Cy Wakeman is a drama researcher, global thought-leader, and New York Times best-selling author who is recognized for cultivating a counter-intuitive, reality-based approach to leadership. Backed by 20 years of experience, Wakeman’s philosophy offers a new lens through which employees and executives alike, can shift their attention inward, sharpen their focus on personal accountability, and uncover their natural state of innovation simply by ditching the drama.

Deemed “the secret weapon to restoring sanity to the workplace,” Wakeman has helped companies such as Google, Facebook, NASA, Pfizer, Bank of America, and United Healthcare learn to harness energy wasted in workplace drama and reinvest that effort into achieving profound business results.

Pat Hall Jaynes is the founder and President/CEO of The HR SOURCE, a professional services firm specializing in Human Resources staffing, consulting and Outsourced human resources services.  Prior to founding The HR SOURCE, Ms. Jaynes spent approximately 17 years managing recruiting functions as well as a variety of human resource functions at GTE Directories Corporation and Verizon Communications in California, Texas and Maryland.     

Active in many human resource organizations including HR Leadership Forum and the Society for Human Resource Management, she has also served as President and Treasurer for the Black Human Resources Network.   Additionally, Ms. Jaynes serves as Executive Director of The HR SOURCE Foundation, and is a member of the Board of Directors for the Early Childhood Academy and the Prince George’s Hospital Community Foundation. 

Ms. Jaynes who holds a B.A. Degree in Sociology from California State University, Hayward, has received a Certificate in Human Resources Management from UCLA and has successfully completed the requirements to receive her Employment Law certification from the American Staffing Association.  Additionally, Ms Jaynes has been certified as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) since 1990 and has since received her lifetime SPHR certification from the Human Resources Certification Institute.

Lynn C. Outwater is a Shareholder in the Pittsburgh office of Jackson Lewis P.C.  The firm’s over 700 lawyers limit their practice exclusively to labor, employment, immigration and benefits law on behalf of management.  She received her undergraduate degree from Fordham University and obtained a Juris Doctorate degree from Albany Law School and holds a Master of Laws (in Labor Law) from New York University School of Law.  Ms. Outwater is a current member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association and an inactive member of the New York Bar Association.  Ms. Outwater has been designated as a “Super Lawyer” in the Labor and Employment Law Practice Area from 2004 through 2013 editions of “Pennsylvania Super Lawyers.”  Ms. Outwater was also selected by her peers for inclusion in “The Best Lawyers in America” from 2009 through 2014 in the field of labor and employment law.

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