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Kevin Ames
Director, O.C. Tanner Institute
Kevin Ames is the director of the O.C. Tanner Institute and has provided inspiring motivational keynotes and training for more than 20 years. In addition to being a successful entrepreneur in his own right, Ames has traveled the globe working with companies such as American Express, Autoliv, Coca Cola, Iomega, Kimberly Clark, NuSkin, Nature's Own Sweden, Thiokol, Huntsman Cancer Institute and Sundance. A true appreciateologist, Ames is an expert in the areas of recognition and reward, teambuilding, personal development and leadership. His mission is to instill in every student a passion for personal and professional excellence.
Lisa Amoroso
Sr. Director, Diversity & Inclusion Frito-Lay North America
Lisa Amoroso is the senior director of diversity and inclusion for Frito-Lay North America, responsible for the agenda covering 48,000 U.S.-based employees. She joined FL in 2003 as a supply chain manager and then progressed to plant manager after several roles at three manufacturing sites. In 2009, she moved to the HR function, where she served in multiple OMD/capability roles supporting supply chain, R&D and marketing. She then assumed the role of senior director of change and training, leading an enterprise-wide initiative. Prior to joining Frito Lay, Amoroso was employed by Mobil Oil for five years.
Ronald Barlow
Managing Director PwC
Ron Barlow is a managing director in PwC's tax and global human resource solutions practice with more than 30 years of healthcare actuarial consulting experience in the employer-sponsored health benefits field. His primary emphasis is the financial and actuarial analysis of healthcare programs, including private exchanges, consumer-driven healthcare, wellness and the impact of health reform.
Barlow has been involved in a variety of consulting engagements for his clients, including leading employers in healthcare strategy development; analyzing healthcare cost and utilization data; advising employers on the effects of various pricing, benefit, and contribution strategies on health plan cost and employee selection patterns; assisting employers in the selection of health plan vendors; and analyzing the impact of various changes in healthcare policies and regulations.
Prior to rejoining PwC in March of 2011, Barlow was a director at Deloitte Consulting for eight years. Earlier in his career, he was a VP at Synhrgy HR Technologies and a director at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he was a healthcare consultant/leader for more than 14 years.
Barlow is an associate of the Society of Actuaries and a member of the American Academy of Actuaries and holds a B.A. in archaeology from Yale University.
Colleen Barrett
President, Emeritus Southwest Airlines Co.
Colleen C. Barrett is currently president emeritus of Southwest Airlines Co. Prior to stepping down as the company's president in 2008, she oversaw management, leadership and budget responsibilities for marketing; corporate communications; human resources; customer relations and rapid rewards; labor and employee relations; president reservations; corporate security; and the executive office staff. She was also a member of the company's executive planning committee and chaired numerous special teams, task forces and committees relating to internal and external Southwest customers. Recently, Barrett co-authored with Ken Blanchard the book "Lead with LUV: A Different Way to Create Success."
For Southwest Airlines, she has served as corporate secretary from 1978—2008, VP of administration from 1986—1990; EVP of customers from 1990—2001; and president and member of the board of directors from 2001—2008. Prior to joining Southwest in 1978, Barrett worked for several years as an executive assistant to Southwest's former executive chairman Herb Kelleher at his law firm.
Barrett is active in numerous civic and charitable organizations in Dallas, Texas; serves on the JCPenney Company Inc. board of directors, the Ken Blanchard College of Business, and the Becker College board of trustees; and has served on numerous advisory boards and commissions.
Bill Behrendt, Ph.D.
VP, Human Resources University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Bill Behrendt currently serves as vice president for human resources at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center where he is responsible for all "people" issues at the medical school and its university hospitals and clinics. Prior to coming to Dallas in 2003, Behrendt served as vice president for human resources for CareGroup Health System and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He previously held the role of senior vice president for human resources at the BJC Healthcare System in St. Louis, Missouri. He also served as president of Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital in St. Louis. In these positions, he gained extensive knowledge and experience in organization development, mergers and acquisitions, change management, strategic planning and executive coaching.
Behrendt began his career in retailing with the May Department Stores Company headquartered in St. Louis, where he held positions in consumer research, strategic planning, executive development and human resources. He earned a B.S. in psychology from Tulane University in New Orleans, his PhD in clinical psychology from Washington University in St. Louis and completed a psychology internship at UT Southwestern in Dallas. He is also a graduate of the certificate in executive coaching program at University of Texas at Dallas, and an associate certified coach member of the International Coach Federation. Behrendt has held faculty positions at Simmons College in Boston, UT Southwestern and UT Dallas and has served as a board member for the Barnes and Jewish Colleges of Nursing, the Picker Institute, LaunchAbility, and HealthPartners of the Midwest. In 2012, he accepted the International Coach Federation — North Texas Chapter PRISM Award for integrating coaching as part of the UT Southwestern Leadership Development Program.
Phillip Burke
VP, Global HR Operations Walmart Stores, Inc.
With more than 20 years of accomplishments in Walmart store operations and human resources, Phillip Burke currently serves as VP for global HR operations at Walmart, the Fortune No.1 company with 2013 fiscal year sales of approximately $466B. In his role, Burke is responsible for optimizing the way human resources works through people, process and platform solutions to deliver services for the more than 2.2 million associates employed by Walmart in 27 countries. Burke and his team are focused on achieving the most effective HR operations so that Walmart's associates are enabled to serve the more than 245 million customers and members who visit the company's stores and e-commerce websites in 10 countries each week.
