People, Culture and Internal Communications (HR)

Maksim is widely recognized as a thought leader and as an innovative strategist in the area of Human Capital Management. He is a frequent speaker and has published numerous articles related to next generation thinking in the areas of People Management, Human Capital Management, Social Networking and Collaboration. Maksim holds a Bachelors Degree in Economics from Stanford University, a Master's of Science Degree in Engineering Management from Santa Clara University and an MBA from the Leavy School of Business at Santa Clara University. As an innovative product evangelist in the software industry, Maksim has a passion for making social software business relevant, and an aspiration for beautifully simple SaaS products. Maksim is currently the VP of Product Management at Rypple, social performance management platform built for the way we work today. His past roles included product management and product strategy positions at Zendesk, IBM, ADP and Saba.

Lisa Bonner is the Assistant Vice-President of Contemporary Work Practices. She is responsible for establishing policies and practices to further establish and promote The Hartford as a contemporary, competitive employer of choice. Lisa’s initiatives include expanding Flexible Work/Remote Work Arrangements and acting as an HR advocate for social media/collaboration tools by promoting understanding and piloting/modeling their application. Furthermore, Lisa actively partners with the Employee Resource Groups to attract and cultivate diverse talent, expand market share and tap into emerging markets.

Lisa joined The Hartford in 2005 with a leading role in ClaimNet, spearheading cost containment initiatives within P&C Claims Legal. Between 2006-2008, she led Corporate Support Services and then Workplace Operations in The Hartford’s Corporate Real Estate organization, with accountability of enterprise facilities management, capital projects, mail operations, food service, furniture acquisition, and move management. Lisa transitioned to Human Resources at the end of 2008 to lead Contemporary Work Practices.

Prior to joining The Hartford, Lisa served as chief operating officer of Stanpak Systems, an established niche software company. There she directed overall operations, including strategic planning; sales and marketing; customer service; quality; process improvement; and the company’s P&L. With over 20 years of business experience, Lisa is a seasoned professional who has had diverse experiences, including directing a physician hospital organization, and leading sales and marketing in health care and biotech environments. She has been recognized for her skills in effective relationship building, multi-generations in the workplace, social media/collaboration tools, remote work and leadership.

Lisa holds a Bachelors of Arts from Wellesley College in molecular biology. Lisa ‘models the way’ for work life balance as she is also the proud mother of very active, 13 year-old twin boys.

Casey Burns serves as Special Advisor to Administrator Martha Johnson of the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA). Casey advises GSA leadership on the use of innovative technologies and practices as a lever to improve productivity, performance, and engagement across the organization. He currently leads the design and implementation of GSA’s enterprise digital strategy and collaboration initiatives, which focus on making work more efficient, more effective, and more enjoyable.

Casey brings a unique perspective from before joining GSA, where he led strategy and risk management consulting projects for the Federal, state, and local governments. He specialized in translating quantitative risk management principles and assessments into tangible, actionable strategies and lessons. He earned his Master of Arts in War Studies from King’s College in London, and his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the New College of Florida.

With a unique background in areas such as design, communications and adoption, Sandee credits her ability to think creatively while having a deep understanding of technology to her parents - an artist and engineer. She believes this has allowed her left-brain and right-brain skills to truly converge, bringing a bit of warmth to her work while implementing innovative social solutions. Sandee joined Bank of America 6 years ago and is currently focused on promoting the benefits and rewards of employee-facing enterprise social collaboration, while reducing risk to the organization. Sandee has a BA in Art and Education from the College of St. Elizabeth, and has also studied at Duke University (Fuqua School of Business), as part of the “Connecting Disciplines” program.

Prior to joining the Bank, Sandee worked for Kraft Foods, Nabisco and Coca-Cola - bringing her passion for business productivity and organizational change to many large messaging, communication and collaboration efforts, enabling a more “connected enterprise”.

Stew leads the Knowledge Management initiatives for The Aerospace Corporation; a 4000 employee Federally Funded Research and Development Center headquartered in Los Angeles, CA. He has initiated multiple strategic initiatives addressing workforce collaboration and knowledge stewardship as well as ongoing technology innovation with current focus on mobile (tablet) computing and collaboration.

Stew initiated corporate blogs, wikis (a corppedia and early stage social platforms in 2005
before the buzz. Today that mix of information technology is morphing again as the emphasis on social computing intersects with increasingly demanding enterprise security requirements and ongoing concerns surrounding attention management within the enterprise.

Stew has worked for The Aerospace Corporation for more than 20 years and with prior affiliations with Ford Aerospace, SAIC, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, and a number of dot-com startups, he has a total of 30 years experience in product development, project management, and consulting of modern information technology solutions. He also maintains an active research position at the University of California Irvine’s Bren School of Information and Computer Science. Stew has a B.S. in Electro-Optical Sciences and a M.S. in Computer Systems Engineering from The University of Houston.

Felicia has over 10 years as a collaboration and social media specialist at Cisco, leading numerous strategy and deployment efforts within IT and Corporate Communications. She is currently managing a program to define the future of business by creating a dynamic networked organization, realized through activities focused on process, culture and technology change. She created a Collaboration Consortium of international organizations in 2008 that discusses learnings, best practices and the benefits of collaboration and Web2.0.

Felicia co-authored the report “Making Collaboration a Reality” published by the Collaboration Consortium in February 2010, which describes how members used a collaboration framework to develop collaboration strategies and capture business value. She also co-authored the book “The Power of IP Video” published by Cisco Press in December 2008, which describes transformational opportunities available through the application of video. She holds a BComm (MIS) from Memorial University of Newfoundland, and a Masters in Project Management from the University of Quebec.