John Lasky
chief human resources officer and vice president
Temple University Health System
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Elizabeth Napolitano
EVP, Human Resources
Accolade
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Elizabeth Napolitano is always on the lookout for the best possible people—those with strong critical thinking skills and a passion for helping others in meaningful ways. As the guardian and chief advocate of the Accolade “client experience,” Elizabeth makes certain that our Accolade Health Assistants® have the training, coaching, tools and support needed to answer people's questions and get the care that’s right for them. She also ensures that we incorporate the voice of the consumer into all aspects of our operations.

Accolade Health Assistants® are trusted advisors and problem solvers for the individuals and families we serve. So Elizabeth seeks associates who can make a true connection and be willing to move mountains, if necessary, to get people the help they need. This often means addressing the emotional, financial and logistical barriers that stand in the way of families getting the right care.

"We view patients as people. Often they're hurting, confused, scared or frustrated," she says. "But they're never defined by their medical issues. Our health assistants honor that, and support each other in our mission."

Before she joined Accolade, Elizabeth’s career focused on building and providing a world-class consumer experience to premium brands and their customers. She was general manager & VP of Client Experience at Circles and, prior to that, area director for The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company.

Elizabeth has a bachelor’s degree in American Government from Georgetown University.

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Jack Stoddard
chief strategy officer
Accolade
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John Lasky
chief human resources officer and vice president
Temple University Health System
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Gene Zaino
president & chief executive officer
MBO Partners
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Gene Zaino, a nationally recognized expert in the contract workforce market, launched MBO Partners to re-invent the way independent consultants and organizations work together. Zaino is a major force in the independent workforce movement, committed to making it easier for self-employed professionals and their clients to work together.

Gene is an avid entrepreneur who graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, receiving a Bachelor of Science in Economics (BSE). After four years with KPMG as a CPA and management consultant, he spent 20 years building various consulting companies, some funded by financial luminaries Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Austin Ventures, and Goldman Sachs.

He has served on the expert advisory board for the Human Capital Institute and collaborated with other industry leaders to create and develop the Contract Talent Research Practice Area at HCI, furthering education, ethics, and industry best practices. Zaino has led executive seminars at the Project Management Institute, Staffing Industry Analysts, and the Military Officers Association of America. He is a frequent speaker and has appeared in publications, radio and television including CNN, CNBC, Forbes, Harvard Business Review and The Wall Street Journal.

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Christine V. Walters, JD, MAS, SHRM-SCP
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Independent Consultant & Author
FiveL Company
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Ms. Walters has more than 30 years’ combined experience in management, HR administration, employment law practice, and teaching.

She has presented at conferences across the country, been engaged as an expert witness, and testified before U.S. Congressional and state legislative committees on employment issues.

Her book, “From Hello to Goodbye: Proactive Tips for Maintaining Positive Employee Relations” is in its 2nd edition and was one of the SHRMStore’s “Great 8” best-sellers for eight consecutive years.

Today, Ms. Walters works as an independent consultant doing business as FiveL Company, “Helping Leaders Limit their Liability by Learning the Law.”SM

 

 

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Judith M. Conti
federal advocacy coordinator
NELP
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Judy joined NELP in 2007 after spending seven years as the co-founder and executive director of the D.C. Employment Justice Center, a legal service provider devoted to workplace justice in the D.C. metropolitan area. Judy has developed NELP’s presence in D.C., working to bring the expertise and experience of NELP and its allies to the halls of Congress and relevant agencies. She has lobbied on issues of income security, job training for workers who have lost jobs due to globalization, and the needs of workers who have criminal records serving as a barrier to full employment. Before joining NELP, Judy’s work has been widely recognized with awards from the American Bar Association, the Washington Area Women’s Foundation, the Hispanic Bar Association of D.C., and the Echoing Green Foundation.

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David S. Fortney
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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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Monday, March 14, 2016 - 3:45pm to 5:15pm
Henry G. (Hank) Jackson, CPA
president & CEO
SHRM
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Henry G. (Hank) Jackson is the president and CEO of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), the world's largest HR professional Society. He previously served as the Society’s interim president and CEO, and as chief global finance and business affairs officer.

