Dr. Florida is an adjunct scholar with the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. and has been a visiting professor at MIT and Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential academics on the shift to the new, knowledge economy and has spearheaded national debates on industrial competitiveness, high-technology industries, and the globalization of industry. His latest book is Industrializing Knowledge: University-Industry Linkages in the Japan and the United States edited with Lewis Branscomb and Fumio Kodama, published in October 1999 by MIT Press.

Dr. Florida has published more than 75 articles and five books, including Beyond Mass Production published by Oxford University Press and The Breakthrough Illusion published by Basic Books. He is currently working on the globalization of industry, the role of talent and amenities in the knowledge economy, and the ways that cities and regions can become "hot spots" of the new economy. Florida's work is frequently highlighted in major national publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and U.S. News and World Report. He also has been a featured commentator in PBS documentaries about the U.S. economy, global competitiveness and the future of jobs. He has served as an advisor to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. Congress, state and local governments, the Canadian government, the European Union, the Japanese government, and multinational corporations. While working with the Council of Great Lakes Governors, Florida helped design the successful economic development and environmental strategy for that region, and has been a chief architect of the economic renewal of greater Pittsburgh.

Dr. Florida heads his own consulting firm which focuses on regional strategy, economic development, environmental issues, and organizational transformation. He is member of the Board of Directors of Team Pennsylvania and of Pennsylvania's 21st Century Environmental Commission. Dr. Richard Florida earned his Bachelor's degree from Rutgers College, and did advanced graduate work at MIT before receiving his Ph.D. from Columbia University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 1986.

In every issue of Forbes, Rich writes a column called Digital Rules. It appears in the front pages of Forbes, directly after columns by Steve Forbes and Caspar Weinberger. In his "Digital Rules" column, Rich writes about technology, entrepreneurship, regional economic development, and the future of business and work. He also lectures on these subjects and is a regular guest on the Fox News Channel's Forbes on Fox.

Rich joined Forbes in 1992 to start Forbes ASAP, a technology magazine, along with Forbes CEO and editor-in-chief Steve Forbes, and the futurist and writer George Gilder. At Forbes ASAP Rich commissioned original works by Tom Wolfe, Gore Vidal, John Updike and other notable American writers.

Rich is an accomplished entrepreneur. He has co-founded two companies (Garage Technology Ventures, in 1997; and Upside Magazine in 1988) and one civic organization (the 2500-member Churchill Club in 1985). For the latter, Rich was a co-winner of the Ernst & Young Northern California "Entrepreneur of the Year" award.

His current board-of-director affiliations include Forbes.com, Garage Technology Ventures and Extend America.

Rich was raised in Bismarck, North Dakota and graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. in Political Science. Currently, he lives with his wife and two children in Northern California. When he is not working or spending time with his family, Rich likes to fly his airplane around the country and meet the people who make America unique and great.

Dr. Noel M. Tichy is a Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, where he is the director of the Global Business Partnership, which for over a decade ran the Global Leadership Program, a 36-company consortium of Japanese, European and North American companies who partnered to develop senior executives and conduct action research on globalization in China, India, Russia and Brazil. He now heads up the Global Leadership in Healthcare Program working with CEOs and their senior teams from major medical centers in the U.S. along with teams in Europe and India. Professor Tichy also conducts the CYCLE OF LEADERSHIP executive program at the University of Michigan. Most recently, he led the launch of the Global Corporate Citizenship Initiative in partnership with General Electric, Procter & Gamble and 3M, designed to create a national model for partnership opportunities between business and society emphasizing free enterprise and democratic principles.

In the mid 1980s, Dr. Tichy was head of GE's Leadership Center, the fabled Crotonville, where he led the transformation to action learning at GE. Between 1985 - 87, Dr. Tichy was Manager of Management Education for General Electric where he directed its worldwide development efforts at Crotonville. Prior to joining the Michigan faculty, he served for nine years on the Columbia University Business School faculty.

Professor Tichy is the author of numerous books and articles. His most recent book is THE ETHICAL CHALLENGE: How to Lead with Unyielding Integrity (Jossey-Bass 2003, with Andrew McGill). He also authored, THE CYCLE OF LEADERSHIP: How Great Leaders Teach their Organizations to Win (Harper-Collins 2002, with Nancy Cardwell) and THE LEADERSHIP ENGINE: How Winning Companies Build Leaders at Every Level (with Eli Cohen), named one of the top 10 business books in 1997 by BusinessWeek. He is co-author of EVERY BUSINESS IS A GROWTH BUSINESS (with Ram Charan), published October 1998 (Random House). In addition, Tichy is also the co-author of CONTROL YOUR DESTINY OR SOMEONE ELSE WILL: How Jack Welch is Making General Electric the World's Most Competitive Company (with Stratford Sherman). Tichy has long been regarded as a staple of management literacy as noted by his rating as one of the "Top 10 Management Gurus" by BUSINESSWEEK and BUSINESS 2.0. He has served on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Review, Organizational Dynamics, Journal of Business Research, and Journal of Business Strategy and was the founding editor and chief of HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT.

Noel Tichy consults widely in both the private and public sectors. He is a senior partner in Action Learning Associates. His clients have included: Best Buy, GE, PepsiCo, Coca Cola, GM, Nokia, Nomura Securities, 3M, Daimler-Benz and Royal Dutch Shell.

Roger L. Martin is the dean of the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. He was appointed to a seven-year term that commenced on September 1, 1998 and was recently reappointed to a second five-year term that commenced on July 1, 2005. He is also a professor of strategic management at the Rotman School.

