Dan Pasternak is a Shareholder in Greenberg Traurig's Labor and Employment Practice Group.  Dan's practice covers the full range of labor and employment issues, from litigation, to working with management to develop, implement, and enforce effective employment and labor relations policies and practices, to providing daily counsel to management and human resource personnel on employment law compliance matters.  Dan also conducts workplace investigations, and provides a unique approach to harassment and discrimination avoidance training through Greenberg Traurig's GT Training Workshop.  In addition, going back to his days as an attorney with the National Labor Relations Board, Dan has years of experience representing employers in a broad spectrum of traditional labor relations matters, including union organizing campaigns and response strategy, collective bargaining negotiations, unfair labor practice charge and representation case proceedings, strike response and contingency planning, and grievance arbitration proceedings.    

Dr. Gail Sacconey Townsend consults and teaches to the public and private sector, and is an organization development specialist at W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. She is committed to increasing the effectiveness of individuals, teams and organizations by engaging diverse people in creative and energizing conversations that achieve positive people and business results.
 
Gail is faculty at the University of Delaware and teaches in the College of Business in the MBA and Organization Change, Development and Effectiveness graduate programs.  Her work at W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc., includes working with business teams to achieve global, regional, and functional integration; establishing organization development curriculum for HR Generalists; and coaching and developing individuals, teams, and businesses to achieve their full potential.  Gail is also a passionate champion of the importance of corporate culture and the impact on individual, team, and business innovation.  

Rosaria (Ria) Hawkins, Ph.D., President of Take Charge Consultants, has over 25 years of leadership development and consulting experience. She is a leading thinker on mindful leadership and organizations—focusing on strategies and techniques for sensing and responding to change in order to ensure long-term sustainability and success. Her research on mindful leaders and their approach to organizational change provides leaders with a flexible process for sense making and action taking in a turbulent and changing world. She has spoken about the skills and strategies involved with mindful leadership to groups that include coaches, business professionals, guidance counselors, and human resource executives.

D. Kevin Berchelmann, president, CEO and principal consultant at Triangle Performance, LLC, is a highly acclaimed strategist and thought leader in executive, management and organization performance.

Berchelmann believes that leadership is a learned skill, and management performance can successfully change the course of any organization. The key is in the “learning,” and contrary to the plethora of trainers in this business, few can actually “develop” leaders successfully. Simply put, it’s not as easy as it looks.

From executive team building, strategy development and compensation, to individualized coaching, performance improvement and retention, Berchelmann has been incredibly successful in delivering results and measurable value in this critical environment.

Cathy Missildine, SPHR has extensive experience in many areas of strategic human resources management. She has worked closely with executives in the areas of performance, productivity, retention, training, staffing and strategic implementation. Her experience in operations and sales management in the technical, insurance and hospitality industries has given her a broad understanding of business issues and a solid foundation for building performance-enhancing systems that support the business. Cathy received her MBA from Kennesaw State college and is currently is a professor at Kennesaw State and Emory Universities.