2024 National Registry Summit - Speakers

President & Chief Executive Officer, Alexander Success Group (ASG)

Through ASG, Alexander and his team provide leadership development, strategic business consulting, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion strategy development and training services for companies, associations, and organizations throughout the United States.  Alexander is a very popular speaker, averaging just over 50 speaking engagements each year.  Through his energetic and engaging presentations, he educates business professionals and college student audiences on leadership, strategy, ethics, and diversity. In addition to leading ASG, he also led the NASBA Center for the Public Trust, serving as president of the national ethics and leadership organization for nearly 20 years. In addition, he led ethics and diversity at NASBA as the chief ethics and diversity officer. Alfonzo also served as the president and is a board member of MaxxContent, LLC, providing digital educational content to governmental facilities, organizations and individuals throughout the United States.

Director, Assurance Learning and Development, EisnerAmper

Erika Bialek is the Director of Assurance Learning and Development at EisnerAmper, with over 20 years of experience in public accounting. Erika is responsible for designing audit curriculum, assessing and responding to assurance knowledge and learning needs, and executing projects to improve the assurance department’s ability to provide an effective, efficient, and compliant audit. Prior to joining the firm Erika was Senior Manager of Learning and Development at a national public accounting firm. During her 14 years there, she built their internal university from the ground up. Most recently, Erika had managed the technical learning and development for 3,600 professionals and her responsibilities included curriculum and content design, delivering training, and CPE sponsorship, to name a few. In addition to developing and designing curriculums, Erika ran continuing education compliance, the learning management system, the mentoring program, and the performance evaluation process. Before that, Erika was an auditor at a Big 4 accounting firm.

Courtney Clark is the luckiest unlucky person in the world. After witnessing the terrorist attacks of September 11th from her office just 18 blocks north, she thought she had escaped unscathed. Little did she know the events of 9/11 would cause her to develop cancer just a few years later. Her experiences caused her to become a researcher and author on resilience and adaptability, to help people achieve their goals even when everything changes. Courtney has built two successful businesses and is the author of three books, including her most recent book ReVisionary Thinking. She works with people who want to adapt faster and achieve more,and has spoken worldwide to organizations like Nike, Dell, Google, and Amazon. Courtney’s resilience work has been called “practical,” “powerful,”and “empowering” by industry leaders, and she’s been featured on CNN, CBS, ABC, Forbes, and USA Today. If she wasn’t writing and speaking about resilience, Courtney would have wanted to be a tap dancer. Thankfully for her audiences, she wasn't very good at it.

Vice President, Research and Analytics, Amplifire

Matt has over twenty years of experience analyzing and enhancing how people learn and remember. His Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology is from UCLA, where he worked with Drs. Elizabeth and Robert Bjork. He has conducted research on memory and learning and applied those findings to the design of training systems, intelligent tutors, multi-million-dollar simulators, and other educational experiences for civilian and military applications. His published articles have been cited hundreds of times and have been nominated for or won Best Paper awards at several conferences. Matt ensures that Amplifire is constantly improving its ability to accelerate learning and impede forgetting.

 

Jared Cooney Horvath (PhD, MEd) is a neuroscientist, educator, and author of the best-selling book Stop Talking, Start Influencing: 12 Insights from Brain Science to Make Your Message Stick. He has conducted research and lectured at Harvard University, Harvard Medical School, the University of Melbourne, and over 750 schools internationally. Jared has published 6 books, over 50 research articles, and his work has been featured in numerous popular publications, including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Economist, HBR, and PBS’s NOVA. He currently serves as Director of LME Global: a team dedicated to bringing the latest brain and behavioural research to businesses, schools, and organizations.

 

 

 

 

Director, Ethics & Compliance, PwC

Beth Hopkins is a director at PwC on the Ethics and Compliance team responsible for individual CPE compliance monitoring.  Beth’s career at PwC has spanned 39 years and has included working in audit, Learning & Development functions and Ethics & Compliance CPA licensing and CPE compliance areas.  Beth is a member of the NASBA CPE Standards Working Group and the Joint AICPA and NASBA Committee on CPE Standards and has helped to shape revisions to the CPE Standards for several years.

 

 

Managing Director, Accounting & Professional Services, Amplifire

Ann is a trusted and passionate leader, joining Amplifire after a decades-long career at Deloitte as a Managing Director. In her tenure with Deloitte, she led client teams driving revenue and relationships at the world’s largest companies. As a Chief of Staff, she led transformational initiatives, operations, and strategy for a $20B organization. She has a passion for leadership development and has created new leadership frameworks, implemented training to shift culture, and facilitated sessions for leaders at all levels at Deloitte University. Ann leads Amplifire’s Accounting and Professional Services vertical, including a recently launched Accounting and Professional Services Alliance.

 

Myra Roldan is an AI technologist, TEDx Speaker, and international public speaker. She stands at the forefront of artificial intelligence(AI), pioneering advancements and setting the stage for future innovations. With an illustrious career that began in 2004, Myra swiftly transitioned from nursing into the tech sphere, signaling the start of a remarkable journey. Since 2017, she has dedicated herself to AI development and research, emerging as a leading voice and consultant in the field. Her expertise has not only been recognized by Fortune 500 and 100 companies but also by international bodies such as the United Nations, underscoring her global influence and the trust placed in her insights. Her influence is palpable within the highest echelons of government. Myra has actively participated in discussions with the White House, contributing to the AI Initiative, and has been a consultant in the wake of President Biden's Executive Order on AI. This engagement highlights her pivotal role in shaping policies and practices that ensure the safe, secure, and trustworthy deployment of AI technologies. Myra's authority in the AI domain is further solidified through her published works. With five books to her name, her latest, "Unlocking the Power of AI" (TD Press, January 2024), is a critical resource for understanding AI's potential and application. Her ability to translate complex ideas into engaging, accessible content was also evident in her TEDx Talk on the transformative poser of VR, captivating a global experience.

 

Deputy Chief Legal Officer, NASBA

Elizabeth Wolfe, Esq., is Deputy Chief Legal Officer at the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA). Her practice areas focus on regulatory law, administrative law, and legislative policy as it pertains to the accounting profession. Ms. Wolfe enjoys assisting NASBA’s many different internal departments and business lines with legal advice as well as externally supporting the efforts of NASBA’s member boards. She currently serves as the staff liaison for the Enforcement Resources Committee and oversees the planning of NASBA's annual Legal Counsel Conference. In addition to her regulatory law practice, Ms. Wolfe oversees the efforts of the ADA Team as it pertains to Testing Accommodations for the CPA Exam. Prior to joining NASBA, Ms. Wolfe was Assistant General Counsel at the Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance in the Regulatory Boards Division. There, she provided legal advice regarding state licensure, Federal Anti-Trust law, the Tennessee Open Records Act, and the Tennessee Open Meetings Act. Ms. Wolfe graduated cum laude from the University of Tennessee where she double majored in art history and political science. She attended law school at Belmont University College of Law where she served as vice president of the Student Bar Association. She is an active member of the Nashville Bar Association, Nashville Bar Association Young Lawyer’s Division, and the Tennessee Bar Association Young Lawyer’s Division. Ms. Wolfe volunteers her time with the Belmont Law Inn of Court where she mentors first year law students. Ms. Wolfe was named one of Nashville’s Top 30 Under 30 in 2018 for her professional achievements and community involvement. Ms. Wolfe was pleased to be a member of the 2023-2024 Nashville Bar Foundation Leadership Forum. Ms. Wolfe enjoys spending time in her hometown of Nashville, Tennessee, with her husband, three year old daughter and one year old son.