Ryan Kohler
Personal Pronouns
He/Him/His
CEO
ApplicantPro
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Ryan is the Founder and CEO of ApplicantPro, a hiring software company founded in 2006. Ryan and his team have grown the small startup into a leading provider of hiring software for over 7,000 companies around the nation. Ryan's mission is to help companies, managers, and HR teams improve their hiring results. To do this, he and his team strive to create educational content, tools, integrations, and software to help businesses drive their hiring results. In addition, he is an HRCI and SHRM-CP Approved Provider and conducts weekly, free webinars and presents at SHRM events around the country. 

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David Rittof
President
Modern Management
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Mr. Rittof is the President and CEO of Modern Management, Inc. and an employee relations consultant His proactive approach to employee relations has roots in a broad spectrum of activities including organizational re-design studies, employee opinion surveys, communication audits, and labor relations seminars. As President/CEO, he leads a team of dedicated professionals in helping executives, managers, and supervisors face the challenges of the future. A graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Mr. Rittof holds a B.A. and M.A. in Organizational Communication. He has taught at the university level and is co-author of Quality Circles, a textbook utilized by several universities and businesses. Since joining the firm over 33 years ago, he has consulted in virtually all aspects of employee relations. His experience encompasses healthcare, manufacturing, gaming, hospitality, banking, services, insurance, and government. A few of Mr. Rittof’s many accomplishments include successfully assisting numerous organizations in maintaining non-union status; providing preventive management training programs regarding the union campaign process; developing identification and action planning processes for responding to employee morale issues; and implementing communication plans for organizations in transition. He has also provided coaching and guidance for executives wishing to improve their public speaking skills and frequently facilitated executive retreats for strategic planning and team building.
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Monday, June 18, 2018 - 10:45am to 12:00pm
Randy G. Pennington
president
Pennington Performance Group
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Randy Pennington helps leaders deliver positive results in a world of accelerating uncertainty and change. His clients include many of world’s best-managed companies, associations, government agencies, and universities. Additionally, Randy serves as an adjunct instructor in the Cox Business Leadership Center at Southern Methodist University.

Randy is author of three books: Make Change WorkResults Rule!; and On My Honor, I Will . His ideas have been featured in leading media outlets including CNN, PBS, Fox News, ABC Radio Network, the BBC, Fast Company, and The New York Times. He is a contributor to CIO.com and the Huffington Post.

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Charles Jennings founder, 70:20:10 Institute
founder
70:20:10 Institute
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Charles Jennings is a leading thinker and practitioner in innovative talent, learning and performance approaches. He is known globally for his work with the 70:20:10 model.
 
His background includes roles as a business school professor, chief learning officer for Reuters and Thomson Reuters, director of strategy for Down Jones Markets, and as a member of advisory boards and steering groups for international learning, performance and business bodies.
 
In 2016 Charles founded the 70:20:10 Institute with co-authors of the book 702010 towards 100% performance. The Institute supports organisations around the world with its 70:20:10 Roadmap and methodology and also offers accreditation through its 70:20:10 Expert programme and a range of services with business partners.
 
He also works as a consultant to organisations across the world, helping them transform their people and talent development strategies and their learning approaches.
 
Charles is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts (FRSA), a Fellow of the Learning & Performance Institute (FLPI), and a Fellow of the British Institute for Learning & Development (FBILD)
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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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Monday, June 18, 2018 - 2:00pm to 3:15pm
Charles Jennings founder, 70:20:10 Institute
founder
70:20:10 Institute
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Charles Jennings is a leading thinker and practitioner in innovative talent, learning and performance approaches. He is known globally for his work with the 70:20:10 model.
 
His background includes roles as a business school professor, chief learning officer for Reuters and Thomson Reuters, director of strategy for Down Jones Markets, and as a member of advisory boards and steering groups for international learning, performance and business bodies.
 
In 2016 Charles founded the 70:20:10 Institute with co-authors of the book 702010 towards 100% performance. The Institute supports organisations around the world with its 70:20:10 Roadmap and methodology and also offers accreditation through its 70:20:10 Expert programme and a range of services with business partners.
 
He also works as a consultant to organisations across the world, helping them transform their people and talent development strategies and their learning approaches.
 
Charles is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts (FRSA), a Fellow of the Learning & Performance Institute (FLPI), and a Fellow of the British Institute for Learning & Development (FBILD)
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Monday, June 18, 2018 - 10:45am to 12:00pm
Lisbeth Claus, SHRM-SCP
professor, global human resources
Atkinson Graduate School of Management of Willamette University
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Lisbeth Claus, Ph.D., SHRM-SCP, is a Professor of Global Human Resources at the Atkinson Graduate School of Management of Willamette University in Salem, Oregon (USA). Prior to joining Willamette University, she held faculty and administrative positions at the Monterey Institute of International Studies and managerial positions at Safeway Inc. and Maritz Inc.

Dr. Claus has published widely in academic and professional journals on subject matters related to international and global HR management issues, and is a frequent key-note speaker at national and international HR conferences. She is considered a leading expert on issues related to employee performance management for multinational companies and organizations.

She frequently delivers multi-day strategic HR seminars in Central and Eastern Europe, Eastern Africa, and Asia for country and regional HR managers. She was the 2003 President of SHRM Global, the international division of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). In 2004, SHRM commissioned her to design the GPHR (Global Professional Human Resources) Certification Preparation Course  She is also a Global HR Special Expertise Panel Member at SHRM. To advance the HR profession, she frequently volunteers her professional services for the establishment and development of country HR associations in emerging markets. 

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Monday, June 18, 2018 - 10:45am to 12:00pm
Kevin Mahoney, CIMA
Managing Director, Investments and Senior Institutional Consultant
Raymond James
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As founder of Corporate Advisors Group, Kevin Mahoney joined Raymond James as a Managing Director, Investments and Senior Institutional Consultant in 2015. Kevin brings over 25 years’ experience in the financial services industry. His areas of expertise include fiduciary risk management, ERISA issues, qualified and non-qualified retirement plans, liability driven investing, philanthropic services, employee education and communication. 

Kevin led the launch of SHRM 401(k) Solutions by Raymond James. SHRM 401(k) Solutions by Raymond James offers fiduciary investment advisory services to SHRM’s ecosystem.  We help employees make meaningful progress towards their financial goals and employers meet their fiduciary responsibilities.

 

 

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Wednesday, June 20, 2018 - 10:00am to 11:15am
Theresa Hummel-Krallinger
President
High Five Performance, Inc.
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Theresa Hummel-Krallinger is an Emmy Award-winning comedian, a well-respected senior training professional and performance consultant.  She is a frequently requested speaker on topics of leadership, career management, organizational culture and workplace communications. 

Theresa is a past president of the Greater Philadelphia Chapter of the Association for Talent Development and is the past president for a local Toastmasters club.  For 17 years she served on the non-credit faculty at Temple University.  She has been a featured speaker at numerous regional and international conferences.  She won an Emmy in 2019 for her work on the PBS talk show, “Counter Culture.”

 

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Beth Baerman
product communications director
Attendance on Demand
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Beth Baerman is Director of Compliance and Communications for Attendance on Demand and is an expert in time and labor management. She has over 20 years’ experience in workforce management, product management, technical communications, and training.
 
Baerman is a frequent speaker about labor compliance and compliance trends. Recently, she addressed national conferences for the American Payroll Association, Society for Human Resource Management, American College of Health Care Administrators, and others. Baerman is engaging and passionate about helping businesses achieve workforce management optimization and helping organizations respond to the growing complexities of compliance regulations.
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Monday, June 18, 2018 - 10:45am to 12:00pm