David Armstrong, is Executive Consultant, Strategy/HR Development, PDI.  He specializes in executive teamwork and organizational effectiveness, global talent management and strategy, and virtual teamwork.  As an executive consultant, David provides coaching to senior executives and global leadership teams of Fortune 100 and Global 100 firms, develops and delivers leadership programs, designs and facilitates strategic planning events, and consults with HR leaders on human capital strategy. He recently returned to PDI Boston after leading global projects from PDI's Geneva office for two years.

Kim Brossoit, Ph.D., Manager, Consulting Services, DDI, leads a multidisciplinary team of professionals who consult with clients around the world. An expert in talent management, assessment, development, and selection, she has developed and deployed business-relevant HR processes for many Fortune 500 companies, as well as many public sector entities.  Prior to joining DDI, Dr. Brossoit was manager of leadership development for Kmart Corporation, where she led a number of human resource initiatives demonstrating real business impact.  Earlier in her career, she worked in research and development at Ford Motor Company.

Marcus Buckingham, one of the most in-demand speakers in the world, is the author of the legendary, multi-million copy best sellers:  First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently; Now, Discover Your Strengths; Go Put Your Strengths to Work; and The One Thing You Need To Know About Great Managing, Great Leading and Sustained Individual Success He has been profiled in The New York Times, Fortune, Fast Company, and Harvard Business Review, and is routinely lauded by the Fortune 500 as an invaluable resource in informing, challenging, mentoring and inspiring people to find their strengths and obtain and sustain long-lasting personal success.

Jay Conger holds the Henry Kravis Research Chair Professorship of Leadership at Claremont McKenna College and is one of the world's experts on leadership. The Financial Times described him as one of the World's Top Educators, and Business Week called him the best business school professor to teach leadership to executives.   Author of twelve books, his newest book, co-authored with Ronald Riggio, is The Practice of Leadership.  His articles have appeared in the Harvard Business Review, Organizational Dynamics, Business & Strategy, Academy of Management Review, and the Journal of Organizational Behavior He has taught at the Harvard Business School, INSEAD (France), London Business School, McGill University, and University of Southern California.

Ralph de la Vega is resident and CEO of AT&T Mobility, the wireless unit of AT&T and the largest wireless provider in the United States. Prior to his current role, he served as group president for AT&T Regional Telecommunications and Entertainment. He also served as chief operating officer of Cingular Wireless from 2004 to 2006.  Beginning his career in 1974 with BellSouth (then Southern Bell), de la Vega held numerous positions of increasing responsibility with the company, including serving as president of BellSouth Latin America, with overall responsibility for BellSouth's operations in 11 Central and South American countries.

Mary Ann Downey is the HR Analytics Manager for ING Americas.  She has been with ING since 2001, in various HR capacities including, policy and planning, compliance, International HR, and PSHR architecture.  Prior to ING, she was with General Motors and Caterpillar.  She is a member of The Conference Board “Implementing Strategic Workforce Planning” Research Working Group, an Advisory Board member for i4cp, and has presented at various IHRIM events on HR Analytics and implementing a Workforce Dashboard Tool.  Mary Ann is a licensed attorney. 

Ernest Gundling, Ph.D., is co-founder of Aperian Global and is their Global Leadership Practice Group Leader.  He assists clients with strategic global approaches to leadership, organization development and relationships with key business partners.   His experience with Asia culture and business spans twenty years, including six years in residence in Japan.  He teaches the Global Management Skills course for the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, and is the co-producer of the award-winning video series called Working with China and Globally Speaking.  

Angel Herrera is Regional Vice President in the Southwest for ARAMARK Corporation. Immediately prior to his current position, Mr. Herrera was Division Vice President for Burger King Corporation in the South-Central Region of the U.S.A.  He has held a number of executive positions including Executive Vice President for Interfood Corporation, Senior Vice President of Tricon Restaurants International, and President of TRI Mexico.  With his venture capital experience he also worked for Advent Morro Equity Partners as an entrepreneur in residence.

Jay Jamrog is a futurist.  As the Senior Vice President of Research at i4cp, he has devoted 20 years to identifying and analyzing the major issues and trends affecting the management of people in organizations. Jay and his staff of over 20 analysts follow approximately 150 demographic, social, economic, technological, political, legal and management trends, and over 100 major corporations support this research. An active advisor to more than a dozen leading corporations,  he has helped many innovative organizations gain a deeper understanding of the world's changing business environment and has helped them think strategically about today's actions and tomorrow's plans.

