Sr. Automotive Strategist
Angie Cucco, who hails from Northern Michigan, has spent the past 16 years working as a digital advertising expert at Google. Working at Google in “The Motor City” means that she has worked with many large automotive advertisers, including Stellantis, Ford, Nissan, GM, Kelley Blue Book, Cars.com and countless others.
Before coming to work at Google, Angie spent several years living and working in Italy, and continues to spend a lot of time there. Currently, she specializes in automotive retail: educating and consulting with dealers on everything from SEM to programmatic buying to video strategies.
Global Leader, Talent Brand Marketing
Brenda is a seasoned marketing, communications and talent attraction leader and consultant with a passion for growing short and long-term customer value with accolades, viral campaigns, and record-breaking revenue achievements to show for it. She is most proud of her work in guiding or coaching her team members across global regions in high-growth campaigns while also supporting company culture, DEI, and ESG initiatives. Living by the mantra “progress over perfection,” she enjoys leveraging her diverse experiences, education and cross-collaboration as a thought leader to build data-driven bespoke, integrated marketing, people and talent teams strategies. Outside of work she enjoys the outdoors, sports, fine arts, and running, staying active in her community and traveling abroad with her family and friends.
Executive Leadership Coach
Executive Leadership Coach with over 12 years of coaching, consulting, training and development experience at Fortune 500 companies. I have deep experience as a senior leader in sales and operations from my 13+ years at Google and now use that expertise to successfully coach leaders in all industries.
Expertise in Executive Coaching, Talent Development, Leadership Learning Development, Succession Planning, Business Culture Consulting, Curriculum Design, Team Development Consulting, Program and Project Management, Career Coach, Training. Experienced in developing and facilitating engaging curriculum and programs for virtual teams. I create one to one and one to many coaching experiences where leaders can thrive and realize their fullest potential.
CERTIFIED: The Leadership Circle, Google’s ReWork Effective Team Development Instructor, International Coaching Federation (ICF) member, Coaching out of the Box
Over 10,000 hours coaching and leadership learning and development training experience.
Public speaking experience in creating custom experiences for small and large groups.
Head of Product
Lorraine Vargas Townsend (she/her) is an experienced coach and Chief People Officer with more than 20 years of experience as an HR executive. She is the CPO at ESO in Austin, Texas. She serves on the board of directors at Arms Wide Adoption Services and previously led HR at A Cloud Guru, Mendix and athenahealth.
As queer, latinx, and a daughter of an immigrant, her life’s mission is to develop people-first HR policies to go beyond tokenism and build an inclusive, anti-racist workplace.
She has been featured in Fast Company, the Wall Street Journal, and invited to speak on several podcasts about HR disruption and innovation and has been invited to keynote events such as the Women in Tech Festival, Silicon Valley Organization, Siemens Digital Summit, Sharp Heels Conference for Women in Business.
Because of her progressive HR practices, she has been recognized as a Female Health IT Leader to Know, and in 2019 was named one of the Leading Latinas by Hispanic Executive Magazine.
Lorraine lives in Austin with her wife, Cyn, and their daughter, Flo.
Chief People Officer
Lorraine Vargas Townsend (she/her) is an experienced coach and Chief People Officer with more than 20 years of experience as an HR executive. She is the CPO at ESO in Austin, Texas. She serves on the board of directors at Arms Wide Adoption Services and previously led HR at A Cloud Guru, Mendix and athenahealth.
As queer, latinx, and a daughter of an immigrant, her life’s mission is to develop people-first HR policies to go beyond tokenism and build an inclusive, anti-racist workplace.
She has been featured in Fast Company, the Wall Street Journal, and invited to speak on several podcasts about HR disruption and innovation and has been invited to keynote events such as the Women in Tech Festival, Silicon Valley Organization, Siemens Digital Summit, Sharp Heels Conference for Women in Business.
Because of her progressive HR practices, she has been recognized as a Female Health IT Leader to Know, and in 2019 was named one of the Leading Latinas by Hispanic Executive Magazine.
