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Mistreatment, Misogyny, and Missed Opportunity - The Continuing Saga for Women at Work
Melanie Coburn is the Chief Relationship Officer (CRO) for CADRE, a unique networking community. In her role, she lives out her passion for connecting and helping others. Alongside her husband, Derek Coburn, they’ve have built CADRE from the ground up, now advocating full-time for well over 100 CEOs and business leaders.
Amy Bess represents employers in every aspect of employment litigation, counseling and training. She is the Managing Shareholder of Vedder Price PC’s Washington, DC office. She completed a full 3-year term as the Chair of the global employment law practice at the close of 2020.

Ending the Global Loneliness Epidemic
Irad recognizes that traditional therapy methods don’t sufficiently accommodate the digital era life style. That is why he founded Scwab Foundationa and Circles. People expect immediate and accessible solutions for their challenges. They want small and precise answers to their pains. Therapy is a long and demanding process and doesn’t fit the average person’s busy lifestyle which often includes parenting, caregiving, illness, kids with special needs, divorce and mental health issues.

Evolution of Advocacy in the Workplace
After 20 years of managing and consulting on campaigns for candidates, ballot measures and advocacy groups, Joe Fuld struck out on his own to build The Campaign Workshop with a team of people he’s collaborated with in the past and who know how to create, design and build campaigns. They recognize that each client is different, and they don’t build cookie-cutter campaigns. Instead, they strive to build custom-made campaigns and strategies that fit the specific needs of clients and provide each client with the kinds of individualized tools they need to tackle any challenges they might face.

Reframing Literacy to Drive Financial Wellness
Aaron Velky, Founder of Ortus Academy, uplifts others to a place of freedom, awe and artistry. Ortus Academy offers Financial Intelligence education to entrepreneurs, business owners, youth organizations and educators with Millennial and Gen Z members through online courses, virtual and in-person Financial Wellness workshops, speaking engagements, and coaching. They know that money matters, but they believe that Financial Intelligence matters more.

Caregiving: Today's Second Job for the Modern Worker
Larry is a dynamic, entrepreneurial strategist with 25 year track record of achievement in financial services and insurance company leadership. He shares the chnages and shifts workplaces are experiencing due to the effects of COVID-19. Leaders of organizations can take proactive measures to ensure they properly take care of their employees who are also serving as caregivers and inviest more into healthcare to help combat stress.

Monopolizing on New Business Ventures that Highlight Underserved Communities

Solving the People Problem
Brett Cooper and Evans Kerrigan, best selling authors of Solving the People Problem: Essential Skills You Need to Lead and Succeed in Today’s Workplace, shed light on how our needs and the needs of our colleagues can come together in constructive ways to help us perform better. Brett and Evans share the importance of understanding and appreciating employee’s differences in order to create greater team harmony and drive higher performance.

Unleashing the Value in People & Organizations
Trey Whitney, global HR executive and former employee at large corporations like; Google, Hershey, and Kellogg to name a few, shares how 2020 highlighted the importance of elevating HR to be the driving force behind a business’s longevity and prosperity. He shares how data can be strategically used to not only reignite humanity in the workplace, but to, recruit top talent, instill key programs, and to better integrate technologies that enhance human skill.

Leading the Shift from Survive to Thrive
Steve Hatfield, Global Future of Work Leader and Lead Author of Deloitte’s 2021 Global Human Capital Trends Report, shares an in depth report from 3,600 executives, (including responses from more than 1,200 C-suite executives and board members) in 96 countries, on how the pandemic has impacted their organizations and beyond. This report examines how organizations and leaders can leverage the lessons of this pandemic to fundamentally reimagine work, shifting from a focus on surviving, to the pursuit of thriving.

THRIVE: The Leader's Guide to Building a High-Performance Culture
In order to replicate high performance across your team, leaders must first understand who and what truly the driving force behind it. Andrew Freedman, Managing Partner of SHIFT and Author of soon-to-be-released book, THRIVE, shares proven, science-backed methodologies and principles that serve as a blueprint for leaders to unlock their team’s high performance.

Leading Behavioral Change for Peak Performance
Critically skilled workers are as expensive as they are hard to find. They are the lifeblood of your ability to perform at the level needed to effectively scale and sustain that growth.Thus, leaders must focus on developing their teams NOW if they hope for their businesses to be relevant later. Jennifer Thorton, Founder and CEO of 304 Coaching, is an expert in helping leaders responsibly grow their organizations through applying her proven employee lifecycle development program to nurture your talent to its full potential.

