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About: Internationally acclaimed innovation and growth expert Val Wright was named as one of the top 50 resources for Chief Operating Officers by ClickSoftware. She is one of only 64 experts inducted into the Million Dollar Consultant® Hall of Fame. The global clients who have requested her help include Starbucks, LinkedIn, Amazon, francesca’s, Microsoft, Financial Times, Gartner, and the LA Lakers. Val’s corporate experience includes tenures during dramatic growth periods at Amazon, BMW, and Xbox. Val participated on the small team that created the fastest-selling device of all time, Kinect for Xbox, which won a Guinness Book of World Record, selling over 20 million devices. This contributed to the turnaround of Microsoft’s Entertainment business from a billion-dollar loss to a multimillion-dollar profit machine. Val’s books include Thoughtfully Ruthless, Rapid Growth Done Right, and Words That Work. She is a regular contributor on CNBC, WSJ, BBC News, Fox Business News, Inc. Magazine.
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Dr. Douglas M. McCabe is Professor of Labor Relations, Human Resource Management, and Organizational Behavior at Georgetown University's School of Business in Washington, DC. He is the author of mo...
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About: Samuel L Waltz Jr, Greenville, DE, is a nationally known business and civic leader who is founder of Alliance1099.org LLC, a Professional Society for 1099 Independent Contractors. A Vietnam-era Veteran of US Army CounterIntelligence, he is an early-out DuPont Co External Affairs executive who in 1993 founded SamWaltz.com Strategic Capital & Business Counsel (www.SamWaltz.com), a business and public affairs consultancy. Later, he served in 1999 as the elected global and national president and board chair of his own professional society for business communications and public affairs, the Public Relations Society of America (www.PRSA.org). RUNNING TO TROUBLE is the working title of Sam Waltz’ autobiography. It describes a life shaped by his experiences as a farm boy and small town native, ...
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About: Employee Recruiting and Retention rank among the top worries of business leaders today. Richard Hadden offers fad-free advice on how to attract, retain, and engage the people you need working in your organization. Richard Hadden and Bill Catlette wrote the book, literally, on the connection between people practices and profit performance - Contented Cows STILL Give Better Milk. Based on years of research on the leadership and employee relations practices of some of America's best managed companies, plus 45 years' combined management experience, we address and can comment knowledgeably on: workplace issues, turnover, morale, leadership, retention, recruitment, and HR best practices.
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About: In today's workplace, the issue of sexual harassment can come front and center no matter how hard an employer tries to keep it in the background. Yet, despite all of the attention this issue has received in recent years, its definition can still be unclear. What exactly is sexual harassment? Using current law, regulation, and relevant court precedent, Dr. Daniel Moses does an excellent job def...
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About: Alfred Poor is a keynote speaker and virtual technology expert. He is the principle of "The 75 Percent Solution" that provides personalized advice to executives and business leaders about how to be more persuasive and influential in video meetings and online presentations.
He is also the Chief Technology Content Officer with VEG (pronounced 'vedge'), the Virtual Events Group, an online resource and community that promotes tech-forward solutions for everyone involved in meetings: in person, online, and hybrid. He is the former Editor and Publisher of Health Tech Insider, a website and industry newsletter that provided curated news and original analysis about wearable and mobile technology for health and medical applications.
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