AMERICAN MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION - Key Persons
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- Director of Leadership and Organizational Development / Purdue University Human Resources
- Director of Leadership and Organizational Development for Purdue University
Adedayo Adeniyi serves as director of leadership and organizational development for Purdue University and is responsible for leadership/management development, supervisory training, annual staff goals management, and annual staff performance evaluations system-wide. He holds a bachelor of science degree in business administration and a masters of public administration degree. Adedayo has earned advanced certifications in human resources, project management, six-sigma, change management, and executive coaching in addition to other professional designations. Adedayo has severed in various senior HR leadership roles for over 30 years.
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- CEO / Institute of International Education
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- Director of Learning & Development, People Solutions
- Director of Learning and Development at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
Arlene Sha is the Director of Learning and Development at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). She has over 25 years of experience in organizational development and learning design, development and facilitation within the financial and professional services industries. In her current role, Arlene is responsible for professional and leadership development for FINRA staff. Her team also manages the communications, resources, and training to support FINRA's annual Performance Management process.
Arlene served on FINRA's Diversity Leadership Council for five years, including serving as Council Chair for two years. Prior to joining FINRA in 1992, Arlene worked for Marriott International, Texas Instruments and Accenture. She received her MBA from the University of Texas at Austin.
Arlene is an AMA-Certified Professional in Management and an ATD Certified Professional in Talent Development.
She lives in Rockville, MD with her husband, Richard, who is an English Literature professor at American University. She has two grown sons, Blake and Griffin, who also live and work in the D.C. area.
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- Chief Human Resources Officer
- Member of the Senior Management Team
- Senior Vice President
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- Director, Office of Human Resources / Spelman College
Bernadette Cohen has more than 25 years' experience in human resources management in various industry sectors, including private and public higher education, automotive Fortune 500, professional services, insurance and nonprofit.
As Spelman's top human resources executive, Ms. Cohen is responsible for leading all aspects of human capital management, including legal compliance for employment matters, compensation and total rewards, employee relations, managerial coaching, professional and leadership development, diversity and inclusion, organizational development, talent acquisition, wellness, benefit plan designs, and performance management.
Prior to joining Spelman, Ms. Cohen served as vice president of Human Resources and was a cabinet member at the Atlanta Housing Authority. She also gained labor relations experience as a member of the contract negotiation team Robert Bosch Corporation where she successfully defended the company against NLRB challenges and an OFCCP class action lawsuit.
Ms. Cohen is a published author, mentor, certified mediator and arbitrator, and certified managerial coach. She has also served as a guest speaker/lecturer.
She holds a bachelor of business administration (cum laude) North Carolina Central University. She completed the Executive Leadership Program at Michael J. Coles College of Business at Kennesaw State
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- Director of Finance / Imagine Learning, LLC / San Francisco, CA
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- Chief Learning Officer / Colgate - Palmolive
Brad Watt His tenure at Colgate Palmolive spans over 16 years. Brad's career at Colgate began as a Senior Brand Manager during which he had oversight of different consumer product lines.
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- Member of the Senior Management Team
- Vice President
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- SVP Human Resources and Service Excellence / Hospital for Special Surgery
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- Senior Vice President, Science and Technology Director, Administration and Operations
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- Advisor
- President / National Trust for Emerging Standards
David Saedi is an advisor to national and global companies with technology-based educational programs.
As the CEO of Certiport (now a Pearson business), David was responsible for creating several of the world's most successful global certification programs, including the Microsoft Office Specialist program (MOS) delivered in 24 languages across 148 countries, the multimedia Adobe Certified Associate program (ACA) as well as the Digital Literacy certification program, Internet & Computing Core Certification (IC³), collectively exceeding 35 million certification exams globally delivered to date.
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- President / Wheaton College
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- Certified Executive Coach
- Executive Director, Ernst & Young Foundation
- Executive Director, Ernst & Young Foundation / Ernst & Young
- Leader of Foundation
Ellen has 26 years of EY, including two terms as the Americas Leader of Campus Recruiting, initial work in the development of a CR function and work within the Office of Public Policy. She sits on national and global boards in the graduate management education space and serves on a variety of advisory boards for key campuses.
Ellen is a certified Executive Coach and participates in the Ernst & Young's coaching initiatives, including the PPP program for high performing women senior managers in advisory and CBS. Prior to joining the firm, Ellen was a senior development officer raising private funds for a variety of universities across the country.
