Annual Business & Workplace Convention

M A I N S P E A K E R S

People, Purpose, Growth...The Pathway t o Prosperity

May 4 - 6, 2017 Montego Bay Convention Centre

John Sherman, PhDSPHR, SHRM-SCP, PCC PresidentJohn W. Sherman – Human ResourcesLearning & DevelopmentPerformance Services

Shirley Davis, PhDPresident & CEO SDS Global Enterprises Inc.

HonourableShahine RobinsonMinister of Labour & Social Security

Robert Lemon, PhDMotivational Speaker& Best-selling Author

K. Barrington ThomasChief Servant &Motivational Speaker

SUPER-SIZED THURSDAY

Day1 Thursday May 4 Day2 Friday May 59:30 AM - 12:30 PM“Clever Clues For Crafting Contracts – The 4 C’s Guide for Drafting and Administering Employment Contracts”

“Leading Others In Teams”

“Successful Negotiations: Best Practices”

1 2 : 3 0 PM - 2 : 0 0 PMLUNCH @ L E I S U R E

1:30 PM - 2:00 PMORIENTATION SESSION“Your ‘Intro/Guide’ to Convention 2017”(For first-time attendees)

2:15 PM - 5:15 PM“Leading Behaviour: How to Lead a Values-based Organisation”

“Pensions and Retirement Planning –A CPD Certification Programme”

“Service Excellence: A 10-step Winning Strategy”

5:30 PM – 7:00 PMExhibition Opening Ceremony

Viewing & Cocktails

8:30 AM - 10:00 AMOPENING SPECTACULAR

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION“Leading & Engaging the Generations”

10:00 AM - 10:30 AMCOFFEE BREAK & EXHIBITION VIEWING

10:45 AM - 12:00 Noon CONCURRENT SESSIONS“Managing the Customer Service Function”

“The Total You, Balancing Work and Home”

“Enterprise Risk Management: Enhance Your Risk Response & Decision-making Processes”

“Assess, Analyze, and Act: How to Improve Your Organisation’s Performance”

12:00 Noon - 1:45 PM LUNCH @ LEISURE

12:00 Noon - 1:45 PMEXECUTIVE WOMEN’S FORUM LUNCHEON

2:00 PM - 3:15 PM CONCURRENT SESSIONS“Retirement Planning: How Prepared Are You…?”Mini-current session (Limited to 30 participants)

“New Tax & Customs Laws: Getting Up to Speed”

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2:00 PM - 3:15 PM CONCURRENT SESSIONS cont’d“Disruptive Leadership: An Essential Tool for Business Renewal”

“Are My Values Equal to Yours?: Value Congruence and Occupational Fraud”

3:30 PM - 4:45 PMCLOSING GENERAL SESSION“The Seat: How to Get Invited to the Table When You’re Over-Performing but Undervalued”

5:00 PM - 5:15 PMCOFFEE BREAK

5:30 PM – 7:00 PMGOSPEL CONCERT

8:30 AM - 9:45 AM OPENING GENERAL SESSION“The ‘BOLT SYNDROME’ …

Run to Greatness Jamaica”

9:45 AM - 10:15 AMCOFFEE BREAK

10:30 AM - 11:45 AM CONCURRENT SESSIONS“Productivity Growth and Strategies: A Focus on Enhancing Performance in Small Island Developing States”

“Leadership & Culture –Transact or Transform – Leadership Approaches”

“Synergising Business and Philanthropy for National Development”

12:00 Noon - 1:15 PM “Corporate Social Responsibility: Scope,

Research, Practice and the Jamaica Experience”

“Increasing Employee Engagement Through Servant Leadership Strategies”

“They Come To Work With Issues: Help Them to Become Better Employees”

“Unconscious Bias and its Impact on Leadership Decision-making”

Day2 Friday May 5 Day3 Saturday May6 cont’d

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1:15 PM - 2:30 PMLUNCH @ LEISURE

