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

Richard Babock has 20 years of experience in the development and launch of new integrated health and productivity benefits programs including group health, disability, workers compensation, and FML

Prior to joining Mercer, Rich worked at the Hartford, Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield of CT and Travelers. Among his accomplishments was directing the development of an integrated health, disease and disability management product while at Aetna.

He holds an MBA from Cornell, a Bachelor's degree from Hamilton College and a certificate from the Kellogg School of Management Executive Program in business marketing strategy.

Alan Booth
Vice President, Gilman Performance Systems

Leading companies, teams and individuals to performance that exceeded expectations was Alan Booth's success as General Manager in Manufacturing, Operations, Sales and Engineering. Since 1993 he has consulted others to do the same, primarily through the art of coaching, consulting and training/development techniques.

His coaching approach is being a partner to leaders in achieving their goals, a mentor in personal development, a sounding board when making choices, a motivator when strong actions are called for and a wake-up call when they don’t hear their own.

The business impact of Booth's consulting include increased sales revenues, profitability growth, greater customer satisfaction, higher employee productivity and a leveling of potential legal threats from employee regulations.

Booth's executive experience includes General Management assignments in high tech manufacturing and Director Optical Engineering (Pfizer/Warner Lambert), Operations Director for Wyeth/Whitehall & Ayerst Laboratories, and VP of Sales & Marketing for subsidiaries of Nestle, SA; Lantis Corporation and various start-up companies.

Booth holds a BS Secondary Education, University of Buffalo and a MBA Certificate Management, Canisius College.

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

Michael Cadden began in the Global Mobility profession with Craighead Publications in 1995. Soon after joining, he became the driving force behind converting thousands of pages of country-specific information from paper to online. In 2002 he became a principle and Managing Director of Living Abroad LLC and is behind its successful transformation.

He has created several breakthrough presentations and delivered them dozens of times in the USA, Latin America and Europe. Winning topics have included "10 Year Trends in Global Mobility" (2005), "The Dark Side of Short-term Assignments" (2006) and "Relocating Generation Y" (2006/07). Additionally, he has moderated a number of NFTC Global Mobility panels.

Leslie Combs
Executive Coach, Lee Hecht Harrison

Leslie has over 20 years of experience in Leadership Development and Executive Career Coaching with Senior Executives and teams. He is recognized for helping executives manage organizations politics, facilitating strategic decisions and resolving organizational conflicts. He is also well known as a trainer, presentor and facilitator.

• Provided insight and expertise for the leadership development of an executive committee. Coached the CEO and COO.
• Designed and facilitated team interventions for the senior team in a technology firm and coached their CEO.
• Provided top performance coaching to the CEO of a newly created division in a large healthcare organization.

Prior to Lee Hecht Harrison, Leslie held positions as a Principal with Nicholson-McBride, a London based leadership consulting firm.

Sue Evens, GPHR
Director, Cartus Consulting

Sue has over 18 years of experience in international human resource management, both in corporate and consulting roles. In her consulting assignments, Sue has designed and implemented effective international HR policies, programs, and procedures for many Fortune 500 companies.

Prior to joining Cartus' Consulting Services group in 2003, Sue served as a senior manager, IHR Consulting, in KPMG's International Executive Services group. She has also worked at Goldman Sachs in the international HR group, and at Organization Resources Counselors (ORC) in London and New York.

She has instructed and presented at many industry meetings, including IPA, SHRM, NFTC, KPMG, The Conference Board, and Cartus conferences and seminars. She has been interviewed by, and published in, many publications, including SHRM and Workforce Management Magazine, and she is a member of the Global SHRM organization.

Sue holds a Master's degree in organization psychology from Columbia University, New York, and a BA and graduate (Honors) degree in organizational psychology from the University of Cape Town in South Africa. She is also certified as a Global HR Professional (GPHR) by the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI).

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

Philip L. Farber's consulting practice focuses on facilitating the accomplishment of an organization's goals and objectives through the evaluation, design, and implementation of achievement based reward programs.

His professional experience includes the design and implementation of base, short- and long-term incentive, equity, sales and specialty compensation plans for employees ranging from Executives to hourly personnel both domestically and internationally. He also has an extensive background in the acquisition, analysis, and display of information on a wide variety of compensation and business effectiveness issues with special focus on valuation of compensation paid to executives in private and closely held companies.

Philip has testified as an expert on compensation related matters in US Tax Court and The Connecticut Complex Litigation Court. He is also a consultant to the Internal Revenue Service on compensation valuation related issues.

Prior to forming Compensation Solutions, LLC, Philip was the National Director, Management and Compensation Studies, with Wyatt Data Services (subsidiary of The Watson Wyatt Company) and a Manager with Arthur Young & Company's Management Consulting Group. Before going into consulting, he held various compensation planning and administrative positions with The Ford Motor Company, Frito-Lay, and ARCO Oil and Gas Company. He has worked in a wide variety of business sectors including financial services, manufacturing, service, government, ESOP's, and not-for-profit.

