Annual Business & Workplace Convention

May 26 - 29, 2016 / Montego Bay Convention Centre

Empower people...Energize Business

K e y n o t e S p e a k e r s

K. Barrington ThomasChief Servant & Motiva-tional Speaker

Milton J. PerkinsMSHRM, SHRM-SCP, SPHRChief Accountability & Human Resources OfficerVanguard Integrity Professionals

Sandra HusbandsNurubakariManagement ConsultantBusiness DevelopmentServices INC.

Marcia Woo-ChoyCertified Business Coach / Advisor

Ambassador Dr. Richard BernalExecutive DirectorCaribbean Inter-American De-velopment Bank

9:30 AM - 12:30 PM “HR POLICING: Arresting Grievances - Developing Strategies for Managing the Complaints of Aggrieved Employees, to Avoid Court Action”

“Putting the ‘Social’ in Social Media: Techniques and Tricks to Make the Most of this Social Marketing Tool”

“Integration of Talent Management: It is like Building an Orchestra”

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

1:30 PM - 2:00 PMORIENTATION SESSION“Your Road-Map to Convention 2016”

2:15 PM - 5:15 PM“The Performance Coaching Kit”

“The Power of the Purposeful Story”

Performance Masterclass – (Change Management)

“Emotional Intelligence & Engagement: Use the Science of the Brain to Empower People & Energize your Business”

8:30 AM - 10:00 AMOPENING SPECTACULAR &KEYNOTE PRESENTATION

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

10:45 AM - 12:00 Noon CONCURRENT SESSIONS“Enhancing Entrepreneurship through Informationand Communications Technologies (ICTs)”

“Competency Standards: The Learning Approach to Improving Workplace Productivity”

“Safety & Security Best Practices in the Workplace”

“The Marriage Between HR & Social Media”

12:00 Noon - 1:30 PMLUNCH @ LEISUREEXECUTIVE WOMEN’S FORUM LUNCHEON

1:45 PM - 3:00 PM CONCURRENT SESSIONS“Getting Ready for Retirement: Important Pension Statistics to guide you”

“Jamaica’s Proposed Sexual Harassment ACT: All You Need to Know”

“Building Trustworthy Organizations: Traditional and Cultural Factors in Jamaican organizations”

“Developing Time Management Skills: Applying the Process more Effectively”

SUPER-S IZED THURSDAYDAY 1 Thursday May 26 DAY 2 Friday May 27

¸3:15 PM - 4:30 PM CONCURRENT SESSIONS“How to Improve Your Insurance Safety Net and Minimise Workplace Accidents”

“Trusteeship in Action: Empowering People & Energizing Business”

“Managing the ‘Tool Box’ of Business Ethics and Corporate Governance”

“Mastering the Dance Between Talent and Compensation”

4:45 PM - 6:00 PMCLOSING GENERAL SESSION“RE-ENGINEERING OUR FUTURE”

DAY 2 Friday May 278:30 AM - 9:45 AM OPENING GENERAL SESSION“Leadership: It’s not about the Hard Skills”

9:45 AM - 10:00 AMCOFFEE BREAK

10:00 AM - 11:45 AM CONCURRENT SESSIONS“Enhancing The Capacity of Management to Make Better Decisions”

“Don’t Fear Conflict, Embrace it! Develop a New Mindset to help you Work Effectively with Conflict”

"Why Some Strategic Plans Fail "

Youth Unemployment: “Empowering Youth for the Corporate World”

11:45 AM - 1:00 PM “The Employment of Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) in Jamaica: “Attitudes, Perceptions and Access”

“Which Decade Are Your Telecommunications Living In”

“Does Gender Really Matter? Impact of Women in Corporate Board Composition”

“Personal & Business Enrichment: The Equity Capital way for a Richer Future.”

