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Speaker Biographies
SPEAKERS
Mary Nickles | KUTV 2 News Mary Nickles is an Emmy Award-winning Reporter and Anchor for KUTV 2 News. She joined the station in 1991 and currently co-anchors the news weekdays on 2News This Morning and 2News at Noon. In 2011, a mammogram for her news story found a malignant tumor. Her following stories chronicled her surgery, chemotherapy treatment, wig shopping, radiation, and long recovery. Those stories went on to win her an Emmy. In addition to working for KUTV 2 News, she is very active in our community as an advocate for health and a mentor for young people.
Dr. Jennifer Cummings | University of Utah Dr. Jennifer Cummings is an Associate Professor (Lecturer) in the management department at the David Eccles School of Business and is a certified conflict mediator and emotional intelligence consultant. Cummings’ areas of research include interpersonal and professional communication, leadership, conflict management, team relations, and public speaking, among others. Her papers have won several top paper awards from the Western States Communication Association and the National Communication Association, and she has been recognized at the David Eccles School of Business with the Daniels Fund Leadership in Ethics Education Award and the Brady Faculty Superior Teaching Award.
Sui Lang L. Panoke | Rethink International Sui Lang L. Panoke is the founder of Rethink International, a global social enterprise and international training organization designed to challenge people to rethink how and what they think. Sui Lang has trained thousands of leaders around the world leading in politics, business, government, higher education, nonprofits, and the media. Her areas of expertise include global leadership, personal empowerment, communications, branding, civil discourse, power speaking, diversity, inclusion, and unconscious bias. Most recently, Sui Lang co-founded the Inclusion Experience Project, which offers corporate diversity training to Utah’s business community aimed to elevate the consciousness of leaders.