Philip received a Masters in Labor and Industrial Relations from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, and a BS in Economics from the State University of New York at Albany. Philip has also earned the designation Certified Compensation Professional (CCP) from the World at Work (formerly the American Compensation Association).

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

Consultant, entrepreneur, and educator for over 30 years, Caela Farren has worked with hundreds of thousands of people to get them on a mastery path. She is known internationally for her expertise in developing career development products, services and systems. Her state-of-the-art tools, workshops, and web-based systems have been implemented in several hundred organizations world-wide.

As a systems-thinker, Caela's practice builds strong links between changing trends in industries, changing strategies of organizations and the talents and aspirations of individuals. Her web of work model is the only framework that integrates on-going changes in industries, organizations, professions, and jobs to the 12 stable basic needs of all adults. She is dedicated to producing peace, harmony, and mastery in our discontinuous world. People who work with her company discover their passion, their path, and bring renewed contribution and high performance to their organizations.

Her company's electronic career coaching and mentoring approach was featured in trade magazines 10 years before virtual coaching became popular. The new, web-based TALENTMAPPING® Information System invented by MasteryWorks is one of the most innovative, user-friendly, employee driven systems in the Human Resources field. Caela is known for developing integrative, user-friendly systems that serve the needs of both organizations and individuals. These include succession planning, mentoring, selection, performance management, career management, leadership and management development systems.

Holding a Ph.D. in Organization Behavior from Case Western Reserve University, Caela enjoys writing. Her books include: Who's Running Your Career?(TM) Creating Stable Work in Unstable Times, Bard Press; Designing Career Development Systems, ossey-Bass, with Kaye & Leibowitz; and she is featured in Management 21C: New Visions for the New Millenium. She is frequently quoted in The Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, etc., and published widely in a variety of journals.

Caela loves to teach and has been a visiting professor over the years at McGill University, American University, Marymount University, and NOVA. Caela has a special commitment to Young Adults. She is working on a new book featuring Young Adults who have chosen a mastery path in a wide variety of trades and professions. Her current passion is to support Young Adults in mastering their work and lives. Her personal interests include sailing, jazz, Bluegrass, fitness, travel and time with her three daughters and grandchildren.

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

As Director, Human Resources for Severn Trent Services, Kevin is responsible for the Shared Services functions for the organization. This includes benefits, HRIS, recruitment, training, OD/OE, EEO/AAP, development of global HR programs and other tasks that are assigned him because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Severn Trent Services is an international provider of water and wastewater equipment and services with an annual revenue of over $600 million.

With more years in HR than he cares to admit to, Kevin has held various positions of increasing scope with The Vanguard Group, General Electric, Advanta, RCA and Richardson-Vicks.

He received a bachelor's degree in Human Resources from Drexel University after realizing that if he continued with his original plan of becoming an accountant, he would do the profession irreparable harm.

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

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James Gould

Jim Gould, was VP of Compensation & Benefits for the Aetna, Inc. from 1991 to 2007. In that role, he has presided over achieving a strategic balance between adding value for shareholders, productivity improvement and employee engagement and rewards.

He is currently pursuing a number of business interests including advising senior management on business and total rewards strategy.

He has held a number of compensation and benefits leadership positions with a number of corporate employers including: American Broadcasting Companies, Chase, Shearson Lehman Bros., Citibank and Pepsico.

His interests include being an amateur musician, scuba diving, golf and being a full-time father.

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

Tom Halpin has 44 years experience in the retail industry. He has been a strong leader at the specialty retailer, Lord & Taylor, overseeing numerous aspects of Human Resources. His experience encompasses the areas of Benefits Administration, Risk Management, Labor Relations, Legal, Unemployment and Communications. Other previous work assignments included Store Operations, Central Operations and Accounts Payable.

He was recently appointed to officer of Lord & Taylor LLC and holds the title of Secretary. In addition, he is a member of Lord & Taylor's 401(k) Fiduciary Committee and Foundation Committee.

Tom previously served as a board member of Western Monmouth County Girl Scouts (2001-2004). Tom and his wife, Sharon live in Port Monmouth, New Jersey and have two grandchildren, Connor and Noelle.

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

Gardiner Hempel is a partner with Deloitte Tax LLP based in New York City. He has 29 years of experience that includes international assignments in Germany, Hong Kong and Japan. He has served as the global practice leader for Deloitte Tax LLP's Global Employment Solutions practice and is currently a part of the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Global Management Group.

