Guided By An Expert Panel

Peter Cappelli is the George W. Taylor Professor of Management at The Wharton School and Director of Wharton’s Center for Human Resources. Dr. Cappelli is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, MA, served as Senior Advisor to the Kingdom of Bahrain for Employment Policy from 2005-2005, and from 2007 is a Distinguished Scholar of the Ministry of Manpower for Singapore. Professor Cappelli’s more recent research examines changes in employment relations in the U.S. and their implications. These publications include Change at Work (Oxford University Press 1997), a major study for the National Planning Association which found that employees paid a considerable price for the restructuring of U.S. industry and The New Deal at Work: Managing the Market-Driven Workforce (Harvard Business School Press 1999), which examines the challenges associated with the decline in lifetime employment relationships. His recent work on managing retention, electronic recruiting, and changing career paths appears in the Harvard Business Review. Talent Management (Harvard Business School Press, forthcoming), considers the strategies that employers should consider in developing and managing talent. He was a staff member on the U.S. Secretary of Labor’s Commission on Workforce Quality and Labor Market Efficiency from 1988-’90, Co-Director of the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center on the Educational Quality of the Workforce, and a member of the Executive Committee of the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center on Post-Secondary Improvement at Stanford University. He has served on three committees of the National Academy of Sciences and three panels of the National Goals for Education. He was recently named by Vault.com as one the 25 most important people working in the area of human capital, one of the top 100 people in the field of recruiting and staffing by Recruit.com. and was elected a fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources. He serves on the advisory boards of several companies, and is the founding editor of the Academy of Management Perspectives. Peter has degrees in industrial relations from Cornell University and in labor economics from Oxford where he was a Fulbright Scholar.

Chris Forman serves as Global Head of Technology for The RightThing. Over his 15 year technology career, Forman has become a seasoned business executive and one of the HR industry's most dynamic speakers and thinkers on recruiting technology, talent development, and OFCCP compliance. Prior to The RightThing’s acquisition of AIRS in 2008, Mr. Forman served as Chief Executive Officer for the organization and was responsible for leading the company’s worldwide expansion of its new human capital solutions in training and recruitment technology. This led to the creation of a number of advanced tools including the industry’s first recruitment CRM as well as the industry’s only enterprise-wide, automated and secure OFCCP compliance solution for external resume databases. In 2006, Mr. Forman was instrumental in leading development for SourcePoint, a software platform that revolutionized candidate sourcing technology by providing name generation, candidate networking, employee referral, e-marketing, recruitment CRM, and resume aggregation tools in a single, modular, OFCCP-compliant platform. Now in its eleventh version, SourcePoint serves 70% of the Fortune 500. Previously, Mr. Forman held a series of leadership positions at fast-growth technology firms including Centricut (acquired by Hypertherm in 1998) and Direct Imaging. He is a graduate of Colby College, spoken at more than 75 HR and recruiting industry events and has been quoted in publications such as The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, HR Executive, Government Executive, SI Review and Purple Squirrel.

Cynthia A. Hedricks (co-chair) is Chief Analytics Officer at SkillSurvey, Inc. Cynthia A. Hedricks has diverse experience collecting, analyzing, and presenting behavioral and biological data gathered in the applied setting. In her role as Chief Analytics Officer at SkillSurvey in Wayne, PA, Dr. Hedricks integrates market demands and technological HR innovations with OD consulting and psychometric research principles. Dr. Hedricks has both national and international consulting experience, helping to improve quality of hire at organizations such as Penn Medicine, Poudre Valley Health System, Kohl’s, CH2M HILL, GlaxoSmithKline (US, UK), Reebok, and Wal-Mart (Canada, Mexico, US, Japan). Before joining SkillSurvey in June of 2007, Cynthia was Senior Vice President of Research & Development at Caliper, a Princeton, NJ firm that provides an assessment for employee selection and development to companies in 31 different countries. She is a member of the American Psychological Society, ASHHRA, NAHCR, SHRM, and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP). Cynthia was a university professor prior to her corporate experiences, and has published research in the fields of nursing (College of Nursing, Univ. Illinois-Chicago) and occupational therapy/occupational science (Univ. Southern California). Cynthia has a Ph.D. in Biopsychology from The University of Chicago. She spends time with her family in Princeton and Long Beach Island (NJ), and in Chicago.

Lou Manzi (co-chair) is President, Arrow Consulting. He was formerly the Vice President, GSK Talent Solutions where he had responsibility for overseeing the strategy and delivery of the global talent sourcing and recruitment functions at GlaxoSmithKline. He originally joined SmithKline Beckman Consumer Products as Manager, Government and Public Affairs in 1985. Prior to his corporate position, he was responsible for managing the Leadership and Succession Planning process at SmithKline Beecham. During his tenure he has authored a variety of articles on recruitment metrics and how measures can operationally improve the recruitment function. He has chaired many presentations on customer care, recruitment efficiency and is known for his entrepreneurial and creative approach to talent acquisition. He has recently co-authored a book entitled, Beyond Employer Branding. He serves on a variety of boards including the US Army War College. Additionally, he is a board member of The Best Practices Institute, Waltham, Massachusetts and RMC Communications, Haddon Heights, NJ. He is also a past trustee of the Wilkes University Board of Directors and The Executive Grapevine, an organization comprised of professionals in Talent Management, London, England. Lou received his B.A. from St. Mary’s Seminary College and has done graduate work in the Executive Masters Program at the University of Pennsylvania. He has a commercial pilot’s license, is multi-engine, instrument and seaplane rated, pilots his own airplane and also enjoys gourmet cooking, ice hockey, water sports and photography. He and his wife, Pat, reside in Riverton and Long Beach Island, NJ, USA.

