Meet Cassie Bixler: master of change management, learning development guru, and occasional cat-herder of complex projects at NYSTEC. By day, she wrangles large-scale technology initiatives for government initiatives; by night, she moonlights as President of the Capital Region ATD, leading with the grace of a caffeinated juggler.

A Prosci-certified change wizard, Cassie once convinced a fax machine to send an email. When she’s not orchestrating transformation, she’s embracing the chaos of improv comedy because what’s change management if not an unscripted performance?

Tonight, she’s not just judging your comedy, she’s secretly drafting a change strategy to make it even funnier.

Jeannine Smith has 35 years’ experience in corporate communications and public relations and was instrumental in bringing Sculpture in the Streets back to downtown Albany in 2008 after a multi-year hiatus and in enticing one of Run-DMC’s founders, Darryl McDaniels, to travel to Albany to discuss his adoption experience. She’s currently the marketing communications manager at NYSTEC, a statewide technology consulting firm. Jeannine loves silly people with great senses of humor, travel, writing, cooking and entertaining, playing with her Goldendoodle and hanging with her kids. She is anti-Oxford-comma, and if you’re not, she’ll battle you to the death.