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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.

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Conference Agenda

Monday
November 1st
3:00pm - 4:00pm | Pre Conference Workshop
Black Box Intelligence Community Introduced
Wally Doolin, Bill Schaffler and the BBI team will present key findings and insights, and explore ways to utilize the Sales Intelligence dashboards, and the new Prime Cost Intelligence dashboards. We welcome Financial, Marketing, Planning and Operating executives and analysts as we kick off the Black Box Intelligence Community. Don't miss this chance to join a unique network of analytical professionals.
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
7:30pm - 9:00pm
Un-conference Session: 30 Day Bucket List for Business
Inpsiring and rewarding teams by encouraging their personal development; on a shoe string budget. Presented by the Talent Revolution team of Amanda Hite, Bill Campion and Susan Fawcett.
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 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 Rodriguez
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 2010 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
Mike Vandervort
Panelist
Labor Relations Executive, Publix

 

Power Breakouts
Our signature small group sessions with experts.
Social Media, HR, & the Marketing Department: Let's Talk
As the four walls of the restaurant become more and more transparent to customers and employees, the opportunities to connect our consumer and employer brands have morphed exponentially - along with the opportunity to blow it if the marketing and HR departments are not working together. Brad Gramlich works in a company where HR & Marketing actually report to the same person - he will lead the discussion about how to leverage the strengths and contributions of both departments to create real competitive advantage.
Brad Gramlich
Moderator, VP HR California Pizza Kitchen
Jose Tomas
VP HR Burger King Corporation
Jackie Ottoson
VP HR, Famous Daves of America, Inc.
Aric Nissen
VP Marketing and R&D, Famous Daves of America, Inc.
Health Care Reform; Looking Forward
John Miller, CEO Taco Bueno, will lead a discussion regarding what is known, and what operators should be doing to get on top of the latest public policy tsunami, the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act. Scott Andersen, SVP HUB International Employee Benefits Division, and Mike McCallum, Chief Strategy Officer from the National Restaurant Association will also be on hand to present what is known about options currently available. People Report published a special report on the Healthcare issue last month, and it will be available to all attendees.
John Miller
CEO, Taco Bueno
Scott Anderson
SVP HUB International Employee Benefits Division
Making Green by Going Green
This session will combine vivid stories with scientifically-informed analyses to paint a picture of how going green can contribute directly to organizational performance. Participants will learn how to better plan for and think about their own green initiatives, along with best practices from companies who have decided to go green. We will provide concrete examples of best practices in action at Caribou Coffee. HR professionals will learn how your expertise can have a meaningful impact on whether the workforce accepts and adopts green initiatives. You will be armed with compelling information about how going green (and doing it well) can result in substantive financial and morale benefits for your organization. Speakers include Kevin Impelman and John Muros, top researchers at Batrus Hollweg, International, along with Chad Trewick, Senior Director of Tea and Coffee, Caribou Coffee.
Kevin Impelman
Top Researcher at Batrus Hollweg, International
John Muros
Top Researcher at Batrus Hollweg, International
Digital Brand Science
Reaching the new digital consumer has its challenges; it's not just social media or the engagement. The social web is growing back into a position where our brands do have control. In this session we will talk about the new digital consumer and how they interact with the digital brand. Influencers are the indicators of the future, how we market, interact and converse with them will be a new kind of digital brand science!
Paul Barron
Chief Digital Brand Officer, Genghis Grill & Founder Digital Coco
Lunch
Presentation of the 2010 Best Practices Award
Sarah Chapin
CEO Hail Merry Snack Foods
"Conscious Capitalism in the Food Industry"
David Houle
Futurist, Author The Shift Age
Transformational Decade: How to become a "Morph Corp"
Joni Doolin
CEO & Founder, People Report
"Fifteen Years later; finding our way forward"

Tommy
Tommy Spaulding
President, Spaulding Companies, LLC
An inspirational business leader with heart, sense & insight for 21st century triple bottom line organizations, Tommy Spaulding is president of the Spaulding Companies, LLC; he was the youngest president and CEO of the world-renowned leadership organization, Up With People; founded Leader's Challenge, the largest high school civic and leadership program in the state of Colorado and author of the New York Times national bestseller It's Not Just Who You Know.
5:15 - 7:00 pm
Closing Cocktail Reception
7:00 - 10:00 pm
Closing Dinner Party Celebration Hosted by BHI
Featuring Emerald City Band

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