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The Diversity Practitioner of the 21st Century: What New Practitioners Need to Know
The Diversity Practitioner of the 21st Century: What New Practitioners Need to Know
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SHRM 2013 Strategy Conference |
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Peter Sheahan
Business Leader
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Peter Sheahan is the founder and President of ChangeLabs, and international strategy consultancy that has executed some of the largest behavior change programs on the planet for clients that include Apple and IBM. With staff and offices in 9 cities and 3 countries Peter knows first-hand the challenges we face attracting and engaging world-class talent in the rapidly changing world of international business.
The author of 6 books, including the international bestsellers Fl!p and Generation Y, Peter has advised senior HR Leaders at companies such as Microsoft, Google, Goldman Sachs, News Corporation, Yum Foods, Glaxo Smith Kline, Pepsico and Hilton Hotels just to name a few. Peter is a regular on Fox Business and was a featured expert in a 5 part global series about innovation and talent on CNBC.
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Lisa Bodell
Founder & CEO
futurethink
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Innovation Expert, Founder and CEO of futurethink and Author, Kill the Company.
As a globally recognized futurist and expert on innovation, Lisa Bodell ignites new thinking at every event with high energy, humor, and audience engagement. Bodell is an award-winning author and CEO of futurethink, an innovation-training firm that helps businesses embrace change and become world-class innovators. As a globally recognized futurist and expert on the topic of driving change, her mission is to provoke fresh thinking around what’s possible, and help people better solve problems with intentionally simple, easy-to-use tools. She has helped thousands of senior leaders ignite innovation at the New York Stock Exchange, Pfizer, Google, Lockheed Martin and many others.
Bodell is an inspired speaker who has brought her message to over 30 countries and nearly 100,000 people each year, and she was recently awarded the “Top 5 Speaker Award” by Speaking.com. She is also the author of the best-selling book Kill the Company: End the Status Quo, Start an Innovation Revolution, which won the 2014 Axiom “Best Business Book Award” and was voted “Best Business Book” by USA Book News and Booz & Co. A respected thought-leader on innovation, Bodell has appeared on NPR, FOX News, and in publications such as Fast Company, The New York Times, and WIRED. She is a monthly columnist for strategy + business, and frequent contributor to Forbes and Harvard Business Review.
Bodell serves as a member of the Global Agenda Council for the World Economic Forum; an adviser on the boards of the Association of Professional Futurists; and Novartis’ Diversity and Inclusion Board in Basel, Switzerland. Among her many academic activities, Bodell has taught innovation and creativity at both American and Fordham Universities.
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Frans Johansson
Founder and CEO
The Medici Group
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