David S. Fortney
Personal Pronouns
He/Him/His
Co-Founder
Fortney & Scott
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Mr. Fortney is a co-founder of Fortney & Scott, LLC, a Washington, D.C.-based law firm counseling and advising clients on the full spectrum of work-place related matters, including employment discrimination and labor matters, compliance programs, government contracting, international dispute resolution and counseling matters, and developing strategies for avoiding or responding to workplace-related crises.

David has a broad-based practice representing and counseling employers and executives in employment and labor matters, including equal employment opportunity requirements, wage and hour matters, federal contractor's affirmative action and non-discrimination obligations, collective bargaining, and workplace health and safety. He brings experience from the public and private sectors in advising clients on these issues, and he frequently represents clients before federal and state agencies, including the U.S. Department of Labor's agencies, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the National Labor Relations Board.

Mr. Fortney has been widely recognized for his professional accomplishments, including being named one of the leading employment lawyers in Washington, D.C. by the CHAMBERS USA survey of America’s Leading Lawyers for Business in all years from 2005 through 2012. He was selected for inclusion in the 2009 through 2012 editions of The Best Lawyers in America, Washington D.C.’s, Washington D.C.’s Best Lawyers, and Super Lawyers. Mr. Fortney was also awarded an AV rating (the highest level) by Martindale-Hubbell.

David is a frequent lecturer and writer on employment-related topics, including appearances on CNN, CBS and Fox News. Mr. Fortney is the co-editor of the Federal Employment Law Insider monthly newsletter, Chapter Editor of The Family and Medical Leave Act (2006) published by BNA Books, co-author of the Military Leave Compliance Kit (2001), published by M. Lee Smith Publishers, and lead author of the Guide to Employee Leave (1997), published by Warren, Gorham & Lamont.

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Laszlo Bock
CEO and Founder, Humu, Former SVP of People Operations at Google and bestselling author of Work Rules!
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Laszlo is an advisor and best-selling author. He partners with founders and leadership teams of organizations experiencing hyper-growth on how to scale, lead, and build amazing cultures. His New York Times bestselling book, WORK RULES! Insights from Inside Google to Transform How You Live and Lead, has been published in more than 20 languages and garnered numerous “book of the year” honors.

From 2006 to 2016, Laszlo was Senior Vice President of People Operations and a member of Google’s management team. Over that decade, he partnered closely with Google’s three CEOs – Eric Schmidt, Larry Page, and Sundar Pichai – growing the company from ~6,000 to ~75,000 employees and ensuring the firm’s culture remained innovative and robust. He was responsible for setting the agenda and management of the Leadership Development and Compensation Committee, working with John Doerr, Ram Shriram, and Paul Otellini.

Laszlo is credited with creating the field of “People Analytics”, the application of academic-quality rigor and Google-paced innovation to people management. Public examples of this work include Project Oxygen, an effort that dramatically improved manager quality at Google; Project Aristotle, which unlocked the five factors essential to exceptional team performance; and the creation of an Unconscious Bias program, which has transformed the state of diversity inside the company.

He also led “Project Garage”, a product with the goal of solving unemployment by better matching people and jobs through applied machine learning and people analytics. Garage’s initial launch was as the Google Job Search API, encompassing tens of millions of open jobs, 250,000 unique professions, and 50,000 skill types.

During his tenure, Google was recognized over 150 times around the world as an exceptional employer, including being named the #1 Best Company to Work for in the United States seven times and every year since 2012; the most desirable employer for undergraduates, college graduates, and MBAs in numerous countries; the #1 Top Diversity Employer overall; the best company for women in technology; and honors such as a perfect score from The Human Rights Campaign and Corporation of the Year from The United Negro College Fund. Google receives over 3,000,000 job applications each year.

He joined Google from the General Electric Company, where he held various executive leadership roles within GE Capital. Before GE, Laszlo was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, serving clients in the technology, private equity, and media industries on a wide range of strategic and operational issues, including growth and turnaround strategy. Earlier, he had worked at another consulting firm, a start-up, as an actor, and co-founded a non-profit organization working with at-risk youth.

Laszlo is a fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources. He has served on the Boards of Pomona College, Evolv (acquired by Cornerstone), and Agilone and acted as a judge for the MacArthur Foundation’s 100&Change program. He currently serves on the Aspen Institute’s National Commission for Social, Emotional, and Academic Learning.

