Globinar Global Chamber® New York City Get the Edge by Retaining Your Top Talent

Globinar Global Chamber® New York City Get the Edge by Retaining Your Top Talent

• Thursday, March 26th at 12noon ET / 9am PT / 4pm London + Accra 

This panel features leaders recognized for their authority in building and leading teams across small, mid-size, and enterprise organizations. They will share direct, proven insights on growth, engagement, and retention, grounded in what actually works to fuel performance. 

Built for business owners, founders, and senior leaders, this session focuses on practical leadership to gain a competitive edge. You’ll leave with clear actions you can use immediately to strengthen performance.

Speakers:

Minal Joshi Jaeckli - Founder of OpenElevator

Minal Joshi Jaeckli is the CEO and Founder of OpenElevator, a workforce analytics platform that gives leaders early visibility into retention risk so turnover never comes as a surprise.

She works with CEOs and executive teams who sense when something is shifting beneath the surface of their organizations, but lack clear proof. Through OpenElevator, she helps leaders replace instinct and anecdotes with defensible insight they can act on with confidence — from early warning signals to predictive hiring and team fit decisions.

Her work sits at the intersection of leadership, employee experience, and decision-making under uncertainty. She has spent years helping organizations understand why disengagement forms long before resignation — and how earlier visibility fundamentally changes leadership behavior.

Minal is also the author of The Goldilocks Team: Master Retention and Hiring, where she explores why teams succeed or fail not because of effort, but because of what leaders can and can’t see early enough.

Stacee Mandeville - Founder of Mandeville Method

Stacee Mandeville is an actor-turned leadership trainer and the founder of The Mandeville Method. Since 1999, she has helped leaders strengthen communication, emotional intelligence, and presence through practice-based training that creates real behavior change—not just insight. She brings a highly practical lens to leadership development, helping people get out of their heads and focus on the people in front of them.

Since 1999, Stacee has worked with executives and teams around the world to strengthen communication, emotional intelligence, and leadership presence—especially when the stakes are high. She created MM as a practice-based alternative to one-off leadership training, built on repetition, real application, and coaching—because leadership doesn’t fail in theory; it fails in moments.

She doesn’t teach leaders to perform—she teaches them to pay attention. Her work helps organizations build stronger teams and healthier cultures, reduce attrition, and drive measurable business results. Stacee has partnered with global organizations across industries, including government, healthcare, finance, technology, and professional services, supporting leaders at every level through periods of growth, change, and high pressure. 

Carla Watt - Founder of Watt Next Consultancy

A seasoned Sales Performance Partner with years of experience building, scaling, and revitalising sales teams in the UK. She specialises in helping businesses sell smarter, manage better, and keep the human element at the heart of sales. Known for transforming underperforming teams into high-performing, motivated units, Carla blends strategic process with the art of authentic conversation. She works with businesses at every stage - whether that means putting brand new teams in place or strengthening teams that are already established. Carla also brings a unique perspective on the differences between the US and UK markets - and why some approaches simply won’t land with British buyers. 

Susan Gitenstein Assadi - Executive Director at Global Chamber® New York City

Susan leads GAPR, a PR firm with an emphasis on expert and thought leadership campaigns. She is a highly respected national media strategist who helps her clients to be promoted to the national media, weaving in compelling stories that resonate with top media outlets. Her campaigns have enabled her clients to have features and recurring citations in The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Reuters and Bloomberg.  As a result of her campaigns, her clients have been boosted into leaders of their respective fields. Susan has over four decades representing public and private companies in the financial services, corporate governance and the proxy industry, alternative energy, and those with an emphasis on responsible business practices such as ESG. Most recently she has been working with disruptors who are helping to build the domestic supply chain of rare earth materials.  Susan also has represented some leading non-profits. She also co-founded Safed House, a non-profit, that provides a welcoming place for refugees and recent immigrants to share their stories.

Her firm’s campaigns are fresh, creative, tech savvy, and innovative, a cocktail that engenders powerful results.

Prior to founding her own PR firm, Susan was the publicist for PBS MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour.  She received a Master's Degree in Fine Arts from New York University, and obtained a Bachelor's Degree from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.