Keynote Speakers
Keynote Speaker - David Ulrich
David Ulrich is a Professor of Business at the University of Michigan and a partner at the RBL Group, a consulting firm focused on helping organizations and leaders deliver value. He studies how organizations build capabilities of speed, learning, collaboration, accountability, talent, and leadership through leveraging human resources. He has helped generate award winning data bases that assess alignment between strategies, human resource practices and HR competencies.
Ulrich's international bestseller Human Resource Champions helped set the HR agenda for the 1990s and enabled HR professionals to become strategic partners in their organizations. But earning a seat at the executive table was only the beginning. Today's HR leaders must also bring substantial value to that table, and his newest work, The HR Value Proposition, demonstrates how that is done. He has written over 100 articles and book chapters and 12 books. Ulrich is the Editor of Human Resource Management Journal, serves on the editorial board of four other Journals, and participates in board and advisory work for consulting and professional firms.
Ulrich has been listed by Business Week as one of the world's "top ten educators" in management and the top educator in human resources, and has received numerous professional and lifetime achievement awards. He has consulted and done research with over half of the Fortune 200 companies.
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Keynote Speaker - Linda Duxbury
Dr. Linda Duxbury is one of Canada’s leading workplace health researchers. She has written hundreds of papers, journals, and books and is the co-author of a series of influential Health Canada reports about work-life balance in Canada.
Duxbury is a Professor at the Carleton University School of Business and the Director of Research at the Centre for Research and Education on Women and Work. In the last decade, a major focus of her research has been on work/family balance in both public and private sectors, small business, and technology companies. In the course of this research, over 100,000 Canadians were surveyed or interviewed, making it one of the largest research studies of its kind. She has influenced government policy-making and significantly advanced the practices and attitudes toward work-life balance.
Duxbury draws on over 1500 interviews when she makes statements about Canadian and global trends. Her governmental report, Voices of Canadians: Seeking Work-Life Balance, is a compilation of comments by Canadian workers regarding how they feel about the stresses they face in their daily lives as they seek to balance work and family. As the comments have been left largely in people's own words, they provide a window on how people experience and react to stress and the ways they find to deal with it.
Duxbury’s speeches are funny and incredibly well informed. Her work has been the basis of a number of government initiatives and she knows exactly what it takes for your business to compete in the shifting economy.
Keynote Speaker - Mark David Jones
Jones is an acclaimed consultant in the public sector as well as the private sector – having worked with dozens of Fortune 500 companies and numerous international corporations in six of the seven continents of the world. As an author and highly demanded speaker, he has an innovative, results-focused passion for helping people make a difference.
Jones joined the Walt Disney World Resort® in 1978, working in a variety of leadership roles. His final responsibility was to lead the growth of the Disney Institute Business Programs. While in this role, Jones was in charge of Leadership, Creativity & Innovation, and Quality Service initiatives – helping executives improve Disney’s legendary service culture. He also served as an external consultant as the senior project manager for numerous highly successful large-scale organizational initiatives for leading domestic and international corporations – many of which are showcased in the Disney-published book Be Our Guest: Perfecting the Art of Customer Service. In recognition of his contribution to the Disney organization, Jones was nominated for the prestigious “Partner’s in Excellence” award – Disney’s highest regarded corporate award.
After 26 years of corporate leadership, Jones “retired” and founded Small World Alliance, Inc., where he leads a consortium of former Disney executives and other experts who share their Fortune 500 experience to help companies all over the world transform their operation.
