Program Summaries   

Thursday 8:30 - 10:15 am                  

Dawn Robertson, Principal and Co-Founder, Strategic Change Resources

Blending cultures to promote collaboration and growth in the merger world today:

• Business simulations -- team dynamics, interpersonal skills;
• Business simulations -- team building;
• Experiential session on project management.

Room: Tahoe A/B - Mezzanine Level

This session pre-approved by HRCI for 1.25 recertification credits - Strategic Credit*

Joyce McNickles, Assistant Professor of Human Development and Human Services, Anna Maria College

Albert M. Toney III, AK Consulting Services

All of us have been in situations where someone does or says something that offends us and we don't know what to say. This workshop will give us a chance to look at how we self-identify and where we get our messages about people, and ways to respond when people make comments about race, gender, religion, or sexual orientation that we find degrading.

Room: Aspen - 10th Floor

This session pre-approved by HRCI for 1.25 recertification credits - General Credit

Caela Farren, Ph.D., Founder and CEO, MasteryWorks

You are unique in the universe -- evident in your fingerprint, your retina scan and DNA code. The MasteryWorks CareerFit™ Model gives you a clear way to assess yourself and choose professional settings where you'll excel. Maximize your energy to achieve performance success by assuring a strong "career fit."

Put together feedback and learning plans to assure that you develop the competencies and skills required for the work you've chosen.

Room: Tahoe C - Mezzanine Level

This session has not been approved for recertification credits

Thursday 10:30 - 11:30 am                  

Suzanne Zeller, Vice President and Director, Human Resources, International Wealth Management, Hartford Life, Inc.

This session pre-approved by HRCI for 1.0 recertification credits - Strategic Credit*

Sponsored by  XL Human Resource Communications

Thursday 1:00 - 2:30 pm                  

June A. Mara, Founder and CEO, XL Communications

Beth E. Marusi, Principal and Vice President, XL Communications

Kevin Fretz, Director, Human Resources, Severn Trent Services, Inc.

Thomas K. Halpin, Vice President, Human Resources Services
Secretary, Lord & Taylor LLC

Patricia Pasquini, Vice President of Human Resources, Malcolm Pirnie, Inc.

Successfully introduce HR initiatives and engage your workforce. Tactics that work and those to avoid. Hear the true stories from industry leaders.

Room: Ballroom D

This session pre-approved by HRCI for 1.5 recertification credits - Strategic Credit*

Sue Evens, GPHR, Director, Cartus Consulting

Cartus' 2007 Policies and Practices Survey reveals a new, more mobile workforce and a greater commitment by global organizations to new forms of policies and assignment types and destinations to meet expanding business goals.

As companies respond to growing business opportunities, pressures to recruit and retain top global talent, and demands for regional flexibility, the design of global mobility programs is being transformed.

Room: Aspen - 10th Floor

This session pre-approved by HRCI for 1.5 recertification credits - Strategic Credit* and International Management Credit*

CHRO Track Summary

Join other Chief HR Officers in a highly interactive, case study focused, experiential intensive two day program on strategic initiative planning for integration of total rewards and talent management. Come ready to share your challenges and add successful practices to your performance management and executive compensation strategy tool kits.
 
Speakers and facilitators will provide proven strategies and tools for developing a personalized strategic action plan directly related to your challenging issues of Talent Management and Total Rewards. Included will be a focus on recruitment, retention, and production of your stars, executive performance management and executive compensation.
 
Upon completion of this experience, senior human resource professionals will be better able to actively participate at the highest levels of their organizations in strategy conversations, align strategies with the organization and its resources, and begin to build an execution culture that connects people with strategy for the desired results.
 

Total Rewards and Talent Management
Strategic Initiative Planning - Part 1
Defining Total Rewards and Talent Management
Chief HR Officers (CHRO)

Dawn Robertson, Principal and Co-Founder, Strategic Change Resources

Caela Farren, Ph.D., Founder and CEO, MasteryWorks

Defining Talent Management and Total Rewards
 
Setting the stage for action plan guides: current trends and theories directly impacting Total Rewards and Talent Management.

