Business Acumen

Stéphane Mallette
consultant
The Medici Group
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Stéphane Mallette is a consultant with The Medici Group. He is a well recognized consultant in Strategic Innovation and Continuing Medical Education. He graduated with honours mention from ''Université du Québec à Montreal'' in Biochemistry and did post-graduate fundamental research in Environmental Toxicology at University of Montreal. Over the last 20 years, Stéphane held multiple strategic positions in sales management, training management and medical education in the pharmaceutical industry with Eli Lilly, Janssen Ortho, Lundbeck and Fournier Pharma. He has demonstrated significant innovativeness and energy in his training abilities during his time as training manager by being accountable for a major sales force expansion at Fournier Pharma.  

In the last few years, Stéphane successfully developed numerous medical education programs for Canadian physicians and pharmacists. He joined the Medici Group in 2010 as a strategic innovation consultant. He is certified as a Medici trainer and has had the opportunity work with Boehringer Ingelheim, Pfizer, Chugai, Metlife and other Canadian based companies. 

Stéphane has the ability to understand people and what motivates them along with a solid business sense and fine tuned comprehension of the corporate world. These are only a few of the reasons that have made Stéphane highly successful.

Stéphane is bilingual, French and English. He is also a musician and performer at a professional level.

 

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Saturday, October 10, 2015 - 8:30am to 5:00pm
Marla Bradley
CEO
Bradley Lambert
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Marla Bradley founded Bradley Lambert (BLI) in 1979, with a vision to improve the performance of organizations by developing skills and knowledge of individuals who work and manage in them. Ms. Bradley leads the organization in developing learning solutions, consulting with clients on their training needs; designing individual training products for clients and helping in their implementation.

Ms. Bradley is a much sought after facilitator and public speaker. She has facilitated thousands of meetings from Board of Director planning meetings to rescuing teams that are failing to make progress. She is asked to give key note speeches on organizational improvement issues at corporate off site meetings and planning sessions. She and her team regularly conduct workshops for the clients or facilitate high level presentations by client executives and senior staff to employees.

Ms. Bradley has been an adjunct Professor at Loyola Marymount University in their Executive MBA Program. She has been a lead instructor and program designer for the Certificate in Management Effectiveness, an executive program offered through the University of Southern California (USC), Graduate School of Business Administration. She also has conducted seminars for the Instructional Television Network at USC.

Ms. Bradley received her Bachelor of Science and a Master in Business Administration from USC.

SESSIONS:
Wednesday, October 7, 2015 - 8:30am to 5:00pm
David Sturt
executive vice president, Marketing & Business Development
O.C. Tanner
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David Sturt is a NY Times bestselling author and executive vice president of the O.C. Tanner Company. He has been interviewed and quoted by the Wall Street Journal, MSNBC, Forbes, CBS Radio, Huffington Post and numerous other media organizations. He is a weekly contributor on Forbes.com and is a highly sought after speaker. He has spoken to audiences at HR and leadership conferences across the U.S., Canada and the U.K. David has a degree in Training and Development and an MBA, and has two decades of experience in research, innovation and leadership. He was born in England, raised in South Africa, educated in the U.S. and Asia/Pacific and has a passion for doing things that make a difference in the world.

SESSIONS:
Friday, October 9, 2015 - 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Scott Hamilton
chief executive officer & managing director
NextWORKS
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Scott Hamilton has a long and proven track record in the successful improvement of executive and organization performance in global Fortune 5000 companies. Scott is the co-founder of Allign, a company that has developed and introduced a proprietary process that integrates leadership vision with visual-experiential mapping methods to align all stakeholders into unified, positive action. His global advisory team helps leaders build the internal organizational capability to innovate, execute and measure.

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Friday, October 9, 2015 - 9:00am to 10:30am
David Sturt
executive vice president, Marketing & Business Development
O.C. Tanner
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David Sturt is a NY Times bestselling author and executive vice president of the O.C. Tanner Company. He has been interviewed and quoted by the Wall Street Journal, MSNBC, Forbes, CBS Radio, Huffington Post and numerous other media organizations. He is a weekly contributor on Forbes.com and is a highly sought after speaker. He has spoken to audiences at HR and leadership conferences across the U.S., Canada and the U.K. David has a degree in Training and Development and an MBA, and has two decades of experience in research, innovation and leadership. He was born in England, raised in South Africa, educated in the U.S. and Asia/Pacific and has a passion for doing things that make a difference in the world.