Laszlo has testified before Congress on immigration reform and labor issues and is a sought-after expert in the media, having been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and other publications, and on the Today Show, CBS This Morning, Charlie Rose, and PBS. In 2010 he was named “Human Resources Executive of the Year” and in 2015 the “HR Professional of the Decade.” He (briefly) co-held the world record for Greek Syrtaki dance along with 1,671 others and was (even more briefly) ranked #1 in the world in the video game Assassin’s Creed.

Laszlo earned a bachelor's degree in international relations from Pomona College, graduating in three years, and an MBA from the Yale School of Management. His first book, WORK RULES! Insights from Inside Google to Transform How You Live and Lead, has been published in more than 20 languages and was named among the Best Business Books of the Year (The Economist), Top 10 Creative Leadership Books of the Year (Forbes), Top 10 Business Books of the Year (Amazon.com) and #1 Best Translated Book in Japan (Association of Japanese Publishers and Editors). 

 

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Wednesday, April 26, 2017 - 1:00pm to 5:30pm
Thursday, April 27, 2017 - 8:30am to 5:00pm
Friday, April 28, 2017 - 8:30am to 12:30pm
Glenn Llopis
chairman
The Glenn Llopis Group
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Glenn Llopis (pronounced ‘yo-pes’), Chairman of the Glenn Llopis Group, is the best-selling author of Earning Serendipity and a contributing writer to Forbes, Huffington Post, Harvard Business Review and Entrepreneur Magazine. In 2007, Glenn founded the Center for Hispanic Leadership (CHL) Academy, which creates competitive advantage for Fortune 500 companies through their development and advancement of top Hispanic talent and those seeking to engage with them in the workplace and marketplace. In 2014, he was recognized as a top 20 influential writer at Forbes and as a top 100 leadership speaker and business thinker by Inc. Magazine. His next book, The Innovation Mentality, is forthcoming from Entrepreneur Press (February 2017).
 
Glenn is best known as the “Opportunity Expert” because of his expertise in identifying and solving for business opportunity gaps that others don’t see. Learn more at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Llopis
 
A former C-Suite/Corporate Executive, Glenn is a member of the Kellogg Innovation Network and serves on the advisory board of the Brittingham Social Enterprise Lab at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. Additionally, he is a mentor for Junior Achievement and a member of the exclusive Renaissance Weekend think-tank. Glenn is frequently featured as a business leadership expert on CNN, Fox News, Bloomberg, Univision, ABC, NBC, and CBS. He lives in California with his family.
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Monday, June 19, 2017 - 2:00pm to 3:15pm
Glenn Llopis
chairman
The Glenn Llopis Group
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Glenn Llopis (pronounced ‘yo-pes’), Chairman of the Glenn Llopis Group, is the best-selling author of Earning Serendipity and a contributing writer to Forbes, Huffington Post, Harvard Business Review and Entrepreneur Magazine. In 2007, Glenn founded the Center for Hispanic Leadership (CHL) Academy, which creates competitive advantage for Fortune 500 companies through their development and advancement of top Hispanic talent and those seeking to engage with them in the workplace and marketplace. In 2014, he was recognized as a top 20 influential writer at Forbes and as a top 100 leadership speaker and business thinker by Inc. Magazine. His next book, The Innovation Mentality, is forthcoming from Entrepreneur Press (February 2017).
 
Glenn is best known as the “Opportunity Expert” because of his expertise in identifying and solving for business opportunity gaps that others don’t see. Learn more at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Llopis
 
A former C-Suite/Corporate Executive, Glenn is a member of the Kellogg Innovation Network and serves on the advisory board of the Brittingham Social Enterprise Lab at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. Additionally, he is a mentor for Junior Achievement and a member of the exclusive Renaissance Weekend think-tank. Glenn is frequently featured as a business leadership expert on CNN, Fox News, Bloomberg, Univision, ABC, NBC, and CBS. He lives in California with his family.
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Kelly Dobbs Bunting
Shareholder
Greenberg Traurig, LLP
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Kelly Bunting, Co-Chair of the Greenberg Traurig, LLP's Labor & Employment Practice's Workplace Compliance & Counseling Group, and member of its Artificial Intelligence Law Group, has considerable experience defending class and collective wage and hour litigation and misclassification claims, having defended employers in Title III ADA access litigation and litigation alleging race, sex, pregnancy, age, disability discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. She is deeply experienced in virtually all aspects of employment litigation, including wage and hour, labor, Title VII, harassment, discrimination, wrongful termination, non-competition and non-solicitation, trade secrets, SOX and Dodd Frank whistleblower claims, CEPA, ADEA, FMLA, NJLAD, and failure to accommodate issues. She has identified and managed employment issues in M&A deals and appeared before the EEOC, NLRB, and DOL in many states, as well as state agencies in DE, NY, NJ and PA. Kelly has represented many clients in mediation and settlement negotiations, and created HR and compliance training modules. She is regularly sought after as a workforce trainer for issues related to harassment and discrimination, FCPA compliance, good management techniques, and union awareness.

