ADVISORY BOARD
Members:RUTH BRAMSON | ANDY BRANTLEY | DAVID CREELMAN | FRED K. FOULKES | STEVE HUNT | MEL KLEIMAN |MARK LANGE | TIM LETT | JOYCE O’DONNELL MARONEY | MARK MILLIRON | YANG WEIGUO | TIAN XIN MIN |
RUTH BRAMSON
CEO, Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts
As CEO of the newly created Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts, Ruth Bramson is building an organization that will create the leaders of tomorrow. Ruth is well known for her work as Executive Vice President of Human Resources for National Grid US, the second largest utilities in the US and a subsidiary of National Grid UK. Prior to joining National Grid, Ruth served as Chief Human Resources Officer, Chief Diversity Officer, and Undersecretary of Administration and Finance for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the Romney administration.
In a career spanning 25 years, Ruth has held executive positions with several major corporations including Shaw’s Supermarkets/Star Markets where she served as Senior Vice President, Human Resources and Chief Diversity Officer, Reebok International, and Charles River Laboratories, a division of Bausch & Lomb. She also spent several years consulting to major New England companies on talent management, culture and change, mergers and acquisitions strategy, and communications.
Ruth holds a Master’s degree from Boston University and an undergraduate degree from Barnard College, Columbia University. She also completed Harvard University’s Executive leadership program for women. Ruth is an international lecturer and published author on many management issues, including strategic change, workplace violence and sexual harassment prevention, and organizational development.
Ruth founded and, for 6 years, chaired Suited for Success, a non-profit organization, which supports women as they transition from welfare to work. Ruth also serves as a commissioner of the Massachusetts Commission of the Status of Women, on the Board of Employers against Domestic Violence, and the Board of Governors of the Tufts-New England Medical Center. She is also a Commissioner of the Massachusetts Service Alliance, which oversees all State funding of volunteer organizations. She is an Advisory Board member of Junior Achievement and a Trustee of Middlesex Community College. Ruth is also a longtime member of the Boston Club.
ANDY BRANTLEY
Chief Executive Officer of the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources
Andy Brantley is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR) and has served as the association’s chief executive since July 1, 2005. Established in 1946, CUPA-HR is the leading voice regarding higher education human resources and workforce issues and provides global leadership to the higher education human resources profession and the higher education community. CUPA-HR represents 1,700 colleges and universities and more than 11,000 higher education professionals.
Prior to accepting the position at CUPA-HR, Andy served as Associate Vice President and Chief Human Resource Officer at the University of Georgia. Prior to that, he served as Assistant Vice President and Director of Human Resources at Davidson College and Director of Human Resources at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. Andy began his professional career as a Labor Relations Representative for the Chrysler Corporation.
He received his Bachelor of Business Administration and his Master of Business Administration degrees from the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia.
Andy was the 2000-01 chair of CUPA-HR’s national board, served for five years on the national board of directors, and in 2004 received the association’s highest honor, the Donald E. Dickason Award. Andy frequently presents keynote presentations, workshops and concurrent sessions across the country. He also writes articles for CUPA-HR publications, provides commentary for several higher education publications and blogs from the CUPA-HR Web site. Andy recently contributed to the update of the association’s Interview Guide publication and the creation of CUPA-HR’s campus training resource Lines of Reasoning: Perspectives on Harassment in Higher Education.
DAVID CREELMAN
CEO, Creelman Research
David Creelman is CEO of Creelman Research. His main interest is in helping HR leaders and CFOs better measure and report on human capital to the CEO, Board and financial markets.
David also does writing, research and speaking on the most critical issues in human capital management. His clients include think tanks, consultants, academics and organizations in Japan, the US, Canada and the EU. He publishes regularly in the US, Japan, Peru, Turkey, Brazil, South Africa, Holland, Romania and Singapore.
He has sat on many thought leader panels with the Human Capital Institute including Global Talent Management, Learning Strategies, and the ROI of Talent Management. He is collaborating with Dr. Dave Ulrich, on the topic of human capital intangibles. (see www.rbl.net “What the Fortune 100 Tells Wall Street”). He is collaborating with Laurie Bassi on improved measurement methods.
