Ranked as the #1 management guru by Business Week, profiled by Fast Company as one of the world’s top 10 creative people in business, a top 5 coach in Forbes, and recognized on Thinkers50 as one of the world’s leading business thinkers, Dave Ulrich has a passion for ideas with impact. In his writing, teaching, and consulting, he continually seeks new ideas that tackle some of the world’s thorniest and longest standing challenges.

His bestselling books and popular speeches shape the corporate agenda. Dave has written 30 books and over 200 articles that have shaped three fields:

He has influenced thinking about organizations by defining organizations as bundles of capabilities (Organization Capability) and worked to delineate capabilities of learning (Learning Organization Capability), collaboration (Boundaryless Organization), talent management (Why of Work), and culture change (GE Workout).

He has articulated the basics of effective leadership (Leadership Code), connected leadership with customers (Leadership Brand), and synthesized ways to ensure that leadership aspirations turn into actions (Leadership Sustainability). Dave’s current work on Leadership Capital Index (published by Berrett Koehler in September 2015) creates a “Moody’s index” for leadership. This work examines leadership through the eyes of investors and helps realize the market value of leadership, thus bringing the fields of firm valuation and leadership together.

He has shaped the HR profession and been called the “father of modern HR” and “HR thought leader of the decade” by focusing on HR outcomes, governance, competencies, and practices (HR Champions; HR Value Added; HR Transformation; HR Competencies; HR Outside In). He spearheaded a “gift” book on the future of HR (The Rise of HR, distributed to over 1,000,000 HR professionals), in which 70 thought leaders freely share their insights.

Matt Charney currently serves as the Chief Content Officer for Allegis Global Solutions, one of the biggest recruiting and staffing organizations in the world, overseeing the worldwide editorial and thought leadership functions supporting Allegis’ global businesses and brands.

He is also a partner at RecruitingDaily, an award winning, independent news organization. Under his leadership as Executive Editor, RecruitingDaily emerged as the world’s largest content destination dedicated to recruiting and hiring.

Matt began his career as a corporate recruiter for companies like Warner Bros. and the Walt Disney Company, and has served in marketing leadership roles for technology companies such as Monster Worldwide and Cornerstone OnDemand.

Snark Attack, Matt’s personal blog, was selected by WordPress as an ‘essential’ read and one of only 20 business focused sites officially recommended by the blogging platform. Matt has been recognized as one of the top HR trendsetters of the year by HR Magazine & the Society of Human Resources Management (SHRM), is a 3 time winner of the HR Outsourcing Association Analyst Superstar of the Year and HR Technology Writer of the Year by HRMS World.

Matt has been recognized as a top online influencer in HR and recruiting by publications such as Huffington Post, Forbes, LinkedIn and Glassdoor. He also serves as an advisor to over 20 high growth startups focused on recruiting and sourcing technology and works extensively with several VC and PE funds on their HR Tech investment strategies.

Dorothy works globally in talent management strategy, covering the whole spectrum of career challenges from “hire to retire” in the talent pipeline. An Economist and CIPD Associate, she has recruited, trained and coached thousands of men and women in her career, working with leading international companies and organizations. She is a certified coach (CBC) and trainer (ISITB.) She supports individuals at all levels from entry to C-Suite and runs workshops for multi-national companies SMEs, NGOs, EU and NATO.

3Plus International provides HR Consulting services to organizations seeking to create diverse and inclusive workplaces, including gender balance, focusing on bias conscious talent sourcing, attraction, and retention. Her mission is to have a minimum of three women on every short list.

She has extensive experience supporting organisations and individuals dealing with bullying and harassment. She is the author of handbooks advising businesses on best practices for inclusive and psychologically secure workplaces. She us currently working on a Guide to Sexism for EIGE and an Inclusive Workplace for JUMP.

Dorothy is heavily involved in HR and Tech, particularly in potential changes to recruitment processes. She is also a keynote speaker, author, facilitator, HR blogger and media contributor.

Web sites: www.dorothydalton.com and www.3plusinternational.com

Download her latest eBooks:

12 key steps to attract, recruit and retain female talent

The way men and women look for jobs

Art is Deloitte’s HR Transformation Global Practice Leader, part of the Global Human Capital Executive, and member of Deloitte Consulting’s Global Leadership Team. Art is accountable for guiding the firm’s continued innovation and capability growth to drive unique and powerful client business outcomes that have enabled Deloitte’s position as the world’s #1 HR Transformation consultancy.

Art collaborates with complex, global clients to drive business value through transforming Human Capital strategies, programs, and services. He is the firm’s thought leader in setting people & HR strategies to pivot toward the Future of HR in the context of dynamic business, workforce, and digital disruption. Art has previously served as Deloitte’s Human Capital practice digital leader and the global practice leader for HR Strategy & Employee Experience. As a hands-on leader, Art is actively engaged in driving major Human Capital and HR Transformation initiatives with some of the world’s best known brands.

