OPENING Keynote Speaker
Ama agyapong
A seasoned human resources and talent development leader, master facilitator, and inclusion advocate, Ama Agyapong, known as "That Inclusion Lady," is devoted to helping organizations build inclusive, high-performing workplaces. With more than 15 years of experience in corporate HR, talent development, and training, she challenges professionals to think differently, lead with inclusion, and create lasting impact.
Her high-energy, highly interactive keynotes blend storytelling, real-world examples, and open dialogue to move audiences beyond awareness and into action. Her signature topics include inclusive leadership, navigating tough conversations with confidence, turning DEI commitments into measurable and sustainable change, and creating a culture of constructive feedback built on trust, engagement, and accountability.
Ama has delivered keynotes, trainings, and workshops for leading professional associations and global organizations, including SHRM, NLADA, IMA, and NAAAHR.
Ama doesn't just speak, she ignites transformation. Her sessions equip leaders and teams to create workplaces where inclusion, trust, and growth thrive.
closing Keynote Speaker
dr. nkosi a. leary
A Marine Corps veteran, operational turnaround leader, and educator, Dr. Nkosi Leary is devoted to helping organizations build systems that perform. With a diagnostic eye and uncompromising standards, he steps into complex environments, identifies what is not working, and builds what holds.
Over twenty-six years in the United States Marine Corps, he rose from helicopter crew chief to senior aviation operations manager. He was repeatedly tasked with stabilizing struggling units, diagnosing failures in process, people, and accountability, and rebuilding them to pass any inspection, on any day, with no advance warning.
Today, he leads Kumasi Solutions, a consulting practice focused on high-reliability leadership and operational turnaround, teaches at Morehouse College, and serves on the board of the Development Authority of the City of South Fulton.
Dr. Leary does not do motivational, and he does not do generic. He delivers post-engagement debriefs, written deliverables, and measurable change. He left the uniform, but never the work: take complexity, find the failure point, and build something that holds.
2026 BOLD Summit Speakers
Michael Boykin, Director, Health, Safety, Security at Louisiana Chemistry Association
Dr. Randall Butler, Sr. Manager Safety Culture & Human Performance at Consumers Energy
Arianna Bailey Howard, Co-Founder of Syncra Group
Gwendolyn Jordan-Howard, Sr. Regional Director Environmental Health Safety Sustainability at Hoshizaki Alliance
Terry Keel, Director EHS&S at Kite Pharma
Jasmine "Red" Khai, Consultant, Occupational Health & Safety at Coca-Cola North America
Marie D. Milord, Founder of SöMat Culture Consulting LLC and creator of The Bold and Safe
Dr. Pauline Rotich, Global EHS Leader at Microsoft
Alexandra Roy, Director Health and Safety at The Coca-Cola Company
Markeith Young, Staff Vice President Global Health and Safety at Elevance Health
Charlotte King, MS, President & CEO at The Climate Consortium of the Commons