Session Descriptions

Creating a Different Tomorrow
Gary Heil, Founder, Center for Innovative Leadership

Hear practical advice for removing the roadblocks that inhibit opportunities and leading change in your organization to take advantage of the opportunities that lie ahead.

An internationally recognized expert on service quality, leadership and change management, Gary Heil believes that leaders must first change themselves before expecting their teams to change. This opening session at SUMMIT 2009 will push you out of your comfort zone with a powerful call to action: Stop the talk about change and make it happen. You will learn what separates the best from the rest and hear tested strategies for organizational change and long-term growth. As a decision maker in your organization, you will learn how to unleash the productive power of authenticity and update your own mindset. The result will be the creation of teams that are passionate about learning and improving.

Gary Heil is founder of the Center for Innovative Leadership, an organization dedicated to helping leaders build and inspire teams. He has conducted hundreds of organizational assessments in a wide range of industries and has studied more than 500 leaders who have succeeded in creating substantial change in their organizations. Gary has coauthored numerous books including Leadership and the Customer Revolution, One Size Fits One, Maslow on Management, and The Leader’s New Clothes.  Gary is a graduate of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. He holds a bachelors of science in organizational behavior and a juris doctorate from the University of California Hastings College of Law.

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Managing Talent in a Age of Uncertainty
Peter Cappelli, Director, Center for Human Resources, the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Learn how to look at your talent management challenges through a new lens and discover new models to ensure that your organization has the skills it needs when it needs them.

Finding, retaining and developing talent are among the toughest challenges facing business today. Compounding the issue in these erratic economic times is not having the right number and mix of talent which can disable an organization. Noted researcher and author Peter Cappelli shares his insights into a new talent management model that balances developing talent in-house with buying it on the open market. You will learn to maximize the return on your talent investments and manage the uncertainty in talent-need forecasts.

Peter Cappelli is the George W. Taylor Professor of Management and Director of the Center for Human Resources at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He is also the Co-Director of the U.S. Department of Education National Center on the Educational Quality of the Workforce and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Prior to joining the faculty at Wharton, Peter held positions at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Illinois and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Peter has authored several articles and his most recent book, Talent on Demand: Managing Talent in an Age of Uncertainty was published by Harvard Business School Press in 2008. Peter holds a bachelors of science from Cornell University and a doctor of philosophy from University of Oxford.

The Role of Human Resources In Enterprise Risk Management:  A Panel Discussion
Featuring:
Michele Coleman Mayes, Senior Vice President and Corporate Counsel, Allstate Insurance
David Oser, Senior Vice President, ShoreBank
Moderator: Anne Cohn Donnelly, Academic Director to the Kellogg Board Fellow Program

Discover a new role for human resources that will enhance your strategic contribution to the organization by identifying and protecting it from losses due to unrecognized strategic and operational risks.

Every enterprise exists to provide value to its shareholders, customers, employees and other stakeholders. Enterprise Risk Management is a key function of today’s business leaders as they align operations to minimize threats to the enterprise while maximizing potential gain to stakeholders. It is more than just ensuring that operations adhere to applicable laws and regulations. It includes mitigating all potential risks from both internal and external sources.

SUMMIT 2009 brings together a panel of business leaders experienced in identifying and managing risk for their organizations. They will share their insights into the role of human resources in identifying potential risks to an enterprise and developing strategies that mitigate their affect while ensuring continued growth. Among the issues to be discussed are compensation, transparency, reducing operational losses, maximizing opportunities, and compliance.

CEO of Self
Herman Cain, Former President and Chairman, Godfather's Pizza and Fox News Business Commentator

If your goal is happiness and personal and professional success, then your job in life is to be in charge of your life - as your own "CEO of Self."

SUMMIT 2009 concludes with insights from business leader Herman Cain that will re-energize you and help you take control of your life – and your career – to be ready for the opportunities in your future. Using the leadership principles that propelled his own successful career, such as having a vision of your future and being in charge of that vision, Herman demonstrates how these principles can be used for greater success and happiness in your life…and happier people are more productive people.

Herman Cain is the former President and Chairman of Godfather’s Pizza. In 1986, Herman was appointed to the financially-troubled chain. Two years later he led his executive team in a buyout of the company. Herman continued his responsibilities at Godfather’s Pizza while beginning a second career as a motivational speaker and created his own leadership consulting company, The New Voice, Inc. Today Herman is host of the nationally syndicated radio talk show “The Herman Cain Show” and is a business commentator for Fox News. He serves on the Boards of Directors of Hallmark Cards, Inc. and Whirlpool. Herman holds a bachelors of science in mathematics from Morehouse College and a masters in computer science from Purdue University.

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