Robert Lemon, PhD Professional SpeakerBelieve Your Dreams Inc.

Patrick Sterling, PhDGroup Human Resources ManagerSeprod Group Ltd.

Shirley Davis, PhD President and CEO SDS Global Enterprises Inc.

Leahcim Semaj, PhDChief IdeatorAbove or Beyond

SUPER-SIZED SESSIONSThursday June 7

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Day 2 Friday June 8110:00 AM - 10:30 AMCOFFEE BREAK & EXHIBITION VIEWING

10:45 AM - 12:00 NOONGENERAL SESSION“Retirement is Dead, Time To Design A Viable Replacement”

12:00 NOON - 1:30 PML U N C H @ L E I S U R E

1:45 PM - 3:00 PMCONCURRENT SESSIONS“Lawyers in Industrial Relations Proceedings: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly” –The Voice of Experience

"Bridging the Digital Divide: Leveraging Digital Technologies For Business & Societal Success"

“Work is Warfare”

“Reframing Emotional Intelligence Into Emotional Competence”: How This Shift Can Increase Your Effectiveness As A Leader

3:15 PM - 4:30 PMCONCURRENT SESSIONS“Using Social Influence to Create Change”

“Managing Conflict”

“The Leadership Challenge: Inspiring the Vision through the Blue Ocean Strategy Philosophy”

“Security: Whose Responsibility..?”

4:30 PM - 4:45 PMCOFFEE BREAK

5:00 PM - 6:15 PM“Coping with Stress at work”

“A Real Challenge to Change: Leadership Values & The OSH ACT”

Addressing Crime: A Success Story”

"Cultural Competency: A Life-Long Journey"

8:30 AM - 10:00 AMOPENING CEREMONY

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10:00 AM - 12:00 PM“Developing and Honing Your Human Relations Skills”

‘Negotiating as a Catalyst for Change’

12:00 NOON - 1:30 PML U N C H @ L E I S U R E1 : 0 0 P M - 1 : 3 0 P MORIENTATION SESSION“Navigating the MAIZZE”: Meeting And Integrating withZest, Zeal & Energy

1:45 PM - 3:45 PMSUPERSIZED SESSIONS cont’d“Evolve or Expire”: The role of the HR Business Partner in the Organizational Change Process

“Leading Them Where?”

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM – PANEL DISCUSSION“Costly Industrial Relations Decisions and How to Avoid Making Them”

5:30 PM – 7:00 PM

EXHIBITION OPENING CEREMONY

VIEWING & COCKTAILS

LEADERSHIP SATURDAYSaturday June 9

Day 2

Friday June 8 3Day

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9:00 AM - 10:15 AMOPENING GENERAL SESSION“Managing Millennials”

10:15 AM - 10:30 AMCOFFEE BREAK10:45 AM - 12:00 NOON CONCURRENT SESSION“Creating Value: A Contemporary Model/Approach to Incentive Pay as a Part of a Compensation Management Strategy”

“Compliance Risk Management – Challenges in the Work Place"

“Customer Service: Why we do what we do”

“Inclusive Leadership—New Mindset, Models, and Competencies for Workforce 2020”

12:00 NOON - 1:45 PMLUNCH @ LEISURE

2:00 PM - 3:15 PMCONCURRENT SESSIONS“Exploring Your Talents to Transcend Generations”

“Leadership Can Be Learned – Be the Change you want to see in the World”

“Judging Online Posts”: Impact on your Company and employees in the Workplace

“Building and Engaging Your Social Media Audience: Proven Strategies from the Field”

3:30 PM - 4:45 PM“Harassment – A Real Workplace Issue

“Social Engineering – Exploitation of Human Behaviour”

6:30 PM - 7:45 PMCLOSING GENERAL SESSION“#MeToo: Building a Respectful Harassment-Free Workplace Culture”