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Thursday, October 8, 2015 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Jason Lauritsen
speaker and author
www.JasonLauritsen.com
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Jason Lauritsen a keynote speaker, author, and consultant.  He is an employee engagement and workplace culture expert who will challenge you to think differently. 

A former corporate Human Resources executive, Jason has dedicated his career to helping leaders build organizations that are good for both people and profits.
  
Most recently, he led the research team for Quantum Workplace’s Best Places to Work program where he has studied the employee experience at thousands of companies to understand what the best workplaces in the world do differently than the rest.
  
Jason is the co-author of the book, Social Gravity: Harnessing the Natural Laws of Relationships. Connect with Jason at www.JasonLauritsen.com.  
 

 

SESSIONS:
Thursday, October 8, 2015 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Scott Hamilton
chief executive officer & managing director
NextWORKS
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Scott Hamilton has a long and proven track record in the successful improvement of executive and organization performance in global Fortune 5000 companies. Scott is the co-founder of Allign, a company that has developed and introduced a proprietary process that integrates leadership vision with visual-experiential mapping methods to align all stakeholders into unified, positive action. His global advisory team helps leaders build the internal organizational capability to innovate, execute and measure.

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Thursday, October 8, 2015 - 10:15am to 11:45am
Jack Gottlieb
Personal Pronouns
He/Him/His
CEO
Total Solutions Group
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Jack Gottlieb is a results-driven senior executive with 20 years of experience in transforming and revitalizing organizations. As the CEO of Total Solutions Group, a strategic consulting and results-based training firm, he has a proven track record of aligning culture, strategy, and capability to achieve critical short-term and long-term goals. TSG has generated $3.25 billion in ROI for clients in growth, profitability, innovation, and efficiency, including leading fifteen M&As and ten turnarounds from inception to implementation. 

With extensive experience in the C-Suite and as an HR leader Jack has a deep expertise of how to drive organizational health and performance through an embedded employee experience. Jack has had global roles such as Chief Executive Officer, Chief Strategy Officer, & Chief Culture Officer in banking and currently is the Vice President of Global Capability & Transformation in a market leading test lab in the gaming industry. 
Jack has been one of the top rated speakers and thought leaders for SHRM both at annual and state council conferences. Jack also hosts the successful "L&D Transformation Podcast: How To Lead The Future Of Our Organizations Through Talent Development” which is in its third season with over 100 episodes.

 

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Denise Pirrotti Hummel, J.D.
principal
Ernst & Young
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Denise Pirrotti Hummel, J.D., is a Human Capital Principal at EY, where she leads national culture integration and optimization across the globe. She is the former CEO and Founder of Universal Consensus, LLC, a culture transformation firm. Her team helps clients improve global business results and build lasting performance by enhancing corporate, national, gender and generational culture, key components of enterprise financial success. In addition to serving clients, she leads a team of 40 engineers, computer scientists, curriculum specialists and researchers that operationalize EY’s global culture tools used for H.R. transformation and M&A culture integration. Hummel is a member of the prestigious U.S. State Department Worldwide Speaker and Specialist Program and a speaker on culture and change management at SHRM 2013 and SHRM 2014. She has consulted for a myriad of Fortune 100 companies in every sector, as well as the U.S. State Department and the Pentagon. Prior to founding Universal Consensus, Hummel was an attorney practicing commercial and employment law, and D&I internationally. That experience has enabled her to effectively link a client’s HR and cultural considerations with the overall enterprise risk management impacts. Denise was recognized by the American Bar Association as one of the top twenty young attorneys in the United States in 1992. She is a published author and speaks multiple languages.
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Seth Holverson
former global director of Human Resources
Nike Inc.
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Seth Holverson was most recently the Global Director of Human Resources for Nike Inc.'s contract manufacturing of over 1 million workers in 700+ factories across 44 countries. In his role, Seth was responsible for developing, advancing and innovating Human Resources programs that increased employee engagement and improved labor compliance.  Seth was also responsible for leading multi-stakeholder partnerships with international labor organization's that protect and advance workers' rights worldwide. 

During his career, Seth has held various Human Resources roles at Pfizer, Merck and Altria Group in Employee Relations, Compensation, Talent Acquisition and as a Business Partner.  He has BA in Sociology from the University of North Dakota and a Masters of Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University.

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