15th Annual Best Practices Conference

Registration Now Open! 2010 Best Practices Conference Profitability alone was never enough; any business beholden to the Service Profit chain learned long ago to balance people and profits. Today, leading companies focus the future on the next big hurdle - measuring and achieving the Triple Bottom Line of people, profits and a sustainable future for our planet.

Join us in Dallas, TX on November 1 - 3rd, 2010, for the 15th annual Best Practices Conference, as we celebrate the milestones of the People Report Consortium, and bring together the executive members of People Report and Black Box Intelligence. Count on being informed, inspired, and renewed as we tackle the triple challenges and opportunities of People, Profits, and the Planet.

Monday

November 1st

4:00pm - 5:00pm | Pre Conference Workshop

Welcome to People Report Human Capital Intelligence
Meet your analysts and learn more about the new interactive report style and the future of predictive analytics; a deep dive into your new dashboards.

5:00pm - 7:00pm | Opening Cocktail Reception

Hosted by Constellation Wines

Tuesday

November 2nd

7:30am - 12:00pm

Community Service that ROCKS at the North Texas Food Bank
Get up early, get a tee shirt, reconnect with your friends, meet some new ones, and above all make a difference. Texas has more hungry kids than any other state except California. Let's put a dent in that ugly statistic.

1:00pm

Speakers

Louis Basile Conference Chair CEO & Founder, Wildflower Bread Company & President, Fast Casual Industry Council

J. Walker Smith Opening Keynote Address Executive Vice Chairman, The Futures Company & President of the Yankelovich MONITOR & Author, Rocking the Ages

Wally Doolin Industry Forecast & Report to Membership Wally Doolin, Founder and Chairman, Black Box Intelligence

Mark Rodriquez http://bit.ly/9QFy0i President & CEO, Hickory Farms, Inc. A brilliant marketer & triple bottom line exec who has walked his talk at Evian, Acirca, and now at Hickory Farms.

Kevin Hall Author, Aspire Veteran of Franklin Covey, coach, former restaurateur, and best selling author

Greg Creed President & Chief Concept Officer, Taco Bell Corp. Presentation of the 2011 Legacy Award

5:15pm

People Report 15th Anniversary Cocktail Reception

Wednesday

November 3rd

7:30 - 8:30am

Breakfast

8:30am

Conference Opening with City Year

Alan Khazei Founder & CEO, Be the Change, Inc. Named by US News & World Report as one of "America's Best Leaders", founder of City Year, Service Nation, candidate for US Senate, and author of the just published book Big Citizenship

The Morning After - Is There a Pill for That?
The day after the midterm elections - lively insight, debate, and opportunities for Q&A on the public policy issues confronting the consumer and employee marketplace.

Peter Romeo Moderator Nation's Restaurant News

Roz Mallet Panelist CEO, PhaseNext Hospitality, Treasurer National Restaurant Association

Joe Kefauver Panelist Managing Partner & Principal, Parquet Public Affairs

Power Breakouts
Our signature small group sessions with experts. This year's topics include: Healthcare, Digital Branding, Making Green by Being Green; Integrated Social Media for More Strategic HR

Lunch

Presentation of the 2010 Best Practices Award

Sarah Chapin CEO Hail Merry Snack Foods

Henry McGovern Founder and CEO of AmRest

David Houle Futurist, Author The Shift Age Transformational Decade: How to become a "Morph Corp"

Joni Doolin CEO & Founder, People Report "Finding our way forward; the advent of Conscious Capitalism"

Layne Longfellow Ph.D., Author, Educator, Visionary A memorable speaker to wrap a special conference - Layne has been focused on integrating business, education and issues of sustainability for decades, working with some of the largest companies in the US.

5:00 - 6:30 pm

Closing Cocktail Reception

6:30 - 10:00 pm

Closing Dinner Party Celebration Hosted by BHI
Featuring Emerald City Band

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