LEADERSHIP SATURDAY3Day

3:30 PM - 4:45 PM CONCURRENT SESSION cont’d

Lean Thinking: Changing the Lean Way”

“HRM in the 21st Century: Humanoids, Robots and Millennials”

5:00 PM - 5:15 PMCOFFEE BREAK

5:30 PM - 6:45 PM

GENERAL SESSION“Believe Your Dreams: Teamwork Makes the Dreamwork”

JAMAICA EMPLOYERS’ FEDERATION

Celebrating 60 Yearsof Service & Commitment

Saturday June 9

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Vanessa Thomas Williams, LLBVanessa Thomas Williams specializes in Employment Relations and Caribbean IndustrialRelations law. She is a qualified Attorney at law,who has held management positions in both thepublic and private sectors in both Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana. Her professional work coversmanagement training in Industrial Relations, Human Resource Management Policy Design andImplementation, and Occupational Safety andHealth Management. She has represented a rangeof employers in collective bargaining and severalcompanies at litigation. Ms. Thomas Williams hasserved as an Adjunct Lecturer at the University ofthe West Indies. She is currently the President of the Safety Council of Trinidad and Tobago, and performs numerous speaking engagements at international conferences.

Patrick Sterling, PhDPatrick Sterling, PhD, is a Human Resource andIndustrial Relations Practitioner. His work experience includes the insurance industry, retail,telecommunications, manufacturing and distribution.He has held Senior HR Management positions ina number of entities in which he facilitated talentacquisition, organizational change and transitionsas well as training and development.

Within academia, he has lectured courses in Management, Human Resources Managementand Compensation at both the Bachelor’s andMaster’s degree levels.

Wayne Chen, LLBWayne Chen is Past President of the JamaicaEmployers’ Federation (JEF) and the Presidentof the Caribbean Employers’ Confederation(CEC). He is also Chairman and CEO of SuperPlus Food Stores. Mr. Chen has served on theboards of several Jamaican companies includingthe National Commercial Bank, the VictoriaMutual 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 theJamaica Observer’s Business Leader of theYear. He is the co-author of “Reggae Routes:The History of Jamaican Popular Music”.

Fabian ThomasFabian Thomas has made his mark in theHumanities with over twenty years’ experienceas a trainer/facilitator, lecturer, writer, anactor, a spoken word performer and director.He has used his academic successes aswell as his work in the arts, to provide vehiclesfor delivering a wide range of workshops toaddress a number of topics for corporateclients and specific demographics. Topicsaddressed have included team building,management and leadership skills, organi-zational issues, customer service, staff development and individual/team motivation.He also offers training and education inspecific fields in the entertainment industryand a focused set of seminars on HIV andAIDS education.

Habib Chamoun-Nicolas, PhDHabib Chamoun-Nicolas, PhD, has beenconducting negotiation and business develop-ment activities in diversified sectors, oil andgas, petroleum, petrochemical, chemical,industrial, commercial, institutional, for thesales and marketing of services and productsfor over 25 years. He has trained thousandsbusiness professionals on a BusinessDevelopment Approach on sales and nego-tiation and has conducted research on HowMexicans and other cultures Negotiate. Healso designed a program to train a group ofBeijing International Airport Managers forcross-cultural negotiations.

Leahcim Semaj , PhDLeahcim Samaj, PhD, has the unique abilityto impact persons at all levels of educationand competence, Dr. Semaj creates a partici-patory environment that keeps the audiencefully engaged.

Sandra Palmer, PhDSandra Palmer, PhD, has over 20 years ofBusiness and Academic experience in theCaribbean and North America, Dr. SandraPalmer presents a fresh perspective to her audiences on succeeding in these challengingtimes.

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Gregory C. ReidGregory Reid – Attorney-at-Law, is currentlythe Managing Partner of the firm – Zaidie,Reid & Company. He works extensively in theareas of Industrial and Human Relations andhas been a specialist practitioner in LabourLaws for over twenty-three years. Mr. Reid is a former chairman of the Jamaican BarAssociation Standing Committee on LabourLaws and Industrial Relations.