1:00 PM - 2:30 PMLUNCH @ LEISURE

DAY3 SaturdayMay 28C E O S A T U R D A Y

¸ 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM CLOSING PROCEEDINGS

DAY 4 Sunday May 29DAY 3 Saturday May 281:00 PM - 2:30 PMLUNCHEON FOR CEOS“Chinese Direct Foreign Investment in the Caribbean”

2:45 PM - 4:00 PMCONCURRENT SESSIONS cont’d“It is not ‘Book Knowledge’ – Partnering with Employers to Facilitate Learning for a Competent Workforce”

“Social Media: The New Normal”

“Outlawing Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: How do we Manage in the Absence of Certain Laws?”

“Wellness & Its Impact on the Workplace”

4:15 PM – 5:45 PM CLOSING KEYNOTE SESSION“A Bold New Financial Paradigm for the Rainbow People of God”

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C E O S A T U R D A Y

Vanessa Thomas Wi l l iams , LLB

Ms. Thomas Williams is an Attorney at law, currently engaged in private practice. She specializes in Industrial Relations and legal issues surrounding employment and representsa range of employers in collective bargaining.Her professional work covers managementtraining in the Caribbean Region, in IndustrialRelations, Human Resource Management, HRand IR Policy Design and Implementation, andOccupational Safety and Health Management.

Ms. Thomas Williams has held management positions in the public and private sectors ofTrinidad and Tobago and Guyana and has lectured in the field of Human Resource Manage-ment and Industrial Relations in the Public Sectorat the University of the West Indies (St. AugustineCampus). She is also the immediate Past Presidentof the Safety Council of Trinidad and Tobago.

Dr . Tony L . Henthorne

Dr. Henthorne teaches Marketing Planning &Strategy. He directs all graduate programs, research activities and international programsfor his college. He has worked with resort entitiesthroughout the Caribbean and Mexico on marketplanning and customer service. His latest worksdeal with destination image and brand person-alities of Cuba and Jamaica.

Dr . David S. CohenDr. Cohen is the founder and a principalconsultant with Strategic Action Group, Ltd. (in 1991). His passion is about aligningpeople practices with the company’s cultureand strategic business plan. He has beenspeaking on the topic of behavioural com-petencies as a business tool aligned withthe business strategy for over 29 years. His work crosses all business sectors.Dr. Cohen has built competency modelsthat are currently in use in companiesthroughout Europe, North America, TheCaribbean, and Southeast Asia. He teaches inthe executive education programs at SchulichSchool of Business, York University and theSingapore Institute of Management.

Wayne Chen, LLB

Wayne Chen is Past President of the JamaicaEmployers’ Federation (JEF) and the PresidentCaribbean Employers’ Confederation (CEC). Heis also Chairman and CEO of Super Plus FoodStores. Mr. Chen has served on the boards ofseveral Jamaican companies including The National Commercial Bank, The Victoria Mutual Building Society, The CVM TelevisionGroup, Urban Development Corporation, theNational Land Agency, the National Gallery ofJamaica and the Advisory Board of the CaribbeanPolicy Research Institute.

In1998 he was the Jamaica Observer’s BusinessLeader of the Year. He is the co-author of “ReggaeRoutes: The History of Jamaican Popular Music”(Temple University Press 1998).

Steven BurchMr. Burch is the Senior Partner at Quaestus,a UK consulting firm specializing in creativeand effective training and development initia-tives. He is a lively and engaging trainer,great coach, skillful facilitator and effectivecommunicator, with people at any level in the organization.

He is a Member of the Chartered Institute ofPersonnel and Development, is a past councilmember of the Association for ManagementEducation and Development and has trainedin excess of 30,000 persons to date. Stevenis an author with Kogan Page business publishers in the UK.

Michel NerayMr. Neray is a creative marketing copywriter,advertising agency director and marketingexecutive; a visionary and entrepreneurialgame-changer. In 1995 he founded PortfoliosOnline, the world’s first Internet search enginefor advertising and creative professionals.

He has held leadership positions in theCanadian Association of ProfessionalSpeakers. In 2012, he created “Momondays”,an entertaining monthly show based on inspiring, personal storytelling. Corporateclients who have engaged Michel have bene-fitted from stronger brand positioning, salesfocus and market messaging, in some casesresulting in up to 60% increase in sales.

