Tim Aleck, Director of Talent Management

Baxter International

As a member of Baxter’s global Talent Management team, Tim is responsible for talent management/talent development strategy, program design and global implementation.  Included in Baxter’s global talent development strategy is a focus on top talent, middle management, front-line managers and professional employees. 

Tim leads the design of non-training solutions including Baxter’s Performance Review and Career Planning process, online mentoring and the implementation of a multi-language talent management application suite.  Tim is also responsible for Baxter’s learning management tools including regulatory training tracking, legal compliance, e-learning, and general leadership and management curricula.

Prior to Baxter, Tim worked in areas of change management, employee development, performance management, instructional design, and ERP implementations at RR Donnelley, Deloitte Consulting and Arthur Andersen.

Kerri Garvey is an Organizational Development professional with 18+ years of experience with a variety of organizations in various industries.  She has worked in both the for-profit arena for companies such as Accenture, Watson Wyatt, and McKesson, as well as in the not-for-profit sector at the Chicago Board of Trade (became for-profit in 2004).  Kerri has also run her own successful consulting business with clients primarily in the healthcare industry.  Her breadth and depth of expertise is extensive, focused on improving workforce productivity, satisfaction, and efficiency.  She has refined her skills in the areas of Organizational Development; Training, Learning, and Development; Change Management/Leadership; Organization Design; Process Improvement; Program Development and Implementation; Organization Diagnosis and Intervention; and Communications.  Kerri has been fortunate enough to lead the “people side” of a number of organization-wide, transformational initiatives.  These initiatives have required culture shifts – and multi-faceted leadership and employee education efforts were vital both to changing culture and to the initiative’s overall success.

Some of the most satisfying work Kerri has accomplished has been in strategy development around building employee skills with limited budget and leadership support, alignment of employees around a common purpose or mission, and using a creative array of education types and tools to accomplish diverse purposes – from increasing workforce productivity and implementing organizational interventions to aligning organizational and employee performance and ultimately improving employee motivation and satisfaction.

Kerri earned both her Bachelors and Masters Degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, specializing in organizational and interpersonal communication.

Kelly Kinnavy, Director, Talent Systems

Leadership, Employee and Organization Development

W.W. Grainger, Inc.

 

In her role as Director, Talent Systems, Kelly is responsible for the talent management strategy and several of the talent management processes, such as Performance Management and Succession Planning. Included in her responsibilities is developing integrated processes that can be deployed globally across the entire organization.  Her team works closely with the Employee Development and Organization Development organizations to develop and deploy learning solutions and change management activities in support of the talent management processes.  Kelly joined Grainger over five years ago as Director of Change Management and led the Change Management work stream for a major ERP implementation within the company.

 

Prior to joining Grainger, Kelly worked for Accenture for 13 years in a consulting position.  Her focus was on Change Management, Performance Support, and Usability and worked with a number of clients in both Higher Education and Government.

 

Kelly graduated from Purdue University with a degree in Professional Writing.

 

 

Moderator:

 

Sherry Poetsche, Managing Director, Learning & Development
United Airlines

 

Sherry Poetsche is the Managing Director – Learning & Development for United Airlines and has enjoyed a challenging and exciting career in the airline industry for over thirty years.  Her team is responsible for enterprise consulting and learning solutions, core leadership curricula for new and transitioning leaders at United, and United’s Learning Network (LMS) which serves 60,000+ employees and vendor service providers.   She has held various leadership roles at United, American Airlines, and Eastern Airlines ranging from leading large operational teams in the U.S. and Europe, to one of her first jobs in HR (Personnel back in the 70’s!) as an Initial Training Instructor. 

 

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