Tiffany Helley
director of HR
The Douglas Stewart Co.
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Schyler Houck, SHRM-CP
HR director
Saratoga Casino Hotel
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Schyler Houck has a MBA from Clarkson University and a BS in Marketing and Management from Siena College.  He is certified as a Senior Professional of Human Resources (SPHR) through HRCI and SHRM-SCP through the Society for Human Resource Management.  Schyler has been recognized as a leader within his profession and was recently selected as one “Top 30 Under 30 HR Professionals” by HR Magazine in 2016.  Hilton has also recognized his use of gamification as one of their best practices in employee recognition.  Schyler currently serves as the Director of Human Resources and Labor Relations at the Saratoga Casino Hotel where he leads the HR team's service delivery to ensure positive employee relations.  When not at work, you can find Schyler volunteering with the Capital Region Human Resource Association, or leading the Hudson-Mohawk Association for Talent Development.

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Rena Suhwail
HR generalist
Asurint
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Rena Suhwail is a Human Resources Generalist at Asurint, which is located in Downtown Cleveland, OH. In 2013, she graduated from Cleveland State University, with her undergraduate degree in Business Management and Labor Relations, with a concentration in Human Resources. She began her career at Asurint in 2012 as a Human Resources Intern; she quickly blended into the culture of Asurint, learned basic HR practices and took on many projects.

Over the years, she has developed into a dedicated, experienced, and passionate HR professional with a strong grasp of all areas of Human Resources including but not limited to employment laws, employee relations, performance management, progressive initiatives, and HRIS systems.

In addition, she has a proven record of working as a strategic business partner to effectively integrate HR processes with the needs of the business. Demonstrated competencies in building organizational capability, talent acquisition and retention, inclusion, and lean management initiatives. She continues to successfully introduce policy improvements, develop initiatives to drive corporate goal attainment, and create comprehensive programs to improve profitability. Rena has brought her knowledge and contagious personality to Asurint which is present in everything that she produces. 

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Steven Brown
senior director-Global Mobility
Nike
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Steve works for Nike where he is the Senior Director of Talent Mobility.  Steve's team is developing Nike’s Talent Mobility strategy in support of the company’s broader Human Capital agenda. Steve’s team also manages Nike’s expatriate assignments with a fully integrated service model which includes immigration, relocation, tax, and mobility policy. Steve has 25 years experience in in a variety of HR and finance disciplines including talent planning, expatriate management, immigration, tax, total rewards, and accounting. Before joining Nike in 2016, Steve spent 19 years at Accenture in a variety of roles focused on talent mobility. Steve has also worked at Novell and at Ernst & Young.  Steve holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of California and Masters degrees in Business Administration and Accounting from Northeastern University, Boston.

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Chai Feldblum
commissioner
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
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Chai Feldblum began her service as a Commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in April 2010. She was confirmed by the Senate for a second term, which will end on July 1, 2018. During Commissioner Feldblum's service on the Commission, she has focused on all the employment civil rights issues within the jurisdiction of the EEOC. She has focused in particular on the employment of people with disabilities, pregnancy accommodation, sexual orientation and transgender discrimination, harassment prevention, the structure and process of the federal sector complaint system and strategic planning for the Commission. Prior to her appointment to the EEOC, Commissioner Feldblum was a Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. She founded the Law Center's Federal Legislation and Administrative Clinic, which represented a range of organizational clients focused on social justice. She also founded Workplace Flexibility 2010, a policy enterprise focused on finding common ground between employers and employees on workplace flexibility issues. Commissioner Feldblum played a leading role in helping to draft and negotiate the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and the ADA Amendments Act of 2008. She has also worked to advance lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights and was one of the drafters of the original Employment Nondiscrimination Act. Commissioner Feldblum is the first openly lesbian Commissioner of the EEOC and is the fourth person with a disability to serve on the Commission. Commissioner Feldblum clerked for Judge Frank Coffin of the First Circuit Court of Appeals and for Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun after receiving her J.D. from Harvard Law School. She received her B.A. degree from Barnard College.
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Jennifer Sheehy
deputy assistant secretary
Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP)
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Jennifer Sheehy is the Deputy Assistant Secretary, leading the Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP), US Department of Labor.  The mission of ODEP is to develop policies to increase the number and quality of employment opportunities for youth and adults with disabilities. Prior to her current position, Jennifer spent ten years at the US Department of Education in many roles, including acting Director of the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, acting Deputy Commissioner of the Rehabilitation Services Administration and Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.  Jennifer came to the Department of Education from the Presidential Task Force on Employment of Adults with Disabilities where she was Senior Policy Advisor and served a detail as Associate Director in the White House Domestic Policy Council.  Before she joined the task force staff, Jennifer was Vice President of the National Organization on Disability and Director of its CEO Council.  She has worked for Marriott, Sheraton, and Anheuser-Busch and has received many civic and leadership honors.  Jennifer earned a BA from Cornell University and an MBA from Georgetown University.  

