HOME ABOUT US CONTENT TALK RADIO CONFERENCES MAGAZINE Bellevue/Seattle metro 29 March   The World We Are Living In Now...   CHANGES in the Global Economy Impacting Business; CHALLENGES for the C-suite include... Leadership Development for Global Business; Knowledge Retention; Succession-planning; Strategy execution SOLUTIONS include... Global Talent Development and Retention via Rewards and Mobility   to be held at... Bellevue Harbor Club, 777 108th Avenue NE # 2500 Bellevue WA 98004 • 28 March 6:30pm WILD GINGER Restaurant NO HOST ...Reception & Dinner     GLOBALHR Reception & Dinner March 28 6:30@bar, dinner@7:15 WILD GINGER Restaurant(Asian Fusion) 11020 NE 6th St, Ste 90(between N 110th Ave & N 112th Ave) Bellevue 98004 (425) 495-8889; www.wildginger.net RSVP to edcohen@globalhrnews.com Memo from Edwin B. Cohen, Conference Developer & Moderator CEO and Editor, Global HR News Hello and a warm welcome to our annual Pacific Northwest conference! Come and join the conversation on timely topics of common business interest, for benchmarking and moreso for A NEW WAY FORWARD... anticipating the future and increasing your understandings resulting in better relationships and enhanced rapport-building. Lets come together and thrive in 2012 and beyond! GUARANTEE: I believe that you will take-away practical information, guidance, and new learnings. We also believe that you should be able to utilize the take-away and or the new contacts or enhanced relationships immediately on the next business day. I therefore guarantee it and offer a free registration to one conference that we produce during 2012. EDUCATION PROGRAM: from 07:30 CHECK-IN desk opens; coffee and ... learning center sponsor tables open 08:30 Moderator's Welcome Remarks and Purpose Delegate Self-Introductions Ed Cohen, Global HR News 09:00 until 09:40 Opening Keynote The World we live in today and RISK MANAGEMENT Presenter PAT RILEY, Partner IES KPMG LLP 09:40 until 10:20 Theme Keynote CHRO view of Talent and Mobility HR is tasked with more responsibility and risk, yet has generally fewer resources, time and budget. How do you focus on those initiatives which add maximum value to your bottom line and talent satisfaction? How do you “jettison” those tasks that do not add line of sight value to organization or people growth? How do you get everyone “thinking like the CEO?” This session examines case examples and ROI of the “next practices” leaders and organizations are employing to revitalize their core activities and moving “non-core competency” initiatives, tasks and processes to alliances, partners and trusted providers. Key Takeaways: 1. The fundamental question – what is your business strategy and how do future HR initiatives support the business in the most effective way? How do they fundamentally get executed? 2. How to measure the ROI of INsourcing vs Outsourcing activity and people. 3. How to align everyone to what is important. 4. How to gain influence (and budget) in times of cutbacks and retrenchment. This highly interactive session features case studies of both successful external alliances and next practice sourcing methods. Keynoter Scott Hamilton, Founder & CEO, Executive NextPractices Institute 10:20 COFFEE BREAK 10:45 until 11:40 Special Guest Presenter FOCUS ON WHAT YOU WANT because ... WHETHER GOOD OR BAD, YOU ALWAYS GET MORE OF WHAT YOU FOCUS ON FutureMaker+Innovator / Video Producer / Author / Speaker / TV-Radio ProgramHost paving the way into the future, Laura Goodrich is an Internationally Recognized Expert in ...Change and the Future of Work! Visit www.onimpactproductions.com or www.SeeingRedCarsBook.com 11:45 until 12:30 Panel plus audience discussion ... participation EXPANSION... ESTABLISHING A PRESENCE IN "NEW" COUNTRIES; SETTING-UP HR OPERATIONS Expert Thought-Leaders Carol M. Olsby, MS, GPHR, GRP, CCP Principal Carol Olsby & Associates 425.922.4900 www.carololsby.com Carol Olsby, MS, GPHR, GRP, CCP, is a senior international human resources executive with over 20 years of demonstrated experience designing and scaling domestic and global technology companies in rapidly changing environments. Carol is a Principal at Carol Olsby & Associates where she provides global and domestic HR consulting services to a variety mid to large companies. Previously, Carol was employed as a Director, Human Resources – Americas & Asia with Tieto where led the fastest growing region employing nearly 2,500 employees. Tieto a 2.1 billion Euro public global software (Telecom, Banking, Gas & Oil, Forest & Healthcare) & IT company employing 18,000 employees in 26 countries. Carol was nominated and selected for the Society of Human Resources Management (SHRM) Global HR Expertise Panel which is a small group of subject matter experts that provide the association (250,000+ members) with guidance on global HR trends. She is also the WA SHRM International Director where she is responsible for sponsoring educational opportunities for global HR professionals. Due to her SHRM global large scale growth and GPHR certified members, her work was profiled as a “2011 SHRM Pinnacle Finalist”. She also co-founded the Global HR Consortium, the society for international human resources professionals which has over 130 member companies. She founded and chairs the HR Roundtable, the northwest’s society for high-technology human resources professionals, which has nearly 150 member companies. She has represented technology companies as a technical expert for WA State laws that would have negatively affected business. All the lobbying efforts she has been involved in were successful resulting in amendments to WA State laws. Carol has been a presenter at numerous business and investor events to include: UW Law School, UW MBA program, NW Entrepreneurial Network, SHRM programs, etc. She was in recent global HR articles in the Swedish HR Magazine “Personal & Ledarskap”, SHRM, Financial Times, and Global HR News, etc. Carol has an MS in Human Resources from Chapman University and a BS in Business with honors from Columbia Union. Carol has the Global Professional HR (GPHR) designation from SHRM. She obtained the World at Work Global Remuneration Professional (GRP) and Certified Compensation Professional (CCP) designations. She also has received an International Business Program Certificate from a program