KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Opening Power Session
Sunday, September 28, 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
J. Robert Carr
Chief Professional & Business Development Officer
Society for Human Resource Management
J. Robert Carr, an attorney and human resources professional, is Chief Professional & Business Development Officer for the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) in Alexandria, VA. Carr formerly served as SHRM’s Chief Human Resource & Strategic Planning Officer. He also led SHRM’s diversity initiative and served SHRM as its chief ethics officer.
Sunday's General Session
Sunday, September 28, 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm
Aimee Eubanks Davis
Chief People Officer
Teach for America
In her role as Chief People Officer at Teach for America, Eubanks Davis has overseen the organization’s staff growth from 200 to over 800 staff members; worked on the development of a comprehensive competency model for staff recruitment, selection, performance management, and learning and development; and ensured that the Human Assets team is positioned to fuel the growth and success of Teach For America through being a strategic business partner to organizational leaders and teams.
Breakfast/General Session
Monday, September 29, 8:00 am - 9:30 am
Heather McLeod Grant
Consultant, Speaker, Advisor, Author
Heather McLeod Grant a published author, speaker, advisor and consultant to high-impact organizations. She is the co-author of Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits, which was named a Top Ten Book of 2007 by the Economist. Additionally, she is an Advisor to the Center for Social Innovation at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, where she also lectures, and to leading nonprofits and foundations. She holds an MBA from Stanford University and an AB from Harvard University, and resides in the Bay Area with her husband and daughter.
Lunch/General Session
Monday, September 29, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Lester M. Salamon
Director, Center for Civil Society Studies
Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies
Lester M. Salamon is a Professor at The Johns Hopkins University and director of the Center for Civil Society Studies at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies. He previously served as Director of the Center for Governance and Management Research at The Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. and as Deputy Associate Director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget in the Executive Office of the President. Before that, he taught at Duke University, Vanderbilt University, and, during the American civil rights struggle of the mid-1960s, at Tougaloo College in Tougaloo, Mississippi.
Dr. Paul C. Light
Paulette Goddard Professor of Pulic Service
NYU Wagner
Dr. Paul C. Light is NYU Wagner's Paulette Goddard Professor of Public Service and founding principal investigator of the Organizational Performance Initiative. Until joining NYU, Dr. Light served as the Douglas Dillon Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, founding director of its Center for Public Service, and vice president and director of the Governmental Studies Program. He has served previously as director of the Public Policy Program at the Pew Charitable Trusts and associate dean and professor of public affairs at the University of Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs.
Paul Schmitz
President & CEO
Public Allies
Paul was the founding Executive Director of Public Allies Milwaukee in 1993, he was then promoted to VP and Chief Strategist in 1997 where he led expansion efforts for the program nationwide. In February of 2000, he was promoted to President & CEO of Public Allies Incorporated . Beyond Public Allies, Paul has been active in Milwaukee and nationally on issues of education reform, juvenile justice reform and youth development. He co-founded an educational advocacy group in Milwaukee, two youth-led credit unions, a foundation supporting juvenile justice reform, a national coalition of nonprofit groups that are creating a workforce development strategy for the nonprofit sector, and has advised many other projects. Milwaukee Magazine profiled him as “a tireless advocate for youth empowerment and diversity.” Paul currently serves on the boards of the Greater Milwaukee Committee, the UW-Milwaukee Helen Bader Institute for Nonprofit Management, the Nonprofit Sector Workforce Coalition, and the steering committee for Voices for National Service.
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