Michael Hepburn
partner
Eversheds Sutherland
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Michael Hepburn counsels clients on a broad range of compensation, employment and benefits issues. Experienced in employee benefits, executive compensation and employment law, Michael advises clients on the design, administration and termination of retirement and welfare plans. Michael has extensive experience in executive compensation related matters and provides advice regarding tax, securities and employment aspects of executive compensation arrangements, including nonqualified deferred compensation arrangements, and equity and equity-based compensation programs. He also handles employment, compensation and benefits issues in mergers, acquisitions and other business transactions.

Michael routinely counsels clients on labor and employment law issues, including hiring practices, employee evaluations, disciplinary actions, leave policies and practices, employment termination, discrimination charges, personnel policy review, and employment contracts. In addition, he advises business clients on consulting agreements, noncompetition agreements and other restrictive covenant arrangements, as well as severance and release agreements.

Michael and his team recognize the value that employees provide to every business enterprise and strive to partner with in-house resources from HR to legal, as well as tax and business partners to ensure that we deliver practical advice focused on individualized business needs.

Michael is recognized by The Legal 500 United States in the area of employee benefits and executive compensation (2015, 2018)

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Audrey Elliott
partner
Eversheds Sutherland International LLP
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Audrey is a UK attorney who advises on both contentious and non-contentious human resources issues. She is head of Eversheds Sutherland’s immigration team and works closely with businesses seeking to move the workforce around the globe and recruit new employees to ensure that all legal requirements are complied with. She focuses on business immigration, providing comprehensive guidance to global clients such as Centrica, Associated British Foods, Harrods and Bank of New York on securing the requisite permission for an overseas national to take up employment. .

 

Her experience includes advising on the topical employment law issue of variations to a final salary pension scheme with 5,300 active members and strategic advice to a listed plc to assess risk and take action in relation to age discrimination issues.  Audrey's work also has an international slant as she works regularly with overseas, particularly US clients who operate in the UK, and also co-ordinates Europe wide projects.

 

Audrey runs Eversheds external training programme on immigration issues and has contributed an immigration chapter to the Eversheds publication on HR issues in the NHS.

In 1997, she completed a Masters Degree in European Employment Law from the University of Leicester and is a member of Employment Lawyers Association and the Immigration Law Practitioners Association.

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Chad & Cheese
hosts of HR’s Most Dangerous Podcast
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Who in the heck are these guys?
Chad & Cheese – hosts of HR’s Most Dangerous Podcast – are the snarkiest recruitment industry analysts to grace iTunes, Google, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

What the heck do they know?
Bringing to the people over 40 years of combined experience Chad and Cheese bring a unique perspective and brash flavor to the recruitment industry.

Chad Sowash, an Army Infantry Drill Sergeant, cut his teeth in online recruiting in ’98 with Online Career Center before it was launched in ’99 as Monster.com. He helped build DirectEmployers from the ground up, steered RecruitMilitary toward revenue as CXO, and built Randstad’s very first military veteran hiring program. Today you can find him speaking at events, podcasting or just working his ass off as a Principal Partner at Catch 22 Consulting.  

The yin to Chad’s podcasting yang – get it? – is Joel Cheesman another recruiting industry tech geek from the late 90’s where he worked at eSpan one of the very first job boards in the world, JobOptions, CareerBoard, Jobing, Recruiting.com and did partnership shit at EmployeescreenIQ. But you probably know him from his days as Cheezhead. Joel likes to tinker which means he's also started a variety of businesses, including his latest venture an employer review aggregator and brand early warning system called Ratedly.

In short, Chad & Cheese know their stuff.

WARNING: Chad & Cheese is EXPLICIT, meaning they say exactly what’s on their minds. 

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Halting Harassment

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Halting Harassment provides compliant, compelling, interactive, computer-based training for all employees in addition to supplemental training for supervisors. The product has been designed to help employers in jurisdictions with mandatory training requirements, as well as those in locations without them, encourage behaviors that foster a work environment free from discrimination and harassment. Halting Harassment is 50-state compliant.
Brian Smith
senior associate, North America Workforce Products
Mercer
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Brian is a Senior Associate in Mercer’s North America Workforce Products team responsible for providing Mercer clients with Digital HR Technology, Compensation and Mobility solutions.
 