A Canadian from Wallenstein, Ontario, Roger was formerly a director of Monitor Company, a global strategy consulting firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. During his 13 years with Monitor, he founded and chaired Monitor University, the firm's educational arm, served as co-head of the firm for two years, and founded the Canadian office.

His research interests lie in the areas of global competitiveness, integrative thinking, business design and corporate citizenship. He has written Harvard Business Review articles in 1993, 2002 and 2003, and his first book, The Responsibility Virus: How Control Freaks, Shrinking Violets -- And the Rest of Us -- Can Harness The Power of True Partnership (Basic Books), was published in October, 2002. He writes extensively on Canadian competitiveness policy in The Globe and Mail, National Post and Time magazine. He is chair of the Ontario Task Force on Competitiveness, Productivity and Economic Progress..

Roger received his AB from Harvard College, with a concentration in economics, in 1979 and his MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1981.

Roger Martin is the chair of Workbrain Inc., serves on the Boards of The Thomson Corporation, Tennis Canada, the Canadian Credit Management Foundation, and the Skoll Foundation, and is a trustee of The Hospital for Sick Children. He is also on the Advisory Boards of Butterfield & Robinson, Social Capital Partners and Jefferson Partners, and is a founder of E-magine.

Dr. Cappelli was a staff member on the U.S. Secretary of Labor's Commission on Workforce Quality and Labor Market Efficiency from 1988-'90, Co-Director of the U.S. Department of Education's National Center on the Educational Quality of the Workforce, and a member of the Executive Committee of the U.S. Department of Education's National Center on Post-Secondary Improvement at Stanford University. Professor Cappelli has served on three committees of the National Academy of Sciences and three panels of the National Goals for Education. He was recently named by Vault.com as one the 25 most important people working in the area of human capital, one of the top 100 people in the field of recruiting and staffing by Recruit.com., and was elected a fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources. He serves on the advisory boards of several companies, and is the founding editor of the Academy of Management Perspectives.

Dr. Cappelli's research has tackled issues including downsizing and performance, market-driven approaches to employee retention, and the so-called shortage of information technology workers.

Areas of Expertise: Labor Economics, Economic Development, Learning, Talent Management, HR, Retention

Sydney Finkelstein is the Steven Roth Professor of Management at the Tuck School at Dartmouth College, where he teaches courses on Leadership, Top Management Teams, and Managing Mergers and Acquisitions. He has taught executive education at the Tuck School (where he serves as the Faculty Director of the flagship Tuck Executive Program), Northwestern, Wharton, Duke, Bocconi, London Business School, Australian Graduate School of Management, Melbourne Business School, Hanoi School of Business, and the Helsinki School of Economics. He holds a B.Commerce from Concordia University, a Masters degree in economics and industrial relations from the London School of Economics, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in strategic management.

Professor Finkelstein is the author of Why Smart Executives Fail (New York: Portfolio, 2003). Based on a six-year study of 51 companies and 200 interviews of business leaders, the book identifies the fundamental reasons why major mistakes happen, points out the early warning signals that are critical for investors and managers alike, and offers ideas on how organizations can develop a capability of learning from corporate mistakes. This book was one of Fortune's Best Business Books for Summer 2003 and was an Amazon #1 bestseller in both the U.S. and Japan. The Wall Street Journal called it "a marvel - a jargon-free business book based on serious research that offers genuine insights with clarity and sometimes even wit - It should be required reading not just for executives but for investors as well." It has also been featured in such media as the Financial Times, Business Week, the London Times, the Toronto Globe and Mail, Fast Company, Across the Board, and Entrepreneurship, among others, and has been translated into 11 different languages.

Professor Finkelstein has conducted extensive research on strategic leadership, and published numerous articles in the major journals in his field. He is an expert on mergers and acquisitions, executive compensation, and corporate governance, and is an experienced executive coach. His book, Strategic Leadership: Top Executives and Their Effects on Organizations, was a finalist for the Academy of Management's Terry Book Award in 1998. His article on power dynamics within top management teams was ranked as the number one publication by academicians in strategic leadership in the first half of the 1990s.

Professor Finkelstein's awards include Finalist for the Academy of Management Executive Best Paper Award (2004), the McKinsey & Company Strategic Management Society Best Conference Paper Prize Honorable Mention (2002), the Best Paper Award from the Academy of Management Executive for his article "Leveraging Intellect" (1997), two Citations of Excellence from ANBAR, the world's leading guide to management journal literature (1997 & 1998), the Ascendant Scholar Award from the Western Academy of Management (1993), the Cenafoni Prize for research in Entrepreneurial Strategy (1991), and finalist for the A.T. Kearney award for the best research in strategic management (1988). He currently serves on the Editorial Review Boards of the Strategic Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, and Strategic Organization. He has participated on numerous CEO forums, been interviewed or had his work appear in numerous leading media outlets, served as a consultant and speaker for major companies in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Mexico, including Aetna, American Express, Avaya, BASF, Boeing, Deloitte & Touche, Deutsche Bank, Enhance Financial Services, Entergy, GE, Glaxo, Hasbro, JP Morgan, McKinsey, Monsanto, NACM, Omax de Mexico, Onninen Oy, Raytheon, Roche, Tasman Pulp & Paper, Prudential, PwC, Russell Reynolds, UPM, and Wyeth, and taught in executive development programs in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

Hubert Saint-Onge is the founder and Principal of SaintOnge Alliance. In addition to holding key senior management positions in leading companies over the past 25 years, he has developed and refined a "knowledge assets" model to optimize the performance of an organization. This model strategically integrates business plans with branding, leadership and people management approaches.

