We all know that international expansion is challenging, and unfortunately it happens too often that Human Resources hear about the expansion plans at the eleventh hour. Or worse, sometimes the business already hired a contractor and that contractor has been working for the company for the last four years (which in turn could mean in some countries that the contractor is ipso facto an employee of the company even if there is no labor contract).

In this session we are going to hear from two different HR leaders that went through the process of international expansion, and had to deal with the subsequent HR challenges. In addition to getting familiar with the intricacies of the local labor laws, these HR leaders had to coordinate the different stakeholders in the company, including tax, legal, and accounting, that could have very different agendas.

You will leave this session with best practices and strategies to make sure that you are not blindsided by a new international expansion initiative.

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Location

Trustwave
70 W Madison Street, Suite 600
Chicago, IL 60602

Speakers

Tim Finney, Global Head of HR at Enfusion

Tim Finney joined Enfusion in 2013 and heads the Global HR department. In this role, he is responsible for attracting and retaining talent as well as company benefits. Previously, Tim worked at DHR International as Director of Talent Acquisition. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan, where he received a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and International Studies. With a Bachelors’ degree in English, Jeanette started her career in Human Resources at the age of 21 while working as a Supervisor at Six Flags Great America, hiring, training and managing employees who worked at the front gate. Building on her years of HR experience, she worked her way to Vice-President and Chief HR Officer with Paris Presents, an entrepreneurial, privately held / private equity-backed company that creates and distributes strong brands of makeup tools and body care accessories in over 60 countries. Jeanette is responsible for aligning the people strategy with the business needs in order to deliver the global growth initiatives, focusing on the three core brands: EcoTools®, Real Techniques®, and Body Benefits by Body Image®. She has been in Senior Human Resources roles with Amtrak, Sealed Air (BubbleWrap), and Culligan. In her career, Jeanette has lead strategic global initiatives such as performance management, workforce planning, targeted selection recruiting, setting up entities, and compensation.

Greg Servatius, CHRO of Stepan Chemical

Greg joined Stepan in 1981, after graduating from the University of Chicago. He held sales positions in Chicago 1982-85 and California 1985-88, before becoming Stepan’s Business Manager for Distributors in late 1988 where Greg led a rapid growth of sales through Distribution in the early 90’s. In 1996, Greg became Business Manager for Laundry & Cleaning Products, before relocating to Grenoble, France in 1998. From 1998 – 2001, Greg was the Managing Director of Stepan’s European operations, which culminated in an acquisition of the Manro UK surfactant business, based near Manchester. Greg and his family returned to the Chicago area at the end of 2001, where Greg was named VP Functional Products initially, and then VP Business Management in June of 2002, before an internal restructuring in the spring of 2003, when he was placed in charge of global sales for surfactants as VP Surfactant Sales. In 2006, Greg became head of HR for the Company.&

*FREE to HRMAC Members* Check back soon. More information forthcoming.

The US unemployment rate fell to 3.9 percent in July 2018 from 4.0 percent in June.  The jobless rate touched an 18-year low of 3.8% in May.   It is clearly a job seekers market and in this digital age candidates are being pinged by multiple recruiters through multiple channels.  Learn from a panel of experts how to Break Through the Noise and create brand awareness, utilize technology to identify hidden talent, and build and sustain lasting relationships with candidates.

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 The Talent Acquisition Interest Group is sponsored by TalentRISE.

This program is pending approval for 1.5 credit hours towards PHR/SPHR recertification through the HR Certification Institute (HRCI) as well as 1.5 professional development credits (PDC's) toward SHRM-CP and SHRM-SCP certification. 

Did you know you can bring a guest? When you register for this event click, "Send and add another," to enter your guest contact information. Be sure to enter your name in the field marked "I am a guest of HRMAC member," to ensure a successful registration.  This is a member only benefit, so without your name the registration will not be valid.      

The Best and Brightest Companies to Work For is an honor awarded to organizations that display a commitment to excellence in their human resource practices and employee enrichment. Companies are assessed based on communication, work-life balance, employee dedication, diversity, recognition, retention and more!

