A Free Livestream by Monitor
The Future is Now: Digital Collaboration & Automation Trends
Monitor is excited to announce our next livestream, “The Future is Now: Digital Collaboration & Automation Trends”! In this livestream we will take a look at how to effectively facilitate digital collaboration, looking at not only technology but human aspects as well. The panel will talk about what works and what doesn’t when it comes to digital collaboration and how to create the safety required for teams to communicate and collaborate effectively.
Topics covered:
Thursday, April 28, 2022
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm EST
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Moderator:
Deborah Reuben
CEO & Founder of TomorrowZone
Deborah “Deb” Reuben, CLFP, DES, is CEO and Founder of TomorrowZone, a technology strategy consultancy inspiring fresh ideas and collaborations to shape the future of business. She encourages new thinking to explore the art of the possible through her extensive technical knowledge, equipment finance experience, and passion for challenging the status quo. Her expertise will enhance and broaden your company’s products and services and create efficiencies that will produce a competitive advantage for your company.
Her view on digital transformation and future-readiness is radically different with over two decades of innovating, speaking, and most importantly, real-life, in-the-trenches innovation experience in finance and software industries. Reuben appreciates and shares with clients and audiences that digital transformation is less about the digital and more about the people. When it comes to thinking about technology, innovation, and the future, you can choose to act today to shape your future. The best investment you can make is investing in what’s between your ears by taking ownership of your personal growth. Everyone, regardless of role, must stay on top of technology and trends to stay ahead of tomorrow.
What surprises most clients is her ability to combine big company thinking and entrepreneurial ideas to create marketplace success. Her clients and audiences include companies like PNC, Wells Fargo, DLL Group, Huntington, Dell, Mitsubishi UFG, Caterpillar and Key Equipment Finance.
A member of ELFA’s Board of Directors, Reuben chairs the ELFA’s Technology Innovation Working Group and served on the Monitor Editorial Board, co-founded the Disrupted+ conference series with Monitor. She serves on the CLFP Foundation Board of Directors and authored The Certified Lease and Finance Professionals’ Handbook, 6th and 7th, and 8th editions. She is the recipient of both the CLFP Foundation Cindy Spurdle Award of Excellence and the ELFA Michael J. Fleming Distinguished Service Award. Monitor honored her as one of the 50 Most Powerful Women Leaders in Equipment Finance and, in 2021 and 2022, named TomorrowZone one of the most innovative companies in the equipment finance ecosystem.
Panelists:
Nick Fong
CMO & CTO at AP Equipment Finance
Nick Fong, CLFP is the CMO & CTO of AP Equipment Financing. Fong started his career in the equipment financing industry in 2010, working for an AP-owned originations group by the name of First Star Capital.
Fong’s career at AP has focused on collaborating with the executive team to develop holistic, contextual, and creative marketing strategies for AP’s target markets. Throughout his career Fong leveraged his curiosity for technology to explore and implement various platforms across the multiple departments of AP.
Acquiring his CLFP (Certified Lease & Finance Professionals) designation in 2014, he has helped instruct multiple ALFP (Academy for Lease & Finance Professionals) events over the past few years.
He resides in Bend, OR with his wife and their twin boys. They enjoy traveling, dining, and exploring Oregon. He has a B.A. in Marketing from San Diego State University and an M.B.A. from California State University East Bay where he double majored in Marketing Management and Financial Management.
Panelists:
Naomi Kool
Transformational Innovation Designer at DLL Group
Naomi Kool is 26 years old and Dutch, living in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. She is a transformational Innovation Designer in the Innovation team of DLL. Kool aims to transform people for innovation, through design, such as illustrations, design thinking, tangible prototypes and graphic design.
Panelists:
Brian Mohr
CEO & Co-founder at Anthym
Brian Mohr’s career is a learning-based journey with an intense focus on people, purpose, values, culture, and leadership. He has had amazing entrepreneurial and leadership experiences at Jobing.com, P.F. Chang’s China Bistro, Y Scouts and Conscious Capitalism Arizona. Today, Mohr is channeling his experiences and energy into helping organizations and their teams build trust, connection, and belonging in the rapidly accelerating remote and distributed workplace through his new company, Anthym.
Mohr is a Board Member and President Emeritus of the Arizona Chapter of Conscious Capitalism, a member of the Board of Directors of the Better Business Bureau of the Pacific Southwest, a TEDx speaker, and the co-author of “Hiring on Purpose – How the Y Scouts Method is Revolutionizing the Search for Leaders.”
His most important and cherished responsibilities are being the lucky father to his two daughters, Taylor and Riley, and the proud husband to his wife, Jackie. In his spare time, you’ll find Mohr practicing guitar and catching a live music concert every chance he can get.
Panelists:
Alex Scepansky
Customer Experience Management Consultant at DLL Group
Alex Scepansky started at DLL three and half years ago in a human relations role and has been working in DLL’s Innovation department as an innovation specialist for the past two years, working on design and implementation of innovation tools, digital transformation and customer experience. Scepansky lives in Philadelphia where she loves to explore new restaurants, practice yoga and ride her bike.