The Human Potential Summit

2025 Dates & Location TO BE ANNOUNCED

Build a Movement.

Come to the Human Potential Summit to help build the future of work and learning. Collaborate with employers, educators, innovators, startups, investors, non profits, foundations, government representatives and policymakers who are working to build a better future.

Our 2024 Sponsors

Founding Sponsors

Supporting Sponsors

Community Sponsors

Media Partners

Convening Partners

Academic Collaborators

The Human Potential Summit partners with leaders who are helping build the future of work and learning. If you’re interested in becoming a sponsor, please reach out to learn more.

2024 Speakers

Scott Pulsipher

President

Western Governors University

Todd Rose

Chief Executive Officer

Populace

Tal Goldhamer

Partner + Chief Learning Officer (Retired)

EY

Michael Horn

Co-Founder + Lecturer

Clayton Christensen Institute + Harvard

Renise Walker

Assistant Director of Systems Innovation

CWDC

Maria Flynn

Chief Executive Officer + President

Jobs For The Future

Benny Boas

Chief Executive Officer

Upright Education

Claire Fiddian-Green

President + CEO

Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation

Candace Nicolls

Director of People

Paddle Board Ventures

Geoffrey Roche

Director of Workforce Development

Siemens Healthineers

Ramona Schindelheim

Editor-in-Chief

WorkingNation

Kristen D. Fox

Chief Executive Officer

Business-Higher Education Forum

Doug Donovan

Chief Executive Officer

Interplay Learning

Julie Wilmes

Apprenticeship Program Manager

Pinnacol Assurance

Aneesh Raman

Chief Economic Opportunity Officer

Linkedin

Sean Segal

Co-Founder + Chief Executive Officer

Escalate

Patrick Rossol-Allison

AVP, Learning Enterprise

Arizona State University

Jennifer Henderson

Founder + Chief Executive Officer

Tilt

Paul Fain

Journalist

Work Shift

Roy Spence

Founder

Make It Movement

Matt Sigelman

President

The Burning Glass Institute

Beth Rudden

Chief Executive Officer

Bast AI

Steve Lee

Chief Executive Officer

SkillUp

Jandel Allen-Davis, MD

Chief Executive Officer

Craig Hospital

Parminder K. Jassal

Chief Executive Officer

Unmudl

Janel Highfill

AVP Workforce Development & Strategic Partnerships

Front Range Community College

Dr. Sandra Loughlin

Chief Learning Scientist

EPAM Systems

Christopher Parrish

Co-Founder + President of Partnerships

Podium Education

Ryan Craig

Managing Director

Achieve Partners

Josh Wright

Executive Vice President of Growth, Education & Government

Lightcast

Ellie Bertani

President + Chief Executive Officer

GitLab Foundation

Alison Griffin

Forbes Contributor and Editor of Boundless Potential

Managing Director

The Emes Project

Jenn Stredler

Managing Director

Common Group

Martin Ritter

Chief Executive Officer

Stadler US

Jeffrey Nathanson

Chief Executive Officer

Strategic Catalysts

Cristy Yeutter

Philanthropist + Volunteer

Corey Glover

People Operations Analyst

Varo Bank

Jessica Olsen

Vice President of Talent Acquisition

Global Medical Response

Lou Pugliese

Education Entrepreneur, Board of Director, Advisor, and Investor

Matt Strauss

Founder + President

RiseKit

Kelly Anguiano

Program Director

Common Group

Colin Reynolds

Senior Education Designer

Education Design Lab

Amy Volz

Director of Workforce Innovation

Trane Technologies

Dr. Becky Takeda-Tinker

President

CSU Global

Janet Pope

Vice President Corporate Responsibility & Engagement

CapGemini

Eric Glustrom

Chief Executive Officer + Founder

Watson Institute

Andrea GrandPre

Director of Learning and Talent Development

Envision Healthcare

Michael Reynolds

Senior Manager of Talent Acquisition

Howard Brown Health

Donna Bungard

Sr. Accessibility Program Manager

Indeed

Dr. Megan Workmon Larsen

Director Learning Experiences Design

Arizona State University

Dr. Naomi Boyer

Senior Vice President Digital Transformation

Education Design Lab

Kimberley Gregorie

Talent Transformation and Workforce Development Executive

Former JP Morgan Chase

Dewaine Beard

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary

US Dept of Veterans Affairs

Beth Jacobs

President + Co-CEO

vChief

Wes Parham

Vice President of Public Affairs

Pinnacol Assurance

Virginie Raphael

Founder + Managing Partner

FullCircle

Dawn Karber

Director

SkillsFWD

Jeff Bulanda

Vice President ASA Center for Career Navigation

Jobs For The Future

Dustin Zvonek

Mayor Pro Tem

Aurora City Council

Lisa Schumacher

Director Education Strategies & Workforce Policy

McDonald’s Corporation

Keely Cat-Wells

Founder + Chief Executive Officer

Making Space

Mitchell Stevens

Professor of Education and Sociology

Stanford University

Tara Gilboa

Executive Director

Tech Talent Partnerships

Damien Howard

Founder + Chief Executive Officer

Grant Wagner

Meaghan Sullivan

Executive Director

SyncUp Colorado

