Suz helps companies achieve, sustain and outperform their desired goals. She works primarily with executives pressured with the need to implement successful change and growth initiatives. Suz and her team help them excite and engage both employees and customers so their initiative is a roaring success.  

Suz’s business advice is featured by Forbes monthly and she’s also been quoted by, U.S. News & World Report, Time, Harvard Business Review, and many more. Suz leads workshops called Stop Speaking HR. Start Speaking Business Results, which help HR teams get more time, budget, and respect from functional business line leaders. 

As a Business Strategist and Executive Coach, LaFern Batie leads The Batie Group, LLC, a business consulting and leadership development firm serving organizations around the globe. With extensive Fortune 500 corporate leadership experience and widely recognized expertise, she works with international organizations and leaders across diverse industries to maximize their collective and individual performance. Leaders value her high business acumen, ability to quickly connect with teams, thorough and efficient approach to identifying challenges and commitment to helping them achieve results that exceed their expectations. 

Follow LaFern on Twitter @LaFernBatie.
 

Dinesh Sheth is founder and CEO of Green Circle Health (GCH), a human resources (HR) engagement and health technology platform provider that leverages the latest advances in information, communication and social technologies to enhance the organizational productivity and improve healthcare outcomes through holistic wellbeing of families.

A serial entrepreneur, Sheth has successfully executed several company launches – both domestic and abroad – across multiple industries, including information technology, financial services and telecommunications. Prior to GCH, Sheth co-founded uMonitor-Parsam Technologies, where he served as CEO until its acquisition by a fortune 500 company. Sheth led uMonitor’s growth for over 10 years. Sheth served as president of Software Resource Consultants, which he co-founded and was responsible for its day-to-day operations. Sheth holds a MBA in Finance and Marketing from the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago and a master’s in Computer Science from the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Malinda Riley works with clients to address a full range of total remuneration and employee benefits challenges.  From day to day issues to long term strategic planning, Malinda partners with her clients to meet their business needs.  Her expertise centers on the design and analysis of benefit and total remuneration programs. 

Malinda understands the employee benefits challenges facing clients today and develops solutions to address escalating costs, administrative inefficiency and employee education. Increasingly, she works with clients across all industry sectors to ensure they have the right mix of compensation and benefit programs that fit the needs and objectives of the organization while maintaining cost and market competitiveness. 

Malinda’s expertise includes the following:

• Analysis of competitiveness, design, and cost effectiveness of clients total remuneration programs, including in depth analysis of benefits as well as impact analysis of significant plan design changes on total compensation mix
• Analysis of competitiveness and design of executive retirement plans and perquisites
• Comparison of the compensation structure, incentive plan design and benefit plan designs against the organization’s Total Remuneration philosophy, and
• Health & welfare and Retirement plan design.

David Scott is the Executive Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer at DISH Network in Englewood, Colorado.

DISH Network is a connectivity company that has been a disruptive force in the pay TV industry since 1980 and is now planning to disrupt the wireless industry by launching the United States’ first standalone 5G broadband network. 

David leads the Global Human Resources team, with accountability to deliver the human capital to achieve DISH’s business aspirations.  Since joining DISH in 2018, he has driven a full HR revolution, positioning the organization for significant growth as they prepare to enter new business lines. In addition to HR, he oversees other aspects of team member experience, including real estate, construction, travel, and corporate dining.

David began his professional career at Walmart directly after college.  He held levels of increasing responsibility in most HR disciplines through his 20 years in the Company.  David helped form the then-fledgling HR organization, transforming the hiring, diversity and employment practices during his time, as well as leading all major business partner functions. When he left the retail giant, he was serving as the SVP of Talent and Organizational Effectiveness.  David is a graduate of the University of Florida (go Gators!) with a degree in Business.

Mark Lam is Vice President, Compliance at Assurance, specializing in creating highly personalized client relationships through consistent communication regarding legislative and regulatory issues. He is responsible for a wide variety of activities, including supporting internal staff and clients with their compliance-related questions and working with Assurance staff on internal compliance projects. Additionally, Mark delivers seminars and webinars on topics that span the complex web of employee benefit regulations, such as Health Care Reform, ERISA, HIPAA, IRS, DOL, EEOC, and other federal and state employee benefit regulations.  

Joe Gerstandt brings greater clarity, action, and impact to organizational diversity and inclusion efforts.

Joe has worked with Fortune 100 corporations, small non-profits, and everything in between. He speaks at numerous conferences and summits, and blogs at joegerstandt.com. He is a featured contributor for the Workforce Diversity Network Expert Forum and his insights have been published in Diversity Executive, HR Executive, and numerous other print and on-line journals.

A strong advocate for resetting the diversity and inclusion conversation, Joe sees these issues as poorly understood and often misunderstood.