JEF Convention 2011

Presenters

Chris Crosby

Chris Crosby is a seasoned organizational development practitioner with seventeen years of internal and external experience working at all levels of organizations.

Steven Burch

Steven is the Senior Partner at Quaestus, a consulting firm specializing in developing leadership throughout organizations. With a strong track record in working with boards and other senior teams.

Milton Perkins

Milton J. Perkins, is Agile•1's Senior Director of Workforce Consulting Solutions. He is responsible for developing and delivering workforce planning, organizational capability assessment, organizational development, diversity and inclusion, HR Analytic, and change management solutions to Fortune 1000 clients.

Terence Frater, PhD.

Terence Frater has over 30 years experience of leading learning interventions in organizations and extensive experience teaching in the college and university systems.

Pearnel Charles

The Honorable Pearnel Charles is the Minister of Labor and Social Security. His political career started in 1965 when he joined the staff of the BITU shortly after completing studies in Political Science in New York.

Fitz- George Carty

Fitz- George Carty has over thirty years experience in Operations and Technical Management in the Manufacturing and Chemical Processing Industries.

Franck "Zanu" Adjisegbe

Franck, aka, Zanu, has been helping employers understand Image Development since 1999. Like no other, he has the rare and unique ability to lead his participants to convert their weaknesses into gainful action.

Patrick Sterling

Patrick Sterling is the Human Resources Manager for Carreras Limited, a 2009 JEF "Employer of Choice". He is an educator and Human Resources professional. For over fourteen (14) years he has supported the Human Resource Management function in numerous organizations in the areas of recruitment and staff development in various industries.

Jennifer M. Hall, PhD.

Jennifer Hall is the Vice-Dean – Faculty of Education and Liberal Studies at the University of Technology. She is also Programme Leader for the MSc. in Workforce Education and Development.

William W. Lawrence, PhD.

William W. Lawrence has more than 25 years of experience as a business executive and industrial engineer. He provides strategic and operations management consultancy services to organizations in both the private and public sectors.

Gilmore Crosby

Gilmore (Gil) Crosby has over Twenty-six years of Leadership and Organizational Development experience, including management positions in four organizations, and sole proprietorship of a successful consulting business.

David Roberts

David Roberts has over 39 years experience in various sales positions in a number of countries. He has been resident in Jamaica for nearly 9 years and his current role is as Director of Business Development for Global Directories.

Gregory Reid

Gregory Reid – Attorney-at-Law, is currently the Managing Partner of the firm – Zaidie, Reid & Company. He works extensively in the areas of Industrial and Human Relations and has been a specialist practitioner in Labour Laws for over twenty-one years.

Vanessa Thomas Williams

Vanessa Thomas Williams is an Attorney at Law who specializes in Industrial Relations and legal issues surrounding employment. She is an Industrial Relations Consultant and is currently engaged in private practice.

David Cohen, PhD.

David Cohen is the founder of Strategic Action Group, Ltd. (in 1991) and today he is a principal consultant with them. His passion is about aligning company people practices with the company culture and the strategic business plan.

Francis Wade

Francis Wade is the founder and President of Framework Consulting. His firm focuses on solving uniquely difficult people problems in Caribbean companies. Francis also teaches at the University of Phoenix in their graduate school of business. He writes for the Jamaica Gleaner online, the Trinidad Newsday and several blogs.

Merrick Needham

Merrick Needham, Officer of the Order of Distinction, Member of the Royal Victorian Order, has been Jamaica's principal logistics, ceremonial and protocol consultant for some thirty years.

Tjerk (Jack) Dusseldorp

Tjerk (Jack) Dusseldorp is the President of WorldSkills International. He is the Chair of the Dusseldorp Skills Forum and past Chair of the WorldSkills Australia Foundation.

