TRAINHRLEARNING - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Founder, President and CEO of Worksite International, Inc
- President, Worksite International, Inc.
Alison Heller-Ono is the founder, President and CEO of Worksite International, Inc. since 1993. Alison received her BA in Biology in 1984, followed by her MS in Physical Therapy in 1987 and worked as a clinical physical therapist until 1996 helping work-injured patients get back to work. During this time, she discovered her true passion was injury prevention and helping injured workers return to work along with educating employers on how to prevent and manage injuries more effectively. Alison become a board Certified Industrial Ergonomist (CIE) in 1996 as well as a Certified Disability Analyst (CDA) by the American Board of Disability Analysts. In 2009, she became a Certified Professional Ergonomist (CPE) through the Board of Certified Professional Ergonomists (BCPE). Ms. Heller-Ono is also credentialed as an Ergonomics Program Education Specialist, a designation awarded to her by the Oxford Research Institute, a national certification board in ergonomics. She is currently a Certified Management Consultant (CMC) through the Institute for Management Consultants as well.
Ms. Heller-Ono speaks nationally and internationally on workers compensation, work injury prevention and management, ergonomics (process design and management) and the ADA. She is the author of "Your Guide to Developing an Ergonomic Process", "Your Guide to Office Ergonomic Furniture and Accessories", and has authored over 35 articles on ergonomics, work injury prevention and management. She has also served as an expert witness for workers' compensation and ADA cases in California. Alison is currently the Ergonomics Manager for the County of Monterey, CA, the only county of 56 in CA with such a position. Alison has helped the County of Monterey prevent more than 350 workers' compensation injuries and save over $3 million dollars in just a few years through her aggressive ergonomics process based on lean principles and continuous improvement theory.
Job Titles:
- Principal Consultant
- Principal Consultant, Alabama Yankee Systems, LLC
- Project Management for Managers
Anne Marie Smith, Ph.D. is Principal Consultant with over 20 years experience in enterprise information management. She is a certified data management professional (CDMP) and is a frequent speaker and author on data management topics.
Anne Marie has consulted in areas such as: enterprise information management assessment and program development, data governance, data warehousing, business requirements gathering and analysis, metadata management, information systems planning and EIM project management. She has taught numerous workshops and courses in her areas of expertise.
Anne Marie holds the degrees Bachelor of Arts and a Master's of Business Administration in Management Information Systems from La Salle University; she earned a Ph.D. in MIS at Northcentral University.
Job Titles:
- Founder of Barrie Gross Consulting
Barrie Gross is the founder of Barrie Gross Consulting, a human resources training and consulting firm dedicated to the ongoing management and development of human capital. She is a recognized expert in human resources after having spent 15 years as an employment attorney, including seven years as Vice President & Senior Corporate Counsel for an international Fortune 1000 financial services company that hired Barrie to create and lead the in-house employment law function. In that capacity, Barrie created and delivered management and development coursework throughout the organization as an integral part of her preventative litigation strategy.
Upon leaving in-house legal practice, Barrie turned to HR consulting and training in a non-legal capacity. She worked with Mercer HR Consulting on complex HR issues and became an adjunct university professor, teaching Introduction to Global Management and guest lecturing in the MBA Business Communications program. Barrie also worked with premier international e-learning companies to develop sophisticated management and employee training and development coursework. Barrie then founded her HR consulting and training firm to help others meet demands for more cost effective HR solutions that are sensitive to business needs, support ongoing workforce development, and follow sound risk management practices.
Barrie has a BA from the University of Vermont and a JD from the University of San Francisco, School of Law, where she was a member of the McAuliffe Honor Society. She was a member of the Association of Corporate Counsel for seven years and during the last four of those, served on the executive committee for ACC's Employment & Labor Law membership. She joined SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) in 2005. Barrie is the author of scores of articles about human capital management published by the New York Times, Washington Post, BusinessWeek Online, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Business Journal and other business journals and online business portals. Barrie also does public speaking on talent management strategies, management development and leadership.
Note: Barrie Gross's webinars do not constitute legal advice and should not be relied upon as legal opinion. If you have a legal issue, you should consult your own attorney concerning your situation and facts. Nothing presented on this site or in Barrie Gross's webinars creates or is intended to create an attorney-client or confidential relationship between you and Barrie Gross. Barrie Gross's webinars are for general information only, which may or may not reflect the most current legal developments or be complete.
Job Titles:
- Advanced Leadership for Competing in a Global Economy
- Process Engineer, Multicultural Associates
Carlos Conejo Certified Six Sigma Black Belt, presents proven strategies that can be implemented by serious, transformation-oriented organizations as they pursue serious growth and expansive initiatives. Conejo's style is high-energy and highly-interactive. He presents the material in a no nonsense way, lucidly delivering practical take-away experiences and "best practices" that can be immediately implemented and shared with regard to specific examples from corporate America that have been used to drive all levels of the organization. Carlos Conejo is a highly sought after management consultant, speaker and author on workforce and organizational development.