Gardiner is a member of the Ethics Hearing Committee of the Society for Human Resource Management's (SHRM's) board of directors, and is the past president of SHRM's, Global Forum board of directors. He also serves on the board of directors and Finance Committee of the National Foreign Trade Council. He has served as treasurer of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan and comptroller of the American-Japan Society.

Gardiner has completed a two-year term on the Internal Revenue Service Commissioner's Advisory Council. He is a trustee for the Augustus Saint-Gaudens Memorial and chair of the Finance Committee. He is also president of the Tuxedo Park Fire Department where he has been a member since 1999. He has served as financial secretary from 2000-2004, vice president in 2005 and president in 2006.

Gardiner earned a Bachelor of Science in business administration and a Master of Business Administration from University of California at Berkeley. He is a Certified Public Accountant in California, New York and New Jersey as well as a Certified Global Professional in Human Resources.

Julie Jansen
Julie Jansen, LLC

Julie Jansen – motivational speaker, coach, trainer, business consultant and meeting facilitator – works with leaders, managers, senior contributors, lawyers, creative professionals and entrepreneurs in developing the competencies, skills and techniques needed to thrive in today's chaotic business world.

Prior to starting her own business in 1999, Julie worked in a variety of industries including broadcasting, outplacement, consulting, training and recruiting for Post News Week, Drake Beam Morin, Manchester Partners and Provant. Her high-profile client base includes GE, Time Inc., Pitney Bowes, Merrill Lynch, KPMG, New York Road Runners and DHL.

Julie has identified eleven qualities that she considers fundamental to business and career success. These "Eleven Keys" are the basis for her coaching and dynamic, no-nonsense presentations on leadership and management, communication, executive presence and professionalism, persuasion, motivation, networking, career management, sales, time management and organization.

Julie has been quoted in numerous publications including Fortune, Forbes, American Way, the Boston Globe, the New York Times, Cosmopolitan, Essence, WSJ.com and Fitness. She has been interviewed on the Today Show, ABC World News Now, MSNBC, NPR, CNN Financial News and many other television and radio stations across the United States.

Her first book, I Don’t Know What I Want, But I Know It’s Not This: A Step-by-Step Guide to Finding Gratifying Work (Penguin Books; 2003) is in a 12th printing and published in the U.K., Germany, Austria and Romania. You Want Me to Work With Who? Eleven Keys to a Stress-Free, Satisfying and Successful Work Life…No Matter Who You Work With was released by Penguin Books, March 2006.
 
Julie is a member of the National Speakers Association and the Connecticut Press Club. She sits on the Advisory Board of Baruch College's Computer Center for the Visually Impaired and volunteers for the Connecticut Women’s Business Development Center. Julie is also a regular contributor to Yahoo! Hot Jobs and Cancer and Careers.org.

Tom Karl
Vice President, MasteryWorks

Tom Karl has been a Senior Career Management Consultant with MasteryWorks for the past fifteen years. He works with a variety of Fortune 1000 companies, Government Agencies, and Educational Institutions as one of our lead consultants. He works closely with leadership teams to build and foster programs that attract, develop, retain, and redeploy their most valuable asset -- their people.

He specializes in the areas of Talent Retention, People Development, Career Management and Life Planning. Tom works with organizations to design, customize, and implement Human Resource solutions, educational programs, and web-based career management portals that maximize internal talent. Consulting to Executive Teams, Lines of Business Directors, HR Business Partners, CD and Retention Task Teams, Tom provides turn-key, customized, and practical solutions that produce results and maximize return on investment. Tom has worked with organizations in a wide variety of industries including: Aerospace, Automotive, Consumer Products, Defense, Energy, Financial Services, Government, Healthcare, High-tech, Telecommunications, Pharmaceutical, and Utilities.

Tom leads the e-solution Product Development Team. He has helped over 100 organizations customize and develop web-based solutions. These solutions support redeployment of thousands of employees; engagement of high potentials in on-boarding programs; and enables thousands of managers to retain key people. His consulting maximizes company investment in existing Talent Management systems and resources. Clients call Tom to design communications strategies, co-present web demos to management teams and customize career portals that enhance organization strategies.

Tom plays a leadership and management role for the MasteryWorks team. As a Principal of MasteryWorks, Tom oversees several of the company’s operational areas. His personable style lets him coach and mentor his fellow colleagues. Tom brings this real life, practical experience to all of his client projects.

Tom has a B.A. degree in Economics from Duke University. He lives with his wife Pam in Arlington, Virginia.

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

Ethan E. Kaufman is a Partner resident in the New York office of Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP and sits on the firm's national Executive Committee. He holds a Bachelors degree from Rutgers University, studied at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, and received his J.D. from Rutgers School of Law in 1987 where he served as Research Editor of the Rutgers Law Review. He served as a Law Clerk to the Honorable George P. Kazen, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas from 1989 to 1990.