How to Innovate and Evolve, Even in a Crisis
Afifa Siddiqui, CEO of Canadian Payroll Services, shares her positive, insightful take on how the pandemic environment has helped many leaders gain a new perspective, granting them the power to be more receptive to change. Through her financially-oriented business lens, she has seen firsthand how businesses reallocated funds and shifted their business model – including the use of technology – to acquire or assert market leadership. The crucible of COVID is producing the companies of tomorrow right now.

2021 Planning: Data and Insights to Elevate Leadership
SHIFT leaders Joe Mechlinski (CEO) and Chris Steer (Managing Partner) join us for this BONUS episode to share how they help leaders use data-informed insights and SHIFT’s Annual RESET Playbook to encourage a deeper understanding, improved planning, and effective initiatives to elevate their organization as a whole. SHIFT launched a targeted pandemic-era survey effort in March, in which they collected over 137,000 data points across more than 35 companies—shedding light on critical issues like: employee well-being, work environment, connection, and trust.

Culture Renovation: 18 Leadership Actions to Build an Unshakeable Company
Kevin Oakes, CEO of I4CP and author of the soon-to-be released book, Culture Renovation: 18 Leadership Actions to Build an Unshakeable Company, outlines how we can plan, build, and maintain cultures that enable positive and lasting change. He explains the crucial nature of leaders investing in, evolving, and reinforcing culture as a driver of market performance—not a consequence of it.

Leading with Kindness
Tamika Tremaglio, Deloitte’s Greater Washington Managing Principal, is as skilled a professional as you’ll ever meet; but her greatest strengths might just be her practices of authenticity, kindness, and gratitude. Tamika shares how people are gravitating towards organizations that lift them up, make them feel valued, and provide them with opportunities to extend their grace to others—for the benefit of all concerned.

Sustainable Healthcare in the Workplace
Jay Greenstein, CEO and Founder of Kaizo Health and industry leader in functional medicine, shares how telehealth is transforming the way businesses view the future of medicine for their employees. This modern-day approach grants employees the flexibility, freedom, and resources they need to access their healthcare where and when they need it most. From proper desk ergonomics to anxiety management and stress reduction/recovery, Jay and his team are educating leaders and employees on the importance of taking an active and sustainable approach to their healthcare.

The Common Denominator of High Performance
Jonathon Hensley, CEO and Founder of Emerge Interactive, has written the new book, Alignment, providing a user’s guide to achieving success through complementary work that’s centered around common goals. He’ll share the four dimensions of alignment required for clarity and connection. Augmenting your team’s alignment with your digital presence affirms why consumers of your service/product need it and need you. With people and technology working together, your function is frictionless in ways that your team and your clientele can see and experience.

Investing in Your People Ecosystem
LaShondra Mercurius, President of JLM Strategic Talent Partners, is an expert in helping leaders discover, develop, and effectively engage the right people for their organization. Like any great talent scout, LaShondra helps leaders look beyond the standard “mega career recruiting platforms,” and begin tapping into prospects from all backgrounds, including people from underserved and diverse communities where talent is waiting to be discovered.

Giving Rise to Equal Opportunities
Jeff Cherry, Founder and CEO of the Conscious Venture Lab has devoted his career to overcoming and resolving challenges that stand in the way of equal opportunities for black and minority communities. The Conscious Venture Lab is an early stage business accelerator with the goal of developing companies and leaders who embrace capitalism as a force for societal good. He brings to light the discrimination female and minority founders continue to face in modern-day business, and how companies like yours can better support these marginalized communities.

Diversity, Inclusion and Equity to Drive Success
Michael Hyter, Chief Diversity Officer with Korn Ferry, helps modern day leaders bring awareness to diversity, equality, and inclusion in the workplace. He acknowledges that every organization sets different goals and shares that achieving those goals is accelerated when employees are made to feel seen, valued, and heard. This, he explains, is the key to sustainable high performance.

Redesigning Work Around a New Medium
Steve Glaveski is the CEO and Founder of Collective Campus, an organization that helps leaders build their team’s capacity to innovate and leverage emerging technologies. This includes redirecting the focus away from things people can’t control, like remote work brought on by a global pandemic, to the things they can control, like how to eliminate distractions that aren’t serving them or their team. Agility, especially in times of rapid change, is the key to success.

