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Meet the Speakers
2024 Keynote Speaker: Jodi Glickman
Jodi Glickman is passionate about developing leaders – both seasoned executives and next-generation talent. As the CEO and founder of Great on the Job, Jodi and her team have reached hundreds of thousands of the brightest minds across corporate America and academia – working with many of the most influential organizations and iconic brands – counting LinkedIn, JP Morgan, Abbott, and Harvard Business School among their longest standing clients.
Jodi is also an adjunct faculty member at the Kellogg School of Management where she teaches the popular course Selling Yourself & Your Ideas. She has appeared on the TEDx stage (Why You Should Stop Looking for Work You Love), she is the author of the critically acclaimed book Great on the Job, What to Say, How to Say It, The Secrets of Getting Ahead (St. Martin’s Press), and she is a writer for the Harvard Business Review. Jodi lives in Chicago, IL with her husband and three children. She enjoys hiking, biking, and eating hot fudge sundaes, not necessarily in that order.
2024 Keynote Speaker: Kim Chaffin, PhD, PE
Kim Chaffin is a Vice President and Corporate Technologist, Medtronic Fellow, Bakken Fellow, and Technical Fellow in the Global Technology and Innovation group at Medtronic, Inc. She is a member of the Global Officers Team, approximately 150 of the most senior leaders in the company. Kim has responsibility for leading research projects to advance new technologies across all businesses.
Kim is a recognized expert in material thermodynamics and characterization, especially as it relates to structure-property relationships that govern long-term stability and performance. Kim joined Medtronic in 1999 and holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota (Advisor: Frank S. Bates) and master’s and bachelor’s degrees in chemical engineering from the University of Michigan. She is a licensed Professional Engineer in the state of Minnesota. She is an inventor of 19 issued patents and an author of many peer-reviewed publications. In late 2016, Kim returned to Minneapolis after a four-year assignment in Switzerland.
Kim’s husband, Paul, is the President of Molex’s Medical and Pharmaceutical Solutions business headquartered in Hudson, WI. Together they have two children, Cole, a graduate student in Mechanical Engineering, and Julia, a sophomore in Chemical Engineering, both at the University of Michigan.
Christian Hutter
Associate Director, Sustainability & Packaging | B. Braun Medical
Christophe Simon
Global Intelligence & Public Affairs – Corporate Director | STERIMED Group
Jenn Goff
Vice President of Sales, Marketing, and Innovation | Packaging Compliance Labs
Jennifer Benolken
MDM & Regulatory Specialist | DuPont Tyvek® Healthcare Packaging
John Schneider
Senior Manager, Global Supplier Management | Edwards Lifesciences
Joey Gotchnik
Materials Engineer II, Sustainability Development Center (SDC) | Medtronic
Lynne Barton
Vice President of Sealing Technologies and General Manager of CeraTek Sealers | SencorpWhite
Matthew TerBush
Director of Packaging Innovations | Packaging Compliance Labs
Melinda Harman, PhD
Associate Professor of Bioengineering | Clemson University
Min DeGruson, PhD
Associate Professor and Program Director, Packaging | University of Wisconsin-Stout
