Norma Davila
partner
The Human Factor Consulting Group
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Norma Dávila has dedicated her career to develop others in industries as diverse as banking, technology, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, retail, utilities, automotive, and education.  She is a hands-on consultant in organizational development and training who designs and implements change management and capacity building strategies. She prepares internal organizational capacity for different roles through coaching.  Norma provides outplacement support, designs employee handbooks, and challenges operational processes among other services.   Her consulting practice also includes leadership development and talent management programs. She is known for her flexibility in working with her clients to address their needs and partnering to find the best solution to their challenges.  Norma is certified as Project Management Professional (PMP), Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR), and Society for Human Resources Management Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP).  She earned her bachelor’s degree in Psychology at Yale University and her master’s and doctoral degrees in Psychology at the University of Chicago. 

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Wanda Pina_Ramirez
partner
The Human Factor Consulting Group
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Wanda Piña-Ramírez is an enthusiastic advocate of selecting and developing talent for business success who has held various roles in industries such as hospitality, tourism, telecommunications, restaurants, petrochemicals, retail, waterworks, and government in United States, the Caribbean Region, and Puerto Rico. Her clients include from multinational corporations to small and mid-size businesses for corporate reorganizations, contract negotiations, budget development and management, human resources administration, business management, and training among other services. Wanda is certified as Coach (CCC) from the University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras, as Practitioner in Neurolinguistic Programming and Applied Kinesiology by the International NLP Trainers Association, and as Human Resources Administrator by the Escuela Avanzada de Administración de Recursos Humanos y Legislación Laboral de Puerto Rico.  She serves as Advisory Board Member of the School of Business Administration of the University of Puerto Rico at Bayamón.  She is a certified Mediator for Cases of Domestic Violence and Aggression in Puerto Rico.  Wanda received the Training and Development Professional Award of the Puerto Rico Chapter of the American Society for Training and Development in 2011. 

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Wednesday, April 20, 2016 - 11:15am to 12:30pm
Paul Kramer
director of Compliance
WorkForce Software
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Mr. Paul Kramer, an attorney-at-law, is WorkForce Software’s Director of Compliance. Mr. Kramer is responsible for researching and staying abreast of labor laws that affect our clients, ensuring compliance is embedded in EmpCenter® products, and working with clients on compliance audits in the areas of the FLSA, FMLA, and other wage/hour and absence laws. Prior to joining WorkForce Software, Mr. Kramer was a private attorney for over two decades and has represented employers nationally in employment and labor law matters.

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Wednesday, April 20, 2016 - 11:15am to 12:30pm
Mira Greenland
vice president
CareerArc
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Mira Greenland is the Vice President of Sales for CareerArc’s social recruiting division. As a HealthcareSource Certified Integration Partner, CareerArc is the leading social and mobile recruiting solution helping today’s employers reach the 21st century job seeker. Before joining CareerArc, Mira was a recruiter and recruitment consultant for over 12 years and now often presents at industry seminars and conferences about social recruiting.

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Lindsay Jurisch
director of Global Talent Acquisition
Sutherland Global Services
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Lindsay has been fortunate to work for Sutherland Global Services in five roles and three countries in just five years. She currently leads sourcing, talent brand marketing, and standardization efforts around the world. Lindsay is a passionate advocate for continuous improvement and isn't really happy unless she's fixing something. She once took a zip line from Spain to Portugal.

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Michael P. Aitken
Senior Vice President, Government Affairs
SHRM
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Mike Aitken has worked at SHRM since 2003 and currently serves as the Senior Vice President of Government Affairs. Prior to joining SHRM, he served for 14 years as associate director for Governmental and External Relations at the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR). Previously, Aitken worked on state public policy issues at Bonner & Associates, a public affairs firm in Washington, DC. Currently, he is based in Alexandria, VA.

 

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Monday, March 14, 2016 - 8:00am to 10:00am
Brenda Hampel
partner
Connect the Dots Consulting
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When it comes to the business of leadership onboarding and development, Brenda Hampel has her finger on the pulse.
 
She understands that organizations want to move their best leadership forward. Her unique perspective and intuitiveness allows clients to make the right connections, giving them tools for strategic change and the courage to do something different.
 
Brenda’s unique combination of corporate human resources experience and consulting work equips her to build the business case for human resources initiatives and creates a clear blueprint for implementation.
 