Under Jackson’s leadership, the Society has grown to a record 290,000 members and hosted its largest-ever Annual Conference and Exposition. To better serve a diverse and more complex HR profession, the Society expanded its global reach and impact, formed partnerships with the Council for Global Immigration and SHRM’s Executive Network, HR People and Strategy, and opened its first state office in California, home to the largest concentration of HR professionals in the U.S.

During Jackson’s tenure, the Society developed and launched its competency-based certification—the accredited SHRM-Senior Certified Professional and SHRM-Certified Professional—to further advance the HR profession. Within two years, the number of SHRM-certified professionals grew to more than 100,000 worldwide.      

At the helm of SHRM during the economic downturn, Jackson spearheaded the Society’s initiatives on pressing HR and employment issues such as workforce readiness, veterans’ employment, and long-term unemployment. The Society has also strengthened its position as a highly sought-after voice on workplace public policy, as HR and workplace issues have increasingly been part of national discussions and public policy debates.

Jackson believes that the HR profession is at an exciting and pivotal moment, calling it the “Decade of Human Capital.” Businesses are beginning to better understand and embrace human resource management as the most critical contributor to the strategic direction of their organizations, and the HR profession is being propelled into a key business leadership position.

A long-tenured SHRM employee, Jackson has ensured as CEO that the organization remains an employer of choice and invests in a world-class workplace and work environment. In 2013, Washingtonian magazine recognized SHRM as a Great Place to Work in the Washington, D.C. area. 

Jackson came to SHRM from Howard University in Washington, D.C., where he was senior vice president/chief financial officer and treasurer of the university. In this role, he oversaw the financial well-being of the university’s 11 schools and colleges, hospital, public television station, and commercial radio station. He served in several previous positions at Howard University, including comptroller, deputy comptroller, and systems accountant, before becoming senior vice president.

Prior to joining Howard University, Jackson worked in public accounting with Hurdman Main and KMPG as senior auditor and a computer audit specialist. For several years, he was a consultant for the Southern Association of College and University Business Officers.

Jackson earned his Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from Stonehill College in Massachusetts. He is a certified public accountant.

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Monday, March 14, 2016 - 8:00am to 10:00am
Craig Briscoe
vice president, HR, Global Commercial Sales and Enterprise Solutions
Dell, Inc.
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Craig holds the position of vice president of Human Resources for Dell’s Global Commercial Sales and Enterprise Solutions Organization. In this role, he provides HR support for 25,000 sales, marketing, and engineering employees that develop and deliver technology solutions to consumers, small and medium businesses, public institutions and large enterprises worldwide. Upon Dell’s recent annoucement ot its intent to acquire EMC, Craig has been appointed to lead the Organization, Talent, Culture, and Change Management workstream for the integration.

Prior to joining the Global Commercial Sales and Enterprise Solutions team in November 2013, Craig held several executive roles at Dell, most recently as the Vice President of Human Resources for the Global Commercial Sales organization. He also served as Vice President of Global Compensation and Benefits with responsibility for corporate compensation, sales compensation, executive compensation and employee benefits.

Previously, Craig co-founded Motivari Consulting, which specialized in compensation consulting services. At Motivari, he assisted many clients, large and small, in the design, implementation, and management of their compensation programs. Prior that, Craig spent five years at Dell, where he led Executive Compensation and served as the head of Compensation, Benefits, and HR Operations for a $30 billion business unit with 25,000 employees.

Craig spent eight years at leading benefits consulting firms Hewitt Associates and Towers Perrin as the Board-level compensation consultant to a number of Fortune 500 companies in various industries.

Craig holds a BBA from Texas Christian University and an MBA from the University of Notre Dame.

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David Cabrera
regional HR director and HR business partner
Dell Latin America
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David is the Latin America HR Business Partner for the Dell Commercial Sales & Enterprise Solutions team, including marketing and sales operations. In his role, David leads the people strategy that enables the business to deliver technology solutions to consumers, S&B businesses, public institutions and large enterprises across the region.  

David started at Dell in 2003 as the Enterprise Tech Support manager, where he opened operations in Panama and led his team to provide outstanding support by becoming best of breed in key business metrics. 

