Luncheon Keynote:
Scott Cawood, Ph.D., SPHR

Dr. Scott Cawood, SPHR
Scott is a workplace strategist that helps companies accelerate their growth by creating an effective, productive, and unique organizational culture. Scott works with leaders interested in building and sustaining a business that is profit centered, yet people-focused which enables organizations to create a competitive advantage through their culture.
Formerly, Scott was a vice president for the Great Place to Work Institute, which selects and ranks the “100 Best Companies to Work for in America' which appears annually in Fortune magazine. As a leader in researching and consulting on issues in the workplace, Scott selects the best places to work for over 35 programs in the US States and Canada. 

Scott currently serves as the vice president for Worldwide Human Resources for Synygy, Inc, the premier provider of Sales Performance Software solutions and has held positions as VP for global talent Management at Revlon and an HR leader at W. L. Gore & Associates, one of only five companies to make Fortune’s 100 Best Companies list every year since its inception.

Scott's book, Destination Profit: Creating People-Profit Opportunities in your Organization, coauthored with Rita Bailey of Southwest Airlines, was released in June 2006.  Scott is scheduled to release his second book, The ROPI Effect in the fall of 2010.  He has contributed chapters for other books, including Raise the Bar, published by the American Bar Association which focused on helping law firms become better places to work.  Scott has been interviewed for workplace improvement strategies in the Wall Street Journal, ABC news, the Continental Airlines In-flight Magazine, and has been published multiple times in Employee Relations Today.
Scott is completing his second doctorate at UPENN, in the Wharton School of Business/GSE.  Scott continues to research companies across all industries to better understand how to align their people with the business and build great organizations where people want to work.