After graduating from Morehead State University with his business degree, Burke joined Walmart as an assistant store manager trainee, learning the business and operations from the ground-up and developing experiences in complex business processes under a wide variety of conditions and environments. Burke's career includes more than 10 years of full P&L responsibility, a strong record of team building, store operations execution, strategic partnering and long-term planning. Through his transition from store operations to the home office, Burke has led successful corporate initiatives where strategic planning and tactical execution are paramount.
Mike Buskey
SVP, Human Resources GameStop Corporation
Mike Buskey joined GameStop Corporation in 2010 as SVP of Human Resources. He has been focusing on building GameStop's overall organizational capability. His senior leadership experience includes a unique blend of operations and HR, which has allowed him to create strategic alliances throughout the organization to achieve better business results.
Prior to GameStop, Buskey was SVP of Human Resources, U.S. store operations for The Home Depot, responsible for leading the company's HR activities for approximately 2,000 stores across the U.S. He also provided HR support to corporate departments including store operations, marketing, merchandising, home services, pro business and tool rental.
A 36-year veteran in the retail industry, Buskey began his career at The Home Depot in 1998, eventually progressing to VP of Human Resources where he successfully managed the consolidation of four geographical areas and integrated more than 600 stores and 120,000 associates into the former Eastern Division.
Before moving into HR at The Home Depot, Buskey had a distinguished career as an operator for Oshman Sporting Goods, Circuit City and Wherehouse Entertainment. He earned a Bachelor's degree in English from the University of San Francisco. Prior to his retail career, Buskey spent eight years as a professional baseball player finishing his career with the Philadelphia Phillies in 1978.
Troy Closson
VP, Human Resources Dal-Tile Corporation
Troy Closson joined Mohawk Industries in 2010 as VP of human resources for Dal-Tile Corporation, a subsidiary of Mohawk Industries that manufactures, distributes and markets high-quality ceramic tile and natural stone products. Dal-Tile is the largest ceramic tile manufacturer in the U.S. and one of the largest tile manufacturers in the world employing over 8,000 associates. Closson has more than 20 years of experience in human resources, working for a variety of companies including Stanley Black & Decker, Black and Decker and Ingersoll-Rand Company. He is an experienced and influential senior human resources leader with a strong record of delivering results, developing talent and partnering with executive leaders in global matrix organizations. Closson earned his MBA from Wake Forest University and his B.S. in management from Guilford College.
Adrianne Court
CHRO Transplace
In her role as CHRO of Transplace, Adrianne Court is charged with leading strategic and relevant HR programs and initiatives that invest directly in developing the expertise of the people of Transplace and creating a competitive talent differentiation. A current selection of focus areas includes continuous investment in learning and professional development; leadership investment programs; strategic recruitment and selection; reward and recognition; and compensation and incentive programs. Through these programs, she has helped Transplace achieve significant reduction in employee attrition.
Court has more than 20 years of human resources and business leadership with large public companies and privately-held firms. Her human resources expertise and U.S. and international business experience include compensation and benefits; talent acquisition; training and education; HR policies and compliance; employee relations; M&As; process excellence; organizational and talent development; board matters; organizational restructuring; organic and inorganic growth strategies; and mentoring and coaching.
Court and the organizations she has worked with have received several industry recognitions for their investment in human capital programs. Court is also regularly asked to speak or contribute to industry and executive panel discussions on human resources trends and best practices.
She received her B.A. from Scripps College, a master's degree from Southern Methodist University and her SPHR in 1998.
Jenny Dearborn
Chief Learning Officer & SVP SAP America, Inc.
Jenny Dearborn is the chief learning officer and SVP at SAP. She leads an internationally acclaimed and award-winning team recognized as the No. 1 performing corporate learning department in the world by eLearning Magazine. As global chief learning officer for the 67,000 employees at SAP, Dearborn is accountable to design, align and drive SAP's overall learning activities to enable measurable business impact.
Before SAP, she was chief learning officer at SuccessFactors for two years, where she won numerous industry awards for the measurable business impact of her sales enablement initiatives. Dearborn was at Sun Microsystems for six years, where she was the global chief learning architect across all corporate content and was the chief learning officer for the Americas — a position that led employee learning, partner enablement and the customer education business for the region and carried a 100M P&L. She was at Hewlett-Packard for eight years, where she started as an instructor and instructional designer and progressed to executive positions as the learning and development leader for global sales and enterprise marketing, global technology services and global corporate learning strategy.
She is a thought leader in human capital management and general business and writes a regular column for Forbes called The Future of Work.
Cathy Fraser
SVP, Human Resources Tenet Healthcare Corporation
Cathy Fraser, senior vice president of Tenet Healthcare Corporation, provides operational oversight and strategic direction for the company's human resources organization. Fraser oversees all areas of talent management, retention, recruitment and organizational effectiveness. Fraser serves on the company's executive management team and reports directly to Trevor Fetter, Tenet's president and chief executive officer.
Prior to joining Tenet in 2006, Fraser served as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company, an international consulting firm. In that role, Fraser counseled senior executives at a number of large companies on organizational design, talent management and retention strategies, recruiting and related human resources topics.