Virtual HR Practices to Boost Profitability
David Secunda, Co-founder and CEO of WorkBright, says that this an opportunity for organizations to use technology to automate and complete systematic tasks so that HR can focus on their most valuable and most expensive asset: people. By doing so, companies are investing in people growth which inevitably leads to more profitability, all while tracking and analyzing the activities that produce the greatest ROI.

Prioritizing People in a Remote Workforce
Amy Berg, Senior Director of Culture and Learning at Poly, acknowledges that this remote work environment may not be a lasting reality for all organizations, but is confident a hybrid model will always live on. She identifies that trust and psychological safety are at the core to making remote work work, and that cultivating strong relationships with employees is now more important than ever.

The Power of Brand-focused Hiring
In their new book, Give and Get Employer Branding, Charlotte Marshall, Global Employer Brand Lead at Danaher Corporation and Bryan Adams, CEO and Founder of Ph. Creative reveal that the most effective employer brands don’t attract candidates, they repel them. They share exactly how to stop seducing so-so candidates and stick to the strategies that will get you the best and right-fit talent.

Transforming Global Practice IN Employee Reward
Ken Charman, CEO of uFlexReward and Peter Newhouse, Unilever Global Head of Reward realized that no such system or platform existed on the market. So, together, they develop uFlexReward, a strategic and data-driven global reward system that enables thousands of companies and millions of employees to engage with, understand, and personalize rewards to meet their specific needs.

Using Data to Recruit and Hire
Atta Tarki, CEO and Managing Director of ECA Partners and author of Evidence-Based Recruiting, has a proven method that helps companies recruit top talent while inhibiting personal biases from interfering with selection. This evidence-based, data driven approach to recruiting empowers hiring managers to rely on the facts about a candidate and prioritize that information over personal opinion. As a result, candidates are selected based on their fit for a particular role first and then vetted to ensure their personalities will mesh with the work culture.

Diminishing Divide Between Work and pERSONAL Life
Dr. David Schramm, Professor at Utah State University, is an expert on relationships, and shares that instead of looking at personal and work as two separate categories, they both are extraordinary alike and in many instances can be managed similarly. David shares that all relationships seek three key things; safety, satisfaction, and connection. Organizations who have mastered those capabilities oftentimes rank as one of the best places to work. To test this theory, David launched www.LifeJourneyOn.com, a digital platform to improve employees’ personal and family lives and boost productivity at work.

How Automation can Streamline HR Processes
Prasanna Sankar, CTO and Co-founder of Rippling, has designed a tool that will help CEOs, HR professionals, and IT departments alike, by simplifying manual labor and streamlining the work. This software unifies payroll, benefits, devices, apps, and more all in one easy to navigate platform, making processes like onboarding automated and effortless. Prasanna explains how Rippling synchronizes all departments within a company, providing a strong structure and foundation for the organization, while allowing key players on the team more time to focus on their priorities.

Science-backed People Management
David Hassel, CEO and Founder of 15Five━a leading people management solution dedicated to creating highly engaged and passionately fulfilled workforces━recognized that when employees are not engaged in their work two things happen: performance, satisfaction, and respect decreases and burnout and turnover increases. Upon reaching this conclusion, David made it his life’s mission to deepen the connection between employees, managers, and peers using proven development methods to drive individuals and businesses forward.

Mastering Virtual Leadership and Engagement
Gerry Sandusky, the play-by-play voice for the NFL’s Baltimore Ravens, President of The Sandusky Group, and Co-Founder of Truvelop, has made his living in front of the camera and being the face as history unfolds. For years, he has watched professionals try and fail at commanding a room. Gerry is an expert in helping individuals gain self-awareness that empowers them to truly influence and inspire their audience.

Turning Adversity into Opportunity
Dr. Wilson Wong, Head of insights and future of Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) performs horizon scanning to research, strategize, and outline what will shape the future of our society and workplace. He shares that COVID-19 is something we have rehearsed for decades. But instead of preparing for the inevitable, we chased a marginal cost advantage, sought efficiency over human capital, and lived in constant consumption mode.

Strong Mindsets Cultivate Strong Leaders
Marvin Chambers, Executive Coach, Talent Strategist, and HR Consultant, is re-igniting hope in the work(from home)place and helping people discover their inner-truth during this time of chaos. He discusses how we can turn obstacles into opportunities simply by adjusting our mindset. He says to leverage this time to tap into your mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual health, continue to move your team forward, and grow your personal and organizational vision.

Virtual Offices are the New Reality
Frank Cottle, Founder and CEO of Alliance Virtual Offices, is a leading expert paving the way for the future workforce. He shares how virtual work spaces will quite literally re-design how we work, live, and play inside and outside of the office. Current events have ignited a new era, and it’s time we embrace new technology to enhance human interaction, collaboration, productivity, and overall happiness.

