Our Faculty
Kevin Wheeler [ conference founder and lead ]
Eileen Clegg :: Jay Cross :: Susan Burns [ Executive Director ] :: Chris Schoch :: Eilif Trondsen
Kevin Wheeler is the initiator of this event and will serve as the anchor for our two days of investigation and exploration into the future of talent acquisition and development.
Kevin started Global Learning Resources in 1998 out of his passionate belief that organizations need a more powerful and thoughtful architecture for talent than they have. After a 25 year career in corporate America serving as the Senior Vice President for Staffing and Workforce Development at the Charles Schwab Corporation, the Vice President of Human Resources for Alphatec Electronics, Inc. in Thailand, and in a variety of human resources roles at National Semiconductor Corporation, Kevin had firsthand knowledge of the need for better strategies and approaches to finding, developing and retaining people.
Today, Kevin is a globally known speaker, author, teacher and consultant in human capital acquisition and development, as well as in corporate education. He is the author of numerous articles on human resource development, career development, recruiting, and on establishing corporate universities. He is a frequent speaker at conferences. He writes a weekly Internet column on recruiting and staffing, which can be found at www.ere.net, and he and Eileen have recently completed a book on corporate universities, The Corporate University Workbook: Launching the 21st Century Learning Organization which was published by Pfeiffer in January of 2005.
He serves as adjunct faculty at San Jose State University, the University of San Francisco and on the business faculty at San Francisco State University.
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Eileen Clegg is a visual journalist, book author and founder of the company Visual Insight creating large-scale, real-time murals for organizations. She works with top leadership invoking visual language to wordlessly introduce the power of emotion and meaning into group communications. Her visual journalism combines contemporary reporting techniques with ancient , universal symbols. Her practice emphasizes metaphor, intuition and story to facilitate business transformation, strategic planning, and team effectiveness. Her clients have included Art Center College of Design, IBM, Kaiser Permanente, Federated Department Stores, Starbucks, Edwards Lifesciences, American Society of Training and Development, and the Gates Foundation’s Model Secondary Schools Program. She has worked with Institute for the Future since 1999, Eileen was a daily newspaper journalist for 20 years with emphasis on education and environment. At IFTF, Eileen worked closely with graphic facilitation pioneer David Sibbet before developing her unique visual journalism approach in 2001. Eileen has published and/or illustrated numerous articles and books including: The 21st Century Corporate University (Jossey Bass Pfeiffer, 2005), a chapter in Creating a Learning Culture (Cambridge University Press 2004), Claiming Your Creative Self (New Harbinger, 1999.
Jay Cross is a champion of informal learning, web 2.0, and systems thinking. He puts breakthough business results ahead of business as usual. His calling is to change the world by helping people learn to learn.
He has challenged conventional wisdom about how adults learn to be productive since designing the first business degree program offered by the University of Phoenix thirty years ago. Now in its ninth year, Internet Time Group LLC has provided advice and guidance to Cisco, IBM, Sun, Genentech, Merck, Novartis, HP, the CIA, the World Bank, the World Cafe, and numerous others.
He is currently researching and refining informal/web 2.0 learning approaches to foster collaboration and accelerate performance. as CEO of eLearning Forum for its first five years, was the first to use the term eLearning on the web, and has keynoted major conferences in the U.S. and Europe. He is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Business School. He and his wife Uta live with two miniature longhaired dachshunds in the hills of Berkeley, California.
Susan Burns acts as the Executive Director of the Future of Talent. She is also the founder and president of Talent Synchronicity. Susan develops talent strategy solutions through an integrated alignment with core business functions and processes. Enabling success by further enhancing the essential relationship between business and talent to advantage companies is grounded in Susan's core philosophy. Susan has leveraged technology, branding and alignment with strategic business directives to create intrinsic value. She achieves objectives through a creative, resourceful, and collaborative approach to planning, development, and implementation. Susan is a frequent speaker and author on trends and strategies in the talent space.
Previously, Susan was Worldwide Talent Acquisition Leader with Waggener Edstrom, the second largest privately held PR firm. Susan led the global talent attraction and acquisition function, developed a workforce planning model, and guided the Agency Executive Board on talent initiatives. Susan established the framework for an integrated sourcing strategist and CRM tool to further advance the talent acquisition function.
Prior to Waggener Edstrom, Susan was Operating Vice President of Employment Initiatives and College Relations for Federated Department Stores (Macy's Inc). Her contributions included selection, development, deployment and utilization of recruitment technologies, employment brand development, SEO, marketing, change management, and talent-centric initiatives to further educate and align key constituents. Susan established a platform for continued growth and expansion of talent attraction and acquisition strategies through her leadership in creating the Recruitment Leaders Conference and developing the company's employment platform Retailology.com, which included macysJOBS.com and bloomingdalesJOBS.com, among others. Through Susan's leadership and contributions, Federated was recognized by Business Week as one of the Top 50 employers for new college graduates.
Chris Schoch has more than twenty five years of international consulting experience in management and organizational development. He has worked with client organizations in Europe, Asia and North America to develop their capabilities, and help build cultures that will sustain them. He considers himself a Social Architect and enjoys finding fits between performance and people. Currently he is President of MDLS Associate, and his clients have included, Accor and Oberoi hospitality groups , Alcatel , Bosch Automobile, Quille Construction, CP-Kelco (bio-foods), Eurocontrol (Air Safety) , LOREAL (cosmetics), and Schering Plough (pharmaceuticals).
He also facilitates executive seminars on Leading and Guiding Change, and Cross Cultural Competency for Leaders for schools including Antioch University Seattle, Belgrano University ( Argentina,) INSEAD (France), and San Jose State University.
Chris’ articles have been published in professional journals such as At Work, the OD Practitioner , and the European Forum for Management Development. He is co- author of a prize winning case study on Ikea’s organizational culture, and has served as Roundtable Chairman for the Centre of Organizational Studies, a non profit research group located in Barcelona.
A Californian who went East, Chris now resides in Montreal where he is working on a book tentatively entitled “ Organizations that Work for People and Performance.”
Eilif Trondsen is a Director at SRI Consulting Business Intelligence in Menlo Park, CA (SRIC-BI; see http://www.sric-bi.com/. In his 28 years at either SRI International (formerly Stanford Research Institute), or (since 2001) at SRIC-BI (a 75-person research and consulting firm spin-out from SRI) he has been involved in research and consulting for clients around the world in areas of international economics and trade, eCommerce and eBusiness, eLearning and virtual worlds. For over 10 years, Eilif led and wrote research reports for SRIC-BI's visionary program of Learning on Demand, analyzing the future of learning technologies. He recently led the design and launch of a new Virtual-Worlds Consortium for Innovation and Learning, serving companies such as Apple, Allstate, Visa, Nissan and LG Electronics, among others.
This consortium will examine technology issues and trends for virtual-worlds platforms as well as emerging business applications of virtual-worlds technologies.
Eilif has written numerous research reports for SRI and SRIC-BI research programs, and has also written articles published in professional publications in Japan, Europe and the United States. He has given numerous presentations to clients and at conferences around the world (and serves on the advisory board for Online Educa), and has led many consulting projects for SRI and SRIC-BI clients in Asia, North America and Europe. Eilif is the founder and chairman of the eLearning Forum, which holds regular meetings at SRI and other Silicon Valley company facilities, exploring issues related to the use of technology for learning to improve business performance.
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