27th Annual GSC-SHRM Conference and Expo

Our general sessions and programming are now posted! We are proud to offer a cutting-edge lineup of programming featuring a wide range of HR topics presented by subject matter experts and professional speakers. Below you may review our agenda with over 60 concurrent educational sessions, 6 mega sessions and 3 keynote presentations, as well as numerous networking and conference activities, all of which are intended to sharpen your business, leadership and interpersonal skills and to provide you and your company the skills and acumen you need.

During registration and at any time during the registration period, you are able to select the sessions you would like to attend. Additional speaker information is available under the 'Meet our Speakers' tab.

Our general session programming has been pre-approved for 15.5 SHRM PDCs and 15.5 HRCI Credits with 21 sessions qualifying for Business and Strategy Credits!

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Monday, October 15, 2018

Conference Activity

7:00 AM - 5:00 PM	Conference Registration Open
7:00 AM - 7:00 PM	Exhibit Hall Open - Monday Visit our exhibit hall to meet our numerous conference partners, sponsors, and exhibitors who offer valuable services that can ease the HR challenges you face on a daily basis. Also, we will have ongoing conference activities including meals, networking opportunities, keynotes and more.
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM	Continental Breakfast

Keynote Sessions

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Keynote - The Influence of You

Keynote Speaker:

Louis Lessig

Concurrent

9:45 AM - 10:45 AM	About Sexual Workplace Harassment The presentation About Workplace Harassment is an interactive workshop. During this awareness session the focus will be on sexual workplace harassment. All topics from the definition of sexual workplace harassment; from prevention policies and procedures to an explanation why sexual workplace harassment is such a serious problem, will be discussed. We will define the grey area of sexual harassment and the effects of personal boundaries on this topic. This is done by explaining forms, types, risk areas and the effect of sexual workplace harassment on victims, bystanders and the company. Only with awareness you’ll develop a reporting culture which is needed to prevent the harassment from happening or to tackle it in the earliest stage and so the policies and procedures will be effective. The practical element of this workshop will be the dilemma-game which points out personal boundaries in reflection to others. 1.0 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Gen Speakers: Karin Bosman
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM	Alternative Modalities for Delivering Employee Healthcare Benefits Employees are busier than ever, and demanding more concierge services. It has become exponentially easier to order a car service, order lunch, and order groceries or laundry online for delivery. But healthcare remains cumbersome and a painful user experience for employees. How can companies provide their employees with healthcare access to meet their needs? 1.0 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Gen Speakers: Justin Joffe
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM	Conquering the Challenges of Managing a Mixed Workforce of Union and Non-Union Employees Navigating the legal divide between union and non-union employees while maintaining unity and strong employee relations presents a unique challenge. Attendees will learn how to navigate legal landmines that can create liability for an organization and strategies for best practices. This session will include both legal and practice tips to help attendees find a balanced approach that will limit risk and allow for best practices in management. It will also focus on maintaining a union-free environment for positions that are not currently part of a union. 1.0 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Gen Speakers: Adam Gersh
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM	HR’s Strategic Voice of Influence Why have a "seat at the table" if you don’t have a voice in the room? The business environment is rapidly evolving and HR can, and should be, on the forefront of these changes. Human Resources leaders must learn how to create a strategic voice of influence that optimizes business performance in the new world of work. This session will offer new strategies, approaches and innovative ways to think about HR's role in organizational effectiveness, functional design and an operating model for the future. This session will provide insight into the latest trends in the business and economic environment that Human Resources leaders must understand and have a good grasp of the implications for their organizations, human resource functions and teams. 1.0 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Bus & Gen Speakers: Matthew Prail
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM	Improving Your Mediation Outcomes - Keys to Success Most cases settle, and quality preparation is the key to successfully resolving cases in mediation. While gathering the facts, reading the documents, talking to witnesses and understanding the law are important parts of preparation, they are only the start. Successful preparation requires 1) knowing your team's personalities and emotional triggers, and how those can impede or help a settlement, 2) analyzing and prioritizing what you want and what you need out of a resolution, and accepting that there is a difference between wants and needs; 3) planning and preparing for creative paths to success; and 4) understanding and planning for the other side's emotional make-up This presentation will focus on the "softer" elements of preparation that are critical to success, and how to use hat preparation and the mediation process to leverage more frequent and more successful settlements. 1.0 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Gen Speakers: Rob Barron
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM	Phone Calls to a Plaintiffs' Lawyer One of your former workers just picked up the phone to call an employee-rights lawyer for help. WHAT?!? And so many other questions, like… * Why? * What did we do wrong? * What information are they discussing? * Is there a case here? * And, will our former employer become a new client? In this session, a plaintiffs' lawyer will recap some of the phone calls he's taken from your employees and open your eyes to the boxes that attorneys like him are are trying to check to tee up a great employment lawsuit. But, it's not all doom and gloom. To offer you a warm security blanket, you'll also hear from a management-side employment lawyer who has litigated the opposite side of employment disputes. This "good guy" will educate you on thorny HR-compliance issues and offer best practices on how to improve -- maybe even avoid that call to the plaintiffs' lawyer altogether. 1.0 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Gen Speakers: Eric Meyer
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM	Storytelling in Business: How to Motivate, Inform & Inspire Effective storytelling has been a powerful leadership communications tool for thousands of years. The most effective leaders in business, politics, teaching, and religion have used this skill successfully to create buy-in and achieve results. In today’s Digital Age, it's an essential skill as we strive to achieve organizational goals while maintaining the human connection. Stories can be used to present and sell the value of new ideas, communicate company policies, influence teams and create connection, direction, and engagement. Whether you are an emerging leader or experienced HR executive, skilled storytelling is vital to inspiring and motivating your listeners. Professionals who truly master this art can create a powerful and lasting impression on their audiences. Join Don Warkentin for this fun and interactive workshop that will strengthen your storytelling skills, enhance your personal and professional brand, and increase your ability to achieve organizational results! 1.0 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Gen Speakers: Don Warkentin
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM	The 5 A's Of Sustainable Diversity And Inclusion To truly make a difference with diversity and inclusion initiatives, it requires focus, investment, and energy. All too often this investment has a very short-term impact without a solid foundation to maintain movement. It is thus imperative for organizations investing in creating inclusive cultures to build a strategy that is framed to be sustainable. Tayo Rockson shares a framework that leaders can implement to foster inclusive environments on the individual, group, systemic and marketplace level. 1.0 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Gen Speakers: Tayo Rockson, MBA
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM	Thinking Strategically about your Equity Compensation Program In many companies, management considers equity compensation programs a “spending” program rather than a “talent” program. Consequently, decisions regarding how much equity to grant result in either benchmarking similar companies or responding to Institutional Shareholder pressures. Neither approach includes a foundation based on solid research evidence, which often provides valuable insights in the decision-making process. In this presentation, you will hear about the extensive research we conducted for helping companies develop more comprehensive and robust compensation plans that create an engaged organizational culture that help achieve strategic outcomes. 1.0 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Bus & Gen Speakers: Bill Castellano
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM	Using Analytics to Transform Organizational Agility In the early 2000’s, agile principles revolutionized the way projects are completed – by iterating instead of planning all activities. Now, those principles are being applied to organizational design and management. In the past, we managed with the assumption that the world is predictable and careful planning will yield the desired result. The agile methodology assumes that chaos reigns and we need to be flexible and adaptive in a world of uncertainty. To support this, the company hierarchy must change from a centralized model of decision-making, to a decentralized one where empowerment is pushed down the corporate ladder; those closer to the problems are best equipped to deal with them. Analytics plays a vital role in this transformation, by providing decision-support for newly anointed leaders, and comprising teams that optimize strengths and promote synergies. This session will lay out a road map for organizations to make the cultural change from bureaucracy to agility. 1.0 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Bus & Gen Speakers: Roy Altman