Kemal BrownMr. Kemal Brown is the Founder, President& CEO of Digita Global Marketing Ltd, aCaribbean based, globally focused mediacompany and marketing agency. He is alsoChairman of Digital Global Group Inc. andDigita Holdings LLC. He is a former Academic,having lectured at two Caribbean Universities.He lives by the philosophy of Kaizen, con-stantly pursuing daily improvement towardsexcellence.

Curtis T. ToussaintCurtis Toussaint is a Management Professionalwith considerable project experience, throughoutthe Caribbean Region. His recognized expertisecovers the areas of Strategic Corporate Res-ponsibility and Business Development. In addition, his supervision and experience offer to corporate entities, the ability to engage insustainable community involvement, taking intoconsideration image, brand and reputation.

Carey Wallace, PhDCarey Wallace, PhD, “…an incredibly drivenprofessional with the passion, depth ofexperience and track record of success”, is theExecutive Director of the Tourism EnhancementFund. He is responsible for directing andmanaging the Agency in fulfilling its mandateof promoting growth and development in thelocal tourism sector.

Prior to joining TEF, Dr. Wallace was a SeniorConsultant with T2 (UK) Limited, one of theworld’s leading providers of Psycho-Linguistics,where he guided blue-chip clients to optimumoperational and customer performance. In addition, he led T2’s growth strategy throughnew product development and expansion intoInternational markets. Dr. Wallace’s experiencein Tourism spans some 20 years.

Inspector Tyrone ArcherInspector of Police - Tyrone Archer is currently theCommander of the Grants Pen Police Station,where he has transformed negative situationsinto positive outcomes.

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Arnold SmalleyArnold Smalley is the CEO of Small World Solutions, Inc., a corporate training businesswith workshops on Diversity, Cultural Compe-tency, Customer Service, Sexual Harassment,and other related topics. Mr. Smalley recentlyretired from 25 years of Federal Governmentservice as a Special Agent in the United StatesDepartment of Justice.

Luesette Simpson HowellLuesette Howell, a former senior official with the International Labour Organization (ILO),has been engaged in public, private, and international arenas in many countries. Her international experience includes university lecturer, researcher, trainer, facilitator, advisor,and presenter on a variety of work-related topics for national and regional forums. Her focushas been on fostering social dialogue and build-ing capacity. She has also worked in crisessituations for disaster relief, economic recovery,and psycho-social support.

Robert “Bobby” Finzi-SmithRobert Finzi-Smith is the Senior Director ofSafety & Security at the University of Tech-nology. He has general responsibility for thesecurity and safety of the Campus and students.

He has had extensive experience in the areasof Security Management, Academia, Sportsand Corporate Social Responsibility and hasserved on the Boards of the Football Feder-ation, Port Security Corps, as Member of theImplementation Committee – “Tablets inSchools”. Mr. Smith is an accomplishedTrainer in areas of Security & Safety and isalso a certified trainer for FIFA/Interpol inIntegrity and anti-match fixing.

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Gi lmore CrosbyGilmore Crosby has been an Organization Development Professional since 1984. He hasdelivered services within the Caribbean since1999. His unique and practical approach con-sistently results in individual and systemicchange. His clients range from government, to pastors, to industry, to resorts and more. Although engaged in a world-wide consultancy,he is always grateful to be in Jamaica and he is happily married to a Jamaican.

Tony Henthorne , PhDTony Henthorne PhD, is the Associate Deanat the University of Nevada, Las Vegas wherehe teaches Marketing Planning & Strategy.He directs all graduate programs, researchactivities and international programs for hiscollege. He has worked with resort entitiesthroughout the Caribbean and Mexico onmarket planning and customer service. Hislatest book deals with tourism planning in Cuba.

