Barbara Adachi
director, Talent
Deloitte Consulting, LLP
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seller The Corporate Lattice: Achieving High Performance in the Changing World of Work (Harvard Business Review Press, 2010). The Corporate LatticeTM model provides a strategic, flexible and scalable approach to the realities of today’s workforce and workplace. Molly led the implementation of Mass Career Customization® across Deloitte’s 45,000-person organization, significantly increasing career-life satisfaction, retention and engagement.

Molly has extensive management consulting experience implementing transformational change. She is an authority on organizational effectiveness, human resources strategy, and learning and development.

Molly is a frequent speaker and writer on talent topics. Her articles have appeared in leading publications such as Bloomberg Businessweek, Forbes, CNBC, Leadership Excellence and The Conversation at Harvard Business Review and she recently appeared on First Business TV.

Molly earned her M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and her undergraduate degree in Government from Harvard University. She lives in Northern California with her husband and two children.
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011 - 10:00am to 11:15am
Camille A. Olson
Partner
Seyfarth Shaw, LLP
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Camille is a trusted advisor to national companies facing high-profile legal, policy, and media challenges, especially in situations with significant reputational risk. She excels at helping clients navigate complex issues and turn abstract risks into actionable decisions. Camille is renowned for her expertise in crisis management and legal strategy, making her an invaluable asset to her clients. 

A partner at Seyfarth, Camille co-chairs the National Complex Litigation practice group and leads the Complex Discrimination Litigation practice group. She is also a member of the firm’s National Labor and Employment Law Steering Committee. With nearly 30 years of experience, Camille has represented clients in employment discrimination, harassment, wage-and-hour disputes, and independent contractor matters across the country. 

Camille’s distinguished trial record includes serving as lead defense trial counsel in high-stakes cases involving harassment, discrimination, and systemic policy violations. She has also worked as outside counsel to boards of directors and executive teams on sensitive internal investigations. Her sophisticated approach to litigation has led to numerous successful resolutions, often on the eve of trial or through creative motion practice. 

In addition to her legal practice, Camille has regularly testified before the U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, EEOC, and Department of Labor on key legislative issues. She has served as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity policy subcommittee since 2013, advocating for employer perspectives on critical employment laws. 

Camille earned both her B.A., with Highest Honors, and her J.D. from the University of Michigan. As an undergraduate, she was awarded the Eita Krom Scholar distinction for her published thesis. Her extensive legal and policy contributions make her a sought-after speaker and a leading voice in the field of complex litigation. 