What does is look and feel like to work for The Best and Brightest? Is it something that happens organically, or is it a vision that leaders intentionally bring to life?

Attend this inspiring and impactful HRMAC event to learn from panelists that lead the Best and Brightest Companies in the Chicago land area. Hear about their triumphs and insights. And walk away with practical tools to attain this level of recognition.

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This program is pending approval for 1.5 credit hours towards PHR/SPHR recertification through the HR Certification Institute (HRCI) as well as 1.5 professional development credits (PDC's) toward SHRM-CP and SHRM-SCP certification. 

Did you know you can bring a guest? When you register for this event click, "Send and add another," to enter your guest contact information. Be sure to enter your name in the field marked "I am a guest of HRMAC member," to ensure a successful registration.  This is a member only benefit, so without your name the registration will not be valid.      

*FREE to HRMAC Members* In this session, we will address how to maintain connection & engagement.

Online registration is available until: 11/5/2018 

Unlike mandated and governed leaves of absence, Personal Leave of Absence is a gray area in many corporate HR policies. Learn from other Chicago area HR practitioners as we explore the risks, benefits—and lessons learned about this unprotected form of leave.

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The Employee Relations Interest Group is sponsored by Challenger, Gray & Christmas

This program is pending approval for 1.5 credit hours towards PHR/SPHR/SPHR recertification through the HR Certification Institute (HRCI) as well as 1.5 professional development credits (PDC's) toward SHRM-CP and SHRM-SCP certification. 

Did you know you can bring a guest? When you register for this event click, "Send and add another," to enter your guest contact information. Be sure to enter your name in the field marked "I am a guest of HRMAC member," to ensure a successful registration.  This is a member only benefit, so without your name the registration will not be valid.      

HRMAC Reads: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth

The HRMAC Reads program is your opportunity to join fellow HR professionals to network and learn leadership skills from critically acclaimed authors. Sign up, grab the book from Amazon or your local library and get reading! We’ll meet up to get to know one another and then again to discuss the book. Wine and other light refreshments will be served for the book discussion. Imagine the unique perspectives on leadership, team-building and management you’ll learn not only from the books you read but the group of HR management peers you’ll meet. Register now!

November 6, 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Networking at Little Toasted
December 4, 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Book Club Discussion

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Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, Angela Duckworth

Angela Duckworth shows anyone striving to succeed that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent, but a special blend of passion and persistence she calls "grit". How do you and your organization react when you get knocked down? In Grit, Angela Duckworth theorizes that it's grit - not talent or luck - that makes all the difference in getting back up.

Fees

Members: $59
Non-members: $99

*includes attendance for both November 6 Networking Event and December 4 Book Club Discussion

Please note: no refunds will be made for cancellations received after October 23, 2018. Substitutions may be made at anytime. 

*FREE to HRMAC members*

The Keynote speaker will provide an overall approach and framework they use to inspire their employees to achieve extraordinary results. Following the keynote, participants will engage in table topic discussions to solve real problems around engagement and explore solutions around four specific employee engagement challenges. Participants are invited to share with their colleagues in a hands-on problem-solving conversation.

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Keynote Speaker

Ben Black, Director of The Heart Center at Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, leading all cardiovascular services. Ben is a tenured healthcare operations leader, with multi-faceted experience in academic medicine, for-profit health systems and medical group management. His experience includes operations leadership with Tenet Healthcare and serving as the CEO of the largest independent neurosciences medical group in Illinois as well as his current role leading the now #3 US News & World Report ranked Pediatric Heart Center at Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. Ben’s passion lies in developing leaders and generating a culture of ownership to drive engagement in healthcare organizations. He has both a Bachelor of Arts in Sports Medicine as well as an MBA from Lewis University, and Lean Six Sigma Green Belt designation from DePaul University.

