Kristin Kelley
CMO
CareerBuilder
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Kristin is on a mission for everyone to find meaning in their work. That's why she's spent most of her 20-year professional experience in the staffing industry.

Kristin built her reputation as a marketing strategy and consulting leader with pivotal roles at The Intersect Group, where she served as CXO; Randstad, where she served as the North American CMO; and Hire Dynamics, where she led marketing and communications. In these positions she shaped brand, launched innovative strategies to align sales and marketing, and led integrated marketing programs.

An expert in demographic workforce shifts, women in leadership, work/life balance, and millennial employee motivations, Kristin has a passion for sharing her industry knowledge with professional organizations and publications.

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Sunday, June 12, 2022 - 4:45pm to 5:15pm
Kristin Kelley
CMO
CareerBuilder
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Kristin is on a mission for everyone to find meaning in their work. That's why she's spent most of her 20-year professional experience in the staffing industry.

Kristin built her reputation as a marketing strategy and consulting leader with pivotal roles at The Intersect Group, where she served as CXO; Randstad, where she served as the North American CMO; and Hire Dynamics, where she led marketing and communications. In these positions she shaped brand, launched innovative strategies to align sales and marketing, and led integrated marketing programs.

An expert in demographic workforce shifts, women in leadership, work/life balance, and millennial employee motivations, Kristin has a passion for sharing her industry knowledge with professional organizations and publications.

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Walter Bond
CEO & Hall of Fame Speaker
Walter Bond Worldwide
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Walter’s third and most recently released book Swim!, has picked up speed since its debut in July, and has become a staple for business people and students across the country. His easy-to-read professional development book combines lovable characters, relatable life lessons, and hard truths that help readers understand the power of leadership, mentoring, and next-level success. 

Walter travels the country speaking, coaching, teaching, and inspiring companies across a wide range of industries, from financial services to agriculture and franchising to real estate and many more in between. At any given time, you can find Walter leading a mastermind class, offering one on one professional development, hosting book talks, and coaching hungry business leaders and entrepreneurs towards success. 

While many know Walter Bond as a former NBA player, more and more people know Walter as a passionate and motivated speaker, author, and business coach with one goal: to help people see their full potential. 

Walter graduated from the University of Minnesota and has been married to his wife and business partner Antoinette for nearly 30 years. They have three adult children. 

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Josh Christianson
Project Director
Partnership on Inclusive Apprenticeship
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Josh Christianson is Project Director for the Partnership on Inclusive Apprenticeship (PIA) where he leads efforts to create a more diverse and inclusive workforce through apprenticeship. Josh has extensive experience in supporting the diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) efforts of non-profit organizations, private companies, and government agencies.
 
He is the former director of the Partnership on Employment & Accessible Technology (PEAT), where he built cross-sector partnerships to shape the policies and practices contributing to the development of accessible emerging technologies in the workplace.
 
Before coming to PEAT Josh was a Senior Consultant at Deloitte where he provided talent strategies, change management, and leadership development support to federal agencies.
 
Prior to Deloitte he spent several years with The Posse Foundation as the Career Program Manager where he cultivated relationships with companies and organizations to provide career development opportunities for Posse Scholars and Alumni.

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Mary Wright
Manager, Apprenticeship
SHRM Foundation
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Mary V. L. Wright leads one of the SHRM Foundation’s four pillars of work: Skill Building - Preparing People for Today’s and Tomorrow’s Workplaces.  A critical part of that effort is leading the implementation of the US DOL funded HR Registered Apprenticeship Program, the first national HR apprenticeship program. As such, she is responsible for all parts of the program – development, marketing, sales, budget and evaluation.  In addition, she leads the Foundation’s work on the role of credentials in achieving an organization’s diversity, equity and inclusion goals and is an integral part of the team in promoting the inclusion of untapped talent in the workforce.

Ms. Wright has many years of experience connecting the public and private sectors in municipal finance, government affairs, and workforce development as a project leader, facilitator and subject matter expert.

Previously, Ms. Wright was a director at Jobs for the Future (JFF) where she designed and supervised the completion of foundation, government and employer-funded projects on topics including: expanding employability skills, developing apprenticeship and work-based learning strategies, utilizing labor market information to determine educational focus, better hiring and training practices for people with disabilities, improving entry level jobs for the retail sector, determining the correct educational focus for specific geographic areas including the state of Florida and Columbus Ohio, and an in-depth analysis of green infrastructure jobs.

Prior to joining JFF, she served as director at The Conference Board in New York City, driving its work in workforce readiness, business, and education partnerships. She also focused on improving the employment outcomes for people with disabilities through research and convenings. Ms. Wright co-authored or acted as project director on several key Conference Board reports regarding workforce readiness skills, including Are They Really Ready to Work? and The Ill-Prepared Workforce.

She serves on the Board of Directors of the Institute for Work & the Economy and the Fort Myers Beach Community Foundation.

Ms. Wright received a Master of Business Administration in public/nonprofit management from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts in Urban Affairs from Connecticut College.

 

 

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Bill Dombi
President
National Association for Home Care & Hospice
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Bill Dombi is the President of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice. He also serves as the Executive Director for the Home Health Financial Managers Association. As a key part of his responsibilities, Bill specializes in legal, legislative, and regulatory advocacy on behalf of patients and providers of home health and hospice care. With over 40 years of experience in health care law and policy, Bill Dombi has been involved in virtually all legislative and regulatory efforts affecting home care and hospice since 1975, including the expansion of the Medicare home health benefit in 1980, the formation of the hospice benefit in 1983, the institution on Medicare PPS for home health in 2000, and the national health care reform legislation in 2010. With litigation, Dombi was lead counsel in the landmark lawsuit that reformed the Medicare home health services benefit, challenges to HMO home care cutbacks for high-tech home care patients, lawsuits against Medicaid programs for inadequate payment rates, along with current lawsuits challenging the Medicare home health face-to-face encounter rule and the Department of labor changes to the overtime rules under the Fair labor Standards Act. In addition to litigation, Bill offers extensive community and professional educational services through lectures, publications, teleconferences, and videos. His lectures include market trends in home care, compliance, risk management, patient rights, fraud and abuse, health care reimbursement, legislative and regulatory reforms, and legal issues in telehealth services.