1:15 PM - 2:30 PMLUNCHEON FOR CEOS

2:45 PM - 4:00 PMCONCURRENT SESSIONS“Leading Change: The Leader’s True Mission”

“The Internet of Things (IOT)”

“Settling Industrial / Labour Disputes Just In Time: Practical Options for Alternative Resolutions”

“Transforming Organizations to be Purpose -Driven, Strategy Focused and Accountable”

4:30 PM – 5:45 PM CLOSING GENERAL SESSION“Now Is Your Time - Balancing Work, Life, Education - Time Management”

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Day3 Saturday May6

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Vanessa Thomas Williams, LLBVanessa Thomas Williams is an attorney at law inprivate practice. She specializes in Industrial Rela-tions and legal issues surrounding employment andrepresents a range of employers in collective bargaining. Her professional work covers man-agement training in the Caribbean Region in Industrial Relations, Human Resource Management,HR and IR Policy Design and Implementation, andOccupational Safety and Health Management.

Ms. Thomas Williams has held management posi-tions in the public and private sectors of Trinidad &Tobago and Guyana and has lectured in the field ofHuman Resource Management and Industrial Relations in the Public Sector at the University ofthe West Indies (St. Augustine Campus). She isalso the immediate Past President of the SafetyCouncil of Trinidad and Tobago.

G. Ronald Gilbert, PhDRon Gilbert, PhD, is an organisational consultantand a Professor of Management and Interna-tional Business at Florida International University(Miami). He specializes in helping individuals,leaders and teams improve their performance atwork. He has authored several books and over40 academic journal articles. More than 300,000working adults have taken his assessments online.He has consulted with over a thousand Organi-sations and has a passion for his work.

Garfield MorganGarfield Morgan is a career banker with over 23years of experience, attained from working withmajor local and international banks and is cur-rently Manager – Mortgage Sales and Service atSagicor Bank Jamaica Limited. He has held various roles in Sales, Credit, Operations andBranch Management. A mentor to many, he hasa passion for people development through effective coaching which has seen several starperformers being unearthed under his direction.

Habib Chamoun-Nicolas, PhDOver the past 25 years, Dr. Chamoun-Nicolashas been conducting negotiation and businessdevelopment activities in diversified sectors – oiland gas, petroleum, petrochemical, chemical, industrial, commercial, institutional, for the salesand marketing of services and products.

Dr. Chamoun-Nicolas has trained thousands ofbusiness professionals on a Business Develop-ment Approach in sales and negotiation andhas conducted research on How Mexicans andOther Cultures Negotiate.

Dr. Chamoun-Nicolas has designed a programmeto train a group of Beijing International AirportManagers for cross-cultural negotiations at theUniversity of Houston on preparation for the 2008Beijing Olympic Games.Dr. Chamoun-Nicolasparticipated as a negotiation judge in May 2011 at aChinese International Negotiation competition atBeijing University.

Wayne Chen, LLBWayne Chen is Past President of the JamaicaEmployers’ Federation (JEF) and the Presidentof the Caribbean Employers’ Confederation(CEC). He is also Chairman and CEO ofSuper Plus Food Stores. Mr. Chen has served on the boards of severalJamaican companies including the NationalCommercial Bank, Victoria Mutual BuildingSociety, CVM Television Group, Urban Development Corporation, National LandAgency, National Gallery of Jamaica and theAdvisory Board of the Caribbean Policy Research Institute. In 1998 he was the Jamaica Observer’s Business Leader of the Year. He is the co-author of ReggaeRoutes: The History of Jamaican PopularMusic.

Steven John BurchSteven Burch is the Senior Partner at Quaestus,a UK consulting firm specializing in creativeand effective training and development initia-tives. He is also the Managing Director of amanufacturing company in the Marine LeisureIndustry in the UK. Mr. Burch is a lively andengaging trainer, great coach, skillful facilitatorand effective communicator with people atany level in the organisation.

