From Gray Hair to Flip Flops –
Leadership of a Multi-Generational Workforce
Wednesday, June 15, 2016 ?
5:30 pm Networking Reception?
7:00pm Panel Discussion?
Harvard Club of Boston
Back Bay Clubhouse, 374 Commonwealth Avenue
Registration HAS CLOSED
President's Club Member: $15
HBSAB Member: $25
Guest of HBSAB Member: $25
Non-member: $35
Harvard Club of Boston Members please register at www.HarvardClub.com.
To be successful today, organizations must innovate, improve productivity, think globally and hire and retain great talent. But leaders of all organizations are challenged by a multi-generational workforce with dramatically different cultural values and attitudes about work among the generations.
Corporate, non-profit, and government leaders must present strong, unified organizations to their respective customers, investors, and other partners. Yet, the baby boomers, millennials, Gen X’rs and all of the other age groups come to work each day with different attitudes about affiliation with the organization, how they relate to each other, how they communicate, and what their expectations are for themselves and their careers.
Highly successful organizations make the most of these differences by creating shared values, goals, and expectations and evolve with their changing workforce.
In collaboration with the Harvard Club of Boston, we invite you to join a fascinating and insightful discussion of what the challenging generational changes mean to organizations and how senior leaders are adapting to these challenges. Learn from the top researchers in the field and from corporate leaders as they share their approach and experience attracting, motivating, and engaging their staff. Learn how they shape the cultural values within their organizations so their employees are fully engaged with their mission.
Our Panel Members Are:
Anne Donovan Bodnar, Chief Human Resources Officer, Willis Towers Watson
Tamara J. Erickson, Founder and CEO, Tammy Erickson Associates; Award-winning author; Expert on generations in the workplace
Dr. Patricia Maguire Meservey, President, Salem State University
Mike Shanahan, SVP, SevOne, Inc; Managing Partner, Egan Managed Capital; Immediate Past President of the Harvard Club.
Moderator: Rick Williams, Partner, Newport Board Group
Registration
President's Club Member: $15
HBSAB Member: $25
Guest of HBSAB Member: $25
Non-member: $35
Harvard Club of Boston Members please register at www.HarvardClub.com.
Price includes: Networking hors d’ oeuvres reception and panel discussion. A cash bar will be available at the event.
Parking is available in the Club’s own lot, located directly behind the Back Bay Club at 415 Newbury Street.
No refunds for this event.
More about our Panelists:
Anne Donovan Bodnar, Chief Human Resources Officer, Willis Towers Watson
Anne Donovan Bodnar is Willis Towers Watson’s Chief Human Resources Officer. She previously served as Chief Administrative Officer at Towers Watson, beginning in 2010. During that time, she was a member of the management committee, co-led the company’s continuous improvement initiatives, co-sponsored the inclusion and diversity agenda, and oversaw the marketing, human resources, office services and internal change and communication functions. From 2001 to 2010, Anne was Managing Director of Human Resources at Towers Perrin. Earlier in her career, she held various human resources and consulting positions at Towers Perrin as well as several operational and strategic planning roles at what is now JPMorgan Chase.
Anne holds a BA from Smith College and MBA from Harvard Business School.
Anne was selected as a 2014 fellow in the “On the Board” program, jointly sponsored by George Washington University and the International Women’s Forum, which prepares women leaders for corporate board service. In 1999, she was elected to the YWCA’s Academy of Women Achievers. Additionally, she published a chapter entitled “HR as a Strategic Partner” in Human Resources Leadership Strategies: Fifteen Ways to Enhance HR Value in Your Company.
Anne enjoys her volunteer activities – as a board member of the Women’s Forum of New York, an independent trustee of a New York-based private family office with significant charitable activities in the arts and education, and an active alumna of Smith College.
