Shawn Kent Hayashi
CEO and founder, executive coach & high performing teams consultant
The Professional Development Group
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Shawn Kent Hayashi is the founder and CEO of The Professional Development Group and a global expert in developing inspiring leaders and high performing teams. Growth, innovation, and elevated performance and profits are the results of Shawn’s work as an executive coach and consultant.  Shawn facilitates growth in leadership ability, emotional intelligence, communication skills, collaboration, and building trust and stronger relationships.  Her clients include entrepreneurial companies, Fortune 500, and associations around the globe. The author of six business communications books, Shawn has also been a feature expert in The New York Times, Forbes, and FastCompany.

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Monday, June 18, 2018 - 7:00am to 8:15am
Mary Ila Ward, SHRM-SCP
owner
Horizon Point Consulting Inc.
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Mary Ila Ward, SHRM-SCP, SPHR is the owner of Horizon Point Consulting which drives to move the workplace forward through innovative people practices.  She has a background in corporate recruiting, economic and workforce development, talent management and leadership coaching and training.

A huge believer in work-life integration, she helps organizations realize how they can hire for fit while improving diversity, engage employees by supporting them holistically, and drive home the importance of career development to communities and organizations.

She graduated from The University of Alabama, with a BS in Business Management and holds Master’s degree Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Middle Tennessee State University. 

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Mike Mitchell
senior faculty
Center For Creative Leadership
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Mike brings over 35 years of business experience having held senior positions in Fortune 500 companies and as the head of his own consultancy. His experience spans more than 25 industries including consumer packaged goods, manufacturing, financial services, energy, transportation, retail, advertising, and technology.  Mike is a highly skilled instructor and trainer and serves as senior faculty at the Center for Creative Leadership.  He is responsible for a variety of open enrollment programs and is also involved in early discovery, development and program delivery for a diverse portfolio of custom clients on all aspects of innovation, including innovation leadership. 

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Tuesday, June 19, 2018 - 7:00am to 8:15am
Kelly Renz
president & CEO
Novo Group, Inc.
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With nearly two decades of executive leadership experience in both human capital and operations/P&L roles, Kelly has found that organizational transformation and developing business excellence is where she thrives. Whether it is a start-up, change management, turn-around/reorg or high growth environment, she enjoys working on complex business problems across an enterprise. She has lead a breadth of practice areas supporting overall business effectiveness – M&A (deal project management, due diligence and integration lead roles), global human resources, organizational effectiveness and efficiency (including process improvement and workforce effectiveness), talent acquisition, talent development, org design/OD, employee relations, performance management and other core business operations. 

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Raffi Terzian
senior vice president of clinical operations, senior medical director
Health Advocate
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Raffi Terzian is a board certified Emergency Physician with nearly 20 years of clinical and administrative experience. Prior to joining Health Advocate in 2007, Dr. Terzian served as Medical Director of Occupational and Travel Health for Main Line Health System. Previously, he was Director of Medical Student Education in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and was a member of the leadership team in the Graduate Medical Education program in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Jefferson Medical College and Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. He received his doctor of medicine degree from The George Washington University School of Medicine, where he also received his Master of Public Health degree in administrative medicine.

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Pete Smith
president
SmithImpact
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Pete Smith is a sought-after international speaker and trainer in the fields of leadership, management, personal growth and development. His energetic, witty, and interactive style is complimented by his ability to provide practical takeaways that actually work, while having a little fun in the process.
 
He is the author of Dare to Matter, which elevated to the #2 Best Seller in the Business Motivation and Self-Improvement category.
 
Formerly, Pete was the Operations Executive at one of the largest non-profit, alternative schools in Northern Virginia, serving the students with disabilities population. During his tenure, he helped increase the total income, employee base and client base by over 102%. He helped increase the average employee tenure by 74%, and saved the organization over $420,000 in turnover costs during that time.
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Alfredo Castro
president
MOT
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Executive Director, partner and founder of MOT Training and Development, Inc a consulting company based in Miami, USA and Sao Paulo, Brazil, that holds a portfolio of international large companies since 1995.

Recognized by the T&D international community as one of the top professionals in the global industry, he is a leader in pioneering new models of learning and performance and people development at workplace, generating improvement of the business results in global companies. Alfredo is a multi-lingual Euro-Brazilian consultant, keynote speaker, board director, MBA professor and business books writer.

