Global Speakers

Julius Schillinger is Director, Human Resources, for Gateway Learning Group, a San Francisco based Autism and Behavioral Health services provider. Recently, he led Human Resources for Aurora Behavioral Health an acute psychiatric care hospital. Previously, he was SVP, Strategic Business Development for E4 Health, a provider of integrated EAP, Wellness and Chronic Care Management solutions to Employers. Prior to E4, he was VP, Sales & Account Management for Managed Health Network (MHN), the Behavioral Health & Wellness program subsidiary of Health Net, one of the nation’s leading Health Care companies (Fortune 200). Before being promoted to this role, he was Health Net’s Director, Human Resources for 7 years. Before Health Net, he was Chief HR Officer for NextCard, an online consumer credit provider. Julius also spent 7 years as VP Global Human Capital for Cap Gemini Ernst & Young’s consulting division, leading CGEY’s Human Capital & business growth consulting practice.

Julius has written for educational journals and major newspapers, served on the MBA advisory board for his alma mater, University of Southern CA, and for 25 years, has taught among the highest student rated courses at University of CA Santa Cruz, where he received UC Chancellor’s recognition for teaching excellence. He is a frequent speaker at national and regional industry conferences on emerging trends and cloud-based solutions for human resources programs that drive business impact. He recently was keynote speaker at EASNA’s annual conference (Employee Assistance Society of North America) in April 2016, held in Montreal, Canada, also leading a distinguished panel discussion on “The Rise of Telebehavioral Health”.

Kris Hamner is a versatile and strategic leader bringing more than 18 years of significant global experience and HR functional depth and breadth. This includes a proven record of executive and Board collaboration, in large and small companies, across diverse industries ranging from technology, services, to public sector.

Most recently Kris has developed and executed innovative initiatives aligned to business and employee needs at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE); a leading company in Server, Storage, Networking, Cloud, Software, and Services products with $30B in revenue. At HPE, Kris has held multiple global leadership roles across their strategic Enterprise Group businesses and played a critical role in the separation from HP, divestitures, multiple acquisitions, and company-wide transformation to drive profitable growth and market leadership.

Before joining HP and HPE, Kris was Sr. Executive Director of HR at Hitachi Global Storage Technologies. Prior, Kris held senior level HR leadership positions at Avago Technologies (formerly Agilent), National Semiconductor, and Canon in areas of Organizational Development, Global Total Rewards, HR Business Partnering, Employee Relations, HR Operations, and Mergers & Acquisitions.

Kris holds a Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources from the University of Nevada and an MBA in Finance and Management Consulting from the University of Notre Dame.

Danielle McMahan is Vice President, Global Talent for American Express Global Business Travel. In this position, Danielle is responsible for developing high impact talent management strategies to develop depth, breadth, and diversity of global talent in support of the organizations strategic initiatives. Specific areas of focus are talent acquisition, succession planning, change management, organizational and performance management, diversity and leadership development.

Previously, Danielle was Senior HR Business Partner for ADPs Small Business Services organization. She joined ADP in 2009 as the Senior Director of Talent Management to build out the talent organization and practice. She was responsible for driving ADP’s talent management processes, including succession planning and targeted executive development, to ensure that the right talent required to execute business strategies was available and ready.

Danielle has more than nineteen years of experience in Organizational and Leadership Development. Before joining ADP, she was SVP, Leadership and Executive Development for CITI, responsible for managing the leadership and executive development curriculum and the executive coaching practice for the Investment Banking Division across North America. Previously at VNSNY, Danielle was the Manager of Talent Development leading the Learning and Development Practice for a $1Billion, 12,000 employee Home Health Care Agency. Danielle also worked at CIGNA Healthcare as the Director of Business Analysis and Reporting, responsible for employee surveys, human resource metrics, employee retention initiatives, and management development. She began her career at Goldman Sachs in the Training and Development department.

Danielle received her B.A. in Psychology and M.A. in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University. She holds multiple certifications including Cornell’s Human Resource Practices, the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), BarOn Emotional Quotient Inventory (BarOn EQ-i), and 360 Feedback Instruments such as Benchmarks, PDI and LVI.

Tony Le brings leadership and insight to HR process, functionality, strategy, technology and recruiting for several brands within IAC Publishing which include Ask.com, About.com, Dictionary.com, Investopedia, The Daily Beast, ASKfm and more with offices around the world in Oakland CA, New York, Canada, Ireland, London, Latvia and more. His role has been the bridge between HR and other departments (i.e. finance, marketing) to create one unified process while overseeing HR operations and recruiting across very distinctive and independent companies.

Robert has more than 30 consecutive and successful years delivering proactive research, insights, and analytic solutions for the retail, health, and services industries. This experience spans multiple business functions, including sales, marketing, operations, finance, human resources, and information technology. He is one of the best in assimilating data from disparate internal and external resources – resulting in a crisp, concise and complete solution to the entire issue/problem at hand – and, if necessary, he can lead the implementation of the solution! Robert’s teams are the best in the organization and the best in the industry. Robert is an accomplished and dynamic public speaker. When he’s not “analyticizing,” you’ll find him with his family or working at his church (he’s ordained and licensed minister as well as a vocalist).

Al Adamsen, Founder & Executive Director of the Talent Strategy Institute, is one of the few who has led a workforce planning & analytics function within a Fortune 500 company (Gap Inc.), served as a leader with a prominent analytics vendor, and has also advised some of the world’s leading brands: Disney, Starbucks, T-Mobile, Boeing, Heinz, Mayo Clinic, Stanford University, among many others. Al also co-chairs numerous peer groups: the Talent Strategy Council, Leadership Development Council, Workforce Planning Council, Workforce Analytics Council, and Culture & Change Council. Al’s educational background is in managerial economics and individual, team, and organizational behavior; and, given his athletic background and interests, he also trains high school and youth coaches, parents of young athletes, as well as young athletes themselves on how to have a positive, character-building experience through sports. Al remains a competitive beach volleyball player, and he can often be found playing on the beaches of his home, Santa Cruz, California with his wife and three kids.

Kathy Doan has been at Wells Fargo since 2001 and is currently Vice President of the Community Banking HR Insights & Analysis Group. As an HR Analytics Manager, she leads the Consulting & Line of Business Insights team to provide thought leadership and insights to senior HR leaders and business leaders to optimize Community Banking’s human capital base.

Erika Sockaci is a passionate Healthcare Executive with 16+ years experience leading change and building effective, dynamic teams. She recently moved from leading medical group operations to implementing strategic workforce planning, successfully integrating workforce into AltaMed’s strategic, financial and budget planning processes.