Gi lmore C rosbyMr. Crosby has been an Organizational Development Professional since 1984, andhas delivered services within the Caribbeansince 1999. His unique and practical aproachconsistently results in individual and systemicchange. He has served industries rangingfrom Nuclear Power to Libraries, is engagedin a world-wide consultancy and is marriedto a Jamaican.

C a r l a - A n n e H a r r i s - R o p e r

Mrs. Harris-Roper is an Attorney-At-Law with over 14 years experience in the Labour/Industrial Relations and Employment Lawfields within the Caribbean. She is currentlythe Regional Director Labour Relations in theCaribbean with Scotiabank.

DeWayne Pryce Mr. Pryce, an experienced educator, managerand administrator, is currently the Director forStandards and Assessment Development atthe National Council on TVET (NCTVET),where he provides leadership in the develop-ment of competency standards and otherguidelines to inform training and certificationpr ogrammes in the TVET system. He wasseconded to the Ministry of Education as Director for the TVET Rationalization, wherehe had responsibility for equipping schools to meet the requirements for offering TVET training, as well as the rationalization andintegration of TVET in all secondary schools.

C o n v e n t i o n S p e a k e r s

Robe r t F i n z i - Sm i t hMr. Finzi-Smith is the Director of Safety &Security at the University of Technology.He has had extensive experience in theareas of Security Management, Academia,Sports and Corporate Social Responsibility.

Ingr id EmmonsMs. Emmons is currently the Human ResourceDirector – Sandals Resorts International. Shehas value-added International experience asmost of her career was spent at SunTrustBank, in a HR Department catering to 35,000employees from Florida through the GreaterWashington Region. Her most recent rolewas the Head of the Shared Service Centrefor SunTrust Bank.

Marc ia Woon-Choy

Marcia Woon-Choy is a certified BusinessCoach, providing business help, business advice, business coaching and mentoringservices to small and medium sized businesses.

She has a passion for helping businessesgrow and become profitable, so the businessowner can enjoy the lifestyle he/she deserves.

As a Business Coach and advisor, she willhelp owners to deliver the desired results,using proven tools, methodologies and systems, tested and perfected over tens ofthousands of businesses worldwide for overmore than two decades. She will also ensureaccountability for results and just like a sportscoach, push performance at optimal levels.

R e z w o r t h B u r c h e n s o nMr. Burchenson started his finance professionat Sigma Investments Ltd in 1995 as an Invest-ment Analyst with subsequent promotions toEquity/Research Manager and to Vice-Presidentand General Manager at the merged PanCaribbean Asset Management Ltd, managingJamaica’s largest unit trust.In early 2006 he joined Prime Asset ManagementLtd as its Managing Director, responsible for thestrategic development of Prime which currentlymanages over J$28B in pension assets. Heregularly contributes pensions and investmentarticles to the Gleaner Company with variousspeaking engagements on these subjects overthe years.

D r . Locks ley Hen ryDr. Henry is a lecturer in the General ManagementDivision of the College of Business and Manage-ment (COBAM), University of Technology (UTech),Kingston, Jamaica. He lectures in graduate andundergraduate programmes in Strategic Manage-ment, International Management, ManagementTheory & Practice, and Organization Theory &Design. He is a long-standing member of theMichigan-based Academy of International Business (AIB).

C o n v e n t i o n S p e a k e r sGary Campbell

Mr. Campbell is the Director of Technologyin the Ministry of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining (MSTEM), the Ministrywith portfolio responsibility for Informationand Communication Technology (ICT). Hehas responsibility for national ICT policyand strategy.

He is also an adjunct faculty member atthe University of the West and has doneextensive work in the area of ICT and Project Management in both the public andprivate sectors. He has worked with companiessuch as Cable and Wireless (now FLOW),LOJ (now Sagicor) and the Planning Instituteof Jamaica.