Mr. Conejo conducts major work internationally in the areas of organizational development teambuilding, Lean and Six Sigma Methodologies. In 2004, he was named one of the top U.S. Hispanic speakers by the independent firm of MarketData. A graduate of Pepperdine and Villanova Universities. Mr. Conejo has held successful careers in Sales, Marketing and Product Management for almost 20 years. He has a booming management consulting practice in Thousand Oaks, California. Mr. Conejo has been lecturing and consulting internationally on management, supervision, organizational development, and multicultural issues in Canada, Puerto Rico, and The United Kingdom, presenting to thousands of people from various organizations and companies.
He has also been featured on the Lifetime Channel, KNBC-TV, and numerous other national television and radio shows. Many corporations and associations have successfully utilized his book titled, Motivating Hispanic Employees: A Practical Guide to Understanding & Managing Hispanic Employees.
Job Titles:
- Leader
- 3 - Hour Virtual Seminar on Project Management in Human Resources
- Legislative, Judicial and Regulatory Evolution of Affirmative Action
- Professional Consultant With over 25 Years of HR
- Project Management in Human Resources
- Vice President, RCH Resources, Inc.
Cathleen M. Hampton As a professional consultant with over 25 years of HR experience to include extensive government contracting, Ms. Hampton has been responsible for planning, developing and executing a comprehensive HR strategy in support of many client companies. Her responsibilities have included the need to evaluate complex issues, identifying options for resolving problems, and implementing comprehensive program solutions.
Ms. Hampton is a dynamic leader who has been instrumental in growing RCH Resources into a much respected HR Services organization. She oversees diverse engagements where she partners with her clients to develop strategies using the most up-to-date and sound industry trends and practices.
Job Titles:
- Creating High - Performing Teams: Leadership and Team Developm
- Founder and President of Pinnacle Performance Improvement Worldwide
- It 's More Than Sexual & What Every Supervisor Should Know
- Members
- Sexual Harassment - It 's More Than Sexual & What Every Supervisor Should Know
Chris DeVany is the founder and president of Pinnacle Performance Improvement Worldwide, a firm which focuses on management and organization development. Pinnacle's clients include global organizations such as Visa International, Cadence Design Systems, Coca Cola, Sprint, Microsoft, Aviva Insurance, Schlumberger and over 500 other organizations in 22 countries. He also has consulted to government agencies from the United States, the Royal Government of Saudi Arabia, Canada, Cayman Islands and the United Kingdom.
He has published numerous articles in the fields of surviving mergers and acquisitions, surviving change, project management, management, sales, team-building, leadership, ethics, customer service, diversity and work-life balance, in publications ranging from ASTD/Performance In Practice to Customer Service Management. His book, "90 Days to a High-Performance Team", published by McGraw Hill and often accompanied by in-person, facilitated instruction, has helped and continues to help thousands of executives, managers and team leaders improve performance.
He has appeared hundreds of times on radio and television interview programs to discuss mergers and acquisitions (how to manage and survive them), project management, sales, customer service, effective workplace communication, management, handling rapid personal and organizational change and other topical business issues.
He has served or is currently serving as a board member of the International Association of Facilitators, Sales and Marketing Executives International, American Management Association, American Society of Training and Development, Institute of Management Consultants, American Society of Association Executives, Meeting Professionals International and National Speakers Association. Chris is an award-winning Toastmaster's International Competition speaker. He recently participated in the Fortune 500 Annual Management Forum as a speaker, panelist and seminar leader.
Chris has distinguished himself professionally by serving multiple corporations as manager and trainer of sales, operations, project management, IT, customer service and marketing professionals. Included among those business leaders are Prudential Insurance, Sprint, BayBank (now part of Bank of America), US Health Care and Marriott Corporation.
He has assisted these organizations in mergers and acquisitions, facilitating post-merger and acquisition integration, developing project management, sales, customer service and marketing strategies, organizing inbound and outbound call center programs, training and development of management and new hires, and fostering corporate growth through creative change and innovation initiatives.
Chris holds degrees in management studies and organizational behavior from Boston University. He has traveled to 22 countries and 47 states in the course of his career.
Job Titles:
- Breakthrough Performance Management That Is Practical, Effective and User - Friendly
- Efforts, Outcomes, and Behaviors: Improving Productivity With a Management Technique That Can Handle Good, Bad, and Ugly Employee Performance
- Human Resources Practitioner, Performance Conversations
- Managing Performance, Conformance, and Behavior: Using Motivation, Encouragement and Discipline to Improve Productivity
- the Fallacies of Performance Appraisals and How to Overcome
Chris Lee is a human resources practitioner, lecturer, researcher, and author. His background includes having served as the chief human resources officer for three different colleges or universities and a state college system.