Ed Newman is President of Futurestep U.S. Futurestep, a Korn/Ferry Company, is the industry leader in strategic talent acquisition, offering fully customized, flexible solutions to meet specific workforce needs of organizations around the world. Prior to his role as President of Futurestep U.S., Ed was President of The Newman Group, a Futurestep Company and recognized leader in talent acquisition and management consulting services. In 2007, The Newman Group was acquired by Futurestep. Over the past fifteen years, Ed has developed a reputation as a primary resource for helping companies address the most difficult talent challenges. His vision and experience in talent strategy, structure, brand and technology has played a pivotal role in helping companies compete and win in the struggle to attract and retain the people that drive business success. He has led successful initiatives for a variety of world-class organizations, including McKesson, Johnson & Johnson, Accenture, Johnson Controls, Honda of America, and Florida Power and Light. Prior to founding The Newman Group in 1999, Ed held leadership positions at Spherion and R.D. Raab & Co, where he managed the recruiting function for SAP America. He was also the director of employment and corporate human resources at PRC, Inc. (acquired by Northrop Grumman). From his experience and subject matter expertise, he developed an extremely effective consulting methodology for helping companies determine actionable strategies to align people, processes and technology. His articles on talent strategy are widely published, and he is an active participant in events for organizations such as the Human Capital Institute, the Electronic Recruiting Exchange, AIRS, and HR Technology. Ed has a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Richmond.

Anne Nimke is co-founder and Executive of Pinstripe, a leading privately-held Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) firm focused entirely on talent acquisition and management issues critical to corporate executives. Anne’s 30 years of expertise include developing talent lifecycle strategies, driving employment branding and positioning, aligning recruitment and on-boarding initiatives, and ensuring sustainable performance through process change, integrated technology and metric development. She has led long-term outsourced talent acquisition programs for professional, non-exempt and hourly staffing needs in addition to a number of consulting projects, including applicant tracking selection and implementation, employment agency RFP and contract negotiations, and HR/recruitment department realignment and reorganization. After graduating magna cum laude from Marquette University, Anne joined the Human Resource group at Miller Brewing Company’s Corporate Headquarters and held positions in the Employee Relations, Benefits and Employment Departments. Identifying recruiting and employment as her professional focus, she continued her career at Olsten (now ADECCO) as Branch Manager, Regional Manager and ultimately VP of Operations in Wisconsin. In 1992, Anne joined the largest independent staffing company in Wisconsin, and co-founded an enterprise-wide RPO firm that was sold to a Fortune 500 Global Staffing Provider in 2000. She has spoken at numerous events and conferences including The RPO Summit, IQPC, SHRM, Kennedy Info, and the Conference Board. She is Vice Chair of the RPO Alliance (HROA), and a member of SHRM’s National Workforce Staffing Special Expertise Panel.

Fred Oswald is an Associate Professor in industrial/organizational psychology at Rice University. His research and consulting expertise focuses on personnel selection systems, focusing on measuring and modeling performance outcomes in organizational, military and educational samples, and in predicting performance outcomes with measures of personality, motivation, knowledge, experience and ability. Dr. Oswald currently maintains two grant-funded projects. The first is with the US Navy under the auspices of Navy Personnel Research, Studies, & Technology (NPRST). This project examines the nature of multitasking performance in dynamic, complex, and stressful work settings, improving Navy classification by incorporating measures relevant to multitasking into a sailor’s assessment battery. The second project is with The College Board, where his research team has developed a biographical data (biodata) measure and a situational judgment inventory. Both measures have been developed and validated across multiple institutions and against multidimensional outcomes, in both cross-sectional and longitudinal studies. These studies have provided evidence for incremental validity above and beyond more traditional measures. Both projects have critical implications for measuring and predicting effective organizational performance. Dr. Oswald publishes and serves on the editorial boards for several major organization research journals including Journal of Applied Psychology, International Journal of Selection and Assessment, Journal of Management, and Organizational Research Methods. Fred received his Ph.D. in psychology in 1999 from the University of Minnesota.

Chet Robie is an Associate Professor in organizational behavior/human resource management in the School of Business at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada. His previous academic posts include an assistant professorship in the I/O psychology program at the University of Houston and an assistant professorship in the College of Business Administration at Niagara University. Dr. Robie has consulted for international firms such as Personnel Decisions International, General Motors, Procter & Gamble, and Caliper, Inc., addressing issues related to multi-source feedback, applicant faking, test development and validation, and global norms. Dr. Robie worked as a personnel management specialist for the US Office of Personnel Management where he was involved in large-scale survey initiatives and policy evaluation. Chet is also interested in collective bargaining and negotiation issues, having served as an arbitrator for the National Association of Securities Dealers, the Better Business Bureau, and as a grievance officer for his faculty union. His current research is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and addresses non-cognitive testing and cross-cultural measurement issues. He has published in such peer-reviewed journals as Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Organizational Research Methods, and the International Journal of Selection and Assessment. Chet’s undergraduate and master’s degrees in experimental psychology were received from Towson University. Chet received his Ph.D. in industrial/organizational psychology from Bowling Green State University. Dr. Robie holds dual status as both a US and Canadian citizen; he currently resides in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.