Relationship Management

James J. McDonald, Jr. is a partner in the Irvine, California and Tampa, Florida offices of Fisher & Phillips LLP, where he is a litigator, trial lawyer and strategic advisor to employers regarding labor and employment law matters.  He is author of the SHRM-published book, California Employment Law: An Employer’s Guide, and he is a frequent speaker on employment law issues.  He is a cum laude law graduate of Georgetown University and a member of the California and Florida Bars, and he holds the SHRM-SCP certification.

 

 

Chloé Rada is a forward-thinking, creative and analytics-driven employment branding leader with fifteen years of experience in the recruitment advertising industry and a passion for social media!

Leading Sodexo’s "award-winning" Employment Branding team, she is responsible for building awareness of Sodexo’s culture and workplace experiences in the US by managing their social, digital and mobile strategy. By leveraging technology like Avature CRM and QueSocial, she has spearheaded talent community re-engagement and employee advocacy programs to help bring their brand to life!

Named “the voice of Sodexo Careers” in January of 2012, she now manages a team that cares for Sodexo’s seven social media profiles, the career site and seven discipline-specific microsites and more than two dozen media relationships to improve their source of qualified candidates. She also is the chief content curator for the Sodexo careers blog, the number one most helpful social space for their candidates.  

In her previous role at Rada Advertising, a privately owned national recruitment advertising agency, Chloé consulted with employers on strategy and process to effectively communicate with and attract the right talent.  Leading the agency in new product development, she built strategic partnerships with HR technologies companies to develop and launch digital solutions for the agency. In addition to designing go-to-market strategies, she provided training, mentorship and education to co-workers and clients on these emerging recruitment trends and technologies.  Chloé’s previous two years’ experience at Edelman Worldwide, allowed her to hone her public relations and marketing techniques and adapt them for the recruitment marketing industry.

Chloé volunteers for Society of Talent Acquisition & Recruitment (STAR Chicago), formerly the Staffing Management Association of Greater Chicago (SMAGC), for the past eleven years and enjoys providing job search training to community organizations and students.

Chloé graduated from the University of Iowa with a Bachelors Degree in Liberal Arts and resides in Chicago, IL. Learn more about Chloé's here or by following her on Twitter (@CRada) or Instagram. 

Raymond Lee is the Founder and President of Careerminds, a global outplacement company based in Wilmington, Delaware. He has over 20 years of human resource, outplacement, and career consulting experience. Raymond pioneered the concept of virtual outplacement after experiencing years of traditional outplacement in a variety of HR roles. He has his bachelor’s in psychology and holds a Master’s Degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Louisiana Tech University. He sits on the Careerminds Board of Director’s and is active in SHRM, HRPS and ATD. Raymond’s been featured on SiriusXM Business Radio, CareerTalk, and the Wall Street Journal and he’s recently published a book titled, Clocking Out: A Stress Free Guide to Career Transitions.

 

David Horsager, MA, CSP, CPAE is the CEO of Trust Edge Leadership Institute, national bestselling author of The Trust Edge, inventor of the Enterprise Trust Index™, and director of one of the nation’s foremost trust studies: The Trust Outlook™. His work has been featured in prominent publications such as Fast Company, Forbes, The Huffington Post and The Wall Street Journal. David has advised leaders and delivered life-changing presentations on six continents, with audiences ranging everywhere from FedEx, Toyota and global governments to the New York Yankees and the Department of Homeland Security. Get free resources and more at www.DavidHorsager.com and www.TrustEdge.com

Work. Life. Leader. CEO and Executive Coach Julie Cohen, PCC, is a nationally recognized authority on leadership development, work-life balance and career management. She is the author of Your Work. Your Life…Your Way: 7 Keys to Work-Life Balance, a contributor to The Huffington Post and Working Mother, and a columnist with The Philadelphia Business Journal. Her work has been highlighted in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. She is also a frequent guest expert on Wharton Business Radio’s “Career Talk”. An astute observer with 20+ years experience in career and leadership development, Julie adeptly identifies workplace shifts that impact employee satisfaction, success and retention, and responds with innovative programs and support for employers and employees. 

Kathleen is currently the President of The HeaRt Group, a human resource consulting firm, with expertise in organizational development, talent acquisition and management, employee engagement, performance leadership, compensation and benefits. She is the former Assistant Vice Chancellor of Human Resources at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, Arkansas. Prior to that, she was Corporate Vice President of Human Resources at Edgewater Technology in Fayetteville, AR for five years, helping with the acquisition of 44 companies to form Staffmark Inc., later becoming Edgewater. Prior to this position she held various executive human resources positions at Acxiom Corporation, Express Human Resources and M.M. Cohn. In her last position, she was responsible for the human resource function in the UAMS Medical Center, which has over 6500 employees, as well as campus responsibility for the operation functions that includes compensation, HR analytics, recruitment, organizational development, employee relations, affirmative action, immigration, compliance, benefits, employee services, and performance management for 11,000 employees. The HeaRt Group’s focus is to work with small to mid-sized business owners and executives to develop Human Resource practices best aligned with their business objectives and strategic plans. The HeaRt Group provides common sense human resource advice by solving Human Resource challenges, handling Human Resource issues and partnering with clients to enhance their organization. Ms. McComber has over 40 years’ experience in the human resource profession and has done extensive work in the areas of compensation, benefits, employee relations, performance leadership, diversity and organizational development 30 of those at the senior level. She is a member of the Central Arkansas Human Resource Association (CAHRA) and the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) for many years. She has served on the CAHRA board of directors twice serving as Chair. She has also served on the SHRM Board of Directors for seven years and held the top volunteer position as Chair in 1998. She served four years on the Human Resource Certification Board and six years on the SHRM Foundation Board serving as chair in 2006. She holds a B.S. in Education from the University of Arkansas and a M.A. in Management from Webster University. She is on the faculty of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in the College of Public Health and Webster University teaching leadership and human resource classes at the graduate level.

Nancie Ruder founded Noetic Consultants 15 years ago, providing clients such as Wells Fargo, Discovery Channel, Pepsico, Samsung, Whirlpool and Nike with marketing training, marketing strategy, branding and consumer research support. She began her career at Leo Burnett Company where she worked with Procter & Gamble, Eli Lilly and The Gap. Nancie is an active member of the DC Chapter of the Women’s Presidents Organization. She has served as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, her undergraduate alma mater, teaching Marketing Strategy, as well as a Board member and strategic advisor for the National Children’s Medical Center in Washington, DC

Dr. Karlyn Borysenko is the force behind Zen Workplace. An organizational psychologist and executive/performance coach, she is a leader in integrating mindfulness strategies at work to increase productivity and creativity, reduce stress, and create better work experiences. Her practice is based in the greater Boston area and serves clients all over the world. She holds an MBA and a PhD in Psychology, is an experienced trainer and facilitator, coach, and award-winning speaker. Karlyn is a contributor to Forbes.com and the author of Zen Your Work: Create your ideal work experience through mindful self-mastery.