Alan Malinchak
executive advisor of Talent and Learning Practice
Deltek
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Alan A. Malinchak is a goal-driven leader with broad strategic and tactical operational success in the private and public sectors.  Al is known for transforming organizations by crystallizing direction, addressing emergent talent and learning challenges and issues, and executing tactics to improve and enhance workforce and organizational performance.

Al is currently the Executive Advisor, Talent and Learning Practice at Deltek, leading customer facing engagements involving assessments, evaluations and recommendations to address a company's "People Challenges" employing best practice solutions in talent, learning and leadership development programs focused across all corporate and business functions to drive both employee and organizational growth.  Al conducts keynotes, leadership development seminars/workshops and consultations regarding the administration and operation of corporate universities.  Al is also CEO of two certified and verified (cVe) Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Businesses - Éclat Transitions LLC offering “Public to Private Career Transition Services” at www.eclat-transitions.com and STRATactical LLC offering change agility, learning agility, leadership agility and knowledge agility services and solutions at www.stratactical.com.  Prior, Al was Chief Learning Officer (CLO) at Homeland Security Solutions, Inc. (HSSI) and business development executive for eLearning and instructor-led training programs and initiatives (2011-2013); VP/CL) at ManTech International (2005-2011), where he founded, developed, implemented and led the administration and operation of ManTech’s first corporate university, ManTech University.  From 1984 to 2004, Al was a FBI Special Agent (retired) with a variety of assignments, including  federal investigations of homicides, rapes, fugitives, kidnappings and skyjackings; Instructor at the FBI National Academy; Administrator of the FBI's National Executive Institute; Supervisory Special Agent of Criminal Squads focused on Organized Crime, Narcotics and White Collar Crime; Inspector; On-Scene Crisis Commander for the 2002 Winter Olympics; Chief of Investigative Training; Acting Senior Executive of New Agents Training, National and International Law Enforcement Programs, and Facilities and Security of the FBI Academy; and, lastly as the Chief of the FBI's Leadership Development Institute (LDI). In the LDI, his responsibilities included leading the administrative and operational oversight of all internal and external leadership programs for executive and middle-management FBI Special Agents and Professional Support employees; leadership services and training for 26,000 employees; leadership curriculum development; professional presentations; drafting of the FBI’s Strategic Development Leadership Plan; and, executive board member to several professional law enforcement associations.  Throughout his career, Al held a variety of academic positions - included are a tenured Associate Professor, St. Thomas Aquinas College, Sparkill, New York (1978–1984); as well as former Adjunct Professor positions at the University of Virginia (1992-1995); and both a graduate and undergraduate Adjunct Professor at George Mason University, (2002 to 2005).

 

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Robert James Greene, SHRM-SCP, SPHR, GPHR
chief executive officer
Reward Systems, Inc.
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Robert J. (Bob) Greene, PhD, SHRM-SCP, SPHR, GPHR, CCP, CBP, GRP is the CEO of Reward Systems, Inc. and a faculty member for DePaul U. in their MSHR and MBA degree programs. He has over thirty years of experience in industry and consulting and has published over 100 articles and book chapters, as well as the book "Rewarding Performance: Guiding Principles; Custom Strategies." He was a principal designer of the PHR and SPHR certifications for SHRM and the CCP and GRP certifications for World at Work. He is a member of SHRM's Special Expertise Panel on HR Disciplines and speaks and teaches globally.
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Saturday, June 27, 2015 - 1:00pm to 5:00pm
Rowena Crosbie
president
Tero International
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Rowena Crosbie is President of Tero International. Since 1993, Tero has earned a distinguished reputation as a premier research and corporate training organization with thousands of graduates from more than 40 countries. Crosbie has authored several articles, many published in International Journals and Magazines and she is currently collaborating on a book titled Powering Down to Power Up, which addresses the unique risks of misalignment in business communication in a high tech, interconnected world. She was honored as the Woman of Influence Business Owner of the Year by the Des Moines Business Record in 2009 and was named Executive of the Year by Executive Women International, Iowa Chapter, in 2004.