Ellen Glazerman The leader of Foundation and University Relations, Ellen will continue to support the Ernst & Young's leadership, the campus recruiting partners and recruiting leaders, in developing and maintaining strategic relationships with universities, colleges and faculty in support of all the firm's service lines and regions. She represents the firm on workforce development projects across the us, examining the pathways for developing talent for the 21st century.
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- Chief Financial Officer
- Member of the Senior Management Team
- Senior Vice President
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- General Manager of Networking and Communications and Vice President of Alliances at WorkSpan
- GM of Networking & Communications & VP of Alliances / WorkSpan, Inc.
Greg Fox is the General Manager of Networking and Communications and Vice President of Alliances at WorkSpan. WorkSpan has completely reimagined how companies go to market together and for the first time, with its Ecosystem Cloud, alliance and ecosystem leaders are finally able to build-with, market-with and sell-with their ecosystem partners in a single, secure, cloud-based network to grow business and abundance together.
Prior to WorkSpan, Greg was Vice President of Corporate Marketing and Brand Strategy at Huawei, leading company efforts to accelerate industry-leading marketing, thought leadership, brand capabilities, and enabling Huawei's own digitization and digital transformation efforts.
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- Lead Economist ( Former ) World Bank
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- Chief Executive Officer / Eurpac Service Inc. Wilton, CT
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- Dean
- Dean, Malcolm Baldrige School of Business and Is an Associate Professor of Marketing / Post University
Dr. Bauer is dean for the Malcolm Baldrige School of Business and is an Associate Professor of Marketing. Prior to joining Post in 2014 as the Program Chair for the undergraduate Marketing program, Dr. Bauer spent 15 years in various sales and marketing roles from inside and outside sales to VP of Sales and Marketing in the building materials industry; he also owned his own business. Throughout his career Dr. Bauer has studied human behavior, leadership, and strategy; specifically, how people make and execute decisions. Part and parcel to his behavioral studies has been the study of personality and how personalities can influence decisions and communication.
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- SVP and Chief Administration Officer / Mitsubishi
- SVP and Chief Administration Officer for Mitsubishi International Corporation
Jil Galloway serves as SVP and Chief Administration Officer for Mitsubishi International Corporation where she has worked for more than 30 years. She was promoted to lead the HR function in 2008 and expanded her area of responsibility to include general administration, facilities management & security in early 2013. Throughout her career, she has become an expert in labor law, organizational development, cross-cultural management, immigration law and employee benefits. She currently provides strategic direction for organizational change, compensation & benefits, employee relations, talent management, etc. for all offices throughout North America, totaling approximately 6000 employees.
Ms. Galloway graduated from Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kansas with a Bachelor degree in Education. She is a member of SHRM and the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans. She is also a certified employee benefits specialist.
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- Chief People Officer / Deloitte / New York, NY
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- Managing Director / Mexico and Latin
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- Member of the Senior Management Team
- Senior Vice President / Corporate Learning Solutions
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- Member of the Senior Management Team
- Vice President Marketing
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- Chief Executive Officer
- Member of the Senior Management Team
- President
Marni Friedlander - Chief Legal Officer, Secretary, SVP
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- Corporate Secretary
- General Counsel
- Member of the Senior Management Team
- Senior Vice President
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- Finance
- Member of the Senior Management Team
- Treasurer
- Vice President
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- Managing Director / Europe
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- Member of the Senior Management Team
- Vice President
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- Chief Information Officer
- Member of the Senior Management Team
- Senior Vice President
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- Director / Leadership Research Institute
- Director With Leadership Research Institute
Dr. Steven Rumery is a director with Leadership Research Institute (LRI), a global consulting firm specializing in leadership and organizational development. He specializes in developing the credibility and impact of leaders and organizations through executive coaching, research and consulting.
Steve works with all levels of leaders in his client organizations to conduct high-impact organizational research and consulting. Using rigorous and defensible methods, his work provides a clear and objective point-of-view on the difficult and complex issues facing his clients. His research and consulting expertise spans the employee lifecycle, from the selection and onboarding of top talent, to the coaching and development of leaders, to the optimization of employee engagement, retention and culture.
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- President / Creative Workforce Solutions
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- Member of the Senior Management Team
- Vice President
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- Member of the Senior Management Team
- Vice President / Financial Planning