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Paul Hogan
chairman
Home Instead Senior Care
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Paul Hogan founded Home Instead Senior Care® with his wife Lori in 1994.  Today, the franchise network is the world's leading provider of home care services for seniors, with more than 1,100 franchise offices that provide more than 60 million hours of care annually throughout the United States and 11 additional countries.

Hogan currently serves on the Board of Governors for the Global Health and Healthcare Partnership Community at the World Economic Forum and had previously served as the Vice Chair for the Global Agenda Council on Ageing.

In 2016, Hogan became a member of the World Dementia Council (WDC), which was formed by UK Prime Minister David Cameron after the G8 Dementia Summit.

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Wednesday, June 21, 2017 - 10:00am to 11:15am
Paul Hogan
chairman
Home Instead Senior Care
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Paul Hogan founded Home Instead Senior Care® with his wife Lori in 1994.  Today, the franchise network is the world's leading provider of home care services for seniors, with more than 1,100 franchise offices that provide more than 60 million hours of care annually throughout the United States and 11 additional countries.

Hogan currently serves on the Board of Governors for the Global Health and Healthcare Partnership Community at the World Economic Forum and had previously served as the Vice Chair for the Global Agenda Council on Ageing.

In 2016, Hogan became a member of the World Dementia Council (WDC), which was formed by UK Prime Minister David Cameron after the G8 Dementia Summit.

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Dawn Burke
founder/advisor
Dawn Burke HR
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Dawn Burke, founder of Dawn Burke HR, is an HR leader, speaker and writer specializing in new HR practices, engagement and workplace culture. Her HR and leadership career has spanned the last 20 years, most recently serving as VP of People for Birmingham, AL, award-winning technology company, Daxko.

During her tenure as VP of People, Dawn was responsible for finding great talent, developing team members, and preserving company culture - a culture recognized in Fortune Magazine as one of the “50 Best Small and Medium Workplaces.” Recognized as a Top HR Innovator, she is creator of DawnHBurke.com, and a contributor to a variety of national blogs including SHRM Next and Fistful Of Talent.

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Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - 2:10pm to 2:28pm
Sabrina Baker, SHRM-CP
Founder
Acacia HR Solutions
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Sabrina is the founder of Acacia HR Solutions, an HR consulting firm headquartered in Los Angeles. While the firm offers a variety of services, Sabrina spends her days providing training, leadership development and team building workshops for clients across the country. Sabrina is certified in the Myers Briggs Type Indicator and is fascinated with how personality type plays into our interactions in the workplace. Sabrina is also the co-founder of DISRUPTHR Los Angeles, an information exchange designed to energize, inform and empower people in the HR field. 

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Joey V. Price
CEO
Jumpstart: HR
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Joey Price is a recent SHRM Top 30 under 30 awardee and CEO of Jumpstart:HR, LLC - an HR firm that provides administrative and strategic HR support to US-based small businesses and startups. Joey also hosts a podcast entitled "Business, Life, and Coffee" that's all about personal development for busy professionals. You can find him online building his social army at @joeyvpriceHR and www.jumpstart-hr.com/blog

 

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