Workplace Futurist 🔸Hybrid Work Researcher 🔸Humanist 🔸Founder 🔸Speaker Denise is a hybrid work researcher who develops cutting-edge thought leadership at the intersection of systems thinking, futurist thinking, and human potential. She is the Founder of SWAYworkplace, a learning & development platform for hybrid work mastery, at scale; focused on operationalizing hybrid work models that drive long-term performance. She sees the Future of Work as an unprecedented opportunity to reimagine work in a way that allows us to live balanced, purposeful, and meaningful lives; and has a burning desire to develop a Future of Work mindset in the everyday person. As an undergraduate from the University of Limerick in Ireland, Denise came to New York on a one-way ticket to embark on a ten-year Wall St. career in financial oversight and operational controls at Merrill Lynch & Goldman Sachs. As an eternal optimist and a keen innovator with a desire for flexibility, Denise transitioned to the startup world as a founding team member of a successful high-growth technology startup company. She founded SWAYworkplace with the mission to level the playing field through the power of hybrid. Denise holds an MBA from Fordham University and a BBS in Finance & Economics from the University of Limerick, Ireland. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and three children and finds inspiration on early morning runs.