Mega Session

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM	Bridging the Generational Differences in the Workplace Bridging Generations in the Workplace - We have up to 5 different generations in today’s workplace. It is important that employers understand the different needs and desires of each to create an effective blended workforce. Are you experiencing issues relating to different values? Different work habits? Different communication styles? Different benefit needs? We will discuss the characteristics of each generation and provide examples of approaches that will help you develop a cohesive workplace. Through a facilitated discussion with the audience and a panel that includes members from these generations, Marianne Grady, our facilitator, will help you learn to understand and best serve them. 1.5 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Gen Speakers: Marianne Grady
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM	How to Become a Best-in-Class Employer We live in a world of information overload....emails, blogs, internet, publications etc. How do we synthesize the volumes of information and determine what is relevant to our respective organizations. In this information packed session you will learn how the best in class employers are using this data to create strategies to reduce benefit costs, increase employee engagement and improve retention. 1.5 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Gen Speakers: Andrew Torelli
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM	Mindful or Mind Full?: Decluttering the Busy Leader's Mind Do you find yourself in the middle of the night thinking about work and unable to sleep? Do you arrive at work and wonder how you even got there, never noticing anything along the way? Do you remember where you left your keys or if you responded to that email? Paying Attention has become a skill which can be relearned. We'll review how to easily and quickly develop a Mindfulness practice to help enable you to increase your productivity and allow you to sleep at night. 1.5 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Gen Speakers: Harriet Stein

