Conference Overview

Chris Morace joined Jive Software in October 2007 to lead its Social Business Software product strategy, and oversees product management and product marketing. He brings with him a 15 year track record for building high-growth, high-value businesses in the technology sector. Prior to joining Jive Software, Chris held executive positions at Sindhara, an innovator in next generation digital media; Awaken, a startup focused on enabling the consumer transition to digital audio; Mercury, the global leader in business technology optimization (acquired by Hewlett-Packard); and Kintana, an IT governance software company (acquired by Mercury Interactive). He began his career architecting supply chain solutions and facilitating enterprise change management with Price Waterhouse for companies such as Cisco, Western Digital, and Xerox.

Chris holds a B.S. in Biological Sciences from Stanford University with Honors in Humanities. He currently lives the Bay Area with his wife and children.

Christian and his team lead Microsoft’s vision, business strategy, and global marketing efforts for collaboration, enterprise social computing, content management, and portal technologies for Microsoft SharePoint 2010. Christian is the executive sponsor of the influential FastForward blog (www.fastforwardblog.com). He frequently speaks with customers and industry groups on Enterprise 2.0 topics and is the primary spokesperson for Microsoft in this market with press and analysts as well. A 12 year Microsoft veteran, Christian has a wide range of experience in as a consultant, developer, marketer, and salesperson for collaboration and learning solutions. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard University.

Christopher Lamb has over 20 years experience in the IT industry include roles as a developer, system engineer, project management, consulting, and marketing with large and small firms. A common thread throughout his career has been the application of new technology to help companies grow and gain competitive advantage. Currently, Chris is Program Director, IBM Social Software. He is responsible for the overall strategy, market success and roadmap for Lotus Connections.

Prior to Lotus Connections, Chris was responsible for IBM WebSphere Portal, which quickly become the industry’s leading portal software 9 years ago and maintains that position today. Chris is an alumni of Duke University, where he earned B.S degree in electrical engineering and a MBA from Fuqua School of Business.

Ron is the cofounder Chairman and CEO of Kaltura, Inc (www.kaltura.com), the most widely used online video platform in the market, powering over 100,000 publishers and service providers globally. As the first and only open-source video platform, Kaltura is disrupting its market in similar ways that Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP have disrupted theirs. Ron is a serial technology entrepreneur, starting and leading companies in Israel, US, and Canada in the fields of Internet, mobile applications, and security. Previous ventures include Destinator Technologies, Paradigm Advanced Technologies, and VisualGate Systems. A former helicopter pilot, Ron enjoys extreme travel and sports. He holds an MBA with honors from the Wharton School of Business.

Andy Howard has over 15 years of experience in IP Video, Networking, Software, and Internet Security. As Senior Director of Product Management at VBrick Systems, Andy directs VBrick's Business Development, Product Strategy, and Go-To-Market efforts. Andy has been at the forefront of the digital video industry since it began, pioneering the development of the industry's first streaming media caching appliance in the late 1990's, while holding Product Management and Marketing positions at CacheFlow (now Bluecoat) and Novell. Andy received a bachelor's degree cum laude in economics from Harvard University and an MBA with Distinction from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. Andy Howard has over 15 years of experience in IP Video, Networking, Software, and Internet Security. As Senior Director of Product Management at VBrick Systems, Andy directs VBrick's Business Development, Product Strategy, and Go-To-Market efforts. Andy has been at the forefront of the digital video industry since it began, pioneering the development of the industry's first streaming media caching appliance in the late 1990's, while holding Product Management and Marketing positions at CacheFlow (now Bluecoat) and Novell. Andy received a bachelor's degree cum laude in economics from and an MBA with Distinction from the Ross School of Business at the .

Jim Lundy is the vice president and general manager of collaboration at Saba. He is responsible for driving the strategy and global execution of Saba’s collaboration offerings. Lundy brings over 27 years of experience in both product vision and delivery execution.

Most recently, Lundy was the managing vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner. While at Gartner, he formed and led the Social Software and Collaboration team that focused on email, instant messaging, Web conferencing, social software, and team collaboration. Lundy also served as lead analyst on corporate learning and enterprise content management for a number of years.

Prior to joining Gartner, Lundy spent 15 years at Xerox in a variety of sales, marketing, and management positions in both hardware and software business units.