Table Topic Speaker Leads

Donna Horowitz, HR executive with experience that spans the spectrum from start-up to Fortune 100 companies; and from public to private including Motorola; Underwriters Laboratories; IBM; Elkay Manufacturing; Leica Microsystems, a subsidiary of Danaher; and Wall Family Enterprise, a privately held group of companies serving the education industry. Donna previously co-chaired the HRMAC International Interest Group and served on the HRMAC Summit Planning Committee. She also co-founded the Human Resource Interest Group of JUF in Chicago. She serves as Leadership & Governance Chair of YJ Global, an organization committed to youth education. Donna earned her Ph.D. and MA degrees from DePaul University in industrial/organizational psychology and her BA at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Adam Malaty-Uhr, Founder of Growing at Work Inc, a leader development consultancy in Chicago 

Adam is an experienced operations leader and development practitioner. He is a skilled practitioner of emotional intelligence facilitation, experiential leader development, and online leader development. He grounds his practice in his experiences as a military leader both in the United States and Overseas, along with a decade of practice and research. Adam does the work to build individual and organizational capacity for leader development rather than dependency. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Education, a Master’s in Educational Psychology from the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, and a Master’s in the Psychology of Leader Development from Harvard University. He is a recipient of the Bronze Star, Ranger Tab, and earned the rank of Major in the Army National Guard.

Ebony D Only, the Principle Consultant for OnlyOne Consulting

Prior to that she served at Andersen Consulting, TransUnion and University Health Systems.  She collaborates with complete transparency to equip organizations to engage leadership, decrease employee turnover and increase customer satisfaction.  She believes that there is no magic pill, so when she and her clients begin this work they know that it will be just that…..WORK!  For Ebony, there is nothing more invigorating to the human spirit than working towards a common goal with like-minded colleagues who are equally passionate.  What matters to Ebony is that she cares enough about people, the work they do, and how their work influences and impacts the lives of the people they encounter.  Ebony earned her Master’s Degree in Leadership from Lee University, a Master’s in Human Resources from Fort Hays State University and a Bachelor’s in Sociology from Chicago State University.  She has several certifications and designations:  including Human Capital Strategist, Business Management and Employment Law.

Kim Cyze, Senior Director, Human Resources for Topco Associates LLC

Kim’s expertise includes many areas of the employee life cycle including talent acquisition, talent management, employee engagement, and talent development.  Kim is passionate about developing executable human capital strategy that motivates teams to exceed business objectives and results.  As such, Kim is responsible for creating innovative ways to enhance Topco’s Associate Value Proposition to attract, retain and engage all associates.   In her 6 years with Topco, Kim has led significant transformation around talent acquisition, talent development and talent management.  Specifically related to talent acquisition Kim led a more effective and streamlined companywide talent acquisition practice which better utilizes technology.  Further, Kim also led a complete overhaul of Topco’s employee engagement survey approach by building one which focuses on actionable data and manager development.  Prior to Topco, Kim was the HR Leader for a fast growing global digital marketing agency and spent 14 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers in various HR roles.   She is a graduate of Northeastern Illinois University.  She is a member of Human Resources Management Association of Chicago (HRMAC), Society of Human Resources Management (SHRM), Association of Talent & Development (ATD) and she is certified with the Hogan assessment tool.  Kim enjoys spending time with her family, hiking and listening to music.  Kim also enjoys coaching and mentoring up and coming HR professionals where she shares her knowledge and passion for HR.

MODERATOR

Traci Delgado, Kensington International, Vice President Client Relationships

Traci Delgado is Vice President of Client Relationships for Kensington International and in that capacity she builds relationships and consults with clients about Leadership Development and Career Transition opportunities and challenges.   

Traci has over 15 years of expertise as a Talent Development Leader across a wide range of industries, partnering with Human Resources Executives and C-Suite Leaders to build global learning and leadership development strategies and solutions that align to the organization's top talent management initiatives.  She has a Bachelor of Science in Marketing from the University of Toledo and a Master of Education from Kent State University.