Dr . Leachim Semaj

Dr. Semaj is the Chief Executive Officer &Business Guru with the The JobBank – Aboveor Beyond. He is noted internationally amongthe leading Keynote & Motivational Speakers,Creative Thinkers and Problem Solvers hailingfrom the Caribbean. This Psychologist com-bines ancient wisdom with contemporary ‘livity’ (worldviews) to bring fresh insight to oldhuman problems. As a Transformation Specialist he offers two options – ABOVE or BEYOND. Above where you presently are orBeyond your wildest dreams. Dr. Semaj hasworked with many sectors including – Energy,Hospitality, Finance, Gaming, Telecommuni-cations, Security, Agriculture, Pharmaceutical,Shipping, Distribution, Manufacturing, Education and Government.

Luese t te S . Howe l lLuesette Howell has lived and worked interna-tionally spanning 40 years in English andFrench-speaking Africa, Europe, and theCaribbean. Her global career has encompassedthe areas of Tertiary education, management positions, training in small enter-prise development, and international relationsspecializing in providing advisory services aswell as develop- ing and evaluating technicalcooperation programmes for implementationthrough public and private-sector organizations.

Up until her retirement in late 2012, she wasan active member, as Senior Specialist-Employers' Activities, with the InternationalLabour Organization (ILO) Decent Work Teamand Office for the Caribbean, based in Trinidadand Tobago and serving twenty-two Caribbeancountries and territories.

Since her retirement from the ILO in August2012, Luesette assumed her current capacityas International Development and ManagementConsultant. She continues to provide trainingand advisory services in response to requestsby private and public sector organizations, aswell as national, regional, and internationalprojects and programmes regarding rights andresponsibilities in the world of work.

C o n v e n t i o n S p e a k e r sCarvell Newton McLeary

Mr. McLeary is currently the Senior Director,Human Resources Management & Adminis-tration with the Airports Authority of Jamaica.He is a Practitioner and Researcher in Organizational Behaviour and has gained significant experience in human resourcemanagement while working in large and smallorganizations across the industries oftelecommunications, electric utility, distribu-tion (consumer and pharmaceutical) and airtransport. Through working in academia,Carvell also gained organizational diagnosisand improvement experience.

D r . R o b e r t O p p e n h e i m e rDr. Oppenheimer is a Professor in the Depart-ment of Management at Concordia University,where he has taught courses in developingmanagerial an personal skills, negotiation andconflict resolution, organizational behaviour andhuman resource management. He has beenengaged in independent management consult-ing and provides consultation and conductsworkshops with small and medium-sized privately held corporations and large organiza-tions in both the private and public sectors.The focus of his work has been the effectiveutilization of the organization's human resources.

G e o r g i a S i m p s o nMs. Simpson is currently Management Con-sultant with the Corporate Clinic. She hasover twenty years experience in enhancingoutcomes through leadership, training, customizing insurance and risk solutionsand project management. Ms. Simpson provides consulting services to the privatesector, government and multi-lateral agencies.She recently published the book “Issues & Approaches to Development – Jamaica’sDilemma” which includes a compilation ofstrategies to accelerate development in Jamaica.

Dr . Claudette Wi l l iams-MyersDr. Williams-Myers has served as AssociateDean, Acting Dean in the College of Businessand Management and in various academic,administrative and leadership positions atthe University of Technology for several years.She has conducted research in several areasincluding teaching/learning/ training, work-place requirements, balancing multiple priorities, disabilities and leadership succes-sion planning and presented at various conferences in Jamaica, the United Statesand in Europe. She has vast experience inteaching/training in academic and corporatesettings. She has enjoyed much success in initiating, developing and implementingcourses in a variety of areas for academicand corporate clients. Dr. Williams-Myerscontinues to make significant impact in thecommunities she serves and in 2014 wasawarded the University of Technology’s topaward; the Distinguished Service Award.

A c r e s S t o w eMr. Stowe, a past President of the Antigua &Barbuda Employers Federation (ABEF), hasproven track record, which spans over Twenty(20) years, in the Information Technology Industry,having spent seventeen (17) of those years inSenior Executive Management positions.