Conference Activity

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

Lunch & Meet our Sponsors

Concurrent

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	A Discussion of Transgender Employment Issues With a Transgender Employment Attorney This presentation will serve as a legal overview and a practical guide on developing and implementing transgender friendly workplace policies and practices, including those relating to confidentiality, documentation, gender-appropriate restroom access, and more. Robyn will share insights on how employees and management can work together to achieve trans competency and inclusion at their organizations and to address employee relations issues effectively. She will also share her own personal experiences as a trans woman and as the managing partner of her former firm when she went through the gender confirmation process as a means to explore the issues transgender employees face in the workplace. 1.0 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Gen Speakers: Robyn Gigl
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	A Practical Guide to Preventing Whistleblower Claims Before They Become Litigation Using a developing scenario of fictional emails, this interactive presentation shows how to evaluate developing facts in order to appropriately partner with legal and forensics experts to head off litigation before critical mistakes are made. 1.0 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Gen Speakers: John MacDonald
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	Bridging the Gap Between Health Insurance and Financial Wellness High Deductible Health Plans have been loudly touted as the future of employer sponsored healthcare with over 77 million workers have deductibles of $1,000 or more. As employees out of pocket expenses increase it is causing financial stress in the workplace, with over 48% of employees in HDHP plans forgoing medical treatment. The trend towards consumerism can be difficult for employers as they look to retain and recruit qualified employees in a tight job market. I will discuss ways to bridge the gap between financial and overall wellness with new technology and strategies that make it easier for employees manage the financial stress inherent in HDHP plans. 1.0 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Gen Speakers: Bill Catuzzi
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	Evaluating a Leadership Development Program: A People Analytics Case Study This presentation will focus on a review of an evaluation of a leadership development program for a Fortune 100 technology client. We will review the process of creating appropriate criteria to judge the effectiveness of the program, the creation of a data collection plan, and how we reported our findings. 1.0 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Bus & Gen Speakers: Sayeedul Islam Co-Speaker: Michael Chetta
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	Growing Your Human Capital Analytics Capabilities Human Capital Analytics is a rapidly growing field and one that can be daunting for many HR professionals. The sophistication and capability of organizations today varies considerably. Some organizations are just starting to get a handle on their data, while others are at the cutting edge of predictive analytics. The analytics journey can start anywhere from assessing your current data streams and reanalyzing data, to enhancing HR information systems, identifying key drivers of engagement, and tying employee engagement data to operational and financial metrics. Through the presentation of an analytics maturity model and various case studies, you will learn a strategic approach to advanced analytics and how you can apply these to your own organization. Frequently, Spring’s advanced analyses are used by clients to approach strategic decision making, program development, scenario planning, and communications efforts in new ways to maximize the return on investment. 1.0 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Bus & Gen Speakers: Fiona Jamison
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	Leading Through Conflict with Emotional Intelligence In the session, participants will engage in various interactive exercises to discover how emotion and purpose can often determine how they approach/handle a situation. Through their established patterns and habits, they have taught themselves strategies for how they handle various situations. These patterns are not always the most effective. We have to step out of our comfort zone at times to recognize that we do have a choice for how we react and how we lead. These choices often define our character, our leadership impact and the decisions we make. By awakening our awareness, they can develop as leaders in their industries and use the power of emotions to make them more effective leaders. 1.0 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Gen Speakers: Susan Redding, MBA, SPHR, CPLP
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	Succession Planning: Tales from the Front Lines This session will be a highly interactive look at the practice of succession planning. We will examine some of the key issues that face HR in establishing or improving their succession planning at all levels of the organization. 1.0 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Gen Speakers: Tom Glasscock
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	Top 2018 Compliance Challenges for HR: Are You Ready The workplace is rapidly evolving amidst legal, technological, societal and cultural changes and employers and HR must be prepared. This session explores 2018's top HR compliance challenges based on XpertHR's recent survey including workforce planning, cyber security, drug testing, workplace violence, diversity and harassment. It will explore what is at stake, the risks of noncompliance, and steps to take to meet these challenges. 1.0 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Bus & Gen Speakers: Beth Zoller
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	Total Rewards – The HR Practitioners' Guide to Compensation Fundamentals and Beyond Today's senior leadership relies on Human Resources to provide broad, strategic support for all human capital functions. Human Resources is tasked with providing business foresight, critical evaluation, and consultation, ensuring a company is well-positioned to meet competitive needs, growth, and success. This session will provide a foundational understanding of total rewards for HR practitioners. At its core is the understanding of how human resources supports its company's strategic plan, and where compensation is used to drive attraction, retention, and engagement. The seminar will cover the basics of compensation research, design, administration, and implementation, such as determining market competitiveness, understanding the concepts behind salary ranges and the salary administration process, tying pay to performance, and the fundamentals of incentive compensation. This session is geared towards participants who are expanding into compensation administration. 1.0 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Gen Speakers: Mary Rizzuti

