Chelly Conley, 32

In 2021, Clearwater-based cybersecurity firm KnowBe4 wanted to install a diversity, equity and inclusion program — and picked Chelly Conley to run it. 

Conley had worked in human resources at several companies in the Tampa region since graduating from University of South Florida in 2013. Now she was tasked with starting a program and office that KnowBe4, an internet security firm with 1,700 global employees, had never possessed.

The daunting mission, as director of the company's new Global Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging department, did not intimidate her.