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Nicole Garcia
Founder
Integrate & Elevate
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Nicole Garcia has established her career in HR by helping organizations ranging from 100 to 1,000 employees integrate their people strategy with their business strategy. As a recognized Human Resources leader by the Society for HR Management in 2019, she currently leads the HR function at a global content studio, supporting its acceleration and growth. Additionally, as the Founder of Integrate & Elevate, an HR consulting company, she specializes in enhancing the workplace culture to create a unique competitive advantage in achieving business results. In addition, she strategically aligns HR initiatives and business objectives by improving operational effectiveness and enhancing organizational culture through employee engagement efforts, talent acquisition strategy, and HR systems and processes while modeling the importance of equity, inclusion, and company values.  

Some of Nicole's accomplishments include co-founding the USC HR Management Student Chapter, a SHRM and PIHRA affiliate, and receiving her Masters of Science in HR Management from the University of Southern California. Upon graduation, she was awarded the Order of Arete, the highest honor awarded to graduate students. Additionally, she holds her DEI in the Workplace Certificate from the University of South Florida and SHRM-CP certification. She plans on sitting for her SHRM-SCP this Fall. Previously, Nicole was the Communications Chair for the Professionals in HR Administration, a SHRM chapter located in West Los Angeles. 

Nicole enjoys playing with her dogs and mentoring when she is not working. She currently sits on the Latina Professionals board of directors and is an Ambassador for the Masters Program in HR at the University of Southern California. 

 

 

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Gordon Middleton
Senior Compliance Analyst, CIC Plus, a part of Experian
Experian
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Gordon brings over 20 years of legal compliance and consulting experience to CIC Plus in the areas of employee onboarding, year-end and employment eligibility verification helping to shape the future direction of the CIC Plus product portfolio. He has worked extensively with hundreds of clients over the years auditing, consulting, and training on their compliance processes.

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Tuesday, June 14, 2022 - 12:15pm to 12:45pm
Rick Weber
Chief Marketing Officer
Experian Employer Services
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Claire Stroh, SHRM-CP
Personal Pronouns
She/Her/Hers
Manager, of Managed Talent Services
Lighthouse Technology Services
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Claire Stroh, MBA, SHRM-CP is currently the Manager, of Managed Talent Services at Lighthouse Technology Services and CEO of Claire is Coaching. She has used LinkedIn, Twitter/X, and networking to build her personal brand and uncover new opportunities for herself and the companies she’s worked for. She’s passionate about helping others do the same! Claire has more than 10 years of successively diverse human resources management experience with privately-owned and publicly-traded global leaders. She is an active member and blogger for SHRM and served on SHRM’s Emerging Professional Advisory Council (EPAC) for four years. Claire was named a 2022 HR Impact Award Winner by Buffalo Business First and 2022 Community Catalyst Award Winner by HRUnite!.

 

 

 

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Nicole Garcia
Founder
Integrate & Elevate
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Nicole Garcia has established her career in HR by helping organizations ranging from 100 to 1,000 employees integrate their people strategy with their business strategy. As a recognized Human Resources leader by the Society for HR Management in 2019, she currently leads the HR function at a global content studio, supporting its acceleration and growth. Additionally, as the Founder of Integrate & Elevate, an HR consulting company, she specializes in enhancing the workplace culture to create a unique competitive advantage in achieving business results. In addition, she strategically aligns HR initiatives and business objectives by improving operational effectiveness and enhancing organizational culture through employee engagement efforts, talent acquisition strategy, and HR systems and processes while modeling the importance of equity, inclusion, and company values.  

Some of Nicole's accomplishments include co-founding the USC HR Management Student Chapter, a SHRM and PIHRA affiliate, and receiving her Masters of Science in HR Management from the University of Southern California. Upon graduation, she was awarded the Order of Arete, the highest honor awarded to graduate students. Additionally, she holds her DEI in the Workplace Certificate from the University of South Florida and SHRM-CP certification. She plans on sitting for her SHRM-SCP this Fall. Previously, Nicole was the Communications Chair for the Professionals in HR Administration, a SHRM chapter located in West Los Angeles. 

Nicole enjoys playing with her dogs and mentoring when she is not working. She currently sits on the Latina Professionals board of directors and is an Ambassador for the Masters Program in HR at the University of Southern California. 

 

 

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Amy E. Gotwals
Chief, Public Policy & External Affairs
USAging
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Amy E. Gotwals joined USAging (then the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging) in September 2005 and currently serves as Chief, Public Policy and External Affairs.

In her role, Amy leads n4a’s public policy, advocacy, communications, external relations and membership relations activities. Representing local aging agencies, Amy serves as the lead in outreach to Congress and the Administration to ensure that needed resources and support services are available to older Americans and their caregivers.

Amy has 27 years of public policy, lobbying and grassroots organizing experience. She has represented diverse groups including the Older Women’s League, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, the Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers and the National Network for Youth.

Amy has a Bachelor of Arts in American Studies from Mount Holyoke College and earned a Master of Legislative Affairs from the George Washington University

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