Alice Kilborn, JD PHR, is an Associate Attorney at Moody & Warner, P.C., where her practice is  devoted to employment and labor law including advice and litigation in the areas of labor relations, wage and hour issues, class actions, discrimination, harassment, EEOC charges, wrongful termination, employment agreements, and other employment-related matters.  Prior to entering the legal field, Ms. Kilborn worked in Human Resources specializing in the areas of state and federal regulatory compliance and corporate training.  She has served as the State Legislative Director for the Society for Human Resource Management of New Mexico (SHRM NM) since 2009 and is a frequent, enthusiastic speaker regarding legislative activity affecting the workplace.

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Mr. Postol is a partner and litigator concentrating his practice in the Labor and Employment Law area. Mr. Postol has defended against claims for race, age, sex, and disability discrimination. Mr. Postol has also handled FLSA, ERISA and OSHA litigation. Additionally, Mr. Postol has extensive experience in workers’ compensation defense, toxic tort litigation, patent litigation and counseling and environmental litigation. Mr. Postol has successfully argued over two dozen cases in the United States Court of Appeals and two cases before the United States Supreme Court.

 

Candy Crowley is CNN's award-winning chief political correspondent and anchor of State of the Union with Candy Crowley, a political hour of newsmaker interviews and analysis of the week’s most important issues. Crowley took the reins of State of the Union in February 2010. In her role as chief political correspondent, Crowley covers a broad range of stories, including presidential, congressional and gubernatorial races and major legislative developments on Capitol Hill. 

Crowley’s assignments have taken her to all 50 states and around the world.  As a member of the Peabody Award-winning “Best Political Team on Television,” she played a pivotal role in CNN’s America Votes 2008 coverage, traveling to both conventions, every debate and additional stops along the campaign trail. Crowley earned a prestigious Gracie Allen Award in 2009 for coverage of Hillary Clinton’s bid for the White House. She also was part of the network’s Emmy Award-winning 2006 midterm election coverage.

She has covered the presidential campaigns of Pat Buchanan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Howard Dean, Bob Dole, Jesse Jackson, Edward Kennedy, John Kerry, Barack Obama and Ronald Reagan, among others. Since the presidential nomination of Jimmy Carter, she has covered all but one of the national political conventions. She was also granted an exclusive sit-down interview with President George W. Bush days before he left office.

Among her most vivid memories as a reporter, Crowley counts the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Coast; the impeachment trial of President Clinton; Election Night 2000; ceremonies marking the 40th anniversary of D-Day on the beaches of Normandy; Ronald Reagan’s trips to China, Bitburg and Bergen-Belsen; the night the United States bombed Libya; and the terrorist bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut.

Crowley began her broadcast journalism career in Washington, D.C., as a newsroom assistant for Metromedia radio station WASH.  She has served as an anchor for Mutual Broadcasting and as a general assignment and White House correspondent for the Associated Press, where she covered most of the Reagan era before moving on to NBC-TV to become a general assignment correspondent in NBC’s Washington bureau. She came to CNN from NBC News in 1987.

Prior to her current role, Crowley served as a congressional correspondent for the network.  

In 2005, Crowley was honored with the Edward R. Murrow award and the Joan Shorenstein Barone Award for excellence in journalism for her reporting on the 2004 presidential election.  In 2004, Crowley won the Gracie Allen Award in the “National News Story-Series” category for “War Stories” and a National Headliner and a Cine award for CNN Presents: Fit to Kill.  In 2003, Crowley won an Emmy for her work on CNN Presents Enemy Within.  She won the 1999 DuPont-Columbia University Silver Baton Award for her coverage of the impeachment and trial of President Bill Clinton.  She won the 2003 and 1998 Dirksen Awards for distinguished reporting on Congress from the National Press Foundation and the 1997 Joan Shorenstein Barone Award for her coverage of Bob Dole’s campaign for the presidency.  She received the Associated Press Broadcasters’ Award for spot news reporting for her coverage of the Reagan campaign, as well as the AP Award for in-depth coverage of the 1980 Reagan campaign.  Her reporting on more than a dozen 1992 U.S. Senate campaigns was runner-up for the Joan Shorenstein Barone Award for Outstanding Journalism.  Crowley also won the Columbia University’s Armstrong Award for Freedom is My Woman, a documentary on a prison cellblock takeover.          