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Richard B. Lapp
partner
Seyfarth Shaw, LLP
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Richard B. Lapp is a partner of Seyfarth Shaw LLP. His practice concentrates on labor and employment litigation before federal and state courts and agencies, in particular, representing employers in class and collective actions in all areas of labor and employment law, ranging from discrimination class actions to wage and hour collective actions to class cases under the WARN Act and ERISA. He also serves on the Firm’s Lawyer Development Committee and previously was co-chair of Labor and Employment Department’s Training Committee. He formerly clerked for the Hon. Daniel A. Manion on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
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Sunday, June 26, 2011 - 7:30am to 1:30pm
James Goebel
co-founder
Menlo Innovations
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James is a founding partner in a product design company, Menlo Innovations, that uses highly collaborative project teams to design and implement innovative products for clients that place high value on user adoption. The team he helped build at Menlo Innovations has successfully blended an Extreme Programming development team, usability design specialists, a quality assurance practice, and formal project management. The company has moved twice to accommodate growth and maintain its open collaborative floor space. Representatives from start up companies as well as large Fortune 500 firms routinely tour Menlo's Software Factory environment to study its implementation of agile. As a coach and change agent, James has helped organizations achieve dramatic transformations in both process and culture. He enjoys speaking at conferences, teaching classes, and speaking to small local groups in order to share the lessons he has learned
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Rich Sheridan
CEO
Menlo Innovations
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From kid programmer in 1971 to Forbes cover boy in 2003, "outlier" Richard Sheridan has never shied from challenges, opportunities nor the limelight. While his focus has always been around technology, his passion is actually process, teamwork and organizational design, with one inordinately popular goal: the business value of joy! Sheridan is an avid reader and historian, and his software design and development team at Menlo Innovations didn't invent a new culture, but copied an old one ... Edison's Menlo Park New Jersey lab. Some call it agile, some call it lean ... Sheridan and his team call it joyful. And it produces results ... business and otherwise. Four consecutive Inc. magazine revenue growth awards, invites to the White House, speaking engagements around the nation, numerous articles and culture awards and so much interest they are doing a tour a day of the Menlo Software Factory.
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Stephanie Liu, GPHR
chief people officer
CP Lotus
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Stephanie Liu has over 15 years of experience in the field of Human Resources Management in global companies operating in both China and Asia Pacific markets. She has worked in many industries as FMCG, financial institution, pharmaceuticals, industries technology and service sector. She is a human resource professional who has a great deal of passion and energy in talent development, organization development and process improvement. She was awarded the HR Manager of the Year 2000 by China Staff and certified GPHR in 2007. She has served as Standing Committee Member of the Multi-national Pharmaceutical Industry Association from 2001 to 2005, and the Chair for Amcham Shanghai HR Committee in 2005 and 2006.
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Radhakrishnan B. Menon
managing director
LBW Consulting PVT., Ltd.
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Having gained a post graduate degree in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations from the Tata Institute Of Social Sciences (TISS, class of 1979), Radhakrishnan B. Menon went on to accumulate a wide range of experience and accomplishments in Human Resources Management with best-in-class global organizations. Radha (as he is known) has worked for over twenty eight years in the HR function in leadership, strategic and operational roles across diverse businesses, categories and cultures. Radha is currently Managing Director of LBW (Leadership in Business Worldwide) Consulting Private Ltd, a distinctive, Leadership Development consulting company. He was until recently, the Executive Director–Human Resources for Cadbury, Indian Subcontinent. He continues to serve the Board of Cadbury as a non-executive Director. Radha’s career highlights include over seventeen years in exciting HR Leader roles : Executive Director – HR, Cadbury (ISC), Vice President – HR, GE Lighting India, Vice President – HR, GE Plastics India and Vice President – HR, Bausch & Lomb India. He also had early career stints as Personnel Manager, Hindustan Lever and with American Express as Manager- Employee Relations, India & Area. Radha’s experiences involve successful interventions in business start-ups, turnarounds acquisitions and organization transformations. His accomplishments include business partnering, organization design, HR strategy, talent acquisition, leadership development, coaching, culture building, industrial relations, employee engagement and CSR initiatives. Well versed in global best practices, Radha has trained in GE Crotonville and also had a 2-year stint in Europe with GE Plastics based in Netherlands. He has interacted extensively in emerging and developed markets in Asia Pacific, USA and Europe and has worked at all four regions in India. Sharing experiences, creative thinking, writing and sports, especially cricket, are his passions. An accomplished conference speaker, Radha is also an avid reader of management and sports books. During his college days he was a successful broadcaster and a Cricket Commentator for All India Radio. Radha has chaired CSR initiatives of global organizations which have resulted in successful community development projects. And now with the creation of LBW Consulting he is all set to contribute to India’s amazing growth story in the world of business.
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Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 4:00pm to 5:15pm
Keith Caver
vice president and principal
Right Management
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Lynne MacFarlane
SVP, Human Resources
The Jones Group
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Molly is a frequent speaker and writer on talent topics. Her articles have appeared in leading publications such as Bloomberg Businessweek, Forbes, CNBC, Leadership Excellence and The Conversation at Harvard Business Review and she recently appeared on First Business TV.
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Pamela Green, SPHR
chief U.S. membership officer
SHRM
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011 - 10:00am to 11:15am
Julie Baskin Brooks
manager of Diversity & Inclusion
IBM
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Julie Baskin Brooks is an accomplished Human Resources Executive with extensive experience in maximizing organizations’ Human Capital through Diversity Leadership, Organizational Development and Change Management. Human Resources career includes leadership roles in IT, Consumer Products, Financial and Consulting industries. Action and results oriented leader with established record of creative problem solving and building high performance teams. Julie has held various HR positions with IBM, Pearl Meyers & Partners, Xerox, Philip Morris (now Altria), GE Capital and Champion International. Julie has also formed and successfully ran her own HR Consulting company, The Human Element. In addition to Julie's corporate career, Julie is a wife, mother, active in her community and an Adjunct Professor at Fairfield University.
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Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 2:15pm to 3:30pm
Pascal Kanbonnabah, SPHR, MBA, ELP
vice president human resources
AngloGold Ashanti Limited
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Pascal started his career as a Human Resources Professional in 1992 as Administration Officer with the Ghana Chamber of Mines, and later moved to the then Ashanti Goldfields Company Limited (now AngloGold Ashanti Limited) in 1998 as Senior Administration Officer – Industrial Relations at the Obuasi Mine. In March 2003, he was appointed Staff Manager for the Obuasi Mine, and later in June 2003 transferred to Iduapriem Mine in Tarkwa on appointment as Human Resources Manager. In January 2004, Pascal was appointed Senior Human Resources Manager until April 2007 when he was transferred to Accra on appointment as Human Resources Coordinator for Ghana. Following a re-organization of the company in November 2007, he was appointed Divisional Labour Relations Manager for West Africa (providing strategic direction and support in Labour Relations for Ghana, Guinea and Mali operations), a position he held until December 2009 when he got appointed to the position of Head of Human Resources for Ghana. He was later appointed Vice President: Human Resources for Ghana in February 2010, a position he currently holds.

Pascal Kanbonnabah is a holder of Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. He also holds an Executive Leadership (ELP) Certificate from the prestigious Graduate Business School of University of Cape Town in South Africa. And is a certified Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) from the HR Certification Institute. He has recently completed his MBA course work at the Graduate Business School of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) in Accra, Ghana.

Pascal is the Chairman of the Human Resources Committee of the Ghana Chamber of Mines, as well as a member of the Council. He is also an honorary member of the Advisory Committee of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration in Accra.
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George Fraser
founder and president
SuccessSource and Frasernet
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George C. Fraser is a highly sought after global speaker, bestselling author and successful entrepreneur. He is the CEO of FraserNet, Inc., a company he founded 25 years ago. He has held leadership positions at Procter & Gamble, United Way and Ford. Dr. Fraser has written numerous articles on “networking”, building effective relationships and economic development in minority communities. He has authored 3 critically acclaimed bestsellers, most recently; Click:10 Truths for Building Extraordinary Relationships (McGraw-Hill 2009). His views are solicited by media as diverse as CNN and the Wall Street Journal. The prestigious publication Vital Speeches of the Day has selected, reprinted and distributed five of Dr. Fraser’s speeches, a first for any professional speaker in America. He has been on the cover of 5 national magazines and was named one of the Top 50 Power Brokers in Black America. He has been married for 40 years and has two sons. He resides in Cleveland, Ohio.
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