International Recognition in Optimizing Performance
Hubert's client work showcases the extensive experience he has accumulated as a senior executive in the oil industry as well as in financial services. Hubert was recently featured as one of five practitioners around the world who have had the most impact on organizations, based on his work as Senior VP of Strategic Capabilities at Clarica. During his tenure, the company was also selected as one of the top ten "Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises" in the world, two years in a row. At the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC), his conceptualization and development of the CIBC Leadership Centre was featured in "Fortune magazine as a prime example of accelerated organizational learning.

Experience Around the Globe
The Prime Minister of Canada appointed Hubert to the Board of The Canadian Centre for Management Development between 1995 and 1999. He has given presentations globally on organization learning, leadership development, and knowledge value creation, and since 2002 has co-authored 2 leading-edge books in the field. His most recent book The Conductive Organization provides a blueprint for creating knowledge-based cultures in organizations to achieve breakthrough performance. Hubert is a passionate and compelling presenter in English, French and Spanish.

Experience Around the Globe
While he maintains a busy practice a select group of clients, Hubert has been Executive-in-Residence at the University of Waterloo where his interest is focused on the Centre for Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology. Recognized by Harvard University for his thought leadership in the field, Hubert has been appointed a Visiting Scholar to Harvard for the 2005/2006 year. His main areas of study will be organizational learning, knowledge management and leadership development.

Partnering to Build Sustainable Performance
Hubert Saint-Onge is first and foremost an in-company practitioner. He draws on his experience implementing what he recommends to clients. As a trusted advisor, he is vested in the success of his clients and typically stays involved with them over time. While Hubert works with these two firms on a part-time basis, his focus is on serving a growing list of clients in North America, Europe and around the world.

Contact Us
To speak directly with Hubert, please contact him at:
519.656.2320 or hubert@saintongealliance.com
www.saintongealliance.com

Handfield Jones Inc. consults with clients to achieve better business results through a robust leadership talent strategy. Helen Handfield-Jones created Handfield Jones Inc. in the fall of 2002 with the mission to leverage her research and experience for the benefit of clients determined to build a stronger pool of leadership talent. Her focus is teaching senior leaders how to assess and develop their top 50-200 managers, create strategies to recruit and retain key talent, and develop the organization's next generation of leaders.

Helen Handfield-Jones is a leading expert in leadership talent strategy

• Co-author of the book The War For Talent published by Harvard Business School Press,
• 2001 Co-leader of McKinsey & Company's groundbreaking talent research in 1997, and Senior Practice Expert with McKinsey's Organization Practice from 1994 to 2002
• Advisor to more than forty companies around the world on talent strategies
• Speaker on Leadership Talent Strategy at over fifty forums including Wharton's Leadership Conference and Harvard Business School Press' Burning Questions 2001 Conference
• Recipient of the PRO Award from the International Association of Professional and Corporate Recruiters for a major contribution to the field of talent management
• Gold medallist, MBA graduate from the Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario

Dr. John Sullivan has been described as one of the leading strategists in the field of human resources around the globe. As a recognized thought leader on topics ranging from talent management to integrative HR strategy, he has been working to challenge the archaic perceptions that have limited HR's contribution to the business for more than thirty years. Via his roles as an author, corporate advisor, and educator he challenges the status quo and offers a bold forward thinking look at what it takes to become a smarter more powerful function.

His most recent book, published by CCH Incorporated, is Rethinking Strategic HR: HR's Role in Building a Performance Culture. The wit and no holds barred approach often intrinsic to his writings and presentations has led to numerous invitations to speak on world-class human resource practices around the globe. His work on e-hr was dubbed "brilliant" by management guru Tom Peters and Fast Company Magazine coined him the "Michael Jordan of Hiring." Dr. Sullivan has served as a Professor of Management at San Francisco State University for more than 20 years.

Steve Smith has spent the past ten years exploring how great leaders use ego differently than others- how they work, think, collaborate, and who they are. The result of his work, egonomics: eliminating the costs of ego and making it our most valuable asset, will be published in 2007 by Simon & Schuster. Steve has invested more than a decade into the topic and trying to reinvent the way people work. His previous work has been published in 18 languages and 40 countries. He has been featured by Microsoft Live Meeting for two years as leadership faculty, receiving the highest possible ratings. Smith's writing, speaking and business ideas have received acclaim from Tom Peters, Ram Charan, and embraced by such client organizations as Hilton, Disney, Baptist Health Care, Hard Rock Cafe, Cox Communications, American Express, and State Farm. With degrees in management, psychology and expertise in team collaboration and leadership, His success comes from his effort to help companies:

• build an open-minded culture where change isn't resisted, and business agendas aren't overshadowed by personal agendas
• maximize individual talent and organizational strengths by drawing on the strengths of ego and minimizing its weaknesses
• cultivate a climate safe enough to share water-cooler honesty during meetings, rather than after-or never
• effectively deal with the egos of others when it's hurting performance
• create intense business debate with the intention of progress without the drag of conflict and argument

His business concepts and book have been adopted by several universities across the country as an example of what the real business world is about. He is a founding partner of the management training and consulting firm MarcumSmith, LC.

Jeremy formed Riviera Advisors to fill a unique management consulting niche. It is an organization devoted to enhancing, improving, and optimizing the way companies acquire, retain, and deploy their most important asset, their talent. In order to accomplish this, Jeremy draws on more than 20 years of experience and expertise in helping companies assess and enhance their talent management systems and processes. Riviera Advisors clients include many Fortune 500 and small and mid-sized firms worldwide. Jeremy's public sector practice includes several Universities and Police Agencies around the nation.