Crowley earned a Bachelor’s Degree from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College. 

Eric M. Dunleavy, Ph.D., is a Principal Consultant at DCI Consulting Group, where he is involved in equal employment opportunity audit and litigation consulting. He also serves on staff with the Center for Corporate Equality (CCE), which is a national nonprofit employer and research association based in Washington, DC, whose mission is to promote proactive affirmative action, equal employment regulatory compliance, and other human resource management strategies to create diverse organizations free from workplace bias. Eric's primary areas of expertise are in employee selection, employment testing, validation research, adverse impact analyses and other quantitative methods. His most recent work has focused on advanced quantitative analyses for assessing adverse impact and on selection procedure validation research in the context of OFCCP enforcement. Eric received his M.A. (2002) and Ph.D. (2004) in Industrial/Organizational Psychology with a concentration in data analysis from the University of Houston. He received an Honors B.A. (2000) in Psychology from St. Anselm College.

Carol  Akiyama has worked in the health promotion industry for over twenty five years as a program manager in corporate, health plan, and hospital environments.  She served as the Director of the Center for Heath and Fitness at Mt. Diablo Medical Center and Manager of the Health Improvement Department at Health Net.  At Kaiser Permanente, Carol has been part of the start up teams for the Northern California region employee wellness department and currently works with the national workforce wellness program called Healthy Workforce.

She has designed and marketed wellness programs to external clients as well as created and implemented programs for internal employee populations.  She has been an active member and Board Member of Northern California wellness councils.  Recently, Carol published an article on the impact of menu labeling on consumer food selection.  Her work has contributed to awards earned by Kaiser Permanente including the American Heart Association Gold Fit-Friendly Company recognition and the Worksite Innovation Award in 2011 and the National Business Group on Health, Best Employers for Healthy Lifestyles awards in 2011 and 2012.                                             

Carol is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley with a bachelor’s degree in nutrition and clinical dietetics.  She is also a Registered Dietitian.  Her master’s degree in business administration is from St. Mary’s College in Moraga, California. 

 

Dr. Kevin Snyder is a professional speaker and author who co-founded Inspir-ACTIVE Solutions which is a leadership firm specializing in developing custom-based keynotes and staff development seminars to ignite personal motivation, employee engagement, and breakthrough performance. He has spoken for over 400 audiences in all 50 states with clients including Anheuser-Busch, St. Jude’s Children Research Hospital, the American Marketing Association, the Association of Circuses, and many others. Kevin is a columnist for several magazines, the author of four books, a certified skydiver, scuba diver, sailing enthusiast and former game show winner on ‘The Price Is Right!’ He’s also an adjunct faculty with the Center for Creative Leadership and earned both his Masters and Doctorate degrees in Educational Leadership.

Mary-Frances Winters is president and founder of The Winters Group, a 28-year-old organization development and diversity-consulting firm, specializing in research, strategic planning, training, and public speaking with an emphasis in ethnic and multicultural issues.

Prior to founding The Winters Group in 1984, Winters was affirmative action officer and senior market analyst at Eastman Kodak Company, where she worked for 11 years. She is a graduate of the University of Rochester with undergraduate degrees in English and Psychology, and a master’s degree in business administration from the William E. Simon Executive Development Program. She received an honorary doctorate from Roberts Wesleyan College in 1997.

Winters was selected to serve as Rochester Institute of Technology’s College of Continuing Education’s 1994-95 Distinguished Minett Professor where she taught a leadership course titled, 21st Century Leader: Visionary, Inspired, and Spiritually Grounded at the graduate level.