One Day | One Price | Two Topics
Location: Ramada Inn Mall of America, Bloomington, MN
Date: October 26, 2010
Time: 8:00am - 4:30pm, see agenda details below
Our day will focus on two big topics in one day: Healthcare Reform and HR Reform
Keynote Speakers:
- Jason DeRusha, Reporter, WCCO, “Great Questions for HR Healthcare and HR Leaders”
- Helen Strike, Chief Nursing Officer, St. Joseph Hospital, “A Personal Perspective on HR Reform”
- Mary Weber, Vice President of HR at CSM Corporation, “Human Resources 2010 – Trends and Priorities”
Speaker Biographies
Additional highlights include:
- Morning breakout sessions on healthcare with speakers from Blue Cross, HealthPartners and Medica.
- Afternoon breakout sessions on HR Reform will feature leaders from The Bailey Group, Collabrium, and Modern Survey.
Exhibitor opportunities available— see right hand corner for details
Agenda:
| 8:00-8:45 |
Registration, Continental breakfast and visit with vendors |
| 9:00-9:45 |
Opening Keynote- Great Questions for HR Healthcare and HR Leaders
Jason DeRusha, Reporter, WCCO
What impact will Health Care Reform have on employees? On the company I work for? Good questions! The Health Care Reform bill has been passed and it seems it has generated more questions than answers. My inbox was full of questions when it passed from the “person on the street.” They want to know how it will affect them, what it will cost, how benefits will be changed in the companies they work for. This keynote will highlight the themes of questions people want answers to; which will help you as an HR expert focus your communications with employees as well as working with your CEO, CFO and HR team
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| 9:45-10:00 |
Break and visit with vendors |
| 10:00-10:45 |
A Personal Perspective on HR Reform
Presenter: Helen Strike, Chief Nursing Officer, St. Joseph Hospital
Helen will be speaking about the impact of today’s healthcare realities that are present on a daily basis with her patients and at her hospital each and every day, such as the aging population, the uninsured and how healthcare is financed. Helen will share from her personal perspective as chief nursing officer at her hospital some patient and staff stories that her team is faced with in our current healthcare system. Having recently taken part in the negotiations and work stoppage with the Minnesota Nurses Association, she will speak personally of how healthcare finances and decreasing reimbursement are affecting some of the proposals that the nurses believe tie directly to safe patient care. Also the struggle that hospital administrators face with the requirement for increasing transparency of patient safety and quality outcomes in an environment of decreasing resources and reimbursement to provide support at the bedside. These are the realities of healthcare reform. Helen will share her perspective as a Canadian Nurse on the hope she feels that healthcare reform can bring to patients and hospitals and her perspective on what we can do in healthcare right now to turn the tide towards a more healthy healthcare system. Helen will attempt to inform and inspire a more personal understanding of what our hospitals and healthcare providers are facing today and her hopes for the future.
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| 10:45-11:05 |
Break and visit with vendors |
| 11:05-11:50 |
Breakout sessions on Healthcare Reform
Federal Reform and the Impact on Small Business.
Presenter: Geoff Bartsch, HealthPartners
The passage of the Patient Protection and Accountable Care Act (PPACA) will have sweeping changes on health care, health benefits and health insurance. As these changes role out over the next four years, many of them will be directed at small businesses and health insurance benefits for small business. This presentation will walk through the impacts of PPACA on small businesses in the immediate future, the short term future and the long term future. We will let you know what you need to do today, what you need to think about for tomorrow and how the landscape for small business health insurance may be changing in the future.
Health Care Reform: Health care reform and you
Presenter: Phil Stalboerger, Vice President for Policy and Legislative Affairs, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota
The details of health care reform will continue to be laid out by the state and federal government in the coming months and years. Blue Cross is committed to providing you with the most recent information and updates on the many aspects of reform. You’ll learn what’s new, how it affects you, and get answers to your questions.
Impact of Health Care Reform on Large Employers
Presenter: Jay McLaren, Director of Government Relations, Medica
Enactment of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) in March not only marked the end of the legislative process for federal health care reform in Congress but also marked the beginning of a long process of implementing the new law. Jay will discuss the impact PPACA and the new federal regulations will have on large employers, including automatic health insurance enrollment for new employees, new tax reporting requirements, future financial penalties, and many more. Some of these new regulations require execution of short term strategies to comply with the new law and others require long-term planning that would involve a broader audience of internal customers. Learn more about the post-reform landscape for large employers so that your company can execute the strategies and put the right planning in place to prosper in a post-reform environment.