Cyndi Court

Chief Executive Officer

TGR Foundation

Deb Sinta

Senior Vice President Talent, Culture, and People

Pacific Gas & Electric Corporation

Michelle Armstrong

President

Ares Charitable Foundation

Kylie Parks

Director of Talent Pipeline Development

Arvada Chamber of Commerce

Chris Motley

Founder + Chief Executive Officer

Mentor Spaces

Jessi Johanson

VP of Sales

Tilt

Dr. Laura Demarse

Vice President for Future of Work

Charles Koch Foundation

Amie Staudenmaier

Vice President People and Culture + CHRO

Craig Hospital

Doug Lepisto

Co-Director + Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Center for Principled Leadership and Business Strategy + Sleeping Giant Capital

Liam Pisano

Managing Partner

EduLab Capital Partners

Niki DaSilva

Senior Director, Programs and Policy

U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation

Ross Wehner

Founder

World Leadership School

Derrick McIver

Co-Director + Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Center for Principled Leadership and Business Strategy + Sleeping Giant Capital

Liz Eversoll

Chief Executive Officer

Career Highways

Haley Glover

Senior Director

The Aspen Institute

Gary A. Officer

Founder + Chief Executive Officer

CWI Labs

George Vinton

Chief Executive Officer

Common Group

David Becker

Chief Executive Officer

First Internet Bank

Sienna Daniel

Co-Founder + President

Escalate

Jonny Coreson

Founder + Chief Executive Officer

Worthi

Amanda Willard

Global Workforce Development Strategist

Amazon

Antong Lucky

President + Master Trainer

Urban Specialists

Rob Gifford

President

National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation

Lauren Trent

Chief Executive Officer

AdvanceEDU

Byron Auguste

Co-founder + Chief Executive Officer

Opportunity @Work

Dr. Angela Jackson

Director

Future Forward Institute

Taylor McLemore

Chief Executive Officer + GP

Human Potential Capital

Dr. Shayna Cooke

Vice President of Human Capital

Dominion Payroll

Kyle Gunnels

Founder + CEO

SINA

Bjorn Billhardt

Chief Executive Officer

Abilitie

Ali Slater

Head of Go-to-Market (US)

FutureFit AI

Helen Young Hayes

Founder + Chief Executive Officer

ActivateWork

Chike Aguh

Executive Advisor at Accenture

Senior Advisor at the Project on Workforce at Harvard

Silas Dulan

Board of Directors, Vice Chair of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Center for Energy Workforce Development

Debbie Brown

President

Colorado Business Roundtable

Brett Waikart

Chief Executive Officer + Co-founder

Skillful.ly

Joe Wilkins

Senior Advisor

THEO Transformation Advisory

Stela Lupushor

Founder

Reframework

Dave Wengel

Founder and CEO

SmartResume

Chris Curran Managing Partner + Founder

Tyton Partners

Dani Johnson

Cofounder & Principal Analyst

RedThread Research

Hamoon Ekhtiari

Chief Executive Officer

FutureFit AI

Maura Pally

Executive Director

Blackstone Charitable Foundation

Kenzi Staab

Senior Analyst

Charles Koch Foundation

Joe Thurman

Chief Executive Officer + Co-Founder

TalentBloom Healthcare

La Sheena Thompson

Owner

Embrace Consulting

Brian Aquart

Vice President Workforce & Community Education

Northwell Health

Adam Fein

Chief Digital Officer

University of North Texas

Gemma Lenowitz

Program Director of Social Enterprise

Samvid Ventures

Ryan Stowers

Executive Director

Charles Koch Foundation

2024 HPS speakers, leaders, and participants from…

Come build the future of work and learning

Employers face an increasingly challenging environment to hire talented people, retain employees, and build a workforce for the future.

At the same time, our education systems have the potential to partner with employers to build career-connected opportunities into the core of how we learn.

There is not one path to success. There are as many pathways as there are people, and we need work and learning systems that embrace this abundance of human potential. We need to come together to build these diverse pathways of economic mobility, from learning to work that values the potential and gifts of each individual.

Our nation, our citizens, our learners and workers, and our employers need an education system and labor market that value aptitudes and skills of each person as the appropriate measures of potential, not college degrees as the one path to success.

Come to the Human Potential Summit to help build the future of work and learning. Collaborate with employers, educators, innovators, startups, investors, non profits, foundations, government, and policy makers who are working to build a better future.

Build a movement.

Human Potential Summit 2025 Dates

TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON

Your Summit Experience

Purpose

Our mission: catalyze the movement of work and learning that centers on the individual and unlocks potential through aptitude and skill.

