Concurrent Session

Lester S. Rosen is an attorney at law  and CEO of Employment Screening Resources (ESR), a national background screening company.  He is a consultant, writer, expert witness  and frequent presenter nationwide on pre-employment screening. He is the author of “The Safe Hiring Manual,” (3d Edition 2017/826 pages), the first comprehensive book on background screening.  He served as the chairperson of the steering committee that founded the Professional Background Screeners Association (PBSA),  served as its first co-chair and received the PBSA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019. 

Matthew Effland is the Vice President – Employment Counsel for KAR Auction Services, Inc.  KAR is a provider of vehicle auction services in North America, facilitating the used vehicle marketplace by providing auction services for sellers of used, or whole car, vehicles and salvage vehicles through its auction locations and multiple internet venues. The Company has a network of 65 whole car auction locations and 164 salvage auction locations, as well as offering a variety of online and financing services.  In his role, Matt provides guidance and support to KAR’s Human Resources department, drawing on his 14 years of management-side private practice.  Matt is licensed in both California and Indiana, and is the author of the recently-published SHRM Book ”The Perils and Pitfalls of California Employment Law: A Guide for HR Professionals.”

As Director of Crisis Management at FEI Behavioral Health, Terri is responsible for working with corporate clients to ensure companies are prepared for, can respond to and can recover from a crisis incident. She is also responsible for coordinating the people support and psychological first aid services for those impacted by a crisis incident. Additionally, Terri is experienced in designing drills and exercises aimed at testing organization’s current plans and procedures. She has contributed to several international standards and guidelines on crisis management and workplace violence prevention, including ASIS and the FBI.

Steven Lash is the Founder, President & CEO of Satori World Medical, the leading global healthcare company that provides employers, health plans, plan sponsors and employees the opportunity to access world class quality healthcare at a fraction of the cost. Steve developed the Business Plan in the summer of 2007 and raised several million dollars of angel funding and opened an office in San Diego in April 2008. From inception through December 2008 he hired an outstanding management team, performed multi day on site due diligence of the hospital and physician network, executed agreements, filed a patent on the company’s business model, developed the policies, processes and methodologies to provide a one stop shop, all inclusive service offering to plan sponsors. The Company started sending patients internationally for care in January 2009.

As co-founder and CEO of Globoforce, Eric has been directing the path of Globoforce as the innovator in the recognition industry since the company’s beginning. His vision to raise employee recognition from a tactical, unmeasured, and under-valued effort to a global strategic program with clear measures for performance and success is now being realized in some of the world’s largest and most complex organizations. Eric’s work has been published in such publications as Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Forbes, and Fortune, and he has also presented at industry and investment conferences around the world. Eric is the author of the upcoming book The Crowdsourced Performance Review and the co-author of the critically-acclaimed book Winning with a Culture of Recognition.

Two themes are woven throughout Lauraine Bifulco's diverse career: a passion for a job well done and a zest for continual learning and improvement.  Lauraine infuses Vantaggio HR with these qualities every day. When she founded the firm in 1994, Lauraine combined her rare talent in understanding what a client needs and her gift of business foresight to create a company that can service the HR and management consulting needs of small and large companies equally well.  Today, Vantaggio serves clients across the country from their offices in California, Hawaii, Colorado, and New York. 

Her Career experience helps employers realize their HR goals and adapt to the shifting HR landscape.  Lauraine is a veteran HR executive and entrepreneur with 25 years of international, corporate, and consulting experience. Her bold career has taken her to employment and business opportunities in Europe and multiple U.S. cities. She serves as co-chair of the California Small Business Administration's committee on Labor Issues which reviews and makes recommendations on pending labor/employment laws, keeping her abreast of legal developments.                                                                            

Delivering over 30 presentations and webinars each year, Lauraine is a well-respected, and highly sought after guest lecturer and speaker on a variety of business management and HR-related topics for both state and national organizations including Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), Professionals in Human Resources Association (PIHRA), American Payroll Association (APA), Next Concept HR Association (NCHRA), Paylocity annual Elevate Conference, and HR Star Conference to name a few. She has been invited to review, develop, and deliver certificate programs for SHRM, and has developed and delivered curriculum for businesses throughout the U.S.                                                                   

Lauraine received a bachelor’s degree from Wellesley College and conducted graduate level studies in linguistics at the Sorbonne in Paris.

Hunter Lott is an HR problem solver. He has delivered over 4000 “on stage” events, over 17,000 presentation hours and reviewed over 1200 employee handbooks. Hunter won accolades as a senior course leader for the American Management Association. Hunter is an award winning speaker with Vistage and has earned Speaker of the Year, Impact Speaker of the Year and Top Performer Vistage honors.

Hunter attended Tulane University in New Orleans, graduated from Iowa State and has a Master’s Degree in Employment Law from NSU Shepard Broad College of Law.

As senior vice president and chief marketing officer, Jim Kizielewicz is responsible for developing and guiding the global marketing strategy for Kronos. 

Kizielewicz has served in a variety of management and executive capacities for Kronos since he joined the company in 1981, including leadership positions in services, business development, product marketing, and training.  As head of corporate strategy when Kronos was a publicly traded company, Kizielewicz was the principal architect of several strategic acquisitions.

A sought-after thought-leader and speaker, few executives in the field of workforce management can match the experience that Kizielewicz has accumulated during his multi-faceted tenure with Kronos.  From the pioneering days of introducing micro-processing technology for time-capture to the latest in biometric security devices, Kizielewicz has been a consistent contributor to the industry’s continuing evolution. 

Kizielewicz earned a bachelor’s degree in government from Hamilton College, and has participated in a series of executive education programs, including the AEA/Stanford Executive Institute at Stanford University.

John A. Rubino, SHRM-SCP, CCP, CBP, GRP, WLCP, is founder and president of Rubino Consulting Services, a global human resources consulting company based in Pound Ridge, New York. His areas of expertise cover all areas of Human Resources program design. An internationally acclaimed speaker for SHRM and WorldatWork, John is the author of numerous human resources articles, and is frequently quoted in professional publications. He holds BA and MBA degrees, as well as a lifetime Achievement Award from WorldatWork. John works with a wide variety of organizations and his consulting practice takes him all around the world; in fact, he has visited one hundred and nine countries!