Philadelphia SHRM Professional Development Series:
Talent Retention Thursday, January 24, 2008
7:30am-11:30am
This program has been approved for 2.25 recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR and GPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI). Please be sure to note the program ID number on your recertification application form. For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HRCI homepage at www.hrci.org.
Topic: Getting in Sync with Your Employees - What Do THEY Require?
Session Description: Are your employees working to their full capacity and growing to their full potential within your organization? Do they sufficiently understand their jobs and what is expected of them, and how their jobs are interconnected with other areas of your organization? There is a direct correlation between understanding what tools employees need to become more productive and the organization's bottom line. With employee turnover costs inflating everywhere and now exceeding profits in some industries, addressing the issue of employee retention is an urgent across-the-board business concern. A recent US white paper found that by 2010, there could be as many as 10 million more jobs available in the country than there are employees. So how do you get the best return possible on the investment you make in your workforce while ensuring you understand what makes them excel? This panel discussion will show you why it is critical to know your employees, yourself, and the project on hand well enough to know how to empower your employees.
Cynthia Alisesky is currently Director, US Pharmaceuticals Recruitment for GlaxoSmithKline, a position she has held since June of 2005. In this role, she manages the processes, staff and systems for the recruitment of over 2,000 professionals annually, including Field Representatives and Marketing and Managed Markets staff. She is also responsible for developing strategies to improve the quality of new hires and future leaders and enhancing diversity representation across the business.
Mike is a Principal at Career Concepts, Inc. and Professor of Leadership and Ethics at Southwest University of Finance and Economics, MBA Program, Chengdu, China. He has extensive experience as a business consultant, facilitator, executive coach and an organizational development professional with over 20 years of both national and international experience. Mike has consulted to an impressive list of Fortune 1000 companies in virtually every industry including manufacturing, financial services, communications, and the U.S. government. Mike is also a guest lecturer at Wharton School of Business, Faculty at Villanova University and the EMBA Program at The University of Mexico and was an instructor for The Marshall Center for International Cooperation, NATO. Mike began his career in the military upon graduating from the United States Military Academy at West Point. He holds a B.S. in Engineering from West Point and an MBA from Yale University.
Chris Giangrasso is Vice President, Human Resources and Communications for Arkema Inc. (formerly Atofina Chemicals, Inc.). Giangrasso joined Arkema in 2005. Prior to that he was Vice President, Human Resources at the Campbell Soup Company located in Camden, NJ. Prior to Campbell's, Giangrasso was Senior Vice President, Human Resources at Airgas, Inc. in Radnor, PA.
In addition, Giangrasso served as Vice President, Human Resources for Aramark in Philadelphia, PA and held HR positions for both Siemens and Borg-Warner earlier in his career. Giangrasso received his B.S. degree in Psychology from St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia, PA. He earned his Master's Degree in the field of Industrial Psychology from Temple University in Philadelphia, PA.
Breakout Session II:
Topic: Retention Roundtable Express -
Where Innovation Creates Staying Power!
Does your company have creative ideas to retain employees or would you like to hear about what others are doing to stop the squeaky wheels? If so, you want to make sure you join this breakout session which will focus on sharing your company's best practices for talent retention in a roundtable format. This roundtable session will have you leaving with new ideas for implementation within your company along with many new contacts who can help your organization's innovation create staying power. At the conclusion of the session, Kelley Cornish, Programming Chair, Philly SHRM and Director of Diversity & Inclusion, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, will open the entire floors for a forum where each table will have a few minutes to share their group's innovative ideas for retaining talent.
Keynote Speaker Session:
Topic: Talent Retention - How to Identify, Engage and Keep Your Best Talent.
In a period of business growth and a shrinking professional labor pool, keeping your best people is critical to the success of your organization. We will discuss some proven methods of identifying key talent, keeping them engaged in the business and what makes talent want to stay with the organization when search firms are calling.
Tom Clardy is an accomplished business executive with over 35 years of experience in the direct response, catalogue, manufacturing, electronic retail and internet business sectors. This includes executive positions at The Franklin Mint, when it was the world's leading direct response marketing company, Wheaton, Inc, a premier specialty glass and plastics manufacturing company and QVC, the world's largest electronic and internet retailer.
Tom is known for his warm leadership style, his personal integrity and his ability to apply wisdom to business issues, thinking beyond the norm to develop innovative solutions that are cost effective. His executive leadership roles, together with his unassuming manner and simple roots give him the unique ability to be effective in the board room as well as the shop floor.
As Senior Vice President of Human Resources at QVC, Tom was effective in building a Human Resource function that was cross functional with a fluid matrix style of management. This high performing team was able to meet the demands of this growing business and move resources to any area that required additional attention.
Tom is an effective coach and mentor. He is able to lead people to find practical solutions to their issues and he has helped innumerable people further their career through his mentoring and coaching. He has a deep understanding of what it takes to be a leader of people and organizations and he is able to help others learn that through his effective coaching and mentoring techniques. He has had global responsibilities during his entire career and can help people and organizations make the transition from domestic, to international and then to global thinking.
Location: Loews Philadelphia
Hotel, 1200 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA
19107
Sponsored By:
She's RIVETING, REAL and RELEVANT! Powerhouse speaker, motivator and author, Jennifer Keitt, reaches over 1,000,000 people weekly with one simple truth: “You can be successful in life every day!” Leaders, professionals, entrepreneurs—women and men—globally have been touched with Jennifer's ability to inspire and encourage them to live confident, powerful lives. She has earned honors for her contributions as the founder and host of the nationally syndicated Today's Black Woman Radio Show.
A graduate of the University of Alabama at Birmingham in Broadcast Journalism, Jennifer's life mission to “empower, educate, equip and encourage” has become a way of life in her roles as wife and mother of four. After turning her love for feature reporting into a radio show that would make a difference, Jennifer and her husband Tony (both media veterans) launched T.J. Communications Inc. a media consulting and communications company.
T.J. produces and distributes radio programming, consults radio stations and coaches professionals in the area of personal and professional success, speaking, presenting and communicating, through unique Inspirational Professional Development/Training and its newly launched COMMUNICATOR'S WORKSHOP.
Jennifer loves inspiring individuals to take charge of their lives and careers and achieve their dreams of greatness and balance and she passionately specializes in working with clients who are ready to move to their next level of success and beyond! Her desire to help people win in life is evident in the excellent standard she commands of herself and others.
Jennifer lives with her husband and their four children—Morgan, 19, Naomi, 17, Caleb, 13, and Samantha, 12—in Atlanta.
Partial Client List
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Professionals Trained: Executive Leadership, Research, Child Life Assistants, Administrative Assistants, Human Resources, Marketing, Middle Level, Front Line Management and High Potential Leaders.
Cox Enterprises, WALR-FM Radio Station
Professionals Trained: Sales Manager(s) and Account Executives.
University of Minnesota
Pan-African Conference/Trained: College men and women: Freshmen – Graduate, Community Leaders, Education Professionals, and Business and Civic Leaders.
Kutztown University
Trained: College Freshmen-Senior Women
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