Employee Engagement & Relations

Saturday, June 21, 2014 - 10:00am to 6:00pm
Sunday, June 22, 2014 - 8:30am to 1:30pm
Monday, June 23, 2014 - 1:30pm to 5:30pm
 

Business Management for HR: Understanding Business Operations

Saturday, June 21, 2014 - 10:00am to 6:00pm
Sunday, June 22, 2014 - 8:30am to 1:30pm
Monday, June 23, 2014 - 1:30pm to 5:30pm
 

HR Business Partners: Consulting Skills Model

Saturday, June 21, 2014 - 10:00am to 6:00pm
Sunday, June 22, 2014 - 8:30am to 1:30pm
Monday, June 23, 2014 - 1:30pm to 5:30pm
 

SHRM Essentials of HR Management

Saturday, June 21, 2014 - 10:00am to 6:00pm
Sunday, June 22, 2014 - 8:30am to 1:30pm

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The SHRM Employment Law & Legislative Conference is dedicated to helping today’s HR professionals stay on top of recent court decisions, regulations, and newly enacted legislation that are critical to their company’s success.

We are expecting more than 600 senior-level HR professionals, an elite group of highly influential individuals that devotes its time, effort, and energy to the future and direction of Human Resources.
Shelley Correll
Barbara D. Finberg Director of the Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Professor of Sociology and, by courtesy, Organizational Behavior
Stanford University
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Shelley Correll is professor of sociology and organizational behavior at Stanford University and the Barbara D. Finberg Director of the Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Her expertise is in the areas of gender, workplace dynamics and organizational culture. She has received numerous national awards for her research on the “motherhood penalty,” research that demonstrates how motherhood influences the workplace evaluations, pay and job opportunities of mothers. She is currently leading a nationwide, interdisciplinary project on “redesigning work” that evaluates how workplaces structures and practices can be better aligned with today’s workforce. She is also studying how gender stereotypes and organizational practices affect the entry and retention of women in technical professions and how the growth of the craft beer industry affects the founding and success of women brewers. Correll consults on reducing stereotypic biases in the workplace and speaks to professional groups interested in advancing women’s leadership.

SESSIONS:

Redesigning and Redefining Work for the 21st Century

Wednesday, June 25, 2014 - 10:00am to 11:15am
Penny C. Wofford
shareholder
Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.
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Penny Wofford is a South Carolina Supreme Court Certified Specialist in Employment and Labor Law. She concentrates her practice in the area of employment litigation and employee benefits. She advises and defends employers, employer sponsored plans, and plan fiduciaries against all types of claims under ERISA and employment discrimination laws. Penny not only provides proactive counseling and legal advice to employers and management regarding human resources issues but also assists employers with the design, drafting, and administration of welfare benefit plans. Penny is a frequent speaker on employee benefits and employee leave topics and regularly provides company and supervisor training on employment discrimination, documentation and confidentiality.

SESSIONS:

Health Care Reform Strategies for 2014

Monday, March 17, 2014 - 10:15am to 11:45am
Jeremy M. Eskenazi, SHRM-SCP
Managing Principal
Riviera Advisors, Inc.
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Jeremy Eskenazi, SHRM-SCP, SPHR, CMC is Managing Principal of Riviera Advisors, Inc., a global Human Resources management consulting and training firm that helps organizations improve, enhance and optimize their internal talent acquisition and recruiting capabilities.

Prior to founding Riviera Advisors in 2001, Jeremy spent almost 20 years leading talent acquisition and recruiting teams at Universal Studios, Amazon.com, and Idealab. A regular SHRM speaker and a member of the SHRM Talent Acquisition Special Expertise Panel, Jeremy is also proud professional member of the National Speakers Association (NSA) and the Institute of Management Consultants-USA.

Jeremy is the author of the books, “RecruitCONSULT! Leadership – The Corporate Talent Acquisition Leader’s Field Book”, and “The High-Performance Talent Acquisition Advantage”.

 

SESSIONS:

Project Management Strategies for Recruiting and Staffing

Wednesday, June 25, 2014 - 10:00am to 11:15am
Dick Finnegan
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Chief Executive Officer
C-Suite Analytics
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Dick Finnegan is THE global turnover expert, having cut turnover by 30% and more for healthcare, manufacturing, logistics, distribution centers, call centers, and other industries…and on all six inhabited continents.

Dick has authored the top-selling SHRM-published book, The Power of Stay Interviews, along with four other books. BusinessWeek magazine has said “Finnegan offers fresh thinking for solving the turnover problem in any economy”. He has been similarly cited by Forbes, Chief Executive Magazine, and Consulting Magazine.

He holds bachelors and graduate degrees from The Pennsylvania State University and lives in Orlando, Florida.

SESSIONS:

MEGA SESSION: Lip Service: Are Your Employees Really As Important As Your Customers?

Tuesday, June 24, 2014 - 10:45am to 12:00pm
Michael P. Aitken
Senior Vice President, Government Affairs
SHRM
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Mike Aitken has worked at SHRM since 2003 and currently serves as the Senior Vice President of Government Affairs. Prior to joining SHRM, he served for 14 years as associate director for Governmental and External Relations at the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR). Previously, Aitken worked on state public policy issues at Bonner & Associates, a public affairs firm in Washington, DC. Currently, he is based in Alexandria, VA.

 

SESSIONS:

The Washington Outlook: Heading towards the Mid-Term Elections; Will there be Continued Gridlock or New Momentum on HR Public Policy Issues?

Monday, March 17, 2014 - 8:00am to 10:00am