Conference Presenters

 Feature Presentation 
"NAVIGATING THE ENERGY INDUSTRY'S DYNAMICS FOR HUMAN RESOURCES"
RUTH ANN M. GILLIS - Executive vice president and chief administrative and diversity officer, Exelon Corporation.  President, Exelon Business Services Company

The energy industry today is in the midst of dynamic changes that will continue to test organizations. Commodity markets have crushed power prices. Uncertainty lingers about a federal response to climate change – the so-called carbon purgatory. New nuclear remains promising; its renaissance will be modest. The global M&A landscape is in flux.

The resulting scenarios create challenges and opportunities in four broad categories: recruitment/retention; diversity; technology; and retirement/knowledge transfer. Human resource professionals across the Independent Power Producers industry are increasingly focused on anticipating and developing strategies to enable continued high performance in the face of economic, regulatory and legislative ambiguity.

What you will learn:

 Keynote Address 
“HR LEADERSHIP – WHAT SEPARATES THE BEST FROM THE REST – WHAT DO HR LEADERS DO”?

 JIM SHANLEY - Retired from Bank of America, where he had corporate wide accountability for Staffing, Executive Development & Succession Planning, Organization Development, Leadership Development and Learning

All HR professionals face similar challenges and opportunities to impact the bottom line of their company. Why do some HR professionals become the trusted advisor and a key strategic contributor to their executives and others don’t? Why have some HR professionals been able to ensure that their company’s/division’s leadership bench has not been a constraint to growth?   During this highly interactive presentation, Jim will challenge participants and explore with them his “lessons learned” on what separates the best HR professionals from the rest.  He’ll facilitate an engaging & challenging session to explore best practices around leadership development, talent management and how great HR Generalists leverage these practices to help their clients grow their business.

What you will learn:
·       What senior executive’s expect from HR
·       The HR hiring profile of top tier companies
·       The paradoxes companies face in building a leadership bench…and how to overcome them
·       The best practices in developing leadership talent and depth to fuel growth
·       Best practices around how HR Generalists & Specialists “partner”
·       Seven characteristics shared by highly effective and influential HR professionals


“PAY FOR PERFORMANCE IN THE NEW ECONOMIC REALITY”
HEWITT ASSOCIATES
LORI WISPER  Sr. Consultant
 SCOTT COHEN, PHD,   Sr. Consultant
Unprecedented is the best way to describe compensation spending in 2009 and 2010 when it comes to the shrinkage in salary budgets. Given this new economic reality, Lori Wisper and Scott Cohen from Hewitt Associates will discuss the challenges we face in trying to pay for performance using the traditional approach of salary increases as the primary pay for performance vehicle. 

What you will learn:
·       How performance management and pay for performance has evolved to this point and why many organizations continue to struggle to make it work; 
·       The root causes of why many organizations are self-described failures at living up to their pay for performance philosophies and how to change that;
·       How “merit pay” and traditional methods of paying for performance through base salary increase can be improved;
·       Why Energy companies in particular should be focused on finding more effective ways to define and pay for performance;
·       New and different ideas to effectively pay for performance in the new economic reality.  

“A MANAGER’S GUIDE TO HIRING TOP TALENT WITHIN THE ENERGY INDUSTRY”

LOU ADLER - CEO and founder of The Adler Group, a training and consulting firm, helping companies use Performance-based Hiringsm to maximize quality of hire. He is the Amazon best-seller author of Hire With Your Head and the Nightingale-Conant audio program Talent Rules! Using Performance-based Hiring to Hire Top Talent (2007). Lou is a noted recruiting industry expert, international speaker, and columnist for a number of major recruiting and HR organizations.

Hiring managers, whether they’re first line supervisors or seniors executives, rarely see eye-to-eye with their HR counterparts on how to hire top performers. In this high-energy session, well-known hiring guru Lou Adler will provide a blueprint to bridge this gap. It starts with understanding how top performers decide to look for new opportunities, what they’re looking for and why they accept one position over another. According to Adler most HR/Recruiting leaders and hiring managers focus on their own needs when setting up their hiring processes, rather than the “outside looking in” focus of top performers. Lou contends that if companies want to increase their share of top talent they must fundamentally overhaul how they’re hiring people today.

What you will learn:
·       An early-bird sourcing strategy is the first step in hiring the best.
·       Why you must throw away traditional descriptions and focus on career moves, not lateral transfers.
·       How to tame your hiring managers.
·       Using the one-question performance-based interview and eliminate 80% of all hiring mistakes.