Conference Activity

3:15 PM - 3:45 PM

Snack Break & Meet our Sponsors

Concurrent

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Afternoon Delight: Creating a Sustainable Environment of Acceptance and Belonging in a Quick Results The goal of my session will be to provide insight around behavioral modification, primarily founded by BF Skinner, as it applies to cultural changes in the workplace. The HR disciplines of hiring, performance and competency assessment, and management potential will be examined. And, we will also focus on the healthy forms of peer pressure and group think. These cultural constraints cannot be ignored as if we live in Utopia, but rather the context of our neighborhoods and business communities. 1.0 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Gen Speakers: John Baldino, MSHRD SPHR SHRM-SCP
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Convergence of Health & Wealth As a person who grew up in the retirement industry, I see a similar shift in healthcare, to the evolution from DB plans to the DC plans. Employers are transitioning away from the traditional HMOs to a more consumer driven healthcare solution. This move is creating an opening to engage employees and enhance the benefit of the HSA program offered. By thinking differently about these accounts, organizations are uncovering opportunities to reduce employers cost, while enhancing benefits and wealth accumulation for employees through the utilization of Health Saving Accounts. HSAs are being viewed as part of the overall retirement benefit package. In doing so, plan design around the HSA and vendor(s) are advancing. The goal is to help best serve the evolving needs of organizations and individuals utilizing HSAs. 1.0 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Gen Speakers: Jamie Greenleaf
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	How to Be: Helping Your Employees Navigate the Changing Economic Framework Change is the number one fail point for businesses and leaders. With technology disrupting the economic framework in revolutionary ways, we are approaching a level where traditional change management programs are outdated before they even begin. How do you prepare for change when you are unsure of the endgame? How are you preparing your organization to manage change on both an enterprise and individual level? This session addresses how to create the most significantly impactful change management program for you, your team and your business. “You” are your next change management project. 1.0 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Bus & Gen Speakers: James Frawley
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	How To Turn High Potential Into High Performance In a recent survey of over 1000 professionals, 70% of managers said they have at least one high-potential employee (HIPO) at risk of getting let go. Eighty-eight percent said they have at least one HIPO who regularly fails to meet performance standards. And 96 percent of peers said the same-at least one HIPO teammate consistently falls short. What's more, 52 percent of managers estimate each case of disparity between potential and performance costs the organization over $25,000. Why do capable producers fall short? The most common phrases found in answers to this query were "focus on the job," "stay focused," and "the task at hand." In short, HIPOs who miss the mark often do so because their productivity habits are at capacity. As their lives and roles have increased in complexity, their productivity habits fail to deliver. The good news is that just a few skills can upgrade a person's productivity system to allow for increased focus and improved performance. 1.0 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Gen Speakers: Justin Hale
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	I'll Help You Become an ADA Accommodation Expert in About 90 Minutes Long ago, you took off those training wheels. But, just when you thought that you had the Americans with Disabilities Act accommodation process figured out, the law continues to evolve and new issues arise, among others: (a) Mental health issues, including anxiety and stress ... from work; (b) Determining the line between "reasonable accommodation" and "undue hardship"; (c) Extended-leave requests; (d) Issues impacting transgender employees, such as gender dysphoria; (e) Accommodating employee use of medical marijuana and other prescription drugs. This session features the latest legal updates, pragmatic advice, and the tools to replenish your toolbox so that you can handle most any complex ADA-accommodation situation. 1.0 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Gen Speakers: Eric Meyer
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Networking & Developing Relationships to Drive Business Growth, Accelerate Careers and Enrich Person My interactive sessions will be laced with real life networking success stories and will help teach participants: their current networking skill level, 4 reasons to network, 4 ways to network, networking in-person, networking on-line, networking in groups and at events, building "Brand U", networking challenges and keys to success, networking "clusters", establishing networking goals and creating a networking action plan, networking "your" way as part of your daily lifestyle , networking internally and externally and using networking to break down silos. My networking examples will include how I used these skills to get to meet 3 U.S. Presidents, get my wife to meet Princess Di, get our son to meet Yankee pitching coach, raise funding to buy our 50 acre farm and to launch America's 1st national country music magazine plus create all types of business development opportunities. 1.0 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Bus & Gen Speakers: Jack Killion
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	The Future of HR is Contingent: A Call To Arms For "Total Talent Management" It is estimated that almost 40% of the total workforce is already comprised of non-employees and that this “contingent” workforce is predicted to continue to only grow. In many organizations, non-employees have already passed the tipping point to become the majority classification of its workers. Yet, in about 70% of large companies, the growing contingent workforce is not even managed by HR; it is usually a Procurement, IT or even a business line function. This presentation is a call to arms to the HR profession to reevaluate its historical reluctance to engage with the growing non-employee workforce and embrace a new “Total Talent Management” approach to talent issues. This presentation will provide the foundations of a new Total Talent Management model that will become the future of Talent Management in the digital age. 1.0 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Bus & Gen Speakers: John J. Gillen
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	The New Language of Future Leadership: Get Ready for 2020 Are you ready to lead like your life depended on it? That's the question we will explore as the result of Jill Birch's research into the future of global leadership. Jill will introduce a new way to define leadership - relationally. When we embrace a relational view, leading becomes not a "thing to do" but a way to be. The three P's of relational leadership - the principles, processes and practices - will act as a blueprint showing how to bring your leadership to life, enabling you to: -create real and meaningful change; -generate room to maneuver in complex situations, and; -appreciate new perspectives that spark innovation. Based on 5 years of research and the insights of 50 CEO interviews, Jill will share how you can build collective team intelligence, foster healthier cultures and support faster, informed decision-making. Whether you are leading a team or a professional who develops leaders, this session will provide practical how-to skills that you can use immediately. 1.0 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Gen Speakers: Jill Birch
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Using AI & Analytics to Drive Gender Equality While well intended, countless organizations of all sizes struggle to originate and sustain progress in the business-critical functions of workforce diversity and inclusion. In this presentation, attendees will learn how new technologies such as artificial intelligence and - often existing - data can be leveraged to ensure all worker populations have equal opportunities. HR functions such as talent acquisition, leadership development and pay equity will be discussed, as well as the foundational role played by effective workplace communication in valuing diversity. 1.0 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Bus & Gen Speakers: Jeanne Achille
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Vendor Relationship Management in Talent Acquisition as a Driver of Business Change Many Companies consider outsourcing components of HR - whether that be for cost reduction/containment or to leverage best practices. Talent Acquisition is often a target for outsourcing, especially when HR Leadership has been challenged to reduce their budget and/or headcount. But this decision to outsource is often done without consideration of how the Hiring Manager and Candidate experiences will be maintained or improved through the outsourcing. Attendees will learn about BASF’s bold action in replacing on-site HR Generalists who supported local Recruiting with a centralized RPO model. They will learn how the Vendor Relationship Manager role was critical in giving the Hiring Manager community a "voice" in the delivery model and in establishing a clear "owner" internally to hold the Vendor accountable to deliver as promised and troubleshoot when things do not go as planned. We will also discuss how this change was an enabler to a larger HR Transformation at BASF. 1.0 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Bus & Gen Speakers: Allen Chilson