Tamara J. Erickson, Founder and CEO, Tammy Erickson Associates; Award-winning author; Expert on generations in the workplace
Tamara J. Erickson is a McKinsey Award-winning author, a leading expert on generations in the workplace, and a widely-respected authority on leadership, the changing workforce, collaboration and innovation, and the nature of work in intelligent organizations. She has four-times been named one of the 50 most influential living management thinkers in the world by Thinkers50, the respected ranking of global business thinkers. Erickson is an Adjunct Professor, Organisational Behaviour, at London Business School, where she has designed and co-directs the school’s premier leadership programme for senior-most executives, Leading Businesses into the Future. She is the Founder and CEO of Tammy Erickson Associates, a research-based firm dedicated to helping clients build intelligent organizations. An experienced executive, Erickson has served on the Board of Directors of two Fortune 500 corporations, with experience on the Governance, Audit, and Compensation Committees. She holds a BA degree from the University of Chicago and an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.
Dr. Patricia Maguire Meservey, President, Salem State University
Patricia “Pat” Maguire Meservey, President of Salem State University. Salem State is one of the largest and most diverse state universities in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and is an important partner in the academic, economic, cultural, and intellectual vitality of the greater north-of-Boston region. Under Dr. Meservey’s leadership, Salem State secured university status in 2010; implemented a new general education curriculum that immerses students in a series of learning experiences designed to engage them more fully with the broader community and world; expanded its international presence through institutional agreements with over 50 universities; and began a strategic building program on campus that has invested over $250 million in capital improvements. The university enrolls 10,000 students and provides 30 undergraduate degree programs in the liberal arts, education, human services and business, along with graduate programs in 11 disciplines. The university is consistently cited in the top 20 percent of colleges and universities in the nation for embracing America’s military service members and veterans as students.
An active member of many regional boards, Dr. Meservey serves as chair of the board for the North Shore Alliance for Economic Development and chair of the Commission in Higher Education of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. Other boards on which she serves include Bottom Line, the New England Council, the North Shore Workforce Investment Board, and the North Shore Chamber of Commerce, and she is a trustee for Eastern Bank.
Prior to her position at Salem State, Dr. Meservey was Provost and Academic Vice President at Suffolk University and held several positions at Northeastern University and Boston University as both a faculty member and administrator. She holds a Ph.D. in higher education administration from Boston College, an M.S. in parent-child health nursing and a B.S. in nursing, both from Boston University, and a diploma in nursing from Faulkner Hospital. She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.
Mike Shanahan, SVP, SevOne, Inc; Managing Partner, Egan Managed Capital; Immediate Past President of the Harvard Club.
Mike Shanahan has more than 35 years of experience in finance and technology venture capital. He joined network management software company SevOne in 2014 and served as their CFO during 2014 and 2015 as they grew from about 200 people to more than 600 today. Prior to joining SevOne, he was a venture capitalist. As co-founder and Managing Partner of Egan-Managed Capital, he managed their investment process and held a variety of interim management roles in their portfolio while also serving as a board member at more than 2 dozen technology companies. He provided strategic, financial, transactional, and organizational advice to these companies and has been involved in raising more than $2 billion in equity capital for more than 80 technology companies that Egan and Eastech, his predecessor firm, invested in. Mike has a degree in Economics from Holy Cross and an MBA from Harvard Business School and has served in volunteer leadership positions for a number of not-for-profit organizations.
Moderator:
Rick Williams, Partner, Newport Board Group
Rick Williams is a corporate leader and advisor at the CEO & board level. His breadth of experience, including medical technology, real estate, management consulting and public/private engagement developed through his wide ranging roles as an executive and board director enables him to understand quickly the essential drivers of a company or business opportunity. His work with clients includes preparing them for raising capital, creating a viable long term business model and enhancing their value to investors and potential buyers. He writes and speaks nationally on challenges business leaders must address as they realize the full potential of their organizations.
Rick currently serves on three technology company boards – has been board chair of Point Care Technology - and was board chair of the Community Development Finance Corporation (now Growth Capital Corp) For 10 years, Rick was a management consultant with the global consulting firm Arthur D. Little, Inc. He is past President of the Harvard Business School Association of Boston and is also a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (Physics).