Speaker Bios
1:00 pm - Psychology and Safety: Creating and Maintaining Safe Workplaces & Communities
Sarah Lindemuth, Moderator, Incluisvity
For over a decade, Sarah Lindemuth was a research lead at a Tampa Bay consulting firm. There, she worked directly with clients to design, manage, implement and report quantitative and qualitative studies on various subjects. Her primary research experience spans a variety of methodologies, including focus groups, research panels, surveys (via telephone, direct mail, and online), and secret shopper programs. Studies included employee culture, consumer satisfaction, citizen sentiment, A/B testing, retention, brand awareness tracking, and employee satisfaction.
As a consultant today, Lindemuth uses all mentioned methodologies to facilitate data-driven decision-making in companies and organizations, large and small. She translates data from interviews, focus groups, surveys, and existing collections into point-in-time stories, then works beside leadership to translate findings into next steps, meaningful recommendations, and longer-term plans for sustainable and equitable workplaces.
Sarah Lindemuth graduated from the University of South Florida with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Advertising (a Zimmerman Advertising Graduate) and Psychology. She has worked for the University of South Florida’s Department of Testing & Evaluation and the Psychology Department. Upon graduation, she continued to work with Media General, CENTRO, and The Tampa Tribune’s Research Department, studying content and media reach across various audience segments. She is a proud graduate of Leadership Tampa Bay, Leadership St. Pete and the FBI Citizens’ Academy, and is a Leadership Tampa Bay ex officio.
Marcia Alvarado, Panelist, PE, Structural Market Leader & JEDI Council Leader, WGI
As the Tampa Structural Market Leader, Marcia is responsible for all aspects of WGI’s Structural Engineering practice in the Tampa Bay region, including client interaction, recruiting and developing team members, and overseeing her Department’s the production and business operations. She has 17 years of structural engineering experience and project management of new construction and renovation in healthcare, commercial, higher education, multi-story residential, federal, aviation, and parking garages.
Marcia is also the JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion) Council Lead at WGI. She has been a speaker, panelist, and educator for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion since 2018 and has a Diversity and Inclusion certification from Cornell University.
Marcia also ventured into the fashion world by modeling and now provides custom suiting for Sharpe Suiting, an LGBTQ+ owned and operated luxury custom suiting brand by expanding the brand from Los Angeles to Florida, Chicago, Charlotte, Texas, and Denver Markets. She also created a consultancy geared toward Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion consulting in 2020, The Alvarado Experience LLC, which serves as her own platform to impact and advocate.
Marcia is a graduate of Leadership Tampa Bay, Class of 2017, and serves as the Diversity and Inclusion Chair for the Board of Directors. She served on the Board of Directors as President/Vice Chair for the ACE Mentor Program of Greater Tampa Bay and has been a part of the program since its inception in 2011. She received the USF College of Engineering Young Alumnus Award in 2018. Marcia was also named Top 40 Under 40 by the Building Design + Construction, a national architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry publication in September 2015 as an emerging design professional.
Clarence Eng, Panelist, Owner, Kimley-Horn
Clarence is a Mobility and Transit Oriented Development Practice Leader at Kimley-Horn, based in Tampa, who is focused on providing integrated multi-transportation and land use solutions to create better communities. His career was empowered by the childhood memory of his inner-city neighborhood park being replaced with federal buildings. Clarence has brought transformative planning to life through award-winning placemaking, city-center revitalization, regenerative housing, transit villages and corridors, waterfront transformations, and innovation districts in the US and abroad.
Clarence is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners (FAICP). He served on the Mayor of Tampa’s Transportation Advisory Team and as the Chairman of the Tampa Innovation Partnership (!p) Advisory Board, championing the reinvestment and transformation of the Uptown area, once known pejoratively as “suitcase city”. He a served on numerous Urban Land Institute's national Technical Advisory Panels and holds a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from the Universite de Montreal and both a Master of Urban Design and Master of Planning from the University of Southern California.
Phillip Laws, Panelist, CEO, Laws Consulting Group
Mr. Laws is an accomplished corporate leader with extensive experience working within the top Fortune 10 Companies. Before joining Nemours Children’s Health, Mr. Laws held several global leadership roles, including Global DEI Senior Manager for Amazon, Starbucks Coffee Company, Two Japanese Pharmaceutical Sales/Marketing firms, and MOBIL Oil Corporation.
Mr. Laws serves in several board capacities with Big Brothers Big Sisters as Advisory Board Director for the Chamber of Commerce and the DEI Chairman for the Chamber of Commerce. He is a member of the Orlando Regional Realtor Association, Association of Fundraising Professionals, Black Speakers Network, and Kappa Alpha Psi, Inc.
Mr. Laws holds a Master’s Degree in Business Management, Bachelor’s Degree in Business Marketing, and Executive Leadership credentials from Harvard University.