Art’s professional journey for 24+ years has been exclusively focused on Human Capital Management. He has held senior HR leadership, outsourcing executive, and human capital transformation consulting roles that form the multi-faceted foundation from which Art delivers value to his clients across strategic planning, operating model and organization design, experience transformation, digital enablement, governance, and change management to realize sustained results.

Jason Lauritsen is a keynote speaker, author, and consultant. He is an employee engagement and workplace culture expert who will challenge you to think differently.

A former corporate Human Resources executive, Jason has dedicated his career to helping leaders build organizations that are good for both people and profits.

He also led the research team for Quantum Workplace’s Best Places to Work program where he has studied the employee experience at thousands of companies to understand what the best workplaces in the world do differently than the rest.

Jason is the author of the books Unlocking High Performance: How to use performance management to engage and empower employees to reach their full potential and Social Gravity: Harnessing the Natural Laws of Relationships. Connect with Jason at www.JasonLauritsen.com or by sending him an email.

I am the founder of Acacia HR Solutions, a human resource consulting firm focused on the startup and small business niche. We are headquartered in Los Angeles, California, but have consultants all over the country. The firm offers services to cover the full employee life cycle. We understand the unique dynamics of small businesses and cater our approach to each one.

Our consultants are experts in many of the most difficult states to be an employer: California, New York, New Jersey, and Illinois. Each consultant has at least a decade of in-house experience before moving into a consultant role.

James (J.D.) Conway has over a decade of experience in talent acquisition acting as both a third-party recruiter for boutique technical recruiting firms and as an in-house technical recruiter. His work includes managing talent acquisition teams in high-growth SaaS companies and servicing Fortune 500 clients for the world’s largest recruiting corporation.

From organizational health and development to recruitment marketing and employer branding, JD has used his expertise to change the very way companies structure and view the functions of talent acquisition.

JD believes in empowering executives and HR leaders to focus on the human nature of human capital and in teaching through experience how a people-first approach can dramatically impact their bottom line.

Professor Steven Cates serves as a Graduate Professor of Human Resource Management in the School of Business and Information Technology at Purdue University Global, the first online university to offer “extreme personalization” to working adult students. He has over 30 years of managerial experience in all facets of HR and over 20 years of collegiate instruction experience at both the undergraduate and graduate levels in business. He is certified through the Society of Human Resource Management and specializes in employment law, diversity issues, talent management, and strategic human resource management. In addition, he has authored over 100 publications in the field of HR management and marketing and served on dissertation committees.

Dave has a business background followed by 30 years of internal and external consulting experience in NatWest, Kenexa and IBM. Dave worked directly with different global and multi-national based organizations offering organisational effectiveness-based solutions focusing on future proofing their businesses.

He is a regular presenter at HR conferences promoting the role of technology and people analytics to demonstrate tangible business value. His first book ‘Introduction to People Analytics’ on the changing role of HR and the increasing demand for data insights was launched in April 2020.

He’s regarded as a social media guru through @HRCurator, referenced as being one of the Most Influential People on Twitter in a number of HR subject areas. He’s an Associate with CRF, Hult Ashridge Business School, the Centre for Effective Organizations at USC and an Adviser to iPsychTec.

Perry Timms is the founder and Chief Energy Officer of PTHR - an 8-person global consultancy, setting out to create better business for a better world. Perry is an international and 2x TEDx speaker and award-winning writer on the future of work, HR & learning.

Perry’s 2017 book Transformational HR was an Amazon.com Top 30 HR seller shortly after its release (and is due for a second edition in 2021), but before that, his second book - The Energised Workplace - is published in August 2020.

Perry’s work is influenced by human-centred, design and systems thinking plus agile, inclusive and autonomous ways of working that enhance personal fulfillment and organisation effectiveness.

Perry is Adjunct Professor at Hult International Business School and Ashridge Management School; a visiting fellow at Cranfield School of Management, and Sheffield Hallam University, a is a Fellow of the RSA.

Perry is a proud Chartered member of the CIPD and is a 3x member of HR Magazine’s HR Most Influential Thinkers making the top 10 in 2018 & 2019 and a 2020 Top 100 Global HR Influencer.

Jon Forknell is the Vice President and General Manager of Atlas Business Solutions, Inc., a software marketing company specializing in employee scheduling software, including ScheduleAnywhere employee scheduling software, and other business software solutions. Jon has been recognized by the U.S. Small Business Administration as a SBA Young Entrepreneur of the Year. For many years, Atlas Business Solutions has been named one of Software Magazine’s Top 500 Software Companies.