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When leaders want to break team silos,drive exponential growth and innovate through teamwork,they call Erica Dhawan.

Erica Dhawan is an internationally recognized leading authority, speaker andadvisor on 21st century teamwork, collaboration and innovation. Named byThinkers50 as the “Oprah of Management Thinkers”, she is the author of two books Get Big Things Done: The Power of Connectional Intelligence and Digital Body Language: How to Build Trust and Connection, No Matter the Distance. It’s 2021, the world of business is increasingly digital and work practices havechanged at a blistering rate. Erica shares innovative strategies to unlock thecollective power of teams, build a culture of trust across any distance andcreate authentic engagement to ensure competitiveness. Rated #1 on the Top Women Keynote Speakers of 2020 and featured as one of the management thinkers most likely to shape the future of business, Erica frequently appears in Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and Wall Street Journal.Erica speaks on global stages ranging from the World Economic Forum at Davos to TEDx and for companies such as Coca-Cola, FedEx, Goldman Sachs,Walmart, SAP, and Cisco. She has degrees from Harvard University, MIT Sloan,and The Wharton School.

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David Ritter is a Managing Director at ALM First, who works with clients by focusing on both their quantitative and qualitative strategic growth initiatives; whether via facilitating an entire merger and acquisition process, conducting strategic planning, building customized sophisticated yet practical financial scenario analyses models for clients, or creating de novo business plans. 

David provides a multitude of advisory services to clients, including merger and acquisition guidance, business valuation and strategic planning. He has worked with credit unions, banks, mortgage companies and CUSOs to help build strategies and move quickly towards their financial goals. From prospecting merger opportunities for clients, to establishing effective financial and operational negotiations for new business, to deal closing and post-merger integration, he is completely hands-on in the entire merger and acquisition process. David also helps clients understand the true value of their business through a wide range of financial valuation services.

David earned his Bachelor of Arts in Business Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, his Master of Business Administration from Carnegie Mellon, Tepper School of Business and is a Certified Valuation Analyst. 
 

Joe is a Managing Director at Darling Consulting Group, where he works directly with senior management teams on building customized balance sheet strategies to improve earnings and manage risk. Joe strives to be an expert in overall Asset Liability Management and educates ALCOs in the inevitable balance of financial performance and regulatory appeasement. He is a frequent speaker on ALM topics and strives to make the complex simple while bringing a high level of energy to his sessions. 

Joe has been with DCG since 2005, where he has benefited from working with nearly a thousand ALCOs throughout the country on ALM and strategic initiatives. He lives in Boxford, MA with his wife and two children and has been an active member with the Big Brothers Big Sisters program. Joe is a graduate of University of New Hampshire with a degree in finance.
 

Kevin’s entrepreneurial approach to leadership and sales helps the team readily uncover pain points to bring credit unions solutions that best fit their unique needs.  He has a reputation for encouraging creative, non-traditional problem-solving capabilities to drive success across teams.
 
Before joining AdvantEdge Digital, Kevin led the Financial Institution sales team of Compliance Systems. In this role, Kevin drove continued growth of the client base working in concert with an extensive Lending, Deposit, and Core FinTech partner network.
 
Kevin holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) with a Dual Concentration in Business and Marketing.