Ryan is a 10-year veteran of the National Football League (NFL). In 2015 he became a Super Bowl Champion with the Denver Broncos. He has also played for the Houston Texans, Kansas City Chiefs, and Pittsburgh Steelers before retiring in 2016. Today he shares his expertise as a color analyst on a number of sports radio and television programs.

Ryan graduated from Notre Dame with two degrees, one in Economics and Policy, the other in Political Science. Ryan is the author of Mindset for Mastery: An NFL Champion’s Guide to Reaching Your Greatness. It is an excellent compassion book to Ryan’s Mindset for Mastery speech and provides strategies and steps learned from his personal life experiences. The books help to guide and motivate anyone wanting to achieve goals, dreams, and wishing to reach their full potential.

Kristen is a licensed and Board Certified Behavior Analyst who serves as division director of clinical operations for BAYADA Behavioral Health. She has provided applied behavior analysis (ABA) services for individuals across the lifespan in various settings and served as faculty for graduate-level courses in behavior analysis and ethics. Kristen has served on multiple boards and committees, including president for the Hawai’i Association for Behavior Analysis (HABA).

Whether in an official capacity or of her own volition, Kristen has tirelessly dedicated numerous hours to advocacy and advancement of systems for access to behavioral services. In 2019, she received the Outstanding Sustained Advocacy Award at the Autism Law Summit for her efforts related to consumer access to services, supporting families in rural and underserved areas, and focusing on increasing provider knowledge related to autism policy. In 2020, she received the Champion Award from the University of Massachusetts Medical Center’s Autism Insurance Resource Center for her assistance with telehealth implementation in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Michelle has been a registered nurse for 34 years and a certified wound, ostomy, continence nurse (CWOCN) for 17 years. She has spent the last 10 years with BAYADA, and currently provides care for clients in Maryland and Virginia.

She earned a bachelor’s in nursing from Towson University and a master’s in nursing from the University of Maryland. She obtained her CWOCN certificate from a program called WIC Educational Associates in Pennsylvania and was a one of kind program at the time incorporating a didactic and clinical component which she completed at Johns Hopkins University.

Michelle has developed wound education programs from the ground up. She served as a consultant to nurses, rehabilitation disciplines, and physicians; served as a member of the National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Task Force; and developed treatment guidelines for clinicians. She has been a member of the Wound Ostomy and Continence Association and served as an active member of the National WOCN Education and Advocacy Committees as well as a liaison to the Professional Practice Committee. She developed a monthly wound education program for all incoming clinicians at BAYADA and participates in various BAYADA committees addressing policy and procedure review and changes.

Kathleen is the Managing Principal at Praxis Consulting Group and brings 25 years of consulting experience to her work with leaders, teams, and organizations. Her broad exposure to organizational life enables her to see desired outcomes clearly and support her clients in achieving them. She is particularly effective in helping to create strategic advantage through the development of leaders.

Kathleen combines her knowledge of organization and leadership development with her extensive experience working in the health care industry and leads the health care practice within Praxis. Her diverse client list includes Aqua Engineers, BAYADA Home Health Care, Comcast Corporation, Einstein Healthcare Network, Inspira Healthcare Network, Inergy Automotive Systems, Sentry Equipment Corporation, Penn Center for Community Health Workers, and Play on Philly!

Kathleen is also an adjunct faculty member at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, where she teaches Organizational Communication. She holds a BA in Communications from the University of Denver.

Tony has been practicing respiratory therapy since 1995 in the acute, long-term, and home care settings and has specialized in pediatric home care ventilation for over 25 years. Tony has served in many roles including director of respiratory for three different organizations. He is currently the vice president of respiratory sales for PromptCare.

Tony continues to stay involved in ventilation through transitioning patients to home ventilators with the physicians in the hospital and out-patient settings, and by providing ventilator in-services for hospitals and nursing agencies.

Sue has been a registered nurse for 30 years. She has worked in New York, Georgia, and New Jersey in various health care settings including hospitals, long-term Care (sub-acute) facilities and physicians’ offices. She has worked with many home health care and hospice companies in the NJ area. She also provides community flu shots during flu season.

Sue's first eight years of nursing were spent working in Med-Surg/Oncology. She was OCN and ACLS certified and has CPR Instructor training. She also has more than 20 years of hospice experience, both as a field clinician, a team Manager, and a clinical manager.

During her six-year tenure with BAYADA, Sue has worked as a clinical manager for a hospice office and a clinical educator for both the Home Health and Hospice practices.