Lundy has a B.S. in Finance from Penn State University.

As co-founder and CEO of Central Desktop, Isaac oversees business strategy and sales for the company. Isaac has a proven record in both early-stage technology companies and enterprise sales & marketing. He started his technology career in 1996 as the first sales rep at Quote Desk Software, which was later acquired by CNET Networks, Inc. in 2000. As a founding partner at Upgradebase, Isaac served as Vice President of Sales & Marketing where he oversaw all business development and sales for the company. During his 3 year tenure at CNET, Isaac served as a Director of North America Enterprise Sales for CNET Channel. As Director, he was responsible for the acquisition, sales and management of global partnerships with Microsoft, Google, eBay, Yahoo! and Best Buy. Isaac led and managed CNET's global partnership with Microsoft to launch the Windows Marketplace campaign in 14 countries, Microsoft’s largest sales and marketing campaign at the time. Isaac received a BA in English from Ambassador University and attended the University of Northern Colorado Graduate School where he studied English Literature for a Master of Arts.

John Pavolotsky is a member of the firm’s Intellectual Property and Technology practice group. John’s practice focuses on technology transactions and other intellectual property matters. Prior to joining GT, John was Corporate Counsel of SugarCRM Inc. and General Counsel of Fourth Dimension Software. Prior to earning his law degree, John worked as a Research Associate at the University of California, San Francisco. John’s industry experience includes travel automation, customer relationship management, commercial open source, and pharmaceutical research.

David Rowe is the CEO of NetVision, a privately funded company providing compliance and control solutions for enterprise access auditing. David is an experienced IT Security and Management entrepreneur having worked with startups like Imperva, Cerberian, PS’Soft, Doyenz and Avinti as director, advisor and executive; raising over $50M growing, launching and re-launching companies. David was the Chief Marketing Officer for Trend Micro from 2001 to 2004 accountable for strategy, marketing, product management, business and channel development for the global company during a period of growth from $300M to $600M. Mr. Rowe spent twelve years at Intel as a business unit manager and director of marketing, products and business development, in the U.S., Japan, Europe and Israel. Mr. Rowe holds an MBA from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.

As Vice President of Corporate Marketing, John Burnham has senior management responsibility at Q1 Labs for all of the company's strategic branding, positioning, corporate communications, media, and analyst relations initiatives, and for helping to create and deliver the firm's core messages to the network security management market and beyond.

He joined the company in July 2008, and has more than 20 years of extensive technology marketing, branding, and communications experience gained at various established networking firms and start-ups alike, including: Brix Networks, Juniper/Unisphere, Motorola/C-Port, Bay Networks/New Oak Communications, and Cabletron Systems, among others.

Burnham earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Xavier University in Cincinnati.

Ellen has worked in IT corps as an independent consultant for over 15 years, in addition to a few lures into employee-dom. In 2009, her focus was as a solutions designer and account executive for CustomWare, an active services partner to the ever-popular Atlassian Enterprise SW products. In this role working with many enterprise customers, coupled with her past work efforts in over 30 corporate environments, she understands well with first-hand trenches experience about E2.0 challenges -- too many disparate systems, knowledge management and collaboration issues, lost visibilities and politics with email, slowed innovation with too much bureaucracy, and much more -- causing endless business challenges in organizations.

Enterprise 2.0 themes are second-hand to her. She is passionate not just about the organizational management and adoption challenges, but also the pragmatic systems level requirements.

Shawn Shell is the founder and Principal consultant at Consejo, Inc., a firm specializing in the development of information worker solutions. Shawn has spent more than twenty years in the information technology field. He has a broad range of experience, from help desk management to consulting practice management. He brings both the tactical experience of an inside IT professional, with the broad, strategic experience of a senior consultant.

For the last ten years, Shawn has concentrated on the development of content management solutions using primarily Microsoft technologies, including SharePoint, Office, Groove, Content Management Server, Live Communication Server and ASP.NET. Prior to founding Consejo, Shawn held various management roles at Dell, Inc. Shawn is a also a contributing analyst on SharePoint for The Real Story Group.

