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1 Register now for entire HR FL Conference & Expo! Masters 2015 The Masters Series sessions are designed to provide a comprehensive learning experience for senior level HR professionals and are included in the regular registration fee. Sessions What Every HR Leader Should Know About Strategic Planning Stuart Smith Monday, August, 31, 2015, 10:30 am 12:30 pm Stuart Smith is a Senior Manager with Leadership Strategies, Inc. He is a results-focused professional and has facilitated over 500 meetings, workshops, planning sessions, retreats and strategic planning events. Stuart began his career facilitating small-group leadership programs in the US Army and now focuses his facilitation practice on helping people and organizations improve their ability to plan and execute business improvement strategy and deal with change. He has facilitated the development and execution of strategic plans for federal government agencies, international associations, Fortune 1000 corporations, small business and non-profits. Stuart has an in-depth understanding of Systems and Quality Theory and how people work

2 most effectively in organizations. He has an extensive training background and holds a Master of Education from Seattle University. When it comes to strategic planning, HR professionals must move from being the reactive problem solvers within their organizations to being adaptive and proactive. For HR leaders to gain the ear of senior executives, we must be able to speak and understand strategy. In this highly-interactive and engaging session, the CEO of Leadership Strategies delivers to you the Drivers Model - a roadmap for building strategy that demonstrates the critical difference between mission versus vision, goals versus objectives, values versus guiding principles, and critical success factors versus strategies. You will learn how to create a clear and concise strategic plan with a facilitation approach for plan development as well as implementation. Also important - you will learn 10 pitfalls to avoid in the strategic planning process! HR Audits Why Are They Vital to the HR Pro s Success? Bill Krizner, Esq. Monday, August 31, 2015, 1:00 pm 3:00 pm William T. Krizner is the Owner and Operating Partner of The Krizner Group, a full service law firm that concentrates its practice in assisting organizations both before and after disputes arise. He has published dozens of articles relating to various employment law topics; including hiring, proper termination procedures, employee monitoring, and the dangers imposed by the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Family Medical Leave Act. Mr. Krizner also regularly provides speaking engagements for state and national associations on varying employment law topics. He personally represents more than a thousand clients mainly in Florida, California, South Carolina, Maryland, Georgia and Pennsylvania, including organizations from nearly every major industry and many of the largest organizations in the Tallahassee area. The Firm's clients employ more than two hundred thousand employees. A comprehensive HR Audit is just as essential in quantifying the overall strength of the HR Department. In this session, attendees will learn the value that an HR Audit provides to both the new and seasoned HR Pros. The merits of an HR audit to organizational strength and stability will also be revealed. Discussions will include the significance of the top five goals of an HR audit and how, when accomplished, they can: identify risk, prioritize action items, control losses; and establish legal defenses. Attendees in this session will leave with an understanding of: The value of an independent HR Audit to overall organizational health; How the HR Audit is a critical resource for organizational financial stability; The key components of a quality, comprehensive HR Audit; and The factors to consider when selecting an HR Auditor.

3 Live From HR Florida, It's the HR Analytics Show Don Everett Monday, August 31, 2015, 3:30 pm 5:30 pm Don Everett ( is the founder and CEO of Workforce Interactive. After earning a degree in computer sciences from the University of Florida, he enjoyed a 20+ year career in the technology sector with organizations like Oracle, and eventual subsidiaries of Dun & Bradstreet and SAP. In 2006, he decided to apply his database and business intelligence background in the area of human capital analysis. He formed his company with the intent of providing employers with unprecedented insight regarding the evaluation of values in the workplace. Don is routinely requested as a featured speaker. His content is delivered in several venues, ranging from keynote presentations to development workshops, and his educational, entertaining presentations engage thousands of attendees annually. Enough talking, let s actually do HR analytics. This session uniquely engages the audience collaboratively in a complete HR analytic sequence, resulting in a predictive model. Most HR professionals agree that analytics will be vital activities in their organizations. Individuals who want more than a surface level understanding of HR analytics will enjoy this immersive, interactive presentation that leads the audience through the multiple dimensions of an HR analytic project. We Are Hired to Do a Job, But Paid to Achieve Results- Transforming the Way to Strategically Drive HR Jack Gottlieb Tuesday, September 1, 2015, 10:30 am 12:30 pm

