Home Agenda Speakers Venue About Register Senior Management Summit 08 Speakers William J. Holstein >>> William J. Holstein is editor of Directorship moving to that perspective from his previous role as editor of Chief Executive. Concurrently, he is a Sunday business columnist for the New York Times, writing the "Armchair MBA" column periodically. He has been a prolific freelance writer for such periodicals as Fortune, New YorkTimes, Business Week, Business 2.0, Corporate Board Member and Politique Internationale. Prior editorial assignments include senior writer, U.S. News & World Report and World Editor for Business Week and Deputy Asian Editor for United Press International in Hong Kong and recipient of an award for the best economic reporting (1980). He has covered such major events as the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the '79 Tokyo Economic Summit, the Vietnamese boat people's exodus, the OPEC meeting in Bali and the Moslem insurrection in the Philippines. He is conversationally fluent in French and Chinese (Mandarin). His book, "The Japanese Power Game" was published in hardback (Chas. Scribner) and in paperback (Dutton). He was Presidentfor two years of the Overseas Press Club and is presently President of the OPCFoundation. He is a graduate with honors from Michigan State and he has studied at Oxford University. His latest book is: Manage the Media (Don't Let the Media Manage You) Steve Denning >>> Steve Denning, organizational storyteller extraordinaire, is the author of the acclaimed books, The Secret Language of Leadership (Jossey-Bass, October 2007).  The book is a comprehensive guide to transformational leadership, particularly how to use develop and use narrative intelligence to inspire enduring enthusiasm in any audience for your cause. He is also author of The Leader's Guide to Storytelling (Jossey-Bass, 2005). From 1996 to 2000, Steve was the Program Director, Knowledge Management at the World Bank where he spearheaded the organizational knowledge sharing program. In November 2000, Steve Denning was selected as one of the world’s ten Most Admired Knowledge Leaders (Teleos). He now works with organizations in the U.S., Europe, Asia and Australia on knowledge management and organizational storytelling. His clients include scores of Fortune 500 companies. In April 2003, Steve was ranked as one of the world's Top Two Hundred Business Gurus by  Davenport & Prusak, "What's The Big Idea? (Harvard, 2003). Steve was born and educated in Sydney, Australia. He studied law and psychology at Sydney University and worked as a lawyer in Sydney for several years. He did a postgraduate degree in law at Oxford University in the U.K. Steve then joined the World Bank where he worked for several decades in many capacities and held various management positions, including Director of the Southern Africa Department from 1990 to 1994 and Director of the Africa Region from 1994 to 1996. From 1996 to 2000, Steve was the Program Director, Knowledge Management at the World Bank. Steve was a member of the Quality Council V of the Conference Board from 1993 to 1996. Steve is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts He has published a novel and a volume of poetry.  Norman Clements >>> Norman Clements is Senior Vice President, Global Analysis Services, Cision, Inc. In this role, he is responsible for the development of global media measurement solutions for Cision clients. He has more than thirty years of experience in journalism, consulting and public relations. Before joining Cision as International Operations Director for Delahaye in London in 2002, Norman was CEO of Madi HerdBuoys Communications Group, a leading public relations firm which emerged from Sussens Clements Maliepaard, the oldest PR firm in South Africa. He has also held the titles of associate publisher, editorial director and editor for a wide variety of publications in both the United Kingdom and South Africa. He is a frequent speaker and contributor to a broad range of public relations-related associations and organizations.  Andrew L. Shapiro >>>   Andrew Shapiro, Founder and CEO of GreenOrder, is a widely recognized leader in sustainability and business strategy whose diverse background as a consultant, journalist, lecturer, and attorney enables him to provide the integrated perspective that today's complex sustainability challenges require. Andrew founded GreenOrder in 2000 and has developed it into a pioneering firm, which Fortune in 2007 called “the go-to consulting company for green business.”  Since 2004, he has worked closely with General Electric's senior management on the creation and implementation of its award-winning, multi-billion dollar "ecomagination" initiative. Andrew has been profiled in a New York Times business section feature, "A Dollars-and-Cents Man with a Green Philosophy," and he was named one of two dozen "Enviro All-Stars" by Outside magazine and the only strategist on Inc. magazine's list of "50 entrepreneurs who are changing the way we live today." He is a member of the Urban Land Institute Trustees’ Advisory Committee on Energy and Climate Change; the advisory committee of the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale; Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Task Force on Career and Technical Education Innovation; and the board of the Southern Center for Human Rights.  