hrConnection Events
Leadership Development Symposium
"Strengthening Your Organization Through Your Leadership Brand"
June 25, 2008
1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Nicollet Island Pavilion, 40 Power Street, Minneapolis
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FEE:
$149/members
$249/non-members
10% discount for 3 or more
Registration Deadline: June 9, 2008
TEAM DISCOUNTS:
10% discount available for teams of three or more from the same company. You must register
at the same time and provide a single payment to take advantage of the discount. To take advantage of the Team Discount, call Karen Marrone at (612) 925-8347 to register.
The symposium will be followed by a wine and cheese reception for hr connection® MEMBERS
ONLY, providing members the opportunity to dialogue with Dave Ulrich and the other featured
speakers.
PRESENTED BY:
Dave Ulrich as Keynote Speaker
BACKGROUND:
Dave Ulrich is a Partner and co-founder of The RBL Group and a professor of business at the
Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. Professionally, he studies how
organizations build capabilities of speed, learning, collaboration, accountability, talent,
and leadership through leveraging human capital. He has helped generate multiple award
winning data bases that assess alignment between strategies, human resource practices and HR
competencies.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Dave has consulted and done research with over half of the Fortune 200. Dave was the editor
of the Human Resource Management Journal 1990 to 1999, has served on the editorial board of
4 other journals, is on the Board of Directors for Herman Miller, is a Fellow in the
National Academy of Human Resources; and is co-founder of the Michigan Human Resource
Partnership.
"BUILDING AND SUSTAINING MARKET VALUE THROUGH LEADERSHIP BRAND: CARRYING ON THE JACK WELCH LEGACY"
Presented by Sherry Woodry
In leadership studies conducted over the past several years, the link between financial success and
great leadership practices is clear. In 2007, Hewitt Associates partnered with FORTUNE and The RBL
Group to uncover the differentiating elements found in top companies across the globe and went on to
identify the 20 Top Global Companies for leadership. The companies identified in the research have
clear strategies around leadership, and they execute on those strategies. They have cultures that
cultivate and nurture their talent, and they have a reputation for doing it well. Not surprising, GE
rises to the top. Sherry Woodry will be sharing what GE has done to get to this #1 place, and what it
continues to do in order to stay there.
Sherry Woodry is the Senior Vice President of Human Resources of GE Capital Solutions . Commercial
Distribution Finance, headquartered in Hoffman Estates, Illinois.
Sherry has held a variety of human resource leadership roles across GE with experiences in organization
design, facilitation, change management, staffing and selection, rewards and recognition, conflict
resolution, training and development, performance management, communications and community relations.
Sherry joined GE in 1984 held positions at Advanced Materials in Pittsfield, Massachusetts; Burkville,
Alabama; and Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. From 1994 to 2000, Sherry served as a Human Resource Manager
in Technology and Sales & Marketing at GE Consumer & Industrial in Louisville, Kentucky. Moving to
Chicago in 2000, Sherry joined the Rail Services as Senior Vice President of Human Resources and then
served as the Senior Vice President of Human Resources for GE Fleet Services for five years.
Sherry is a graduate of North Adams State College in Massachusetts.
"CHAMPIONSHIP BRANDS, CHAMPIONSHIP LEADERS: LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT LEARNINGS AT GENERAL MILLS"
Presented by Kevin Wilde and Brad Taylor
General Mills global brand portfolio includes Betty Crocker, Pillsbury, Green Giant, Old El Paso and
more. It also has more than 100 U.S. consumer brands including Cheerios, Wheaties and other Big G
cereals, Yoplait, Totino's, and Progresso. And behind these championship brands lies a strong and
clear championship brand of leaders. This leadership brand has made General Mills a winner with its
investors, its customers and its employees. In fact, it was just named to Fortune's 2008 list of 100
Best Companies to Work For, in addition to ranking Number 6 in Fortune's 2007 study of Global Top
Companies for Leaders. Kevin Wilde and Brad Taylor will share "leadership lessons" from General Mills.
Kevin Wilde is VP, Organization Effectiveness and Chief Learning Officer, General Mills, Inc.
and is responsible for world-wide people and organization growth at General Mills, including talent
management, executive development and the Leadership Institute. Since joining the company in 1998, the
organization has been consistently recognized for its innovative development work, highlighted by
Fortune's #6 ranking as one of the best companies in the world at leadership development and Training
magazine's #5 designation as a top company for employee development. In 2007, Chief Learning Officer
magazine selected Kevin as CLO of the year.
Kevin is a columnist for Talent Management magazine and serves on the editorial board for a number of
professional journals. His work has been published in over a dozen books, including Coaching For
Leadership and the Pfieffer Annual on Leadership Development. He has been quoted by Business Week, the
Financial Times and Time magazine.
Before joining General Mills, Wilde spent 17 years at General Electric in a variety of human resources
positions in the healthcare and capital divisions, as well as corporate assignments at GE's renown
Crotonville management development center. While at GE, he also held positions in manufacturing,
marketing and six sigma quality.
He received a bachelor's degree in marketing and education from the University of Wisconsin at Stout in
1980 and a master's degree in administrative leadership and adult education from the University of
Wisconsin at Milwaukee in 1981.
Brad Taylor is the Director of Human Resources, for General Mills' Technology function. During his
22-year career with GMI, he has also served in HR roles in Marketing, Sales and Supply Chain in CA.,
GA., MN. and NY. Brad has also worked internationally in Asia. He serves on a number of GMI Boards
including: General Mills American Indian Council, General Mills Public Affairs Commission, General
Mills Credit Union Board, GMI ITQ Diversity Cadre, and the GMI Adoption Council.
Brad earned a BS degree in Organizational Psychology with a minor in Korean Language and an MBA with an
emphasis in Human Resource Management, both from Brigham Young University.
Brad is an active volunteer in the community. He serves as a coach to many sports teams, a GMI
Paint-a-thon'er, a Habitat for Humanity worker, a scout leader and regular volunteer at the "Feed My
Starving Children" food facility. His #1 "for fun" activity is playing in the GMI Tennis League!
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Registration Deadline: June 9, 2008
