Young Professionals Luncheon: Beyond the Agenda

Rethink how you meet, lead, and collaborate.

This interactive session rethinks how we gather, collaborate, and make decisions that actually move things forward.

Discover what makes a meeting worth attending — from how to engage participants and spark creativity to how structure and communication shape results. Walk away with fresh strategies you can apply right away to make every meeting more purposeful, productive, and engaging.

Attendees will learn how to:

Design meetings that foster engagement, creativity, and collaboration.
Communicate goals and outcomes that keep participants aligned and energized
Transform routine discussions into meaningful conversations that drive action.

Connect with other Young Professionals, share real experiences, and leave inspired to lead better conversations — both in and beyond the conference room.

About the Speaker

Dr. Faile began teaching at Belmont University in 2022 and was previously teaching at The University of Texas at San Antonio. Dr. Faile has worked in multiple industries prior to academia with much of her experience being in the management, legal, and acquisitions side of large-scale real estate properties (i.e. mixed-use buildings, apartment communities, homeowners' associations, retail spaces, resorts etc…). A certified paralegal, she enjoys bringing a legal lens to the management side of business and providing students with a well-rounded perspective of management from multiple industries.

Kristen is active in the community and a big proponent of dog rescue, acting as both a volunteer and a frequent dog foster. She has served multiple leadership roles in the academic community including acting as a mentor for the Middle Tennessee SHRM chapter and as a Board Member and the Media Director for the Southwest Academy of Management for multiple years. She currently co-advises the Belmont student chapter of SHRM where she enjoys helping students with HR interests build their resumes, create professional networks, and find careers in the HR field across Middle TN and beyond!

Kristen enjoys international travel and learning to cook dishes from different countries. She is a passionate fan of all things performance-related and volunteered as a song/dance instructor for a children’s nonprofit theater group for 5 years. She loves hiking, boating, swimming and anything that allows her to get outside with her family and her dogs. She is also a big proponent of hot yoga!

Dr. Faile’s academic research focuses on how individual characteristics and behaviors in employees (including in the CEO population) lead to diverse individual outcomes (i.e. loneliness, well-being, compensation and dismissal). Kristen is especially interested in unique working communities including fully distributed organizations and the upper echelons of organizations. She also enjoys creating experiential classroom activities for undergraduate and graduate students and publishing these activities in teaching journals to enhance the pedagogy of other management instructors. Faile has presented her work at academic conferences including the Academy of Management, the Southwest Academy of Management, and the Southern Management Association (SMA) and has published her work most recently in journals including: The Journal of Business and Psychology, Organization Management Journal, and Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion: An International Journal.