Embracing Humanity in a Crisis
Amy and Joe bring you a special episode that taps into the core of humanity, how they are personally feeling and dealing with change, and how to help employees feel seen and heard in this new uncertain and suddenly virtual world.
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A Better Approach to Problem-Solving
David Veech, CEO of Leadersights, to explore a solution. David has spent his professional career developing a universal problem-solving method called the C4 Process, that produces effective solutions, quickly. Leaders who embrace this practice not only reep the rewards of improved problem-solving, they also experience elevated performance and accelerated workplace innovation.

Securing strong relationships drives success
Shelley Meador, Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resource Officer at Allegion understands how relationships influence everything in business. Her experiences over the years have provided her the opportunities to interact with people at every level. To hire her own team, build and implement new processes, and cultivate a culture of success entirely from scratch. The relationships she fostered in her own organization are what catapulted her into the realm of HR and placing emphasis on building valuable relationships with an organization’s greatest asset: people.

Linkedin: The New Resume
Patricia Bradley, Executive Vice President at Strawn Arnold & Associates prides herself on her ability to attract diverse top talent utilizing various forms of technology. She recognizes that technology is dominating and transforming the hiring process for the better, more than ever before, and employers and candidates now have a better sense of where they fall in the marketplace.

LEadership Tomorrow vs. leadership today
Linda Nedelcoff, Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy, and Human Resources Officer for CUNA Mutual Group is no stranger to helping companies be more agile in the face of change, while cultivating strong and resilient leaders. She shares that top organizations build effective leaders when they focus on three things to emphasize role vitality and impact: empowerment, engagement, and empathy.

Empathy in the Digital Workplace
Giselle Jones, Senior Vice President of Human Resources for The HSC Health Care System shares how to prepare both your HR department and your organization for a seamless and successful digital acquisition. She recognizes that a thriving organization is built from the inside out. Before you can adopt new practices to perform work, you must first ensure your policies and practices are equipped to support employee connection.

Modernizing Company Culture
David Sturt, Executive Vice President of O.C. Tanner Company and Tim Kuppler, Founder of CultureUniversity.com and Director of Culture and Organizational Development at Human Synergistics. The two collaborated on the 2020 Global Culture Report, which reveals the six core dimensions of workplace culture. This 180 page Culture Report is a collection of research from real employees across various industries, countries, and levels outlining what creates a sustainable culture where employees thrive.

Leading a Multi-Gen Workplace
Tanya Axenson, Vice President of Human Resources at Aerotek has made it her mission to help companies of all sizes focus on their overall workforce inclusion and employee engagement. She understands that to create a powerful culture, your leadership team must commit to helping individuals of all ages, experience, and tenure realize their professional (and personal) goals. Achieving this requires a multi-tiered approach that considers the market, the company, and the individual, and Tanya explores some of the best and most actionable strategies.

Dialogue of Diversity
Andrea Procaccino, Vice President of Talent Development & Diversity, and Chief Learning Officer at New York Presbyterian Hospital (NYP). Andrea shares how her team is paving the way for a transformative and successful approach to diversity acceptance in the workplace. An approach that will ensure every team member feels comfortable showing up to work each day as their authentic self. Through monthly team experiences, large company seminars, and educational resources, NYP is facilitating conversations around creating a culture of mutual respect for all employees.

Participating in Mindful Work
Moira Lethbridge, Principal and Owner at Lethbridge and Associates, has dedicated her professional career to helping people slow down and embrace earth’s true gifts. She begins with small steps, helping people identify the three most valuable things to them, and then builds out incremental shifts that place those priorities at the forefront. She shares daily practices that in five minutes or less, help you live out your values, appreciate the gifts you’ve been given, and eliminate the constant feeling of overwhelm.

Maximizing Your Positive Impact
Clarissa Peterson, President and CEO of Ohana HR, is enabling organizations to embrace technology and change to inspire employees to excel and maximize their positive impact. She acknowledges that perspectives, workplace standards, and employee needs have changed in comparison to decades past. It’s now the leaders’ job to acknowledge the proper training, role responsibilities, and developmental avenues that encourage talent development and retention.