Suzanne Jones

Suzanne Jones has been a professional Librarian for 28 years. She has supervised a multi-generational and multi-ethnic workforce, responding to the changing informational needs on University campuses. She has been involved with conducting research regarding workplace dynamics, including the effects of generational issues.

Jacqueline Irons

Jacqueline Irons has had over 29 years experience as a HR/IR Practitioner honed in the Distributive, Manufacturing Insurance and Hospitality Industries. She is currently, a Part-Time Lecturer at UWI & FIU.

Anna Kasafi Perkins, PhD.

Anna Perkins is the quality assurance officer on the Mona Campus of the UWI. She offers consultancy services in the areas of business and professional ethics and recently started her company, Kasafi Professional Services.

Allan Ballagh

Allan Ballagh is Director - Technical and Further Education (TAFE) Australia and Vice-President at RMIT University, a position held since November 2003. Prior to joining RMIT as a TAFE Project Director in 1998, and later as Associate Director TAFE, Mr. Ballagh held a number of positions at the Western Melbourne Institute of TAFE.

Danny Roberts

Danny Roberts is the Director of the Hugh Lawson Shearer Trade Union Education Institute and a Vice President of the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions.

Andrew Wynter

Andrew Wynter is the Compliance and Investigations Manager at Grace Kennedy and Co. Ltd. Prior to this, he was the Risk and Governance Manager with Hardware & Lumber where he was involved in the areas of Loss Prevention, and Risk management.

Kala Fleming, PhD.

Kala helps companies design and implement their CSR programs so that all stakeholders, not just shareholders benefit. This inclusive approach to CSR has yielded significant bottom line returns for large fortune 500 companies as well as small startups with limited resources.

John Pilgrim

John Pilgrim is the Executive Director – The Barbados Productivity Council. He is also the Author of several papers and booklets.

Patricia Holness, PhD.

Patricia Holness is a Leadership, Performance Management and Strategic Planning Practitioner. She is a CEO of the Registrar General's Department and has lifted the profile of the Registrar General's Department to the extent that in 2010 the Organization of American States (OAS) not only designated the RGD Jamaica as having the "Best Practice" in the hemisphere, but has requested that the RGD Jamaica modernizes the Civil Registries of the OECS countries.

Alvin Day

Alvin Day – Motivational Speaker, is a Sales and Personal Empowerment Coach and Executive Director of Sales Empowerment Institute. He has gained experience in every facet of the sales process.

Anne P. Crick, PhD.

Anne P. Crick is a Senior Lecturer in Organizational Behaviour, Human Resource Management, Organizational Development and Organizational Design. She is a former Head of the Department of Management Studies and the Centre for Hospitality and Tourism Management located in Nassau, Bahamas.

Kenneth Barrington Thomas

Tobago born and raised, K. Barrington Thomas Chief Servant / Life Coach / Corporate Trainer with Incubator Caribbean Focus Limited, started his working life as a teacher in the Primary school system. He then enlisted as a Military Officer, and spent nine (9) years with the Trinidad and Tobago Defense Force (Regiment).

Other Speakers

Richard Hines
Richard, a Certified Fraud Examiner, is the Manager of the Fraud Prevention Unit at National Commercial Bank (NCB) where he has been employed for the past twenty eight years.
Noel Cowell, PhD.
Noel Cowell is a Senior Lecturer of Employment Relations in the Department of Management Studies at the University of the West Indies. He also lectures in Industrial Relations in the Department of Management Studies.
Barry Moltz
Barry Moltz – Author and Motivational Speaker, has founded and run small businesses with a great deal of success for more than 15 years. After successfully selling his last operating business, Barry has branched out into a number of entrepre-neurship-related activities.
Henley Morgan, PhD.
Henley Morgan is a Managing Consultant with Global Management Solutions Limited and Caribbean Applied Technology Centre Limited. With over 20 years experience in the field, he is highly regarded in the Caribbean region as an Education Administrator, Organization Development Specialist, a Strategic Planner, and a Human Resource Development Professional.

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