Qiao Jian (Gina) is currently the HR Vice President for Lenovo Group, a leading Chinese company and one of the top three PC makers in the world. She is responsible for HR of Lenovo Global Consumer Business. Previously Gina was responsible for HR of Lenovo Asia-Pacific. Gina played an active role in Lenovo's acquisition of IBM's PC business and the following integration of two different HR systems and cultures. Before the acquisition, Gina developed many innovative and leading HR programs to support rapid business growth of Lenovo in the China market. Many of Lenovo's HR practices have since become the best practices in China. 

Valdis Krebs is the developer of InFlow software for social and organizational network analysis [SNA/ONA]. InFlow maps and measures knowledge exchange, information flow, emergent communities, networks of alliances and other connections within and between organizations and communities. Fortune 500 clients as well as hundreds of independent consultants use his software and services to map and measure networks, flows, and relationships in organizations, communities, and other complex human systems.  Valdis is an often quoted expert on network analysis and network weaving in major media, including Business Week, Discover Magazine, Business 2.0, New York Times Magazine, Fast Company, CNN, and others.  Valdis previously held various HR management positions at Disney, TRW, Toyota, and Ford.

John Lester is Boston Operations Director for Linden Lab, the creators of Second Life. Previously, John was the Information Systems Director for the Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he pioneered the use of the web in 1993 to create online communities supporting patients.  As a Research Associate at Harvard Medical School, he created online collaborative education environments to advance the case-based teaching method. As the Linden Academic Program Manager, he supports educators and evangelizes for teaching and research in Second Life.  His avatar's name in Second Life is "Pathfinder Linden." 

Patti Macleod is the Deputy Director, Human Resources Policy and Employee Development for The Department of the Interior – Assistant Secretary - Indian Affairs. Patti has held several training and development positions over the past 23 years. Her positions included Career Development Manager for Strategic Systems Programs, Senior Change Management Specialist for the Naval Sea Systems Command Seven Habits Office and Senior Specialist in the Organizational Development Department, Human Resources Center, Naval Sea Systems Command.

Steve Mahaley is Director of Learning Technology, Duke Corporate Education. Steve collaborates with clients and internal Duke CE teams to discover how communications and other electronic technologies can support the design work and ultimate delivery of educational experiences, modules and programs.  Current areas of interest include game-based learning, virtual worlds for learning and work, enabling global teams, mobile learning technologies, and advances in learning theory and methodologies that reflect the needs and habits of technology-enabled adult learners.  His avatar's name in Second Life is "Ace Carson."

James (Jim) F. McCoy is Senior Vice President, Consulting Services, Veritude.  Jim was responsible for Veritude's first recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) client and subsequently built the consulting services practice.  The latter was established as a separate business line and he grew the business nearly three-fold.  Previously, he was a client sales executive at EDS, held management positions at BankBoston, was a product manager at First Chicago NBD and a market manager at Chase Manhattan Bank. 

Jennifer Meder is the Chicago leader for Watson Wyatt’s Organization Effectiveness practice. She has worked on large-scale projects for clients across all major industries in the areas of employee engagement, workforce planning, talent management and HR effectiveness.

Robert Morgan is the Co-President of Recruitment & Talent Management, North America, for Hudson.  Robert will guide the newly formed Recruitment & Talent Management group in driving greater top-line and bottom-line results and will continue to oversee the growth and development of Hudson's talent management offerings in North America. Prior to Hudson, Robert served as the president of the employment solutions division and the human capital consulting group of Spherion Corporation, where he was responsible for the organization's talent development, outplacement and assessment businesses. Before Spherion, Robert was vice president of human resources for Office Depot's business services division.

Joseph P. Murphy is Vice President and co-founder of Shaker Consulting Group, Inc., a pioneer in on-line candidate evaluation and the developers of the Virtual Job Tryout^TM.  Joe has over 25 years of experience in human resources and is a nationally recognized expert on matters of objective candidate evaluation.  His writings and research on staffing metrics and objective candidate evaluation have been published at Staffing.org, SHRM.org, HR.com, ERE.net, and HRTests.blogspot.com. 

Tony O'Driscoll is a Professor, College of Management, North Carolina State University.   Dr. O'Driscoll is a founding member of the NCSU TEC Program - recognized as one of the most innovative curriculums in higher education - and is credited with advancing IBM's thought leadership in formal and informal learning. A member of the editorial board for Human Resources Development Quarterly (HRDQ), his research interests lie at the intersection of business, technology and innovation.  As an educator and corporate strategist his engaging message emphasizes that the key asset in the information age is not technology, but people.