New Decade, New Workplace
Futurist expert, David Houle says today’s HR professionals must offer their employee’s choices instead of limitations to ensure long-term satisfaction. David has delivered more than 1,000 speeches on six continents, published eight books, and devoted his adult life to researching humanity, change, and the impact of modern technology on society. In less than 60 minutes, he’ll take you on a journey years into the future entering what he calls the Shift Age ─ a period marked by its promise to disrupt all former thought and action and force us to face and resolve our self-created havoc.

Inclusivity in the Workplace
Desiree Adaway, CEO of The Adaway Group has over 20 years of experience researching and helping organizations pinpoint their trigger points when it comes to inclusivity. Her work helps leaders foster stronger relationships amongst employees and invest in programs that encourage employee development of all identities. She acknowledges that we are born into a world filled with assumptions, stigmas, and social identities that guide our decisions and perceptions.

Change Capable Leadership
Holly Burkett, Principal at Evaluation Works, has helped countless teams embrace change while avoiding common pitfalls (like change failure, employee burnout, and poor communication). She addresses two major types of change, while identifying transformational change as the primary growth roadblock for many leaders. This type of complex change requires consistent time and attention to continually keep up with industry pace, understand new market demands, and analyze the needs of your employees.

Creative Workplaces Spark Stronger Connections
Shea Coakley, co-founder of multiple businesses like: Leanbox, Grind, The People Opps Society, and PERKS━helps create happier, healthier, and more productive employees. Shea understands that employees produce their best work and are happiest when they feel empowered by their employer and provided benefits that speak to their needs. So he’s created business models that do exactly that!

Minding the Resume Gap
Denise Caleb, Executive VP of Strategic Partnerships at Talent Plus, Inc. knows the importance of understanding and caring for employees in all different life stages. She recognizes that, like every person, every career path is unique. It’s the job of the leader to utilize different technology and communication techniques to understand, meet, and set their employees up for success despite where they are in their personal and professional journey.

turn stories into sustainable growth
Daniel Jacobs, CEO and Founder of Avanoo helps leaders scale, sustain and drive ROI by creating positive company cultures through storytelling. With the use of AI he can create a map of a company’s culture – identifying their strong points and where opportunities exist. He believes that if you aren’t investing the time and effort into telling your own story, someone else will.

Modern Perks for the Modern Workplace
Alexa Baggio, Co-founder and Executive Director of PERKS is restarting the conversation around employee benefits and experiences. Longing for more thoughtful and modern solutions to workplace improvement and employee experience, Alexa co-founded the PERKS Convention to showcase the variety of benefits available for teams. She has seen firsthand the continuous transformation of benefits and new ideas that have been used to accelerate and improve company culture.

sustainability in business and HR
Lisa Calicchio, Senior VP, CHRO, and head of Sustainability at GAF shares her insights on how, as a business leader, you can increase your productivity, streamline processes, and manage time effectively, all while creating and operating a sustainable business. She recognizes that in order to effectively manage your internal systems, you must first have a full understanding of your business—that begins with understanding the current and future role of each employee.

inspiring workplace equality
Amy Bess, Shareholder and Chair, Labor and Employment Practice at Vedder Price PC, shares her insight on the importance of having difficult conversations to create compliant, productive workplaces that are focused on meeting and exceeding business objectives. Her expertise will provide you with proactive steps that you, as an employer, should be taking to cultivate a culture of inclusion.

running HR Like a Business
Ben Eubanks, Principal Analyst at Lighthouse Research Advisory, outlines a clear map of how organizations and leaders should be thinking about transformative technology, automation, and artificial intelligence. Ben shares the startling reality that today’s current job vacancies outweigh the human’s available in the workforce.

Job Security and a Sense of Belonging

Balancing Mission and Management

AUTHENTICITY, STRATEGY, AND TECHNOLOGY

DIGITAL WORK AND INNOVATION

Strategies for Scalable Growth
Zeno PIzzighella, Manager of Organizational Development at 14 West (The Agora Companies), shares how, as a leader in HR or People Management, you can develop a deeper understanding of your people, their talents, and ambitions to ultimately prepare them for success. Zeno acknowledges the influence of rapidly changing technology and an increasingly global workforce, and encourages organization to stay nimble if they want to remain competitive.

Empowering Inclusion in the Workplace

Utilizing Technology to Streamline Talent
Cassie Whitlock, Director of Human Resources at BambooHR, strives to humanize HR and create caring, people-focused work cultures. She shares her insights and breaks down the vital role technology plays in streamlining talent acquisition processes, creating management efficiencies, and personalizing the employee experience.

