SHRM PDCs

Attorney James P. (“Jim”) Reidy is a management-side labor and employment lawyer. He is a partner in the New England based law firm, Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green, PA, where he is the Chair of the firm’s Labor and Employment group. His practice focuses on prevention, training and compliance but he also handles matters when claims arise.

He has more than 35 years of experience in the field and been a media resource on workplace law for media outlets including CNN, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times Business Magazine, Bloomberg, NPR, The Associated Press, NPR Market Place, Buzz Feed, Law 360, Inc. Magazine, The HR Power Hour, HR Breakroom, SKI Magazine and HR Magazine as well as several local/regional publications.

In 2020 Jim was inducted as a Fellow in the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. 

Chambers USA and New England Super Lawyers have ranked Jim in the Top Tier of management-side employment lawyers for each year of the last 15 years. Best Lawyers USA named Jim the 2022 Lawyer of the Year for Labor and Employment Law (Manchester, NH) and the NH Business Review named him one of the top 200 most influential business leaders in New Hampshire.

Jim has been a presenter regularly at SHRM’s Legal and Legislative Conference in Washington, DC as well as SHRM’s annual conferences.

Alexander Alonso, PhD, SHRM-SCP is the Society for Human Resource Management's (SHRM's) Chief Data & Insights Officer leading operations for SHRM's Certified Professional and Senior Certified Professional certifications, research functions, and the SHRM Knowledge Advisor service. He is responsible for all research activities, including the development of the SHRM Competency Model and SHRM credentials.

During his career, he has worked with numerous subject matter experts worldwide with the aim of identifying performance standards, developing competency models, designing organizational assessments, and conducting job analyses. He was also responsible for working on contract task orders involving the development of measurement tools for content areas such as job knowledge (like teacher knowledge of instructional processes) and organizational climates (like organizational climate forecasting in military health care).

Dr. Alonso received his doctorate in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from Florida International University in 2003. His works have been recognized for their contribution to real-world issues. They include being recognized by the Society for Industrial Organizational Psychology (Division 14 of the APA; SIOP) with the 2007 M. Scott Myers Award for Applied Research in the Workplace for the development of the federal standard for medical team training, TeamSTEPPS; being awarded a 2009 Presidential Citation for Innovative Practice by the American Psychological Association for supporting the development of competency model for team triage in emergency medicine; and receiving the 2013 SIOP Distinguished Early Career Contributions for Practice Award.

Throughout his career, he has published works in peer-reviewed journals such as Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, Journal of Applied Psychology, International Journal of Selection and Assessment, People and Strategy, Personality and Individual Differences, Quality and Safety in Health Care, and Human Resources Management Review. He has also authored several chapters on community-based change initiatives in workforce readiness, as well as co-authoring Defining HR Success: A Guide to the SHRM Competency Model in Practice.

Dr. Alonso also served as a columnist analyzing major trends in the workforce for The Industrial Psychologist and HR Magazine. In addition, he has served on several professional society boards including the SIOP and the Personnel Testing Council of Metropolitan Washington.

Jack Gottlieb is a results-driven senior executive with 20 years of experience in transforming and revitalizing organizations. As the CEO of Total Solutions Group, a strategic consulting and results-based training firm, he has a proven track record of aligning culture, strategy, and capability to achieve critical short-term and long-term goals. TSG has generated $3.25 billion in ROI for clients in growth, profitability, innovation, and efficiency, including leading fifteen M&As and ten turnarounds from inception to implementation. 

With extensive experience in the C-Suite and as an HR leader Jack has a deep expertise of how to drive organizational health and performance through an embedded employee experience. Jack has had global roles such as Chief Executive Officer, Chief Strategy Officer, & Chief Culture Officer in banking and currently is the Vice President of Global Capability & Transformation in a market leading test lab in the gaming industry. 
Jack has been one of the top rated speakers and thought leaders for SHRM both at annual and state council conferences. Jack also hosts the successful "L&D Transformation Podcast: How To Lead The Future Of Our Organizations Through Talent Development” which is in its third season with over 100 episodes.

Graduate in business administration, with specialization in business management, has over 26 years of experience in the HR area in segments such as metallurgy,  automation and power technology, telecommunications, automotive, consumer goods and petrochemical. He has already  implemented  organizational and HR transformation programs , cultural change , leadership development programs, build and implement HR strategy,  and internationalization of HR policies and practices. Has developed his career within some global companies such as ABB, Unilever, Fiat Chrysler Automotive and Braskem.

Jeff Goins is a full-time blogger, speaker and author. He is the former Communications Director of Adventures in Missions, an international nonprofit organization.

Originally from Chicago, Goins graduated from Illinois College and spent the next year on the road with a band. Since studying abroad in Spain, he has always had a passion for travel, missions, and making a difference in the world. His first book, Wrecked: When a Broken World Slams into Your Comfortable Life, addresses the issue of how we live purpose-filled lives by serving the needs of others.

Jeff’s blog, GoinsWriter.com, is one of the fastest-growing blogs on the web and a well-respected resource for writers, artists, and entrepreneurs. In 2011 and 2012, it won the Top 10 Blogs for Writers award on WritetoDone.com. Each month, he receives over 100,000 visitors to his website.

Jeff’s work has been published online and offline in a variety of publications, including RELEVANT Magazine, Copyblogger.com, and ZenHabits.net (voted one of Time Magazine’s Top 50 Websites). His forthcoming work, The In-Between, is a memoir about the lessons we learn while waiting.

