Jim Reidy, Esq.
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Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green PA
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Attorney James P. (“Jim”) Reidy is a management-side labor and employment lawyer. He is a partner in the New England based law firm, Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green, PA, where he is the Chair of the firm’s Labor and Employment group. His practice focuses on prevention, training and compliance but he also handles matters when claims arise.

He has more than 35 years of experience in the field and been a media resource on workplace law for media outlets including CNN, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times Business Magazine, Bloomberg, NPR, The Associated Press, NPR Market Place, Buzz Feed, Law 360, Inc. Magazine, The HR Power Hour, HR Breakroom, SKI Magazine and HR Magazine as well as several local/regional publications.

In 2020 Jim was inducted as a Fellow in the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. 

Chambers USA and New England Super Lawyers have ranked Jim in the Top Tier of management-side employment lawyers for each year of the last 15 years. Best Lawyers USA named Jim the 2022 Lawyer of the Year for Labor and Employment Law (Manchester, NH) and the NH Business Review named him one of the top 200 most influential business leaders in New Hampshire.

Jim has been a presenter regularly at SHRM’s Legal and Legislative Conference in Washington, DC as well as SHRM’s annual conferences.

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Adrienne Schweer
Fellow
Bipartisan Policy Center
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A Nebraska native, Schweer first came to Washington, D.C., to work for then-Sen. Chuck Hagel, following many years of working in campaigns, including those of Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE). After her years of service on Capitol Hill, Schweer joined the rock star Bono’s non-profit organization, The ONE Campaign, where she led partnership strategy and advocacy in support of African development, including maternal and child health.

From 2014 to 2017, Schweer served as chief of protocol to Defense Secretaries Chuck Hagel, Ashton Carter, and Jim Mattis in the Pentagon. During her tenure, she proposed and led creative new initiatives to raise the profile and advance the priorities of the Secretary of Defense, including helping roll out a 12-week paid maternity leave policy for the military.

In 2018, she helped BPC stand up the first bipartisan Paid Family Leave Task Force and has been working on bipartisan, bicameral paid family leave policy at the federal level. 

She and her husband have three young daughters and a son.

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Lisa K. Horn
Vice President, Government Affairs
SHRM
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Adrienne Schweer
Fellow
Bipartisan Policy Center
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A Nebraska native, Schweer first came to Washington, D.C., to work for then-Sen. Chuck Hagel, following many years of working in campaigns, including those of Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE). After her years of service on Capitol Hill, Schweer joined the rock star Bono’s non-profit organization, The ONE Campaign, where she led partnership strategy and advocacy in support of African development, including maternal and child health.

From 2014 to 2017, Schweer served as chief of protocol to Defense Secretaries Chuck Hagel, Ashton Carter, and Jim Mattis in the Pentagon. During her tenure, she proposed and led creative new initiatives to raise the profile and advance the priorities of the Secretary of Defense, including helping roll out a 12-week paid maternity leave policy for the military.

In 2018, she helped BPC stand up the first bipartisan Paid Family Leave Task Force and has been working on bipartisan, bicameral paid family leave policy at the federal level. 

She and her husband have three young daughters and a son.

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Tammy McCutchen
Senior Affiliate
Resolution Economics
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Tammy D. McCutchen is a senior affiliate with Resolution Economics, providing expert services in the Company’s Wage & Hour and Human Capital Strategy groups.

McCutchen became affiliated with Resolution Economics in 2021. She is a nationally recognized expert in all aspects of wage and hour law. Her experience includes regulation drafting and enforcement, conducting internal compliance audits, defending agency investigations, designing compliance applications using smart technology, and serving as a consulting and testifying expert in wage and hour class and collective actions.

Prior to joining the DOL, she served as Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division at the U.S. Department of Labor. Nominated by President George W. Bush and confirmed by the U.S. Senate, she was the country’s top enforcer of the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, and wage laws affecting government contractors (the Davis-Bacon Act and the Service Contract Act). She managed an annual budget of $160 million and 1,400 employees, represented by two unions, in more than 250 offices across the country. She was responsible for the issuance of opinion letters and set enforcement policy. She also was the principal architect of the 2004 revisions to the overtime exemption regulations, the most significant overhaul of the regulations in 50 years. Since leaving DOL, she has been the principal author of numerous comments on proposed changes by DOL to the FLSA regulations, including on overtime and independent contractors. She also has defended dozens of employers facing DOL investigations of FLSA, DBA, and SCA compliance.

After serving at the DOL, she practiced law with Littler Mendelson, PC and was a founding vice president and managing director of ComplianceHR. At CHR, she directed the development of the only on-demand suite of intelligent compliance applications focused on helping employers address the ever-changing federal and state employment law requirements on minimum wage, overtime, independent contracting and more. Her Navigator IC and Navigator OT apps assess the risks of classifying workers as independent contractors and employees as overtime exempt as quickly as it takes to fill out an on-line questionnaire. She remains a Strategic Advisor for the company.

Previously, she was in-house counsel for employment at the Hershey Company, practiced law at Skadden Arps, and clerked for Honorable Daniel A. Manion on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

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Tuesday, March 19, 2019 - 1:15pm to 2:15pm
David Cohen
Founder and President
DCI Consulting Group Inc.
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David Cohen is the founder and President of DCI Consulting Group, Inc. He provides consulting services to employers and management law firms on human resource risk management strategies in the areas of EEO/affirmative action, systemic compensation statistical analyses, human resources self-audits, and employee selection and test validation.

Mr. Cohen is the co-founder of The Institute for Workplace Equality, a nonprofit employer association that educates federal contractors in complying with their affirmative action and equal employment obligations.