LeGALITY OF HR IN THE MODERN ERA
Louis Lessig, Partner at Brown & Connery, LLP, offers a new perspective on the future of work. His 20+ years of experience in litigation has allowed him to see firsthand various organization’s position in regards to #metoo movement, harassment cases, hostile work environments, and wage/hour irregularities. Selected by the New Jersey Law Journal as one of the “Top 40 Attorneys Under 40”, Louis is no stranger in educating organizations on how to establish equal, fair, and positive work cultures.

Affordable People-Centric Company Perks
Amy Spurling, CEO and Co-Founder of Compt, provides companies with a modern take on personalizing employee benefits programs. Named Boston’s “CFO of the Year” by Boston Business Journal, Amy is no stranger to helping organizations of all sizes identify which benefits in the marketplace are best suitable to fulfill employee needs and accommodate a diverse workforce.

A Purposeful Approach to Success
William Schiemann, CEO of Metrus Group and author of Fulfilled!, shares why future business success depends on leaders ability to understand their employees from a holistic standpoint. His methodology encourages the intersection of personal and company goals to help employees find greater success and happiness in all aspects of life.
Bonus: listeners can download a partial eBook of Fulfilled! at http://bit.ly/2IcxKbV

Mindset + Agility = Profitability
Dr. Pamela Meyer, leading Agile Innovation Catalyst and author of Agility Shift, says that her former career in theater influenced her to work with creative and collaborative business teams. Pamela shares how she helps leaders shift away from settling for mediocrity to embrace a more forward-thinking mindset. This approach empowers leaders to keep their organizations relevant and foster a culture where people bring their whole selves to work.

Market Value of HR Leadership
Dave Ulrich, Ranked as the #1 management guru by Business Week, profiled by Fast Company as one of the world’s top 10 creative people in business, a top 5 coach in Forbes, and recognized on Thinkers50 as one of the world’s leading business thinkers. He shares his expertise and focus on HR outcomes, governance, and practices behind HR. Tune in to hear why he has been named “HR thought leader of the decade”.

Tech's Impact on people and profits
Franz Gilbert, Vice President of Solution Provider Programs at Bersin, Deloitte reveals how technology is spearheading and transforming jobs, human resource departments, and organizations as we know it. He shares his view on technology and innovation in business as two-fold; how it will directly impact the lives of millions of people in the marketplace, and how it will change the hiring and employee process within companies.

The Reality of Talent vs. Grit
Angela Duckworth, Founder and CEO of Character Lab, psychologist, and bestselling author of GRIT divulges her research on organizational and personal success. She analyzes one’s level of grit and how it plays a key role in creating a culture that is built with a common purpose, has structured goals, and a clear vision for prosperity.

Securing strong relationships drives success
Shelley Meador, Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resource Officer at Allegion understands how relationships influence everything in business. Her experiences over the years have provided her the opportunities to interact with people at every level. To hire her own team, build and implement new processes, and cultivate a culture of success entirely from scratch. The relationships she fostered in her own organization are what catapulted her into the realm of HR and placing emphasis on building valuable relationships with an organization’s greatest asset: people.

Linkedin: The New Resume
Patricia Bradley, Executive Vice President at Strawn Arnold & Associates prides herself on her ability to attract diverse top talent utilizing various forms of technology. She recognizes that technology is dominating and transforming the hiring process for the better, more than ever before, and employers and candidates now have a better sense of where they fall in the marketplace.

LEadership Tomorrow vs. leadership today
Linda Nedelcoff, Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy, and Human Resources Officer for CUNA Mutual Group is no stranger to helping companies be more agile in the face of change, while cultivating strong and resilient leaders. She shares that top organizations build effective leaders when they focus on three things to emphasize role vitality and impact: empowerment, engagement, and empathy.

Empathy in the Digital Workplace
Giselle Jones, Senior Vice President of Human Resources for The HSC Health Care System shares how to prepare both your HR department and your organization for a seamless and successful digital acquisition. She recognizes that a thriving organization is built from the inside out. Before you can adopt new practices to perform work, you must first ensure your policies and practices are equipped to support employee connection.

Modernizing Company Culture
David Sturt, Executive Vice President of O.C. Tanner Company and Tim Kuppler, Founder of CultureUniversity.com and Director of Culture and Organizational Development at Human Synergistics. The two collaborated on the 2020 Global Culture Report, which reveals the six core dimensions of workplace culture. This 180 page Culture Report is a collection of research from real employees across various industries, countries, and levels outlining what creates a sustainable culture where employees thrive.