Diane has been a nurse for 23 years, and nursing was a second career for her, as she spent her first seven years after college in the health insurance industry. She earned a BA in Biology from Lafayette College; a BS in Nursing from York College of Pennsylvania; and a master’s in Nursing Administration and Leadership from Chamberlain College of Nursing. She holds professional certifications in perianesthesia nursing and as a nurse executive.

Although most of her experience has been in the surgical environment, she spent two years in the Emergency Department as a sexual assault forensic examiner (SAFE) nurse. Throughout the years, she has also served as an adjunct faculty member at York College of Pennsylvania. She was the nurse manager of the post anesthesia care unit and short stay unit at WellSpan Health York Hospital in York, PA for almost 10 years and is currently the director of surgical services for WellSpan Health Ephrata Community Hospital in Ephrata, PA.

Diane is passionate about working with her staff to create healthy and caring work environments, and it is one of her main motivators for joining Dr. Renee Thompson’s Healthy Workforce Institute. On the topics of bullying and incivility, Diane has been a guest presenter at Sigma Theta Tau’s International conference on Creating Healthy Work Environments, Johns Hopkins Advanced Nursing Leadership Academy, the Student Nurses Association of Pennsylvania’s state conference, and the Pennsylvania Association of Perianesthesia Nurses state conference. She also served on the American Nurses Association #EndNurseAbuse Professional Issues Panel Advisory Committee. In her own health care system, Diane has conducted workshops on bullying and incivility for over 3,000 staff members and continues to be the subject expert for her organization. At her former hospital in York, she served on both the hospital-wide workplace violence committee and the employee engagement committee, specifically addressing the topic of abusive behavior.

In March of 2022, Diane presented at the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL) conference in San Antonio, Texas. The topic addressed the need for leadership development, and how she worked with the frontline leaders in her organization to provide them with the educational tools needed to develop and sustain a professional, compassionate, and healthy workforce.

BT earned her bachelor’s in business administration from Fort Valley State University in Georgia and her master’s degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She has over 15 years of experience working in private, public, and non-profit organizations. In her last role as assistant director of diversity and inclusion recruitment for the University of South Carolina, she was responsible for implementing a comprehensive diversity recruitment plan and developing relationships with internal and external partners.

As program manager for BAYADA, she is responsible for developing, managing, and executing enterprise-wide diversity, equity, and inclusion strategies and initiatives. BT partners with team members representing BAYADA’s specialty practices by providing coaching, training, and diversity-related resources.

Prior to his current role as director of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) at BAYADA, Joe served as chief diversity officer and lead consultant at Deb Russell Inc. In that role, he was responsible for conducting DEI assessments with business clients around the globe to determine DEI needs and identify growth opportunities. In addition, Joe provided executive and leadership coaching to individuals on inclusive management tools and practices and provided input on internal policy design and implementation.

Prior to this, Joe served as the corporate field inclusion manager for Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA), where he was responsible for an initiative to recruit, hire, and retain individuals with disabilities in the company’s workforce.

With over 15 years HR and diversity experience, he is experienced in how behaviors and attitudes can be improved through hiring practices, training programs, and feedback systems. He has worked with a variety of companies representing academic, not-for-profit, and the for-profit sector. Joe’s interests revolve around diversity and inclusion, equity and equality, training and development, work/life balance, motivation, and organizational climate. He also serves as the president of the board for Disability: IN Connecticut and has been appointed as a member of the Connecticut State Rehabilitation Council and The CT Governor’s Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities.

Crystal earned a BS in Psychology with an emphasis in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) in 1994, and a Master of Education in 2001 from Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania — a program in which she later taught as an adjunct professor. She became a Board Certified Associate Behavior Analyst (BCaBA) in 1997 in Florida, where certification in the field originated. She is a charter certificant of the Behavior Analyst Certification Board and served on the organization’s board of directors for four years. After 23 years of practicing as a BCaBA, Crystal sat for her boards in November 2020 and became a full Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA). Crystal has also served as an adjunct professor for Rowan University in the Psychology/ABA department since 2006.

Throughout her career, Crystal has worked as a behavior analyst, teacher, program director and learning consultant in public and private facilities and in homes. She has treated children with autism spectrum disorder, bipolar disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Tourette syndrome, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and many other conditions, working in partnership with their parents and educators. She has had the privilege of providing these services in Florida, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Nova Scotia, Canada before returning to New Jersey in 2016.