Prior to founding his own company David was brought in as Chief of Content and Research for HR.com. As the first employee of HR.com David played an integral role in growing a successful dot com; one that continues to thrive. For many years David was a management consultant in Canada and Malaysia, most notably with the Hay Group. He also taught Rewards and Performance Measures at the University of Malaya executive MBA program. Before venturing into human resources consulting, David worked in finance for Gulf Canada in Toronto and IT for Wood Gundy in London.
He has an MBA from the University of Western Ontario and a Combined Honours B.Sc. in Chemistry and Biochemistry from McMaster.
PROFESSOR FRED K. FOULKES
Director, Human Resources Policy Institute
Professor of Organizational Behavior
Boston University School of Management
Professor Foulkes received the A.B. degree from Princeton University, and the M.B.A. and D.B.A. degrees from Harvard Business School. He was a member of the Harvard Business School faculty before joining the faculty of Boston University. He teaches courses in human resources management and organization behavior. Prior to entering teaching, he was employed by Chrysler Corporation, the New York Telephone Company and Chemical Bank.
His principal publications include: Creating More Meaningful Work (The American Management Association); Casebook on Church and Society (with Keith Bridston, Ann D. Meyers and Louis Weeks, Abington Press); Personnel Policies in Large Nonunion Companies (Prentice-Hall); Human Resources Management: Cases and Text (with E.R. Livernash, Prentice-Hall); Employee Benefits Handbook (editor and contributing author Warren, Gorham & Lamont); Strategic Human Resources Management: A Guide for Effective Practice (Prentice-Hall), Human Resources Management: Readings (Prentice-Hall) and Executive Compensation: A Strategic Guide for the 1990s (Harvard Business School Press). Professor Foulkes has also written numerous articles, including five published in the Harvard Business Review, and has developed over 160 case studies.
Professor Foulkes is the founder and director of the Human Resources Policy Institute. The Institute is a 25 year-old partnership between Boston University’s School of Management faculty and senior human resources executives. Its members include the heads of human resources for over 50 large, global companies.
Recipient of the Employment Management Association Award (1978) and the Five Star Achievement Award from the Northeast Human Resources Association (1992), Professor Foulkes was named in 1992 a Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources, the human resources profession’s highest honor for outstanding achievement.
Professor Foulkes is a member of the boards of Bright Horizons Family Solutions, Panera Bread, and the Society for Human Resource Management Foundation. From 1998 to October 2007, he was a director of Deploy Solutions. He is a senior advisor to the Northeast Human Resources Association (NEHRA), an SHRM chapter, leader of its Senior HR Forum, and chair of the Boston Personnel Dinner Group. He is also a Research Fellow of the Employee Benefit Research Institute, Washington, D.C
STEVEN T. HUNT
SPHR, Ph.D.,Director of Business Transformation Services at SuccessFactors
Steven Hunt has over 15 years of experience designing technology enabled talent management solutions supporting staffing and workforce management. He has held research and consulting positions in a variety of companies including Kronos Talent Management Division (formerly Unicru Inc.), Starbucks Coffee Corporation, SHL Inc., and Personnel Decisions, Inc.
His experience spans a variety of industries including retail, healthcare, dining, manufacturing, information technology, and transportation. An active author and speaker, Dr. Hunt regularly presents at industry and academic conferences and has written articles in trade and academic journals ranging from Personnel Psychology to the Wall Street Journal. He is also author of Hiring Success a book published by the Society of Human Resource Management focused on the applied use of staffing assessment tools.
He holds a Ph.D. in industrial-organizational psychology from The Ohio State University and a B.A. in applied mathematics and psychology from the University of California, San Diego.
MEL KLEIMAN
Founder and President, Humetrics
Certified Speaking Professional Mel Kleiman is North America’s leading authority on how best to recruit, select, and retain top-quality employees.