Leading a Multi-Gen Workplace
Tanya Axenson, Vice President of Human Resources at Aerotek has made it her mission to help companies of all sizes focus on their overall workforce inclusion and employee engagement. She understands that to create a powerful culture, your leadership team must commit to helping individuals of all ages, experience, and tenure realize their professional (and personal) goals. Achieving this requires a multi-tiered approach that considers the market, the company, and the individual, and Tanya explores some of the best and most actionable strategies.

Dialogue of Diversity
Andrea Procaccino, Vice President of Talent Development & Diversity, and Chief Learning Officer at New York Presbyterian Hospital (NYP). Andrea shares how her team is paving the way for a transformative and successful approach to diversity acceptance in the workplace. An approach that will ensure every team member feels comfortable showing up to work each day as their authentic self. Through monthly team experiences, large company seminars, and educational resources, NYP is facilitating conversations around creating a culture of mutual respect for all employees.

Participating in Mindful Work
Moira Lethbridge, Principal and Owner at Lethbridge and Associates, has dedicated her professional career to helping people slow down and embrace earth’s true gifts. She begins with small steps, helping people identify the three most valuable things to them, and then builds out incremental shifts that place those priorities at the forefront. She shares daily practices that in five minutes or less, help you live out your values, appreciate the gifts you’ve been given, and eliminate the constant feeling of overwhelm.

Maximizing Your Positive Impact
Clarissa Peterson, President and CEO of Ohana HR, is enabling organizations to embrace technology and change to inspire employees to excel and maximize their positive impact. She acknowledges that perspectives, workplace standards, and employee needs have changed in comparison to decades past. It’s now the leaders’ job to acknowledge the proper training, role responsibilities, and developmental avenues that encourage talent development and retention.

New Decade, New Workplace
Futurist expert, David Houle says today’s HR professionals must offer their employee’s choices instead of limitations to ensure long-term satisfaction. David has delivered more than 1,000 speeches on six continents, published eight books, and devoted his adult life to researching humanity, change, and the impact of modern technology on society. In less than 60 minutes, he’ll take you on a journey years into the future entering what he calls the Shift Age ─ a period marked by its promise to disrupt all former thought and action and force us to face and resolve our self-created havoc.

Redefining equity and inclusion
Desiree Adaway, CEO of The Adaway Group has over 20 years of experience researching and helping organizations pinpoint their trigger points when it comes to inclusivity. Her work helps leaders foster stronger relationships amongst employees and invest in programs that encourage employee development of all identities. She acknowledges that we are born into a world filled with assumptions, stigmas, and social identities that guide our decisions and perceptions.

Change Capable Leadership
Holly Burkett, Principal at Evaluation Works, has helped countless teams embrace change while avoiding common pitfalls (like change failure, employee burnout, and poor communication). She addresses two major types of change, while identifying transformational change as the primary growth roadblock for many leaders. This type of complex change requires consistent time and attention to continually keep up with industry pace, understand new market demands, and analyze the needs of your employees.

Creative Workplaces Spark Stronger Connections
Shea Coakley, co-founder of multiple businesses like: Leanbox, Grind, The People Opps Society, and PERKS━helps create happier, healthier, and more productive employees. Shea understands that employees produce their best work and are happiest when they feel empowered by their employer and provided benefits that speak to their needs. So he’s created business models that do exactly that!

Minding the Resume Gap
Denise Caleb, Executive VP of Strategic Partnerships at Talent Plus, Inc. knows the importance of understanding and caring for employees in all different life stages. She recognizes that, like every person, every career path is unique. It’s the job of the leader to utilize different technology and communication techniques to understand, meet, and set their employees up for success despite where they are in their personal and professional journey.

turn stories into sustainable growth!
Daniel Jacobs, CEO and Founder of Avanoo helps leaders scale, sustain and drive ROI by creating positive company cultures through storytelling. With the use of AI he can create a map of a company’s culture – identifying their strong points and where opportunities exist. He believes that if you aren’t investing the time and effort into telling your own story, someone else will.