David’s passion for people and business helped him transition his career from IT to HR, and in 2004 he accepted a regional HR Operations role. In this position, he created a world class Shared Service Center, driving process standardization and optimization and leading teams in the US, Canada as well as LATAM. In 2008, he accepted the challenge to move from back office to lead the HR team in El Salvador where he helped execute the divestiture of Dell’s operations and support the people strategy.

David relocated to his native Panama at the end of 2008, expanding his role to the HR leader for Panama, Mexico, Central America & Caribbean. In this role, David was instrumental in strengthening Dell’s employment Brand and helped it become a Top 3 Great Place to Work Company.

Before joining Dell, David spent 6 years at Avis/Cendant’s WHQ in Garden City, New York where he held various positions in the IT department providing customer support to various countries and driving key projects. He also worked for the City University of New York Computer Center from 1991 to 1996 holding various roles and providing support to CUNY’s 18 colleges’ students, faculty and staff throughout the 5 boroughs of New York City.

David is also a member of the Board of Directors for the National Human Resources Association, Board of MNG (non-profit org in Panama), and Founding Member of the Mentoring program for Startups at the Innovation Center. David is a regular guest speaker at various companies’ leadership programs and has participated in various conferences across the region.

David has an executive MBA from USMA in Panama City and a Bachelor’s in Business Administration from Baruch College, New York.

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Craig Briscoe
vice president, HR, Global Commercial Sales and Enterprise Solutions
Dell, Inc.
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Craig holds the position of vice president of Human Resources for Dell’s Global Commercial Sales and Enterprise Solutions Organization. In this role, he provides HR support for 25,000 sales, marketing, and engineering employees that develop and deliver technology solutions to consumers, small and medium businesses, public institutions and large enterprises worldwide. Upon Dell’s recent annoucement ot its intent to acquire EMC, Craig has been appointed to lead the Organization, Talent, Culture, and Change Management workstream for the integration.

Prior to joining the Global Commercial Sales and Enterprise Solutions team in November 2013, Craig held several executive roles at Dell, most recently as the Vice President of Human Resources for the Global Commercial Sales organization. He also served as Vice President of Global Compensation and Benefits with responsibility for corporate compensation, sales compensation, executive compensation and employee benefits.

Previously, Craig co-founded Motivari Consulting, which specialized in compensation consulting services. At Motivari, he assisted many clients, large and small, in the design, implementation, and management of their compensation programs. Prior that, Craig spent five years at Dell, where he led Executive Compensation and served as the head of Compensation, Benefits, and HR Operations for a $30 billion business unit with 25,000 employees.

Craig spent eight years at leading benefits consulting firms Hewitt Associates and Towers Perrin as the Board-level compensation consultant to a number of Fortune 500 companies in various industries.

Craig holds a BBA from Texas Christian University and an MBA from the University of Notre Dame.

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Jennifer Saavedra
executive chief of staff and HR business partner
Dell, Inc.
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Jenn Saavedra joined Dell in 2005 after several years serving as an external consultant to Fortune 50 companies, the US armed forces and government. Jenn’s passion is in understanding the psychology of human behavior and harnessing this knowledge to help people, teams and organizations be their best. Serving as captain of her intercollegiate polo team and completing her PhD in Organizational Psychology, provided Jenn with the opportunity to gain skills and experience she brings to her work. Jenn started with Dell in the Global Talent Management organization leading surveys and assessments and expanded her contribution to include key HR practices (performance, promotion, succession), human capital analytics and talent and culture strategy. Jenn now leads our HR Strategy office where she focuses on Dell’s culture and leadership strategy and provides OD and talent consulting and support to enterprise level strategic initiatives. Jenn lives in Austin Texas (originally from San Francisco, California, USA) with her husband Mike,  daughter Jia and dog, Roxy.

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Tuesday, June 21, 2016 - 2:15pm to 3:30pm
David Weil
Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division
U.S. Department of Labor
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David Weil was sworn in as the Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division on May 5, 2014. Dr. Weil is an internationally recognized expert in public and labor market policy; regulatory performance; industrial and labor relations; transparency policy; and supply-chain restructuring and its effects.