Mr. Stowe is a Past Director of the Board ofthe Caribbean Employers’ Confederation,Board Member on Medical Benefits Scheme’sBoard, Board Member on the Antigua & Barbuda National Development Foundation’sBoard and An Alternate - Board member on the Caribbean Export Development Agency'sBoard.

D r . P a t r i c k S t e r l i n gDr. Sterling is a Human Resource and Indus-trial Relations Practitioner, who is currentlythe Group Human Resource and IndustrialRelations Manager - Seprod Group of Companies.

His work experience spans the insurance industry, retail, telecommunications, manufac-turing and distribution. He previously heldSenior HR Management roles in a number ofentities including LIME Jamaica, Pepsi-ColaJamaica and Carreras Limited during whichhe facilitated talent acquisition, organizationalchange and transitions as well as training anddevelopment.

Sand r a Hu sband s -Nu r ubaka r iMrs. Husbands-Nurubakari is a ManagementConsultant with a blend of experience in thebusiness community that makes her servicesan invaluable asset to her clients. With experi-ence spanning Broadcasting, Sales, MarketResearch, Tourism, Public Relations andTotal Quality Management, she brings tohuman development the background experi-ence which makes training relevant. She isalso empowered to understand the criticalneeds of the sector and develop approachesthat meet diverse requirements.

She currently holds the position of 2nd Vice-president of the Caribbean Institute ofCertified Management Consultants. She hasheld the positions of President of the ExecutiveCouncil of the Barbados Small Business Association, (BSBA), as its first female President and the only President to hold officeover three consecutive terms.

K e i s h a P a l m e r - B u r k eMrs. Palmer-Burke is a Human ResourceProfessional with over 12 years of compre-hensive strategic and operational human resources experience including Business People Planning, Leadership Development,Performance, Talent, Change Managementand Labour Relations. She is currently theHuman Resources Manager with Nestlé Jamaica Limited.

C o n v e n t i o n S p e a k e r s

M i l t o n J . P e r k i n s

Mr. Perkins is the Chief Accountability andHuman Resources Officer for Vanguard IntegrityProfessionals, a leader in cyber security softwareand solutions. Previously, he was the SeniorDirector of Workforce Solutions for Agile•1 (HRconsulting practice leader). Milton has a tremen-dous wealth of practical, research, teaching andconsulting experience in human capital strate-gies, tactics and initiatives. He was also theSHRM’s Director, North Central Region,responsible for facilitating strategic planningand providing advice and counsel to the Society’svolunteer members and leaders. He has been teaching SHRM courses – SHRM-SCP/CP, HR Metrics and Analytics, Diversity &Inclusion, Workforce Planning, Conducting Inter-nal Investi-gations, HR Generalist, HR BusinessPartner I/II and HR Strategy courses for nearly15 years.

Magdalena Cooper-de NeuzeMs. Cooper-de Neuze is currently partner withMilestones & Lifestyle Planning Services. Shehas responsibility for presentations and is Pen-sions Consultant, Solid Life & General Insur-ance Brokers Ltd. She is a former Trustee ofthe LOJ Approved Superannuation Fund.Her career in Life Insurance, focuses on Em-ployee Benefits programmes: Group Life &AD&D, Health and other Benefits; Jamaica’sState Benefits (NIS and NHT) and ApprovedRetirement Savings Plans (SuperannuationFunds, Retirement Schemes, Retirement Bene-fits Schemes aka Top Hat) business. She hasalso worked in the life insurance industry in St. Lucia and te Turks & Caicos Islands.

J o h n P i l g r i m

Mr. Pilgrim is the Executive Director of the Bar-bados National Productivity Council. He hasbeen involved in the design and development ofProductivity Improvement Programmes in Barba-dos and throughout the wider Caribbean. Thecountries assisted are St. Vincent & TheGrenadines, St. Lucia, Curacao, Grenada, TheBahamas, St Kitts & Nevis, St. Maarten, Saba,Anguilla, Trinidad & Tobago, Montserrat, Do-minica, Jamaica, Bermuda and Suriname.