Lynda Tyler founded Tyler Cagni Consulting after gaining deep experience in Organization Transformation, Human Resources and Marketing spanning the Chemicals, Automotive and Consumer Goods sectors before moving into the Luxury arena.

Tyler Cagni is a consulting practice that helps organizations to realize the immense benefits of the social media revolution by successfully designing and implementing change programs to gain the enormous power of connecting and engaging their people. It specializes in the luxury, retail, and fashion sector and works internationally from a base in the Italian part of Switzerland.

Lynda’s international career path has led her to live in several countries where she worked for Fortune 500 Companies. She spent 10 years as part of the global leadership team of Italian luxury menswear brand Ermenegildo Zegna. During her time with Zegna, Lynda played a key role in the transformation of the organization into a luxury retailer with over 500 boutiques worldwide and a leading presence in China and other emerging markets.

Matt Tucker, co-founder and CTO, is responsible for the long-term technical and strategic direction of Jive's products. Along with Bill Lynch, Matt founded Jive Software in 2001 and has helped build the company from just two people to where it is today. Matt is an active member in open standards communities including having served on the board of the XMPP Standards Foundation.

Prior to Jive, Matt worked as a software engineer at an internet startup in San Francisco called 4charity.

Matt holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Iowa.

Andy Fox is the creative force behind Novell’s breakout collaboration initiative that delivers the first real-time collaboration and social business environment for enterprises.

Prior to joining Novell, Fox founded, led and sold several companies in collaboration, telecommunications and networking. He served as CTO of SiteScape, a web-based team collaboration pioneer that had acquired Imidio, a real-time collaboration products company that Fox founded. Fox was also instrumental in working with Novell through its acquisition of SiteScape.

Prior to Imidio and SiteScape, Fox founded iConverse.com, which served the wireless networking marketplace. In his role as chairman and CEO of iConverse.com, Fox was named 2001 Entrepreneur of the Year by MIMC (Massachusetts Interactive Medial Council) and later sold the company to Infoclarus in 2003.

In the 1990s, Fox founded and led Cereva Networks, an Internet-related storage area network company; Northeast Telecommunications; and Technically Speaking Inc., a leader in call center and voice response applications and servers, which was acquired by Brooktrout Technology in 1996.

Adina Levin is Vice President of Products & Co-founder of Socialtext. She has over 13 years of experience in strategic marketing and product planning in a variety of emerging high-tech markets. At Vignette Corporation, a leading provider of Internet content management software, Levin served as Senior Director of Corporate Strategy, a role that included product strategy and planning, marketing strategy and operations, and management consulting in the areas of mergers, acquisitions, and distribution.Prior to Vignette, Levin was co-founder and partner in Fastwater LLP, a research and consulting firm focusing on ebusiness marketing and metrics. Prior to Fastwater, Levin served as senior consultant in the Document Software Strategies group at CAP Ventures, where she specialized in emerging Internet collaboration and publishing. At CAP Ventures, Levin also managed a major multi-client study on the Future of Paper analyzing the ways that electronic media will transform the ways that business and individuals use paper and print. Before joining CAP Ventures, Levin tracked the markets for traditional and digital publishing for seven years at BIS Strategic Decisions where she designed, managed, and authored numerous market research studies.

Providing the creative vision for Socialcast and its technology, Timothy brings nearly a decade of web development experience and over 8 years of entrepreneurship to the company. His prior venture, Event Robot, developed online communities for consumer-facing brands in the entertainment industry. Timothy's interests include emergent processes and behaviors, flock theory, connectionism, and collective intelligence, all of which are integrated into the Socialcast product. He regularly speaks about social networking and collaboration at industry conferences and guest teaches at the University of California, Irvine.

Eugene Lee is the Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors at Socialtext. Lee assumes day-to-day management and operational control over all aspects of Socialtext's business, including driving product direction and development, strategic alliances, and scaling the sales, marketing and support organizations globally. Lee comes to Socialtext from Adobe Systems, where he led Adobe's enterprise marketing and vertical market segments. Previously, he held several executive leadership roles at Cisco Systems, ranging from Vice President (VP) Worldwide Small/Medium Business Marketing to VP Worldwide Enterprise Marketing. Lee also held key management positions at Banyan Systems, including General Manager for the messaging business unit. He was co-founder of Beyond Inc., developers of the award-winning BeyondMail product, and holds four patents in messaging, workflow and privacy technologies. Lee has a B.A. in Physics and B.S. in Engineering and Computer Science from Harvard College and an MBA from M.I.T. Sloan School of Management.

