SHRM PDCs

Celinda Appleby is the Global Head of Digital Recruitment and Employer Brand for Oracle’s Global Talent Acquisition organization. In this role she leads Oracle’s talent acquisition digital strategy and also oversees their social media footprint to position Oracle has a top employer in the market. Prior to joining Oracle, Celinda was the Global Digital Media Program Manager for HP’s Global Talent Acquisition. She is passionate about digital recruitment marketing, sourcing, social recruiting and employer branding. She previously held recruiting roles within corporate and agency enterprises. Celinda has over 12 years of recruiting and human resources experience across a broad range of industries including technology, accounting, marketing and government sector.

Jay is responsible for leading the design and delivery of talent solutions used across the entire ADP enterprise.  Talent solutions are the processes and tools used to identify and close gaps between the organization’s talent supply and demand.  This includes strategic workforce planning, succession planning, talent review, and talent assessments.  During his time at ADP, Jay has also worked with the Global Talent and Learning organization to formalize a Change Leadership and Management center of expertise, revitalize performance management, and deliver global leadership development programs and tools.

Prior to joining ADP, Jay was the Manager of Organizational Effectiveness and Leadership Development at Selective Insurance.  His responsibilities included the talent review and succession planning processes, leadership and management development programs, talent systems, team development, individual development planning, and company-wide organizational development initiatives to intentionally shape the company’s culture.  Jay also led an immersive summer-intern program to develop a pipeline of early career insurance professionals. 

Prior to joining Selective, Jay was an Associate Consultant at the Leadership Research Institute (LRI).  Jay used research and data driven approaches to help his clients address their leadership and organizational development needs.  His areas of expertise included leadership and management development, talent and organizational assessments, cultural integration, and HR systems/processes.  Jay’s consulting work was focused in the Finance, Pharmaceuticals, and Information Technology industries.  

Jay is a member of the Conference Board’s Strategic Workforce Planning Council, th Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM), the Association for Talent Development (ATD).  He earned an M.A. in Industrial/ Organizational Psychology from the University of New Haven and a B.A. in Psychology from Quinnipiac University.  In addition to earning his Senior Human Resources Professional (SPHR) Certification, Jay is a Certified MBTI and DiSC facilitator, and has completed Strategic Workforce Planning Certifications with both Human Capital Institute (HCI) and The Conference Board.

Lester S. Rosen is an attorney at law  and CEO of Employment Screening Resources (ESR), a national background screening company.  He is a consultant, writer, expert witness  and frequent presenter nationwide on pre-employment screening. He is the author of “The Safe Hiring Manual,” (3d Edition 2017/826 pages), the first comprehensive book on background screening.  He served as the chairperson of the steering committee that founded the Professional Background Screeners Association (PBSA),  served as its first co-chair and received the PBSA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019. 

Mr. Steven Rothberg is the Founder of CollegeRecruiter.com, Inc., and serves as its President. Mr. Rothberg focuses his efforts on managing CollegeRecruiter.com's employees, business development, and all strategic decisions. He is also primarily responsible for sales and marketing efforts. While in college, he spent a summer working in London, England designing and building the first management compensation database used by Argos Distributors, which was one of the United Kingdom's largest retailers. In his senior year, he convinced the University to outsource the publication of its campus map to his micro company. He gave the maps to the University for free and earned his revenues from the sale of advertising around the borders. After graduating, he sold the business to two of his friends and moved to Minneapolis. While he served as a judicial law clerk in the fall of 1991. He has become widely recognized as an expert in online marketing, particularly in the fast growing areas of affiliate /revenue share programs; job boards, social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, and blogging. In fall 2010, he was named by Fast Company's Influence Project as the 43rd most influential person on-line. He has been widely quoted by local, regional, national and international print and on-line media, including the Associated Press, Business Week, Chicago Tribune, CNN.com, Fortune Small Business, Journal of Career Planning & Employment (National Association of Colleges and Employers), Reuters, USA Today, Washington Times, Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal. He enrolled at the University of Minnesota School of Law in1988. While in law school, he was selected for and had his article published by the University of Minnesota Law Review. In 1991, he graduated and was admitted to the bar. He graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce (Honors) from the University of Manitoba in 1988.