A renowned consultant, speaker, author, and trainer for over 25 years, Mel is also the founder and president of Humetrics, a leading developer of systems, training processes, and tools for recruiting, selecting, and retaining an exceptional workforce.
A demonstrated leader in HR thought, Mel has authored numerous research studies and white papers. His articles have appeared in dozens of trade and professional journals and he is a regular contributor to Restaurant Hospitality, Area Developers and Convenience Store Decisions.
Mel earned the prestigious National Speakers Association Certified Speaking Professional designation in 1996 and is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management.
Mel’s books include the bestselling Hire Tough, Manage Easy; as well as 267 Hire Tough Interview Questions, 180 Ways to Build a Magnetic Culture; Recruit Smarter, Not Harder and So, You Got the Job…..Now What?
MARK LANGE
Technology entrepreneur, strategy consultant and award-winning columnist
Mr. Lange graduated from Dartmouth in 1984, a double-major in English and philosophy. He served as policy analyst and chief speechwriter to two U.S. Secretaries of Labor in the 1980s. In 1988 he was appointed to the White House as a speechwriter to former President George H.W. Bush, serving until mid-1991. There he drafted major addresses on NATO’s role in post-Cold War Europe, strategic arms reductions, trade, debt relief, and environmental, energy and economic policy. During the Persian Gulf crisis he wrote the first oval office address to the nation. He also wrote the 1991 State of the Union address.
After leaving Washington, Mr. Lange earned an MBA from Stanford, worked as a financial analyst at Paramount, directed $445 million in acquisitions for K-III (a KKR private equity fund), and served in executive leadership roles for two successful software ventures as well as large enterprise software providers PeopleSoft and SAP. He is currently incubating a web start-up and consulting to technology hardware and software firms. He serves on the board for HumanConcepts, Inc. and the Workforce Institute, and advises the Center for Digital Strategies at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.
Mr. Lange has written commentary on immigration and workforce policy for the New York Times, and on national politics, Iraq policy, clean tech subsidies and job creation for the San Francisco Chronicle. A regular contributor to the opinion pages of the Christian Science Monitor, his columns on extreme poverty were named “Best Series” by the Association of Opinion Page Editors in 2008. He lives near San Francisco with his wife Laura and three children.
TIM LETT
Founder and Managing Partner of Axsium Group
Tim Lett founded Axsium Group in 2004 with the vision of creating a consultancy to help companies unlock the ROI potential from investments in enterprise workforce management. Tim has helped dozens of Fortune 1000 companies gain competitive advantage through the transformation of their workforce management infrastructure.
Prior to founding Axsium, Tim was Vice-President, Professional Services at Workbrain, a provider of enterprise workforce management software solutions, where he was responsible for the sale and delivery of software implementation consulting services. Before joining Workbrain, Tim was a senior consulting manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Toronto.
Tim holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Toronto.
JOYCE MARONEY
Senior Director Customer Experience & Services Marketing, Kronos
Joyce O’Donnell Maroney is the Senior Director of Customer Experience and Services Marketing at Kronos, a leading provider of software and services for workforce management. She is responsible for marketing strategy and programs for Kronos services and customer programs. She also serves as Managing Director of the Kronos Workforce Institute.
Prior to joining Kronos in 2006, Joyce served as a Vice President at BrassRing LLC for over 6 years. She was responsible for creating and leading a number of functional organizations including Account Management, Product Management, Product Support, Technical Services, Client Education, Consulting and Recruitment Outsourcing. Before joining BrassRing, she spent 7 years at Lotus Development Corporation/IBM in various sales and marketing management positions. Joyce has also held positions at Wang Laboratories, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Software AG, Control Data Corporation, W.R. Grace & Co., Town of Rockport, and Arthur D. Little, Inc.
Joyce chairs the Advisory and Finance Committee for the Town of Nahant and is a former member of the boards of Girls Inc. of Lynn, the Children’s Trust Fund and the Association of Employment Professionals.
Joyce holds an MBA in Finance from Boston University Graduate School of Management in Boston, MA and a BA in Biology from Middlebury College in Middlebury, VT.