Amongst his extensive experience at global/international arena, evidenced through awards and invitations to make presentations at international T&D conferences, Alfredo Castro has travelled the world spearheading leadership models and learning solutions at business environment, mainly in the areas of change management, storytelling, corporate governance and consultative sales.

His 35 years of professional experience has given him the recognition from international T&D professionals and associations, after designing and implementing blended learning programs in more than 120 companies in more than 25 countries (Asia, Africa, Europe and Americas). His business agenda makes him travel about 40% of the year, making presentations or MBA classes, coach, consult and lead international projects at diverse cultures. After having a successful career as an executive (highlighted by a fast upward trajectory from consultant to international partner-director) along 17 years, in 1995 he became a founder of MOT Training and Development.

His top-notch expertise fully justified his nomination as the Chairman of the 2010 ATD Advisory Committee. He is the only non-north American T&D consultant who chaired the largest T&D association advisory committee, in 70 years of ASTD history.

Passionate about art, like performing humanitarian work for NPOs and carries out free coaching for professionals beginning their careers, in order to guide new gen-professionals on their goals.

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George Carroll
owner
George Carroll - Motivational Speaker
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George is a husband and father to two beautiful boys. Professionally, he is a High Energy and High Content Speaker, Corporate Trainer, Author and Event Leader. His engaging and motivational style combined with actionable tips and his laugh-out-loud sense of humor will leave you feeling inspired and ready to tackle challenges in the workplace, and in your personal life. 

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Karl Ahlrichs, SHRM-SCP, CSP
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Senior Consultant
Gregory and Appel
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Karl Ahlrichs specializes in helping professionals make order from chaos. He is a national speaker, author, and consultant, presenting on the people issues in all industries, and is often quoted in the local and national media. 

Karl’s experience is ideally suited to times of organizational change as he pulls on risk management and organizational development theories to replace “best practices” with “next practices”. He owes much of his communications mastery to working as a writer and editor in daily media, to on-the-job writing experience and to the process of becoming a published author.

He joined Gregory & Appel in 2010 after serving as a founding partner of ExactHire, bringing his HR, operations, diversity & belonging, and learning & development skills with him. Karl’s affinity for design, composition and learning started at a very young age, by taking and examining thousands of boring pictures with the goal of improving his craft. He loves deploying that practice-to-improve approach with all manner of hobbies including writing haiku, mastering cutting-edge technology and learning Spanish.

In 2003, he was named the SHRM Human Resource Professional of the Year for the State of Indiana. He is on the Boards of several organizations, including the Maryland CPA Society.  He has lived in Scotland and Spain and lives to explore new experiences with his wife and family.

 

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Edward E. Hubbard, Ph.D.
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President & CEO
Hubbard & Hubbard, Inc.
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Dr. Edward E. Hubbard, President and CEO of Hubbard & Hubbard, Inc., an International Business Performance Consulting Corp. specializing in Business Improvement, Diversity Return on Investment (DROI®) Measurement/Analytics, and organizational development.  Author of more than 59 DEI ROI and Business-related books, Dr. Hubbard is an expert in Organizational Analysis, ROI Measurement, Strategic Planning, and more. Dr. Hubbard was an honoree at the Inaugural International Society of Diversity and Inclusion Professionals Living Legends of Diversity Award Ceremony in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico where he received the “Living Legends of Diversity Award” for creating the “Diversity ROI Analytics” and “Diversity Measurement Fields and their associated Disciplines” and is recognized globally as the creator of these unique sciences and fields of study. 

Dr. Hubbard received the “Excellence in Global Leadership Award” from the World HRD Congress (the highest individual professional award given), the 2017 Distinguished Alumni Award from The Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences, the Sentry Award from the U.S. Pentagon, and many others.

Dr. Hubbard serves on the Harvard Business Review, Diversity Executive Magazine and Strategic Diversity & Inclusion Management (SDIM) magazine Editorial Advisory Boards and serves on the Board of Directors for The Ohio State University African American Alumni Society. He also holds a Practitioner Certification and Master Practitioner Certification in Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP), a Neuroscience discipline. Dr. Hubbard earned Bachelors, Masters Degrees from The Ohio State University and earned a Ph.D. with Honors in Business Administration.

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