He is a former question writer for the PHR and SPHR examinations administered by the Human Resources Certification Institute (HRCI). His areas of expertise are employment, training, and performance management - or, in his words, "finding, developing, and managing talent in organizations." He is the author of numerous human resources related articles and two books, including Performance Conversations: An Alternative to Appraisals. He is currently completing his next book tentatively entitled Managing Behavior: The Other Half of Performance.
He has presented at conferences and has consulted with clients in the US, Canada, Australia, and South Africa on HR related topics. He holds a master's degree in HR Management, a doctor of philosophy degree in HR Development, and he is also certified as a Senior Professional in Human Resources.
Job Titles:
- Effectively Managing through Change
- Organic Growth and the Customer Experience
- President and Founder of Loyalty Factor
- President and Founder, Loyalty Factor, LLC
- the Power of Magnetic Leadership: It 's Time to Get R.E.a.L
Dianne Durkin is the president and founder of Loyalty Factor, a consulting and training company that enhances employee, customer and brand loyalty for some of the nation's most prominent corporations and smaller businesses. Her new book, The Power of Magnetic Leadership: It's Time to Get R.E.A.L. is the focus of this webinar. The Clarion Independent Reviewer have described it as a must read. She has more than 25 years of experience in training and development, finance, direct sales and international marketing, and is widely recognized as a visionary thinker who has a rare combination of creativity and a strong business sense.
Quick to assess the core issues within a company and outline their impact on the organization and its profits, productivity and people, she is continually requested to lead companies into new markets and in new directions, handle organizational restructures and set up programs to build lasting commitments with employees and customers.
Interviewed as the Loyalty Expert by ABC News, Durkin was featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, USA Today, Investor's Business Daily and the Boston Globe, among numerous other publications. She was the subject of two cover stories in Learning and Training magazine and Sales & Service Excellence.
Job Titles:
- Director, Don Dressler Consulting
- How to Write an Effective Safety Plan
- the Role of a Safety Committee in Improving Safety Outcomes
Don Dressler has 40 years experience in safety, workers' compensation and human resources. He is a Consultant on insurance and risk management issues for private companies on workers compensation insurance and safety. Mr. Dressler is also an Attorney focusing on employment and human resources issues, accident investigations and OSHA compliance and workers' compensation defense. A former CEO of a workers' compensation insurer, he is admitted to the California Bar and the Federal Courts. A graduate of Stanford Law School has an MBA from Pepperdine University and a BA from Kansas State University. He is author of California Office Safety and How to Write Your Company's Safety Plan. He is Safety Group Manager for 3,500 legal and financial firms in California and also advises individual clients. He is founding partner in the human resources firm, Workforce Consultants.
Job Titles:
- Founder and Principal at Applied HR Strategies, Inc
- Founder, Applied HR Strategies, Inc.
Doug Sayed is founder and principal at Applied HR Strategies, Inc. a strategic HR and compensation consultancy based in the Seattle area.He is a Certified Compensation Professional (CCP) with 25 years of HR and compensation experience, and has also attained the Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) and Global Remuneration Professional (GRP) designations. Prior to beginning his corporate and consulting career, Doug earned a Master's Degree in Human Resource Management from The Ohio State University business school.
Job Titles:
- Demonstrating the Business Impacts of Talent Management to Cynical Executives
- Managing Talent in a Chaotic VUCA ( Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity ) World
- Professor of Management, San Francisco State University
- Talent Management Trends and Leading Edge Practices
- What 's Wrong With the Employee Engagement Process and How to Improve It
Dr John Sullivan is a well-known global talent management thought leader and guru. For years he has accurately predicted HR and talent management trends. He is an internationally known HR thought-leader from the Silicon Valley who specializes in providing bold and high business impact strategic solutions. He's a prolific author with over 900 articles and 10 books covering all of Talent Management. He is an engaging corporate speaker who has excited audiences at over 250 corporations / organizations in 30 countries on all 6 continents. His ideas have appeared in every major business source including the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, BusinessWeek, Fast Company, CFO, Inc., NY Times, SmartMoney, USA Today, HBR and the Financial Times. He has been interviewed on CNN and the CBS and ABC nightly news. Fast Company called him the "Michael Jordan of Hiring". He served as Chief Talent Officer for Agilent Technologies (the HP spin-off). He is currently a Professor of Management at San Francisco State and CEO of DJS and Associates consulting. His articles can be found on his popular website www.drjohnsullivan.com and on www.ERE.Net
Job Titles:
- Effective Discipline and Lawsuit - Proof Termination: How to Remedy Performance and Conduct Problems While Minimizing Your Legal Risks
- Founder & CEO, Work Relationships
- Legal and Effective Hiring and Interviewing
- Managing Employee Behavior Problems
Dr. Joni Johnston is a licensed clinical/forensic psychologist, private investigator, and CEO of WorkRelationships, an employee relations consulting firm. Since 1991, she has conducted hundreds of workshops and trained thousands of managers and HR professionals on how to deal with employee conduct issues - from dress code violations to offensive behavior investigations to workplace violence.
