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OVERVIEW The need for tactical human resources tasks will probably never go away, but this doesn’t mean that this is where the growth and value of HR ends. In today’s competitive business environment, people management at all levels of an organization needs to be more strategic and evidence-based for organizational development. Now is the time for HR to rise above its role as the keeper of short-term, compliance-related duties and begin to intentionally contribute to the overall strategic success of their companies. WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND Human resources is often perceived as a function that addresses the tactical, reactive, compliance-related, and short-term responsibilities of an organization like professional talent management, recruiting, payroll, etc. As a group, it is not taken seriously and is sometimes relegated to a party-planning role or an employee-facing entity charged with routine activities such as benefits enrollment, required training, and hiring/ori...

Bob Verchota Owner of RP Verchota & Associates Years of Experience:  35+ years Areas of Expertise:  Leadership and Organizational Development Bob Verchota is owner and senior consultant for RP Verchota & Associates, a consulting firm providing services to clients who seek to align their business and employees, creating successful outcomes and excellent work environments. After  30+  years in Human Resources senior leadership roles and teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses in Leadership and Organizational Development, Bob transitioned to using his experience and skills in consulting. Mr. Verchota provides solutions to companies for a wide variety of HR issues including training and development, compensation, compliance, policy development, performance management, employee relations and managing change from mergers and acquisitions to project specific disruptions of the status quo. Bob has an undergraduate degree in Business Administ...

Tom Palladino Founder and President, Refined Analytics Years of Experience:  30+ years Areas of Expertise:  Human Resources, Change Management and Lean Six Sigma Tom Palladino  has held numerous HR leadership positions in companies that included Conoco Phillips, Starbucks Coffee, Wells Fargo, Capital One, First Data and Green Plains Renewable Energy. His interest in HR analytics started in 1998 while he was consulting for Starbucks. He helped design a methodology that would identify employee attributes that correlate with business performance. His HR analytics model was initially applied to new subsidiaries in Asia and Europe enabling the company to inculcate select Starbucks values with local values to create a ”performance-driven brew”. Later, Mr. Palladino’s protocol was successfully applied throughout the United States. In his HR leadership positions, he consistently applied analytics to identify high-leverage HR practices that delivered the highest po...

Rebecca Staton-Reinstein Rebecca Staton-Reinstein President, Advantage Leadership, Inc. Years of Experience:  25+ years Areas of Expertise:  Strategic Planning, Leadership, Team Management, and Organizational Development I work with companies around the world that want strategic leaders and engaged employees to increase bottom- and top-line results and delight customers. You achieve your goals through strategic planning and leadership, management, team, and organizational development. Draw on my proven ability to mentor you through major change. My team works with you to craft customized, successful solutions to your complex business issues in all economic sectors. Our mission is your success. Leadership teams execute robust strategic plans with measurable outcomes using my results-driven, Success Planning: A ‘How-To’ Guide for Strategic Planning.The methodology is further customized in the forthcoming Success Planning for Nonprofits: Evidenced-Based Strategic ...

Grant Schneider Grant Schneider Founder and President, Performance Development Strategies Strategies, LLC Years of Experience:  30+ years Areas of Expertise:  Leadership and Business Coaching Grant Schneide r , CBC, SHRM-SCP, SPHR , is president and founder of Performance Development Strategies. His company helps organizations achieve greater results by aligning people in the organization with the organization’s mission and strategy. Grant helps these organizations create change, develop managers and executives, and create high performing teams resulting in engaged employees and loyal customers. Grant is a Certified Coach using an approach that helps organizations identify their vision of success, develop the roadmap, create goals and then achieve those goals. Prior to starting Performance Development Strategies, Grant had a 30 year track record in operations and people development. His previous experience includes Chief People Officer for the Briad Group which...

ArLyne Diamond, Ph.D ArLyne Diamond, Ph.D is the President and Founder, Diamond Associates Years of Experience:  37+ years Areas of Expertise:  Planning, Change Management, Conflict Resolution, System Streamlining, Communication, People and Project Management ArLyne Diamond, Ph.D.  is an internationally recognized Leadership, Management, Professional Development, and  Organizational Development (O-D) consultant specializing in people and processes in the workplace. Multifaceted, Dr. Diamond has extensive experience in a wide range of disciplines (business, education, management, marketing, business ownership, psychology – and some economics and law as well). This enables her to see things from a variety of angles and to cleave to the essence of a problem quickly, offering her clients creative and practical solutions. As the President and Founder of her consulting firm, Diamond Associates, which was established in 1981, Dr. Diamond’s clients range fro...