Kelly focuses much of her practice on international L&E issues, including employment/secondment contracts, data privacy, and global anti-corruption compliance. She advises clients on national and international handbook policies, procedures, and strategic HR issues, and provides day-to-day counsel in hiring, employee relations, employee discipline, and termination. She also conducts and advises on internal investigations.

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Jonathan A. Siegel
Partner
Jackson Lewis, P.C.
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Jonathan A. Siegel is a principal in the Orange County, California, office of Jackson Lewis P.C. He has spent more than 27 years at Jackson Lewis representing employers in workplace law matters.  In 2009, Jonathan was recognized as one of the Top 100 Labor Attorneys in America. In 2020 and 2021, Jonathan was recognized in Best Lawyers in America.

Jonathan provides advice and counsel to employers regarding various issues including wage and hour, reduction in force, discipline, leave management, labor, harassment and discrimination issues. 

Jonathan has represented management in NLRB elections, unfair labor practice proceedings, collective bargaining and arbitrations.

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Wednesday, June 21, 2017 - 10:00am to 11:15am
Patrick Lencioni
founder and president
The Table Group
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Patrick Lencioni is founder and president of The Table Group, a firm dedicated to providing organizations with ideas, products, and services that improve teamwork, clarity, and employee engagement.

Lencioni’s passion for organizations and teams is reflected in his writing, speaking, and executive consulting. He is the author of eleven best-selling books with nearly five million copies sold. His capstone book, The Advantage, is the pre-eminent source on organizational health and became an immediate best-seller. After twelve years in print, his classic book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, remains a weekly fixture on national best-seller lists. He is also author to The Ideal Team Player, a much-anticipated follow-up to his team book.

The wide-spread appeal of Lencioni’s leadership models have yielded a diverse base of speaking and consulting clients, including a mix of Fortune 500 companies, professional sports organizations, the military, non-profits, schools, and churches. 

Lencioni addresses thousands of leaders each year at world-class organizations and national conferences. Consistently the top rated keynote speaker at major events, Lencioni shares his insights and inspires his audiences through his accessibility, humor and story-telling.

Named in Fortune magazine as one of the ‘ten new gurus you should know,’ Lencioni and his work have been featured in USA TODAY, Bloomberg Businessweek, and Harvard Business Review, to name a few.

Prior to founding his firm, he worked as a corporate executive for Sybase, Oracle and Bain & Company. Pat lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and four sons.

 

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Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - 8:30am to 9:45am
Allison Mack Pamela Brown
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Allison Brown, GPHR and Pamela Mack, PHRMA Past President
 
As a leadership development and human capital professional with 20 years of experience, Allison Brown has facilitated collaborative decision making, empowered teams to achieve more, and served as a catalyst to create a positive, long-term impact for organizational teams. Allison is a SHRM member and has served on the Board of Directors for PHRMA in a variety of positions. She shares in the thought leadership community through speaking at conferences and engaging the community. 
 
Pamela Mack is an owner and V.P. of  Occuscreen, LLC.  Occuscreen is a nationwide employment screening provider, helping employers nationwide make confident hiring decisions by providing background checks, verifications, and drug testing services. She has served on the Portland Human Resource Management Association Board of Directors for more than nine years and is a Past President.
 
Allison and Pam spearheaded chapter efforts to launch new PHRMA programs that were recently awarded the '16 national SHRM Pinnacle Award. The chapter created these programs - the Mentorship Program, the Emerging Professionals Program and HR Think Tank - to meet demand from members who asked for more personal and professional development. Its efforts resulted in a return to Super Mega chapter status, with 75 new members directly attracted by these programs, and the creation of 20 new leadership opportunities for volunteers.
 
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