While forming Riviera Advisors, Jeremy served as Vice President, Talent Acquisition for Idealab, the world's premier technology business incubator. Jeremy's role encompassed building and leading a global team in the development and delivery of recruiting and staffing, college relations, and executive search services to Idealab's more than 30 network companies. Jeremy continues to provide talent acquisition leadership and consulting services to Idealab and its network.

Immediately prior to forming Riviera Advisors, Jeremy served as Director, Talent Acquisition for Amazon.com Holdings in Seattle. In this role, Jeremy led all talent acquisition and recruiting activities for this high growth, global organization, leading the team that would take the organization from 3,500 to more than 7,500 employees in a single year. Later, Jeremy served in the role of Vice President, Strategic Growth, with worldwide responsibility for all Human Resource activities.

Previously, Jeremy led the global staffing function for all of Universal Studios and the Universal Music Group businesses. In his role as Corporate Director, Workforce Planning & Strategic Staffing, Jeremy and his staff provided leadership for all of the worldwide staffing, workforce planning, internal sourcing, college and community organization relations and recruitment, and executive recruitment activities within the Universal organization. Jeremy led a team of recruiting professionals in a center of expertise providing professional recruitment services to company businesses in 39 countries. Previously, as Director - Professional Staffing within the Universal Studios Recreation Group, Jeremy developed and led the Professional Staffing team during a period of exponential growth. This growth included executive and creative staffing for the Group's Universal Studios Hollywood and Florida theme parks, Universal Creative unit, as well as the Universal Orlando Resort in Florida and Universal Studios Japan expansion project teams.

Jeremy has significant Recruitment and Human Resources experience with much of that experience involving the executive search and staffing functions. Jeremy was an original founder of one of the nation's premier boutique retained executive search firms focusing primarily in the global hospitality markets. Other previously held positions were with Heublein, Inc., The Knott's Organization, and several years in HR, executive recruitment and staffing with Hyatt Hotels Corporation. Jeremy earned a Bachelor of Science from California State Polytechnic University.

Jeremy serves as Co-President of the At-Large chapter of the International Association of Corporate and Professional Recruitment, and is a member of the Society for Human Resources Management (where he sits on the national Workforce Staffing and Deployment special expertise panel), the SHRM Consultants Forum, the Employment Management Association, the Institute of Management Consultants, and is a professional member of the prestigious National Speakers Association. Jeremy holds certification as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) from the Human Resource Certification Institute. A native of Southern California, Jeremy is also a member of the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association.

Not only is Derrick Barton a globally recognized speaker in the human capital field but he also helps shape the thinking around "human capital" as a member of the National Advisory Board for the Human Capital Institute and he heads up the Thought Leadership Panel charged with outlining cutting edge practices around engaging and retaining global talent. Delivering pragmatic straightforward messages has become his trademark.

If you're ready to take action... you're ready to work with Derrick!

Derrick and the Center for Talent Retention are at the forefront of connecting employee results to business performance and can show how an organization's ability to engage, retain, and build talent can impact market competitiveness.

The Center for Talent Solutions operating divisions - Center for Talent Retention, Center for Talent Management, and Center for Knowledge Management are the leading experts on "taking action" to increase human capital results. They offer a full range of talent/employee solutions guaranteed to equip your organization, managers, HR professionals, and work groups to take action to make a real impact on organization results by bringing together the best talent practices needed to attract, engage, build, leverage, and retain employees. They are known in the industry as an elite partner equipping companies like: Microsoft, General Electric, Becton Dickinson, Ball Corporation, ADP, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, BMC Software, John Deere, The Home Depot, and McDonalds to increase business performance through people.

The Company Mantra says it all... "Without Action, We Have Nothing". CTS team

Other positions held throughout Glenn's long career include serving as Executive Vice President of the Computer & Communications Industry Association and holding senior posts in the administration of a past Virginia governor, including Chief of Staff, Communications Director and Press Secretary, and the Commonwealth's chief lobbyist in Washington, D.C.

Glenn is the Chairman Emeritus of HROA and is a member of the advisory board of HRO Today magazine. In addition, Glenn is a member of the US Department of State's Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy and Chairs the group's global sourcing subcommittee.

Steve Johnson is a registered psychologist with over twenty years experience in human performance psychology. In his early career, his academic and clinical practice interests centered upon leadership, teamwork, mental skills training and the link between body, mind and performance.

Steve has designed interventions for some of Australia's largest organizations. His current interests include leadership and integrated talent management, organizational development and strategy.

He has consulted widely across industries and sectors including banking and finance, telecommunication, IT and pharmaceuticals. He has also held regional and global roles. Some of his clients have included the Australian Stock Exchange where he developed an organizational change program in preparation for the demutualization and listing; ING Australia where he led the implementation of a two-year culture change program and was the Change Strategist for the national brand change.

In more recent years, Steve lived and worked in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. During this time he held the position of Senior Consultant, Global Leadership Development, for ING Group. While in this role, he developed the ING Global Leadership Framework, the succession management model and designed CEO level development programs.

Steve is Director of Consulting at Boomerang Search and Consulting, where leads the Pan Asia Talent Management Practice. He holds a Masters degree in Psychology and also an MBA.

David Opton is Chief Executive Officer and Founder of ExecuNet (www.execunet.com), the leading Internet-based center for executive career management.