Attendees will develop a personalized strategic action plan directly related to their challenging issues of Talent Management and Total Rewards.

Room: Tahoe C - Mezzanine Level

PLEASE NOTE: Registration for the CHRO Track is now closed.

This session pre-approved by HRCI for 1.5 recertification credits - Strategic Credit*

Sponsored by  Right Management

Sharon Lundberg, Executive Coach, Lee Hecht Harrison

Gain a deeper understanding of your overall performance, and the importance and impact of credibility on the HR profession, while assessing your own credibility gap.

Room: Tahoe A/B - Mezzanine Level

This session pre-approved by HRCI for 1.5 recertification credits - General Credit

Sponsored by  Lee Hecht Harrison
and by  MasteryWorks

Thursday 3:00 - 4:30 pm                  

Raoul Nolan, Senior Consultant, Lee Hecht Harrison

Learn a proven framework and strategy for assessing and building a deep and broad career network of support.

Learn an effective approach for assessing and building a strong career network, ultimately your own Board of Directors. See how to leverage your network for your own talent development and organizational success.

Room: Tahoe A/B - Mezzanine Level

This session has not been approved for recertification credits

Sponsored by  Lee Hecht Harrison
and by  MasteryWorks

Alan Booth, Vice President, Gilman Performance Systems

Know thyself!

How can the same behavior be successful and a disaster? Practical tools to help you understand and change counter-productive behaviors.

Room: Ballroom D

This session pre-approved by HRCI for 1.5 recertification credits - General Credit

Michael Cadden, GMS, Managing Director - International Operations, Living Abroad, LLC

Your GPS to access a set of strategies and tactics custom-designed to the specific differences that might exist at work between you and your colleagues abroad.

This dynamic interactive presentation will help you understand specifically how cultural differences reveal themselves in real-life work scenarios around the world. Be Introduced to the DFA "CULTURE COMPASS", a dynamic new online interactive intercultural tool that can help both you and your organization to develop the global competencies required when working across cultures.

Live data collected from conference participants just prior to the conference will be integrated into the presentation, enabling the entire audience to experience the power of the CULTURE COMPASS (and enabling you to receive your own personal work profile as a bonus, along with tactics and strategies for success in over 90 countries around the world.)

Room: Aspen - 10th Floor

This session pre-approved by HRCI for 1.5 recertification credits - International Management Credit*

Dawn Robertson, Principal and Co-Founder, Strategic Change Resources

Caela Farren, Ph.D., Founder and CEO, MasteryWorks

Program Summary
 
This session will show how manpower planning "successful practice" models can be utilized to build a superior talent pool. Topics covered will include:

• Becoming an employer of choice -- branding for recruitment and retention
• Aging Workforce -- Multi-Generational Workforce
• Talent Shortages -- where will they be in your organization?
• Career Mobility & Multiple Career Paths
• Leader's/Manager's role in Talent Management

Program Detail
 
Create a Successful Practice Engagement Tree:
 
Step 1: Five Critical Conditions for Employee Engagement
  • Missions that inspire, attract, and give meaning to the sacrifices of work
  • Leadership in the industry and core technologies
  • Work that is challenging, meaningful, and provides career opportunities
  • Social responsibility and philanthropy for employees & communities
  • Great managers/leaders who build strong partnerships with employees

Step 2: Organization Assessment
  • How does your organization rate against key criteria for engaging talent?
 
Step 3: Risk Assessment
  • How can you help managers assure to engage their key people?
  • Personal Experience and Discussion
  • Metrics evaluation, program debriefing, implementation of changes required

Room: Tahoe C - Mezzanine Level

PLEASE NOTE: Registration for the CHRO Track is now closed.