Mr. Kaufman specializes in corporate immigration law and is a Mentor in Employment-Based Immigration/Labor Certification for the American Immigration Lawyers Association's National Mentor Program. He also serves as co-chair of AILA's Corporate Practice Committee, NY Chapter (2007-2008).

Mr. Kaufman has edited and written articles on corporate immigration issues for publications including American Immigration Lawyers Association's Immigration and Nationality Law Handbook, Inside HR, Relocation Today, Texas Lawyer, Immigration Briefings, Corporate Counsel Newsletter, HR Matters and TechBiz.

He speaks regularly at immigration related conferences and has been recognized in Super Lawyers and Best Lawyers for New York City. Mr. Kaufman is conversant in Spanish and was a volunteer with the Lawyers' Committee for Human Rights.

Marc Kroll
Principal, Comp360, LLC

Marc led compensation groups within Ciba-Geigy (Pigments and Additives Division), Aetna (Property/Casualty and Healthcare Divisions), Travelers, and Greenwich Technology Partners. In these roles, he directed full-scale compensation strategy changes and program design, which were prompted by significant organizational changes inclusive of mergers, acquisitions, or high-growth environments.

Marc received his B.A. from the City College of the City of New York and his M.A. from Brown University. An Adjunct Professor at the Dolan Business School (Fairfield University), he teaches performance management and compensation.

In addition, he has conducted professional development seminars for the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) in compensation strategy and management. HR Magazine (SHRM) and The Stanford Advocate have quoted him on both incentive practices and current compensation trends and their impact on the labor market.

Sharon Lundberg
Executive Coach, Lee Hecht Harrison

Sharon has over 25 years of business experience in financial services, IT and career management services. Sharon is recognized for guiding senior executives and high level professionals through times of significant change, personal performance improvement and executive leadership skill development that yield increased personal satisfaction and organizational success.

An intuitive professional who has an ability to build relationships and trust that enable executives and high level professionals to expand self awareness, modify behavior, improve communication, enhance focus, illuminate blind spots and build lasting leadership competencies.

Sharon is a certified coach and leadership development practitioner. She is the Alumni Admissions Program Chair for Vassar College for the Hartford area. She has been a panelist and a public speaker at community programs, professional associations and at corporate sponsored events for CSCPA, US Postal Services, HRACC, IMAA and LOMA and has been recognized by CBEA for her work in the JAG, Jobs for America’s Youth program. She is the recipient of the President’s Leadership Circle designation and several Presidential awards for exceptional team performance.

June A. Mara
Founder and CEO, XL Communications

June Mara founded XL Communications in 1985. She has grown the business from a one-person enterprise to a thriving Human Resource Communications Consulting Firm. In addition to managing and growing XL Communications, June has continued to work directly with clients on a full range of human resources and organizational issues.

June has worked extensively in communicating benefits, compensation, policies and procedures, as well as mergers and acquisitions and strategy development for clients representing a broad range of sizes and industries. Some of the clients June has served include Montefiore Medical Center, Lord & Taylor, Beiersdorf, Toys R Us, Bear Stearns, Time Warner, Bayer Pharmaceuticals, American Express, AvisBudget Group, United Rentals, The Provident Bank and Yale-New Haven Hospital among many others.

Beth E. Marusi
Principal and Vice President, XL Communications

Beth has played a key role at XL since 1993, following several years in corporate human resources and benefits. Beth has a well-deserved reputation for providing exceptional writing and consulting services to such clients as Colgate-Palmolive, Scholastic, Diageo, TJX Companies, Webster Bank, GE Capital, ICI Americas, Affinion, Shop Rite, Stanley Works and The New York Times, among others.

Prior to joining XL, Beth honed her skills as a Benefits/HR Generalist and a legal recruiter in New York City.

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

As Assistant Professor of Human Development and Human Services at Anna Maria College, Joyce McNickles teaches courses in workplace diversity, social inequality, social work, sociology, and multicultural education.

Over the past ten years, Joyce has designed and presented social justice and diversity programs to employees of public schools, colleges, municipal and state agencies, private corporations, and human service organizations.

She has a M.Ed. In Social Justice from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and is a doctoral candidate (Ed.D) in Adult Education and Social Change at National-Louis University in Chicago.

Joyce's research interest is racial identity development theory. She recently co-authored "Do African Americans Still Experience Racism?" in Harvey & Allard (Eds.) Understanding Diversity: Readings, Cases, and Exercises (4th ed.), to be published in 2008 by Prentice Hall.

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

Jennifer Moemeka is a Senior Project Manager with the HR Information Services team at Aetna, Inc. where she applies her in-depth knowledge of HR and the business to direct the development of technology strategy and to implement technology solutions. She has over 12 years of experience in project management, strategic planning, and human resources.