Since founding ExecuNet in 1988, Dave Opton has remained focused on using his 40+ years of experience in Human Resources to develop and grow what has become the nation's premier career management firm for executives and senior managers with salaries above $100,000.

Prior to founding ExecuNet, Mr. Opton served as Vice President of Personnel for Sterling Drug International, an operating unit of 14,000 employees and over $1 billion in revenue.

From 1971 to 1983, Mr. Opton held several senior management positions in Xerox Corporation's domestic, international, and corporate operating units.

Headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut, ExecuNet has served more than 150,000 executives from around the world. Currently, more than 15,000 companies and executive recruiters use ExecuNet to list over 20,000 executive job postings annually. In addition to these postings, ExecuNet also provides the latest information on salaries and market trends; and publishes three newsletters covering the latest tips, tactics, strategies, and resources for executive job search, career management, and member networking.

I was successful in my application to study a postgraduate qualification in Personnel and Development and was quickly integrated in the personnel organisation where my early experience was in a mix of HQ and specialist activities, largely in the field of resourcing.

In 1992 I managed the major redundancy programme company wide which resulted in 32,000 people leaving the company on voluntary redundancy terms during the year and was subsequently involved with the major process re-engineering initiative in BT supported by a team of North American consultants.

More recently my posts have included supporting large engineering and customer services operations and heading up the corporate employment policy unit. At 1.10.98 I was invited to join the Human resources board for BT in the UK with responsibility for HR in 3 operating divisions and the Internal Communications operation across the UK. This additionally involved me with the development of BT's contribution to the Millennium Dome.

More recent roles include HR Director for BTUK Sales and Markets, managing the HR interests in the BT Wireless European ventures and Senior VP HR in BT Openworld in February through the turbulence of the dot.com boom to bust.

I have been in my present role as HR Director Group Operations since January 2003, and recently have taken the lead on BT's relationship with Accenture for delivering HR Services, and for the Executive succession and talent agenda across the BT Group.

I am a member of the Princes Trust London Council and a non executive director of the Employment Opportunities charity.

Since 2001, Michael has proven excellence in Knowledge Management covering strategic planning, start-up, project development and deployment. For one company, Halliburton, the effort designed and implemented 19 networks or communities, with all 19 delivering clear measured success. An independent firm verified a staggering 563% return over a three year period from the improvement in quality, productivity, innovation and organizational learning. The main focus was using formal topdown structured communities to solve complex business issues. Projects spanned multiple types of technical operations, business support functions and research and development efforts around the world. A key aspect to achieving the success was through the understanding of social networks and the untapped potential which exists in every organization. Experience covers many areas, from strategy development, knowledge mapping, taxonomies, system design, harvesting, content management, search, and use of complexity techniques. Michael is a well-published author and speaker on knowledge management.

Over the previous 19 years, Michael started as an engineer, achieving success and advancement in operations, business development, quality, and knowledge management. Solid experience championing and leading global projects, reducing failure rates, improving customer satisfaction, improving organizational learning, implementing change management programs, facilitating process and workflow improvements. He has a mechanical engineering degree from the University of Michigan and an MBA from Pepperdine University.

For the past year, Lori has focused much of her attention on competency research and analysis and has become viewed as a thought leader in the Global Services space focusing on the people and organizational challenges presented by the complexities of cross-cultural, virtual globalization. Lori has presented her methodologies and findings at leading conferences including the BITS Financial Services Outsourcing Conference, Global Workforce Leadership Summit and Global Services - Strategies for Sourcing People, Processes and Technologies. Lori and her senior team recently returned from India where they met with clients and planned for a "US-India 'Virtual Global' Workforce Program" that the firm is creating in coordination with the Human Capital Institute and the Indian National Human Resource Development (Indian NHRD) Association.

Kent also initiated and directed BP's global Virtual Teamwork (VT) Program, which received a Finalist Award in the 1997 Computerworld Smithsonian Awards. VT, referred to as a "killer app" for real-time collaboration and sharing of information, was a result of integrating virtual work behavior and business process with leading edge technology engineering provided by SAIC.

Kent joined SAIC in 1999, where his primary responsibility is the application of Knowledge Management practices to deliver high performance inside and outside the company. Kent's external clients include Saudi Aramco, Unocal, Nexen, Amerada Hess, British American Tobacco, Frito Lay, Entergy, Johnson & Johnson, Northrop Grumman, US Army, US Navy, Department of the Defense, US Air Force, NORTHCOM, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, U.S. Senate and most recently, the Defense Intelligence Agency.

Kent's internal efforts over the last year have focused on transforming SAIC to become a high performance organization, leading to new growth in value and profit. In this regard, he has woven KM practices into Six Sigma methodologies to accelerate transformation of SAIC's core business processes and culture. The U.S. Air Force and eGov, the leading government symposium on performance and eBusiness, have recognized his work and engaged him to deliver keynote speeches for their 2005 conferences.

Along with Jack Welch and Michael Dell, Kent is listed as one of the top twenty Most Admired Knowledge Leaders in the Global Teleos 2000 Most Admired Knowledge Leaders survey. His experience and insights have been documented in many articles and publications, including some highly acclaimed books such as Company Command: Unleashing the Power of the Army Profession; Intellectual Capital, the New Wealth of Nations, Performance Through Learning, Lost Knowledge, Simplicity, Learning to Fly, The Knowledge Engine, Smart Things to Know About KM, Lost Knowledge and Knowledge Capital. Kent is on the editorial board of the Journal of Knowledge Management, and a founding member of several KM consortiums and communities, including the latest round of the Harvard Learning and Innovation Laboratory.