He is a member of the Chartered Institute ofPersonnel and Development; a past councilmember of the Association for ManagementEducation and Development and has trainedin excess of 30,000 people in his career to date.

Rezworth BurchensonRezworth Burchenson is the CEO of PrimeAsset Management, a pension fund manage-ment company that manages over $30B ofpension assets. Prime is the third largest independent pension fund manager in Jamaica. He was previously Vice Presidentand General Manager of Pan CaribbeanAsset Management Ltd (formerly SigmaUnit Trust). Under his leadership the SigmaPortfolios became well known in Jamaica fortheir outstanding performance, outperform-ing all the industry benchmarks.

He routinely makes presentations acrossJamaica, in the media and is also a Gleanercontributor on pensions/financial matters.

J o h n P i l g r i mJohn Pilgrim is the Executive Director of the Barbados National Productivity Council.He has been involved in the design and development of Productivity ImprovementProgrammes in Barbados and throughout thewider Caribbean. The countries assisted areSt. Vincent & The Grenadines, St. Lucia, Curacao, Grenada, The Bahamas, St Kitts &Nevis, St Maarten, Saba, Anguilla, Trinidad &Tobago, Montserrat, Dominica, Jamaica,Bermuda and Suriname.

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Richard DickRichard Dick is the Principal Consultant andCEO of Development Consulting Center Ltd.,a Trinidad and Tobago based boutique ODconsulting firm. He has over 20 years experi-ence in organization development. His firmhas provided training and consulting servicesto companies in over 35 countries in all sectors.

Mr. Dick is a Change Architect and Strategist,who helps organizations develop through skilledinterventions, coaching and advice. Some areasof specialization include Strategic HRM, strategic planning, teambuilding, leadership development, change management, executivecoaching and service excellence strategies.

John ShermanJohn Sherman is the former Managing Director of People Development for FedExFreight. During his 23 years with FedEx,Sherman led their sales/marketing, quality,communications, talent/learning and develop-ment, and video production teams. He wasawarded FedEx’s highest award for thedevelopment and deployment of the PeopleFirst Leadership Experience.

Sherman now provides speaking and con-sulting services within North America inthe areas of human resources, organizationdesign, organizational effectiveness, talentdevelopment, leadership, effective com-munication, employee engagement, unionengagement, union avoidance, changemanagement, emotional intelligence, salesperformance, negotiations, executive coachingand mentoring.

Currently Sherman is working with the ArcBest Corporation www.arcb.com whichis a fully integrated logistics provider, withcreative problem solvers who deliver inte-grated logistics solutions. Tony L. HenthorneTony Henthorne PhD., teaches MarketingPlanning & Strategy. He directs all graduateprogrammes, research activities and interna-tional programmes for his college. He hasworked with resort entities throughout theCaribbean and Mexico on market planningand customer service. His latest works dealwith destination image and brand personali-ties of Cuba and Jamaica.

Fritz H.A. Pinnock, PhDFritz Pinnock, PhD, is the Executive Directorof the Caribbean Maritime Institute. He isalso a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, and a Fellow of theChartered Management Institute. He hasalso been a Fellow of the British Institute ofManagement (MBIM) since 1991, and the Institute of Logistics and Distribution Man-agement (MILDM).

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Sophia Smith-ButlerSophia Smith-Butler is a mother, entrepreneurand the owner of Proevents Jamaica, Jamaica’s leading corporate event planningcompany. Ms. Smith-Butler is a firm believerthat failure is a necessary step that leads to success and that persistence/never giving upis what defines winners from the losers.Ms. Smith-Butler possesses an extensive background in the field of hospitality and eventsplanning, having worked for internationalbrands such as the Hilton and Wyndham hotels.

Mother to an International soccer player andtrack athlete, she believes that sports in thelives of children contributes in the developmentof well rounded, disciplined and high achieving adults.