Conference Activity

5:00 PM - 7:15 PM	Monday Networking Reception
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM	Emerging/Young Professionals Event - All Attendees Welcome Join GSC-SHRM in celebrating our Young Professionals throughout the state. Those with eight or less years of HR experience will be highlighted at our all-conference attendee event at the Shoe Bar in the Sheraton Hotel. This will be a great time for ALL HR professionals to connect with and support our rising stars in the HR field. Our efforts in the young professionals initiative of GSC-SHRM include encouraging the next generation of human resources professionals through connection to those more experienced. It, also, includes opportunities for those emerging professionals to connect throughout the state as well as on the local chapter level. We will feature a dessert bar, drink specials and great networking! All attendees are invited to this event with the first drink on GSC-SHRM. This event is being sponsored by the GSC-SHRM a professional organization, comprised entirely of volunteer leaders, that support the Human Resources profession and the eleven SHRM New Jersey Chapters.

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8:00 AM - 12:30 PM	Innovative HR For The Future Of Work (SBE Workshop) Human Resources is ripe for innovation. C-Suite leaders often fail to understand Human Resources functions and practices. Human Resources leaders often fail to understand the business drivers, changing workforce and workplace dynamics that impact the business. The recent performance management revolt by leading organizations is an indicator of what is to come. Agile HR practices, Artificial Intelligence, Digital HR, and Design Thinking are just a few of the hot topics in the Human Resources innovation space. In this session, you will identify trends that may impact your organization and identify opportunities for innovation in your Human Resources function, processes and practices. We will also examine new roles for Human Resources leaders in this new environment. Examine the new world of work, the dynamics being disrupted by a “gig” economy, workforce demographics, technology and other trends. Explore organizations of the future – discover how work is changing and organizational structures are evolving with Digital HR, Design Thinking and other methods. Compare current models for HR pros against Human Resources Roles of the future and map your personal career journey. This SBE course is approved for 3.75 SHRM PDCs and 3.75 HRCI Business Credits. Speakers: Maryanne Spatola
8:00 AM - 12:30 PM	Managing Talent For The Future (SBE Workshop) In recent years, CEOs have identified a number of talent challenges as top global “hot button” issues. These include attracting and retaining top talent, developing the next generation of leaders, and reskilling employees. These challenges are a product of the growing disruption being caused by a host of demographic, socio-economic, and technological changes. Organizations need to transform their talent management approaches and capabilities to create stronger alignment with the emerging future of work. In this session, you will identify the forces of change that are impacting your industry and organization, map associated talent management implications, and assess your organization’s approach to managing talent and its alignment with current and future strategic imperatives. You will also explore emerging strategies for attracting, developing, engaging, and retaining key talent amidst growing disruption and change. Which forces of change are having the biggest impact on YOUR industry? What are the implications of the future of work in areas of democratization of work and technological empowerment? Will there be new roles and capabilities to align talent management to future imperatives? Leave with some ideas for emerging strategies to help YOU. This SBE course is approved for 4.0 SHRM PDCs and 4.0 HRCI Business Credits. Speakers: Bradford Bell

