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Program: Managing Your Executive Team: Secrets from the Best

Is there a disconnect between how the executive views HR Strategy, and your beliefs of what works best?  Does part of your executive team have a blind spot when it comes to employees? Do some of their beliefs get in the way of corporate effectiveness.?

Alan Cabelly and Jean Benevento will guide you through approaches that will help you address these issues. Through anecdotes and classic concepts, they will open doors to creative solutions that will give both you and your executive team new perspectives. You will walk away with ideas that will help you solve problems and move your organization forward.

About the Speakers: Alan Cabelly & Jean Benevento

Jean Benevento brings over 25 years of corporate management and leadership experience, as well as ten years of corporate consulting and international teaching.  She led executive teams through difficult problems, finding ways to bring people closer together.  Her ability to create a kaleidoscopic view of problems helps others find new approaches to long standing challenges.

Alan Cabelly (Ph. D., University of Washington) has been a Human Resource Management faculty member at Portland State University since 1980.  He teaches Leadership and Human Resource Management at the undergraduate, graduate, and executive levels, as well as to many groups nationally and internationally. He teaches actively around the world, most recently in Viet Nam, France, China, and Germany.  These and other diverse travel experiences allow him to bring unique approaches to his work.

Prof. Cabelly is founder and Executive Director of the Portland Leadership Institute (www.portlandleadershipinstitute.com), which focuses on Leadership Excellence in the 21^stcentury.  He uses the DiSC^© system and other contemporary techniques for Executive and Leadership Coaching, and speaks extensively on Employee Engagement; Strategic Negotiations; Generation Similarities and Differences in the Workplace; Authentic Leadership; Using Whole Brain Thinking for Increased Effectiveness; Work for the 21^st Century; and various HRM topics.  His personal mission is to help individuals increase their leadership skills and improve the functioning of their work teams.  He helps people find passion in their work life environment, leading to greater individual engagement and satisfaction, and increased organization productivity.  The blog on the Institute web pages identifies this work and describes much of his international work in detail.

Prof. Cabelly was founding Chapter Advisor of the PSU Chapter of SHRM.  Since its inception in 1982, it has won 34 consecutive Superior Merit Awards from SHRM, and has won numerous SHRM and NHRMA student competitions, as well as receiving Chapter of the Year recognition.  He has been named SHRM Advisor of the Year, twice Distinguished Member of NHRMA, and earned the Human Resources Award of Excellence from PHRMA.  He was President of NHRMA in 2000, Director of the Oregon State Council of SHRM in 2009, and currently serves on the Oregon State Council Conference Committee, and PHRMA’s 2016 Strategic Management Conference Committee.  For many years he served on the SHRM College Relations Steering Committee.  In his spare time he gardens, travels the world, and remains physically active.