HR at the leading edge

Florent Francoeur, CHRP
President and CEO, Quebec HR
Association, a member of the Canadian
Council of Human Resources Associations
President WFPMA

“I see that everybody is looking for some sort of meaning to life”

Charles Handy
Social Philosopher
and Best-selling Author

“HR functions have to be upgraded beyond being administrators and beyond being service providers so that they can bring the organization a true decision science of talent”

John Boudreau
Professor and Research Director at the
University of Southern California's Marshall
School of Business and Center for Effective
Organizations

“Change is inevitable, but progress is not”

Max McKeown
Leadership, Strategy and
Innovation Consultant

“It's the modelling of the behaviour that makes the difference”

Rick Woodward
Director Learning and Development
Kimberly-Clark

”It touches the human soul and gives people hope, or optimism by another name”

Tim Smit
Chief Executive and
Co-Founder of the Eden Project

“A key benefit of management innovation, we believe, is that it helps us attract and retain the best people, clearly the foundation of any successful business”

Mike Lloyd
President
Gas Turbine Operations
Rolls-Royce PLC

“We envision a shift to more influential HR leaders who take an active role in assessing workforce needs and putting strategies in place to meet them before ‘skills shortages' are blamed for shortfalls”

Donna Murphy
Managing Director
The Adecco Institute

“We now have the knowledge as to how to enact engagement”

Beverly Alimo-Metcalfe
Professor of Leadership,
School of Management,
University of Bradford and
Chief Executive Real World Group

“HR people need to be among the gatekeepers of corporate cultures”

Stephen G. Harrison
Chairman,
Lee Hecht Harrison and Best-selling Author

“There is alignment, which is ‘knowing what to do', and there is engagement, namely ‘wanting to do it' ”

David MacLeod
Towers-Perrin &
Visiting Professor Cass Business School
Co-Author “The Extra Mile” –
How to Engage Your People to Win

“Self-awareness is only the beginning if an organisation really wants to make a difference”

David Reay
Head of Learning and Development
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (UK)

“Welcome to the era of courageous leadership”

Jonas Ridderstråle
Visiting Professor Ashridge Business School

“We set you the quest to be different and surprise the rest of us”

Mark Wilcox
Director and Founder RedThread Consulting

“The need for fast-start, simple tools that get people started and make an immediate difference can only grow”

Shaun Lincoln
Associate Director
Leadership and Management Unit,
Learning and Skills Network