Prior to her work with McKinsey, Fraser served as vice president of Sabre Holdings, a major provider of travel product distribution and technology solutions for the travel industry from 1994 to 2000. At Sabre, her responsibilities included planning, strategy, finance and marketing.
From 1991 to 1994, Fraser was a manager and analyst for AMR Corp., the parent corporation of American Airlines, in Fort Worth, Texas. From 1986 to 1991, she was an analyst for General Motors Acceptance Corp. in Detroit.
Fraser earned her bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Washington in Seattle and her master's degree in business administration from the University of Michigan. She is a board member of Workforce Solutions of Greater Dallas, and a board member of the JKU Foundation (a family non-profit foundation). She resides in the Dallas area with her husband and daughter.
Jason George
Senior Director HRIS, Data, Reporting & Analytics Devon Energy Corporation
Jason George is director of human resources data, reporting and analytics and brings a background of various roles in the oil and gas industry including engineering, commercial, investment appraisal, treasury, strategic planning and workforce planning. He has a passion for transforming raw data into solid intelligence by using the analytical principles of statistics, optimization, economic modeling, investment theory, and more to transform the human capital space. George earned a bachelor of science in chemical engineering from Kansas State University and an MBA from Houston Baptist University.
Mark Greenway
SVP, Human Resources J. B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc.
Mark Greenway serves as SVP of human resources at J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. Greenway is responsible for the health and welfare benefit plan design and strategy, talent management and the training and development of a workforce of more than 20,000 employees. Over the past 26 years at J.B. Hunt, he has held various management and operations positions including working in risk management and customer service.
Greenway has written numerous articles on topics ranging from compensation strategies to healthcare initiatives, and he has been featured in various magazines for his leadership in the human resources field. Previously, Greenway served as a president of the Southwest Benefits Association and now serves on the board of directors for Arkansas Blue Cross Blue Shield. Greenway is involved in several charitable organizations and is a member of the advisory board for the Center of Relationship Enrichment at John Brown University. He also serves on the board of directors of JOYN, an organization committed to enhancing the spiritual and physical lives of people in underdeveloped communities throughout the world.
Greenway received his bachelor's degree in natural science from the University of Arkansas.
Telvin Jeffries
EVP, CHRO RadioShack
Telvin Jeffries serves as EVP, CHRO and general manager of retail services for RadioShack Corporation. Jeffries is responsible for the overall strategic direction of human capital management, including recruitment of the new RadioShack leadership team, expansion of employee benefit packages and transformation of the company's core values. Jeffries is also general manager for the company's retail services unit, including operations for the company's 300 company-owned stores in Mexico. Prior to joining RadioShack in 2012, Jeffries was a 20-year veteran of Kohl's Corporation, where he held progressive responsibilities starting as assistant store manager and culminating as EVP of HR.
Kip Koso
Wellness Director Devon Energy Corporation
Kip Koso oversees the Wellness Department for Devon Energy based in Oklahoma City. Devon is a Fortune 500 company and a Fortune magazine "100 Best Companies to Work for" award winner for five straight years. Koso has an undergraduate degree in exercise physiology and a master's degree in human nutrition. He started his career at 18 folding towels at the front desk of a local health club and now runs the wellness department for Devon Energy — a program the company invests $2.5M on annually. He has never left the health and wellness field to do something else, because it would all be a lot less interesting. During breaks, he still likes to fold towels in the privacy of his office.
Ray Malouf
Director, Recruitment Marketing & Technology Walmart Stores, Inc.
Ray Malouf serves as the global center of excellence lead for Walmart's employment brand, recruitment marketing and global recruiting system. In this role he has responsibility for the tools and technology that are used to support Walmart's recruiting processes, as well as the digital go-to-market strategy for talent attraction. From developing the latest Walmart careers website to delivering timely and relevant content through social media, Malouf and his team are focused on creating the best candidate experience possible for the more than 18 million job seekers they interact with each year.
Malouf has spent the last seven years in various communication and marketing roles throughout Walmart. Prior to joining the recruiting team, he served as the senior manager of diversity communications, where he led outreach efforts directed toward communities of focus, including women, African Americans, Asians and Latinos. Prior to that role, he was the senior manager of ethics communications, where he developed the company's ethics reporting website, statement of ethics and corporate governance communications plans.
Malouf holds a bachelor's degree in business administration with a specialization in marketing management from the University of Arkansas and an MBA from John Brown University, where he was a two-year Soderquist Fellow.
Stephen Mansfield, Ph.D., FACHE
President & CEO Methodist Health System Dallas
Stephen L. Mansfield, Ph.D., FACHE has been president and CEO of Methodist Health since 2006. With a stated mission to improve and saves lives through compassionate quality health care, Methodist has been one of the region's fastest growing health systems — having doubled in size over the past five years, and being cited in 2012 by Modern Healthcare as one of America's 40 fastest growing healthcare companies in the nation. The $1.1B non-profit Methodist Health System is comprised of Methodist Dallas Medical Center, Methodist Charlton Medical Center, Methodist Mansfield Medical Center, Methodist Richardson Medical Center, Methodist Rehabilitation Hospital, Methodist Hospital of McKinney, Methodist Hospital for Surgery in Addison, Methodist Midlothian Health Center, and 25 Methodist Family Health Centers. Methodist Health System employs 7,500 staff, has more than 1,500 physicians and more than 1,800 volunteers engaged with the system.