sponsored by Tieto at the IFL and the Stockholm School of Economics. JENNIFER SCHWOPE, Human Resources Manager, AVANADE Jennifer Schwope is an accomplished management professional with 12 years HR experience, seven years working with international subsidiaries and eight in management. Her experience includes public and private fast-paced, hi-tech companies with innovative and creative cultures. At Avanade, our focus is on your success, and it is behind everything we do. A business technology solutions and managed services provider, we are committed to building business value for you. Just as we’ve helped thousands of others, we can help you reduce costs, boost productivity and enhance collaboration so you can increase your business agility and improve customer loyalty. It’s a collaborative approach with each other, our partners and our customers that help you achieve the results you’re looking for. From our unique insight based on thousands of successful customer implementations around the world to our close relationships with Microsoft and Accenture that give us first access to their products and deep access to their expertise, we have a team of talented resources ready to help you maximize your technology investments. Tica Gordon, GPHR, Chief People Officer, Callison Callison is a global architecture and design firm with about 900 employees across offices in the U.S., China, Mexico, UK, UAE, and India. Tica is responsible for all strategic and functional areas of human resources for Callison worldwide and a member of the executive leadership team. Tica has held progressively responsible, senior-level global human resources positions in several medium to large sized multi-national companies in the high-tech and architecture industries over the past 20 years. She has been instrumental in helping U.S. companies expand globally, as well as helping companies headquartered outside the U.S. to expand into North America. She has extensive experience with U.S. domestic and international mergers and acquisitions. Her strengths include creating and managing effective global HR teams, culture-building and effectively managing through extensive organizational change, global talent and performance management, employee and leadership development, and global mobility. Tica is a founding member of the Global Human Resources Consortium and a member of the HR Executive Forum, Society for Human Resources Management, and Large Firm Human Resources Roundtable. She has a bachelor’s degree in Communications from the University of Washington. 12:30 until 1:30 WORKING LUNCHEON keynoter SUPREME COURT, the US CONGRESS and how BUSINESS IMMIGRATION LAW will be IMPACTING YOUR COMPANY Thought-Leader CYNTHIA LANGE, Managing Partner FRAGOMEN DEL REY BERNSEN & LOEWY LLP 1:30 until 2:30 short presentation followed by workshop TRANSFORMING GLOBAL MOBILITY a new and holistic approach to engage mobility stakeholders within the business… Talent Management, Strategy, Operational Excellence, Governance & Risk, Mobility Infrastructure, Technology and Change Management. Presented by JOSEPH PERNASELLI, Senior Manager, KPMG LLP 2:30 to 2:40... FAST BREAK 2:40 until 3:30 legal update MANAGING ACROSS BORDERS Commentator/Thought-Leader Tahl Tyson, Shareholder. LITTLER MENDELSON PC When you have a mobile international workforce, the usual interesting HR challenges will be exponentially more interesting and challenging. Some examples of situations in which employment law differences between the US and Europe will matter for international employers include the following: • You are sending an American manager on assignment to Europe. What are some things you want him or her to be aware of before starting to manage the team in Europe? • You hear that an executive in Europe has been talking to a competitor. What can you do? • You have teams that include members in multiple countries. To build relationships across time zones, they spend time getting to know each other through social media sites. Are there some guidelines you can apply to them all? What about potential sanctions? • What should you know about working time and absence management for cross-border teams? In discussing these examples, we will cover some key legal differences between the US and Europe, including those relating to at-will employment, performance management and termination, restrictive covenants, data privacy, working time and leaves. Tahl Tyson is dual-qualified as an attorney in the U.S. and as a solicitor in England. She has over 20 years of experience in U.S. and international employment law. Prior to joining Littler in 2011, Tahl was Global Director, Employee Relations, and Senior Counsel Global Employment for a publicly traded company, spanning over 40 countries. She spent a year in France with legal, HR and site leadership responsibility for the company’s French legal entities. Tahl’s practice focuses on workplace issues for multinational employers, including a wide variety of proactive compliance programs; restructuring; and legal issues in managing cross-border teams. She also acts as global outside employment counsel for clients integrating regional sites into a global organization to support an over-arching HR strategy aligned with business goals, balanced with local compliance. She received a B.A. in Chinese Studies from Yale University and a J.D. from the University of Washington. 3:30 until 5:00... GENERAL ASSEMBLY Global HR News TALK SHOW ... WORKFORCE PLANNING and the role of TALENT MOBILITY Host & Moderator: ED COHEN Format: Fast-paced, executive presentations plus dialog with audience Commentators/Thought-Leaders include corporate managers and providers who are subject-matter experts, including... DEBBIE CONVERY, SPHR, GMS; Mobility Manager, T-MOBILE Hans Martens, Managing Director, Canadian International Relocations SARA C. SCHMIDT, Client Manager, SCHOOL SCHOICE INTERNATIONAL RICHARD J. (Rick) WILLARD, Marketing Director, WELLS FARGO HOME MORTGAGE JOSEPH PERNASELLI, Senior Manager, KPMG LLP PEGGY SCOTT, Relocation Director at Windermere Real Estate RUSS HYDE, New Business Manager at CIGNA International Expatriate Benefits 5:00 RECEPTION     CONTACT For more information, contact Ed Cohen: Email: news@globalhrnews.com Phone: +1.619.297.5700   Bellevue/Seattle metro 29 March         Conference Sponsors: