Leadership & Navigation

Pat Hall Jaynes is the founder and President/CEO of The HR SOURCE, a professional services firm specializing in Human Resources staffing, consulting and Outsourced human resources services.  Prior to founding The HR SOURCE, Ms. Jaynes spent approximately 17 years managing recruiting functions as well as a variety of human resource functions at GTE Directories Corporation and Verizon Communications in California, Texas and Maryland.     

Active in many human resource organizations including HR Leadership Forum and the Society for Human Resource Management, she has also served as President and Treasurer for the Black Human Resources Network.   Additionally, Ms. Jaynes serves as Executive Director of The HR SOURCE Foundation, and is a member of the Board of Directors for the Early Childhood Academy and the Prince George’s Hospital Community Foundation. 

Ms. Jaynes who holds a B.A. Degree in Sociology from California State University, Hayward, has received a Certificate in Human Resources Management from UCLA and has successfully completed the requirements to receive her Employment Law certification from the American Staffing Association.  Additionally, Ms Jaynes has been certified as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) since 1990 and has since received her lifetime SPHR certification from the Human Resources Certification Institute.

Nick Sarillo is the founder, CEO and “primary keeper” of the Purpose and Operational Values of Nick’s Pizza & Pub – the sixth busiest independent pizza company in per-store sales in the United States. Founded with the purpose of providing the community with an unforgettable place where families could relax and have fun, Nick’s Pizza & Pub has margins nearly twice that of the average pizza restaurant and boasts an 80 percent employee retention rate in an industry in which the average annual turnover is nearly 150 percent. Nick credits his company’s success to his purpose-driven culture, which is the focus of his new book, A Slice of the Pie: How to Build a Big Little Business (Portfolio; 2012). Nick is a regular speaker at entrepreneurship and HR conferences, and his insights have been featured in The New York Times, The Economist, Inc., Fast Company and Investor’s Business Daily.

Follow Nick on Twitter @NickSarillo.

A member of the prestigious Speaker Hall of Fame, Barbara Glanz, CSP, CPAE, works with organizations that want to improve morale, retention, and service.  Using her Master’s degree in Adult Learning, she has spoken on all 7 continents and in all 50 states.  She has authored fourteen best-selling business books, including “The Simple Truths of Service Inspired by Johnny the Bagger®”, co-authored with Ken Blanchard, “The Simple Truths of Appreciation,” CARE Packages for the Workplace – Dozens of Little Things You Can Do to Regenerate Spirit at Work,” and “180 Ways to Spread Contagious Enthusiasm™.” She lives and breathes her personal motto, “Spreading Contagious Enthusiasm™.”  She has been a popular speaker at the national SHRM conferences since 1997.  You can reach her at www.barbaraglanz.com.

Since July 1 1993, Lipkin has helped over 500 companies bring out the best in their people so their people could bring out their best for their customers. And he would love to do the same for you and your team.

In 1980, he graduated with a business degree from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg South Africa. Then he became a brand manager at Colgate Palmolive. Following that, he became a board member at Grey Advertising South Africa, before emigrating to Toronto, Canada in 1987 where he became an Account Director at Ogilvy & Mather, one of the world’s leading advertising agencies.

In 1992, following Nelson Mandela’s release from prison and the end of Apartheid, he returned to South Africa where he launched his own training and motivation company, Touch The Sky Inc. Over the next ten years, he published seven books and helped transform the nation into one of the world’s most vibrant democracies.

Lipkin returned to Canada in 2002 to launch Environics/Lipkin, a global research and motivation company with the Environics Research Group, one of Canada’s largest and most sophisticated polling companies. Since then, he has published bestselling books, including– Star Power, One Life, One Meeting, How To Build Preeminence One Conversation At A Time. All his books and programs are a fusion of the celebrated Environics Social Values Research and his own experience with over a million people in 43 countries over the past sixteen years.

Follow Michael on Twitter @mikelipkin.

Internationally renowned as a passionate and highly respected authority on leadership, workplace culture and talent, Michelle is an accomplished international speaker, strategist and author. Named as one of the Ten Best and Brightest Women in the incentive industry and to the Employee Engagement Power 100 list, Michelle is a Change Maker, Top Idea Maven, and President’s Award winner. She’s contributed to several books, appeared on television, radio, and in publications all over the world. Michelle is the Past President of the FORUM for People Performance at Northwestern University, President Emeritus of the Incentive Marketing Association, and was the Founder and Editorial Chair of Return on Performance Magazine.  

Eric Chester is an acclaimed in-the-trenches workforce researcher and thought leader who’s been studying, analyzing, speaking and writing about attracting, managing, motivating and retaining top talent since 2001.   

He is frequently mentioned or quoted in the national and international media such as Good Morning America, ABC 20/20, Fox News, NPR, and CNBC and in publications like Forbes, USA Today, and the Huffington Post.

He is a bestselling author of 5 published leadership books, several of which have become national bestsellers.  Eric Chester has delivered more than 3000 paid keynote speeches on three continents. He is a Certified Speaking Professional and was inducted into the National Speakers Association’s acclaimed Hall of Fame in 2004.

Eric lives in Golden, CO with his wife and family.

Dr. Frank V. Nunez brings over thirty years of experience in all facets of human resources from employee relations, compensation and training & development to strategic workforce planning, leadership development and organizational change management. He has worked as a front line HRG supporting technology organizations as well as managing HR teams across multiple sites nation-wide. He completed his doctoral degree in organizational change from Pepperdine University in 2010. His dissertation broke new ground in leadership development research by linking the theories of Dr. Karen Horney (Hor-ni) to improving leadership growth. Now focusing on the human side of organizational change, Dr. Nunez helps organizations improve their leadership competence in constructing higher level mental models so that they can act on change rather than be acted upon by change.