12:45 PM - 1:45 PM	#MeToo - A New Era? A discussion on what has transpired in the prior year around workplace harassment and discrimination. We will talk about the history of the law up through the recent "#MeToo movement." We will discuss what this means for the work environment and why employers should be paying attention to this spanning from risk management to cultural reasons. 1.0 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Gen Speakers: Andrew Botwin
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM	Do You Only Have a Wellness Program, or Do You Have a Culture of Wellness? Many studies support the idea that creating the right culture, in which health interventions / wellness is woven into the fabric of an organization, can lead to a happier, healthier, and more productive workforce. We have created a model and scorecard tool that will help you to ensure your organization’s wellness program contains all of the elements necessary to take it to the next level: creating a culture of wellness. This session will show how this wellness model and its accompanying scorecard tool can help you to formulate a strategy for infusing wellness into your organization’s culture, developing a roadmap for turning your organization into a “most desirable place to work”. The scorecard can help evaluate a program’s breadth to ensure that the strategy permeates all aspects of an employee’s working lifetime. 1.0 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Bus & Gen Speakers: Leonard Spangher
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM	Investigation Interviews: How to Extract Crucial Evidence from Workplace Incident Witnesses Following a workplace incident, investigation interviews provide human resource professionals with information that is necessary to make fair decisions and take appropriate action. In this session, participants will collaborate in the deconstruction of effective investigation interviews in order to apply best practices in their workplace. Strategies for conducting investigation interviews will be presented using case studies and group discussions, and participants will immediately apply these strategies by participating in example investigation scenarios. Participants will identify best practices for extracting accurate, relevant, and complete information from witnesses in workplace investigations. 1.0 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Gen Speakers: Patrick Colvin
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM	Maximize Your HR Leadership Effectiveness The 21st Century workforce presents a unique set of challenges to HR managers and leaders. You’re called upon to lead multiple generations of people with diverse backgrounds, values, work ethics and perspectives when it comes to how they do their job. Statistically, over 70% of your workforce may be burned out, disengaged and doubtful of their own ability to contribute in a way that matters. As a leader in HR, you need to be able to address these challenges, remove obstacles and initiate changes that improve the employee experience, increase engagement and optimize your workforce. At the same, you need to convince executives that your initiatives have the power to not only increase employee engagement but increase customer satisfaction and net profits as well. As an effective HR leader, how do you acquire the vision, strategies and skills to meet these challenges? What communication skills do you need to gain buy in, convince executives, and inspire people to take action? 1.0 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Gen Speakers: Margaret Graziano
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM	Recruiting Hard- Recruiting Fast! Making Headway? Not Really Recruiting Hard, Recruiting Fast—Making Headway? Not Really. You are not alone. It used to be that top talent was tough to recruit. Now just about any talent is tough to recruit. Unemployment and jobless numbers are rapidly shrinking along with visa allotments. At the same time, a growing economy is kick-starting more new companies; and while startups already abound, this leaves many of the practices typically used obsolete. Where do you go from here? In this program, We will share the successful findings and methodologies that have been employed to meet headcount by companies ranging from start-up’s hiring 10 a year to large enterprises’ hiring 300 week. Using the Recruiting Continuum as a cornerstone we will discuss: How to measure where you are and discover your TA strengths and weaknesses Flipping from reactive to proactive even if you have NO TIME Hidden recruiting acts with BIG impact Once you’re on track, steps to assure you stay there 1.0 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Gen Speakers: Christine Nichlos
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM	The Six Degrees of Impact Breaking new ground in business today requires breaking traditional corporate glass to create a high impact zone. Success is no longer achieved simply by thinking out of the box, integrated systems, and planning strategically. It demands we break traditional corporate glass and install new panes to produce vision and success. Six Degrees of Impact provides perspectives and strategies that bring you insight into the real issues impacting positive change and growth. Like having a consultant in the palm of your hand, this framework gives you the tools to build and manage your organizational future. Discuss framework which is built on six high impact zones: leadership, personal marketing, strategic position, research and development, resources, and outcomes. Six Degrees of Impact will show you how to break corporate glass and build organizational success. Step up and begin breaking your corporate glass to build personal and organizational achievement. 1.0 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Gen Speakers: Anthony Gruppo
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM	Why People Analytics Projects Fail During this presentation we will review some common mistakes in implementing people analytics projects. We will provide a model that human resources professionals can use in implementing a people analytics projects We will illustrate the model using a short case study. 1.0 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Bus & Gen Speakers: Michael Chetta, Sayeedul Islam
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM	You've Got to Be Kidding Me & HR Investigation Techniques In this presentation, you will learn three proven HR investigation techniques to help you get to the bottom of sexual harassment, theft, violence and other difficult HR investigations. The techniques will be taught by using real-life stories from the presenter's extensive HR career. 1.0 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Gen Speakers: Brian Mauldwin

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM	Building Highly Effective Relationships with Business Managers Your success as a leader in your organization depends upon your ability to cultivate strong relationships of trust and cooperation with your business managers. If you fall short in this area, you will constantly be plagued by misunderstandings, push- back, and even an underlying apathy that can severely undermine your business initiatives… and your effectiveness as a leader. So, how can you build strong working relationships with your business managers… so they become fully aligned and invested in your business initiatives and ideas? What are the keys to establishing the trust and respect that inspires increased accountability, productivity and dedication? 1.5 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Gen Speakers: Margaret Graziano
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM	Rethinking, Rebuilding, & Reinforcing Culture To Transform HR Culture is at the center of everything you do and who you’re becoming as you lead and execute both day to day and for the long-term, starting with recruitment and retention all the way through driving strategic growth and impact. But... you may not even know what your culture is, how it was formed, who’s influencing it, and if it’s driving your business forward or holding you back. Throughout this interactive and enlightening session, we will guide you in building a living, breathing, dynamic culture that empowers your people to take ownership and make decisions to drive forward what your organization really needs. This starts by knowing what's really driving your business so that when your people walk in the front door, their first thought is not about what tasks they’ll be performing, but how they generate the results your organization really needs. It can be overwhelming to take inventory and overhaul your organizational culture, so let us help to transform HR through culture. 1.5 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Bus & Gen Speakers: Joe Urbanski
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM	Strength-Based Leadership: How to Engage Employees to Improve Organizational Culture Lack of engaged employees can lead to higher turnover, lower job sanctification and lower the morale of the engaged part of the workforce. These are all significant financial and non-financial costs to an organization. Understanding and implementation of The 10-80-10 Principle which is a framework that allows groups to better engage team members by focusing energy and efforts in the "right places" is the key to overcoming these challenges. Every team has Top 10 and Bottom 10 best practices toward getting employees engaged. What people lack is a methodology that allows them to understand where is the best allocation of their resources and efforts. Delivered in a high energy, high content and highly humorous manner, this program is filled with practical and relevant examples which allow the audience to identify Top and Bottom 10 and then A.C.T. with the 10-80-10 Principle to create a highly engaged workforce. 1.5 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Bus & Gen Speakers: Sunjay Nath

7:00 AM - 10:00 AM	Conference Registration Open
7:00 AM - 8:15 AM	Full Breakfast Buffet