Jennifer obtained her Bachelors degree from Central Connecticut State University, and her Masters degree from Trinity College.

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

A consultant and consulting executive for over thirty years, he specializes in start up, growth, turnaround and special circumstances business issues in privately held and public companies, both as a Manager and Consultant. He has served hundreds of clients of all sizes, on four continents, in the areas of total compensation planning, compensation compliance issues, executive and incentive compensation, compensation reasonableness and fairness of compensation practices, health and welfare benefits, salary planning, and related performance management programs. He has consulted in organization planning, design and change, the workforce of the future, work family issues, diversity management and changing human resources trends, such as alternative workplace issues and other alternative compensation issues.
 
Since forming "HR Spectrum" and "Nadel Consulting" in 1991 he consults with mid-market, entrepreneurial, technology and service clients, to integrate Human Resources and Business Management issues as they affect growth, performance and ownership structure of his clients.

During his career, he has served clients in a variety of industry settings. He has consulted in the Financial Services Industry, in money center banking, foreign banking, private banking, venture capital partnerships, credit cards, and leasing. He has consulted in the Insurance Industry, and in the Brokerage Industry. His clients have consisted of Citibank, Chase (including Manufacturers Hanover and Chemical Banks), JP Morgan, Bank of America, Security Pacific, Continental Insurance, Equitable Life, Met Life, Merrill Lynch, Salomon Bros., European, Pacific Rim and Australian banks. Dot.Com and E-Commerce clients include BarPoint.com, CyberSentry.com, Deja.com, e-STEEL.com, LanComp, and Greentrak.

In addition, he has consulted in the Health Care (The New York Business Group on Health, Mayo Clinic, NJ College of Medicine and Dentistry, League of Voluntary Hospitals, Various Blue Cross/Shield Plans, various community hospitals and 1199-SEIU); Not-For Profit (Regional Planning Association, Weitzman Institute, Teachers College-Columbia University, Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers, ARCS, Daytop, Weill-Cornell Medical College, PPFA); Publishing, Broadcasting and Entertainment (ABC, NBC, Mutual Radio, Macmillan, PF Collier-Atlas Editions, Ziff-Davis, Major league Baseball, Trans World Gaming, Riddell Sports, Leroy Adventures); Electronics and Defense (Sperry, Loral, Digital, SIAC); Consumer Products (General Foods, illy Espresso, Scott Paper); Durable Goods Manufacturing (Worthington Industries, General Electric, International Harvester); Chemicals, Oil and Gas (Getty, Hess, Exxon, ICI, PPG, Castrol); Utilities (Brooklyn Union Gas, New York State Power); Airlines (Alitalia); Japanese Trading and Manufacturing Companies (Nissho-Iwai, Toyomenka, Okidata, Canon); Professional Services (including big 4 accounting firms, major legal and consulting firms); Public Sector Operating Agencies (M. T. A., State of NJ); Pharmaceuticals (Upjohn, Ciba-Geigy); and clients in Food, Beverages, Retailing and Automotive Manufacturing and Sales.

Before forming Nadel Consulting , Dr. Nadel was Partner-in-Charge for The Eastern Region of the Actuarial, Benefits and Compensation Consulting Group at Deloitte and Touche (1989-91).
 
Dr. Nadel began his consulting career at Hay Group from 1969 to 1989. He served as Managing Partner and General Manager of the New York Office and as Regional Managing Partner of the Northeast Region from 1984-1989, responsible for both consulting services and the bottom line. He was a member of the Americas' Operating committee, Industry practice head for Financial Institutions Consulting, and Chair of the Firm's own Compensation and Benefits committee.

During his consulting career he has worked with clients in mergers and acquisitions and foreign owned businesses. He designed and developed Hay's venture capital practice, serving free standing and institutionally owned venture capital partnerships.
 
He has regularly been interviewed by the media, written and spoken on a wide variety of topics, including workforce issues, and specialized compensation plans for unique or unusual businesses. He writes a monthly compensation column for the Metro NY SHRM newsletter.

Raoul Nolan
Senior Consultant, Lee Hecht Harrison

Raoul Nolan has 20 years of experience as a trainer, facilitator, consultant and coach in the areas of career management, career transition, and workforce/workplace effectiveness. Raoul has assisted more than 2,000 public and private sector employees throughout the United States, Europe and Africa realize their career aspirations by helping them set appropriate expectations for their career management process, and to become more resilient as they adjust to an ever-changing world of work. He has worked with companies such as AT&T, LexisNexis, AstraZenega, Lockheed Martin, Novartis, Verizon, JPMorganChase, Deutsche Bank, Wyeth, Bayer, Coca-Cola, and CBS among others.