The four table topic are as follows:

1. What leadership/manager behaviors (at various levels) facilitate or hinder the engagement of employees?  How can we develop the behavior? What approaches have we taken that have worked/not worked?
2. How would a manager use job redesign, rotations, job enrichment and other approaches to further the engagement of their employees? What experiences, successes and setbacks have we experienced?
3. How would we translate engagement gap items identified in surveys into effective interventions? What problems/successes have we experienced? What key learnings could we share?
4. How would we make the business case (ROI) of engagement to secure sponsorship and funding? What business metrics would we use? How might we facilitate and promote engagement “on a shoestring”?
    

Objectives

• How current and evolving performance management best practices can balance both employee expectations/needs (feedback and praise) and organizational expectations/needs to achieve shared success
• How to grow leaders to use performance evaluations/conversations to drive engagement, commitment, development and retention
• Provide a common language for employees and leaders to participate fully and effectively together in performance management/development conversations

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Panelist

Robyn Clark, Co-Founder and Managing Director of SuccessWise

Robyn is a sought-out speaker/facilitator on leadership subjects and has 25+ years of experience in executive leadership and team development, change and transformation consulting, talent management, and executive coaching. Through her deep subject matter expertise, she aims to help others drive new outcomes by strengthening their insight and awareness and developing real action plans that propel new behaviors and achieve new results - ultimately shaping more successful companies and communities. Prior to SuccessWise Consulting, Robyn has founded and led two Executive and Leadership Development consulting organizations and she has worked in internal Talent Management roles.

Location

BackStop Solutions
233 S. Wacker Drive, #3950 
Chicago, IL 60606

When/How Flexible Work Environments Make Sense

The HRMAC West/Southwest Interest Group offers a series of sessions designed to explore the requirements of modern employers to engage in new and dynamic arrangements to attract and retain the types of talent needed in the current economy. The approach we are taking is that this type of flexibility is fundamentally changing the assumptions leaders have about what works.

This session will be presented in an active, thought-provoking and practical approaches to offering flexibility in schedules, relationships and leadership in order to attract, retain and motivate all types of workers (and sell it to leadership who grew up differently). Come prepared to work, to be inspired and to share with your colleagues, in this format where you will have a chance to both listen to expert opinions in short-talk type presentations and to work in groups on practical applications. (What until you see what we have for February and May in this series!)

Speakers represent Leaders of Labor and Employment Law Practice, former Global Leader of Talent Analytics, VPHR in manufacturing, Practice Leader in Global Benefits.

Free parking

Location: Advanced Resources, 3010 Highland Parkway, Downers Grove, IL 60515

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This program is pending approval for 1.5 credit hours towards PHR/SPHR recertification through the HR Certification Institute (HRCI) as well as 1.5 professional development credits (PDC's) toward SHRM-CP and SHRM-SCP certification. 

Did you know you can bring a guest? When you register for this event click, "Send and add another," to enter your guest contact information. Be sure to enter your name in the field marked "I am a guest of HRMAC member," to ensure a successful registration.  This is a member only benefit, so without your name the registration will not be valid.      

HRMAC Reads: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth

The HRMAC Reads program is your opportunity to join fellow HR professionals to network and learn leadership skills from critically acclaimed authors. Sign up, grab the book from Amazon or your local library and get reading! We’ll meet up to get to know one another and then again to discuss the book. Wine and other light refreshments will be served for the book discussion. Imagine the unique perspectives on leadership, team-building and management you’ll learn not only from the books you read but the group of HR management peers you’ll meet. Register now!

November 6, 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Networking at Little Toasted
December 4, 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Book Club Discussion

REGISTER NOW

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, Angela Duckworth

Angela Duckworth shows anyone striving to succeed that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent, but a special blend of passion and persistence she calls "grit". How do you and your organization react when you get knocked down? In Grit, Angela Duckworth theorizes that it's grit - not talent or luck - that makes all the difference in getting back up.