Before joining Methodist in 2006, Dr. Mansfield spent seven years as the president and CEO of the five-hospital St. Vincent Health System based in Little Rock, Ark., and before that worked for the Baptist Memorial Health Care System in Memphis for 23 years. He has a bachelor's degree in healthcare administration from Ottawa University, a master's from the University of Tennessee, and a Ph.D. in organizational leadership from Regent University in Virginia Beach, Va.
Patrick McLaughlin
SVP & CHRO Frito-Lay North America
Patrick McLaughlin is SVP and CHRO for Frito-Lay North America. He is a 17-year veteran of PepsiCo with a broad range of leadership experience in beverages and foods. McLaughlin joined the Frito-Lay division in 1996 as HR manager at a Michigan manufacturing site and later moved to Denver to support the mountain sales region. In 1999, McLaughlin went on to lead labor relations for the sales function before becoming regional director of human resources for the Northeast. Beginning in 2002, he was promoted to HR VP of operations, then HR VP of sales prior to leading HR and change management for the business innovation function. In 2008, McLoughlin joined Pepsi Cola North America to lead the HR function through the acquisition of its two largest bottlers, a $7.8B transaction that made PepsiCo the largest food and beverage company in North America, doubled the employee population in the U.S. and Canada and increased the worldwide sales to $66B. In 2010, he returned to Frito-Lay North America as leader of the HR team for sales and supply chain and in 2012, became CHRO for Frito-Lay North America with responsibility for nearly 55,000 associates in the U.S. and Canada. McLoughlin holds bachelor's and master's degrees from Purdue University.
Christine Mellon
VP HCM Transformation Oracle
Christine Mellon, VP of HCM transformation at Oracle, has more than 25 years of diverse HR experience. Mellon assists Oracle clients with human capital management strategy development and implementation, compensation practices, talent development initiatives, employee engagement, global HR management, and integrated HR systems and processes that support the full employee lifecycle.
Mellon has held consulting and corporate HR roles, including CHRO positions. As CHRO for Echostar in Denver, she led HR for 6,000-plus employees in global locations, including the Americas, Western and Eastern Europe and Asia. Mellon also served as CHRO for Aepona, a startup software firm, where she established and elevated global HR practices. Aepona was acquired by Intel in 2013.
Mellon spent seven years in the pharmaceutical industry in a variety of professional and executive HR roles. She later worked for CIGNA Group Insurance as an HR director and a regional VP of sales. Mellon additionally served as SVP of strategic sales for Right Management Consultants, an HR consulting and outplacement firm, where she worked directly with a wide range of client organizations on human capital initiatives.
Mellon received a bachelor's degree in psychology from Villanova University.
Jim Moroney
CEO A. H. Belo Corporation; Publisher & CEO, The Dallas Morning News
James M. Moroney III is the chairman, president and CEO of A. H. Belo Corporation, a position he has held since 2013. He previously served 6 years as EVP of A. H. Belo. He continues to serve as publisher and CEO of The Dallas Morning News, a position he has held since 2001.
Moroney began his career with Belo as a sales trainee at WFAA-TV in Dallas-Fort Worth. In 1985, he became local sales manager for WFAA and later that year was promoted to general sales manager of KOTV in Tulsa. He returned to Dallas in 1989 as Belo's controller. Moroney was promoted to president and general manager of KOTV in Tulsa in 1993. In November that year, he became a VP of the broadcast division. In 1997, Moroney was promoted to president/television group, assuming responsibility for the operations of all of Belo's television stations in 15 markets across the U.S. In 1998, he was named EVP of Belo, with responsibility for finance, treasury and investor relations. Moroney also served as president of Belo Interactive, Inc. from 1999—2001.
In 2004, Editor & Publisher selected Moroney as Publisher of the Year for his accomplishments at The Dallas Morning News.
David Oliver
VP, Talent Management & Development Frito-Lay North America
David Oliver is the VP of talent management and development for Frito-Lay North America. In his current role, Oliver and his team are responsible for a wide range of development and capability efforts, including talent management, sales and supply chain field capability, change management, diversity and inclusion and HR core processes.
Oliver has been with PepsiCo for 13 years. Prior to this current role, he was the VP of talent management for PepsiCo Americas Foods. He also spent four years as the senior director of organization and management development for PepsiCo International. Prior to PepsiCo, Oliver worked at GTE (now Verizon), where he led the employee selection group in the design and development of all tools used for employee selection.
Oliver has a Ph.D. in industrial and organizational psychology from the University of Southern Mississippi and a B.A. in psychology from the University of Texas at Austin. He has published several book chapters and research articles in the area of talent management, executive coaching and employee selection. He is an active member in the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, The Dearborn Group and the Mayflower Survey Consortium. Oliver also serves on the Education Advisory Board for USC's Center for Effective Organizations.
Catherine Olivieri
SVP, HR & Risk Mgmt CEC Entertainment, Inc.
Catherine Olivieri joined CEC Entertainment in 1995 as director of risk management. In 1999, Olivieri was promoted to VP and given responsibility for human resources and risk management. In 2006, Olivieri was promoted to senior VP and is currently responsible for operations support, human resources and risk management.