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| 12:00-1:00 |
Lunch |
| 1:00-1:45 |
Human Resources 2010 – Trends and Priorities
Presenter: Mary Weber, Vice President of HR, CSM Corporation
Human Resources Management is directly impacted by a myriad of external and internal forces. 2010 – from recession to recovery - has been a landmark year of shifting tides and conditions that are driving the HR agenda. Health care reform, consumerism, employee retention, changing workforce demographics, talent management, leadership development and an increased focus on HR compliance topics are all impacting our strategies. This thought provoking session will discuss these key trends and more. Hear how one midsized company’s HR Executive is shaping strategies to stay ahead of the change curve. |
| 1:45-2:15 |
Break and visit with vendors |
| 2:15 - 3:50 |
Breakout Sessions on Leadership
Participants will have the opportunity to participate in two of the three leadership breakout sessions. Each session will last 45 minutes.
Re-Energizing the Leadership Team
Presenters: Laurie Schmidt & Deborah Fowler
Leaders and managers at all levels have been pushed to their limits by economic uncertainties, continuous change, and big shifts in ways of doing business. It is increasingly difficult to anticipate the future and control the destiny of the team, department or enterprise. Better decisions and actions are needed while the traditional tools of planning, budgeting, and resource allocation are not serving in this time of “permanent whitewater.” In this interactive session, we will look at recent research that describes the personal toll that the economic downturn has taken on leaders. Participant will then be able to sample several creative tools and processes that can help to re?energize teams and work groups. We will focus on creative new mindsets and practices that can help bring about more collaboration, increased flexibility, and better alignment of people.
Aligning and Creating Anew within HR
Presenter: Jan Dick, OD Practice Leader, The Bailey Group
As the demands of business performance and the organization escalate, HR continues to strive to reform itself – “creating anew” to contribute to the success of the business. This session explores strategic changes HR can make within its roles and responsibilities, organizational design and skill sets and its focus to best meet the business challenges and opportunities for greater impact.
Design to Thrive: Learning from the Recession and Revitalizing High-Performance Culture
Presenter: Don MacPherson, President and Co-Founder, Modern Survey
Don will share the results of U.S. workforce engagement studies over the last two and a half years. In this interactive discussion, MacPherson will show how drivers of engagement – particularly pride and loyalty – have fluctuated since the economic downturn. By reviewing what has happened historically, MacPherson will detail what organizational leaders can expect to see happen with employee engagement as recessionary recovery continues. Participants will learn how factors outside of the workplace impact employee engagement, and what organizations can do to re-energize and retain their best employees.
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| 3:50-4:15 |
Prize Drawings & Closing |
Speakers:
 Geoff Bartsh, Director of Government Relations, HealthPartners
Mr. Bartsh is currently Director of Government Relations for HealthPartners, a family of health care companies serving more than one million medical and dental health plan members nationwide. In this role, he is directly responsible for the development and implementation of HealthPartners public policy agenda. He is a chief representative and lobbyist for the organization with legislators, regulators, policy-makers and other community partners.
Prior to his work at HealthPartners Mr. Bartsh served as political associate for the Minnesota Business Partnership, a business association representing 100 of Minnesota’s largest corporations. Mr. Bartsh is the immediate Past President of the Minnesota Governmental Relations Council, a non-profit trade organization for government relations professionals. He is an active member of policy development committees for the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce, Minnesota Business Partnership and the Minnesota Council of Health Plans.
 Jason DeRusha, Reporter, WCCO
Jason DeRusha filed his first report for WCCO-TV on April Fool's Day in 2003. Since then, he's earned four Emmy Awards , the Jaycees named him one of the Ten Outstanding Young Minnesotans, and the city of Minneapolis proclaimed Sept. 21 "Jason DeRusha Day." No fooling.
Today, Jason reports "Good Questions" Monday through Friday on WCCO's 10 p.m. news. While at WCCO, he was among the first television reporters on the scene and on-the-air at the Interstate 35W bridge collapse. He's covered flash flooding, tornadoes and school shootings. He's become a sought-after expert on the intersection of social media and journalism, with one blogger naming him one of the Top 20 Minnesota Social Media Innovators. City Pages named him Best Online Personality of 2008.
Before coming to WCCO-TV, Jason spent three years as a reporter at WISN-TV in Milwaukee. Prior to that, he anchored the weekend news at KWQC-TV in Davenport, Iowa, reported for WREX-TV in Rockford, Ill. and interned at "ABC World News Tonight" in New York.
Jason's been nominated for 15 Regional Emmy Awards, and he's won Regional Emmys for Online Personality (twice), Health Reporting, and On-Going Feature Series. In 2007, he won the National Outstanding Media Award from FCCLA (Family, Career and Community Leaders of America) for his work with that organization.
 Jan Dick, OD Practice Leader, The Bailey Group
Jan is energized by working with leaders who are interested in improving their organizational and leadership effectiveness. Big-picture focused, she helps clients select a practical solution and set a course for sustainable improvement. Jan has a penchant for strategic organizations that demonstrate authentic leadership, uphold their values, and build vibrant, high-performing cultures.
As OD Practice Leader at The Bailey Group, Jan focuses on organizational transformation, aligning organizational strategy to business strategy, talent management, and succession planning. Drawing upon her deep HR leadership background, Jan also enjoys coaching HR leaders who are taking on more strategic roles within their organizations.
Jan joined The Bailey Group in January 2010, following a successful career as Senior VP of Human Resources at American Medical Systems (AMS) and Pfizer. In this role, Jan helped guide AMS’ return to an entrepreneurial, high growth culture, providing sound consult to senior management and helping integrate several acquisitions into the organization. Jan’s unique blend of business focus and understanding of HR and organizational priorities brings value to her clients.
 Deborah L. Fowler, Ph.D., L.P
Deb Fowler helps senior executives and teams create sustainable change with high-impact and results-focused consultation. She is a provocative and pragmatic consultant, guiding teams at the top to zero in on strategy, lead significant organizational transformations, enhance leadership skills, and successfully collaborate. In her 14 years as an Executive Coach, her clients have included CEOs, Presidents, Vice Presidents and Directors. With an artful balance of intuition and acumen, challenge and support, she helps leaders leverage their strengths and enhance their effectiveness and impact. Intrigued by a broad range of challenges, Deb’s consulting practice spans a variety of industries including medical device manufacturing, financial services, retail, health care, professional services and education.
Deb has facilitated merger conversations between leaders of a German and U.S. company while hiking in the Sonoran Dessert, resolved conflicts between CEOs and key direct reports, and helped organizations navigate the transition of their senior leader. She has designed major strategic change initiatives that include building a sales culture in a national bank, improving service quality in a retail grocery chain and fostering innovation in product development for a large insurance company. As an Executive Coach, she is especially effective with task-focused leaders and highly-trained professionals who need help developing interpersonal relationships and managing people. Her 25+ years of corporate experience help Deb keep the business goals and objectives of her clients front and center.
 Don MacPherson, President and Co-Founder, Modern Survey
As President, Don helps develop the strategic vision for Modern Survey. Drawing on 15 years of experience in the field of employee measurement, Don leads Modern Survey’s consulting and employee engagement practices while assisting in the creation of new products and services. Don’s areas of expertise include employee engagement, customer loyalty, new employee on-boarding measurement, and leadership effectiveness measurement.
Through his travels to over 40 countries, Don has developed a keen understanding of the complexities of global business. He has been selected to represent Modern Survey on three business missions (Hong Kong, Israel, and Brazil/Chile) organized by the State of Minnesota. On two of those occasions, Don traveled with other business leaders on missions led by Governor Pawlenty.
Prior to founding Modern Survey, Don worked in financial services, played basketball in Germany, and consulted for American Express providing direction and management within the discipline of employee surveys and leadership measurement. Around the world—from Asia and Australia to the United Kingdom and across the United States—Don has designed and implemented customer, employee, and leadership surveys.
 Jay McLaren, Director of Government Relations, Medica
Jay is the Director of Government Relations at Medica, a regional not-for-profit health plan based in Minnetonka. He has over 10 years of experience in public policy in Minnesota, particularly on issues related to health care and human services. Within those 10 years, he has served as staff in the Minnesota House of Representatives in several capacities, including Committee Administrator for the Health and Human Services Committee, and at the Minnesota Department of Health as the Director of Legislative Policy. Prior to joining Medica, Jay was a Government Affairs Manager at Schering-Plough, representing the interest of the global pharmaceutical company in a four-state region in the Upper Midwest.
McLaren grew up on a farm family in southwestern Iowa that has owned and operated land in the area since the 1880s. His mother was a teacher for talented and gifted students for 25 years and is currently a regional school consultant for the Iowa Department of Education. His father served in the Iowa State Senate from 1991 to 2001, chairing the Appropriations Committee and Agricultural Committee during his years of service, and was Director of the USDA Farm Service Agency in Iowa from 2001 to 2009. Jay holds a Bachelors of Science degree from Iowa State University, with a major in Agricultural Business and minor in Political Science. He currently lives in Shoreview with his wife Lucia and new baby boy.
 Laurie E. Schmidt, M.A.
As a seasoned consultant, facilitator, and coach with nearly 20 years of business experience, Laurie is an expert in the tools and processes of individual and organizational change. She helps senior leaders, design teams, and individuals bring vision into reality and strategy into action, while building resilience and capacity for more change.
Laurie works in both the public and private sectors, and with all levels of managers and employees. For a health care company, Laurie helped build leadership bench strength by equipping the executive team with tools and practices to coach and develop emerging leaders. She facilitated a series of workshops to help county employees renew and reenergize after several major organizational changes. And she led a strategic planning process that set goals for sustainability in a fledgling arts organization. Laurie is on the faculty of Duke University’s Corporate Education unit, where she designs, facilitates, and coaches in executive development programs for Duke’s Fortune 100 clients. Her international work includes engagements in Europe, South Africa, and India. Locally, she teaches in a number of internal LD programs, including the Ramsey County Leadership Academy, 3M’s Facilitative Leader program, and Apogee Enterprises’ Leadership Fundamentals.
 Philip Stalboerger, Vice President for Policy and Legislative Affairs, Blue Cross and Blue Shield
Phil Stalboerger represents Blue Cross on health care policy issues being discussed and debated at the local and national levels of government. He has advocated public policy positions for Blue Cross since joining the organization in 1999. Prior to Blue Cross, Phil was the legislative director at the Minnesota Department of Commerce. He has also served as staff in the Minnesota Senate, including a position as Commerce Committee administrator.
Stalboerger currently serves on the Health Policy Committee for the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and is a planning committee member of the chamber’s Leadership Minnesota program. He also chairs the Dakota County Regional Chamber of Commerce and the policy committee for the Minnesota Council of Health Plans. Additionally, Stalboerger is also the Chair of the Board of Directors for the Community Action Council in Lakeville, Minnesota.
Stalboerger holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from St. John’s University (Collegeville, Minnesota) and is a member of the Politics and Policy Alumni Chapter. He earned his Masters of Arts in Public Administration from Hamline University, St. Paul. Most recently, Phil was awarded one of the Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal’s top “40 under Forty” honorees in 2009.
 Helen Strike RN BScN MHA is a registered nurse with 28 years of experience. She has been in nursing and hospital administration for the past 20 years. Helen was born and raised in London Ontario, attended the University of Toronto for her undergraduate degree, and her MHA is from University of New South Wales in Sidney Australia. For the past 15 years
Helen has lived outside of Canada in Beijing China, Singapore and then moved to Minnesota in 2001.
When first arriving in Minnesota she worked as the Director of Cardiovascular Services at Regions Hospital. In 2004, she moved to Fairview Ridges Hospital in Burnsville as the Vice President of Patient Care and Chief Nursing Officer. In 2008 she returned to St Paul to St. Joseph’s Hospital as the Chief Nursing Officer and Patient Care Executive. Helen recently sat on the negotiating and contingency planning teams for the recent Twin Cities Nursing contract negotiations. Helen has particular interest in nursing excellence and speaks nationally on today’s trends in healthcare and professional nursing issues.
Helen will be speaking about the impact of today’s healthcare realities on patients and hospitals, such as the aging population, the uninsured and how healthcare is financed. She will attempt to inform and inspire a more personal understanding of what our hospitals and healthcare providers are facing today and her hopes for the future.
 Mary Weber, Vice President of HR, CSM Corporation
Mary is currently the Vice President, Human Resources at CSM Corporation – a Minneapolis based real estate development and property management company with approximately 2000 employees that operates in sixteen states. She has over 25 years of human resources management experience both as an in-house leader and as an external consultant. Mary formerly held leadership positions with Hearth & Home Technologies, Fredrickson Human Resources Consulting, Prisym Group, Higher Education Assistance Foundation, and ING Reliastar. She is known as a pragmatic, results oriented business partner.
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