Lorraine lives in Austin with her wife, Cyn, and their daughter, Flo.
VP, Product Marketing
Majaliwa Bass is the Vice President of Product Marketing at Thomson Reuters, responsible for managing their tax software portfolio of products. In her role, she helps drive the power and scale of Thomson Reuters to best serve their customers. Prior to joining Thomson Reuters, Majaliwa held several positions of increasing responsibility including leading product marketing at Johnson & Johnson, Frito-Lay, and Intuit and product management at QuickBooks, Capital One, and Cox Automotive.
Her daily intention is to inspire those around her to push beyond the status quo. Over the years, this has resulted in Majaliwa establishing a reputation as a leader that builds better businesses through data-driven insights, ruthless prioritization, developing the best teams, and accelerating an organization’s ability to adapt and innovate.
Majaliwa holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Michigan.
CEO & Co-Founder
Meg is the CEO and Co-Founder of Inspirant Group, home of the Unconsultants who guide clients from inspiration to transformation.
In an era ushering in more digitization and automation, Meg still believes that humans are any organization’s greatest asset and has focused her career on helping people reach their full potential in life, both in the work they do and beyond.
Inspirant is Meg’s second start up. Prior to creating the disruptive consulting company with her two partners, she founded and ran Colette Allen Consulting, a boutique learning and development firm focused on helping people “LEARN to love your work.”” Keeping true to her people first beliefs, she co-founded Colette Allen Charities with her husband, an organization centered on supporting individuals inspired to improve their lives through education and training.
Meg was named to Crain’s Chicago Business 2022 Notable Gen X Leaders in Accounting, Consulting and Law . Inspirant Group is employee-certified as a Great Place to Work in the US and has been recognized by BuiltIn on its 22 Chicago Startups to Watch in 2022 and as Best Remote Places to Work in the US in 2021, 2022, and 2023. A member of the Forbes Business Council, Meg writes about company culture and best practices for creating a human centric organization where people feel valued and have the opportunity to thrive.
CEO & Co-Founder
Meg is the CEO and Co-Founder of Inspirant Group, home of the Unconsultants who guide clients from inspiration to transformation.
In an era ushering in more digitization and automation, Meg still believes that humans are any organization’s greatest asset and has focused her career on helping people reach their full potential in life, both in the work they do and beyond.
Inspirant is Meg’s second start up. Prior to creating the disruptive consulting company with her two partners, she founded and ran Colette Allen Consulting, a boutique learning and development firm focused on helping people “LEARN to love your work.”” Keeping true to her people first beliefs, she co-founded Colette Allen Charities with her husband, an organization centered on supporting individuals inspired to improve their lives through education and training.
Meg was named to Crain’s Chicago Business 2022 Notable Gen X Leaders in Accounting, Consulting and Law . Inspirant Group is employee-certified as a Great Place to Work in the US and has been recognized by BuiltIn on its 22 Chicago Startups to Watch in 2022 and as Best Remote Places to Work in the US in 2021, 2022, and 2023. A member of the Forbes Business Council, Meg writes about company culture and best practices for creating a human centric organization where people feel valued and have the opportunity to thrive.
Head of Strategy & Operations
Samira is an accomplished manager with 14+ years of sales, operations and team leadership experience. Expertise in vendor operations, sales management and cross functional project management. Demonstrated ability to consistently exceed revenue and operations targets, with a focus on team development, business strategy and process improvement.
VP, People Operations
Bonusly’s VP of People Operations, Vicki Yang, has nearly 20 years of experience in human resources across different industries and roles, from non-profits to high-growth technology. She’s a people leader who is seen as a departmental guide for all functions and helps drive positive business outcomes in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment. She loves building up the incremental value of individuals and teams within an organization via leadership and coaching strategies. Vicki leans in on and devotes most of her time to company-wide performance management administration, DEI initiatives, organizational development, employee recognition and engagement. Previously, Vicki held positions with Google, Looker, and Electronic Arts (EA).