Robert Clive TeelucksinghRobert Teelucksingh is the Senior Consultant/Director – Risk, for Tee Luck Singh & Associ-ates Limited. He is a qualified Safety andHealth professional with comprehensiveknowledge of, and technical expertise in,safety and health-related issues. He hasover twenty [20] years’ experience and hasbeen making significant contributions towardsimproving the standard of safety and healthin the working environment in the Caribbeanand North America. He is a recognized expertin Emergency Management/Mass CasualtyManagement and Contingency Planning.

Robert is also a consultant with the InternationalLabour Organization Sub-regional Office inTrinidad, working with Employer organizationsas the main resource person/facilitator in the Decent Work Programme.

Dionnie HeadleyDionnie Headley is the Managing Director of Sygnus Tax Advisory Limited, Founder of TaxTech Institute and an International TaxSpecialist. She has held various tax manage-ment positions in public accounting both inJamaica and the United States. She is a taxprofessional with almost 20 years experiencein taxation. She has worked with Pricewater-houseCoopers both in the USA and Jamaicaand has advised very large internationalclients such as DuPont Corporation, JP Morgan Chase and many others.

Ceci le McCormackCecile McCormack is an experienced researcherhaving conducted extensive research and statis-tical analyses in the fields of housing, consumerand human resource management. She is apart-time lecturer at the National Police College of Jamaica, and has lectured in Market-ing Research and tutored research at the UWIWestern Campus and UTECH respectively. Her voluntary work has extended to the trainingof 24 police officers in the use of SPSS statis-tical software for crime analysis. She is currentlypursuing her Doctor of Business Administrationat the Walden University, and is now completingher doctoral study, focusing on “Fighting Occupa-tional Fraud through Ethical Corporate Cultureand Internal Controls.6

S h i r l e y D a v i s , P h DMs. Shirley Davis, PhD - President of SDSGlobal Enterprises, is an accomplishedcorporate executive, a certified senior GlobalHR and Talent Management expert, and a success coach. She has over 20 years of business experience and has worked at fiveFortune 50 and 100 companies in various senior and executive leadership roles. Most recently, for 8 years she was the Global headof Diversity & Inclusion and Workplace Strategiesfor the Society for Human Resource Management(SHRM), the world’s largest HR membershipassociation.She is the author of the book: “ReinventYourself: Strategies for Achieving Successin Every Area of Your Life.” This fall she released her second book, “The Seat: How toGet Invited to the Table When You’re Over-performing but Undervalued.”

K. Barrington Thomas Tobago born and raised, K. Barrington Thomasstarted his working life as a Teacher in the PrimarySchool system. He enlisted as a Military Officer,spent nine (9) years with the Trinidad and TobagoDefence Force (Regiment); retiring at the rank ofCaptain in 1989. Mr. Thomas co-developed theSpecial Forces Unit of the Trinidad and TobagoRegiment during his tenure, and commanded itfor the first six (6)years of its existence. In 2003,he launched his own business – IncubatorCaribbean Focus Limited.

Jean Lowrie -ChinJean Lowrie-Chin is a communication specialist,author, columnist, real estate developer, seniorsadvocate and philanthropist. She foundedPROComm in 1978, CCRP in 2010 and PRODEVin 2013. CCRP is a non-profit organization runby PROComm as a tribute to senior mentors,aimed at empowering Jamaican seniors. To datePROComm and Jean’s combined sponsorshipof CCRP is over $15 million.

She is the author of Souldance and creator ofFlair Magazine for the Gleaner. She estab-lished the PROComm Scholarship Fund for students in Grants Pen, led and contributed tothe fund-raising to secure the Stella MarisFoundation headquarters, and has sponsoredFood for the Poor home building in Jamaicaand Haiti.

Mrs Lowrie-Chin is Executive Chairman ofPROComm, PRODEV and CCRP. She isChairman of the Digicel Foundation, and serveson the Boards of Food for the Poor Jamaica,CIBC-FCIBJ, Convent of Mercy ‘Alpha’ Academyand the Kingston & St. Andrew DevelopmentFoundation.