Olivieri has more than 20 years of experience in human resources and risk management working for a variety of companies including a manufacturing conglomerate, consulting firm and several restaurant chains. Her experience in each of these capacities has always encompassed both risk management and human resources and spanned all areas including recruiting, compensation, employee relations, training, safety, security, insurance, general liability and executive risk.
CEC Entertainment is a publicly traded company and global leader in family entertainment and operator of 500+ Chuck E. Cheese's restaurants in 48 states and 7 countries. CEC employs approximately 19,000 employees and has been in business for more than 30 years.
Olivieri received her B.S. in business administration from Elmira College; is a senior professional in human resources; has been SHRM since 1999; and received her corporate risk management certificate from The Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania.
Mike Rawlings
Mayor City of Dallas
Since taking office in 2011, Mayor Mike Rawlings has introduced a comprehensive development plan for southern Dallas called GrowSouth, taken a hands-on approach to improving education and launched an anti-domestic violence initiative called Dallas Men Against Abuse. He also created new strategies for growing the arts and put Dallas in the spotlight nationally and internationally by taking a leading role with the U.S. Conference of Mayors and New Cities Summit.
In addition to his duties as mayor, Rawlings serves on the board of trustees of Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas and as vice chair at CIC Partners, where he provides business counsel and capital to help grow small and midsize businesses in Dallas and across the country.
Prior to his time in elected office, Rawlings served as CEO of TracyLocke and Pizza Hut, president of the Dallas Park and Recreation Board, homeless czar for the City of Dallas and chair of the Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau.
Rawlings received a bachelor's degree from Boston College in philosophy and communications, magna cum laude.
Dan Sessa
EVP & CHRO Lennox International Inc.
Dan Sessa was appointed EVP and CHRO in 2007. Prior to joining Lennox International, he served in numerous human resources and legal leadership positions for United Technologies Corporation, including VP, human resources for Otis Elevator Company — Americas; director, employee benefits and human resources systems for United Technologies; and director, human resources for Pratt & Whitney. Sessa began his professional career practicing law in New York and Connecticut, specializing in labor and employment law. He holds a J.D. from the Hofstra University School of Law and a B.A. in law and society from the State University of New York at Binghamton.
Sandi Stevens
SVP Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc.
Sandi Stevens is an SVP at Challenger, Gray and Christmas and is responsible for the Southwest. She brings extensive knowledge in all aspects of human resources, including mergers and acquisitions, HR strategy, organizational development, staffing, compensation, benefits, training, relocation and labor relations. Stevens has an impressive leadership background, becoming the top HR officer at a $7B company at the age of 33. She has held top human resources executive positions in five companies in a wide range of industries, including healthcare, retail and manufacturing. Early in her career she gained valuable international experience in the energy industry and telecommunications. Stevens is known for her strategic ideas and ability as a true business partner to understand the requirements and deliver a solution. She has chaired the operations committee for several companies. Her dynamic leadership style and business approach are integral parts of a company where she was a senior officer that grew from $200M - $1B in three years. She is a frequent speaker and radio personality, where she speaks on many topics including: servant leadership, strategic human resource issues and the keys to successful career transition.
Shelette Stewart
Associate Director of Executive Education SMU Cox School of Business
Dr. K. Shelette Stewart has more than 20 years of leadership experience in strategic business planning, marketing and national account sales for Fortune 500 companies, including the Coca-Cola Company and BellSouth Corporation. She is a Fulbright foreign scholarship program specialist and holds a doctorate in business administration.
Stewart is the association director of executive education for SMU Cox School of Business. She designs leadership programs for Fortune 500 companies and oversees the partnership of SMU Cox Executive Education and The President George W. Bush Institute. Stewart is the principle and founder of Stewart Consulting LLC, a business consulting and leadership development firm serving both corporate and nonprofit clients.
She is the author of "Revelations in Business: Connecting Your Business Plan with God's Purpose and Plan for Your Life." Stewart has served as the keynote speaker for many leading organizations, including Texas Instruments, Women's Foodservice Forum national conference and the NOAH Leadership Training Institute in China.
Debbie Storey
SVP-Talent Development & Chief Diversity Officer AT&T
In her role as SVP of talent development and chief diversity officer at AT&T, Debbie Storey is responsible for identifying and developing leaders, aligning managers with the company's priorities and employee engagement. She also oversees the award-winning AT&T University, as well as the company's efforts to leverage diversity and inclusion to drive innovation and growth. Storey joined the company in 1983 and has held numerous positions throughout her 30 years with AT&T.
Storey began her career in the print advertising and publishing business, starting in customer service and assuming increasing levels of responsibility. She moved into the network organization in 2005 as VP of broadband transformation program management office. In 2006, Storey was named to a key leadership role in the $67B AT&T-BellSouth merger. Post merger, she moved to VP of sales, leading thousands of employees in consumer sales and service call centers across 14 states. Prior to her current assignment, Storey served as SVP of AT&T consumer centers support.
Storey holds a B.A. in psychology from the University of Georgia and an MBA from UGA's Terry College of Business. She serves on the Terry College Alumni Board, the AT&T Performing Arts Center Board and the Baylor Healthcare System Advisory Board.