He is a frequent speaker, having delivered over 100 presentations in the last two years addressing the career trends of Generation Z, Millennials, and the future of our global workforce. He is passionate about workforce digitization, compensation, employer branding, artificial intelligence, and helping HR make strategic, data-driven decisions.
 
Brian has ten years of experience providing global organizations with technology solutions and market research. He received a B.A. in Political Science from Indiana University.
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James Bernstein
partner and national solution leader
Mercer Marketplace 365+
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James Bernstein is a Partner and a National Solution Leader, supporting the West market, for Mercer Marketplace 365+. In this role, James supports Mercer consulting teams in helping employers evaluate and implement integrated technology, administration, well-being and consulting solutions. In addition, James is a national speaker on technology and consumerism in healthcare.

Prior to his current role, James served as the Office Business Leader for Mercer’s Cincinnati and Columbus Health and Benefits business. James was responsible for client services, P&L growth across all market segments and professional development of the consulting teams.

James has been with Mercer for seventeen years, actively leading client relationships and guiding clients' long-term benefits strategy. James consults clients in health care funding strategies, benefit redesign and cost analysis, multi-year strategic planning, consumer driven strategies, and international benefits.

James received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Michigan.

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Elatia Abate
entrepreneur and chief explorer
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Elatia Abate is the CEO of a start-up that matches advisors with innovation projects. She is an expert on the future of work, blockchain applications, and building cultures of creativity. She works with organizations that range in size from Fortune 500 to early-stage start-ups. She coaches the Scaling Social Innovation Lab at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

She is a sought-after speaker and lecturer, having delivered a TEDx titled, “Pioneering The Future of Work.” Other recent speaking engagements include “The Future of Work” at the Illinois Hispanic Chamber of Commerce’s Annual Convention (August 2017), “Design Your Dream Career” at University of Chicago Booth School of Business (February 2018) and keynoting Fundación RAP’s Seminar on Employment and Inclusion with a talk entitled “Preparing For The Fourth Industrial Revolution” at Tulane
University (March 2018). She is also the voice of "Good Evening," Brazil's Gazeta do Povo English language nightly news briefing.

Before leaving the corporate world, Ms. Abate served as Vice President of Human Resources at Dow Jones & Company and Global Director Talent Acquisition at Anheuser-Busch InBev. At both organizations she led global initiatives to build cultures of innovation through human capital strategy.

She teaches in the Continuing Studies departments of Stanford University and University of Toronto. Her work has been featured in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Estadão and Fast Company.

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Steve Garguilo
Partner
Cultivate
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Steve Garguilo is an instigator with a track record of large-scale, grassroots change inside big companies. As the Founder of Cultivate, he leads a team that empowers changemakers inside many different types of organizations. His team at Cultivate also pioneered an enterprise software platform that supports workplace communities.

He is the author of a #1 bestseller, Surge: Your Guide to Put Any Idea into Action.

Garguilo has also worked on social ventures globally. In 2014, he completed The Mongol Rally, a 10,000-mile adventure from London to Ulan Bator, Mongolia, fundraising for the African Prisons Project. He has visited each of the 48 contiguous United States and is a member of the “century club” having visited over 100 countries.

 

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The Importance of Action as a Core Capability

Wednesday, April 10, 2019 - 10:55am to 11:13am
 

Second-Chance Employment: Creating Thriving, Inclusive Workforces and Safer Communities

Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - 2:20pm to 2:38pm
Dawn Burke
founder/advisor
Dawn Burke HR
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Dawn Burke, founder of Dawn Burke HR, is an HR leader, speaker and writer specializing in new HR practices, engagement and workplace culture. Her HR and leadership career has spanned the last 20 years, most recently serving as VP of People for Birmingham, AL, award-winning technology company, Daxko.

During her tenure as VP of People, Dawn was responsible for finding great talent, developing team members, and preserving company culture - a culture recognized in Fortune Magazine as one of the “50 Best Small and Medium Workplaces.” Recognized as a Top HR Innovator, she is creator of DawnHBurke.com, and a contributor to a variety of national blogs including SHRM Next and Fistful Of Talent.

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Recruiters Behaving Badly? Understanding Your ‘Hiring Culture’ for Improved Results

Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - 10:40am to 10:58am