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder, the Human Resiliency Training Institute ( HRTI )
- International Consultant and Trainer
Dr. Lewis, an international consultant and trainer, has worked with national and international government agencies, healthcare facilities, educational institutions and private businesses on a wide range of work, behavioral health and organizational issues. His focus is facilitating organizational recovery and resiliency with the emphasis on "people-recovery."
He has authored numerous articles and three books: Critical Incident Stress and Trauma in the Workplace (1994) and Workplace Hostility: Myth & Reality (co-author, 1998) and Organizational Crisis Management: The Human Factor (2006). In addition, he contributed the chapter, "Violence at Work: Causes and Protection" in Psychopathology in the Workplace: Recognition and Adaptation, edited by Thomas, J. and Hersen, M., Bruner-Rutledge, NY, 2004.
In 1986, he founded COMPASS, providing Employee Assistance Programs, management consultation, organizational development, employee training and education, pre-employment screening and fitness for duty evaluations.
He is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Boston University and Clark University teaching a variety of courses on the human side of business contingency planning and emergency management. During the summers of 2009 & 2010, he taught in Israel (through Clark University). In addition, he is a member of the Advisory Committee for the Norwich University Master of Science in Business Continuity Management (MSBC) and is also an Adjunct Professor.
He provides litigation consultation/expert testimony in the areas of: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), sexual harassment, workplace violence, fitness for duty, negligent retention/termination, Americans with Disabilities, malpractice, depression, etc.
Job Titles:
- President of Development Quest
Job Titles:
- President, Development Quest, LLC
Jeff Salters is the President of Development Quest, LLC. He has over 15 years of experience in business ethics, professional and leadership development, training, and organizational development. Mr. Salters is formerly the Director of Professional Services for the International Business Ethics Institute (IBEI) and the Director of Programs for the Ethics Resource Center (ERC). He has delivered ethics consulting and training to Fortune 500 companies across the U.S. and in over 10 countries. Mr. Salters holds an MBA in Organizational Behavior and Development from the George Washington University and a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Howard University.
Job Titles:
- Chief Compliance Officer at Bolton and Company
- HIPAA Security for Human Resource Professionals
- Preparing for Health Care Reform in 2013
- Principal, Garner Consulting
- Recent Federal Regulations Affecting Employee Benefits
Mr.Garner is Chief Compliance Officer at Bolton and Company. Before joining Bolton, he was the principal of Garner Consulting in Pasadena, California. Prior to founding Garner Consulting, he was a principal in the Los Angeles office of Towers Perrin, where he worked for over ten years. Mr. Garner serves as the national legislative and government affairs advisor for the Disability Management Employer Coalition. He is a past chair of the CEBS Committee for the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans. He is a past member of the Governing Council of the International Society of Certified Employee Benefit Specialists and is a past president of the Los Angeles Chapter. Mr. Garner is also a past president of the Employee Benefit Planning Association of Southern California, the Los Angeles Life and Accident Claim Association and the Western Claim Conference. He is the author of the Health Insurance Answer Book and articles that have appeared in numerous publications. Mr. Garner received his B.A. degree from Occidental College. He is a chartered life underwriter, a certified employee benefits specialist, a group benefit associate, retirement plans associate, a certified management consultant, and a certified flexible compensation instructor.
Job Titles:
- CEO, the Herman Group
- Impending Crisis: Too Many Jobs, Too Few People
Joyce Gioia (joy-yah) is a Strategic Business Futurist concentrating on workforce and workplace trends. Joyce is President and CEO of The Herman Group, a firm serving a wide range corporate, trade association and governmental clients on an international basis. Through consulting, speaking, and training, Joyce helps clients position themselves for success in the future. Joyce has served clients on six continents and in 46 states.
Gioia's career includes a wide variety of industries and fields, including hard goods, soft goods, wholesale, retail, and direct marketing. After founding her first company at the tender age of 14, later at the age of 28, she was the youngest magazine publisher in the country, publishing The Complete Buyers Guide to Stereo/Hi-Fi Equipment for Service Communications Ltd.
Focusing on what will be valuable for her clients and audiences, Joyce tailors her messages to what is most needed with an emphasis on take-home value, practical tactics and strategies that can be put to work right away. To reach an even wider audience, Joyce has authored five books. These books are focused on what employers must do to attract, optimize, and hold onto their best employees. Gioia approaches Human Resources from an Internal Marketing perspective, taking external marketing concepts and strategies and applying them within the organization.
A respected professional speaker and consultant, Gioia has earned the designation Certified Management Consultant, the highest certification granted by The Institute of Management Consultants. She also earned the coveted Certified Speaking Professional designation from the National Speakers Association. Gioia contributed a regular column to various business journals, as well as Sky, Delta Airlines' award-winning in-flight magazine. She is also CEO of Employer of Choice, Inc., the organization that certifies employers as Employers of Choice®.
