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The CLO & Talent Management conference program provides senior L&D professionals access to new ideas, solutions and innovations to help take their departments and companies forward. The agenda is pitched at a high level and we present new case studies and new thought leaders each year.

Keynote and seminar sessions give a high-level view of the L&D industry, offering predictions and insights to help delegates form - and implement - strategies. The interactive workshops and discussion groups complement the larger sessions by drilling down into specific issues, allowing delegates to share their collective experiences and to learn how their peers are dealing with similar situations.

HRCI Certified

The CLO & Talent Management Forum qualifies for HRCI credits.

For further information on HRCI accreditation please visit : http://www.hrci.org

Take part in the program

If you would like to participate in the program - or recommend any speakers or topics -  please email Chyai Mulberg or call her at 212-651-8736.

2013 Keynote
2013 Keynote
  • Stepping into Talent Leadership: The Powerful Combination to Meet Today’s Challenges

    Kevin Wilde, VP, Organization Effectiveness and Chief Learning Officer General Mills, Inc.

    As learning and talent management professionals today, we face a lot of tough challenges:   Accelerating employee development to provide more ‘ready now’ leaders to fill the business growth gaps;  plugging holes in the talent pipeline as turnover picks up;   bringing more innovation to our work while still living in a ‘do more with less’ world.  And when we do arrive at new solutions to these challenges:  getting line leaders attention to support learning and build talent when their work is just as crazy as our own.

    This presentation will share recent research based finding on what two strategies in combination yield surprising leadership success and the practical tactics for application to help you more effectively step into talent leadership.

    Hear what makes General Mills, under the direction of Kevin Wilde, a leader in developing, implementing and leading strategies to build talented, global leaders. General Mills ranked #1 in the 2012 Learning Elite awards, was listed as #1 of 1,000 organizations ranked by Leadership Excellence magazine in both 2011 and 2012, and advanced to second place in Fortune’s 2011 list of the Global Top Companies for Leaders.

     

2013 Confirmed Speakers
2013 Confirmed Speakers
  • Keynote by Kevin Wilde, V.P. & CLO, General Mills

    Confirmed to Date:

    Kevin Cope, President/CEO, Acumen Learning
    Patti Cotter,
    VP, Human Resources,  Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co.
    Craig Guindon, VP of Sales, InsideOut Development

    Art Kohn, President, AK  Learning
    Nancy Murphy ,Dir.,Talent Development and Acquisition,
         Cox Communications
    Pam Puryear, VP Organization Development, Hospira
    Paul Reevs, Director of Organizational Development, Triumph Group, Inc.

    Eric Simpson, Ph.D., SVP & Dir., Leadership Development, BBVA Compass
    Gary Whitney, VP, Learning & Delivery, Intercontinental Hotel Group
    Kevin Wilde, Vice President & Chief Learning Officer, General Mills, Inc.

    *As of June 17, 2013; program subject to change without notice.

     

2013 Conference Sessions
2013 Conference Sessions
  • Strategic Approaches to Talent Management: Case Study Sliders

    Patti Cotter, VP, Human Resources, Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. & Nancy Murphy, Director of Talent Development and Acquisition, Cox Communications, Inc.

    These two  mini-case studies will provide the opportunity for you to hear about cutting-edge TM strategies and programs being implemented today. You’ll get a taste of how Nationwide developed programs and strategies to meet critical succession  needs and prepare for the future ...

     

    Creating Momentum in Your Learning Programs

    Paul C. Reevs, Director of Organizational Development, Triumph Group, Inc.
    What if only 1 in 10 of your learners actually applied what they learn in training?  What does this say about your alignment strategy and how is it crushing your bottom line?  This interactive workshop addresses the key elements that make programs successful including the people, resour...
     

  • Session Title TBD

    Eric Simpson, SVP & Director of Leadership Development, BBVA Compass

    Eric has a doctorate in psychology from the University of North Texas where he began his career at a small consulting firm run by the industrial/organizational psychology faculty. 

    Since then, Eric has held positions with organizations in multiple industries responsible for the de...

     

    Learning Metrics: Determining What and When to Measure

    Gary Whitney, VP, Learning & Delivery, Intercontinental Hotel Group

    Complete session Information coming soon!

    Gary has been with IHG since 1998 in various facilitation, design, and learning leadership roles. Gary holds an MS degree from Purdue University and a BS degree from Southwest State University.  IHG is an international hotel company...

     

    Crazy Talk and High Potentials: Developing Solutions

    Kevin D. Wilde, VP, Organization Effectiveness and Chief Learning Officer, General Mills, Inc.

    This session will begin with delegates’ general reactions to Kevin’s keynote presentation and identify participant’s top challenge managing their high potentials.