Gary Campbel lGary Campbell is the Director of Technologyin the Ministry of Science, Energy & Technologyand Office of the CIO, Jamaica. He is a BusinessProfessional and Lecturer with over twenty (20)years of experience in Project Management,Business Research and Training and Develop-ment. He has Extensive lecturing/ training experience in curriculum development, courseevaluation and assessment, Business Research,Supply Chain Management and Project Management.

Shirley Davis, PhD Dr. Shirley Davis, CSP, is an accomplishedcorporate executive, global workforce manage-ment expert, a certified leadership coach, anda master of reinvention. She works with leadersat all levels and has worked in more than 30countries around the world on 5 continentsand delivers more than 80 speeches a year.

Tamar NelsonTamar Nelson is the Senior Director at theProductivity centre. She is an Industrial andSystems Engineer with an extensive back-ground in process design and re-engineering.She has provided capacity initiatives in Jamaica, as well as Antigua, Haiti, Guyana,Japan and the United States of America. Shehas worked with over 250 organizations withinthe private and public sectors spanning manyindustries helping them to uncover secretsfor their organization’s success. Saving organization’s in some instances in excess ofUS$2.5 million per annum.

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Fritz H. A. Pinnock, PhD

Professor Pinnock is the President of theCaribbean Maritime University and is a lecturerand the premier presenter for the national logistics 101 and 102 lecturing series whichtrained over 20,000 persons. Dr. Pinnock is anadvocate for Educational transformationthrough TVET. He is the Chairman of the National Logistics Hub Education and TrainingSub Committee. He has authored several booksin multiple languages; is a special advisor tovarious agencies and sits on several, institu-tional, community and sports related boards.

John Pi lgr imMr. Pilgrim is the Executive Director of the Barbados National Productivity Council. He hasbeen involved in the design and development of Productivity Improvement Programmes inBarbados and throughout the wider Caribbean.The countries assisted are St. Vincent & TheGrenadines, St. Lucia, Curacao, Grenada, TheBahamas, St Kitts & Nevis, St Maarten, Saba,Anguilla, Trinidad & Tobago, Montserrat, Dominica,Jamaica, Bermuda and Suriname.

He has also conducted Lectures at the: • University of the West Indies• Barbados Community College• Catolica Pontificia Madera University,

Santo Domingo

Robert C. TeelucksinghRobert C.Teelucksingh is the Senior Consul-tant/Director Risk for Tee Luck Singh & Associates Limited.

His primary objective is to assist organizationsin managing risk within their organizationsand to reduce their risk exposure to futureevents, even as an opportunity for growthwhile complying with their specific regulatoryrequirements.

Robert is also a consultant with the Interna-tional Labour Organization (ILO) Sub-regionalOffice in Trinidad working with employer andemployee organization as the main resourceperson/facilitator in the Decant Work Programwhere he facilitated workshops on Implement-ing Safety & Health & Business ContinuityPlanning for Fourteen [14] countries in theCaribbean, including Haiti.

Marcus Mottley, PhDMarcus M. Mottley is a business consultant,clinical psychologist and executive coach withmore than 35 years’ experience in the fields ofeducation, mental health, and human resourceand organizational development. He developsand presents keynotes and seminars nationallyand internationally, and provides consultingservices to corporations, associations, govern-ment agencies and community organizations.

Cordel Green Mr. Cordel Green is an Attorney-at-Law, a formerAssistant Attorney-General of Jamaica and aformer broadcaster. He is the Executive Directorof the Broadcasting Commission, which regu-lates radio, television and cable in Jamaica.

He is a Commissioner on the Jamaica NationalCommission for UNESCO, member of the Inter-governmental Council for the Information For AllProgramme (IFAP) – UNESCO, member of theLaw Committee for the IEEE Global Initiativefor Ethical Consideration in Artificial Intelligenceand Autonomous Systems, fellow of Telecom-munications Executive Management Institute ofCanada (TEMIC) and honorary member of theMulticultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council(MMTC), Washington D.C.