Courtney Stubblefield
Senior Consultant, Exchange Solutions Towers Watson
Courtney Stubblefield is a senior consultant in Towers Watson's exchange solutions segment. With nearly 19 years of benefits consulting experience, Stubblefield consults with clients on strategic aspects of their health and welfare plan offerings, including designs, interventions to support sustainability, implications and opportunities around health care reform, and related financial expectations.
Prior to her current role, she worked for Shell Oil Company in Houston as a senior advisor developing benefit marketing strategies, evaluating longer-term benefit recommendations, and streamlining global policies. She earned a B.A. degree in mathematics with a concentration in actuarial science from the University of Texas at Austin. She is an associate of the Society of Actuaries, and a member of the American Academy of Actuaries.
Anne Thomas
VP, Corporate Recruiting Walmart Stores, Inc.
Anne Thomas currently serves as VP of corporate recruiting at Walmart. In this role, Thomas oversees all aspects of corporate recruiting, including talent acquisition strategies for corporate positions; college and diversity recruiting; temporary and hourly recruiting; vendor and staffing agency management; as well as responsibility for the company's employment brand, recruitment marketing and global recruiting technologies. Thomas and her team are focused on delivering a world-class candidate experience by leveraging the latest technology to improve candidate interaction.
Prior to joining the Walmart recruiting team, Thomas was the VP of global compensation for Walmart, supporting more than 27 countries worldwide on the attraction and retention of talent through total reward solutions. She also spent three years as VP of HR at Walmart, developing HR strategies, processes and practices for approximately 1,300 stores and 400,000 hourly and management associates. Prior to joining Walmart in 2008, Thomas was the divisional HR VP at Sears Holding.
Thomas is a dynamic leader with an extensive retail and corporate HR executive background. She combines her passion for the business with her tenacity for developing talent to lead highly engaged and effective teams.
Anne earned a B.S. in accountancy from the Krannert School of Business at Purdue University.
Jere Thompson
Co-Founder & CEO Ambit Energy
Jere Thompson brings extensive experience in maximizing opportunities in deregulating markets to his role as co-founder and CEO of Ambit Energy. In 1992, he was in the forefront of the rapidly evolving telecommunications industry as the founder of Caprock Fiber Networks, which built fiber and broadband networks across Texas. As CEO, he guided Caprock into new markets, took the company public and managed its growth from infancy to 1,300 employees and $300M in annual revenues.
From signing Ambit's first customers — his mother and father — to helping guide the company to annual sales of more than $1.2B in its first seven years, Thompson has played a leading role in the company's growth. He received his bachelor's degree in economics from Stanford University and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin. He serves on the boards of several civic organizations, and was also chairman and a member of the board of the North Texas Tollway Authority for more than a decade.
Jill Vershum
EVP, Talent Solutions Right Management North Texas
Jill Vershum is the EVP for talent solutions at Right Management North Texas. She serves as an executive coach and has responsibilities for business development and consulting. She is a professional certified coach and an integral master coach. Vershum has extensive coaching and consulting experience in numerous areas, including leader development, executive coaching, talent assessment and organizational effectiveness.
Vershum has more than 25 years' experience in combined roles as a corporate leader and consultant. With 18 years in the healthcare industry, she served as a VP at Texas Health Resources, where she worked closely with executives, boards, leaders and medical staff in developing people, cultures and organizations. At Right Management, she has served as a partner in business development and consulting to help client companies develop effective strategies and solutions for talent management and organizational effectiveness.
Vershum holds a master's degree in counseling psychology from University of Toledo and bachelor's degree in education from Bowling Green State University. She is member of and certified by International Coach Federation at the professional coach certification level. She has trained extensively in Ken Wilbur's integral theory and received the highest level certification of Integral Master Coach from Integral Coach Canada Inc.
Van Waldrop
SVP, Human Resources Lehigh Hanson
Harry West
Senior Managing Consultant Appirio
Harry West is a senior managing consultant in Appirio's Human Capital Management Strategy practice, with 20 years of experience improving the effectiveness of workforce management practices and technology. He focuses on talent and technology strategies that align human resources with the long-term business needs of organizations and the workforce of the future. Before joining Appirio, West was a director in the Human Capital Management (HCM) solution management team at SAP Labs in Palo Alto, CA. A former HR professional from the banking industry, West was responsible for various aspects of the SAP HCM product portfolio, including learning, recruiting, talent management, payroll and tax reporting. At Appirio, he helps clients in a variety of industries determine optimal business case, selection, process design and deployment strategies for technology supporting effective talent and workforce management.
Dean Woods
SVP & Senior Advisor to CHRO CenterPoint Energy, Inc.
Until early 2014, Dean Woods served as CenterPoint Energy's SVP and CHRO with direct responsibility for all HR functions at the corporate and business unit level. Just recently, as part of Woods' retirement planning, he stepped down from this role and is currently serving as a senior advisor to his successor and is assisting in the transition to new leadership.
Under his leadership as head of HR, CenterPoint Energy focused its human capital efforts on enhancing the company's recruitment and management of talent, resulting in voluntary turnover consistently under five percent; award-winning workplace flexibility and diversity programs; utility industry leading employee engagement scores; and a suite of initiatives around workforce planning to manage the impact of an aging workforce and skilled labor shortage in the energy industry. In 2013, Woods led the due diligence and employee matters efforts related to the formation of a joint venture between CenterPoint and Enogex.
