Chad Richter is a Partner with Jackson Lewis, LLP. Chad practices exclusively in the area of management-side employment and labor law. Chad serves on the SHRM Employee Relations Expertise Panel and was appointed to serve on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Advisory Board for 2010 and 2011. Chad is a frequent speaker and author to various affiliate chapters of SHRM located throughout the United States. Chad also serves on the Midwest Chapter Board of the American Teleservices Association and is national chairman of the ATA’s Labor Relations Forum.

Lance J. Richards, SHRM-SCP, GPHR, SPHR, HRMP is a work force futurist and global HR strategist.  Most recently, he was vice president of Innovation for Kelly Services. Based in Detroit, Lance is one of SHRM's top rated speakers. He is a frequent speaker and writer on workplace issues, having presented at HR conferences around the globe. He is co-author of the Amazon-published book Gen Now (which is available in the SHRM Bookstore). Lance brings almost 25 years of cross-border expertise, with companies like British Telecom, Verizon, Bell Canada and Kelly Services. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Sasin Business School in Bangkok, where he teaches a graduate course in Global Human Capital.
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Adrienne A. Isakovic, Ph.D., has worked in the Middle East for almost 12 years in both government and private sector organizations. During her time in senior HR management roles she has had the challenge of creating three different Learning & Development and/or Organizational Development units from scratch. She is an active presenter, researcher, instructor, and mentor to fresh graduate employees and executive leaders alike. Her efforts at building and improving orientation/induction programs for new employees have resulted in an increase in customer satisfaction excellence ratings from 54% to over 80%. Adrienne’s research focuses on self-initiating expatriates, expatriate adjustment, and the psychological employment contract in the workplace.

Professor Harold Reiter is a radiation oncologist whose academic work since 2001 has centered on assessment of personal/professional characteristics. Since 2004, he has published over twenty articles in peer-reviewed journals and over twenty presentations at national and international conferences. He has received multiple grants from both the National Board of Medical Examiners in the United States, as well as from the Medical Council of Canada, on the development of assessment tools for applicant selection. Dr. Reiter is the Admissions Chair for the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster University, and the Chair of the provincial group on medical school admissions in Ontario, Canada.

Brig. Gen. Tim Williams is currently the Deputy Commanding General of the Army Reserve 80th Training Command. Prior to this position, he worked as the Brigade Commander in Atlanta, GA of the Human Resources Training Brigade. In this leadership role, he provided human resources training and education to thousands of junior and senior non-commissioned officers.

In his civilian career, he holds a senior management position at the Georgia Department of Correction as the Director of the Operations, where he handles all aspects of operations, planning and training.

Brig. Gen. Williams holds an MBA from Mercer University and a Bachelor of Science in Commerce & Business & Administration from the University of Alabama.

John Polson is a partner in the Irvine, California office of Fisher & Phillips LLP where he has worked since graduating from Loyola Law School in 1991. He represents employers in all aspects of labor and employment law, including litigation, compliance, employment tax, and transactional matters. He has particular expertise representing staffing and HR outsourcing companies. John is licensed in both California and Texas. John has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America since 2007. He is a frequent lecturer and author regarding labor and employment related matters.

Toni Pilzner is an attorney with more than 15 years' experience in advising employers on creating and administering employee welfare and retirement benefit plans. Having worked as a certified public accountant and as an in-house corporate tax analyst dealing with employee benefit plan matters before becoming an attorney, she also understands the financial and practical aspects of employee benefit plan administration. Toni has shared her expertise with SHRM members by presenting concurrent sessions on employee benefits topics at a number of SHRM conferences in addition to writing SHRM Legal Alerts and contributing to SHRM Online articles on employee benefit matters. She also served on the SHRM Total Rewards Special Expertise Panel and its predecessor, the SHRM Compensation and Benefits Committee, as well as serving a three-year term on the U.S. Department of Labor's ERISA Advisory Council.

Steven L. Phillips, Ph.D. is well known for his leadership consulting focusing on strategic planning, organizational alignment, executive leadership, and the art of developing high performance teams. He is also well known for his “behind the scenes” executive coaching. Steve works one-on-one with presidents & CEOs helping them strategize for powerful and successful leadership. In addition to being a successful consultant for over 20 years working with such well known companies as Microsoft, PepsiCo, Viacom, Mattel, and many others, Dr. Phillips has extensive experience as a Senior Executive. For many years he served as a SVP Chief Talent Officer for a privately held 1B company with 10,000 employees where he implemented a full suite of human capital management programs designed to ensure a highly skilled and productive workforce.

Randy Pennington helps leaders deliver positive results in a world of accelerating uncertainty and change. His clients include many of world’s best-managed companies, associations, government agencies, and universities. Additionally, Randy serves as an adjunct instructor in the Cox Business Leadership Center at Southern Methodist University.

Randy is author of three books: Make Change Work, Results Rule!; and On My Honor, I Will . His ideas have been featured in leading media outlets including CNN, PBS, Fox News, ABC Radio Network, the BBC, Fast Company, and The New York Times. He is a contributor to CIO.com and the Huffington Post.

Deb Peluso has spent over a decade collaborating with clients in military, government, non-profit and Fortune 500 organizations to improve organizational performance and execute large scale change initiatives. She began her career studying how experts size up their environments and make quick decisions in complex, time pressured situations in fields as diverse as healthcare, government compliance, consumer products development, international peacekeeping, urban combat, and software development. Her work focused on eliciting tacit knowledge and finding the best ways to enable the transfer of knowledge and expertise to others – through the design of jobs, knowledge management systems, user interfaces, and training programs. She has also held positions as an organization development consultant in a major academic medical center and in two Fortune 100 financial services and manufacturing organizations, where she focused on individual, team, and enterprise-wide change management projects and initiatives. Deb holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from the University of Dayton and a Master of Organization Development from Bowling Green State University.