Carla Diogo – Leader Development & Performance

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Carla is a learning and performance expert intrigued and inspired by the power of possibility, especially as it relates to an individual’s unique strengths and gifts. She has over 20 years of proven expertise in developing and implementing end-to-end strategies to build leaders and high-performing teams. She is known for her innovative and inclusive collaboration with peers, stakeholders, vendors and all levels of leadership.

Carla earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Finance from Simmons College in Boston, MA. Her first professional job in the retail training department of Shawmut Bank, a regional New England bank that later was acquired by Bank of America, began her passion for developing learning to bring out the best of every individual. She received her Master of Education Degree in Instructional Design from the University in Massachusetts in 2000. Throughout her 16 years at the bank, she developed learning experiences focused on a variety of topics including sales, diversity and inclusion, onboarding and professional skills.

In 2009, she joined Deloitte to focus on developing leaders. In 2011, she moved from Boston, MA to Dallas, TX to be closer to Deloitte University, a state of the art corporate leadership center for learning that sits on 109 acres in the city of Westlake, TX. Currently, she manages the year-long new leader experience to help them accelerate their transition from an employee to an owner mindset and determine their unique way to lead. Additionally, Carla is aligned to managing well-being programs which create the environment where everyone can bring their best selves to work and life. Over the past few years, Carla was a core team member who reinvented Deloitte’s performance management process – away from ratings towards more conversations between a team leader and a team member and real-time data to differentiate performance. In March 2015, Deloitte was featured on the cover of Harvard Business Review, Reinventing Performance Management.

Carla lives in Fort Worth, TX with her husband and energetic son. She enjoys cooking, traveling and listening (dancing) to all genres of music.

Melanie Pires – Fine Arts

Founder of Petite Moda, personal fashion, beauty & lifestyle blog

Melanie was born and raised in Edison, NJ and attended Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. In 2011 Melanie relocated to Texas with her Family and completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Graphic Design at Texas Woman’s University where she was also a member of Pioneers in Design and a Social Media Correspondent.

In 2015, Petite Moda was created in which Melanie has successfully demonstrated a unique and modest approach to representing Brands as well as being the face and style guide for Petite Women, helping them gain self esteem and confidence in the way they represent themselves through Fashion, Beauty and Lifestyle.

In the first year Melanie gained approximately 15K followers through out her social media channels and has partnered with many Brands some of which were not only well known high end luxury Brands but Brands that stand for a cause.

Melanie has also partnered with several events, she participated in a hair show by Paul Vega, Wella’s Color Charm Creative Director and was invited for NYFW by Aveda.

Melanie’s work has been featured in Mith Magazine as well as other popular websites such as LookBook, The Outfit and Niume.

Petite Moda is currently ranked #2306 out of 8,631 influencers in the Fohr Card Directory. This rank is calculated based on Petite Moda’s total unique followers, across Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

Melanie is also part of Reward Style, an invitation-only web tool that helps top tier style publishers find and monetize their content.

Melanie also does freelance Graphic Design and product photography. Her aspiration for the future is to continue to evolve as an Influencer and perhaps become a Creative Director one day.

João Nave – Civil Enginner

Country Manager of Cinterex

I came to Texas in August 2010, and my present occupation is being the Cinterex Us C.O.O., also known as Country Manager of the Company, my job consist in prepare bids to perform concrete works, like Bridges and Flat Works, and after that, manage the building process, managing human resources and all the additional resources needed to complete the projects, like materials and equipment.

The professional relationship with clients and owners are also a part important of my commitments.