    We’ll then have an open discussion regarding ways to apply the leadership combination,  what w...

     

  • Seeing the Big Picture: Business Acumen to Build Your Career, Credibility, & Company

    Kevin Cope, President & CEO, Acumen Learning

    This session simplifies complex and intimidating financial concepts and teaches a business model that enables employees, no matter their role or experience, to practice and perfect their business acumen throughout their careers. You will understand how to execute better, smarter, and faster bu...

     

    Three Quick Steps for Building a High-Performance Coaching Culture

    Craig Guindon, VP of Sales, InsideOut Development
    More than ever organizations are embracing workplace coaching in their talent development efforts.  Most often these efforts are targeted towards developing the competency of coaching versus driving performance improvement.  A recent study by Corporate Executive Board shows that direct ...
     

    The Mind and the Learner: Seven Principles Explaining Learning and Behavior Change

    Art Kohn, President, AK Learning

    In this energetic workshop, Professor Art Kohn describes seven principles that explain how the brain controls learning, memory and behavior change. The workshop consists of a series of interactive demonstrations that illustrate both how your brain works and how you can use this knowledge to im...

     

Executive Coaching
Executive Coaching
  • Executive Coaching, provided by Quest Consulting

    Quest Consulting & Training Corporation

    In this private one-on-one coaching session, you and your coach collaborate as a team, focusing on YOUR goals and vision. You bring the desire to achieve, a willingness to discover new approaches, an openness to include someone else in the process, and a readiness to take action.  Your coach will contribute provocative questions, new perspectives, straight talk, and authentic encouragement. You take away actionable solutions, insights, and strategies that are custom-designed for creating success in your organization, your career, or your life.

    For the past 32 years, Quest Consulting and Training Corporation has been known as a creative, performance improvement company that combines strategic thinking with an understanding of global challenges and today's workplace. Quest is an OD, Learning and Executive Coaching company that consistently delivers exceptional results and great ROI.

    Quest partners with you to facilitate strategic planning, address organizational issues and manage changes. In order to strengthen your leadership pipeline, Quest helps you coach leaders on how to develop custom learning solutions while improving talent management at the same time. With over 60 topics available, Quest can quickly customize learning programs for you and teach you how to implement leadership, operations, and service.  Quest consultants use validated tools and techniques to assess the situation and combine ideas in order to prepare a strategic plan. 

     

Past Speakers
Past Speakers
  • Joseph Grenny: "Crucial Conversations" (Keynote Presentation)

     
    Past CLO & Talent Management Forum Conference Speakers Include:
    Julie Bell,  VP, Organizational Learning & Transformation, Presence Health
    Jennifer Colosimo, Vice President, Wisdom, DaVita
    Steve Dwight
    , Ph.D,  VP Talent Management, Novo Nordisk Inc.

    Mazy Gillis, Ph.D., Global Director, OD,  Guardian Industries
    Stephen Lambert, Ph.D., Sr. Director Talent & Organization Development, Skanska
    Judy Owen, VP, Training & Developement, Freeman Companies

    Michelle Prince
    , VP HR, Global Talent Management, First Data Corporation
    Pam Puryear, VP Organization Development, Hospira
    Scott Willett, Ph.D., VP, Organizational Effectiveness, Prudential Financial
     

Pre-Event Workshop
Pre-Event Workshop
  • Transforming Learning & Development

    Chris Williams, Director of Client Relationships, Root Learning, Inc.

    Connecting Learning and Development for individuals or functions to the overarching company strategy is critical to success.  This pre-event workshop is designed specifically to open dialogue among attendees around current best practices and future trends that will better connect your L&D initiatives to your organization’s strategic objectives.

    You will be able to benchmark your current practices against peers and fellow professionals, as well as discover innovations in learning methodologies that will help drive your L&D agenda forward.

    This is a highly interactive session using visualization, facilitated group dialogue and technology to explore the journey of the L&D profession, focusing on the trends of L&D today, where we are heading in the future and how we can leverage these trends across a variety of organizations, in a variety of learning scenarios.

    This will spark your thinking about new ways to advance L&D in your organization and ensure it is driving the right objectives to support your business goals.
    Extended dialogue with your peers will ensure you are tapping into the thoughts and ideas of other attendees right at the start of the conference, enabling you to build meaningful professional networks from the get go.

    Learning Objectives:

    1. Ensure your learning program aligns with critical business goals
    2. Benchmark best L&D practice against other organizations
    3. Discover the trends that will shape your future L&D programs
    4. Learn how to elevate the effectiveness of your L&D initiatives
    5. Understand current issues effecting our profession and learn how others are tackling those issues
     

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