Susan O'Malley
former president
Washington Sports and Entertainment
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As the first female president of a professional sports franchise, Susan O’Malley is a pioneer in two fields: sports and business. She knows what it takes to be a leader in a tough business environment and how to create an organization from the ground up. Her ground-breaking business ideas and proactive approach to customer service brought her – and Washington Sports and Entertainment – to the top of the sports business world.

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Eric Peterson, MSOD
Senior Consultant
Cook Ross Inc
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Eric C. Peterson, MSOD is a Senior Consultant with Cook Ross Inc. He is a recognized facilitator and educator in the Diversity & Inclusion space with over 15 years of experience in Unconscious Bias, Diversity & Inclusion (D&I), Learning Strategies, and Organization Development. Eric is certified in the use of both the Predictive Index and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, and is a graduate of the Facilitation Learning Partners Program of Healing the Heart of Diversity. He has been published in Profiles in Diversity Journal and Echelon Magazine, and has been sourced as a D&I expert by CNN, National Public Radio, USA Today, The Bloomberg Group, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, and the Los Angeles Times.

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Robert L. Johnson
founder and chairman
The RLJ Companies
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Why Robert is a Game Changer: Robert L. Johnson is the Founder and Chairman of The RLJ Companies, an innovative business network that owns or holds interests in businesses operating in hotel real estate investment, private equity, consumer financial services, asset management, insurance services, automobile dealerships, sports and entertainment, and video lottery terminal (VLT) gaming. 

Prior to forming The RLJ Companies, Mr. Johnson was founder and chairman of Black Entertainment Television (BET), the nation’s first and leading television network providing quality entertainment, music, news, sports and public affairs programming for the African American audience.

Johnson will launch a new online destination called OPPSPLACE. The site is the first and only web-based employment and business site that aggregates minority job candidates and minority businesses in one easy-to-use destination.

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Don Tapscott
Thought Leader on the Strategic Value and Impact of Information Technology
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Tapscott is an internationally renowned authority on the strategic impact of information technology on innovation, marketing and talent. He consistently identifies and explains the next business imperatives and defines the business models and strategies required for success. Tapscott has authored or co-authored 14 widely read books on technology, business and the Net Generation, including his newest book, Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World.

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How the Age of Transparency Will Revolutionize Business

Friday, October 7, 2011 - 10:15am to 12:00pm
Alexander Alonso, Ph.D., SHRM-SCP
Chief Data & Insights Officer
SHRM
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Alexander Alonso, PhD, SHRM-SCP is the Society for Human Resource Management's (SHRM's) Chief Data & Insights Officer leading operations for SHRM's Certified Professional and Senior Certified Professional certifications, research functions, and the SHRM Knowledge Advisor service. He is responsible for all research activities, including the development of the SHRM Competency Model and SHRM credentials.

During his career, he has worked with numerous subject matter experts worldwide with the aim of identifying performance standards, developing competency models, designing organizational assessments, and conducting job analyses. He was also responsible for working on contract task orders involving the development of measurement tools for content areas such as job knowledge (like teacher knowledge of instructional processes) and organizational climates (like organizational climate forecasting in military health care).

Dr. Alonso received his doctorate in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from Florida International University in 2003. His works have been recognized for their contribution to real-world issues. They include being recognized by the Society for Industrial Organizational Psychology (Division 14 of the APA; SIOP) with the 2007 M. Scott Myers Award for Applied Research in the Workplace for the development of the federal standard for medical team training, TeamSTEPPS; being awarded a 2009 Presidential Citation for Innovative Practice by the American Psychological Association for supporting the development of competency model for team triage in emergency medicine; and receiving the 2013 SIOP Distinguished Early Career Contributions for Practice Award.

Throughout his career, he has published works in peer-reviewed journals such as Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, Journal of Applied Psychology, International Journal of Selection and Assessment, People and Strategy, Personality and Individual Differences, Quality and Safety in Health Care, and Human Resources Management Review. He has also authored several chapters on community-based change initiatives in workforce readiness, as well as co-authoring Defining HR Success: A Guide to the SHRM Competency Model in Practice.

Dr. Alonso also served as a columnist analyzing major trends in the workforce for The Industrial Psychologist and HR Magazine. In addition, he has served on several professional society boards including the SIOP and the Personnel Testing Council of Metropolitan Washington.

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Workforce Planning Using A Competency-Based Strategy: Why Linking Defined HR Competencies to Strategy Matters

Friday, October 7, 2011 - 8:00am to 10:30am
Susan M. Cantrell
Fellow
Accenture Institute for High Performance
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Workforce of One: Revolutionizing Your Talent Management

Friday, October 7, 2011 - 8:30am to 10:00am
Cynthia Worden Lee
President
Performance.net
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Cyn Worden Lee is the President and Founder of her third startup, Performance.net, launched in 2010. After developing custom performance management software for 8 years Cyn’s company created a suite of software for companies of all sizes and hosts it online at www.Performance.net.

Cyn’s mission is twofold:

  • to build a company full of people who love what they do and clients who love to work with them, and
  • to provide performance management that inspires creativity and manages results.
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Keeping Strategy Simple

Friday, October 7, 2011 - 8:30am to 10:00am
Bridget Van Kralingen
General Manager
IBM North America
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Bridget Van Kralingen is responsible for strategy, execution, business results and client satisfaction for the full range of IBM’s business in the United States and Canada. She is accountable for IBM’s portfolios in consulting, technology services, software, hardware and financing for clients which together generate about $40 billion in revenue each year. In 2005, she was named one of the hundred most influential people in finance by Euromoney, and was named one of Consulting magazine’s Top 25 Consultants in 2006.

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IBM’s Transformation: From Survival to Success

Thursday, October 6, 2011 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Jennie Walker, Ph.D., PHR
Najfi Global Mindset Institute at Thunderbird School of Global Management,
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Developing a Global Leadership Culture

Thursday, October 6, 2011 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm