Steve Hildebrand With Obama For President Campaign Joins Corporate Speakers At Communitelligence Innovating Employee Engagement Conference in Chicago This Week
2008-07-28 23:49:03 -
- Communitelligence, Inc. John Gerstner, President, 480-816-5550 www.communitelligence.com Steve Hildebrand, Deputy Campaign Manager of Barack Obama For President, is joining a star list of Fortune 500 organizations at the Innovating Employee Engagement conference in Chicago, July 31-August 1. The premier conference is bringing together leading communications and HR professionals to share trends, best practices and the latest tools and techniques
for winning the hearts and minds of their workforce in an age of rampant employee disengagement.
Hildebrand is speaking the morning of August 1 on Organizing for Change: A Grassroots Approach to Engagement. Other speakers at the two-day conference include communication experts from organizations including Google, IBM, McDonald's, Lowe's, H&R Block, Navistar, Sabre Holdings, Northwestern Mutual, Spring International, CVS Caremark, Maritz Research and Aon.
The conference includes tracks on understanding, energizing, measuring and the future of employee engagement.
Maril MacDonald, CEO, Gagen MacDonald and President of the Arthur W. Page Society, will present a Day One keynote titled The New Employee Engagement Agenda and Becoming an Architect of Change.
Michael L. Stallard, lead author of the new book, "Fired Up or Burned Out," widely praised book on employee engagement, is delivering a Day 2 keynote on why organizations need a "connection culture," and best practices of organizations that have them.
The conference will also include attendee roundtable brainstorming on 12 key employee engagement topics including how best to deliver negative news to employees, organizing effective town hall meetings, effective internal social media tools and policies, and producing "authentic" employee communications.
Conference presenters include:
-- Ethan McCarty, IBM
-- Brian Fitzpatrick, Google
-- Kevin Olp, Northwestern Mutual
-- Robert Berrier, Spring International
-- Fred Stokes, Lowes
-- Becca Martin, McDonald's Corporation
-- Jerry Hamalaj, formerly Citigroup
-- Mary Owens, CVS Caremark
-- Kristina Patrick, H&R Block
-- Al Comeaux, Sabre Holdings
-- Peter Debreceny, formerly Allstate Insurance
-- Lisa Hartenberger and Kyle Rose, Navistar
-- Rick Garlick, Maritz Research
-- Tory Neff, Aon Corporation
-- Julie Baron, Communication Works
-- Bridget Glavaz, formerly ServiceMaster
Attendees can register online for one or both days of the conference, or sign up at the conference venue, the Catalyst Ranch in downtown Chicago.
Next Conferences:
-- Rethinking Communications: Senior Management Summit, New York City, September 17-18
-- Executing Social Media, Atlanta, October 15-16
ΒΆ Regarded as one of the top field strategists in politics, Steve
Hildebrand, Deputy Campaign Manager of Barack Obama For President will
talk about how the bottom-up Obama campaign is marrying the power of
online technologies with neighbor-to-neighbor energizing, and
learnings that corporations may apply to their engagement efforts
