Speakers

Lou Adler is the president of The Adler Group, a training and consulting firm helping companies around the world find and hire top talent using Performance-based Hirings. He is the Amazon best-seller author of Hire With Your Head (John Wiley & Sons, 3rd Edition, 2007) and the new Nightingale-Conant audio...  [more]

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Gregory C. Cheng represents employers in all aspects of litigation filed in state and federal court, arbitration, or before state and federal administrative agencies. He has substantial experience defending employers against lawsuits claiming for discrimination, harassment, retaliation, breach of contract, and various other statutory claims. He also has substantial...  [more]

Larry Clifton is senior vice president in charge of recruiting and workforce planning for CACI International Inc, a leading information technology and professional services company serving the defense, intelligence, homeland security, and federal civilian government areas. CACI is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia with approximately $3 billion in annual revenue and...  [more]

Gerry has no past only a future. He is committed to writing, researching and sharing his adventures, opinions and data about evolving staffing models with the HR profession, clients and friends. Together with his business partner, Mark Mehler, he strives to observe and influence new and evolving models that aspire...  [more]

Cassandra Denny is a graduate of the University of Washington where she studied psychology. She has been recruiting since 2004, hiring for companies like Concur Technologies, Cobalt, Vertafore, and Mike’s Hard Lemonade. Her recruiting has encompassed a wide variety of positions especially in software, hardware, and IT. She is a...  [more]

Jeremy is managing principal of Riviera Advisors, Inc., based in Long Beach, California, a leading human resources consulting firm focused on helping companies improve their internal recruiting processes. In addition to his more than 11 years of consulting with corporate staffing teams all over the globe, he has more than...  [more]

Andrew Gadomski is the founder of Aspen Advisors. Aspen is an efficiency consulting firm that services HR and talent functions at companies with globally and/or socially responsible values. In addition to leading transformative efforts at Aspen’s clients, he is also on the faculty at New York University on the use...  [more]

Chad Godhard has more than 15 years recruiting experience with technology-based companies. For the past nine years he has led a recruiting team for Sage, a world-leading provider of business management software and services to small and midsized businesses. He has developed and implemented strategic recruiting initiatives designed to improve...  [more]

Julia Gomez started her career in conflict analysis and resolution as a mediator at all levels, from international conflict to stock market disputes, organizational/community issues to family conflict. She switched to Wall Street and analyzed airline stocks for five years. She landed at JetBlue eight years ago to start an...  [more]

Paul Hamilton joined BMO Financial Group in February 2011 as the Director of Talent Acquisition Strategies & Operations. He has accountability for building BMO’s foundational recruitment practices, strategic alliances, the bank’s innovative recruitment technology solutions and employment branding, including social media. His passion and drive is centered on one strategic...  [more]

Tonia Horton is the senior director of HR services for The Home Depot, and has designed and executed strategies for the centralized delivery of HR Services for over 12 years. While at The Home Depot, she has led the design, branding and establishment of HR Services – which provides...  [more]

Ronald M. Katz, SPHR is the president of Penguin Human Resource Consulting, LLC and author of the recently published “Someone’s Gonna Get Hired…It Might As Well Be You!." Using real workplace stories he helps managers see the value in working with people instead of simply managing them. He consults and trains...  [more]

Heather Kinzie, SPHR, GPHR is Principle of A Leading Solution and has been consulting on recruitment practices and employee risk assessment for 17+ years. She draws on a wealth of recruiting experience for her seminars and training sessions from a long list of clients ranging from Fortune 50 companies...  [more]

Certified Speaking Professional Mel Kleiman is an internationally recognized authority on how to recruit, select, on-board, engage, and retain frontline hourly employees and the people who manage them. His expertise is based on his practical experience as the former owner of three different businesses as well as his more than...  [more]

Roel Lambrichts is director, talent acquisition for Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc., based in Brussels, Belgium. CCE is one of the largest independent manufacturers, distributers, and marketers of Coca-Cola and other products. CCE currently produces and distributes Coca-Cola and other products in Great Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Monaco, Norway, and...  [more]

