Talent Strategies 2012

7:00am - 5:00pm - Grand Ballroom Foyer

7:00am - 8:00am - Lafayette Ballroom

8:00am - 8:15am - Grand Ballroom

Mike Prokopeak

Vice President, Editorial Director
MediaTec Publishing Inc.

8:15am - 9:15am - Grand Ballroom

Don Tapscott

Co-Author, Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World
Chairman, Moxie Insight

The collapse of the financial systems and the global economic crisis of 2009 were a wakeup call to the world. We need to rethink and rebuild many of the organizations and institutions that have served us well for decades, even centuries, but are no longer able. Many traditional economic and social pillars of the Industrial Age have come to the end of their life cycle. How must our institutions change for a new century, new media, new generation and a new economy? The next decade is crucial. What is to be done?

Don Tapscott, one of the most influential visionaries of the digital age, discusses how the combination of a new generation and a new communications medium is revolutionizing the workforce. The first generation to "grow up digital" thinks, learns, collaborates and works differently than its baby boomer parents. This is creating a "generational firewall" that needs to be overcome if companies are to transform themselves for the new realities. Most of what we know about human capital strategies is changing as the old paradigms of recruitment, compensation, training, performance evaluation, retention and management are changing.

In this session, attendees will learn:

• What the big drivers are and the nature of the transformation in business that is underway
• How the "Net Generation" is different from previous generations in the workforce
• How the old paradigms of human capital are evolving in the new digital age

9:30am - 10:30am - Grand Ballroom

Molly Anderson

Director of Talent, Deloitte
co-author, The Corporate Lattice

Billy Dexter

Partner, Global Diversity Services Practice
Heidrick & Struggles

Jeanne C. Meister

Co-Author
The 2020 Workplace: How Innovative Companies Attract, Develop & Keep Tomorrow's Employees Today

Robert Rodriguez Ph.D.

President
Dr. Robert Rodriguez Advisors, LLC

Technology shapes our personal lives in countless ways, both subtle and dramatic, and it’s reshaping the workplace, too. Add powerful global economic forces to the mix, driven by shifting demographics, increasing diversity, worldwide trade and rapidly emerging markets, and you get a complex and often perilous environment for human capital practice. Radically new models for management are emerging to operate in this rapid-fire, mobile and increasingly virtual environment. Tried-and-true often can mean dead and buried.

In this discussion, a panel of experts will share how and why the workplace and the workforce are changing and what you should be doing to prepare today to manage tomorrow. They’ll share ideas and practices on:

• The intersection of technology and talent management.
• Future workforce demographic trends and implications.
• How to attract and retain employees.
• The evolution of career paths and planning.

10:30am - 11:30am - Lafayette Ballroom

11:30am - 12:30pm - Grand Ballroom

Jim Carroll

Futurist, Trends, Creativity & Innovation Expert

We live in an era of unprecedented, relentless change — a time of hyper-innovation, rapid skills obsolescence and the rapid emergence of new knowledge, constant career upheaval and evolution of existing careers and emergence of new careers. In an era such as this, every organization is faced with a need for a new type of talent management flexibility. That's why some leaders are focused on “human capital agility”: the ability to deploy the right skills at the right time for the right purpose — just in time skills deployment. Whether it is dealing with the impact of faster rates of business model change, the rapid emergence of new markets and products, or more challenging organizational complexities, they are orienting themselves toward skills management as a key organizations success factor.

Join futurist, trends and innovation expert Jim Carroll as he shares his insight into the methods by which organizations are preparing for the changing economy of the 21st century through skills management strategies that focus on agility, insight and execution.

12:30pm - 2:00pm - Lafayette Ballroom

2:00pm - 3:00pm

2:00pm - 3:00pm - Evangeline

Janet Manzullo

Vice President, Talent Acquisition
Time Warner Cable

If you take a slightly different view of talent acquisition, you’ll be surprised what you might discover. In this session attendees will learn about the experiences of Janet Manzullo, a 21-year hiring manager who became the head of recruiting. She has spent the last six and a half years employing tactics within the recruiting space at two different organizations that have generated bottom-line results and innovative approaches, with very little funding required. Manzullo will share some of those tactics, the lessons learned and what she sees as the future for both acquiring new talent as well as enabling existing talent movement within an organization.

In this session, attendees will learn to:

• Consider who the “customer” of your recruiting process is and build that process around them.
• Discover ways you could improve the experience for your internal talent.
• Run recruiting like a business and speak the language of the business leaders.
• Implement ideas that are quick wins that can be easily implemented and bring immediate results.

2:00pm - 3:00pm - Vermillion

Dottie Brienza

Senior Vice President, Global Talent Management
Hilton Worldwide

When private equity group Blackstone acquired Hilton Hotels Corp. in 2007, it sparked a global transformational journey aimed at reinvigorating the 73-year-old company. The following year, U.S.-based Hilton Hotels combined with global operator Hilton International to create Hilton Worldwide, headed by a new top management team. The newly merged company with more than 330,000 employees at more than 3,600 hotel, resort and vacation properties in 84 countries moved headquarters from Beverly Hills, Calif., to the Washington, D.C., area.