Kent has recently been appointed Executive in Residence at George Washington University's Institute of Knowledge and Innovation in Washington D.C. He holds a B.S. Degree in Geology from Kent State University and a M.S Degree in Geophysics from University of Arizona. He also completed the Executive Program from J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University.

James Holincheck is a Research Vice President in Gartner Research, where he covers human capital management software as part of the Enterprise Operations group. He helps provide a bridge between technology and human capital processes, practices and strategies in areas such as recruitment, performance management, compensation management, career development, and succession planning.

Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Holincheck held the position of VP of Strategy at IQ4hire. Mr. Holincheck also spent two years as an industry analyst at Giga Information Group (now Forrester) covering human resource management (HRMS) and financial systems. In addition, he spent 10 years at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) participating in the full life cycle of projects around human resources and financial management.

Mr. Holincheck earned a B.S. degree in electrical engineering as well as a M.B.A. degree from Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.

Sean Huurman currently leads Global Recruiting Operations at BearingPoint, Inc. He has more than 10 years of experience in human resource management, recruiting strategy and operations, recruiting technology implementation and sourcing effectiveness. Since joining BearingPoint in 1997, Huurman has held several positions within the company's Recruiting organization. Recent focus has included contributions in the design and implementation of BearingPoint's On-demand Recruiting Outsourcing capabilities.

Huurman previously worked as a generalist in HR for Applied Materials, a leading semiconductor equipment manufacturing company. During his tenure at Applied Materials, Huurman developed training programs, managed recruiting initiatives for several divisions and was responsible for companywide employee relations. Huurman earned a Bachelors Degree in Psychology from Santa Clara University.

Since June of 2002, Kent has led recruitment worldwide for Deloitte. He works with country HR and recruitment leaders to develop and implement strategies, tools and programs to enhance recruitment efforts. To date, this has included the implementation of a global selection methodology, an award winning global career website, a global talent management system, an international internship program and the negotiation of worldwide agreements with several providers of recruitment related services. Kent works out of Deloitte world headquarters in New York City.

Prior to his current role, Kent was the national recruitment leader for Deloitte in the United States for eight years. His responsibilities included the development of firm wide strategies, programs, technologies, publications, communications and procedures critical to successfully attracting, hiring and retaining diverse, high talent professionals at all levels. Kent led the design and implementation of a highly successful employee referral program that has been highlighted by FORTUNE magazine. Under his leadership, the firm doubled diversity recruitment results, reduced the usage of search firms by 80% and implemented a structured, behavior-based interview approach.

Kent joined Deloitte in 1988 and for five years prior to accepting his national position, Kent was Human Resources Manager in the Detroit office. He was responsible for internship, entry level, and experienced hiring, continuing professional education, compensation, performance management, and other human resource activities. In addition, Kent had responsibility for the regional business plans and other financial forecasting and analysis. Prior to joining Deloitte, Kent had eight years of management experience with a nationwide retail organization. Kent is originally from Michigan and graduated from Albion College with a Bachelor's degree in Economics & Management. He is a member of the National Advisory Board of Universum, the iLogos VP Roundtable, the Human Capital Institute and was the founding president of the Newtown Lacrosse Club. He has been quoted in numerous publications, including the Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, HR Magazine, The Electronic Recruiting Exchange and various other publications. Kent and his wife, Karen, have lived in Newtown, Connecticut since 1993. Their three sons are now attending university in Connecticut, South Carolina and Michigan while their daughter is a student at Newtown High School.

Ed is a frequent contributor of white papers and articles to several on-line industry forums such as the Electronic Recruiting Exchange and Net-Temps, and has presented at leading industry trade shows and regional chapters of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and the Employment Management Association (EMA) on topics such as change management, and recruiting process re-design, selection, implementation and optimization of recruiting technology, and maximizing return on investment.

Ms. Smooch S. Reynolds is founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer of The Repovich-Reynolds Group, a division of TRRG, Inc., a retained international executive search and management consulting firm specializing in the communications, investor relations, and marketing functions based in Pasadena, California.

Since launching The Repovich-Reynolds Group in 1987, Ms. Reynolds has served clients across a broad range of industries, and has also worked with companies ranging from pre-IPO start-ups to Fortune 500 corporations, nonprofit and industry associations, and public relations and investor relations agencies. Leading a team of recruitment professionals - all of whom are former communications and/or investor relations practitioners, Ms. Reynolds has spearheaded senior-level executive search and management consulting assignments on behalf of client companies that include: Activision, Allied Signal, Barclays Global Investors, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Capital One Financial Corporation, CBS Sportsline.com, Cisco, Coors Brewing Company, Eaton Corporation, Edelman Public Relations, EDS, Exxon Mobil Corporation, Genentech, GoTo.com, Hewlett-Packard, Hill and Knowlton, Inc., Intel Corporation, McDonald's, McKesson Corporation, Nike, Nokia, Standard & Poor's, The Boeing Company, The Limited, Inc., Times Mirror, and Visa USA, among myriad others.

Having been a key influencer of the investor relations profession in the United States, Ms. Reynolds was asked in 2003 to join a distinguished group of the senior-most investor relations professionals in the nation as a member of the National Investor Relations Institute's (NIRI) Senior Roundtable Forum. She also participates in NIRI's Center for Integrated Communications, which is a research task force designed to evolve the investor relations profession for the future evolution of the function for corporations worldwide.