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Saturday, June 27, 2015 - 1:00pm to 5:00pm
Joe Rotella, SHRM-SCP, SPHR, CPBA
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Chief Value Officer
Delphia Consulting, LLC
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 Joe is a leading thinker in managing and motivating people. He’s passionate about helping organizations achieve their vision through effective performance management.

 He’s a top-rated SHRM speaker and serves as Chief Value Officer for Delphia Consulting, a national HR and Payroll software consulting firm based in Columbus, Ohio. Joe is the co-creator of miviva, a continuous performance management application.

 Joe has over 30 years of experience and serves as VP of Professional Development on the Human Resources Association of Central Ohio (HRACO) Board of Directors. Joe is a cited contributor to the SHRM Learning System.

 

 

 

 

 

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Saturday, June 27, 2015 - 1:00pm to 5:00pm
Valerie M. Grubb
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Principal
Val Grubb & Associates, Ltd.
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Valerie helps companies improve their bottom line by elevating employees from tactical thinkers to strategic leaders.

She served in senior leadership roles at RollsRoyce Aircraft before helping to found InterActiveCorp, parent company to Expedia, Home Shopping Network and TicketMaster. She then went to work for Oprah Winfrey, helping to found the Oxygen channel which was later sold to NBC Universal.

Valerie obtained her mechanical engineering degree from Kettering University and her MBA from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business. Val’s book, Clash of the Generations: Managing the New Workplace Reality, helps leaders manage multiple generations in the office.

 

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Mike Abrashoff
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At the age of 36, the Navy selected Abrashoff to become Commander of USS Benfold - at the time, the most junior commanding officer in the Pacific Fleet. The immediate challenges that faced him were staggering: Exceptionally low morale with unacceptably high turnover. Few thought that this ship could improve. The solution was to establish a system of management techniques that he calls “The Leadership Roadmap” – a practice that empowers every individual to share the responsibility of achieving excellence. "It's your ship," he was known to say. His former sailors to this day still remind him of it. Regarded as the finest ship in the Pacific Fleet, Benfold won the prestigious Spokane Trophy for having the highest degree of combat readiness.

Prior to commanding USS Benfold, Abrashoff served as the Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense, the Honorable Dr. William J. Perry. He also helped draft the air defense plan for naval forces in the Persian Gulf in 1990, coinciding with Iraq's invasion of Kuwait; and served as the Executive Officer of the Cruiser Shiloh, where he deployed to the Persian Gulf in support of United Nations sanctions against Iraq.

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Katy Jo Meyer
Senior Global Diversity & Inclusion Manager
Microsoft
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As a part of the Global Diversity & Inclusion team, Katy Jo partners with Business and HR Leaders in two of Microsoft’s engineering groups that include 25,000 employees worldwide to attract, retain, and develop diverse talent, as well as create an inclusive work environment where all employees can reach their potential.  Katy Jo also acts as a D&I liaison with Microsoft’s Staffing Consultants globally for hiring and onboarding people with disabilities.  Katy Jo continues her passion for working with People with Disabilities by representing Microsoft on the Corporate Advisory Board for the United States Business Leadership Network (USBLN). 

Katy Jo has been at Microsoft for 15 years.  Prior to working in Global Diversity & Inclusion, Katy Jo spent 7 years in another Organizational Development role where she built and launched Microsoft’s integrated worldwide talent platform for managing and developing employees across the entire company, known as the career model.  She also drove alignment of the talent and leadership development strategy with the overall business strategy to ensure high business impact.

Prior to working with career models, Katy Jo spent her first 5 years at Microsoft within the Staffing organization, where she co-created the Explore Microsoft Program. Designed to increase the Computer Science graduation rates among females and diverse students, this program provides freshman and sophomore college students a meaningful introduction to a career in the technology industry and remains a pipeline of diverse technical talent for Microsoft.   

Katy Jo received her undergraduate degree in Psychology and Sociology from Carroll College in Helena, Montana and her graduate degree in Organization Systems Renewal from Seattle University. 

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