Locksley Henry, PhD

Locksley G. M. Henry, PhD, is a lecturer andmodule coordinator in the General Manage-ment Division of the College of Business andManage ment (COBAM), University of Technology (UTech), Kingston, Jamaica.

He facilitates both undergraduate and graduateprogrammes in Strategic Management, Inter-national Management, Management Theory &Practice, and Organization Theory & Design.Dr. Henry’s current research interests includeculture, international management, interna-tional business, corporate strategy, corporatesocial responsibility, board composition andcorporate governance in Caribbean territories.He is a member of the Academy of Interna-tional Business (AIB), Chairman of the SOBA research committee, and member of theCOBAM research committee at UTech. Dr. Henry was also a BREXIT panelist in ahigh-profile discussion on the subject at UTech in 2016.

P e t e r B u r c h e n s o nMr. Peter Burchenson is the founder andPrincipal of Appreciative Solutions, LLC, anorganizational development and training com-pany that specializes in helping organizationsovercome structural efficiency and profes-sional development issues.

Peter previously served 21 years in the UnitedStates Marine Corps, leading and developinghundreds of Marines. He currently serves inthe United States Senate as an InstructionalDesigner/Trainer, training thousands of SenateStaff, facilitating retreats, and strategic plan-ning; developing leadership programs andcoaching senate executives.

Claudia A. White, PhDMrs. Claudia White, PhD, is an I/O Psychologistwho has worked with many individuals andorganizations to significantly improve their quality of work/life, quality of customer service,improve work relations, create productiveteam environments and increase worker pro-ductivity. She has worked successfully inboth the domestic and international arenas.

She has vast experience conducting coaching,performance analysis, developing and implementing organizational change strate-gies, and developing and training leaders and employees. Her passion for her work has produced significant results in terms of groom-ing leaders, improving employee productivityand performance, enhancing the quality of customer service and increasing overall profitability for her clients.

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Gary Campbell

Gary Campbell is the Director of Technologyin the Ministry of Science, Technology, Energyand Mining (MSET) and Government of Jamaica’s Office of the CIO, the entities withresponsibility for national ICT Policy andStrategy.

Mr. Campbell has conducted extensive research and work in the fields of ICT andProject Management in both the public andprivate sector. He has worked with compa-nies such as Cable & Wireless (now FLOW),LOJ (now Sagicor) and the Planning Institute ofJamaica where he was instrumental in developing and implementing a number ofICT projects. Mr. Campbell has also severalpublications and conference papers on OpenSource Software and Open Innovation.

Robert WynterMr. Robert Wynter is the Founder, ChiefStrategist and Managing Director at StrategicAlignment Limited Group of Companies. Hiscollective Mission is to make society better by expertly facilitating Strategic Transformationto achieve amazing client results. With a background in Chemical Engineering, Mr Wynterhas evolved into an Organization Engineer focusing on Strategic Transformation. He is aCertified professional Facilitator and BalancedScorecard Practitioner, certified by foundersKaplan and Norton.

Dr. Robert LemonRobert Lemon, PhD., is an award winning national speaker and best-selling author.Named a man of Prominence, Power and Prestige by a Miami newspaper, he teachesothers to pursue their dreams. Named Advantage Media Group 2011 Author of theYear, Now Is Your Time foreword by LesBrown. Co-authored Multiple Streams Of Inspiration with Jack Canfield. He has pre-sented to numerous corporate, government,associations and educational organizations.His profound presentations draw from his academic and professional achievement, fromover 30 years corporate experience from theUS Postal Service and US Air Force.

Dr. Lemon has been mentored and shared theplatform with Les Brown, Dr. Willie Jolley andSimon T. Bailey. Robert earned his DoctorateDegree from JBTS Seminary and is a memberof the National Speakers’ Association.

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