A dynamic lecturer, keynote speaker, media expert on employment issues, and frequent contributor to global professional journals and newsletters, Ms. Reynolds has been featured on CNBC's "Power Lunch", CNN-TV, CNNfn, Bloomberg TV, Fox News' "Your World with Neil Cavuto," Fortune.com, and myriad other TV network affiliate broadcast news programs, and in the AtlantaJournal Constitution,Chicago Tribune, Dallas Morning News, New York Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and Investor's Business Daily, among other major publications. Ms. Reynolds was also the creator and producer of "Navigating Your Career," a live, call-in radio show she hosted on Phoenix's largest all-talk radio station in the late 1990's.

In addition, Ms. Reynolds copyrighted, "Hiring The Intangibles: Benchmark Core Criteria for Evaluating Candidates," a methodology she developed that imparts her philosophy for assessing candidates based on the intangible qualities they possess. She also is author of the book, Be Hunted! 12 Secrets to Getting on the Headhunter's Radar Screen, and is a contributing author to the book, Navigating Your Career, in which she wrote the chapter, "How to Take Charge When a Headhunter Calls," both published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., the country's largest business book publisher.

Prior to launching The Repovich-Reynolds Group, Ms. Reynolds had tenure at Hill and Knowlton, Inc., a leading international public relations and public affairs firm, serving first in account management, and subsequently in human resources and recruitment capacities. She joined the firm as an Account Supervisor in its Consumer Marketing Division in Los Angeles, providing strategic public relations, public affairs and marketing counsel to global consumer products clients, and overseeing new business development. Ms. Reynolds was recognized for her skill in hiring and mentoring teams of professionals that developed into top talent at the firm, which led to her promotion to the firm's first Director of Domestic Executive Search for Hill and Knowlton, Inc.

She was subsequently promoted to serve as Director of Human Resources for the firm's Western U.S. region. Ms. Reynolds designed and launched both the executive search and human resources functions as pilot programs for this world-renowned communications firm.

Ms. Reynolds' earlier experience in communications management includes serving as Southern California Public Relations Director for United Cable Television during the peak of cable franchising in the greater Los Angeles area; and, Press Deputy for former Los Angeles City Councilwoman Pat Russell. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

An active member of the National Investor Relations Institute, the Public Relations Society of America, and the International Association of Business Communicators, Ms. Reynolds is on the Board of Trustees of Westridge School in Pasadena, California, a past member of the Board of Directors for the American Cancer Society, and a past member of the Board of Directors of The City Club of Bunker Hill.

Paul Rogers is the Program Manager for Employer Branding at Starbucks Coffee Company, where he drives the execution of initiatives to promote Starbucks as a best place to work around the globe. Paul's role includes the development of a branding campaign that captures the unique benefits of Starbucks as an employer, while recognizing the great value that the company places on its current "partners" or employees. By working closely with key stakeholders across the organization, Paul's ultimate mission is to facilitate the recruitment and retention of future talent to Starbucks by attracting high potential candidates, building meaningful relationships with them, and ensuring a legendary candidate experience.

Prior to joining Starbucks, Paul worked for a leading recruitment communications agency in a hybrid creative/account management role, developing employer branding campaigns and strategies for a number of Fortune 500 organizations. Previously, Paul gained exposure to the creative side of the advertising business by working as a copywriter in brand agencies including DDB and J. Walter Thompson. Paul graduated from the University of Texas in Austin and currently lives in Seattle, Washington

Freddye L. Silverman is Vice President of Human Resource Technology Solutions for Cendant Corporation in Hunt Valley, Maryland and has been in the HRIS field since 1986. Her responsibilities include HR technology strategic planning and oversight of global HR systems and the U.S. payroll system, serving 90,000 employees of multiple business units in more than 50 countries. She manages the outsourcing relationship for HRTS which began in 2004.

Ms. Silverman has been actively involved in the International Association for Human Resource Information Management (IHRIM) since 1986, serving as Midatlantic chapter president for three years and as an Association board member for six years. She was President of the International Association in 1997. In the education arena, she has been an adjunct professor in HRMS for Johns Hopkins University, an instructor in HRMS for the AMA and has made many presentations on related topics both in the U.S. and abroad.

Silverman has a B.A. in Spanish from Adelphi University, a Masters degree in Education from Towson University and taught Spanish at the secondary and university level for ten years in her first life before making a career change into I.T. and then HR technology.

Hal is a business, human resources and organizational change strategist with more than 35 years' industrial and professional experience and focuses on Human Capital and organization solutions.

Hal's industry experience includes consumer products, financial services, office information products, paper, pharmaceuticals, printing, public sector, transportation, travel and utilities.

His operating experience includes executive management in Human Resources, business strategy, total quality management, organizational design and change management. He was the primary leader for Xerox in their "Quality and Change Management" efforts and served as Vice President, Human Resources, for Rhone-Poulenc Rohrer, leading the merger and integration of the combined organization.

His consulting experience includes working with clients such as AAI International, American Water, Educational Testing Service, The Federal Reserve, Givaudan Flavors, GlaxoSmithKline, Revlon, Right Management Consulting and Tauck World Discovery. He has been a recipient of the prestigious "Distinguished Psychologist In Management" award by the Society of Psychologists In Management.

Hal is a published author of articles and books on Productivity, Human Resources Management, Recognition, Total Quality Management and Competitiveness.

He has presented to the Association for Quality and Participation, the American Psychological Association, the Conference Board, the Department of Defense, the Human Resources Planning Society, the Society of Psychologists in Management and the United States Congress. He also served as a judge in The Pennsylvania Quality Award program.