Arte Nathan served as Chief Human Resources Officer for Steve Wynn’s gaming companies from 1983 – 2006; he currently consults, writes and teaches. He recently joined the board of Hope for Prisoners, a Las Vegas-based non-profit organization that facilitates reentry and reintegration services to men, women, and young adults who are exiting various segments of the judicial system.

Arte graduated from Cornell University in 1972 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial and Labor Relations.  He is an avid musician, hiker, canoeist, book enthusiast and grandfather. 

Mark Toth has served as Chief Legal Officer of ManpowerGroup’s U.S. operations since 2000. He is a recognized expert on legal issues affecting the U.S. workplace and has been interviewed by The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Business Week, 60 Minutes and many others. His award-winning employment law blog was recently named one of the Ten Best Corporate Blogs in the World. He has been named to SHRM’s national Top Ten Highest Rated Speakers list each of the past two years and is the former Chair of the American Staffing Association.

Ann was hired by Cirque du Soleil in November of 2001 as an Administrative Assistant for the Marketing Department through a temporary placement agency.  Within 30 days, she was hired as a permanent employee.
 
Throughout her tenure at Cirque, she has held a variety of roles including Marketing & PR Coordinator, PR Coordinator, Assistant PR Manager and Senior Publicist managing the day-to-day operations of the PR team.  Ann was promoted to Director of Public Relations in March 2015.  She currently oversees a team of four publicists and acts as Publicist for the production of Zarkana.

Prior to joining Cirque, Ann worked as a manager for a theatrical merchandising company in New York City as well as part time in an off-Broadway theater box office.

A Minnesota native, Ann has a BA in International Business from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul.

With a background in journalism and media studies from Rutgers University, Jamie Helmick has been working in media for more than ten years, with experience that spans both editorial and marketing.

Following graduation, Helmick joined the staff of the Home News, the community journalism arm of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Las Vegas Sun, where she covered several beats, including the state legislature, and won a Nevada Press Association Award for investigative reporting.

Looking for a new challenge, Helmick transitioned to marketing and copywriting with a position at VEGAS.com as a content developer for the entertainment and nightlife sections. While in that position, Helmick found an opportunity to pilot VEGAS.com’s social media presence, setting up the company across multiple platforms and turning the program in a customer service tool and revenue generator.

From there, Helmick parlayed these skills to become Cirque du Soleil’s first-ever social media and interactive marketing coordinator, joining a department that was less than two years old and helping to secure Cirque’s place among some of the biggest players in entertainment in the digital space.

Following a run as Cirque’s community manager, Helmick now oversees all digital marketing efforts for the Las Vegas and Orlando shows as digital media manager.

Terry began his gymnastics training at the age of seven in England, and went on to earn a scholarship for training in Moscow, Russia.

Later, he received a gymnastics scholarship from Pennsylvania State University, where he earned All-America honors six times, and went on to obtain a BS in Physical Education and Business. Bartlett still had time to perform his duties as captain of both the PSU team and the Great Britain Men's team.

Over the years he participated in five world championships as well as three Olympic Games: Los Angeles in 1984, Seoul in 1988 and Barcelona in 1992.  He served as Great Britain's team captain on his final trip. The younger gymnast pushed for a second showing at the '96 games but a broken leg ended his dreams -- he thought for good.

Having established a contact with Cirque du Soleil, the three-time Olympian showed up to his Los Angeles audition wearing a pair of baggy shorts and tennis shoes. He didn't realize the other hopefuls had arrived and warmed up hours before. After the standard gymnastic tests, the director asked auditionees to be stupid, adventurous, funny and jumpy. "It took me about five minutes to say, 'Oh, I can do this.'  I always say that gymnastics for me was really a vehicle to join Cirque du Soleil," Terry said.

In her role as Director, HR Competencies for the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), Kari Strobel is responsible for overseeing key initiatives around professionalism and competencies to include the assessment and implementation of SHRM’s HR Competency Model, and setting the research agenda for developing additional competency-based talent management tools.

Prior to joining SHRM in 2013, Dr. Strobel worked at the Department of Defense where she was responsible for leading the development, assessment, and implementation of competencies for the total force.  Dr. Strobel has also been responsible for managing organizational development projects for the Chief of Naval Operations, Surface Warfare Enterprise and the Naval Mine and Anti-Submarine Warfare Command. 

With over 30 journal articles, technical reports, and national and international conference presentations, to include published works in Journal of Applied Psychology and Human Performance, Situation Awareness and Automation, Dr. Strobel has received national recognition for her contributions to the field.  She was the first recipient of the 2002 American Psychological Association Division 19 (Military Psychology) Research Award, and received Honorable Mention from the Virginia Academy of Science for her team performance research. 

As a consultant she has worked with Hewlett Packard, Motorola, Royal Dutch Shell, Deutche Bank, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, The United States Army, and the State of Virginia’s Peninsula Aids Foundation.

Dr. Strobel received her Doctor of Philosophy degree in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from Old Dominion University. 

Andrew Schmidt joined the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) in 2012 to develop and manage engagement programs for Chief Human Resources Officers. Andrew and his team have built a global community of 500 CHROs that hold peer networking events, participate in applied research and advocacy, and advise SHRM on business issues related to the HR profession. Recently, Andrew has been using his background in competency modeling to help build SHRM’s new certification for HR professionals. 

Prior to joining SHRM, Andrew was a management consultant and worked with c-level clients in finance, IT, HR, and marketing to build and transform organizational programs. He specialized in succession planning, leadership development, and organizational design. Andrew completed his Ph.D. in Industrial & Organizational Psychology with a dissertation that examined the effects of toxic leadership on military units.