Global & Cultural Effectiveness

Philip Gordon co-chairs the Privacy and Background Checks Practice Group of Littler Mendelson, the nation’s largest law firm representing only management in employment law matters.  He counsels employers on the full range of workplace privacy issues, including electronic monitoring; social media; “bring-your-own-device” programs; compliance with HIPAA; and security incident preparedness and response. He advises many U.S. multinationals on the application of non-U.S. data protection laws, including the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, on the handling and cross-border transfer of HR data.  Mr. Gordon received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University and his law degree from New York University School of Law.  

CP is a current practising Senior HR Business Partner based in Singapore with almost 10 years of HR specialist and generalist experience in various industries such as Government, Banking & Finance, e-Commerce, Logistics and IT.  Accredited as a HR practitioner in Singapore US, UK, Australia and Canada, CP has consulted with numerous clients from MNCs to SMEs in various HR areas and has designed and conducted training workshops in HR, business and leadership skills, as well as facilitated management meetings and strategic planning workshop.  He has also been invited to speak at many HR conference in Singapore, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia and Myanmar.   He is currently providing HR advisory services to local companies under the Singapore Government programs for SMEs and serves as a volunteer board and committee member in two local non-profit organisations. 

Martin Lee is the Human Resources Manager (Singapore & The Philippines) at Baker Hughes, a GE Company, a global industry leader in the delivery of oilfield products and solutions.

Martin has over 14 years of experience delivering Human Resources solutions in Singapore as well as the Asia Pacific Region. His experience includes talent management, talent acquisition, employee development, and industrial relations.

Martin earned his Bachelor of Science degree from the National University of Singapore and an MBA from Lancaster University (UK). He holds graduate diplomas in Human Resources Management as well as Career Coaching. Martin is a SHRM Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP) and a member of the Society for Human Resource Management.

Jason Sheffield is BRPs National Director of Compliance for the Baldwin Regulatory Compliance Collaborative. He oversees the ongoing evolution of our firm's national compliance operations. Jason develops, designs and implements educational programming and compliance assuredness services by creating timely and relevant solutions designed for the benefit of our clients and colleagues, our industry partners, and the general benefits community. Jason has practiced employee benefits law and consulting for nearly two decades, representing individual, corporate, and tribal interests at the local, state, and federal levels. He has advised clients and provided representative services before administrative agencies such as the DOL, the IRS, CMS, OCR, several state-level treasury authorities, and others. He has experience with both qualified and non-qualified retirement plans, executive compensation matters, and extensive experience respecting health and welfare plan matters. Jason received his undergraduate degree from Georgia State University (magna cum laude) and his Juris Doctor from Western New England College School of Law. He is admitted to the State Bar of Georgia.

Joe Gerstandt brings greater clarity, action, and impact to organizational diversity and inclusion efforts.

Joe has worked with Fortune 100 corporations, small non-profits, and everything in between. He speaks at numerous conferences and summits, and blogs at joegerstandt.com. He is a featured contributor for the Workforce Diversity Network Expert Forum and his insights have been published in Diversity Executive, HR Executive, and numerous other print and on-line journals.

A strong advocate for resetting the diversity and inclusion conversation, Joe sees these issues as poorly understood and often misunderstood.

Carol Kivler, MS (Human Resource Education), CSP, CMT is a nationally recognized professional speaker, author, international executive coach /corporate consultant and President of Kivler Communications. Carol is also a passionate and tireless mental health advocate. She is the Founder and President of Courageous Recovery, Inc. a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization, whose mission is to promote a mental wellness movement by advancing education, advocating nationally, and eliminating stigma surrounding mental illness. Carol is the survivor of four bouts of treatment resistant depression, has sustained recovery for the past 16 years, and lives a personally fulfilling and professionally thriving life.

Dr. Jamie Velazquez is the Director of Staff Development for Crittenton Services for Children and Families, in Southern California.  With over a decade of adult education, training, and leadership development experience in higher education and in the non-profit sectors, she has led the development and implementation of robust training programs that meet the requirements of national standards, licensing, accreditation, and/or the various county, state, and federal contracts for the various agencies or institutions. A background in psychology, education, and leadership led to a passion for social justice, rooted in critical theory, which greatly impacted her endless journey toward cultural competency.

In the last 2 years has been stdying the exponencial economy and the Sillicon Valley best practices on People, Culture and Performance. On this matter went to Stanford Graduate Scool of Business, Singularity University, Zappos Cuture Camp and took a Human Resources misson with Startse, visiting companies such as Facebook, Google, Uber and others. AUthor of the famous book Leader of the Future- the Leader Coach way.  Specialist in Executive Coaching and Leadership with certficates from schools like Kellogg, Insead, MIT, Center for Creative Leadership and Harvard Business School. Graduated in Economics from PUC-RJ and MBA from Columbia Business School em Nova York. Elected in december,2001 one of the 20 CEO's of the Future in a joint evaluation by KornFerry, Revista VOCÊ SA and FIA-USP. Former executive of Price Waterhouse, Citibank, Unibanco, Deutsche Bank and Grupo Santander Banespa. Acted as Strategic Planning Director at Santander.

Executive Director, partner and founder of MOT Training and Development, Inc a consulting company based in Miami, USA and Sao Paulo, Brazil, that holds a portfolio of international large companies since 1995.

Recognized by the T&D international community as one of the top professionals in the global industry, he is a leader in pioneering new models of learning and performance and people development at workplace, generating improvement of the business results in global companies. Alfredo is a multi-lingual Euro-Brazilian consultant, keynote speaker, board director, MBA professor and business books writer.

Amongst his extensive experience at global/international arena, evidenced through awards and invitations to make presentations at international T&D conferences, Alfredo Castro has travelled the world spearheading leadership models and learning solutions at business environment, mainly in the areas of change management, storytelling, corporate governance and consultative sales.

His 35 years of professional experience has given him the recognition from international T&D professionals and associations, after designing and implementing blended learning programs in more than 120 companies in more than 25 countries (Asia, Africa, Europe and Americas). His business agenda makes him travel about 40% of the year, making presentations or MBA classes, coach, consult and lead international projects at diverse cultures. After having a successful career as an executive (highlighted by a fast upward trajectory from consultant to international partner-director) along 17 years, in 1995 he became a founder of MOT Training and Development.

His top-notch expertise fully justified his nomination as the Chairman of the 2010 ATD Advisory Committee. He is the only non-north American T&D consultant who chaired the largest T&D association advisory committee, in 70 years of ASTD history.

Passionate about art, like performing humanitarian work for NPOs and carries out free coaching for professionals beginning their careers, in order to guide new gen-professionals on their goals.

Anthony Raja Devadoss is Managing Director & Regional Head of PERSOLKELLY Consulting Asia Pacific - a consulting business delivering HR Business Services, HR Certifications, Talent Management Technology, Career Transition Solutions & Leadership Development.

With over 20 years of experience, Devadoss is also a Global Board Member of the Career Partners International, and actively involved in Malaysia’s and Asia-Pacific’s HR and Technology industry development and holds memberships in various local and international associations.

Devadoss holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration and Bachelor’s Degree in Life Sciences. He holds the SHRM-SCP credentials and has recently attended the INSEAD Global Business Programme.