As Vice President, Chief Staffing Officer, Stephanie Lilak leads campus and experienced professional recruiting for General Mills. She is responsible for development of the GMI employment brand and enhancing relationships with key university and community partners, and champions diversity recruiting activities across all functions. Stephanie also leads HR for...  [more]

Richard Long led talent acquisition and recruitment at Deloitte New Zealand, a role that saw him set the firm’s strategy in this area along with leading national projects across recruitment and HR. He was responsible for leading the development and implementation of Deloitte NZ’s award-winning Facebook presence and its strategies...  [more]

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Jennifer McClure is President of Unbridled Talent, LLC <http://unbridledtalent.com/> a speaking, training, and strategy consulting company providing services to clients in the areas of recruiting/social recruiting, employment branding and leadership/career development. Prior to launching Unbridled Talent, Jennifer worked as a human resources executive in privately held and Fortune 500...  [more]

Amelia Merrill is currently the head of talent acquisition at RMS. At RMS, she is developing a new employment branding strategy based on brand triangulation that will include a strong focus on social media and out-of-the-box ways to engage the RMS employee base and candidates. Prior to RMS, she...  [more]

Danielle Monaghan is the HR Director for North Asia, including Greater China, Japan, and Korea, for Cisco Systems, leading the client-facing HR manager organization. She has been based in Beijing for more than five years Her team oversees multiple initiatives to support Cisco’s growth in the region, such as...  [more]

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In her role as President of BRANDEMiX, Jody leads the firm in creating brand-aligned workforce communications that connect employees to cultures, companies and business goals. She engages with HR professionals and corporate teams on how to build and promote employer brands, and implement best-practice talent acquisition strategies across all media...  [more]

Originally educated in the British school system, Shaheen received his undergraduate degree in Engineering and Physics from Murray State University, and began his career as a process engineer. In his role he was responsible for applying Lean and Six Sigma business improvement methodologies to manufacturing environments. He has earned his...  [more]

Joel Spolsky is a globally-recognized expert on the software development process. His website Joel on Software <http://www.joelonsoftware.com/> is popular with software developers around the world and has been translated into more than 30 languages. He created FogBugz, a popular project management system for software teams. He has worked at...  [more]

As an experienced research expert with more than 15 years of experience, Stoker serves as AIRS’s Senior Director of Training. She leads AIRS sourcing research and course development. Since joining AIRS in 2000, Laura has trained numerous recruiters and corporate clients from many different industries around the world. She began...  [more]

Dr. John Sullivan is renowned the world over as a provocateur and strategist in the field of human resources and talent management. For more than 30 years he has offered his critique and insight to professionals seeking to develop a true competitive advantage for their organization through strategic talent management...  [more]

John Vlastelica draws from almost 20 years of recruiting and HR experience, including almost 10 years as a corporate recruiting leader and 7 years as a recruitment management consultant and trainer. He was the Senior Director, Global Recruiting for Expedia and a Recruiting Director at Amazon.com. Now, through his...  [more]

Kevin Wheeler is an entrepreneur, teacher, consultant to many Fortune 500 companies, as well as a noted author. He has founded a number of organizations including the Future of Talent Institute, Global Learning Resources, Inc. and the Australasian Talent Conference, Ltd. The Future of Talent Institute provides research, white...  [more]

Becky Wilcox currently leads the global talent acquisition team at Orbitz Worldwide in Chicago. Orbitz Worldwide (NYSE: OWW) is a leading global online travel company that uses innovative technology to enable leisure and business travelers to research, plan and book a broad range of travel products The company...  [more]

Mary Wright advises employers from startups to global corporations on all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including workplace investigations, competition and confidentiality, employee classification issues, and employee terminations, including reductions in force. She served as Chair of her former firm’s Personnel Committee for seven years, during which time she learned...  [more]