Employer Collaboration

Attend focused sessions on solving specific workforce challenges with leading employers who are building the movement. These sessions are all about employers co-creating with innovators, policymakers, funders and educators.

Immersion Sessions

Participate in industry and cross-industry sessions that elevate how peer employers and educators are driving progress with innovations that embrace the different ways we learn. Identify ways to implement innovations in your day-to-day by hearing case studies from leaders in your industry.

Keynote Speakers

Hear from leaders advancing the vision of the movement, sharing their wisdom and collaborating to capitalize on opportunities.

Collaboration

The Human Potential Summit is about innovation and co-creation. We will convene an Ideas marketplace where there is no selling, only deep discussion of challenges in work and learning paired with debate of potential solutions.

Community

Spend time with a community of innovative professionals all working to build a better future for the American workforce. Expand your network with leaders in their fields and our broader community of employers, educators, policymakers, funders and innovators.

L&D

Learn from our speakers, sessions, programming and the community in attendance.

Your Summit Experience

Purpose

Our mission: catalyze the movement of work and learning that centers on the individual and unlocks potential through aptitude and skill.

Employer Collaboration

Attend focused sessions on solving specific workforce challenges with leading employers who are building the movement. These sessions are all about employers co-creating with innovators, policymakers, funders and educators.

Immersion Sessions

Participate in industry and cross-industry sessions that elevate how peer employers and educators are driving progress with innovations that embrace the different ways we learn. Identify ways to implement innovations in your day-to-day by hearing case studies from leaders in your industry.

Keynote Speakers

Hear from leaders advancing the vision of the movement, sharing their wisdom and collaborating to capitalize on opportunities.

Collaboration

The Human Potential Summit is about innovation and co-creation. We will convene an Ideas marketplace where there is no selling, only deep discussion of challenges in work and learning paired with debate of potential solutions.

Community

Spend time with a community of innovative professionals all working to build a better future for the American workforce. Expand your network with leaders in their fields and our broader community of employers, educators, policymakers, funders and innovators.

L&D

Learn from our speakers, sessions, programming and the community in attendance.

Monday, October 14

Summit kickoff 3:30pm MT!

  • Keynotes

  • Dinner

  • Networking

Speakers from leading companies and talent innovators, including:

  • Amazon

  • Craig Hospital

  • ActivateWork

  • A surprise Grammy Award winning talent innovator

Tuesday, October 15

  • 20+ track sessions focused on case study style applied discussions

  • Keynotes

  • Workshops

  • Networking and three meals to make connections

  • Idea Marketplace presented by WGU Labs

Speakers from leading companies and talent innovators, including:

  • OpenAI

  • Trane Technologies

  • Alberici Group

  • Pinnacol Assurance

  • Western Governors University

Wednesday, October 16

  • 15+ track sessions and workshops

  • Keynotes

  • Breakfast and networking

Speakers from leading companies and talent innovators, including:

  • Verizon

  • LinkedIn

  • Siemens

  • Pacific Gas and Electric

Summit concludes 12:30pm MT!

Morning

Afternoon

Evening



Summit Program

The Human.

Part 1

Human potential is universal to all yet challenging to identify how we can unlock it. It all begins with an idea and inspiration.

How to build skill-based hiring starting from company values

Candace Nicolls

Director of People

Paddle Board Ventures

The Potential.

Part 2

Bringing together employers, educators and innovators in an environment primed to generate new solutions to protracted problems.

Take Action.

Part 3

The Summit concludes with hands on sessions and opportunities to collaborate as we build a movement.

Program Highlights

The Potential of the Formerly Incarcerated

Antong Lucky

President + Master Trainer

Urban Specialists

The Future of the American Dream

Todd Rose

Chief Executive Officer

Populace

Our Location

Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel

Book your room at the Summit reduced rate here.

Denver, Colorado

The Human Potential Summit 2024 was held at the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel in Denver, Colorado as it’s a leading community in career-connected education innovation.

Denver, Colorado: Where Rocky Mountains Meet Vibrant City Life

Welcome to Denver, the captivating capital of Colorado nestled at the foot of the magnificent Rocky Mountains. Offering an enticing blend of natural wonders, outdoor adventures, and urban charm, Denver has something for everyone.

Nature lovers are spoiled for choice with hundreds of miles of picturesque hiking and biking trails, world-class skiing and snowboarding opportunities, and breathtaking scenic vistas just a short drive away. Beyond its natural beauty, Denver is a dynamic metropolis, boasting a thriving arts and culture scene. The city is home to an array of museums, galleries, and theaters, offering delightful exhibitions, performances, and events that will captivate your imagination. Whether you're seeking thrilling outdoor escapades, cultural encounters, or simply a welcoming city brimming with charm, Denver has it all.

Contact us.

summit@hpcapital.co