Brian Kellner is responsible for overall product management and the consumer business segment of NewsGator. He has held product or development management positions for more than a dozen years.

Most recently he was vice president of enterprise products for Webroot Software. He was responsible for product management teams and for taking new enterprise products from launch to millions in monthly revenue within six months.

Kellner earned a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a master’s degree in management from Colorado Tech.

Brian is a Senior Engineer at Rhomobile, father of two and quintessential hacker. Brian's began coding at the age of 12. His early love for everything technology led to a job with Apple shortly after high school. Since that time Brian has worked at a series of start-ups and tech companies taking on interesting technical challenges. Brian has become the technical face of Rhomobile as he leads the Rhodes community in the latest Rhomobile innovation during the weekly webinar. When not guiding the next generation of Rhodes developers or hacking on a new debugger, Brian can be found climbing a hill in a remote Southern California desert in his Baja bug.

Mr. Pejman Roshan is the Sr. Director of Product Line Management for Mobility at ShoreTel. Prior to ShoreTel’s acquisition of Agito Networks, Mr. Roshan was the Chief Marketing Officer and co-founder of Agito Networks. He brings more than 16 years of wireless expertise and an extensive track record to the company.

Prior to founding Agito, Mr. Roshan was Product Line Manager in the Cisco Systems Wireless Networking Business Unit, responsible for software, security, voice and WLAN management products. Roshan joined Cisco’s Wireless Networking Business Unit just after its acquisition of Aironet in 2000, helping drive Cisco into its wireless market leadership position.

Prior to his product role at Cisco, Mr. Roshan spent eight years as a network engineer and architect. Mr. Roshan designed and deployed large-scale networks for companies such as Cisco Systems and Automatic Data Processing (ADP).

Mr. Roshan’s accomplishments include participation in the IEEE 802.11 task groups responsible for security (802.11i) and QoS (802.11e); co-authoring the Cisco Press book ‘802.11 Wireless LAN Fundamentals’, published by Cisco Systems in 2004; as well as publishing numerous wireless security and wireless voice white papers.

Mr. Roshan earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from California Polytechnic (Cal Poly) University.

Adriel Hampton is a passionate advocate for harnessing emerging technologies to make government more effective, collaborative and transparent. He is an early Gov 2.0 adopter and co-founded the popular public interest podcast Gov 2.0 Radio, which has featured guest such as Tim O’Reilly, New York Senate CIO Andrew Hoppin, State Department social media expert Lovisa Williams, Craig Newmark, and EPA Web communications director Jeffrey Levy. In addition to producing the weekly show, Adriel is a community leader at GovLoop.com, the social network for government, and group manager for the LinkedIn Gov 2.0 group and its more than 4,000 members.

“Since creating GovLoop, I’ve met thousands of government employees across the world that have inspired me,” says GovLoop’s Steve Ressler. “Adriel is one of the best.”

Since 2003, Adriel has worked as an investigator for the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office, where he has led high profile investigations including: a probe into a group of rogue City electricians; inquiry into a fatal tiger mauling at the SF Zoo, and; failure analysis and litigation defense following a 40,000 gallon diesel fuel leak. He also brought the office into the Web 2.0 world in early 2009, launching the @SFCityAttorney Twitter account and growing it to more than 4,000 followers and a perfect Twitter Grader score of 100. Adriel also launched the City Attorney’s official Flickr account.

In 2009, Adriel advanced Gov 2.0 ideals in a run for Congress in the SF East Bay. His campaign – the first to launch on Twitter – generated national media attention in publications including Politico, the National Journal, and The Chickasaw Times.

Adriel began his career in San Francisco as a design and editorial manager for the new San Francisco Examiner, where he served a front page editor, City Editor, and Political Editor. At the Examiner, Adriel launched the paper’s first blog, a supplement to his political column, The Body Politic. He has also served as an editor and manager for the Bay Area Newspaper Group, the Lodi-News Sentinel, and the San Joaquin Delta College Impact, where, as editor-in-chief, he led a 30-member student staff in transforming the weekly paper into an award-winning tabloid. He began his career in the public interest at 17 as a clerk for the Calaveras County District Attorney’s Office.