As a facilitator and trainer, Raoul has shown his clients how to manage or transition into new careers more effectively with his dynamic, focused and immediately useful seminars and classes. He is an inspirational and knowledgeable presenter who consistently earns superior ratings from his workshop participants. And as a consultant and coach, he assists individuals by helping them match their experience to suitably challenging positions and works with them to devise a tightly focused job search strategy.

Raoul has been a consultant with Lee Hecht Harrison for the past 15 years. He holds an MA in Business Management from Central Michigan University.

Gillian Oechslin
President, Prompt > Inc.

Growing up in Europe and Asia fueled Oechslin's fascination with cultural diversity, providing valuable insight when working with global clients. After a 12 year career in HR/Comp she co-founded Prompt> Inc. - Creative Computing Resources in 1987, providing custom HRIS/Compensation software. She has consulted with 100+ clients from small privately held firms to large public, global corporations. solutions.

Some of her prior speaking engagements include: WorldatWork Conference 2007, Milwaukee Area Compensation Association, Vermont SHRM Chapter, client workshops in NY, DC, Chicago, Boston and HRIS SHRM classes - St.Joseph College, CT.

Past and present board memberships - HRACC/SHRM, ICCA/CT, Chambers of Commerce. Oechslin holds a B.Sc. In Business Management from University of Maryland.

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

Trisha Pasquini is Vice President of Human Resources at Malcolm Pirnie, Inc., an environmental engineering and consulting firm headquartered in White Plains, NY. A professional business executive with extensive experience in both the private and public sectors, she oversees the development, implementation, coordination, and communication of human resource policies, practices, and programs for Malcolm Pirnie's staff of more than 1800 professions in 60+ offices nationwide.

Ms. Pasquini is closely engaged in human resource strategic planning processes, mergers and acquisitions, executive staff recruitment and relocation, and diversity initiatives. She routinely directs programs for leadership coaching, employee/management relations, affirmative action advancement, companywide recruiting, worker compensation and other benefits, pay-for-performance and initiative incentives, and award programs. She regularly provides counsel, support, and creative solutions on human capital issues to executives so they can provide the best possible client service.

Prior to joining Malcolm Pirnie, Ms. Pasquini was Director of Compensation and Employee Relations at a Fortune 100 Company.

Edward S. Petry, PhD
Ethical Leadership Group

Edward S. Petry, PhD, joined Ethical Leadership Group in 2005, after serving nine years as the Executive Director and a member of the Board of Directors of the Ethics Officer Association (EOA). The EOA is the premier ethics association in the world, and Ed helped make it so.

At the EOA, Ed oversaw the development of the most widely attended conferences and training programs in the business ethics field. He developed partnerships between the EOA and the World Bank, the U. S. Sentencing Commissions and ethics and compliance organizations in Paris, London, Tokyo and Johannesburg. Ed also served as a member of the U.S. Sentencing Commission’s Advisory Group, and was a member of the Ethics Oversight Committee for the United States Olympic Committee.

Dr. Petry has authored several major surveys including the U.S. Sentencing Commission’s National Survey of Ethics and Compliance in Organizations (1995), Sources and Consequences of Workplace Pressure (1997) and Technology and Ethics in the Workplace (1998). He has edited and/or co-authored six books on business ethics, including The Ethical Edge: Tales of Organizations that Have Faced Moral Crises (1996) and The Ethics of Accounting and Finance (1996).

He has also published numerous articles, been a featured speaker at numerous national and international forums including the Conference Board, the Chautauqua Institute and the European Business Ethics Institute, and has been quoted or appeared in too many media outlets to list.

Ed received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Pennsylvania State University and has also received degrees in philosophy from the University of Toronto and Trinity College. Prior to becoming EOA's first full-time director, Dr. Petry was a tenured professor of philosophy at Bentley College.

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

Michael Rion, Ph.D., principal and founder of Resources for Ethics and Management, is recognized nationally for his pioneering work in ethics training.

Unique among ethics consultants, Michael Rion combines practical business experience and solid academic grounding that successfully bridges the gap between theory and practice.

His quick grasp of specific company needs and challenges, combined with his many years of practical experience, enable him to provide helpful and trustworthy advice to ethics officers and senior managers for client companies in manufacturing, financial services, managed health care and information services.

Frequently in demand as a dynamic speaker and trainer, he has led hundreds of workshops for managers at all levels and consulted on ethics and management with major corporations, government and community groups. His lively, interactive leadership and his focus on practical skills consistently earn him high marks from clients and workshop participants.

Rion served for four years as the Director of Corporate Responsibility at Cummins Engine Company, where he worked directly with the managers on issues of responsible management. He holds a Ph.D. in ethics from Yale University. Prior to forming his own consulting firm in 1989, he served for six years as President of Hartford Seminary, an innovative interdenominational center.

