Marcia Narine Weldon is a law professor and the Faculty Director of the Transactional Skills Program and the Business Compliance and Sustainability Concentration at the University of Miami School of Law; general counsel of a sustainable startup; general counsel and compliance advisor of a boutique law firm; and an executive coach for lawyers and professional services providers through her coaching, consulting, and course creation firm, Illuminating Wisdom®.

She's been certified or trained in neurolinguistic programming, BrainFit for Life, the Happy for No Reason program, meditation and mindfulness facilitation, emotional freedom technique (tapping), breathwork, hypnotherapy, reiki, and the DISC, Hogan, and CliftonStrengths assessment instruments. She has also been personally trained by some of the world’s foremost neuroscientists and is mental health first aid certified. She’s a member of the Forbes Coach’s Council, International Coaching Federation, and the Association of Energy Psychology. 

She is also the co-chair of the governance committee of the Women’s Fund of Miami-Dade and donates 10% of her coaching income to the charity of the client’s choice. She has won numerous awards for teaching and has been interviewed in or featured by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR, the Guardian, The Verge, Forbes, Newsweek, Agenda (Financial Times), and other news outlets around the world on business and compliance matters.  

She spent several years in-house as the Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, as well as the Vice President, Global Compliance and Business Standards, and Chief Privacy Officer of Ryder, a publicly traded, multinational Fortune 500 company. She also served as the head of human resources for one of the company’s two divisions. Prior to joining Ryder, she worked as a labor and employment associate at Morgan Lewis in Miami, a commercial litigator at Cleary Gottlieb in New York, and clerked for the Supreme Court of New Jersey. 

In May 2011, she testified before Congress on the unintended impact of Dodd-Frank on corporate compliance programs. In 2012, the U.S. Secretary of Labor appointed her to the Whistleblower Protection Advisory Committee. She also served on the Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics and Public Trust from 2014-2017.

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Colonel Pete Hayden currently serves as the General Counsel, U.S. Cyber Command, Fort Meade, Maryland. His previous assignments include Deputy Legal Advisor for the National Security Council; General Counsel for the 10th Mountain Division, including deployment to Afghanistan in support of OPERATION FREEDOM’S SENTINEL; Deputy Legal Counsel to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and Associate Professor of International Law at the Naval War College, Newport, RI.   

Colonel Hayden’s most recent article on preserving commanders’ “legal maneuver space” in future conflicts, co-authored with Lieutenant General Charles Pede, was published in the March/April 2021 edition of Military Review. He is a graduate of Colby College, Cornell Law School, the College of Naval Command & Staff, and the National War College.