Diana Yarbrough is known as a champion of diversity, upward mobility and recognition within ADP. She leads the Human Resources department for all of ADP’s Added Value Services

(AVS) division. As division vice president, Diana heads a team of nine associates who services all of AVS and Compliance and Payment Solutions (CAPS). In her more than 20 years with

ADP, Diana has held many positions in a Human Resource capacity.

Jim Knight is not your average keynote speaker. As the former Senior Director of Training & Development at Hard Rock International, Knight brings his high energy, interactive and entertaining approach to deliver insights on organizational culture, customer service, employee branding, performance management, philanthropy, facilitation training, personal development, and leadership skills.

Knight has a degree in Vocal Performance & Education and taught in the Florida public school system for 6 years, before embarking on his hospitality training career.

The acclaimed author of Culture That Rocks, Jim Knight began his 30+-year career in hospitality training as a restaurant staff-level employee for Olive Garden and Hard Rock Cafe, before serving as the head of the School of Hard Rocks, running point on all global training and development functions for Hard Rock International. In this role, Knight managed and contributed to all facets of organizational training, including staff and management training materials and programs, the corporate university, management training locations, company e-Learning initiatives, leadership transitions, and on-site training and assessment.

During his time with the Hard Rock brand, his team won multiple Telly Awards, as well as a Gold Best in Class Award from Brandon Hall's Excellence in Learning. Knight was also recognized by Training Magazine, as representing one of the Top 125 training companies in the world, out of all industries and businesses. Since 2012, Jim Knight has been featured in Forbes Magazine, Inc. Magazine, Entrepreneur Magazine, Business News Daily and Fox Business News and was highlighted in 2015 as one of the “Top 5 Speakers to Watch.”  
 

A portion of Knight’s book and speaking proceeds goes to No Kid Hungry, a campaign to eliminate childhood hunger in the U.S.

With thought-provoking content and a refreshing, edgy delivery style, Jim Knight shares his unique, seasoned outlook on company culture, guest service, building teams, employee engagement, training and philanthropy to help organizations achieve rock star status.

Sheila Heen specializes in particularly challenging conversations, where emotions run high and relationships are frayed. She offers the insight and skills to tackle the conversations and conflicts that leaders face every day.

She is a 20-year member of the world-renowned Harvard Negotiation Project, a Harvard faculty member and co-author of two New York Times best sellers.

Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most is used by leaders all over the world and has even been loaded onto the International Space Station to help astronauts collaborate effectively in that high-stakes, high-pressure environment. Named one of 50 psychology classics alongside Freud and Jung, Difficult Conversations was also named by Penguin as one of the most important books it has ever published.

In the revolutionary Thanks for the Feedback, Sheila brings a fresh perspective to our universal struggles with feedback in every organization by recognizing that in any exchange between giver and receiver, it’s the receiver who is in charge. It’s the receiver who decides what to let in, how to make sense of it, and whether and how to choose to change. The key to accelerating your own learning, as well as the culture of feedback on your team, is understanding the universal challenges of receiving feedback well. From examining our conflicted relationship with feedback, to identifying the triggers that create defensiveness and denial, Sheila’s highly interactive sessions bring insight, practical tools and concrete skills for transforming your own relationship with feedback.

A sought-after commentator and writer, her articles have appeared in the Harvard Business Review, O, The Oprah Magazine, the New York Times, Fortune and Real Simple. She has been featured on NPR and FOX News, Wharton Leadership Radio, CNBC’s Power Lunch and The Oprah Winfrey Show. Her corporate clients span six continents and a dozen industries, including banking, defense, consumer goods, mining, insurance, IT, pharma and biotech, education and media/entertainment. In the public sector, she has provided training for the New England Organ Bank, the Singapore Supreme Court, Greek and Turkish Cypriots grappling with the conflict that divides their island, and theologians struggling with disagreement over the nature of truth and God.

Sheila is a graduate of Occidental College and Harvard Law School. She is schooled in negotiation daily by her three children.