Andrew previously served on environmental committees for the NYC2012 Olympic Bid and the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, and on the founding board of Reboot, a nonprofit organization. Andrew has written two books that have been published in five languages. His most recent book, The Control Revolution: How the Internet is Putting Individuals in Charge and Changing the World We Know  (1999), was an Amazon.com bestseller named one of the ten most important books of the year by Industry Standard magazine and favorably reviewed in the New York Times, L.A. Times, Washington Post, and other publications. He has hosted an interview program on PBS, appeared on NPR, CNN, and The Today Show, and written for publications ranging from Wired, Spin, and The Nation to Foreign Policy, the New York Times, and the Washington Post.  He is a regular contributor to the “Leading Green” section of Harvard Business School’s online publishing arm. In 1999, he was named by MIT's Technology Review magazine as one of 100 young innovators who will shape the future of technology.  He is a graduate of Brown University (Phi Beta Kappa) and Yale Law School. He served as a law clerk to Judge Pierre N. Leval of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and is a member of the New York State bar. His legal experience includes arguing a voting rights case in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Michael Rudnick >>> Michael is an industry pioneer, having developed the first intranet for Xerox in the early 1990’s, long before the term was coined. He brings over 25 years of experience, the past 15 years providing intranet, enterprise and HR portal and eCommunications technology consulting and implementation services, to many global corporations. Michael’s clients include many of today’s leading corporations across a wide variety of industries, including AIG, American Express, Avon, Celanese, Citizens Financial Group, Disney, GE, Lockheed Martin, Medstar Health, Northrop Grumman, PepsiCo, Pfizer, Sprint, Target, Tyco Electronics and Wyeth. Prior to joining Watson Wyatt in 2001, Michael was Managing Director at Groundswell; Senior Vice President of Global B2E/B2B Solutions at Xceed, and the co-founder and Principal of Cognitive Communications, an intranet specialty firm that provided consulting and implementation services since the birth of the browser. Michael is an internationally recognized author and speaker, often quoted in industry trade publications. He routinely chairs conferences and workshops around the world for events sponsored by leading organizations including The Conference Board, The National Foreign Trade Council, Council of Communications Management (CCM), International Human Resources Information Management Association (IHRIM), Society of International Quality and Productivity Centre (IQPC), Melcrum Conference, Advanced Learning Institute, International Society of Certified Employee Benefit Specialists. (ISCEBS), Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), and the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC). Michael earned his BA from Ithaca College. He is active in industry activities including: the advisory boards of Communitelligence.com, Melcrum’s InternalCommsHub.com and Agistics.com, Board of Directors for CCM (2000-2004) and its CTO (1996-2004); and the International Executive Board of IABC (1996-2000). Michael is an avid sailor and Bronze Medalist at the 1993 US Men’s Sailing Championships. He was a race official at the 1996 Olympics in yachting, is past president of the International Sonar Class Association (23-foot racing keelboat), currently manages LISOT.org and is active in local government in Darien, Connecticut. Krista Ruhe >>> Krista Ruhe is Vice President, Edelman Change and Employee Engagement, New York. Krista has over 10 years experience in employee engagement, reputation management, executive communications, and corporate positioning counsel. Her current and recent employee engagement clients include Mars, Coca-Cola Enterprises, Shell North America, GE Healthcare, AstraZeneca, Argo Group, Societe Generale and MeadWestVaco. Krista began her career at Smith Barney/Citigroup where she was a domestic equity trader. Prior to trading, she was an analyst in the capital markets training program where she gained experience in a variety of fixed income, derivative and equity products and services. Krista received the 2004 Public Relations Society of America Silver Anvil and the NY/IABC Award from Communications Excellence for the National Financial Partners IPO communications program. In 2003 she was a finalist for the Gold Saber for a philanthropic program on behalf of ACE Limited. In 2005 and 2006 she received internal agency professional achievement awards for “Best Employee Communications Program” and “Best 360 Degree Program.”  Krista is a graduate of Franklin & Marshall College, where she was a Dean’s list student and member of the Black Pyramid Senior Honor Society. After graduating from F&M, Krista attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art on scholarship.  Michael Cherenson >>> Michael Cherenson APR is Executive Vice President at Success Communications Group.  In 2007, Michael Cherenson was named Chair-elect of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), the world's largest organization for public relations professionals, with more than 32,000 members, 109 Chapters nationwide, and 19 Professional Interest Sections. Cherenson will assume the role of PRSA Chair and CEO in 2009.  