Margaret A. Regan
president & CEO
The FutureWork Institute, Inc.
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Margaret Regan is President & CEO of The FutureWork Institute, a global consulting firm that translates future trends to transform organizations. She helps clients achieve a MindShift, HeartShift and SkillShift in creating more inclusive/flexible workplaces. She has worked on HR and generational practices in Asia, mergers in Europe, cross-cultural executive education and women’s studies on four continents. She has appeared on NBC-TV’s "Today Show", "CBS This Morning", "NBC Nightly News" and CNN. She is featured on "Close-Up TV" as the CEO of one of the most innovative businesses in the U.S., in CNN/Money as the expert on future workplace trends and in Business Week for FutureWork’s creative approach to “my-job my-way, “my-business our way” and “my perks my-way.” She received the Diversity Innovation Award for this and for her ground-breaking work on diversity education in the virtual world.

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Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - 8:00am to 9:15am
Haven Cockerham
president & CEO
Cockerham & Associates, LLC
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 Haven Cockerham founded Cockerham & Associates, a Chicago-based firm, in 2005 to provide strategic consulting services in Human Resource Transformation, Talent Management and Diversity & Inclusion.   A distinguishing feature of the company is its web-based technology that gives organizations the ability to aggregate initiatives, metrics, and action plans for employee groups globally.

Previously, Haven was Chief Human Resources Officer for R.R. Donnelley and DTE Energy, and the Senior Human Resource Executive for Fisher Guide Division of General Motors.  Prior to his executive leadership positions, Haven held key assignments in manufacturing, labor relations, EEO, general and executive compensation, policy development, employee relations and leadership development.  Haven has extensive business, entrepreneurial, technology and merger and acquisition experience.

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Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - 6:30pm to 7:30pm
Kathy Kacher
President
Career/Life Alliance Services, Inc.
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Kathy Kacher, President of Career/Life Alliance Services, (CLAS) and Cofounder of The SMART Workplace, is a workforce transformation expert with a focus on workplace mobility, change management and leadership engagement. She is also a faculty member with World at Work.

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Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - 9:30am to 10:45am
Sara Sperling
Head, Diversity & Inclusion programs
Facebook
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Sara Sperling leads diversity & inclusion programs for Facebook, where she focuses on creating a work environment where people can be their authentic selves. Prior to Facebook, she was a Senior Learning & Development Program Manager at Yahoo.  She has held teaching positions at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, SCU Leavey School of Business, and Foothill College.  Sara holds a MA from Stanford University, an MBA from Santa Clara University, and a Bachelor's in Applied Mathematics and Economics from UC Irvine.  She has been published in Secret Sisters: Stories of Being Lesbian and Bisexual in a College Sorority and It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living.

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Sara Sperling
Head, Diversity & Inclusion programs
Facebook
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Sara Sperling leads diversity & inclusion programs for Facebook, where she focuses on creating a work environment where people can be their authentic selves. Prior to Facebook, she was a Senior Learning & Development Program Manager at Yahoo.  She has held teaching positions at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, SCU Leavey School of Business, and Foothill College.  Sara holds a MA from Stanford University, an MBA from Santa Clara University, and a Bachelor's in Applied Mathematics and Economics from UC Irvine.  She has been published in Secret Sisters: Stories of Being Lesbian and Bisexual in a College Sorority and It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living.

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