Registration

Contact: Jeanne Cornor
Programs Coordinator
Phone: (937) 775-2559
Email: jeannecornor@yahoo.com
(1.5 CEU Credits Available)

Upcoming Speaker

Wright State’s Department of Management and Right Management jointly sponsor the Contemporary Issues in Human Resources Lecture Series. The topic of the Spring 2009 lecture is:

"Confronting the Challenges: HR in Difficult Times"

 with

Ms. Joan Swenson
Chief Human Resources Officer
Kettering Medical Network

Mr. Michael T. Edicola
Vice President, Human Resources
NewPage Corporation

Mr. Zant Chapelo
Vice President of Human Resources
WorkflowOne

 Moderated by

Mr. Ron Racque of Right Management

 Tuesday, May 12, 2009, at 8:00-9:00 a.m.
in the Ervin J. Nutter Center Berry Room
Breakfast will be available at
7:30 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. in the Berry Room

About Our Panel

With nearly thirty years experience in healthcare management,
Joan Swenson’s responsibilities began in nursing management, and as a nurse recruiter. Ms. Swenson joined Kettering Medical Center in 1998 as the Director of Human Resources, and in 2003 she became the Chief Human Resources Officer for the Kettering Health Network. She serves on several boards, and is a member of the Miami Valley Senior HR Executives, the American Society for Healthcare Human Resources Administration, and the Society of Human Resource Management. Ms. Swenson holds a B.S. in Nursing from Atlantic Union College and an MBA from Regis University.

Michael T. Edicola is Vice President, Human Resources, for NewPage Corporation. With extensive experience across all human resource disciplines, Mr. Edicola previously was HR vice president for Baxter International Corporation, a $10 billion global medical products company, where he was responsible for leading global human resources across three business groups, with 31,000 employees in 65 locations worldwide. Mr Edicola has also held senior human resource leadership positions at General Electric, the Rank Group PLC, and Zebra Technologies Corporation. He holds undergraduate and advanced degrees in Industrial Relations and Human Resource management from Le Moyne College and from the University of Cincinnati.

Mr. Zant Chapelo spent 20 years in the military and eight years in the private sector in a variety of organizational development, training and sales management roles. He was on the faculty of the Air Force’s Air University Leadership Academy, as well as HR director of Mission Readiness at the Air Force Institute of Technology. He entered the corporate sector in 2000 as manager of sales training and education at LexisNexis and later served as sales manager for a five-state region. Before joining WorkflowOne in November 2006, he was a sales performance consultant with NCR Corporation’s Global Learning Group.

About Our Topic:

With so much of what everyone thought we knew turned upside down, what are the ways in which HR can help organizations survive and prosper? The challenges are many: How to help the firm preserve cash, while still maintaining  attractive and equitable benefit programs? How to shape the work force to survive today, and be ready for a better tomorrow? How to communicate honestly and supportively to an anxious workforce? How to ensure that all are treated with dignity and fairness, even in these times of fiscal constraints?

In a recent article, Jack and Suzy Welch wrote that these times are HR's "moment of  truth."  It is to help you meet these demands that this panel discussion --"Confronting the Challenges: HR in Difficult Times"--was created.

Right Management has partnered with Wright State University for nearly 16 years to offer the Contemporary Issues in Human Resources Lecture Series. This series has featured many outstanding speakers and topics, and we hope it continues to enhance both your personal and organizational development. Right Management believes strongly in providing timely, relevant information to the human resource community. We welcome your feedback and comments as we plan future sessions.

Right Management is the leading global provider of integrated consulting solutions across the employment lifecycle (attract and assess, develop, engage and align, and transition). We help our clients maximize the return on investment in their people, while assisting individuals to achieve their full potential. The world of work is constantly changing; our services and solutions address the organizational and people issues that result from this change. During events such as mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, leadership changes, deregulation, new technology introductions, or new strategy implementations; Right Management helps organizations understand what is happening; assists in designing customized solutions; and helps prepare individuals to embrace their personal, business, and organizational future.

Our success in customizing appropriate solutions for our clients comes from our ability to draw on the expertise of our people as well as proven processes, methodologies and tools. For over 25 years business people around the world have chosen to work with Right because of our expertise, flexibility, global access and local knowledge combined with a credible professional relationship based on trust and responsiveness. We dedicate ourselves to helping our clients “manage the human side of change” in ways that produce powerful, positive and lasting results.

Right Management’s Dayton office is located in Centerville. For further information on our services, please call Ms. Robin Brun at (937) 432-3006 or email her at robin.brun@right.com.

The Lecture Series began in 1991 when Professors Robert F. Scherer and Ann Wendt received a grant from the Wright State University Alumni Foundation to develop a program linking the University with the Miami Valley community. Since 1992, Right Management Consultants has jointly sponsored the Lecture Series with the Raj Soin College of Business and the Department of Management.