Prior to this appointment, Dr. Weil served as professor of economics and the Peter and Deborah Wexler Professor of Management at Boston University School of Management. He also served as co-director of the Transparency Policy Project at the Ash Institute at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He has written three books on labor market policy, including the recently published The Fissured Workplace. He has authored numerous articles and publications in a variety of economics, public policy, management, and industrial relations journals and books, as well as numerous publications in non-academic outlets.

No stranger to the Department’s mission or its work, Dr. Weil has served as an adviser to both the Wage and Hour Division and to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, as well as to a number of other government agencies. He also has served as mediator and adviser in a range of labor union and labor/management settings across the globe. In addition to his work for the Department, his research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, among others.

Dr. Weil received his B.S. at Cornell University and M.A. and Ph.D. in public policy at Harvard University.

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Victoria Lipnic
Lead of Human Capital Strategy Group
Resolution Economics
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Victoria A. Lipnic is a Partner at Resolution Economics. She leads the Company’s Human Capital Strategy Group. The Human Capital Strategy Group combines the Company’s expertise in data analytics and deep knowledge of regulatory requirements with an interdisciplinary approach to advise organizations on the full range of their human capital needs and reporting requirements including recruitment, selection, promotions, DE&I, pay equity, and ESG, especially as to equal employment opportunity and anti-discrimination issues.

Ms. Lipnic joined Resolution Economics in 2021. She has broad experience in the full range of human capital, labor and employment issues, especially from the regulatory enforcement perspective. Prior to joining the Company she served as Commissioner of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) from 2010 to 2020 and Acting Chair from 2017 to 2019. She was appointed to the EEOC by President Barack Obama and confirmed by unanimous consent by the U.S. Senate. At the EEOC she worked on policy, cases, and regulations falling under all of the statutes enforced by the Commission including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Equal Pay Act (EPA), the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA). While at the EEOC she participated in numerous agency regulatory initiatives including the final GINA regulations, the ADA, as amended, regulations, and the revisions to the EEO-1 form to include pay data reporting. She organized the agency’s first public meeting on Big Data in Employment, created its Chief Data Officer position, oversaw development of the Office of Enterprise Data and Analytics and published a significant report on age discrimination. She co-chaired the EEOC’s Select Task Force on the Study of Harassment in the Workplace, and co-authored its seminal report, issued in 2016, before the #MeToo movement. Prior to the EEOC, she practiced law with Seyfarth Shaw.  She also served as Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employment Standards from 2002-2008, appointed by President George W. Bush, where, among other regulatory enforcement agencies, she oversaw the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs and the Wage and Hour Division. In 2021-22 she chaired the Artificial Intelligence – Technical Advisory Committee for the Institute for Workplace Equality.

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Chai Feldblum
commissioner
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
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Chai Feldblum began her service as a Commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in April 2010. She was confirmed by the Senate for a second term, which will end on July 1, 2018. During Commissioner Feldblum's service on the Commission, she has focused on all the employment civil rights issues within the jurisdiction of the EEOC. She has focused in particular on the employment of people with disabilities, pregnancy accommodation, sexual orientation and transgender discrimination, harassment prevention, the structure and process of the federal sector complaint system and strategic planning for the Commission. Prior to her appointment to the EEOC, Commissioner Feldblum was a Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. She founded the Law Center's Federal Legislation and Administrative Clinic, which represented a range of organizational clients focused on social justice. She also founded Workplace Flexibility 2010, a policy enterprise focused on finding common ground between employers and employees on workplace flexibility issues. Commissioner Feldblum played a leading role in helping to draft and negotiate the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and the ADA Amendments Act of 2008. She has also worked to advance lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights and was one of the drafters of the original Employment Nondiscrimination Act. Commissioner Feldblum is the first openly lesbian Commissioner of the EEOC and is the fourth person with a disability to serve on the Commission. Commissioner Feldblum clerked for Judge Frank Coffin of the First Circuit Court of Appeals and for Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun after receiving her J.D. from Harvard Law School. She received her B.A. degree from Barnard College.
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