A physician and alternative medicine pioneer, spiritual leader and world renowned business consultant, Dr. Deepak Chopra has inspired thousands of top executives with his guidance to personal transformation.  A compelling teacher who has taught at educational institutions such as Harvard’s Medical School and the Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern University, Dr. Chopra has also written more than 60 best-selling books. The Soul of Leadership: Unlocking Your Potential for Greatness, which is the basis for this presentation, was named “One of the Best Business Books of 2011” by the Wall Street Journal.

Dan Satterthwaite serves as the Head of Human Resources for DreamWorks Animation. Since Dan joined the Company in 2007, DreamWorks Animation’s reputation as a good place to work has been steadily building. Most recently, Fortune Magazine ranked DreamWorks Animation number six on its list of 100 Best Companies to Work For. Prior to joining DreamWorks Animation, Dan served as Senior Vice President of World Wide Human Resources for Blockbuster.

Ann Morgan possesses over 25 years of progressive responsibility in retail operations and human resources management for two Fortune 500 organizations. She relocated to Memphis in 2004 from the Detroit metropolitan area to accept a career opportunity with AutoZone, where she is the Vice President, Human Resources and Organizational Development. Ann is responsible for managing the Human Resource practices and employee training in over 4,600 retail stores, as well as for the organizational development programs across the Company. Ann's strengths and experience lie in improving operating efficiencies, optimizing revenue, managing performance and developing employee policies and procedures across broad organizations.

Ann's career began with the Kmart Corporation holding a number of positions ranging from Store Manager to Vice President, Human Resources and Employee Development. She has a B.S. in Business Administration from Western Washington University. Additionally Ann is a member of the Society of Human Resources and serves as a mentor for high-potential woman within her company. She serves on the board of RISE, a Memphis-based nonprofit organization whose mission is to assist low-income families create and sustain assets, and was recently elected to the board of ArtsMemphis where she shares a commitment to ensuring excellence in the arts and building a vibrant cultural community for everyone.

Robert Hohman is co-founder and chief executive officer of Glassdoor, a jobs and career community, and a member of the company's board of directors. Before creating Glassdoor, Robert was most recently president of Hotwire, a leading discount travel site and division of Expedia, Inc. He was one of the original team members of Expedia, and was part of the executive team that took it public in 1999.

During his Expedia tenure, Robert also served as president of Classic Custom Vacations and executive vice president of Cruise & Packages for Expedia North America. In Expedia's early stage, he led the engineering team that built the cruise, hotel, and package booking systems. Robert started his career at Microsoft and worked as a software developer in a range of areas from Windows 95 to interactive television to online games.

He holds bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science from Stanford University.

John Sumser is the principal analyst for HRxAnalysts and founder and managing editor of The HRExaminer Online Magazine. John's work explores the people, technology, ideas and trends that drive the evolution of the HR and Recruiting functions

Over his career John has routinely advised Human Resources, Recruiting Departments and Talent Management teams with product analysis, HR Technology, market segmentation, positioning, strategy and branding guidance. He is widely sought as an advisor to software companies that serve the Human Resources and Recruiting Industry. Sumser has been cited in every relevant publication from the Wall Street Journal to the Washington Post; from the Harvard Business Review to HR Magazine; and, from RecruitingBlogs.com to HR.com.

He has been deeply involved in the evolution of the online HRTechnology industry serving as an advisor to the newspaper industry in the early 1990s and board participation in a series of startups (notably, Salary.com).

A liberal arts graduate at heart, Sumser learned to program using punch cards in the late 1970s. He was one of the first 1,000 certified Logistics Engineers. Graduate studies included Applied Behavioral Science (OD) at Johns Hopkins and the MBA program at Loyola of Baltimore. As a defense industry engineering manager, Sumser helped shepherd in total quality principles while managing R&D programs.

Just before he turned 40, Sumser moved his family from the heart of Maryland's farm country to the docks of Sausalito's houseboat community. In California, he ran the Point Foundation, published the Millennium Whole Earth Catalog and edited the Whole Earth Review. From there he launched interbiznet, the first firm to act as an independent analyst of online Recruiting. At interbiznet he helped guide the evolution of that industry over the course of fourteen years.

Today, Sumser runs both the HRExaminer and HRxAnalysts from the sleepy coastal town of Bodega Bay (best known for its birds).

HRxAnalysts recently published the 2012 Index of Social Technology in HR and Recruiting, an exhaustive study of the trends and directions of next generation technology. The HRExaminer averages 220,000 monthly page views and 50,000 unique monthly visitors.
 

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