Offsite for Offsites

Jenny Sauer-Klein

FOUNDER, THE CONFERENCE FOR CONFERENCES + THE PRIMARY SHIFT

Jenny Sauer-Klein specializes in developing dynamic learning experiences that help companies engage their employees and bring their culture to life. Through her workplace design studio The Primary Shift, she has designed and facilitated offsites for companies like Airbnb, Google, Autodesk, Cisco and Genentech. She is also the founder and director of The Conference for Conferences, an event that gathers leaders to reimagine the conference paradigm to be more participatory, emergent and human. She has been featured in The New York Times, Forbes, Fast Company, and Inc., as well as Tim Ferriss' book Tools of Titans.

Liz Tan

Chief of Staff, Autodesk

Liz Tan is a Chief of Staff at Autodesk, where she partners with her VP and leadership team to drive strategy, communication, connection, and belonging across an organization of 400 people. Over her 30+ year career, largely at Autodesk, Liz has led teams across product development, M&A integration, and operations, with a consistent focus on impactful leadership and bringing people and teams together. A big believer in the value of stepping away from the day-to-day, Liz leads offsites ranging from small leadership teams to groups of 80+. She loves creating experiences that get people talking, connecting--and having some fun along the way.

Smiley Poswolsky

Workplace Culture Keynote Speaker

When companies want to drive culture transformation and increase trust, belonging, human connection, and team engagement, they call ADAM “SMILEY” POSWOLSKY. Smiley is an internationally renowned keynote speaker, workplace belonging expert, and bestselling author of four books that have been translated into multiple languages, including The Quarter-Life Breakthrough, Friendship in the Age of Loneliness, and The Workplace Belonging Toolkit. Smiley shares industry-shaping insights and practical tools to attract and retain top talent across generations, create a culture of belonging, and engage high-performing teams, at world-class organizations like Apple, Google, Verizon, JPMorgan Chase, Mayo Clinic, and the U.S. Navy. Smiley’s TED talk has been viewed 2 million times, and he has delivered 700 keynotes in front of 500,000 people in 25 countries. Smiley’s work has been featured in 100 media outlets, including Harvard Business Review, the Wall St. Journal, Fast Company, the New York Times, the New Yorker, and the World Economic Forum.

Niki Lustig

Culture & People Development Programs Lead, Waymo

With 20 years of experience building L&D functions from scratch across high-growth tech leaders—including Waymo, Patreon, Rivian, LinkedIn, GitHub, and Twitter—Niki Lustig specializes in designing developmental experiences that inspire individual and organizational transformation. Based in Oakland, CA, Niki balances scaling learning impact with painting abstract art, hunting for the East Bay's best ramen, and managing her curious 5-year-old son, Josh.

Mike Wang

Chief Product Officer, Long Journey

Mike Wang is the Chief Product Officer at Long Journey. He builds worlds and environments that help founders develop as leaders and build high-trust, high-performing teams. He believes deeply in the power of intentional space, both physical and relational, to spark human ingenuity. At Long Journey, Mike leads brand, experiences, community, and value-add. Before joining Long Journey, Mike helped build and launch new models of higher education, launching a new college at Minerva University and a new institution for learners at Arizona State University. Earlier in his career, he worked in investment banking at Barclays Capital where he learned to love understanding how companies operate. He is a proud storyteller at The Moth (and had the privilege of winning a Grand Slam with a story about love between the lines). Mike is designing a theme park for authentic human connection.

Andrew Evans

Founder, The Magic Patio

Andrew Evans is a magician, mentalist and founder of The Magic Patio—a secret magic speakeasy tucked in a hidden corner of San Francisco. He has performed at The Magic Castle in Hollywood, on national television for Penn and Teller's: Fool Us, and was the Magic Director for the San Francisco production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Beyond the stage, Andrew spent 7 years as a Design Lead at IDEO and lectures in Design Leadership at Stanford University's D.School. In 2026 he was a featured speaker/performer at TED and the Aspen Ideas Festival and continues working with organizations to create moments of wonder with their teams, clients, and customers.

Jully Kim

Senior Director of Technology Excellence, Autodesk

Jully Kim is the Senior Director of Technology Excellence at Autodesk. She leads Autodesk's technical community strategy, including TechX - Autodesk’s flagship technical conference, Technical Leadership Forum, architecture programs, platform enablement, and capability development initiatives. More recently, her work has focused on helping Autodesk become an AI-native company by enabling new ways of working, scaling adoption across teams, and building the communities, practices, and learning programs needed to support transformation at enterprise scale. Prior to Autodesk, she held leadership roles at Zendesk, Fastly, BigCommerce, and Turnitin. Outside of work, she maintains an ever growing 15,000+ succulent garden.

Daria Wagganer

Vice President and Strategic Account Advisor, BigSpeak Speakers Bureau

BigSpeak is the largest business-oriented speaker agency in the U.S., serving over 65% of global Fortune 1000 companies. Daria collaborates with clients to ensure that they are matched with the perfect speaker to create an impactful, informative, and inspiring event. Her goal is to be a long term partner and an integral part of her clients' learning and development programs year after year.

Olivia Vagelos

Experiential Designer, Founder @ The Design for Feelings Studio

Olivia Vagelos is an experiential designer and strategist whose goal is to empower people across industries, disciplines, and geographies with the tools of experience design. She helps organizations and communities of every scale leverage experience design as a critical creative and strategic capacity. Her work blends left brain rigor with right brain magic, bringing together learning, community, play, and narrative design, multi-sensory embodiment, behavioral science, and a taste for breaking the rules and making things more surprising, tender, and beautiful. Olivia is here to help you design programs, products, projects, and parties that will deeply impact people, shift the trajectories of what comes next, and make work (and life) feel a hell of a lot better. She is the founder of The Design for Feelings Studio, co-founder of grief-tech company Aftermap, and an IDEO and Stanford d.school alum.