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HR Trends with Game Changers, Presented by SAP
Monday at 10 AM Pacific
September 10th 2013: HR Trends: Finding Talent in Unexpected Places: Differently-Abled
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Today’s buzz: Differently-abled. Seeking unique talent to enrich your workforce? Diversity and inclusion could open that door.
The experts speak. Joe Gerstandt: “We talk about inclusion as if it were an attitude or a state of mind, but it is an activist thing. If you do not intentionally and deliberately invite and include difference in the groups and processes you are a part of, you will always unintentionally be exclusive. No hatred or fear required.”
Karen Russell: “In 1943, psychiatrist/researcher Leo Kanner found autism was identified in 2-4 children per 10,000. Today the Center fo
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Joe Gerstandt
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Joe Gerstandt has worked with Fortune 500 corporations, small non-profits, and everything in between, bringing new clarity and a fresh perspective to diversity and inclusion through his keynote messages and interactive workshops. He is a contributor to the Workforce Diversity Network Expert Forum and his insights have been published in Diversity Executive, HR Executive, The Diversity Factor, The American Diversity Report, Associations Now, and other print and online journals. Joe grew up on a family farm in NW Iowa, served four years in the U.S. Marine Corps, including participation in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, attended Iowa State University, and spent six years in sales and
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Karen L. Russell
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Karen L. Russell is the Assistant Director of Special Services, Fremont Unified School District, Fremont, CA. She received her master's degree and School Psychology Credential from UC Davis. Karen has worked for the Fremont Unified School District since 1989 and served as a school psychologist, infant services coordinator, transition coordinator, and program specialist prior to her current role. She has had the opportunity to work with hundreds of children with special needs and their families in a variety of public and private school settings.
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R. David Hofferberth
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R. David Hofferberth, PE, founder and a Managing Director at Service Performance Insight, has over 30 years of experience in information technology as an industry analyst, market consultant, and product director. He is focused on the services economy; in particular, white-collar productivity issues and technologies that help people perform at their highest capacity. In 1999 Dave introduced the solution area now known as Professional Services Automation (PSA) when he published the seminal report, Professional Services Automation: Increasing Efficiencies and Profitability in Professional Services Organizations. He co-authored the groundbreaking Professional Service Maturity Model™ benchmark, n
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Faheem Ahmed
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Faheem Ahmed is Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at SAP, overseeing the research, design, development, and product management for SAP's consumer healthcare initiatives. He serves as founder and Entrepreneur-in-Residence for Care Circles, a wellness platform connecting families with the information and services they need to care for their loved ones. Previously, Faheem was vice president for portfolio marketing, leading the development and rollout of a series of social CRM applications. Before that, he held various management roles in strategic planning, market strategy and solution management for multiple product lines. Faheem began his career in South Africa in 1997, and spent severa
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