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM	Addressing Sexual Harassment Claims in the #MeToo Era Sexual harassment claims have swept the nation from Hollywood to Capitol Hill as the #MeToo movement has taken hold. Day by day, more people are raising allegations of sexual harassment in the workplace. According to a recent CNN/Time poll, 70% of Americans describe sexual harassment as a “very serious problem.” Almost half of America’s working women have experienced sexual harassment at work and yet 90% never formally report it. The tides are now changing and employers need to be vigilant in taking sexual harassment claims seriously. This will be an interactive discussion centered around policy, new methods of training and complying with new legislation to effectively combat sexual harassment. The discussion will include: Implementing policies and communication that encourage and lead to clearer reporting Facilitating manager and employee training to increase accountability Monitoring workplace behavior Policies relating to “consensual dating” and "love contracts" 1.0 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Gen Speakers: Alnisa Bell
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM	Attracting and Retaining Millennial Employee Talent with Student Loan Repayment Assistance Benefits "As part of a robust employee benefits program, there numerous health, voluntary, and saving/investment benefits that can be offered to employees, however, if employers want to attract and retain millennial talent, Student Loan Repayment Assistance benefits are an excellent opportunity to do this. Repayment of student loan debt is their priority, and moving from job to job for a salary increase is their reality to stay on top of this expense, which is now higher than auto loans or credit card debt. Although this is one of the most talked about benefits available in the benefits marketplace, less than 5% of private sector businesses currently offer it. We will discuss an example of one of these companies specializing in student loan repayment assistance, details of this benefit and how it works for both the employer and employee, tax implications, and eligibility." 1.0 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Gen Speakers: Billy MacNair
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM	Breaking Boundaries for Operational Excellence … The Quest for A High Performance Organization This presentation inspires audience members to achieve exceptional operating performance. Members are taught how to design, implement and link together … A Performance Measurement System … An Incentive Pay System … A Performance Communication System … and A Performance Improvement Team System. These systems create an unmatched Operational Excellence initiative resulting in rapid, significant and sustained performance improvements. Audience members will also learn about the importance of supporting their mission, business strategy and core values with an improvement initiative. Easy to understand examples and clear, actionable and effective techniques for improving operating performance will be presented. The presentation’s content is based on real-world lessons learned while building over 250 High-Performance Organizations. Every single audience member will leave with information that can be used to immediately improve their operating performance. 1.0 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Gen Speakers: Vince Bovino
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM	CSR-Don't Board the HR Express Without it! Are You a Rider or a Driver There are many examples that will be shared to demonstrate the value of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) for your organization in not only being community giving but also, and most importantly, insure your sustainability! Whether you are a small or large company, everyone can benefit from the following solid reasons for initiating and/or expanding your CSR: 1. Branding – being an organization that gives back and customers feel good about dealing with you. 2. Trust and the Environment– in the current financial climate, an organization wants to be known as a good and worthy citizen. 3. Ethics and Accountability- in the current financial climate, an organization wants to be known as a good and healthy citizen. 4. Employee Factors-Being a talent magnet, increased employee engagement and improved productivity and profitability. 1.0 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Gen Speakers: Theresa McGlinchey
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM	Evaluating Data to Boost Recruitment Effectiveness Evaluating data from your recruitment efforts to be more efficient & drive results. Also where to collect data & how it helps employers see where they can improve engagement amongst potential candidates. 1.0 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Bus & Gen Speakers: Kim Alvarez
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM	HR Lessons From Uber: What NOT To Disrupt In an era where disruption is favored, the most successful HR professionals need to know which HR policies and practices to keep and why. This lively presentation dissects the HR failures of Uber, the world’s most valuable start-up, to identify key HR practices that cannot be sacrificed or “disrupted” in the name of technological advancement. This program will not only help you understand the HR practices your company needs to retain and develop, but it will give you the framework for explaining to your company’s executive team why these practices matter. 1.0 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Gen Speakers: Brenda Kasper
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM	Purposeful Leadership: Building The Capability Your Organization Needs Achieving the transformation and breakthrough results we want for our organization will require more than just hiring/training great people based on their job expectations and holding them accountable during their year-end review. This transformation at the core begins with what capability we as an organization Really need to drive our culture & strategy to be built on ownership not engagement. In this session we will immerse you into the three critical factors to focus to build capability. 1.0 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Bus & Gen Speakers: Jack Gottlieb
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM	The New Purpose Of Leadership For The Next 30+ Years "As executives, directors, managers, and specialists, we have seen and heard what leadership is. That's old news. But with the convergence of rapidly-evolving technologies and disruptive business models, the world is constantly changing...and so should our approach to leadership. Here's what leadership needs to be: the art of inspiring people, the science of empowering people, and the business of preparing people to take ownership, make decisions, and take collaborative action towards a greater vision with their full capability because they feel both privileged and obligated to do it, thereby becoming better leaders in the process. We will break down what leadership needs to be in your marketplace, for your customers, with your people, and within your organization. We will discuss the strategies and skills needed to make a bigger difference. We will also engage in interactive exercises that are not only fun, but that provide practical follow-up actions, too!" 1.0 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Gen Speakers: Joe Urbanski