Peter Slutsky is a Strategic Relationships Manager at Ning (www.ning.com). Before joining Ning, he served as the Communications Director at Progressive Strategies, LLC, a Washington, DC consulting firm specializing in new media, communications strategy and using social media tools to promote campaigns and projects aimed at building the progressive movement. Before joining Progressive Strategies, Peter worked at various non-profit/humanitarian groups, including the Save Darfur Coalition. Peter is co-founder and CEO of DoubleSpeak Media, a company that specializes in producing media projects, including podcasts, video and documentary film. DoubleSpeak Media is in the midst of producing a documentary film focused on the 2008 Democratic National Convention called "The Delegates." The film is set for release in 2012. Peter is a contributor to the Huffington Post and can be seen on MSNBC discussing online politics, blogging and giving analysis to the major political stories of the day. You can read more about Peter's work at www.DoubleSpeakMedia.com.

Rita J. King is Founder and Creative Director of Dancing Ink Productions, a company dedicated to a new global culture and economy in the Imagination Age. She is Security Futurist at the Aspen Institute and Innovator-in-Residence at IBM Virtual Analytics Center, a Senior Fellow for Social Networking and Immersive Technologies at the Center for the Study of the Presidency & Congress, and a former Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs.

During her time at the Carnegie Council, along with Joshua S. Fouts, she co-directed the “Understanding Islam through Virtual Worlds” project that spanned four continents as well as the digital culture to highlight how people around the world create new identities and communities to explore complex local and global issues in unprecedented ways.

Rita works globally as a mixed-reality architect, collaborating with NGOs, multiple top universities, think-tanks, not-for-profits, governments and Fortune 100 companies to develop strategic plans for taking ideas and making them real. She is an artist, adventurer and entrepreneur who can be followed on Twitter at @ritajking.

Guy Martin is a Community Management & Strategic Consultant at CollabNet. In addition to helping customers build collaborative communities using Open Source best practices, he provides high-level strategic guidance in the cultural & organizational changes necessary to best take advantage of CollabNet's Agile ALM tools. He has over 15 years of experience in software engineering, technical marketing, and community management, and is a Certified Scrum Master (CSM). Prior to CollabNet, he helped develop collaborative communities for Motorola and Sun Microsystems.

Mr. Martin was awarded a Federal 100 award in 2010 by Federal Computer Week for his work on the Forge.mil project. He holds a BS in Computer Science from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, CA.

Michael Pace is the Director of Customer Support for Constant Contact’s award winning Customer Support Department and on the Board of Directors for the North East Contact Center Forum.

Giovanni Rodriguez is a noted innovator, author, and public speaker on organizational leadership and digital/social communications. He is chief marketing officer at BroadVision (Nasdaq: BVSN) -- one of the world’s leading innovators in enterprising social networking -- and is a co-founder of The Conversation Group, one of the first social technology consultancies. As a digital communications strategist, Giovanni has advised numerous B2B leaders such as The New York Stock Exchange, SAP, Alcatel-Lucent, and Verizon Business, as well as leading consumer brands such as General Mills, Unilever, Best Buy, and the Automobile Association of America (AAA). He is also known for his work in positioning technology companies in transition, including FAST Search and Transfer (now Microsoft), Ribbit (now British Telecom), JAJAH (now Telefonica), and VMware, where he worked with the team that led the company’s entry into the enterprise software market. Giovanni is a trustee at the Museum of Craft and Folk Art, a founding fellow at the Society of New Communications Research (SNCR), and a board member at Latinos for Social Media (LatISM). He is a graduate of Princeton University.

Deborah Schultz is a Partner with the Altimeter Group where she leads the Innovation and Design practice focused on bringing together the complete ecosystem of disruptive technologies for experimentation, active learning and real-world application. She is an Internet industry veteran and early open web advocate focused on the adoption and impact of the social web on culture, society & business. She has worked with and advised startups, Fortune 50s and VC’s on technology adoption. Most recently, she consulted with Procter & Gamble where she architected the P&G Social Media Lab to study the impact of the social web on customer relationships and the business benefits of “open innovation.” She continues as a member of P&G’s Digital Advisory Board. Previously, Deborah was a Director at Six Apart, ran her own technology consultancy firm, was a management consultant, and spent five years at Citibank where she developed many of the global bank’s first internet initiatives. One of her proudest accomplishments was launching the Downtown Info Center, a lower Manhattan community center & online hub to revitalize lower Manhattan after the attacks of September 11th.