Jodi-Ann JacksonMrs. Jodi-Ann Jackson is an Economist witha passion for growth and development. Shecurrently serves as the Economist/Researcherat the Broadcasting Commission, which regulatesradio, television and cable TV services in Jamaica.

As a former Research Assistant at the Universityof the West Indies, she has enjoyed the oppor-tunity to conduct research in areas such as taxformation and implementation, monetary policy,fiscal policy, social and economic developmentand rural transformation.

Karlene Salmon Karlene Salmon joined the Broadcasting Com-mission in 2009 as the Assistant Executive Director after having worked for over a decadein broadcasting and television production as aproducer, presenter and media manager.

A former Programmes Manager for TelevisionJamaica, and a former Operations manager ofLove FM Radio and Television, Karlene alsolectures part time in media studies. She hastaught at the undergraduate and postgraduatelevels at the Caribbean School of Media andCommunication, UWI, the Northern CaribbeanUniversity, and the International University ofthe Caribbean where she developed the mediamodules for the Master’s in Business Adminis-tration, Media Management Specialization. Sheis currently a research supervisor for the 2017/18Master’s in Communication for Social and Behaviour Change at UWI.

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Robert Lemon, PhDDr. Robert Lemon is an award winning national speaker and best-selling author.Named a man of Prominence, Power andPrestige by a Miami newspaper, he teachesothers to pursue their dreams. Named Advantage Media Group 2011 Author of theYear “Now Is Your Time” foreword by LesBrown. Co-authored “Multiple Streams OfInspiration” with Jack Canfield. He haspresented to numerous corporate, govern-ment, associations and educationalorganizations.

His profound presentations draw from hisacademic and professional achievement,from over 30 years corporate experiencefrom the U.S. Postal Service and U.S. AirForce.

Dr. Lemon has been mentored and sharedthe platform with Les Brown, Dr. Willie Jolleyand Simon T. Bailey. Robert earned hisDoctorate Degree from JBTS Seminary,and is a member of the National Speakers’Association.

Georgia Simpson, FCll Ms. Simpson has been a ManagementCONSULTANT since 1997. Her areas ofspecialization include: Corporate Gover-nance, Needs Assessment, OrganizationalDevelopment, Risk Management, Women’sLeadership & Management, People Manage-ment, Change Management, CustomerService and Marketing. Her work, in thecommercial and development sectors,includes the execution of initiatives and thepioneering of critical decisions whichenabled the achievement of targets and thesuccessful transitioning from challengingdynamics in their internal and external environ-ment. She is also the Author of the book:"Issues & Approaches to Development, Jamaica's Dilemma".

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About the Jamaica Employers’ Federation

The Jamaica Employers’ Federation was established sixty (60) years ago, to representand safeguard the interests of employers in their relationship with government and organizedlabour. Its mission is “To lead the development of an enabling business environment,through the effective representation and provision of value-added services that strengthenthe ability of employers to optimize competitiveness and workplace harmony”

The Jamaica Employers’ Federation (JEF) is the only organization of its kind in Jamaica.

Today, JEF has a growing membership of over three hundred Corporate and individualmembers and is a member of the International Organization of Employers (IOE), and theCaribbean Employers’ Confederation (CEC). JEF is Jamaica’s sole employer representativeto the International Labour Organization (ILO), the only UN body with a tripartite structurethat facilitates the interests of the Worker, Government and the Employer.

Through extensive research and developmental activities, as well as its international affiliations, JEF has the expertise and reach, to successfully fulfil its mandate, both locallyand regionally, and in 2001, significantly expanded its range of services to better supportthe business development and productivity needs of Jamaican employers.

JEF’s suite of services includes – IR Consultancy; Research & Development; MembershipServices; Events Planning & Coordination; Occupational Safety & Health; Learning, HumanResources Development & Workplace Solutions.