This session pre-approved by HRCI for 1.5 recertification credits - Strategic Credit*

Sponsored by  Right Management

Friday 8:30 - 9:45 am                  

Leslie Combs, Executive Coach, Lee Hecht Harrison

Learn to go beyond "survival" and actually prosper in environments that are complex and dynamic.

As the velocity and frequency of change continues to increase, learn tips and techniques for improving your effectiveness at managing change and increasing your personal resiliency.

Room: Tahoe A/B - Mezzanine Level

This session pre-approved by HRCI for 1.25 recertification credits - General Credit

Sponsored by  Lee Hecht Harrison
and by  MasteryWorks

Edward S. Petry, PhD, Ethical Leadership Group

Mark Soycher, Counsel
Human Resources Services, Connecticut Business & Industry Association CT Business & Industry Association

Michael Rion, Ph.D., Principal and Founder, Resources for Ethics and Management

Ethics is not a legislative issue -- it is a management issue: why, what, and how to build and implement an "ethical" work culture plan.

Room: Ballroom D

This session pre-approved by HRCI for 1.25 recertification credits - Strategic Credit*

Gardiner Hempel, Jr., GPHR, Partner, Deloitte Tax LLP

Are you prepared to support globalization in an environment of increasing complexity in the regulatory and enforcement regimes around the world?

This session will indentify these areas of risk and explore how multinationals have worked collaboratively with their Tax, Legal, and Internal Audit colleagues, as well as service providers, to implement and enhance processes to accomplish that.

Other dimensions of risk such as personal and global mobility functional reputational risk will also be discussed.

Room: Aspen - 10th Floor

This session pre-approved by HRCI for 1.25 recertification credits - International Management Credit*

Robert S. Nadel, President, Nadel Consulting / HR Spectrum, Inc.

Philip L. Farber, CCP, Managing Director, Compensation Solutions, LLC

James Gould

Having a total rewards strategy in place for your senior executives strengthens and complements your talent management program. This session will give attendees a complete overview on what the current trends and challenges are in executive total rewards (executive compensation, benefits, intrinsic rewards, etc.), ranging from governance to shareholder (owner) frustration, with an analysis as to the links to performance.

Topics covered include:

• Latest theory and practical models that tie executive total rewards to business performance
• Total Rewards and company branding... how?
• Present and future challenges faced by public and private companies
• Compliance and governance issues
• What internal people responsible for Executive Compensation and Benefits have to know
• Board of Director roles and responsibilities in setting and monitoring Executive Compensation and Benefits
• Executive compensation programs in privately held companies when no "real" equity opportunities exist

The panel of experts will share their experience and expertise in addressing this important issue. Using a mix of current theory/knowledge and practical experiences, they will present a series of practical solutions to participants.

Room: Tahoe C - Mezzanine Level

PLEASE NOTE: Registration for the CHRO Track is now closed.

This session pre-approved by HRCI for 1.25 recertification credits - Strategic Credit*

Sponsored by  Right Management

Friday 10:00 - 11:15 am                  

Raoul Nolan, Senior Consultant, Lee Hecht Harrison

Learn a proven approach for developing life goals that build work/life balance and set the context for your career goals.

Room: Tahoe A/B - Mezzanine Level

This session has not been approved for recertification credits

Sponsored by  Lee Hecht Harrison
and by  MasteryWorks

Gillian Oechslin, President, Prompt > Inc.

Jennifer Moemeka, Senior Project Manager, HR Information Services, Aetna, Inc.

HR Operations implementation

Learn about practices resulting in successful analysis and implementation of organizational change: ROI, practical metric tools; tools to build a technology kit.

Room: Ballroom D

This session pre-approved by HRCI for 1.25 recertification credits - Strategic Credit*

Ethan E. Kaufman, Esq., Partner, Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP

Rachel Goldin, Vice President, Global Mobility Services, Goldman, Sachs & Co.

This program will provide an update on current business immigration and examine strategies for managing immigration within a mobility program. The discussion will explore how corporations adapt to evolving legal issues including the H-B cap, student optional practical training, and green card standards.