MARK MILLIRON
Ph.D., CEO Catalyze Learning International
Dr. Mark David Milliron is an award-winning leader, author, speaker, and consultant best known for exploring leadership development, future trends, learning strategies, and the human side of technology change. Mark works with universities, community colleges, K-12 schools, corporations, associations, and government agencies across the country and around the world. He serves as Board Chair for the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education and as a Trustee for Western Governors University. He is also the founder and CEO of the private consulting and service group, Catalyze Learning International (CLI). In addition, he serves on numerous corporate, nonprofit, and education boards and advisory groups; guest lectures for educational institutions nationally and internationally; and authors and moderates the Catalytic Conversations Blog.
Mark brings to this work broad experience, having previously served as an Endowed Fellow, Senior Lecturer, and Director of the National Institute of Staff and Organizational Development in the College of Education at The University of Texas at Austin; Vice President for Education and Medical Practice with SAS, the world’s largest private software company; President and CEO of the international education association the League for Innovation; and as Vice President for Academic and Student Services at Mayland Community College (NC).
While teaching at Arizona State, Mark received the International Communication Association’s Teaching Excellence Award. More recently, the University of Texas at Austin’s College of Education honored Mark as a Distinguished Graduate for his service to the education field. In 2005, PBS named Mark the recipient of its annual O’Banion Prize for transformational work in support of teaching and learning. And in 2007, the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) presented Mark with its National Leadership Award for his outstanding accomplishments, contributions, and leadership.
Regardless of all of these activities and accomplishments, he will quickly tell you that the most important job and the greatest blessing in his life is serving as Julia’s husband, and as father to Alexandra, Richard, Marcus, and Max.
YANG WEIGUO
Professor and Assistant Dean of the Labor and Human Resources School, Renmin University of China
Professor Yang brings a broad international perspective to the board of the Workforce Institute. Professor Yang is Professor and Assistant Dean of the Labor and Human Resources School, Renmin University of China and Deputy Director, China Institute for Employment Research, Renmin University of China.
He is also currently serving as a guest researcher at the Center for Human Resource Research of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. His research is focused on human resource management, labor economics, strategic human resource auditing, and employment theories and policies.
Before joining Renmin University, Professor Yang worked for a wide range of enterprises including Shenzhen Neptunus Group Co., Ltd., China Nam Kwong National Import & Export Corporation, Nam Kwong (Czech) Corporation, and China Everbright Bank. He has done extensive human resource management research for the Ministry of Commerce of China and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
He led and participated in a number of strategic HR consulting and training programs for large state-owned companies, private businesses, and joint ventures across all industries.
He graduated from Renmin University of China and has a PhD of Economics from the Graduate Institute of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He was a visiting doctoral student at Department of Economy and Business Administration, Frankfurt University. In 2005, he participated with the University of Osnabrueck, Germany in a cooperative research project sponsored by DAAD- Programme des Projektbezogenen Personenaustauschs, which sponsors intensive cooperative research between German institutions and foreign partner institutions.
He served as a member of the Society for Human Resource Management (U.S.) for several years.
Professor Yang authored many books and articles on topics such as strategic HR planning, talent shortages, and the development of China’s labor market. His most recent books include The Transformation in China’s Employment Policies and Labor Market Policies Review From a Global Perspective.
TIAN XIN MIN
Associate Professor, Associate Dean, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Tian Xin Min is the associate dean and professor for the department of operations at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, in the People’s Republic of China.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University is one of the oldest universities in China. The University, through its century-long history, has nurtured large numbers of outstanding figures and made significant contributions to the thriving and prosperity of the nation and the development of science and technology.
In addition to teaching at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Xin Min is the executive vice president of the Secretary-General for the Shanghai Institute of Behavioral Science and is a consultant for the Shanghai Enterprises Federation Democratic Management Committee.
Xin Min received his PhD from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, where he completed studies and research within the field of Enterprise Management. He also completed his MBA and MS degrees in Management, and holds a BA in Industrial Management Engineering.
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