Kemal BrownMr. Kemal Brown is currently Solutions Officerat the Leachim T Semaj & Company/ The Job-Bank. He is an entrepreneur, motivationalspeaker, digital media consultant, academicand problem solver. Kemal, a lecturer, socialmedia strategist and host of the popular radioprogramme “Talking History”, has worked inbusiness, marketing, media, research, genderstudies, academia and international consulting.

He has built both personal and commercialbrands using social media, writes on digitaltrends and t rains companies and individuals in the effective use of social media.

David Rober tsMr. Roberts is an Australian national, who hasworked and lived in Jamaica for the last 14years. He is currently the Executive Vice PresidentCoresystems (a wholly owned Global Directories(Jamaica) Ltd company) C&W Business Author-ized Platinum Reseller. He has held numeroussenior management positions within Global Directories (Jamaica) Ltd as Jamaica YellowPages. He has also held sales & marketing positions in a number of countries.

John JacksonMr. Jackson is a Chartered Accountant & founderof the website IC Insider.com which covers financial and other information within theCaribbean and is also publisher of Investor’sChoice. John organised and since 1987, was themain presenter at the very successful Investmentseries. John is a former KPMG, Sevens Ltd andNational Sugar Company employee and serveson a number of private company boards as wellas the listed company “Jamaican Teas” where heis acting Chairman and mentor. He has wide experience in the fields of economics, stock markets, equity investments and business.

Dr. Marcia Rowe Amonde

Dr. Rowe Amonde is currently a Senior Directorat the HEART Trust NTA where she is responsiblefor leading the quality assurance of technical andvocational education and training programmes(TVET) to ensure quality TVET programmes,overseeing the capacity building of TVET pro-fessionals and strengthening the interface withthe Ministry of Education to advance TVET inthe formal education system.

Ambassador Dr. Richard L. Bernal

Ambassador Dr. Richard L. Bernal is the Executive Director–Caribbean, Inter-AmericanDevelopment Bank. Dr. Bernal was previouslythe Director-General of the Caribbean RegionalNegotiating Machinery (RNM) which is respon-sible for trade negotiations including those in theWTO for the member states of the CaribbeanCommunity (CARICOM), Cuba and the DominicanRepublic. He was Principal Negotiator for Forumof Caribbean States (CARIFORUM) in the negoti-ations, which led to the CARIFORUM- EuropeanUnion Economic Partnership Agreement).

He was also CARICOM’s lead negotiator in theFree Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) negoti-ations and has been lead negotiator in numerous negotiations on behalf of Jamaicaand CARICOM, including agreements on invest-ment, intellectual property rights, textiles and apparel, trade agreements, debt reductionagreements and loans from multilateral financialinstitutions (IMF, World Bank, and IADB).

C o n v e n t i o n S p e a k e r sK. Barrington ThomasTobago born and raised, K. Barrington Thomasstarted his working life as a teacher in thePrimary School system. He enlisted as aMilitary Officer, spent nine (9) years with theTrinidad and Tobago Defense Force (Regiment);retiring at the rank of Captain in 1989.

Mr. Thomas co-developed the Special ForcesUnit of the Trinidad and Tobago Regiment duringhis tenure, and commanded it for the first six(6) years of its existence. In 2003, he launchedhis own business – Incubator CaribbeanFocus Limited.

D r . And re McDona ldDr. Andre McDonald is a medical doctor, and the CEO and Founder of Suretime EmergencyMedical Services, a family business with a teamof doctors with a wide range of exper- tise with supporting competent medical staff, located at 10 Trafalgar Road. He is the Chief Medical Officerfor Guardian Life Paramedic Centre and for theNational Golden Age Home, which houses nearly500 residents, in addition to support staff. Dr. McDonald also ha s primary responsibilitiesto provide medical services to a number of otherpublic and private entities.

He is a member and past Director of the Kiwanisclub of Eastern Kingston and Port Royal and amember of Mona Baptist circuit of churches. He is a very accomplished and articulate man ofGod. He adores the Lord; he loves people and values success in all areas of life.

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