Consideration will be given to how immigration fits into the human resources agenda, including the interface with recruiting and hiring teams. The program will also include an update on I-9 compliance concerns.

Room: Aspen - 10th Floor

This session pre-approved by HRCI for 1.25 recertification credits - International Management Credit*

James Gould

Dawn Robertson, Principal and Co-Founder, Strategic Change Resources

This session will describe the "journey" Aetna, Inc. has been on regarding its total rewards and talent management programs. This company has undergone massive changes over the last ten years. From exiting both the insurance and financial investment businesses to remaking itself into a top healthcare competitor, Aetna has changed its remuneration strategies and executive programs to reflect both the changes in business objectives and in management challenges.

This session will describe and address:

• Aetna's business and organizational history over the last decade
• Economic and business forces that have been responsible for the company's changes
• Aetna's experience with executive total rewards over the last decade
• Aetna's management culture and how it has impacted existing executive total rewards programs
• Successful practices that impacted outcomes related to leadership skill development, employee engagement and support, recruitment and retention, increased productivity, and overall profitability

Room: Tahoe C - Mezzanine Level

PLEASE NOTE: Registration for the CHRO Track is now closed.

This session pre-approved by HRCI for 1.25 recertification credits - Strategic Credit*

Sponsored by  Right Management

Friday 1:00 - 2:00 pm                  

Julie Jansen, Julie Jansen, LLC

This session pre-approved by HRCI for 1.0 recertification credits - Strategic Credit*

Sponsored by  Protector Group

Friday 2:15 - 3:30 pm                  

Sharon Lundberg, Executive Coach, Lee Hecht Harrison

Moving up is not the only career direction. Explore six possible options for aligning your individual aspirations with current and future business needs. Assess and identify 2 - 3 options for taking action to make your goals a reality.

Room: Tahoe A/B - Mezzanine Level

This session has not been approved for recertification credits

Sponsored by  Lee Hecht Harrison
and by  MasteryWorks

S. Richard Babcock, Senior Associate, Mercer, Health and Productivity Management

A growing number of senior executives embrace the notion that a healthier workforce is a more productive workforce and a competitive advantage. But few organizations have a long term plan to improve their employees' health, or even know where to start.

This session will review the fundamentals of managing the health risks of your population, designing a long term strategy and building the business case to get support from the C suite.

Room: Ballroom D

This session pre-approved by HRCI for 1.25 recertification credits - General Credit

Lynda Spielman, PhD, GPHR, Director of Deployment, Global Human Resources, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu

A panel of experienced global professionals will explore current challenges and concerns from their personal and corporate perspectives. Special attention will be given to issues of HR organizational development, recruitment and retention of local workforces, and management of expatriates.

Session participants will be encouraged to share their concerns and questions in relation to their companies' international business activities in these markets.

Room: Aspen - 10th Floor

This session pre-approved by HRCI for 1.25 recertification credits - International Management Credit*

Dawn Robertson, Principal and Co-Founder, Strategic Change Resources

James Gould

Philip L. Farber, CCP, Managing Director, Compensation Solutions, LLC

Robert S. Nadel, President, Nadel Consulting / HR Spectrum, Inc.

This 5 part series of sessions concludes with each attendee developing a template for a Talent Management and Total Rewards strategic action plan. This experiential session will serve to combine the theory and successful practices learned during the 5 part series.

Each template will focus on expected outcomes (impact on leadership, productivity, shareholder value, employee retention, etc.) -- metrics used for continous monitoring and implementation of these plans.

Room: Tahoe C - Mezzanine Level

PLEASE NOTE: Registration for the CHRO Track is now closed.

This session pre-approved by HRCI for 1.25 recertification credits - Strategic Credit*

Sponsored by  Right Management

*A PHR may obtain General Credit by attending any session approved for Strategic Credit or International Management Credit.

To learn more about PHR, SPHR, and GPHR certification and recertification, visit the Human Resource Certification Institute web site at www.hrci.org