Concurrent Session

Lisa Rosser is on a mission to help organizations improve their veteran recruiting and retention. Her unique background with years of experience in both military and human resources is what makes her the ideal person for training human resource professionals how to recruit, hire, and retain military veterans for employment.

Lisa's military career includes 10 years of Active Army duty and 11 years of service with the Army Reserve, including 2-1/2 years of mobilization after the events of 9-11. During her Active Duty time she participated in 3 major engagements (Gulf War, Somalia, and Bosnia). Her Army Reserve career focused on operations and performance management, recruiting, placement, training, and skills development. She retired from the Army Reserve in July 2011 at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.

Lisa's civilian career capitalized on her Human Resources and Training military experiences into an eight year career at Accenture, a Global Fortune 500 consulting firm. In 2007, Lisa founded The Value Of a Veteran and published an employer guide to recruiting the military. The enthusiastic response to the hiring guide led to workshops for corporate, government and higher education organizations, as well as webinars on critical military hiring topics.

Global Speaker Sonia Aranza has presented on the international stage from Spain to Singapore.  She brings 27+ years of experience in Diversity, Inclusion & Global Leadership. Her clients include Boeing, CIA, McDonald’s and more. The U.S. Department of Labor describes her work as “Outstanding” and was selected to execute programs for landmark cases. SHRM featured her as a Diversity & Inclusion Expert in HR Magazine and she is a LinkedIn Top Voice in Leadership. She serves on the Faculty of Howard University’s Executive Diversity Program; named “100 Most Influential Filipina Americans in the United States” and honored “100 Most Influential Filipina Women in the World.”

Bill Schiemann is founder and CEO of Metrus Group, specializing in performance measurement and organizational change. He has consulted extensively with corporations on the development and implementation of business and people strategies; HR measurement; strategic employee surveys and internal value assessments; and creating high performance cultures. He also founded the Metrus Institute, which supports research and publications, many in the human capital arena.  

Bill is a thought leader in the human resources field, having written scores of articles and six books in the human capital area, most recently the SHRM-published book, Hidden Drivers of Success:  Leveraging Employee Insights for Strategic Advantage (2013). 

He is the Past Chair of the SHRM Foundation Board of Directors and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the HR Certification Institute.  He has been named a Fellow and Scholar by the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology. 

Follow Bill on Twitter @wschiemann.

Annette Coffey is a Global Business Transformation Executive in Human Resources at IBM.  In her current role, Annette is responsible for driving HR business process and technology transformation and simplification, supporting a variety of HR processes, including Global Talent, Recruitment, Compensation, Learning and Leadership Development.  Annette also works closely with IBM Business Development to coordinate HR process and application integration for newly acquired companies.  In addition, Annette collaborates with her Global HR Diversity colleagues on a variety of Diversity/LGBT initiatives.

Annette began her IBM career in San Jose in 1984.  She held a number of management positions in the Software Division at the Silicon Valley Lab in San Jose, California.  She became an Executive Assistant to the General Manager of Database Solutions, and in 1999,  Annette accepted an assignment in Toronto, Canada to lead the Customer Service Delivery organization, supporting IBM customers around the world.  In 2002, Annette moved to a Software Product executive position where she led a large global development organization to deliver software solutions to Fortune 500 customers.

Annette joined IBM's Global HR organization in 2005 and led the successful world-wide deployment of Global Opportunity Marketplace, IBM's first global recruiting solution.  She also led the Global HR Technology organization, with employees in over 25 countries.  Recently, as part of IBM's Smarter Cities initiative, Annette spent a month in  Brazil working with local government agencies to develop a plan to manage their population growth in a sustainable fashion, engaging citizens and communities to be co-responsible for city conservation and development.  Annette's IBM assignments have allowed her to travel extensively around the world, experiencing new cities and meeting new people is one of her favorite activities.  Annette earned a Bachelor's Degree with Honors from San Jose State University and is a member of the Society for Human Resources Management.



 

Dr. Ellen Kossek is the Basil S. Turner Professor of Management and director, Center for Leadership, at Purdue University's Krannert School of Management where she teaches graduate students and managers on organizational behavior and human resource challenges. She was elected to the Board of Governors of the National Academy of Management and is a Fellow of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

Ginger C. Hanson, Ph.D. is a research associate III at Kaiser Permanente Northwest, Center for Health Research. Her research interests include occupation health psychology and work-life integration.

Stephanie Coontz teaches history and family studies at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA. She also serves as Co-Chair and Director of Public Education at the Council on Contemporary Families, a non-profit, nonpartisan association of family researchers and practitioners based at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her work has been featured in many newspapers such as The New York Times, as well as scholarly journals such as Journal of Marriage and Family, and she is frequently interviewed on national television and radio.

Bianchini was a financial analyst at Goldman Sachs, the co-founder and CEO of Ning, and is now the CEO of Mightybell, a startup aimed at helping others succeed in collaborative small steps. She serves as an advisor to the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford and is the co-founder of Lean In with Sheryl Sandberg.