Ann Morgan
VP, Human Resources and Organizational Development
AutoZone, Inc.
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Ann Morgan possesses over 25 years of progressive responsibility in retail operations and human resources management for two Fortune 500 organizations. She relocated to Memphis in 2004 from the Detroit metropolitan area to accept a career opportunity with AutoZone, where she is the Vice President, Human Resources and Organizational Development. Ann is responsible for managing the Human Resource practices and employee training in over 4,600 retail stores, as well as for the organizational development programs across the Company. Ann's strengths and experience lie in improving operating efficiencies, optimizing revenue, managing performance and developing employee policies and procedures across broad organizations.

Ann's career began with the Kmart Corporation holding a number of positions ranging from Store Manager to Vice President, Human Resources and Employee Development. She has a B.S. in Business Administration from Western Washington University. Additionally Ann is a member of the Society of Human Resources and serves as a mentor for high-potential woman within her company. She serves on the board of RISE, a Memphis-based nonprofit organization whose mission is to assist low-income families create and sustain assets, and was recently elected to the board of ArtsMemphis where she shares a commitment to ensuring excellence in the arts and building a vibrant cultural community for everyone.

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Tuesday, June 26, 2012 - 10:45am to 12:00pm
Andy Lorenzen
director, Talent Strategy and Systems
Chick-fil-A, Inc.
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Monday, June 25, 2012 - 10:45am to 12:00pm
Dan Satterthwaite
head of Global Human Resources
Dreamworks Animation
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Dan Satterthwaite serves as the Head of Human Resources for DreamWorks Animation. Since Dan joined the Company in 2007, DreamWorks Animation’s reputation as a good place to work has been steadily building. Most recently, Fortune Magazine ranked DreamWorks Animation number six on its list of 100 Best Companies to Work For. Prior to joining DreamWorks Animation, Dan served as Senior Vice President of World Wide Human Resources for Blockbuster.

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Monday, June 25, 2012 - 2:00pm to 3:15pm
Sylvia Taylor
executive vice president, Human Resources
The Weather Channel, LLC
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012 - 10:00am to 11:15am
Jeremy Langhans
program manager, Global Brand and Talent Attraction
Expedia
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Jeremy Langhans enjoys playing in the digital marketing space for recruiting! He has a deep expertise in strategic engagement platforms (sourcing, research, and social media) & applies his channel knowledge in attracting talent.  Jeremy currently leads Global Brand and Talent Attraction for Expedia.  Prior to joining Expedia, he was the program manager for Employment Brand and Channels at Starbucks.  He is honored to be a founding member of the steering committee of the Sourcing 7, a special interest group of the Northwest Recruiters Association where he fosters opportunities to network, influence and educate.  Jeremy started Social Media for Staffing at Starbucks in 2009 and in 2010 rolled out their Social Recruiting platform. He had the pleasure of owning 2 roadmaps, globally, within Talent Management at Starbucks. These included Digital & Social Media, as well as their Career Center and other major channels (i.e. LinkedIn).  A good example of his work can be found @starbucksjobs on Twitter.  Jeremy has consulted for companies like Microsoft, Cisco, Yahoo, and started his tenured career working at staffing agencies in the late 90's.  He views Global Brand as "just the guy who makes the final decision on how we show up in the market" and "a way to drive results through a candidate centric design methodology".  He views Talent Attraction as "the synergistic space where strategic talent sourcing / talent engagement collide" and "the systems that create more yeses to the business".

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Susan Kosman, RN, BSN, MS
chief nursing officer
Aetna, Inc.
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Susan Kosman, RN, BSN, MS, is the Chief Nursing Officer for Aetna Inc.  In this role, she is responsible for Aetna’s nursing strategy, which includes establishing a formal nursing presence in national healthcare and nursing communities; stewardship and strategy development for internal nursing roles and the business roles that support them; and workforce planning and leadership development.

 

In addition, Mrs. Kosman has oversight for the following core functions for Aetna’s National Care Management: clinical training; compliance; quality review and auditing; systems and reporting; and innovation, program design and management.  National Care Management provides clinical policy and operations support to all of Aetna’s segments.

 

Previously, Mrs. Kosman was the head of NCM Medical Management Services.  In this role, she was the liaison between National Accounts and National Care Management, representing National Accounts needs on strategic and operational medical management to the shared services.  She also oversaw the successful expansion and operation of the Dedicated Patient Management Units.  These seven units, located in Albany, New York; Allentown, Pennsylvania; Blue Bell, Pennsylvania; Highpoint, North Carolina; New Albany, Ohio Richfield, Ohio; and San Antonio, Texas; provide coordination of care and case management services to some of the largest National Accounts Plan Sponsors.  During her tenure and because of the unique services this area provided, the demand for customized Care Management programs grew; and membership increased from 600,000 in 2002 to 3.1 million in 2012.

 

Mrs. Kosman began her career with Aetna in 1995 as manager of Government Programs for the Northeast Region. Later, she assumed responsibility for case and disease management. In 1998, Susan joined Core Health Delivery Operations as manager for Quality and Audit. She returned to the Northeast region from 1999 to 2002 as director of Patient Management.  Prior to joining Aetna, Susan spent 10 years in the home health industry in various roles.