The journey was more than a cross-country trip — it also remade how the company manages its human capital. Prior to the merger, Hilton decisions were made at a regional and local level right down to the individual property with few consistent global processes, systems, programs, functions or lines of business. This decentralized model hampered the company’s ability to grow quickly and remain a leader in the competitive travel and hospitality industry. In this session, you’ll learn how the human capital leaders of this global company infused agility, flexibility and quick decision making into an otherwise sleepy company through:

• A refreshed and renewed focus on company culture.
• Creation of a new HR and talent management structure.
• Integration of people, capabilities, systems, programs, processes and tools across the global enterprise.

2:00pm - 3:00pm - Orleans

Debra Nelson

Vice President, Corporate Diversity and Community Affair
MGM Resorts International

While corporate cost cutting and the pressure to produce bottom-line results have become more important than ever recently, Las Vegas-based MGM Resorts has kept its focus trained on recognizing the business value of diverse talent and ethnic backgrounds among its 62,000 employees. The company was the first gaming and entertainment entity to establish a formal diversity and inclusion initiative in 2001, and Phyllis James, senior vice president of corporate diversity and community affairs and senior counsel, will discuss its benefits.

Valuing diversity in the global marketplace has fostered better employee performance, greater business engagement, improved relationships with global customers and alliances with new constituencies and interest groups with whom MGM Resorts has common objectives. At the same time, the company is making strides in expansion of its brands both domestically and internationally. Diversity is but one arm of a three-pronged corporate responsibility code which accentuates corporate philanthropy, employee community involvement and environmental responsibility. Attend to learn more about how these strategies might fit into your own corporate framework.

In the session, attendees will learn:

• Why it is important to invest company resources in a diversity initiative
• How to “walk-the-walk” rather than just “talk-the-talk” with your diversity initiative
• How valuing diversity can pay off to the bottom line
• How to communicate the value of diversity to employees

2:00pm - 3:00pm - LaSalle

Jerry Prochazka

Director, HCM Advisory Group
Human Capital Media

As large numbers of senior leaders retire, organizations are developing practical ways in which leadership teams can face the growing challenge of talent management. The need for innovation and growth is critical in the current business environment and organizations realize the fast track to success is achieved by building strong leaders.

To provide insight into the development of leadership development practices, Talent Management magazine’s Human Capital Media (HCM) Advisory Group fielded a survey to Talent Management subscribers in November 2011 to assess and benchmark leadership development activities.

Join Jerry Prochazka, director of HCM Advisory Group, as he shares the survey results and the insights about the current state of leadership development. It just might be the competitive advantage your organization needs.

3:00pm - 4:00pm - Lafayette Ballroom

4:00pm - 5:00pm

4:00pm - 5:00pm - Evangeline

Lance Dublin

Chief Solution Architect
Dublin Consulting

Eric Vidal

Director of Product Marketing
InterCall

This workshop will explore some of the new, creative solutions to recruiting, on-boarding and training, and how complex HR functions are now going “virtual.” Attendees will hear examples of how organizations such as KPMG, CareerBuilder.com and ACS leveraged virtual environments to recruit, on-board, train and help truly change the way their organization manages strategic HR functions. Attendees will also be able to collaborate with two industry experts who are in the middle of this movement.

In this interactive workshop you will learn the following:

• How to engage with a global audience to recruit, on-board and train 24/7/365.
• How to reduce costs, and do more with less.
• The challenges and successes in virtual recruiting.
• Receive a free white paper that provides details and case studies on virtual recruiting, on-boarding and training.

4:00pm - 5:00pm - Vermillion

Susan Brady

Senior Vice President, Global Programs
Linkage

Harley Ostis

President, Professional Services
Linkage

What we know about high-potential leaders is they produce results by effectively influencing others. In times of increasing complexity and performance demands, your high-potential talent pool can be the differentiating factor necessary for success. Have you identified your high-potential leaders? Alongside best-selling author and nationally acclaimed thought leader Warren Bennis, Linkage has uncovered the key competencies and skills proven to differentiate superior from average leaders. Learn how to leverage these skill sets to drive your organization to a new level of success in 2012 and beyond.

In this session, attendees will learn:

• The results of an in-depth, longitudinal study which identifies the key competencies, skills and responsibility areas proven to differentiate high-potential leaders.
• An overarching framework depicting the three most important foundational elements of leadership.
• A leadership assessment that can be used to measure up-and-coming leaders in your organization.

4:00pm - 5:00pm - Orleans

Felicia Haslom

Senior Director, National and Government Accounts
Keller Center for Corporate Learning

Diversity of thought is instrumental in understanding the potential of diversity as an organizational resource. If we do not have diversity, what would our workplace look like? If we do not truly understand the scope of diversity, how can we expect our talented professionals to grow in their roles and be understood as diverse people? If we do not provide diverse learning mechanisms to our employees, is it fair to expect them to know what even we do not know?

This presentation will create a forum to discuss diversity of thought and how futuristic education plays an integral role in understanding the differences and similarities in our work culture. The ultimate key to having diversity of thought in our workforce is for organizations to be open-minded, willing and ready to try different educational approaches to understanding this concept.

This session will address:

• Business management and strategy.
• Human resources and development.
• Employee and labor relations.
• Workforce planning and employment.

5:00pm - 7:00pm - Courtyard/Library