Les Pickett is Chief Executive of Pacific Rim Consulting Group.  He has extensive international consulting experience in business strategy and human capital.  His professional career has taken him to over twenty countries and includes a period as Senior Advisor and Deputy Director of the United Nations System Staff College.  Les is a past president of the Asia Pacific Federation of HR Management and ARTDO International. He is former chairman of the Executive Board of the International Federation of Training and Development Organizations and the HR advisory panel of Productivity Australia. He is also a former director of the World Federation of Personnel Management Organizations.

Robin Rasmussen is Vice President of Talent Management, Pacific Gas & Electric. 
Prior to joining PG&E, Robin spent four years at EquaTerra, an outsourcing advisory firm that helped global organizations achieve HR transformation through shared services, outsourcing and process design.  Before EquaTerra, Robin Executive Vice President of Professional Services at BrassRing, and spent over 12 years at Spherion Corporation, most recently as Vice President of Spherion's Human Capital Consulting Group where she had responsibility for the Saratoga Institute.

Jacqui Robertson is the Head of Global Diversity for ING Group.  Headquartered in Amsterdam, ING Group.  She is responsible for creating ING's global diversity vision, and developing the workforce diversity framework and strategy for ING's worldwide operations - the cornerstones of which are talent acquisition, retention and development.  She is charged with building relationships with diverse constituencies and organizations around the globe, and leveraging these relationships to create an ING culture that is globally inclusive, yet locally respectful.  Her vision is to drive the full integration of diversity into the fabric of ING's business, fully leveraging the power and richness of varied perspectives that result from a multiplicity of life experiences.

Blair Sheppard is Dean of the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, and Chair and Founder of Duke Corporate Education, the leading provider of corporate education to major organizations globally.  He conceived The Duke MBA-Global Executive and was instrumental in the creation of a new multi-continent MBA program, The Duke MBA-Cross Continent.  He has extensive experience working with leading executives as a consultant and teacher in the areas of leadership, corporate strategy, negotiation, organizational relationships and organization design. 

Lorraine Stomski, Ph.D. is a Senior Vice President and Practice Leader for Leadership Development and Coaching in Aon's Talent Solutions Consulting Group. Lorraine is responsible for the design and delivery of global leadership and executive onboarding programs for top talent in organizations such as Hewlett-Packard, Toyota, Konami, Bank of New York, Discovery Communications, Texas Instruments, Sun Microsystems, Nestle Purina, Kimberly-Clark, UTi, Ahold, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and Agilent Technologies. Lorraine travels the globe throughout much of the year, fulfilling her passion to help leaders in organizations maximize their effectiveness and reach their full potential.

Flooris van der Walt is Head, HR Business Support, Holcim Group Support Ltd.  He is the senior HR executive who has both sponsored BMQ Panels and currently coordinates the program.  With experience in general HR at both headquarters as well as the plant in South Africa, he also worked in Asia-Pacific, Central Europe and North America.  Since 2005 he is responsible for people development issues worldwide, within the IT and Internal Auditing functions, as well as the gateway for Standards and Procedures in HR for the Holcim Group.

Richard Vosburgh, Ph.D., is Senior Vice President-HR, Mirage Resorts (MGM MIRAGE) with responsibility for eight hotel casino resort properties in Las Vegas, Reno & Mississippi.  He is planning CityCenter, where 12,000 new jobs are being created.  Previously, he was HP's Vice President-HR for Asia Pacific; and prior to the HP merger and moving to Singapore, Richard was Vice President-HR for Compaq's North America region.  He has held executive positions in Campbell Soup Company, VW in Germany, the Gallup Organization and PepsiCo.  He has authored numerous journal articles, the book Career Development for Engineers and Scientists; and is in his 5^th year as Executive Editor for the Human Resource Planning journal.

Brian Wilkerson is the Practice Director for Talent Management for Watson Wyatt Worldwide. He has extensive experience in leading strategy development and operational improvement efforts across a range of clients in both domestic and international settings, and has worked with senior executive teams to help them solve their organization's toughest challenges and capitalize on their greatest opportunities. Prior to Watson Wyatt, Mr. Wilkerson was the CEO and co-Founder of WisdomNet, a Strategy and Human Capital firm focused on delivering cutting-edge consulting and technology solution.

Dawin Wright, GM North America Executive Director -- Dealer Development, is responsible for GM Minority Dealer Development and the Women's Retail Initiative. Prior to this position, Wright was the Director of Dealer Integration working with a cross-functional team to develop and launch U.S. and Global Dealer projects. Wright began his career with Chevrolet, first as an Area Service Manager in Chicago, then as a Personnel Coordinator in Detroit, and moving on to an Assistant Zone Service Manager. He moved through several sales and service assignments at Chevrolet Central Office and then within the Vehicle Sales, Service and Marketing Group at GM Global Headquarters.