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Jim Biggerstaff / Biggerstaff Consulting
Jim has 20+ Years as Senior Human Resources Executive. His specialties include:Employee Relations, EEO, Union Avoidance, Staffing, Management Development, Training, Compensation and Benefits, Contract Negotiations, Interface with Board of Directors and Compensation Committee, Domestic and International experience, Mergers and Acquisitions, Employee Opinion Research
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Michael Jarmon / Reconciliation Reliance Group
Michael is the Founder and CEO at Reconciliation Reliance Group. Over the past 25 years, he has learned from great men how to be a man. Michael now teaches desperate men how to find their purpose, face their fears and walk through their pain developing mature men of God.
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Bary Seidner / Inside Secure 
Barry’s background includes 20+ years managing the Americas for National Semiconductor, directing divisional strategy for IBM, Product Line Manager for IBM Microelectronics, and many years in technical sales and marketing for Integrated Device Technology. Currently Director of Americas Sales at AuthenTec.
His specialties include:Semiconductor and software marketing and sales, business and product strategy, sales processes, driving medium sized sales and marketing organizations.
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Billy Johnson and Rachel Cleveland / University of North Texas Professional Leadership Program
Billy Johnson is the Senior Director, Professional Leadership Program, with the University of North Texas. He has over 30 Years of Experience in the following Industries and Functional Areas; Telecommunications; Marketing, Sales, Strategic Planning, Regulatory Advisor, Field Operations. Oil & Gas; Human Resource Generalist and Labor Relations & Negotiations. Energy Trading & Marketing; Human Resources Generalist, HR Vice President. Professional Services; Regional HR Director, National Human Resources Director
Specialties:Labor Relations & Union Negotiation, Strategic Planning, and Human Resources M&A Evaluation & Implementation Planning, Organization Development & Teambuilding.
Rachel Cleveland is the Assistant Director, Professional Leadership Program, with UNT.
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Ed Rankin / edwinrankin.com 
Ed is an eexecutive with 25 years experience in human resource management. He is a successful entrepreneur, led PeopleSolutions, a pioneer in creative human resource management services, to the Inc. 500 and Portfolio Company of the Year recognition. Ed has been widely published and quoted.
His specialties include:Professional and Executive Coaching Human Resource Management Business Process Outsourcing Merger and Acquisition integration Organizational assessment and restructuring Career Transition
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Ray Kallas / Atmos Energy
Ray is a results driven Human Resource/Talent Management professional with a proven ability to develop a clear vision and strategic direction for meeting corporate objectives and exceeding customers expectations. He has been successful in developing cost effective Talent Management programs that streamline the process while building the Employment Branding experience. Ray utilizes over 20+ years of Management, Operations, Human Resources and Recruiting experience on both the Corporate and Agency side. Additionally, he has been a frequent guest speaker on David Rawles radio program and he is AIRS (CIR) certified.
Ray’s specialties include: Excel at building internal and external relationships, Talent Management/Development, Employment Branding, AIRS certified, OFCCP, EEO, Affirmitive Action, Employee Negotiations, Vendor Management & Negotiations, P&L responsibility, OnSite Partnerships, Direct Placement, Employee Relations/Retention, On Boarding, Social Media, Relocations, Networking/Job Fairs, Career Site Development, Compensation, Job Descriptions, Workforce Planning, Employment & CoEmployment, Turnover Analysis, ATS Implementation.
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Ray White / Dentsu
While Ray is currently the Chief Performance Officer – Global for ICUC, a social moderation and engagement company that is part of the Dentsu Aegis Network, the 5th largest agency network in the world in the world – today he is here to talk to us about how he led multiple teams to 15 Great Places to Work Awards, developed business performance tools and processes that fuel innovation and expanded training to a global offering available anytime and anywhere and created a proprietary SRS (Strategic Results System) technology.
The culmination of his learning over the years has resulted in his passion of helping people become successful and happy, and he wrote a number one Amazon seller to guide individuals and leaders through strategy session and business classes focused on leadership and success at all levels of the business hierarchy from new employees to C-Level executives. His book Connecting Happiness and Success serves as a foundation for classes at Fortune 1000 Organizations, start-ups, Professional Leadership Programs, University programs and Pursuit-of-Happiness.org where he was responsible for connecting Work Place Happiness and Engagement with business performance.
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Melissa Walker / Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas
Melissa is a highly motivated Human Resource leader with 13 years of proven success in developing and maintaining strategic business partnerships to align business needs to HR strategy. Through Talent Acquisition, Leadership Development, Talent Management, Transition Resource Planning, Process Management, Compensation/Total Rewards, Organization Design and Change management, she has successfully delivered high value through the enterprise. Melissa uses her ability to influence others based on leadership skills and analytics to achieve strong results, build solid relationships to help navigate the transformation in the insurance industry. Her career emphasis is to develop and maintain human resource services that surpass corporate objectives while maintaining high ethical standards.
Strategic Business Partner • Process Improvement • Performance Management Recruiting • HR Solutions • Diversity Management • Organization Design & Change Management Regulatory Compliance • Workforce Relations Behavioral Interview Techniques • Succession Planning • Coaching Career Management • Compensation • Training • Analytics
On February 9-11, 2015, Trade Show Radio co-hosts Lee Kantor and Stone Payton broadcast live from the TrainingPros booth at the Georgia World Congress Center for Training 2015.
Training 2015 Conference & Expo is produced by Training magazine, and Lakewood Media Group, LLC. For 38 years, the Training conference has given attendees the very best in skill-building content, covering all aspects of online and instructor-led training.
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