Modern Perks for the Modern Workplace
Alexa Baggio, Co-founder and Executive Director of PERKS is restarting the conversation around employee benefits and experiences. Longing for more thoughtful and modern solutions to workplace improvement and employee experience, Alexa co-founded the PERKS Convention to showcase the variety of benefits available for teams. She has seen firsthand the continuous transformation of benefits and new ideas that have been used to accelerate and improve company culture.

sustainability in business and HR
Lisa Calicchio, Senior VP, CHRO, and head of Sustainability at GAF shares her insights on how, as a business leader, you can increase your productivity, streamline processes, and manage time effectively, all while creating and operating a sustainable business. She recognizes that in order to effectively manage your internal systems, you must first have a full understanding of your business—that begins with understanding the current and future role of each employee.

inspiring workplace equality
Amy Bess, Shareholder and Chair, Labor and Employment Practice at Vedder Price PC, shares her insight on the importance of having difficult conversations to create compliant, productive workplaces that are focused on meeting and exceeding business objectives. Her expertise will provide you with proactive steps that you, as an employer, should be taking to cultivate a culture of inclusion.

running HR Like a Business
Ben Eubanks, Principal Analyst at Lighthouse Research Advisory, outlines a clear map of how organizations and leaders should be thinking about transformative technology, automation, and artificial intelligence. Ben shares the startling reality that today’s current job vacancies outweigh the human’s available in the workforce.

Job Security and a Sense of Belonging

Balancing Mission and Management

AUTHENTICITY, STRATEGY, AND TECHNOLOGY

DIGITAL WORK AND INNOVATION

Strategies for Scalable Growth
Zeno PIzzighella, Manager of Organizational Development at 14 West (The Agora Companies), shares how, as a leader in HR or People Management, you can develop a deeper understanding of your people, their talents, and ambitions to ultimately prepare them for success. Zeno acknowledges the influence of rapidly changing technology and an increasingly global workforce, and encourages organization to stay nimble if they want to remain competitive.

Empowering Inclusion in the Workplace

Utilizing Technology to Streamline Talent
Cassie Whitlock, Director of Human Resources at BambooHR, strives to humanize HR and create caring, people-focused work cultures. She shares her insights and breaks down the vital role technology plays in streamlining talent acquisition processes, creating management efficiencies, and personalizing the employee experience.

LeGALITY OF HR IN THE MODERN ERA
Louis Lessig, Partner at Brown & Connery, LLP, offers a new perspective on the future of work. His 20+ years of experience in litigation has allowed him to see firsthand various organization’s position in regards to #metoo movement, harassment cases, hostile work environments, and wage/hour irregularities. Selected by the New Jersey Law Journal as one of the “Top 40 Attorneys Under 40”, Louis is no stranger in educating organizations on how to establish equal, fair, and positive work cultures.

Affordable People-Centric Company Perks
Amy Spurling, CEO and Co-Founder of Compt, provides companies with a modern take on personalizing employee benefits programs. Named Boston’s “CFO of the Year” by Boston Business Journal, Amy is no stranger to helping organizations of all sizes identify which benefits in the marketplace are best suitable to fulfill employee needs and accommodate a diverse workforce.

A Purposeful Approach to Success
William Schiemann, CEO of Metrus Group and author of Fulfilled!, shares why future business success depends on leaders ability to understand their employees from a holistic standpoint. His methodology encourages the intersection of personal and company goals to help employees find greater success and happiness in all aspects of life.
Bonus: listeners can download a partial eBook of Fulfilled! at http://bit.ly/2IcxKbV

Mindset + Agility = Profitability
Dr. Pamela Meyer, leading Agile Innovation Catalyst and author of Agility Shift, says that her former career in theater influenced her to work with creative and collaborative business teams. Pamela shares how she helps leaders shift away from settling for mediocrity to embrace a more forward-thinking mindset. This approach empowers leaders to keep their organizations relevant and foster a culture where people bring their whole selves to work.

Market Value of HR Leadership
Dave Ulrich, Ranked as the #1 management guru by Business Week, profiled by Fast Company as one of the world’s top 10 creative people in business, a top 5 coach in Forbes, and recognized on Thinkers50 as one of the world’s leading business thinkers. He shares his expertise and focus on HR outcomes, governance, and practices behind HR. Tune in to hear why he has been named “HR thought leader of the decade”.

Tech's Impact on people and profits
Franz Gilbert, Vice President of Solution Provider Programs at Bersin, Deloitte reveals how technology is spearheading and transforming jobs, human resource departments, and organizations as we know it. He shares his view on technology and innovation in business as two-fold; how it will directly impact the lives of millions of people in the marketplace, and how it will change the hiring and employee process within companies.

The Reality of Talent vs. Grit
Angela Duckworth, Founder and CEO of Character Lab, psychologist, and bestselling author of GRIT divulges her research on organizational and personal success. She analyzes one’s level of grit and how it plays a key role in creating a culture that is built with a common purpose, has structured goals, and a clear vision for prosperity.