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM	“It’s not my fault.” How To Cultivate Employee Accountability Excuses. We’ve heard them all. Wouldn’t you love to have all your employees see what needs to be done, take the necessary actions to do it and accept responsibility for the results? Unfortunately, such is often not the case. In this dynamic presentation, organizational culture expert Larry Johnson offers you practical strategies to raise the odds everyone behaves responsibly and enthusiastically to ensure the team and the entire organization succeed. In this presentation, Larry Johnson approaches the issue from three perspectives: 1. Creating a POSITIVE environment where everyone WANTS to do their very best. 2. Clarifying expectations so everyone knows what represents success. 3. Turning around those who insist on not taking responsibility. The bottom line is that you'll walk out with some solid tools you can use to raise the odds your people are more accountable for achieving results. 1.0 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Gen Speakers: Larry Johnson
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM	Don't Be Another Headline: HR "MUST" Practices for Mitigating Business Risk Business risk is inevitable. As much as business leaders would like to eliminate all risk for their organizations, it's impossible to do. As caretakers of one of a business's most valuable assets -- its people -- HR has an important role to play in helping businesses balance and mitigate risk. Recent headlines have made this more important than ever. In this program, Deborah Muller, CEO of HR Acuity, will review the “must practices” required by every organization to effectively anticipate and manage risk related to setting expectations, managing and proactively addressing employee behaviors. Using current organizational debacles as case studies, Deb will share expert guidance on the steps that are now a “must” for every HR Professionals to take before, during and after an allegation of wrongdoing is raised in the workplace. 1.0 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Gen Speakers: Deb Muller
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM	Empathy - The Super Power Every HR Professional Needs Empathy: the ability to view something from a perspective other than your own. There is so much going on in the world socially, politically and economically and it's affecting us at work. The sheer intensity of it all makes it very tempting for us to build walls and turn away from each other when in fact, we need each other now more than ever. Empathy is a vastly under-rated superpower masquerading as a mild-mannered soft skill. From seasoned leader to expectant intern and every HR professional in between, the time has come to exercise the power of empathy in the workplace. It’s a business imperative with wide-reaching impact on everything from customer happiness and employee engagement, to the company bottom line. Is your empathy super power ready for action? Do you know how to use it? Are you aware of the impact it can have in your workplace? Put on your cape. Pull up your boots and clip on your belt. It’s time to flex the superpower of Empathy in business and in life. 1.0 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Gen Speakers: Joel Peterson
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM	Problem Solving-Business Approach to HR Operations Companies that are highly skilled in core HR practices experience up to 3.5 times the revenue growth and as much as 2.1 times the profit margins of less capable companies according to a Boston Consulting Group report. It’s time to start problem solving utilizing a business approach and examining business indicators. This session will walk participants through the PRĀ Model. This model examines three business indicators: Process, Resources and Accountability. The PRĀ model is a practical and easy approach to move the needle. Examining the current and future state of each indicator and revising regularly will drive significant improvement. Each participant will learn the model, identify a business challenge and explore 3 key business indicators. Learning Objectives: Upon completion of the session, you will be able to: • Identify a business challenge • Examine 3 key business indicators • Apply a model that drives significant improvement 1.0 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Bus & Gen Speakers: Laura Schlessinger
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM	The Journey of a Defined Benefit Plan – What Plan Sponsors Should Know Volatile financial markets, increased regulatory scrutiny, and rising administrative costs have become an increasing burden to Defined Benefit (DB) plan sponsors. For many, the ultimate destination of their plan is a complete termination. Others wish to keep the plan in place (either open, closed or frozen), but seek to contain costs and reduce volatility. Regardless of where a plan lies on its Journey, being prepared to take appropriate actions at the most opportune time is crucial to minimizing risk and controlling costs. It is imperative that plan sponsors understand where they are on the journey and are prepared to act in the interest of getting the plan to its preferred destination. 1.0 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Gen Speakers: Jarred Wilson, Shane Conlon
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM	The Two-sided Coin Metaphor: HR Solutions View for Preventing Workplace Violence If we truly believe that Workplace Violence in all forms--from bullying to murder--can be prevented, then we must be vocal and share how. We know that HR Leaders and the Organization’s Leaders are responsible for ensuring that the workplace does NOT become a hostile workplace. Preventing Workplace Violence is like a two-sided coin: One side where we must reduce the risk of violence is the Psychological Safety side (inside culture, bullying, harassment) and the other side is the Physical Safety side--preventing workplace intrusions of violent perpetrators. Both are necessary. Underscore that HR cannot claim ignorance to disruptive, dysfunctional behaviors. HR holds the SOLUTIONS to have much better, healthier, workplace cultures, and in turn, more profitable businesses. Find out how to stop this epidemic! 1.0 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Gen Speakers: Claire Knowles
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM	Why Projects Fail and How HR Can Help Save Them Why is a knowledge of Project Management important for HR Professionals? Projects are key tools in business today and HR needs to contribute to them. Do you know that: 97% of organizations believe project management is critical to business performance and organizational success but, 33% of projects fail because of a lack of involvement from senior management? What can HR do about this issue? A lot. A few examples are: * HR professionals know the senior people in the organization and can carry messages across silo boundaries to gain corporate-wide support. * Can find highly skilled and committed project team members from outside and within the organization to create a talent pool that ensures project is staffed to succeed. * Can ensure that the executive sponsors are selected carefully and prepared for their responsibilities. HR can bond people skills with technical competencies so all projects are successful, effective and efficient. 1.0 Credit Hour: SHRM PDC / HRCI Gen Speakers: David Scott

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