Often quoted in media, like Industry Week, The Christian Science Monitor, Entrepreneur Magazine, Business Week, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, and on National Public Radio, Gioia is recognized as one who not only knows what's coming, but can communicate that future very effectively. She has also appeared on numerous radio and television talk shows and was featured in an episode of New Attitudes on the Lifetime Cable Network. Gioia is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the East, and the International Who's Who of Business Executives.
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder and President of Team HR
- Developing a Social Media Policy: Clear Guidelines to Prevent or Reduce Employment - Related Problems
- Employee Online: Social Media at Work
- Engaged Performance: How to Motivate Employees and Align Behavior With Company Goals
- FMLA in the Trenches: Advanced Tips & Tactics to Protect Your Company
Kathy Coughlin is co-founder and president of Team HR, a consulting firm specializing in providing solutions to organizations' human resources challenges. Ms. Coughlin has over twenty-five years of human resources management experience and has held positions of VP Human Resources and Director of Human Resources for med size organizations of 400 employees to large organizations of over 3000 employees.
After starting her career in human resources as a Recruiter & Trainer, she progressed to Human Resources Manager, Assistant Human Resources Officer, Director of Human Resources and VP of Human Resources. Except for her initial assignment, all of her positions have been responsible for the broad spectrum of human resource generalist.
Ms. Coughlin provides employee and supervisor training to large and small businesses, the Small Business Development Center, and is a member of the Palm Beach Community College Business & Industry Training Speakers Bureau.
Coughlin earned her M.S in public administration with an emphasis in healthcare administration from State University of New York and has a B.S. in business administration from Rochester Institute of Technology. She currently is a member of the Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce, HR Executive Volunteer Corps for the Center for Nonprofit Excellence, Society for Human Resource Managers (SHRM), and advisor to Palm Beach County for Self-Advocacy for people with disabilities.
Job Titles:
- Emergency Management Consultant, CEM ( LLC )
Lucien G. Canton , CEM is an independent management consultant specializing in preparing managers to lead better in crisis. Prior to starting his own company, Mr. Canton served as the Director of Emergency Services for the city and county of San Francisco and as an Emergency Management Programs Specialist and Chief of the Hazard Mitigation Branch for FEMA Region IX.
A popular speaker and lecturer, he is the author of the best-selling Emergency Management: Concepts and Strategies for Effective Programs used as a textbook in many higher education courses. He is a Certified Emergency Manager and a Certified Business Continuity Professional.
Job Titles:
- Founder and President of Hayden Resources Inc
- President, Hayden Resources, Inc.
Marna Hayden is founder and president of Hayden Resources Inc. She has 30+ years in the field of human resource management and is certified as a senior professional in human resources (SPHR). Hayden Resources Inc. provides management and human resources consulting and outsourcing services to small businesses and nonprofits, and specialized services and training to larger organizations. Hayden has held senior offices in the banking, retail, and service industries and is an adjunct faculty member for DeSales University.
Job Titles:
- a Competency That the Future Demands: Communications and Interpersonal Skills
- Building a Global Mindset
- Changing the Success Rates of Mergers and Acquisitions: MA3 P2 C2 ( Successful M and a Attention to People and Change )
- President and Chief 'N' Sights Officer, Nina E. Woodard & Associates
- What Is Workplace Flexibility and What Does It Mean to HR
Ms. Woodard serves currently as the President and Chief ‘N' Sights Officer for Nina E. Woodard & Associates. She launched this company upon her return to the US at the end of third quarter 2008. Using customized executive coaching and strategic business consulting strategies, Ms. Woodard strives to heighten confidence in business leaders as they move into the Indian market place, help them increase their understanding of the cultural nuances influencing business in India and to engage in more meaningful and productive communications with India colleagues all for the purpose of increasing business results.
Prior to founding Nina E. Woodard & Associates, Ms. Woodard served as the Executive Director for Strategic Human Resource Management India Pvt. Ltd. a wholly own subsidiary of Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) US. In that role she assisted in building the new business entity in India and to provide support for Business Development and Marketing efforts. Prior to her position with SHRM India, Nina served as the Managing Director of Aradhanaa Human Resources Consultancy Pvt. Ltd. her own Indian based company founded in June 2002.
In May 2002 she retired from her position as Sr. Vice President of Human Resources for Standard Chartered Bank, PLC, a London headquartered International Bank, whose focus is primarily in Emerging Markets to build her own global consulting practice.
Nina's career has encompassed 32 years in the field of banking. Her rich Human Resources background includes leadership roles in practical day to day activity as well as significant change initiatives, including M and A work and establishing a shared services center for finance. She has worked across North, Central and South America, in the Middle East and in Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Singapore, Thailand and Taiwan. These experiences have given her a truly global business perspective. In all of her roles she worked as an HR Strategic Business Partner with the line managers she supported.