Prior to his election, he served as PRSA Secretary and was a three-year member of the organization's Board of Directors. Cherenson's expertise extends to all disciplines of public relations, including corporate, marketing, internal and crisis communication, government relations, event management, and interactive public relations. At Success Communications Group, he serves as the senior public relations counselor and strategist, and is involved with all public relations activities for the firms' diverse clientele. An 18-year industry veteran and the author of three studies on the impact of reputation, Cherenson is Accredited in Public Relations (APR) by the Universal Accreditation Board and holds an Advanced Certification in Political Management from the Graduate School of Political Management (GSPM) at George Washington University, Washington, DC. During his tenure on the PRSA Board of Directors, Cherenson served as chair of the PRSA Advocacy Advisory Board, liaison to the Board of Professional Ethics and Standards and the Public Relations Student Society of America, and co-authored a PRSA study on MBA Programs and their communication curricula. In 2005, Cherenson represented PRSA and the U.S. State Department and its Bureau of International Information Programs on a mission to Croatia, where he served as a keynote speaker at the 6th Annual Croatian Public Relations Association Conference. An advisory board member to the University of Florida's Department of Public Relations and Fairleigh Dickinson University's Corporate and Organizational Communication Department, he is past president of the NJ Chapter of the PRSA, which honored him with its Service Award in 2002. Cherenson is a graduate of Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY.  Sharon Wamble-King >>> Sharon Wamble-King is Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida’s (BCBSF) vice president, corporate communications.  In this role, Wamble-King provides executive leadership for public relations and corporate communications. Prior to joining BCBSF in December 2006, Wamble-King served as vice president of communication strategy and internal communication for Aetna.  Throughout her career, Wamble-King has held leadership positions for several large, complex and global organizations.  She served as principal for Strategix Management Consulting in Castro Valley, Calif.; business consultant for Arthur Andersen, LLP, in San Francisco, Calif.; change communication consultant for William M. Mercer in San Francisco, Calif.; and executive staff and director for Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, Calif.  Wamble-King also held positions at Blue Cross of California. During her career, Wamble-King has been active in community and professional organizations.  She serves on the boards of WJCT, Public Broadcasting in Jacksonville and the Black Recruiters Network. She also is a member of the Council for Communications Management, Public Relations Society of America, Society for Human Resource Management and the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC).   She also has served as an international executive board member for IABC and trustee of the IABC Research Foundation. Wamble-King holds a Bachelor of Science in Communication Arts and Sociology from the University of the Pacific and a Master of Science in Mass Communication from the California State University.  Kit Stinson >>> Kit Stinson is vice president, Internal Communication, for Avaya Inc., a global, privately held $5 billion enterprise communications technology and services company headquartered in New Jersey.  In her eight years with Avaya, she has led the company’s 18,000 employees through its spinoff from Lucent Technologies and subsequent launch as a public company, and through its going-private transaction seven years later.  Along the way – through both lean financial years and spectacularly successful ones – she drove communication and engagement initiatives supporting acquisitions and divestitures, executive changes, outsourcing, insourcing, “offshoring,” internal brand definition, business strategy articulation … in short, to paraphrase Hamlet, the thousand natural shocks that corporate flesh is heir to.  Before joining Avaya, Kit was Senior Speechwriter at Fidelity Investments in Boston, the first professional speechwriter in the firm’s 50+-year history.  Her career began at AT&T, where she spent 15 years in roles of increasing responsibility at corporate headquarters and several divisions including Bell Laboratories.  Her AT&T accountabilities included employee communication, media relations, community relations and executive speechwriting.  Kit is a member of The Conference Board, the Melcrum Forum and the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC).   She holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in English and French from Brown University. Lee Hornick >>> Lee Hornick has been producing corporate communication, corporate image, and branding conferences and workshops for the Conference Board in the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia since 1989. He has covered issues and topics that include: employee communication, technology, issues management, strategic communication planning, communicating employee benefits, financial relations, reputation management, marketing communication, audits and measurement, and crisis management.   Mr. Hornick also produces and moderates webcasts and podcasts for The Conference Board. He is the founder and president of Business Communications Worldwide, Inc. A firm he started in 1988 that consults with Fortune 500 companies on communication issues and management. Prior to this, he was a senior communication director and executive speech writer for eight years with the J.C. Penney Company in the New York headquarters. Before launching his corporate career, he was a script editor for the award-winning television soap operas  “As the World Turns” and “Another World.”   Mr. Hornick has served as president of the New York chapter of IABC, district director of IABC U.S. District 1, served as a trustee of the IABC Research Foundation, and served on the IABC international executive board. He has received numerous awards and recognition for communication excellence including the IABC Chairman’s Award and the IABC Research Foundation Lifetime Friends Award. Over the years, he has been published in various business journals and magazines. He is a graduate of City College of New York and received his business degree from New York University.  