4 Jack Gottlieb is the CEO of The Total Solutions Group, Inc. a strategic consulting, training and coaching firm committed to driving a sustainable increase to an organization's results, value proposition and culture. To his clients, Jack brings 13 years of proven high level success along with the collective capability of his team and advisory board. Prior to starting TSG, Inc. Jack was a strategic consultant with Dale Carnegie Training and he also spent time as a director for a sports marketing firm. As the world of business and our needs continue to shift, we must understand what it really takes to translate our core initiatives into performance improvement that yields breakthrough results. We will learn and experience real time the 5-step platform it takes to do that for any c-level, project based, department or companywide initiative while driving immediate impact to your critical objectives. Trust and Influence: Making the C-Suite Your Sweet Spot Andrea Howe & Gary S. Jones, CCSP, SPHR Tuesday, September 1, 2015, 1:00 pm 3:00 pm Andrea P. Howe is the co-author, with Charles H. Green, of The Trusted Advisor Fieldbook: A Comprehensive Toolkit for Leading with Trust. She is the founder of The Get Real Project and an entrepreneur on a mission: to kick conventional business wisdom to the curb and transform how people work together as a result. Andrea is a recovering information technology consultant who has spent more than 20 years working with clients, managing projects, and facilitating groups of all kinds and sizes. Her focus for the last decade has been teaching people in consultative roles how to dramatically improve their business performance by getting relationships right. She addresses strategic topics such as customer intimacy, client loyalty, the dynamics of influence, dealing with conflict, and developing business with trust. Gary Jones, CSP and SPHR, is the Chief Human Resources Officer at Grizzard Communications Group with offices in Atlanta and Los Angeles. He has over 25 years of corporate level human resources experience in a diverse set of industries including marketing services, specialty retail, wholesale, and not-for-profit. He holds graduate

5 degrees in Administration as well as Counseling and served as adjunct professor in Mercer University s MBA program for nearly 10 years, teaching courses in human resources, organizational behavior and management. In 2010, Gary received the SHAPE Award for Professional Excellence in Human Resources from the Atlanta Chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management. Learn how to get noticed and heard by C-Suite leaders in your organization. This session identifies specific ways you can dramatically increase your levels of trust and influence with internal leaders. Special emphasis will be placed on how to increase credibility and visibility with C-level executives. Howe and Jones shed light on why trying to get a seat at the table may actually guarantee that you won t be invited to the very meetings you most want (and need) to attend. Identify the four essentials elements of trust and discover concrete ways to boost your personal score on each essentials element of trust. This session helps you understanding the five aspects of a CEO s world and how to effectively align and adapt your communication. Jump! Leaps in Organizational Performance and Teamwork David Hart Tuesday, September 1, 2015, 3:30 pm 5:30 pm David Hart has extensive experience dealing with the challenges and rewards of high performance leadership and teamwork. As a former U.S. Army Ranger and Pathfinder, he completed the most elite small unit leadership training in the world, spending three years in an actual Ranger Unit and an additional five years as an Army Pathfinder. A graduate of the University of Cincinnati, David combines this experience with a solid grounding in business, having accumulated more than 20 years of business experiences in sales, management and marketing, including seven years as founder and CEO of a national retail/amusement company. Having worked as an Army Ranger, forklift operator, competitive skydiver, sales manager to CEO, he has experienced high-performance teamwork and organizational dysfunction at all levels. David is passionate about effective leadership and high performance teamwork within organizations. A national speaker, writer and corporate trainer, David has written articles for professional publications and been the subject of various articles and interviews. If we care where we land, it matters where we get out of the airplane. This presentation is all about Leadership, Teamwork and Effective Communication that is derived from a shared vision, common goals and mutual accountability. Achieving true teamwork is challenging at best. Does your organizational culture support high performance teamwork and mutual accountability? David will elaborate on the common elements of teamwork he has experienced first-hand while serving in business, competitive skydiving teams and elite military units.

6 Cultivating Change Ann Ashley, SPHR and Chris Maslin, SPHR Wednesday, September 2, 2015, 8:30 am 10:30 am The recipient of numerous awards in business, Ann Ashley has been honored with The Diamond Award for Outstanding Achievement in Business from The Business Journal and embraces opportunities to serve and to continue learning. Recognized by the North Carolina Chamber of Commerce for her involvement in founding the statewide HR Subcommittee which advises the governor s office and legislature, she also serves as a volunteer at her church and in her community. Ann is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and has done post graduate work at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and Asheville as well as Wake Forest University. Chris Maslin is the Director of Staffing & Training for The Biltmore Company in Asheville, NC, and also serves as the Director of Biltmore s Center for. Chris holds BS and MBA degrees with Beta Gamma Sigma distinction. He also holds a Senior Professional in Human Resources certification from the HR Certification Institute. Chris is a member of the Association for Talent Development and The Society for Human Resource Management. He has served on the North Carolina Travel Industry Association Education Task Force and was recognized as one of Asheville s 40 Under 40 emerging business leaders by Mountaineer Publishing. He currently serves on the North Carolina Chamber HR/Employment Committee, Chief Learning Officer Business Intelligence Board, the Western Carolina University Hospitality & Tourism Advisory Board, as well as a number of non-profit boards in the Asheville area. Change, whether significant or minute, is rarely easy, but organizations can persevere and find success through Biltmore s time-tested approach to not just enduring change, but leading it. Cultivating Change takes participants through the critical steps of leading change, and tackles challenges head-on. Through insightful facilitation, realistic discussion, a field trip examining one of Biltmore s most recent changes, and an individual traction plan designed to turn the wheels of change and navigate obstacles along the way, Cultivating Change is a powerful program designed with results in mind.