Ms. Woodard currently serves on the Board of Operation Eyesight Universal and the Finance Committee for Saint Thomas More Catholic Church. She is the mentor and business coach for See N Recruit and Husys Consulting in India. She serves as a member of the advisory team for World HR Congress and Asia Pacific HR Congress.
She has a Bachelors Degree in Management. She also has a Graduate degree in Banking from Pacific Coast School of Banking. She is a graduate of American Banking Institute Graduate School of Human Resources and is certified a Senior Professional in Human Resources and a Global Professional in Human Resources by Society for Human Resource Management. She is currently serving as the President Elect for San Diego SHRM and for Women Business Enterprise Council WEST and a member of the Finance Committee for Saint Thomas More, Church.
Job Titles:
- Director of Clinical Services, Harris, Rothenberg International
Dr. Martin, a licensed psychologist, oversees HRI's clinical department, consisting of intake EAP counselors, face-to-face counselors, and management consultants.
Dr. Martin is responsible for the operation of HRI's EAP, implementation of new policies and procedures to ensure quality service delivery for clients, and training EAP staff members. He has more than 26 years of experience managing and supervising mental health and EAP professionals, practicing psychotherapy, consulting with management and HR in corporate settings on behavioral health issues, and intervening in crisis situations for both small and large-scale disasters.
Dr. Martin has worked in both non-profit and corporate sectors, including employee assistance programs, mobile crisis teams, community mental health centers, developmental disability organizations, and crisis intervention services. Prior to joining HRI in 2011, Dr. Martin was the director of crisis and behavioral health technology at the Mental Health Association of New York City. Before that, he served as a workforce consultant and account executive for FEI Behavioral Health.
Dr. Martin earned his PhD in Psychology/Counseling from Indiana State University and a Master's in Counseling from the State University of New York at Albany. He is widely quoted and has appeared on WebMD, CNN Radio, 1010 WINS News Radio, WPIX Evening News, and in web and print articles in, among others, The Wall Street Journal's Market Watch, HR Executive Online, The Journal News, Time Out New York, EAP Post and The National Herald. Dr. Martin is a member of the International Positive Psychology Association, the American Psychological Association, and the Employee Assistance Professionals Association.
Job Titles:
- Group Mentoring - When to Use and How to Do IT Well
- Online Mentoring System - Bringing Social Learning, Employee Development and Mentoring Together
- President, Management Mentors, Inc.
Rene D.Petrin After spending years in human resources and discovering that most companies weren't doing an adequate job developing their number one asset-employees-Rene D. Petrin had a mission: to create an organization devoted solely to teaching businesses how to mentor talent.
This entrepreneurial spirit combined with his keen insight into human behavior led Rene to found Management Mentors, Inc. in 1989. Management Mentors' philosophy is simple: to show companies how structured mentoring programs are the most powerful and effective strategy for professional development within an organization.
With more than 12 years of experience as a Vice President of Human Resources in both healthcare and sales organizations, Rene has experience managing all areas of human resources, but he's always maintained a special interest in employee development. Through his concentration in this field, he began to realize the power of mentoring in organizations and increased his focus on this area. Rene's educational background is equally impressive: he earned a master's degree in consulting and counseling psychology from Harvard University and a bachelor's degree in health administration and planning from the University of New Hampshire.
Today, Rene strives to be a leader in the mentoring field rather than just "another" consultant. To this end, he has developed mentoring tools, such as online tutorials, that are unique in emphasizing the interpersonal dynamics in mentoring while at the same time working toward creating standards of excellence so that the mentoring profession maintains its integrity and promise.
Job Titles:
- Professional With a Focus on Employee
Richard Hadden is a Certified Speaking Professional with a focus on employee engagement, and the correlation between people practices and profit performance. He is co-author of Contented Cows Give Better Milk: The Plain Truth About Employee Relations and Your Bottom Line; Contented Cows MOOve Faster: How Good Leaders Get People to Put More OOMPH! Into Their Work; Rebooting Leadership: Practical Lessons for Frontline Leaders (and their Bosses) in the New World; and an all new revision of his first work, entitled Contented Cows STILL Give Better Milk: The Plain Truth About Employee Engagement and Your Bottom Line.
He received a Bachelor's degree in management from Jacksonville University, in Florida, and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of North Florida.
Richard Hadden was a manager for a large financial institution in the 1980's. He learned computer programming and worked as a programmer and systems analyst in the field of multi-user microcomputer software, before the advent of PC's. He was Director of Product Development for a software manufacturer in North Florida before starting his own software consulting business in 1986. Gradually, his consulting focus shifted from Information Technology to Human Resources, Leadership, and Management.
While consulting, he taught software design, principles of management, and international economics at Jacksonville University from 1988-1991.