Bob Garcia >>> Bob Garcia brings to client engagements over 20 years of industry and higher education experience in Human Resources, Leadership Development, Talent Management, Organizational Effectiveness, Training and Executive Coaching.  He has expertise in HR Transformation, Integration and Strategic Planning.  Bob applies his experience in building strong partnerships with client Executive Teams, HR organizations, Organizational Development departments, and operations leaders. Bob is a bi-lingual (English/Spanish) Human Resources and Organizational Capabilities executive who has successfully led a Human Resources Center of Excellence, designed and delivered a best-in-class Corporate University, developed a sustaining Talent Management process, designed and delivered Leadership Development programs and as a member of the management team, successfully negotiated a six-year union contract.   He is a knowledgeable and experienced leader whose skills include Global Human Resources Training Design and Delivery, Performance Management, Strategic Staffing, Succession Planning and Union Negotiations. With a home base in Chicago, Illinois, Bob has extensive global work experiences and has come to understand the multi-cultural impact on communities, organizations and individuals.  He brings cultural awareness, sensitivity and knowledge to Gagen MacDonald's work with multinational companies. During his career, Bob has had the privilege of working for United Airlines, Tenneco Packaging, International Truck & Engine Corp., Kohler Co, Stanford University and California State University Fullerton. Bob has strong commitment to his community and has worked with a number of local and national organizations including:  American Management Association - National Training Council; Chief Learning Officer Journal - Business Intelligence Board; College of DuPage Foundation, Board of Trustees; DuPage Metropolitan Family Services, Board of Directors; Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement, Board of Directors; Lakeshore Area Business and Education Consortium, Board Chairman.; Training Magazine, Editorial Board. Michael B Goodman >>> Michael B. Goodman, Ph.D. is Professor and Director of the MA in Corporate Communication at Baruch College, The City University of New York. He is the founder and director of CCI Corporate Communication International. He is Adjunct Professor of Corporate Communication at Fairleigh Dickinson University, where he was professor and director of the Graduate Programs in Corporate and Organizational Communication. He is Visiting Professor of Corporate Communication at Aarhrus School of Business (Denmark), Bangkok University, and Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Before coming to Fairleigh Dickinson University, he directed the graduate and undergraduate business communication programs at Northeastern University in Boston, and he has taught business communication courses at New York University, New York Institute of Technology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, and SUNY at Stony Brook. He is the founder and director of the Conference on Corporate Communication. Michael has published widely, including: Corporate Communication for Executives; Work with Anyone Anywhere: A Guide to Global Business, Working in a Global Environment: Understanding, Communicating, and Managing Transnationally; Corporate Communication: Theory and Practice; Write to the Point: Effective Communication in the Workplace; “Corporate Communication” in Wiley Encyclopedia of EE; a section on consulting in the Handbook of Executive Communication; “Today’s Corporate Communication Function” in Handbook of Corporate Communication and Public Relations.  He has edited a Special Issue of the Journal of Business Strategy on “The Role of Business in Public Diplomacy.”  He is at work on “Corporate Communication” and “While You Were Looking the Other Way—Forces Redefining Corporate Communication Strategy.”  He is on the Editorial Advisory Board and Associate Editor for North America of Corporate Communication (UK), and for ten years was Associate Editor for Corporate and Organizational Communication of the IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication.  He has presented numerous scholarly papers at international conferences.  Courtney M. Barnes  >>> Courtney M. Barnes is the Editor of PR News, where she manages editorial content and writes on corporate communications and public relations, with particular expertise digital communications, integration and leadership/management issues. She also edited the PR News 100 Top Case Studies Guidebook and the Digital PR Guidebook. In addition to her writing and editing responsibilities, Barnes moderates PR News Webinars, facilitates the brand’s Thought Leaders Strategic Integration Roundtables, and speaks at industry events. Barnes is currently the co-editor of PR News’ sister publication, min magazine, which is an annual publication that highlights the 21 Most Intriguing people in the publishing industry. Prior to joining PR News as Editor, Barnes was an associate with Communications Consulting Worldwide, a measurement-based consultancy affiliated with Fleishman-Hillard. She has also worked for Condé Nast Traveler and Washingtonian magazines. Barnes graduated from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism with a B.S. in journalism and a B.A. in Middle Eastern Studies. Have an idea for a topic or speaker you'd like to see included in this conference? Would you like to present or be a sponsor at the conference? Please contact us.