Keynote Speakers

Perhaps you or a colleague were passed over for a prime opportunity despite doing impactful work. Maybe you watched a valuable team member leave because they felt undervalued. If you are independent, you may wonder why your client list has stalled.

Excellent work alone is no longer enough to fuel career momentum. Increasingly, the right people need to recognize the value of your work. This disconnect between your work, its impact, and how others perceive it is the visibility gap.

This session offers a different approach to visibility focused on contribution rather than self-promotion. You will explore a clear model for assessing visibility and practical ways to stand out by making valuable contributions.

During this keynote, you will learn how to:

• Recognize why excellent work alone may not be sufficient for career momentum or business success.
• Apply a service-oriented visibility framework that emphasizes contribution over self-promotion.
• Identify psychological, cultural, and environmental barriers that limit recognition and opportunity.

Meet the Speaker

Connie Malamed

Founder and Mentor
Mastering Instructional Design Community

Connie Malamed helps people strengthen their instructional design skills and professional visibility through her courses and community, Mastering Instructional Design, and her coaching program, Visibility Coaching for Learning Professionals. Connie is an international speaker and the author of Visual Design Solutions and Visual Language for Designers. She shares practical insights through her long-running site and podcast, The eLearning Coach.

Performance and well-being are often treated as an impossible trade-off: perform at a high level or protect your well-being. When the tension grows, for our learners or ourselves, the first instinct is often to look for another solution: another tool, another initiative, another way to help people do more, cope better, or work differently. But what if we have been overlooking something hiding in plain sight: the work itself?

Blending cutting-edge science, engaging storytelling, and practical application, organizational behavior professors and Thinkers50 Radar honorees Dr. Allison Gabriel and Dr. Kate Zipay invite you to pay closer attention to your relationship with work. Drawing on the Working Well Framework, they will explore how the everyday decisions, practices, and assumptions that shape work also shape performance, motivation, and well-being.

Whether you are seeking to craft learning experiences that help employees feel supported, facilitate classrooms of people feeling pulled in two directions, or figure out this balance for yourself, you will leave with practical, evidence-based strategies to help people and the work they do thrive together.

During this keynote, you will learn how to:

• Attune to the demands of work and the realities of the moment.
• Discern wiser ways of working and supporting learners in their work.
• Sustain both high performance and well-being over time.

Kate P. Zipay, PhD

Associate Professor of Management
Associate Director of Research & Impact
Purdue Center for Working Well

Kate P. Zipay, PhD, is an associate professor of management and associate director of research & impact at the Purdue Center for Working Well in Purdue University’s Mitch Daniels School of Business. Her research explores how experiences both inside and outside of work shape how people think, feel, and perform, with the goal of helping people build healthier, more sustainable relationships with work.

Kate’s research has been published in leading management journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organization Science, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. She was recognized as one of Poets & Quants’ Top 40 Undergraduate Business Professors and, together with collaborator Allison Gabriel, was named to the Thinkers50 Radar Class of 2026, recognizing emerging management thinkers whose ideas are shaping the future of leadership and work.

Kate and Allison also received BetterUp’s Center for Purpose & Performance Research Prize for their collaborative work on Intuitive Working, a research program exploring healthier, more sustainable ways of working.

Before entering academia, Kate began her career in Big Four professional services, giving her a perspective that helps bridge rigorous organizational science and the realities of today’s workplace.

Allison “Allie” Gabriel, PhD

Thomas J. Howatt Chair in Management
Director, Purdue Center for Working Well

Allison “Allie” Gabriel, PhD, is the Thomas J. Howatt chair in management and director of the Purdue Center for Working Well in Purdue University’s Mitch Daniels School of Business. Her research explores how people can build healthier, more sustainable relationships with work while continuing to perform at a high level. She is an internationally recognized scholar of employee well-being, emotions, motivation, workplace relationships, recovery, and women’s experiences at work.

Allie’s research has been published in leading management journals and featured in outlets including Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fast Company, CNN, and Psychology Today. Her contributions to the science of work have earned numerous national and international honors, including election as a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, one of the field’s highest professional distinctions.

Together with collaborator Kate Zipay, Allie was named to the Thinkers50 Radar Class of 2026. They also received BetterUp’s Center for Purpose & Performance Research Prize for their collaborative research on Intuitive Working, which explores healthier, more sustainable ways of working.

In addition to leading the Purdue Center for Working Well, Allie serves as senior editor for micro research at the Journal of Management. She is passionate about translating organizational science into practical ideas that help leaders and organizations thrive.