforce, organizations and HR, which he started in 2011. He has authored and contributed to more than 40 articles for the Wall Street Journal, the Deloitte Review, the MIT Sloan Management Review, the Rotman Management Review (at the University of Toronto), and Wired Magazine.

Before his career in management consulting, Jeff was a US Peace Corps volunteer teacher in Nepal (1981-1983), a fellow at the RFK Memorial Foundation leading the Youth Policy Institute, an investment banker at Chemical Investment Bank—now part of JPMC (1987-1988), and one of the first US Peace Corps Associate Directors in the Russian Federation (1991-1992).

He has graduate degrees from the Yale School of Management (MBA, 1987) and the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University (MPA, 1987) and an undergraduate degree from Cornell University in History and Government (BA, 1980). Jeff served on the Cornell University Board of Trustees from 1979 to1980.