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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dr. Ningyu Tang is a professor of Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiaotong University. Her current research focuses on culture’s influence on HRM, leadership and change and virtual team learning. She has published papers in organizational behavior and HRM areas and she is also the author of several books, including Human Resource Management and Personnel Assessment: Theories and Practices (in Chinese). She has taught courses such as Human Resource Management, Organizational Behavior and Compensation Management to students from both academic and professional programs. Dr. Tang has won several awards for her teaching and research in China. She has consulted with more than 10 state-owned companies, joint ventures and private companies in China.

Berry Van Veldhoven is a Shipboard Human Resource Manager in the cruise industry and speaker. Considered by many in the Cruise industry as a subject matter expert on shipboard human resources. Berry has spoken at numerous conferences including HRPA as well as for the Spanish tourism board on the subject of the Cruise industry and employment regulations on board cruise ship. He writes a blog on the topic of HR in the Hospitality industry and often consults for leading hospitality organizations on employment branding and HR and Organizational development.