Mr. Cohen has a M.S. degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Radford University and B.A. degree in Psychology from West Virginia University.

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David Cohen
Founder and President
DCI Consulting Group Inc.
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David Cohen is the founder and President of DCI Consulting Group, Inc. He provides consulting services to employers and management law firms on human resource risk management strategies in the areas of EEO/affirmative action, systemic compensation statistical analyses, human resources self-audits, and employee selection and test validation.

Mr. Cohen is the co-founder of The Institute for Workplace Equality, a nonprofit employer association that educates federal contractors in complying with their affirmative action and equal employment obligations.

Mr. Cohen has a M.S. degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Radford University and B.A. degree in Psychology from West Virginia University.

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Jonathan A. Segal
Partner
Duane Morris, LLP
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Jonathan is a partner at Duane Morris LLP in its Employment Group.  He also is the Founder and managing principal of the Duane Morris Institute, which provides training on employment issues to HR professionals, in-house counsel and other leaders.

The core of Jonathan’s practice is helping employers maximize legal compliance and minimize legal risk with regard to harassment, discrimination, retaliation and reasonable accommodations.
Over the past few years, Jonathan has focused on religion in general and antisemitism in particular. In addition to helping clients, Jonathan has delivered a number of talks on antisemitism on behalf of the EEOC as well as to field directors of the EEOC.
 
Jonathan has provided training to federal judges and other members of the federal judiciary on various employment issues for more than 20 years.

 

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Tuesday, March 19, 2019 - 9:00am to 10:00am
Mike Lotito, J.D.
co-chair
Littler’s Workplace Policy Institute
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As co-chair of Littler Mendelson’s Workplace Policy Institute (WPI), Michael Lotito strategically advises clients and policy makers on not only what labor and employment law is today, but what it might become. A nationally recognized thought leader on workplace policy, Michael has testified before both chambers of Congress, as well as the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). In his WPI role, Michael advocates on behalf of the employer community on a variety of issues. Through the Emma Coalition, which Michael co-founded, he is at the vanguard of preparing American business and the American workforce for the future of work.

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Dana Barbato, SHRM-SCP
CEO
InvestiPro
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Dana Barbato spent over 25 years working to tame the chaos in the human side of HR. With a strong belief in respectful employee relations, strong leadership and consistent practices, she has proven in her HR roles that accountability is the answer to our engagement and retention problems. Now, as CEO of InvestiPro Dana is on a mission to revolutionize the way employee relations and investigation are handled across all industries.

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Daniel Macklin
CEO
Salary Finance Inc.
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Daniel Macklin is the co-founder of SoFi and CEO of Salary Finance Inc., an award-winning organization that partners with employers to offer financial wellness solutions that help employees improve their lives by improving their finances. His goal is to help 10 million Americans out of debt and start them on a path to saving for their future. In 2017, Inc. included him on its list of "25 Inspiring Entrepreneurs to Watch in 2017." Macklin's insights have been featured on in the media, including Bloomberg, CNBC, Forbes, Reuters and the Wall Street Journal. He is also a guest lecturer at Stanford University.

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Kent Allison
National Leader, Employee Financial Education & Wellness
PwC
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Kent is the National Leader of PwC’s Employee Financial Wellness Practice, which specializes in providing un-biased financial education and wellness services.

Recognized as one of the world’s leading advocates of employee financial wellbeing, Kent has spent his entire career focused on helping others improve their financial lives.  He also consults with financial institutions to help develop their financial wellness strategies; has worked with various government entities focused on improving national financial literacy and wellness; consulted with the US Military to address the financial needs of its personnel; and is involved with various initiatives in the not-for-profit and charitable arena.

Kent is the author of PwC’s Annual Employee Financial Wellness Survey; a regular guest speaker at conferences across the globe; is frequently quoted in the press; and has been a key contributor to four books on financial planning.

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Felicia Cheng
Wellbeing Benefits program manager
Salesforce
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Felicia Cheng is a Wellbeing Benefits Program Manager at Salesforce where she is constantly exploring and seeking to understand what employees need to live healthier and happier lives. Outside of work, Felicia continues to find ways to enable people to be their best selves. Felicia is also a Co-Active Coach as well as a Lagree Fitness Instructor.

Felicia lives in San Francisco with her husband Doug. 

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Wendy Myers Cambor
Managing Director and Region HR Lead, US Northeast
Accenture
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Wendy leads Human Resources for Accenture’s Northeast Region, supporting 10,000 people in their personal and professional lives, partnering with Strategy, Consulting, Technology, Operations and Digital businesses to drive a talent strategy that supports employee experience, business growth and client innovation. Accenture, with 477,000 people globally, serves over three-quarters of the Fortune Global 500. Wendy was previously the CEO of Dolphin Lane, a hedge fund advisory firm, and held leadership positions at Morgan Stanley and Fidelity Investments. Wendy holds a BS in Engineering from Cornell University and is a Member of the Women’s Boards of Barnard College and Harvard University.

 

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Moderator: 
Peter Barnes
financial journalist
formerly Bloomberg
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Peter Barnes has been a business and economics reporter and anchor for multiple news organizations for more than three decades, including Bloomberg Radio, Fox Business Network, CNBC and the Wall Street Journal. As an entrepreneur, he helped launch the first dot-com streaming financial news service and founded a niche book publishing company with two New York Times bestsellers to its credit. Along with his wife, Cheryl, Peter is the author of more than a dozen children's books. He is currently working as a communications consultant in Boston. 

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Monday, June 24, 2019 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm