Conferences

Steve Phillips

CEO/consultant

Phillips Associates

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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.

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Team Building At The Top: Lessons From The Front- Building High Performance Senior Teams

Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 4:00pm to 5:15pm

Barbara Glanz, CSP, CPAE

President

Barbara Glanz Communications, Inc.

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A member of the prestigious Speaker Hall of Fame, Barbara Glanz, CSP, CPAE, works with organizations that want to improve morale, retention, and service. Using her Master’s degree in Adult Learning, she has spoken on all 7 continents and in all 50 states. She has authored fourteen best-selling business books, including “The Simple Truths of Service Inspired by Johnny the Bagger®”, co-authored with Ken Blanchard, “The Simple Truths of Appreciation,” CARE Packages for the Workplace – Dozens of Little Things You Can Do to Regenerate Spirit at Work,” and “180 Ways to Spread Contagious Enthusiasm™.” She lives and breathes her personal motto, “Spreading Contagious Enthusiasm™.” She has been a popular speaker at the national SHRM conferences since 1997. You can reach her at www.barbaraglanz.com.

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Exhausted, Confused and Ticked Off - Hope For A New Beginning When Change Has Done You In!

Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 4:00pm to 5:15pm

Andy Lorenzen

director, Talent Strategy and Systems

Chick-fil-A, Inc.

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Shannon Deegan

director, People Operations

Google

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A native of Montreal, Canada, Shannon is the Director of People Operations - Strategy, M&A and Staffing at Google. He has also served as Google's People Operations head of Global Sales and Business Development.

Shannon joined Google after several years in media and publishing, including as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company in New York City. He has lived in Malaysia, Hong Kong and Japan, where he led business development efforts in Asia for two of Canada’s largest financial institutions. From 1993 to 1996, Shannon was the Chief of Staff and Senior Policy Advisor on Asia to the Canadian Secretary of State. He has also served as a special assistant to former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. Prior to his career in public service, Shannon was a professional hockey player with the Los Angeles Kings organization.

Shannon has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Vermont, where he received the university’s Most Outstanding Student award. He also holds a Master of Philosophy degree in International Studies from Ireland’s Trinity College, Dublin, and an MBA from the Yale School of Management.

SESSIONS:

PRACTITIONER EXCHANGE MEGA SESSION: Fostering a Culture of Innovation at Google

Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 2:15pm to 3:30pm

Peter Cappelli

George W. Taylor professor of management, director - Center for Human Resources

The Wharton School University of Pennsylvania

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Peter Cappelli is the George W. Taylor Professor of Management at The Wharton School and Director of Wharton’s Center for Human Resources. He has degrees in industrial relations from Cornell University and in labor economics from Oxford where he was a Fulbright Scholar. Professor Cappelli’s recent research examines changes in employment in the U.S. and practical implications for talent management, employee development, and retention. His book Managing the Older Work (with Bill Novelli) from Harvard Business dispels myths about older workers and describes how employers can best engage them.

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Managing the Older Worker: How to Prepare for the New Organizational Order

Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 2:15pm to 3:30pm

Michelle A. Donovan

manager, Executive Search

Google

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Michelle Donovan, Ph.D., is a member of Google's Talent Team where she is responsible for designing and delivering programs to help identify and develop critical talent and leaders. Prior to this role she managed a People Analytics team, which specialized in surveys, focus groups, and metrics to drive people-related decisions. Prior to her work at Google she worked in HR Research at Intel Corporation for six years where she managed their annual survey and consulted on surveys and focus groups. Before Intel she was a consultant with Terranova Consulting Group, an HR consulting firm, where she worked on HR audits, training needs analyses, job analyses and surveys. She earned her Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has served as an officer of the Bay Area Applied Psychologists and IT Survey Group, is a regular speaker and contributor to the Society of Industrial/Organizational Psychology annual conference and has published her work in journals, such as the Journal of Applied Psychology and Personnel Psychology.

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Not Getting The Most ROI From Your Employee Survey? Transform Your Survey Into A Strategic Tool To Drive Change

Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 2:15pm to 3:30pm

Harold I. Reiter, MD, MEd, FRCPC, DABR

admissions chair, Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine

McMaster University

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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.

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How the Multiple Mini-Interview Has Become the Better Predictor for Future Job Performance

Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 2:15pm to 3:30pm

Joe Gerstandt

speaker, author

Talent Anarchy

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Joe Gerstandt brings greater clarity, action, and impact to organizational diversity and inclusion efforts.

Joe has worked with Fortune 100 corporations, small non-profits, and everything in between. He speaks at numerous conferences and summits, and blogs at joegerstandt.com. He is a featured contributor for the Workforce Diversity Network Expert Forum and his insights have been published in Diversity Executive, HR Executive, and numerous other print and on-line journals.

A strong advocate for resetting the diversity and inclusion conversation, Joe sees these issues as poorly understood and often misunderstood.

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Great Minds DO NOT Think Alike! Putting Cognitive Diversity to Work for Your Organization

Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 2:15pm to 3:30pm

Joe Rotella, SHRM-SCP, SPHR, CPBA

Personal Pronouns: He/Him/His

Chief Value Officer

Delphia Consulting, LLC

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Joe is a leading thinker in managing and motivating people. He’s passionate about helping organizations achieve their vision through effective performance management.

He’s a top-rated SHRM speaker and serves as Chief Value Officer for Delphia Consulting, a national HR and Payroll software consulting firm based in Columbus, Ohio. Joe is the co-creator of miviva, a continuous performance management application.

Joe has over 30 years of experience and serves as VP of Professional Development on the Human Resources Association of Central Ohio (HRACO) Board of Directors. Joe is a cited contributor to the SHRM Learning System.

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11 Steps to Integrate Social Media into Your Organization

Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 2:15pm to 3:30pm

Jeremy M. Eskenazi, SHRM-SCP

Managing Principal

Riviera Advisors, Inc.

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Jeremy Eskenazi, SHRM-SCP, SPHR, CMC is Managing Principal of Riviera Advisors, Inc., a global Human Resources management consulting and training firm that helps organizations improve, enhance and optimize their internal talent acquisition and recruiting capabilities.

Prior to founding Riviera Advisors in 2001, Jeremy spent almost 20 years leading talent acquisition and recruiting teams at Universal Studios, Amazon.com, and Idealab. A regular SHRM speaker and a member of the SHRM Talent Acquisition Special Expertise Panel, Jeremy is also proud professional member of the National Speakers Association (NSA) and the Institute of Management Consultants-USA.

Jeremy is the author of the books, “RecruitCONSULT! Leadership – The Corporate Talent Acquisition Leader’s Field Book”, and “The High-Performance Talent Acquisition Advantage”.

SESSIONS:

RecruitCONSULT! Elevate Recruiting To True Consulting

Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 10:45am to 12:00pm

Gregory P. Smith

president and lead navigator

Chart Your Course International

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As a business strategist, Greg Smith helps executives and business owners accelerate individual and organizational performance and navigate through increasing rates of change. He helps design strategies and processes to grow organizations and implement business initiatives creating clearer direction, increased profitability, stronger executive teams, improved communication and happier and more productive employees. He has written and published over 350 articles and nine books including his latest, Fired Up! Leading Your Organization to Achieve Exceptional Results. The Human Resource Executive magazine selected him as one of the nations’s Top 10 “Rising Stars” in Human Resource Management. Greg has received many awards and honors, but the one he treasures most is his Eagle Scout award.

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Here Today or Gone Tomorrow: Proven Ways to Attract, Engage and Retain Your Workforce

Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 10:45am to 12:00pm