He founded his consulting firm in 1989, and immediately began conducting training workshops in the areas of performance coaching and managing a diverse workforce. After training and consulting in dozens of organizations, he partnered with Bill Catlette, to form Contented Cow Partners in 1996. Contented Cow Partners was founded on the principle that creating a focused, engaged, and capably led workforce is one of the best things any organization can do for its bottom line. The firm conducted extensive research into organizations with outstanding workplace reputations, and their findings, using Human Capital Analytics, led them to investigate the strategies employed to turn people practices into profit performance. Since 1990, Richard Hadden has delivered keynote presentations and training programs for more than 800 audiences in North and South America, Asia, Europe, and Australia.
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- Adjunct Professor at Villanova University 's Graduate Program
- President - CEO of Laurdan Associates, Inc
- President, Laurdan Associates Inc.
Ronald Adler is the president-CEO of Laurdan Associates, Inc., a veteran owned, human resource management consulting firm specializing in HR audits, employment practices liability risk management, HR metrics and benchmarking, strategic HR-business issues and unemployment insurance.He has more than 37 years of HR consulting experience working with U.S. and international firms, small businesses and non-profits, insurance companies and brokers, and employer organizations.
Mr. Adler is a co-developer of the Employment-Labor Law Audit (the nation's leading HR auditing and employment practices liability risk assessment tool.
Mr. Adler is an adjunct professor at Villanova University's Graduate Program in Human Resources Development and teaches a course on HR auditing. Mr. Adler is a certified instructor on employment practices for the CPCU Society and has conducted continuing education courses for the AICPA, the Institute of Internal Auditors, the Institute of Management Consultants, and the Society for Human Resource Management.
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- Founder, Lotus Coaching and Consulting
Dr. Sara Orem knows the perils of multi-tasking. As a core faculty member in leadership at an online university, Dr. Orem uses her laptop computer more than 8 hours a day, sometimes while talking on the phone or checking email on her Blackberry or iPad. Her doctoral dissertation topic was listening to learn in disagreements, perhaps the hardest emotional situation in which to listen to learn. Her interest in neuroscience and listening is part of her curiosity about positive psychology. She regularly presents topics about leadership and coaching to faculty and business partners of her university, and has been the featured speaker at coaching conferences. She is the lead author of Appreciative Coaching: A Positive Process for Change, published by Jossey-Bass/Wiley in 2007 and co-author of The Coach's Guide to Asset-Based Thinking and Appreciative Coaching published by the Cramer Institute in 2009.
Job Titles:
- Founder & CEO, Human Resource Essential, LLC
- Mastermind Group Leader
Stephanie Angelo is a Mastermind group leader for enterprising people in a range of industries, from recruiters and marketers, physicians, wealth advisors, and commercial interior designers. She helps entrepreneurs and solopreneurs grow and build their own enterprises. She has a unique knack for connecting people and creating collaborative relationships that result in measurable growth. She's sought out for mastermind group membership so people, and their business, can benefit from her skills.
She is innovative and creates teams that make more money, blow away the competition and have better businesses as a result. Stephanie has been a management expert for over 30 years and is experienced in dealing with people and their challenges including individuals who are dealing with crisis. She's experienced in managing group dynamics, individual coaching and is skilled in diffusing emotional conflict and looking for consensus.
She knows a lot about goal achievement and takes that skill to her Masterminds. In 2014 she co-created the first-ever board game to address domestic violence - OUTrage™ - A Game to Recognize and Change Abusive Behavior. Stephanie co-wrote the true crime memoir Serrated. She has won several awards for her work.
For fun she likes to do just about anything that allows her to be outdoors. She used to fly single engine aircraft. But hiking and bike riding is much more affordable and definitely quieter! Let's give an enthusiastic welcome to Stephanie Angelo!
Job Titles:
- the Virtual Employee - Coaching and Training Employees for Success in the Virtual Workplace
- Vice President of a Fortune 500
- Virtual Management Skills: How to Manage for High Performance in the Virtual Workplace
- Virtual Team Leadership: Manage for Optimum Results
Tamara proudly serves as a Vice President of a Fortune 500 organization and is a passionate advocate for the Virtual Workplace. Currently, Tamara has a high performing Virtual Team that is located across the US and this team continues to exceed set goals and expectations of the organization. Tamara has consulted with businesses focused on obtaining outstanding results in the virtual workplace to include telework, outsourcing and offshoring. She has worked with organizations in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom on Operational Efficiencies and Virtual Workplace and Management topics. Tamara holds an MBA and professional certifications in both Change Management and Business Process Management.
Job Titles:
- Consultant and Programmer, Pc Guy Consulting INC
Tom Fragale is a computer professional with over 30 years of professional experience. He is a Microsoft Certified Trainer, and a Microsoft Certified Expert in Excel. He has trained over 30,000 business people in on-line webinars, public seminars, and on-site training.
His clients include many Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, military bases, and companies large and small across many industries, including manufacturing, banking, pharmaceutical, education, retail, etc. He started his career as a database application programmer and has served as a consultant and project manager on many successful projects.