Hal holds a Doctorate in Organizational Psychology from New York University, an M.S. from North Carolina State University and a B.A. from The City College of New York.

Jon's career at Dow Chemical has included assignments in Operational Management, Marketing and Human Resources. He is currently responsible for Human Resources Information Technology global initiatives that are strategically aligned with Dow's People Success Systems, an award-winning comprehensive resource that incorporates the philosophy, information and tools needed to successfully transform the company's culture.

Jon's major project initiatives include the global implementation of PeopleSoft HRMS, People Success Finder a global HR portal, Dow's on-line university (learn@dow.now) and the global external hiring project that has selected Taleo as an implementation partner.

Personal achievements includes the following:

• Best Practices Award from the American Society of Training and Development for outstanding contributions and achievements in advancing learning and performance in the workplace.
• CIO 2002 Enterprise Value Award (EVA) for Learn@Dow.Now, Dow's on-line enterprise wide web based training university impacting 60,000 users with approximately half a million training hours in eight different languages. This endeavor will yield $27 - 34 million in direct savings with an ROI of 10 months.
• 2003 HR-Masters Award recognizing the most innovative work in the field of Human Resources for outstanding achievements in Human Asset Management.
• Chaired the PeopleSoft Global Special Interest Group that is comprised of Fortune 100 companies that have or are in the process of implementing the PeopleSoft application. Establish the blueprint for enterprise globalization for the PeopleSoft product line.
• Member of the Benchmark Committee for the International Society of Performance Improvement (ISPI)
• 2004 Electronic Recruiting Exchange Human Capital Luminary Award

Various Professional Speaking Engagements:

• Keynote address Corporate University Week 2000
• Presenter Training 1999 & Training 2000 - Implementation Strategies
• Speaker Tech Learn 2000 - Cost Analysis Evaluation
• Speaker Internet 2000 - Tools Selection Process
• Speaker Organizational Resource Council 2002 - Global Forum
• Speaker PeopleSoft Global Connect 2002
• HR-Master Practitioner Panel 2002 - Talent Management Systems
• Speaker SHRM Global 2004 - Selecting & Implementing Global Enterprise Recruiting Solution

Mr. Wells served as Senior Vice President of Human Resources & Training for Circuit City Stores from 1996-2004. He oversaw all human resources and training functions. Circuit City operates over 600 stores in the United States. Total Sales for Circuit City in FY'05 were approximately $10 billion. Circuit City employs over 43,000 associates within the USA.

Previously, Mr. Wells served as Senior Vice President and Vice President, Human Resources, for Toys "R" Us, Inc. from 1984 to 1996. His career with Toys "R" Us encompassed responsibilities for all human resource activities for Toys - USA; corporate, international, and indirectly, for Kids "R" Us. During his association with TRU, he had seen the company grow from one billion dollars to over $10.0 billion in 1996.

Prior to joining Toys "R" Us, Mr. Wells served as SVP, Human Resources, for Gimbels-Pittsburgh for 7 years, a division of Batus Retail Group. Before that time he spent 10 years with Sears Roebuck where he began his career as an Executive Trainee. During his time with Sears, Mr. Wells served in assignments as varied as Department Manager to Territorial Payroll Tax Manager.

Mr. Wells serves as Chairman of the Committee on Employment Law of the National Retail Federation. He is Chairman Emeritus of the New Jersey Retail Merchants Association. He serves on the Commonwealth of Virginia Blind and Visually Impaired Rehabilitation Advisory Council and is Chairman of the Board of INROADS, Virginia. In addition he serves on the Corporate Advisory Board at the Darden School of Business, University of Virginia. Mr. Wells has also serves on the Board of the NRF Foundation Education & Advancement Committee formerly known as the Sales and Service Voluntary Partnership. In addition, Mr. Wells also serves on the Editorial Review Board of Chief Learning Magazine, the corporate advisory board of UniCru corporation, and has been recently invited to serve as a Human Resource Thought Leader for the Human Capital Institute.

After retiring from Circuit City Stores, Mr. Wells founded his own company, Human Capabilities LLC . His mission is to assist companies in maximizing the capabilities of the Human Capital.

Wildrick and her staff of 28 Human Resources/Staffing professionals are responsible for recruiting technical and specialty skills needed by the world's leading aerospace company. She and her team also develop internal and external recruiting materials, including recruitment advertising.

In 2003, Wildrick and her team launched a multifaceted recruiting campaign aimed at showcasing The Boeing Company's diverse programs and career opportunities. They achieved success in a highly competitive aerospace hiring environment, attracting approximately 3,000 new hires with critical skills in engineering, science and information technology fields, and over 10,000 the following year. Wildrick's more than 19-year background includes a series of increasingly responsible positions in HR, specializing in recruiting. She began her career with the McDonnell Douglas Corp. in Huntington Beach, Calif., in 1987 and was promoted into management in 1996. Boeing and McDonnell Douglas merged in 1997.

A 2001 graduate of the University of La Verne, Calif., Wildrick is currently pursuing her master's in business administration from the same school. Wildrick resides in Southern California.

More recently Dave developed 22 best practice research cases for the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative's Hall of Fame. These cases provided a foundation for Norton and Kaplan's best-selling book, The Strategy-Focused Organization. Dave has done organizational research for Harvard Business School which focused on financial accountability and strategic management practices. He has authored numerous articles and three books on career management of IT professionals, and has a master's degree in business and organizational behavior from Brigham Young University's Marriott School of Management.