Relationship Management

Bob Kelleher is a best-selling author, keynote speaker, and consultant on employee engagement, leadership, and workforce trends. Bob is the author of the bestselling book, LOUDER THAN WORDS: 10 Practical Employee Engagement Steps That Drive Results, CREATIVESHIP, A Novel for Evolving Leaders, EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT for Dummies, and I-Engage, Your Personal Engagement Roadmap.   

Bob can be seen or heard on national media (most recently on CNBC, CBS, NBC News, Business Week, Forbes, and Fortune, and has presented to many of the world’s top companies

Bob is also the founder of The Employee Engagement Group, a global survey, products, assessment, consulting firm.  

Matt is the Director of Talent Acquisition at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta – one of the nation’s leading pediatric healthcare systems and consistently ranked as one of the “100 Best Companies to Work For” by Fortune magazine. With the support of a strong team, Matt is working to evolve and optimize the recruitment platform at Children’s.

Prior to working at Children's, Matt helped reshape talent acquisition at Ericsson, the world's leading provider of communications technology and services, operating in 180 countries and employing more than 100,000 people. In his five years with Ericsson, Matt lived in both Australia and Singapore. He drove innovation in the employer branding, sourcing and recruitment strategy for Ericsson regionally and globally.

He has past experience as a senior strategy consultant with a U.S. recruitment communications firm, helping leading organizations implement innovative employer branding and digital strategies to attract top talent. Matt is a graduate of The Florida State University in the USA. He is an author and featured industry speaker on best practices in Talent Management at international HR events.

Roger is an award-winning international keynote speaker and President of Engagement Unlimited. With his innovative keynotes and programs, he ignites positive transformational change in teams and individuals. Roger’s topics range from performance under stress, the power of play, effective communication skills and the age of engage within companies and culture at large.

Roger’s impressive background in teaching and acting (he has been seen in over 175 TV shows, movies and commercials) allow him to utilize a unique session format that ties stories, theory, and application together in a team-based game. This structure primes every participant to learn and creates engagement in the room that everyone experiences and benefits from.

His experience and knowledge, combined with his natural charisma and highly contagious positive energy, has garnered Roger countless 10/10 audience rankings, extremely high survey results, and hundreds of happy return clients over the past 10 years.

Ms. Plunkett has more than 14 years of experience leading a wide variety of human capital initiatives including performance management reform, workforce and succession planning, organization assessment, business process analysis, training, and change management.  She has worked with both public and private sector clients internationally and domestically to improve human capital management practices, leveraging data-driven solutions to inform management decision-making.  Ms. Plunkett currently works for Lockheed Martin, and has previous experience with the Department of Defense, Deloitte, and ICF International. She graduated with a Bachelor's from American University and is a certified Project Management Professional.

Margaret is CEO for The HR Edge, Inc., an international management consulting and training company. Her clients have included Lockheed Martin, Chevron, Time Warner, U.S. Secret Service, Sara Lee Foods, Home and Garden Television, Roche, Nationwide Insurance, NAPA Auto Parts, Homeland Security, New York Presbyterian Hospital (Cornell & Columbia Medical Centers), U.S. Marine Corps, Deloitte, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Vanderbilt University, Comcast, Intercontinental Hotel Group, National Institutes of Health, McKee Foods, Skanska, Fox Broadcasting, Schwarz BioSciences, Fifth Third Bank, Verizon, SAS (computer software), The Nashville Predators national hockey franchise, Northrop Grumman, Miami University, Wells Fargo, TECO Energy, AmSurg, Quorum Health Resources, the U.S. Naval Nuclear Submarine Group and various local and state governments. Previous to owning her own company, Margaret was Sr. Vice President, Human Resources Consulting for a national consulting firm out of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She has a BS degree from the University of Alabama and a JD degree from the Vanderbilt University School of Law. She has worked as an attorney, specializing in employment law as well as been Vice President of Human Resources for three large companies and served on the Board of Directors for Aegis Sciences Corporation. She is often quoted as a business expert in newspapers and magazines across the country including Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, USA Today, CBS Money Watch and Entrepreneur and appears regularly on local ABC, CBS and Fox television affiliates. She is the author of the business books, “Management Courage – Having the Heart of a Lion” and “The Hidden Language of Business – Workplace Politics, Power & Influence.”

Karin Goettsch, Ph.D., CPLP, manages key global talent management initiatives at The Mosaic Company, a Fortune 500 organization. She has managed learning functions and designed and facilitated programs for global companies in a variety of industries. Karin also serves as contracted faculty of practice in HR Management at Concordia University College of Business and the University of Minnesota. As a published researcher and consultant, she has been invited to present the practical applications of her award-winning research on global virtual team communication and other topics at many international conferences including SHRM, ATD, ABC and GABC.

Ever meet one of those people born to be on a stage? That’s Jon – and that’s why he left a highly successful corporate vice president career to follow his purpose and passion to help others find their own.

Jon Petz an engagement expert, author & business magician. He’s delivered over 1,200 wildly successful programs for world leading brands, industry and association conventions, and organizations of all sizes over the past 15 years. Jon is also no stranger to the SHRM stage as he has been a keynoter at many state SHRM conferences as well as featured speaker at the national SHRM conference. Or, you may know him as the author of “Boring Meetings Suck” and “Significance . . . In Simple Moments.”  He’s a high energy and entertaining keynote speaker that will help HR practitioners undercover new ideas, unlearn and even re-learn to think . . . like a magician - where anything is possible.  Laugh Louder, Perform Better & Achieve More with the Jon Petz Experience.

Mike Byam is the author of The WOW! Workplace, and fourth generation Managing Partner of Terryberry, an international firm that specializes in implementing, and managing employee recognition programs for organizations worldwide. He is a frequent presenter to business groups and HR professionals across the country and consults with organizations ranging from family owned businesses to Fortune 500 companies to help them develop effective recognition strategies. Mike enjoys challenging himself as an Ironman triathlete and multi-time marathoner. His experiences lend him a unique perspective on personal motivation and inspiration, and how they affect everyone in today’s fast-changing workplace.

Joe Urbanski believes an Undeniable Culture™ inspires its people to unleash their best selves, take home more wins and less stress to their families, and create incredible value for the company, its customers, and community. For more than two decades, he has worked with HR and training departments, consulting and coaching 750+ executives and leaders at 400+ global organizations, and facilitating 800+ kickass trainings, strategic retreats, and leadership programs for 480,000 people. Joe has a remarkable understanding of how to transform the workplace experience. Plus, you’ll have more fun and laughs than you’d expect.