As Founder and Partner of Connect the Dots Consulting, Brenda has taken her expertise in the areas of leadership, team alignment, performance and onboarding coaching—and helps organizations design and implement solutions that combine proven methodology with practical business application.
 
Brenda helps her clients build and maintain relationships in a way that allows the leaders to have the right kinds of conversations. She helps transition the leaders into powerful, dynamic relationships with their team and produce results. 
 
Brenda’s specialty is in the facilitation of leadership team sessions and discussions. Her years of experience and business acumen allow her to facilitate complex and difficult discussions by creating a framework, surfacing the necessary information and input, then pulling it together and creating commitments for next steps. This powerful process allows organizations to pinpoint with laser-like accuracy the areas that need attention so they can reach their goals faster.
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Erika Lamont
partner
Connect the Dots Consulting
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As Founder and Partner of Connect the Dots Consulting, Erika can quickly assess a situation and offer a mirror to show someone what’s happening, another point of view to consider, or external view. It doesn’t take her long to get up to speed and help operational leaders onboard efficiently or equip teams with the vital insights they need to move forward.

Erika knows organizations face a fiercer competitive market than ever. And if the goal is to increase market share, then an organization needs leaders who can guide their team to the finish line.

Her specialty is a keen ability for operational analysis, which is what it takes to achieve positive outcomes. Erika brings clarity to a situation and looks at it from a business process perspective. She helps key stakeholders hit their goals and positively impact others along the way.

She creates customized solutions for their business challenges that include executive onboarding, individual leadership coaching, alignment for mergers and acquisitions, as well as team and individual skills assessment and action planning.

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Peter A. Gudmundsson
CEO
RecruitMilitary
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Peter A. Gudmundsson is the President & CEO of RecruitMilitary, a sixteen year old company that helps organizations excel by leveraging the talent of our nation’s finest people, our veterans. RecruitMilitary helps companies attract, appreciate and retain high quality veteran employees and students. 

Prior to RecruitMilitary, Gudmundsson founded the Dropout & Truancy Prevention Network, a social enterprise that combined the use of location verification technology with phone-based personal mentor/coaches to keep kids in school and on track to graduate. Many of the mentor/coaches were physically disabled veterans or others with physical challenges that brought maturity, empathy and compassion to their roles.

Most of Gudmundsson’s career has been dedicated to leadership in media, education, information and intellectual property intensive businesses. Before DTPN, he was the founder of the Priceless Legacy Company, a custom publishing company that helped people preserve their life stories and lessons in print and electronic formats

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Dick Finnegan
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Chief Executive Officer
C-Suite Analytics
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Dick Finnegan is THE global turnover expert, having cut turnover by 30% and more for healthcare, manufacturing, logistics, distribution centers, call centers, and other industries…and on all six inhabited continents.

Dick has authored the top-selling SHRM-published book, The Power of Stay Interviews, along with four other books. BusinessWeek magazine has said “Finnegan offers fresh thinking for solving the turnover problem in any economy”. He has been similarly cited by Forbes, Chief Executive Magazine, and Consulting Magazine.

He holds bachelors and graduate degrees from The Pennsylvania State University and lives in Orlando, Florida.

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Wednesday, April 20, 2016 - 9:45am to 11:00am
Diana Yarbrough
vice president, Human Resources Business Partner
ADP
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Diana Yarbrough is known as a champion of diversity, upward mobility and recognition within ADP. She leads the Human Resources department for all of ADP’s Added Value Services

(AVS) division. As division vice president, Diana heads a team of nine associates who services all of AVS and Compliance and Payment Solutions (CAPS). In her more than 20 years with

ADP, Diana has held many positions in a Human Resource capacity.

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Wednesday, April 20, 2016 - 9:45am to 11:00am
Chris Forman
CEO & founder
StartDate Labs Inc
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Chris Forman is the CEO and Founder of StartDate Labs Inc., the parent company of Appcast and StartWire. As the former Chief Executive Officer of AIRS and Chief Development Officer of The Right Thing, Chris has worked in the recruiting industry for 19 years, developing smart recruiting tools that have helped hire millions of people around the globe. Chris is a nationally recognized expert in recruiting and talent management and has been quoted in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and Staffing Industry Review.

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Wednesday, April 20, 2016 - 9:45am to 11:00am