The former Manhattanite is now a tireless road warrior and can be found in SF, NYC, or Tel Aviv. But wherever she is, she’s always ‘connected’.

Eran Barak is the Global Head of Community Strategy for the Thomson Reuters Sales & Trading Strategic Business Unit, where he leads the social media and community driven initiatives for the financial markets. Previously he led the marketing and strategy for Thomson Reuters Collaboration Services group, focused on providing an inter-company collaboration platform. Before joining Reuters in 2004, Eran was the Director for Corporate Development at CellGlide, a wireless telecommunication solutions provider. Prior to that Eran held VP Product Marketing and VP Marketing Operations positions at VocalTec Communications, the VoIP industry pioneer. Eran holds an Executive MBA from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University (Evanston, IL) and B.Sc. in Computer Science & Operations Research from Tel-Aviv University in Israel.

Jon Ingham has 20 years experience consulting in IT, change management and HR which includes working as an International HR Director for Ernst & Young. In 2005, Jon wrote a book on Strategic Human Capital Management (managing people for the creation of human capital / intangible capability) which describes some of the ways thatHR functions, line managers and business leaders can create competitive advantage through their people. However, this book’s focus on individuals sits somewhat at odds with Jon’s belief that the point of performance in most organisations has increasingly moved to teams, networks and communities.

Jon now focuses mainly on working with organisations to understand their requirements for social capital – the value of the connections, relationships and conversations taking place between their people. He helps his clients create this capability through the use of Enterprise 2.0 technologies, but also team based HR practices, community focused leadership, and aligned organisation design and development etc. He also helps develop scorecard based measurement frameworks incorporating social network analysis and other relevant techniques. Jon is currently finalising a new book focusing on these strategies for developing ‘Social Advantage’.

Ray is Director of Learning Systems and Services at NetApp, where he led a successful effort using Saba that resulted in $2M savings due to direct efficiency gains for NetApp in less than 2 years. Ray also led the effort to implement the analytics systems for NetApp University based on OBIEE, this empowered the learning organization and its stakeholders to have easy access to powerful dashboards and reports that show the effectiveness of training programs for employees, partners and customers, and how it impacts field productivity. Ray has been with NetApp since 2007. Prior to that, he held numerous technical leadership roles at HP.

Josh Bersin has worked with hundreds of companies to deliver high impact employee learning, leadership development and talent management. In 2001, he founded Bersin & Associates to provide research and advisory services focused on corporate learning. Today, the firm is the “go to” source for learning and HR decision makers seeking product and market data, insight on trends and expert advice on enterprise learning and talent management.

Bersin is a frequent speaker at industry events including the HR Technology Conference, the ASTD International Conference, and the Learning Technologies Conference. In addition, he has been a columnist since 2007 for Chief Learning Officer magazine and is a frequent contributor to other leading training and HR publications. He has been quoted on talent management topics in BusinessWeek, Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, on BBC Radio and National Public Radio.

In 2010, Bersin was named by HR Examiner magazine among the “Top 100 Influencers in HR” and the “Top 25 Online Influencers in Talent Management.” Bersin also serves on the editorial advisory board for Workforce Solutions magazine and as a volunteer on the scholarship committee for the SHRM Foundation.

He is the author of The Training Measurement Book: Best Practices, Proven Methodologies, and Practical Approaches (April 2008, Pfeiffer) and The Blended Learning Book: Best Practices, Proven Methodologies, and Lessons Learned (October 2004, Wylie/Pfeiffer).

Earlier in his career, Bersin spent 25 years in product development, product management, marketing and sales of e-learning and other enterprise technologies at companies including DigitalThink (now Convergys), Arista Knowledge Systems, Sybase, and IBM.