Dawn Robertson
Principal and Co-Founder, Strategic Change Resources

Dawn Robertson is a Principal and co-founder of Strategic Change Resources, a management consulting firm specializing in planned organizational change; team building; and, executive coaching. Ms. Robertson has over twenty years experience helping organizations, and the people in them, deal with changes -- large and small. She helps clients focus on performance, collaboration and results.

As a consultant, Ms. Robertson works closely with clients to build the tools, techniques and skills that they need to solve their current business issues. Her areas of interest are working with senior teams to develop strategy and focus, and creating an environment that communicates expectations effectively, then rewards accordingly.

With a background in operations management, training and education and internal consulting in financial services, publishing, transportation and retail, Ms. Robertson brings a pragmatic approach and multi-faced experience to her position, including:

• Coaching individual executives and executive teams on strengths and opportunities for improvement
• Transferring collaborative skills by training groups in leadership, teamwork, facilitation and change management
• Designing and facilitating meetings that achieve results in alignment-building, problem solving, strategic and operational planning
• Helping organizations build high performance teams and environments that promote employee commitment and collaboration.

Recent projects include:

• Currently Executive Coach to CEO of a global consumer brand company; a global R&D SVP, in pharmaceuticals, a SVP of a major insurance company.
• Executive Coach to a Chief Learning Officer of a global company; President of an international reinsurance company; and, President of an international investment firm. Helped a 65 million dollar company double in size by off-shoring manufacturing in 2000, buying their chief competitor in 2001, and building a manufacturing facility in China with their Korean supplier/partner in 2003.
• Working with an entrepreneurial firm to develop a strategy to become a billion-dollar company without losing the culture that made them successful.
• Designed a process to allow executive teams to tell each other the truth, enabling them to work more efficiently on optimizing their strategy
• Acting as the Vice President of Organization Development and Training assessed staff and restructured the Human Resources Department of a Fortune 100 company.
• Coaching the chairmen and, developing and delivering a merger integration intervention for two global corporations.
• Developing a 360 assessment for an executive team; creating a group profile to use in providing both individual coaching /feedback and team based feedback.
• Developing and implementing a global strategy with the cross-cultural manufacturing team for a Fortune 50 company.

She has earned her BS in Education from Central Connecticut State University, with graduate work in design from the University of Michigan, she is currently attending Oxford University’s Coaching and Consulting for Strategic change masters program.

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

Mark Soycher has over 20 years' experience guiding Connecticut employers and employees through the maze of laws and regulations affecting their workplace, providing legal assistance with all workplace problems, from hiring to firing.

Soycher returned to the state's largest business organization in July 2002 as labor and employment counsel for CBIA’s Human Resources Services Department, which has experienced growth to almost 14,000 personnel-related inquires annually from member companies.

Soycher was in private law practice from 1990-2002. From 1983 to 1990, he served as counsel at CBIA, providing members with advice on labor and employment issues. Before that, Soycher was general counsel for the Associated General Contractors of Connecticut, a construction industry trade association.

He is a frequent guest speaker at trade and professional association seminars discussing how national and state employment laws affect individuals and employers in Connecticut's workplaces, and on how best to plan and apply workplace strategies that anticipate and avoid legal disputes.

Soycher holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Rutgers University, a master's in special education from William Paterson College, and a law degree from New York Law School. He is a member of the Connecticut and American bar associations, and he serves on the executive committee of the Connecticut Bar Association's labor and employment law section. He and his family live in Simsbury.

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

Within Deloitte's global human resources group, Dr. Spielman is primarily responsible for global international assignment programs and policies. Deloitte's assignment program, the Global Development Program, received the Workforce magazine Optimas award in the global outlook category in 2002. More recently, she has been working in the area of global multiculturalism, diversity, and inclusion issues.

Dr. Spielman has been with the Deloitte organization for 25 years and previously held positions as the Director of International Human Resources for Deloitte & Touche LLP, (US), and Director of Professional Personnel for Touche Ross International. She initiated various cultural learning and language study programs during her tenure with Deloitte. Her previous work experience included conference planning and communications programs on global economic development issues for international organizations such as the United Nations and the Carnegie Endowment.

Dr. Spielman is also an adjunct assistant professor at New York University, where she teaches cross-cultural education in the Graduate School of Education. She holds a PhD in Latin American History from Indiana University and a business certificate from the NYU Stern Graduate School of Business.

Albert M. Toney III
AK Consulting Services

Al Toney III served as a Police Officer in the Worcester Police Department from March 1987 to April 1995. After the tragic death of his life partner resulting from a shooting in which Al survived but his partner and another friend perished, Al left the police department due to permanent injuries sustained from the shooting. As an openly gay African American male, Al has been the target of homophobia and racism. His work is dedicated to the elimination of these and other forms of discrimination. Since 1993 he has provided diversity and awareness education consulting services and cultural competency workshops throughout the country where he challenges his colleagues and constituents to be aware of their internalized stereotypes and myths.