 

Susan is a Board member of the Aetna Foundation; Qualidigm, a healthcare consulting and research firm; and the American Heart Association, Greater Hartford chapter.  She represents Aetna externally on the Champion Nursing Coalition, and the American Organization of Nurse Executives Committee on Health Care Reform.

 

She holds a BS in Nursing from SUNY Downstate and an MS in Organizational Leadership from Quinnipiac College.

 

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Deepak Chopra
Co-founder
Chopra Center for Wellbeing
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A physician and alternative medicine pioneer, spiritual leader and world renowned business consultant, Dr. Deepak Chopra has inspired thousands of top executives with his guidance to personal transformation.  A compelling teacher who has taught at educational institutions such as Harvard’s Medical School and the Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern University, Dr. Chopra has also written more than 60 best-selling books. The Soul of Leadership: Unlocking Your Potential for Greatness, which is the basis for this presentation, was named “One of the Best Business Books of 2011” by the Wall Street Journal.

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David Novak
Executive Chairman
Yum! Brands, Inc.
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David C. Novak is executive chairman of Yum! Brands, Inc., (NYSE: YUM), one of the world’s largest restaurant companies with over 41,000 restaurants in more than 125 countries and territories. He stepped down as CEO of YUM on
January 1, 2015. Yum! Brands ranked #228 on the FORTUNE 500 list with revenues of over $13 billion in 2014. In 2014, Yum! was named among the top 100 Corporate Citizens by Corporate Responsibility magazine and one of the Aon Hewitt Top Companies for Leaders in North America. The company’s restaurant brands—KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell—are the global leaders of the chicken, pizza and Mexican-style food categories. Yum! Brands employs 1.5 million company employees and franchise associates across its worldwide system. Outside the United States, the Yum! Brands system opened more than five new restaurants per day on average, making it a leader in international retail development.
 
Novak leads YUM’s Board of Directors and supports the company’s CEO on corporate strategy, innovative business and brand building ideas along with leadership development. During his tenure as CEO since 1999, Yum! Brands doubled in size to 41,000 restaurants and established itself as a global powerhouse going from approximately 20 percent of its profits coming from outside the United States in 1997 to nearly 70 percent in 2014, while remaining an industry leader in return on invested capital. In so doing, Yum! Brands’ compound annual shareholder return has been 16% and its market capitalization has grown to nearly $32 billion from just over $4 billion.
 
Novak wrote TAKING PEOPLE WITH YOU: The Only Way to Make BIG Things Happen (January 2012), a New York Times and Wall Street Journal best seller based on a successful leadership program he personally taught at the company
centered on teamwork and a belief in people that rewards and recognizes customer-focused behavior. Proceeds from the sale of this book are donated to the United Nations World Food Programme.
 
His latest book is, O Great One! (May 2016) in which he draws on personal, real-life experiences to explore with readers the awesome power and great impact of recognition.
 
Prior to leading Yum! Brands, Novak was president at both KFC and Pizza Hut, and held senior management positions at Pepsi-Cola Company, including chief operating officer, and executive vice president of Marketing and Sales.
 
Novak has been recognized as “2012 CEO of the Year” by Chief Executive magazine, one of the world’s “30 Best CEOs” by Barron’s, one of the “Top People in Business” by FORTUNE and one of the “100 Best-Performing CEOs in the World” by Harvard Business Review. In the April 2015, he received the prestigious 2015 Horatio Alger Award for his commitment to philanthropy and higher education and became a lifetime member of the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans. He is the recipient of the 2012 UN World Food Program Leadership Award for Yum! Brands World Hunger Relief effort that raises awareness, volunteerism and funds to address this global problem. He also received the national 2008 Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship. Novak is on the board of directors of the World Food Program USA. He is also a member of The Business Council and The American Society for Corporate Executives. He devotes considerable personal support to the United Nations World Food Programme and Dare to Care Food Bank hunger relief. Novak and his wife Wendy established the Lift a Life Foundation in 1999 to help individuals in need reach their full potential through grants and programming in the areas of hunger relief, education, juvenile diabetes, the military and family and youth issues. In 2012, Lift a Life Foundation and USA TODAY Charitable Foundation launched the “Lead2Feed World Hunger Leadership Challenge” to encourage middle and high school students to hone their leadership skills through hunger relief projects using principles from TAKING PEOPLE WITH YOU. Since its inception, nearly a million students in 3,500 schools and clubs participated across all 50 states donating more than 22,000 volunteer hours and one million meals to hungry families. Lead2Feed is the nation’s leading and fastest growing free service learning program offering students the chance to win over $275,000 in prize money grants contributed to U.S. public charities engaged in hunger relief programs and $100,000 in technology packages for winning schools.
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Sylvia Taylor
executive vice president, Human Resources
The Weather Channel, LLC
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Dan Satterthwaite
head of Global Human Resources
Dreamworks Animation
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Dan Satterthwaite serves as the Head of Human Resources for DreamWorks Animation. Since Dan joined the Company in 2007, DreamWorks Animation’s reputation as a good place to work has been steadily building. Most recently, Fortune Magazine ranked DreamWorks Animation number six on its list of 100 Best Companies to Work For. Prior to joining DreamWorks Animation, Dan served as Senior Vice President of World Wide Human Resources for Blockbuster.

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