Josh Bersin has worked with hundreds of companies to deliver high impact employee learning, leadership development and talent management. In 2001, he founded Bersin & Associates to provide research and advisory services focused on corporate learning. Today, the firm is the “go to” source for learning and HR decision makers seeking product and market data, insight on trends and expert advice on enterprise learning and talent management.

Bersin is a frequent speaker at industry events including the HR Technology Conference, the ASTD International Conference, and the Learning Technologies Conference. In addition, he has been a columnist since 2007 for Chief Learning Officer magazine and is a frequent contributor to other leading training and HR publications. He has been quoted on talent management topics in BusinessWeek, Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, on BBC Radio and National Public Radio.

In 2010, Bersin was named by HR Examiner magazine among the “Top 100 Influencers in HR” and the “Top 25 Online Influencers in Talent Management.” Bersin also serves on the editorial advisory board for Workforce Solutions magazine and as a volunteer on the scholarship committee for the SHRM Foundation.

He is the author of The Training Measurement Book: Best Practices, Proven Methodologies, and Practical Approaches (April 2008, Pfeiffer) and The Blended Learning Book: Best Practices, Proven Methodologies, and Lessons Learned (October 2004, Wylie/Pfeiffer).

Earlier in his career, Bersin spent 25 years in product development, product management, marketing and sales of e-learning and other enterprise technologies at companies including DigitalThink (now Convergys), Arista Knowledge Systems, Sybase, and IBM.

Michelle Johnston, CPP’s Regional Consultant for the Midwest, is an industrial and organizational consultant with experience in both internal and external consulting roles and expertise in executive coaching, individual and organizational assessment, selection, training and development, work force planning and talent management. She leverages her extensive experience to help her clients meet their needs in a new era of globalization and economic challenges.

Johnston has particular expertise in assessment administration, interpretation and diagnosis, and much of her previous work has been in the financial industry.

Prior to CPP, Johnston was a consultant at DRI Consulting in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she specialized in leadership and organizational development, team building, search and selection, strategic planning, executive coaching, individual and organizational assessments, surveys, and other HR-related functions. Johnston holds a Master’s degree in clinical psychology from Capella University, where she is currently completing her PhD in industrial and organizational psychology. She also holds Bachelor’s degrees in psychology and biology from Augsburg College.

Jon Ingham has 20 years experience consulting in IT, change management and HR which includes working as an International HR Director for Ernst & Young. In 2005, Jon wrote a book on Strategic Human Capital Management (managing people for the creation of human capital / intangible capability) which describes some of the ways thatHR functions, line managers and business leaders can create competitive advantage through their people. However, this book’s focus on individuals sits somewhat at odds with Jon’s belief that the point of performance in most organisations has increasingly moved to teams, networks and communities.

Jon now focuses mainly on working with organisations to understand their requirements for social capital – the value of the connections, relationships and conversations taking place between their people. He helps his clients create this capability through the use of Enterprise 2.0 technologies, but also team based HR practices, community focused leadership, and aligned organisation design and development etc. He also helps develop scorecard based measurement frameworks incorporating social network analysis and other relevant techniques. Jon is currently finalising a new book focusing on these strategies for developing ‘Social Advantage’.

Dan Portillo is VP of Organizational Development at Rypple where he is focused on customer success. Previously Dan was on the executive team at Mozilla where he lead Recruiting and HR. He served as an advisor to Rypple before joining full-time. He has been working with successful technology companies for over a decade. He studied Economics at UCLA and lives in San Francisco with his fiancée.

Leighanne Levensaler is responsible for setting the strategic direction for Workday’s Human Capital Management solutions and will also participate in guiding the company’s overarching product strategy.

Prior to joining Workday, Leighanne served as a Principal Analyst and Director of Talent Management Research at Bersin & Associates.

Leighanne has more than a decade of experience working with Fortune 1000 companies to develop learning and performance strategies and design and implement integrated talent development solutions. Prior to joining Bersin & Associates, she led the Learning Consulting Practice at SystemLink Enterprise Solutions. Leighanne has also held positions at SmartForce, Edutrek International/AUI and Deloitte Consulting.

Leighanne holds an MBA from The University of Georgia, a master's degree in Human Resource Development from Georgia State University, and a bachelor’s degree in education from Clemson University. She is a frequent presenter at leading industry events and a regular contributor to a number of HR and Talent Management publications.