Undaunted by the shooting which forced him into early retirement, Al harnessed his energy to address the need for diversity training and cultural competency workshops in both the public and private sectors. A sample of his past and present clients include Human Rights Campaign (HRC), The Child Welfare League of America, Casey Family Programs, National Grid, The National Black Justice Coalition, MassEquality, Massachusetts Department of Education, Massachusetts Department of Social Services (DSS), Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH), schools, nonprofit agencies, law enforcement agencies and public and private corporations. Al offers diversity training as a means of creating healthier and more effective learning and working environments.

Al was recently appointed to Vice-Chair of The Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, and also serves as a Commissioner with the Massachusetts Legislative Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth, he previously was President of The Gay Officers Action League of New England, Commissioner with The Worcester Human Rights Commission, Board Member of AIDS Project Worcester, and ran for public office in 1999 for a seat on the Worcester City Council. Al is also a Master Trainer for DSS and was a foster parent for approximately 10 years opening his home to almost 50 children.

Gay and Lesbian Adolescent Social Services (GLASS) inc., profiled Al in 2003 one of several "Champions of LGBTIQQ Youth"; The Advocate, a national gay and lesbian publication, named Al as one of 117 Worldwide Innovators in 2001; The local National Conference for Community and Justice awarded Al with the Twenty-Fourth Annual Leadership Award in 2001; in 1998 Worcester Magazine named him a Hometown Hero; and he was named Best of Boston in 1997 by Boston Magazine. Al, Keith and Kayla Toney, Al's biological daughter, were featured in the Showtime documentary on same-sex marriage in Massachusetts, Same Sex America, which was released in April, 2005.

Al and Keith Toney recently completed a book as contributing writers and editors with the National Black Justice Coalition and MassEquality called Jumping the Broom: A Black Perspective of Same Gender Marriage in Massachusetts, released in the spring of 2007. They are also writing and creating a family-oriented children's book that truly reflects the many aspects of diversity as well as finishing Al's autobiography.

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

Suzanne Dowd Zeller is Vice President and Director of Human Resources for the International Wealth Management business of Hartford Life, Inc., a subsidiary of The Hartford Financial Services Group. In this role, she is responsible for providing strategic human resources support to Hartford Life's Business Development & Operations in Japan, Europe and Brazil.

Hartford Life is the leading seller of variable annuities in Japan and is a leading provider of life insurance, employee benefits and personal savings products in Brazil. Hartford Life entered Europe in 2005 to sell individual retirement and investment products in the United Kingdom.

Prior to her current role, Suzanne was head of human resources for Hartford Life’s European operation. As part of the start-up team for the new European business, she was instrumental in building the staff, setting the policies and procedures, and developing the organization’s high-performing culture.

Previously, Suzanne ran her own consulting practice that specialized in executive coaching, business strategy planning and leadership development. She has also held senior human resource and organizational effectiveness positions at United Technologies, Executive Risk, Aetna, AmericanRe and Swiss Re. She is secretary of the Board of Directors for the Hartford Action Plan (HAP), and organization dedicated to reducing teen pregnancy in the Hartford area. She earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the State University of New York.

The Hartford, a Fortune 100 company, is one of the nation's largest financial services and insurance companies, with 2007 revenues of $25.9 billion. The Hartford is a leading provider of investment products, life insurance and group benefits; automobile and homeowners products; and business property and casualty insurance.

Carol Zimmerman
Vice President, Lee Hecht Harrison

Carol Zimmerman is a Vice President -- Consultant in Lee Hecht Harrison's New York office where she consults with individual clients from a variety of industries to aid their job searches and career transitions. She is certified to deliver career management programs including Developing Personal Resilience, Career Focus and Talent Builder.

She has delivered those seminars to companies including Colgate Palmolive, Avon, Keyspan, Time Warner and ING. She has also presented programs using the Myers Briggs Type Indicator for team building purposes, working with companies such IBM, CBS, Unisys, The American Jewish Committee and the Catholic Archdiocese.

Carol has more than twenty years of experience in training, executive coaching and counseling. Prior to joining LHH she worked for the Poletti Group as a Senior Vice President, focusing on career counseling, executive coaching and assessment. She has also done work with Health Management Consultants, where she led stress management workshops for companies such as Scholastic Inc. and Paul Weiss.

Earlier in her career, Carol worked as Director of Counseling and Career Development at Newbury College in Boston , where she taught classes on Career Awareness.

Carol has a Masters Degree in Counseling/Psychology from Tufts University and a BA from Queens College. She has been an active member of Career Development Specialists for more than ten years.