He earned his bachelor's degree in sociology from Louisiana Tech University and a master's degree in special education from Appalachian State University. Woods participated in and graduated from the American Leadership Forum. He is also a graduate of the University of Michigan Business School's human resources executive program.


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I have a HP Laptop that has Vista 32 Bit and I want to change to Windows 7 64 bit. I bought a new motherboard and processor for 64 bit, how would you go about it?
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Hello BadKarma, and welcome to Seven Forums.
You're most likely not going to be able to replace the motherboard in the HP laptop unless the new motherboard you bought is specifically made to fit in and work with that specific model and of HP laptop. Usually it will not be.
What model number id your HP laptop?
We can look it up to see if it may already support installing a 64-bit Windows 7 on it.
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The Laptop is a HP HDX X18T-1200 CTO PREMIUM NOTEBOOK PC model # NK146AV, in the HP parts store they have 2 motherboards that work in this laptop. I have the one that is made for 32 bit with a 512 mb videocard, the one that I want to install is for 64 bit with a 1 g videocard. I am wondering how I can switch bios in the harddrive so it works with the 64 bit motherboard. I tried to install it but when I tried to start it all it did was the CAP lock lights would blink twice and shutdown and start back up, each time it the monitor was black and didn't show anything. What to do?
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You are courageous. Changing a mobo in a laptop is not a piece of cake. My guess is that you may have made a mistake when you rewired it.
But you can try this. If you have a windows installation disc, put it into the drive, start the PC and keep tapping ESC. Then you can change the load priority to CD/DVD reader.
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|13 Dec 2011
From looking at what I could find below on that model of notebook, it appears to already support installing a 64-bit OS by default. It most likely just came with 32-bit installed, but can have 64-bit installed as is.
Have you tried installing Windows 64-bit on the default notebook?
From the driver download page for your model:
Software & Driver Downloads HP HDX X18T-1200 CTO Premium Notebook PC - HP Customer Care (United States - English)
The Intel Core 2 Quad Q9100 2.26 GHz processor that comes installed on the notebook is a 64-bit CPU:
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If Windows 7 64-bit installs, then you might consider just returning the new motherboard to save money. If you insist on trying to upgrade the motherboard on the notebook, I would recommend taking it to a computer shop for them to do it. This way you'll be covered under a warranty for it as well.
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Thanks alot for the info. Ya it is a pain to install a mofo in a laptop but not to bad. I will try to install on the one that my laptop came with and see what happens, i would like to keep the partion that has the original recovery, how how would you do that?
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The recovery partition should stay put. No reason for it to change if you reinstall into the original 32bit OS partition. Just do not wipe the whole HDD.
An even better idea is to burn the recovery DVDs from the recovery partition asap.
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Eduard Mörike (1804–75) has been reckoned with Goethe and Rilke among the greatest of German poets. Yet his lyrics are limited in quantity if not in range, and like his life as clergyman and teacher they are outwardly uneventful. He has little of Goethe's outgoing intellectual vigour, or of Rilke's passionate quest for inward self-awareness. Instead, his poetry offers a quiet and seemingly passive quality which is easy to perceive but hard to describe. Imagination, religious devotion, realism and humour in the content of the verses, folk-song and the classical tradition in their forms, are some of the more evident components of this quality. But its precise definition has been the despair of students and examiners for years; and also of commentators and critics, to judge by the comparative paucity of published Mörike studies.
Something of its indefinable essence was conveyed by another of Wolf's poets, Gottfried Keller, who when Mörike died said that it was as if a fine June day had passed away with him. That choice of simile was not merely conventional. Mörike was a painter and pastor as well as a poet; his pages are characteristically bright with coloured or shining pictures or visions of this world or the next. His drawings and sketches too, like his sermons and letters, are full of quirky yet warm-hearted insights into human feelings, expressed in vigorous and often homely images from daily life and the natural scene. This quasi-pictorial sense of communication also illuminates the vocabulary and imagery of Mörike's main writings in poetry and prose, to give Keller's 'June day' effect.
None of these images implies a mere one-sided or superficial geniality. Mörike has also a dark and daemonic aspect, especially noted and commented upon by Wolf in correspondence (e.g. about his own settings of Der Feuerreiter and Erstes Liebeslied eines Mädchens). Mörike's own intuitive awareness of the occult and erotic worlds of ancient pagan worship and ritual, witchcraft and legend, had been further enhanced by daily experience of rural life in remote communities. The pastoral poet, like his parishioners, was close to the instinctive springs of feeling; and these too find their own typical diction and imagery in the dark flowing of subterranean streams, the irresistible surge of storm-winds. Between the two realms of bright open day and dark secret night lies the much prayed-for Mörikean resting-place, his 'holdes Bescheiden' or golden mean of Verborgenheit. In his poetry, time itself stands still in contemplation at dusk or dawn.
In all this Mörike displays clear temperamental affinities with Wolf. Their unworldliness often left them both dependent on the bounty of friends or the hazards of circumstance. Their creative minds shared a similar polarization of mood-swing from dark trough to bright crest, from apathy and inertia to frenzied and elated composition. Each felt a strong affinity with nature and intuitive feeling; each rejected anything contrived or mechanical; each identified with patterned contrasts of storm and calm, flowering and fading, travel and homecoming; each saw human life and experience in visual and dramatic terms. And all this was as readily expressible for Wolf in musical as for Mörike in poetic structure and imagery.