His topics of expertise include: Access, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Crystal Reports, SQL Server, Visio, QuickBooks, and SharePoint, among others. His passion is training people and helping people get the most out of their computers, and he is a published author having written a book on Microsoft Access. He graduated in 1988 from LaSalle University in Philadelphia, PA with a BA in Computer Science.
Job Titles:
- Consultant
- Founding Partner, Kubica LaForest Consulting
Tony Kubica is a consultant, author, coach, and speaker. He specializes in accelerating business growth, strategy, leadership development, and performance improvement. Initially trained as a pharmacist, Tony has been a departmental director, hospital executive, executive in charge of a management consulting practice for a mid-size national consulting company, entrepreneur, and business owner.
While at the University of Connecticut Health Center he held a number of key positions, including: Director of Pharmacy, hospital executive, hospital planner and co-chair of the Health Center's Strategic Planning Committee. In addition, he served as Assistant Professor of Community Medicine and Assistant Clinical Professor of Pharmacy at the Schools of Medicine and Pharmacy, respectively.
As a hospital executive at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island, he was responsible for all clinical and non-clinical hospital services and, working with key physicians, was instrumental in introducing new technology and care concepts such as minimally invasive surgery, Gamma Knife® and lithotripsy.
Tony joined Superior Consultant Company (specializing in healthcare information technology and management consulting services) as a senior management consultant and grew to Senior Vice President of the Chi Group - Superior's management consulting company - prior to leaving in 2005 to start his own company. Along the way he was Director of the IDN Practice, Vice President of Implementation for select health care IT software systems, and Vice President for company wide resource management and sales.
He is a member of the ACHE and serves on the RI-Education Committee. He is also a member of the International Coach Federation. He holds a certification with Hogan Assessments, an internationally utilized, premier personality and job performance profiling system, used to help organizations hire high-potential talent and develop current and emerging leaders.
When not working with clients, writing or speaking, he pursues his two passions: music and martial arts. He plays the guitar and is a 4th degree black belt in Kenpo Karate. As a martial artist he continues to grow in the art and enjoys working with children and adults to help them improve, learn self-discipline, and build self-confidence.
Job Titles:
- How to Conduct a Workplace Investigation - Step - by - Step Analogy
- President, Expert Human Resources Consultants, LLC
Vanessa G. Nelson SPHR, CLRL is founder and President of Expert Human Resources Consultants, LLC, a portable HR department, which was founded to help companies protect their assets and increase profits by assisting them with employee-related lawsuit avoidance, conflict resolution, legal compliance maintenance, benefits administration, and maximization of human capital. Vanessa has worked with multiple diverse companies including, healthcare (medical and dental), government, restaurants, retail, construction, adult day care, automotive, and education. Her motto is "Organizational pains are my pains; I do not succeed until the organization is improved."
Vanessa is a results-oriented HR Consultant with a unique background in business management, spanning over 27 years at Hurley Medical Center and Sparrow Health Systems. Her expertise includes: labor relations, employee relations, workplace investigations, and policies and procedures. Additionally, Ms. Nelson has implemented processes to improve conflict management and employee relations; conducted harassment training to improve company efficiencies, worked with multiple unions to produce positive outcomes, and has recruited dozens of talented employees. She is mobile and able to quickly interpret and apply policies fairly and consistently.
Ms. Nelson received her Master of Science in Administration/Human Resources Management from Central Michigan University, and a Bachelor in Business Management from Northwood University. She holds the Certified Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) credential, which is a national top HR certification, held by less than 11% of HR Professionals in the United States. She is also Certified Labor Relations Leader (CLRL), and is Six Sigma White Belt certified.
Ms. Nelson has conducted multiple seminars including: "Lawsuits Waiting to Happen", "Human Resources and the Law", "FMLA," and "Employment Law Updates".
Job Titles:
- Documenting Payroll Procedures
- Founder and President, the Payroll Advisor™
- Proper and Effective Handling of Child Support Garnishments
Vicki M. Lambert, CPP, is President and Academic Director of The Payroll Advisor™, a firm specializing in payroll education and training. The company's website www.thepayrolladvisor.com offers a payroll news service which keeps payroll professionals up-to-date on the latest rules and regulations.
With over 35 years of hands-on experience in all facets of payroll functions as well as over 20 years as a trainer and author, Ms. Lambert has become the most sought-after and respected voice in the practice and management of payroll issues. She has conducted open market training seminars on payroll issues across the United States that have been attended by executives and professionals from some of the most prestigious firms in business today.
A pioneer in electronic and online education, Ms. Lambert produces and presents payroll related audio seminars, webinars and webcasts for clients, APA chapters and business groups throughout the country. Ms. Lambert is an adjunct faculty member at Brandman University in Southern California and is the creator of and instructor for their Practical Payroll Online program, which is approved for recertification hours by the APA. She is also the instructor for the American Payroll Association's "PayTrain" online program also offered by Brandman University