Fees

Members: $59
Non-members: $99

*includes attendance for both November 6 Networking Event and December 4 Book Club Discussion

Please note: no refunds will be made for cancellations received after October 23, 2018. Substitutions may be made at anytime. 

Winter 2019 Schedule: January 9, 2019 through March 15, 2019; Wednesdays from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM CST, and Fridays from 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM CST

Faculty: All course facilitators are HRReview and Subject Matter Experts and are SPHR and GPHR certified.

Course Fee: HRMAC Members: $1200, Non-Members: $1300.

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2019 Legal Update

Join us as our panel of experienced practitioners and agency officials walk through some of the most significant changes to employee regulations this year. More information to come!

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The Employee Relations Interest Group is sponsored by Challenger, Gray & Christmas

This program is pending approval for 1.5 credit hours towards PHR/SPHR/SPHR recertification through the HR Certification Institute (HRCI) as well as 1.5 professional development credits (PDC's) toward SHRM-CP and SHRM-SCP certification. 

Did you know you can bring a guest? When you register for this event click, "Send and add another," to enter your guest contact information. Be sure to enter your name in the field marked "I am a guest of HRMAC member," to ensure a successful registration.  This is a member only benefit, so without your name the registration will not be valid.      

HRMAC Reads - How Women Rise: Breaking the 12 Habits Holding You Back from Your Next Raise, Promotion or Job, Sally Helgesen and Marshall Goldsmith

The HRMAC Reads program is your opportunity to join fellow HR professionals to network and learn leadership skills from critically acclaimed authors. Sign up, grab the book from Amazon or your local library and get reading! We’ll meet up to get to know one another and then again to discuss the book. Wine and other light refreshments will be served for the book discussion. Imagine the unique perspectives on leadership, team-building and management you’ll learn not only from the books you read but the group of HR management peers you’ll meet. Register now!

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How Women Rise: Breaking the 12 Habits Holding You Back from Your Next Raise, Promotion or Job, Sally Helgesen and Marshall Goldsmith

Leadership expert Sally Helgesen and bestselling leadership coach Marshall Goldsmith have trained thousands of high achievers--men and women--to reach even greater heights. Again and again, they see that women face specific and different roadblocks from men as they advance in the workplace. In fact, the very habits that helped women early in their careers can hinder them as they move up. Simply put, what got you here won't get you there . . . and you might not even realize your blind spots until it's too late.

Fees (Ticket includes attendance for both January 24 Networking Event and February 21 Book Club Discussion): 

For Members: $59

For Non-Members: $99

​Please note: No refunds will be made for cancellations received after January 10, 2018. Substitutions may be made at anytime.

HRMAC Reads - How Women Rise: Breaking the 12 Habits Holding You Back from Your Next Raise, Promotion or Job, Sally Helgesen and Marshall Goldsmith

The HRMAC Reads program is your opportunity to join fellow HR professionals to network and learn leadership skills from critically acclaimed authors. Sign up, grab the book from Amazon or your local library and get reading! We’ll meet up to get to know one another and then again to discuss the book. Wine and other light refreshments will be served for the book discussion. Imagine the unique perspectives on leadership, team-building and management you’ll learn not only from the books you read but the group of HR management peers you’ll meet. Register now!

REGISTER NOW

How Women Rise: Breaking the 12 Habits Holding You Back from Your Next Raise, Promotion or Job, Sally Helgesen and Marshall Goldsmith

Leadership expert Sally Helgesen and bestselling leadership coach Marshall Goldsmith have trained thousands of high achievers--men and women--to reach even greater heights. Again and again, they see that women face specific and different roadblocks from men as they advance in the workplace. In fact, the very habits that helped women early in their careers can hinder them as they move up. Simply put, what got you here won't get you there . . . and you might not even realize your blind spots until it's too late.

Fees (Ticket includes attendance for both January 24 Networking Event and February 21 Book Club Discussion): 

For Members: $59

For Non-Members: $99

​Please note: No refunds will be made for cancellations received after January 10, 2018. Substitutions may be made at anytime.