“MENTAL MANAGEMENT: KEYS TO PEAK PERFORMANCE”

BILL ADAMS - Senior Faculty Member, Government Sector, at the Center for Creative Leadership
Bill is an expert in leadership and enhancing performance to unleash the power of people in the workplace and our everyday lives. Bill is a former career military officer with 11 years of higher education teaching experience. He directed the Center for Enhanced Performance at West Point for five years developing the full potential of over 4,000 student-athletes and leaders through applied performance psychology training resulting in league and national championships and Olympic appearances and medals.

By applying the mental models used by elite athletes, leaders can positively and purposefully enhance their performance. This presentation offers a variety of cognitive and behavioral techniques that can be used to cultivate confidence, mental toughness and resilience.

What you will learn:
·       about "flow" states
·       Examine and understand the self-fulfilling prophecy
·       Develop a mental filter
·       Learn to control self-talk
·       Develop and use empowering affirmations


“THE NEW HR ANALYTICS: HOW TO MANAGE TOMORROW TODAY”

DR. JAC FITZ-ENZ  - Founder & CEO, Human Capital Source®
Dr. Jac is acknowledged worldwide as the father of human capital strategic analysis and measurement. He published the first HR metrics in 1978 and introduced HR to benchmarking in 1985. In 2007, he was cited as one of the top five “HR Management Gurus” by HR World, and SHRM chose him as one of the 50 persons who have “significantly changed what HR does and how it does it”. He has authored 12 books and 300 articles and trained 90,000 managers worldwide on measurement and strategic management. His latest book; The New HR Analytics was published in April 2010 by AMACOM.


While the marketplace has been transformed by the dotcom bust, technology advances, global competition and lately the liquidity crunch, human resources management has not responded.  Planning, staffing and pay models are unchanged relying on past data and obsolescent methods.

What you will learn:
·       How predictive management and analytics principles are changing HR into a human capital management center
·       Hear and see cases of how expensive HR processes are being converted into corporate assets
·       How to design an integrated measurement system that links strategic and operational metrics with intangible leading indicators.


“INTEGRATING NEW LEADERS INTO YOUR ORGANIZATION” 

CATHY WELSH - Sr. VP, Leadership Consulting, Lee Hecht Harrison
Cathy leads the Executive Coaching practice for LHH in the Chicago and Milwaukee. In this role, she is responsible for working with major companies to support their Leadership Development activities. Prior to joining LHH, Cathy was President and General Manager of a $150M Information Technology professional services organization.

In order for organizations to gain market share and achieve top line growth, successful integration of new leaders is critical.  Lack of integration can negatively impact the financial and operational performance of a business entity.


What you will learn:
·         How to build your business case to integrate new leaders
·         Best Practices for integration of  new leaders
·         How to identify barriers to success
·        The role of organizational stakeholders to facilitate successful integration
 

ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION GROUPS

Jim Shanley - "Building Leadership Talent to Fuel Growth"
Retired from Bank of America
                    

Lou Adler - " How to Create And Use Performance Profiles to Replace Job Descriptions" 
CEO and founder of The Adler Group

    Ryan Cook - Energy Central - "How to Use Social Networking to Find and Engage Talent:
    VP Employment Services Division, Energy Central
  

“PRECONFERENCE COMPENSATION WORKSHOP”
HEWITT ASSOCIATES

Bill Gentry - Executive Compensation consultant
Marilu Malague - Senior Compensation Consultant
Gaurab Ghosh - Senior consultant

Join Hewitt compensation consultants for an in-depth review and analysis of the results from the 2010 IEHRA Compensation Survey. This detailed workshop provides HR professionals and compensation practitioners with helpful information from the survey. By emphasizing key changes in year-over-year data and compensation trends specific to the energy industry, session participants will gain valuable insight into topical areas representing; base pay, variable pay, equity compensation, and industry dynamics that influence total rewards in the industry.

Participants in this session will:
·       Save valuable analysis time by learning key themes from the 2010 IEHRA Compensation Survey results and how these reconcile with broader trends in variable pay and equity compensation;
·       Learn practical tips for managing conflicting survey data from multiple sources;
·       Identify success factors for communicating market pay messages to employee populations in the new economy;
·       Gain insight into themes shaping compensation strategy for organizations today.

 

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