It is not surprising then that the verbal warmth and fire discerned by Keller in Mörike should have inspired Wolf to his sudden quasi-Pentecostal release of creative genius in 1888. The surprise is rather that other song-writers in former years, or Wolf himself at an earlier stage, should not have been similarly inspired. After all, Mörike's poetry had by then been in print for well over half a century; composers from the pioneering Schumann and Robert Franz onwards, including Brahms, had already set it to music. By the time that Wolf first read Mörike, in the 1870s, the words of Das verlassene Mägdlein had appeared in some fifty published settings, and those of Agnes in more than eighty.
Mörike's poems had first appeared in his Gedichte of 1838. This volume was enlarged and revised in three subsequent editions during the poet's lifetime culminating in the final reprinted collation of 1873. The sixth edition of 1876 was Wolf's constant companion. As he once told a friend, he could not bear to part from it, even for an hour. It contains some 275 poems, many of which are wholly unsuited, whether in length or style, to solo setting. Of the remaining two hundred or so, Wolf eschewed all epigrams, all the personal poetic addresses and letters to friends and family, and almost all the poems in classical metre. Of the hundred left, Wolf set more than half; and the poems he chose are not only fully representative but, with very few exceptions, contain a complete collection of Mörike's finest lyrics. This songbook as a whole is unique for its absorption of the essence of one great poet's work into music of comparable quality.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), poet, dramatist, novelist, painter, critic, scientist, philosopher and statesman, was the greatest and most universal genius of his time. His mind and work dominated two centuries of Europe from the prodigiously influential novel Werther, 1774, to the completion in 1832 of the towering drama Faust.
His poetry has Mörike's qualities of humour, fantasy and beauty of imagery, together with an intellectual vigour, a range of vision, and a depth of understanding, with few parallels in the literature of the world. His poetic genius also irradiated and transformed the history of music, not only by providing ideas, themes and texts for so many overtures, tone poems, cantatas and operas but above all by projecting the written word so brightly into the musical mind of great composers as to create fused word-tone images and hence a new art form, the Romantic Lied. From Mozart's Das Veilchen and Beethoven's Goethe settings to Schubert's Gretchen, Erlkönig and a hundred others the process is clear. The poetry of individual emotion and experience, rendered vivid by narrative or dramatic presentation, with strong or elevated feelings expressed in simple words, is translated into musical terms. Goethe himself notoriously approved of the subordination of music to words within the song form, and carefully cultivated the art and the society of like-minded lesser Lied composers such as Zelter. But he knew instinctively that a new art was about to be born, and may well have acknowledged his own paternity. In a letter to Zelter, he noted in general terms that no lyric poem was really complete until it had been set to music. 'But then', he concluded, 'something unique happens. Only then is the poetic inspiration sublimated (or rather fused) into the free and beautiful element of sensory experience. Then we think and feel at the same time, and are enraptured thereby'.
It is significant that when Wolf himself came to comment on this composite aspect of his art it was in connection with his Goethe settings and his fear that because of their dual nature they had not been properly apprehended in performance. As he wrote to Melanie Köchert on 12 October 1890, 'On the whole I gained the impression that I had not been understood, that my hearers were concerned too closely with the musical and had thus lost sight of what is new and individual in my musico-poetic conception'.
Throughout Wolf's work, that conception is nowhere more difficult to grasp and evaluate than in the Goethe songs. One reason is that despite Goethe's transcendent genius and deserved renown his poetry is so resistant to translation as to be all but inaccessible to English-speaking readers or listeners. This in turn is because the very qualities that make it so sweetly or sharply savoury in its native idiom may often taste insipid for alien tongues. The simple words remain, but their subtle and significant blends are all too easily lost. There are other difficulties. Goethe's verse often seems too intimately connected with his life and thought, and their vast bibliography, to be readily communicable with the immediacy that the song-form requires. Further, Wolf's selection was circumscribed by his own diffidence about setting poems already treated by his great predecessors; and in Goethe songs he had been notably anticipated by Loewe, Schumann and Brahms as well as Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert.
In the Goethe songbook Wolf strives to serve his poet's cause by presenting his own work in structured groups corresponding to Goethe's own arrangement, like a select anthology. The first ten poems occur as occasional lyrics in the novel Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre. This is especially memorable for the famous lyrics sung by the mysterious Harper and the child Mignon. Neither knows that Mignon is the Harper's child by his own sister. This is the sin that has sent him wandering crazed through the world, far from his native Italy. His songs are heavy with guilt and despair. Mignon's are full of secrecy, grief, and yearning for love and homeland. The sheer magnificence of Goethe's poetry gives all these individual emotions a universal quality that speaks for mankind. Seven of these lyrics were included by Goethe in a separate section, 'Aus Wilhelm Meister', of the volume of poems (Gedichte, c1861) that Wolf seems to have used as his main source. Two others began the following group of some thirty ballads. From these Wolf selected four others for his songbook. But the Spottlied is not found in the Gedichte at all. So Wolf's source for the Wilhelm Meister poems may have been the novel itself.
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