HRCon Career Expo

Networking & Registration

Visit our Career Fair Exhibit Room to meet recruiting, consulting, coaching, and other important companies in this field. Network and meet NY’s top schools offering advanced education and programs to take your career to the next level.

Welcoming Remarks

Panel: Creating an innovative work environment

As many nonprofit organizations struggle to maximize the use of their resources while simultaneously handling more complex social problems, creativity becomes especially important. Certain work environments can contribute to increased levels of creativity. So it is important that the managers of nonprofit organizations have tools that allow them to develop a work context that enhances employee creativity. Ideas include: online collaboration, increased ability to access information, office layout and shared space, participatory management and more.

Moderator:

Director, Vicus Partners

Panelists:

President/CEO, Health & Welfare Council of Long Island

CEO, Lamb Financial Group

Partner Outsourced Services, Tate & Tryon

Panel: Best practices for the recruitment and retention of board leaders

Nonprofits are often looking for ways to reach new recruits to build a future base of supporters and volunteers for their organization and its mission. This will discuss how nonprofits can connect with the all generations of supporters through the use of social media, videoconferencing and other newer technology, by recruiting in pairs, and by taking advantage of each generation’s strengths and knowledge.

Moderator:

Attorney in Charge, MHLS field offices at Metropolitan and Bellevue Hospitals

Panelists:

President and CEO, Council on Accreditation (COA)

President, Image Impact International

Chief Executive Officer, Migration Resource Center

Networking/Break

Visit our Career Fair Exhibit Room to meet recruiting, consulting, coaching, and other important companies in this field. Network and meet NY’s top schools offering advanced education and programs to take your career to the next level.

[Ask the Experts] Technology Trends for Managing a Modern Workforce

There's no doubt the workforce is changing -- from managing across multigenerations to technology choices that allow for anywhere accessibility to integrated systems that eliminate the need for paper. We invite you to join this interactive session where you'll get to participate with a panel of experts from onboarding, to human capital management, to integration with financial management. Learn how and why anywhere access to real-time data is becoming a key driver for many nonprofits. Attend this session to be eligible to win one of three $100.00 Amazon gift cards.

Panelists:

HR Consultant, iRecruit

Founder and Chief Executive Office JMT Consulting

Chief Operating Officer/President, Workforce Go! 

Panel: Using Technology as Part of a Strategic Plan

Nonprofit organizations and government agencies face a lot of the same challenges that many businesses face, but technology planning can help mitigate a range of challenges and reap greater rewards.Many organizations struggle to keep up with the exponential pace of technology change, and are not able to capitalize on its potential or are so focused on it as a basic operational or infrastructure tool that opportunities for technology to truly drive value and work in service to mission are missed. Strategic technology planning can help change that.

Moderator:

Director of Business Development, Idealist.org

Panelists:

President/CEO, Black Nurses Rock, NYC Chapter

Director of Partnerships and Engagement, Civic Hall

Executive Director of the Hub, Grand Central Tech

Chief Technology Officer, Lamb Financial Group

Panel: Organizational Effectiveness

The effectiveness or results achieved by an organization are at the intersection of people and culture. Successful organizations thrive because they are well run from a business function and process perspective. Today’s successful businesses also have the flexibility to adapt to a changing customer and competitive environment. Their employees are well-motivated, engaged in the work they are doing, and accepting of the changes necessary for the organization to maintain its cutting edge. They recognize the need for collaboration and teamwork to achieve organization goals. Workforce effectiveness is a product of selecting the right mix of individuals and then developing and motivating the workforce so the organization can accomplish its mission more effectively than its competitors.

Moderator:

Executive Director, Directions For Our Youth

Panelists:

Founder and Executive Director, M.A.D.E. Transitional Services

Director of Professional Development and Leadership, St. Christopher's, Inc.

Senior Director Workforce Transformation/HR, Staten Island Performing Provider System

Luncheon & Networking

Building Bench Strength: The role of executive degree programs in leadership development 

Effective, innovative leadership is essential for nonprofit organizations and public agencies to continue to deliver high-quality programs and services. Now, more than ever, it is essential for public service leaders to invest in the leadership development training they can achieve as part of an executive level program.

Director of Admissions, NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service

Panel: Evolving communication techniques in the digital age

How do you communicate effectively with a generation of who grew up in the digital age? Learn the latest models for communicating in today’s digital world where the art of language, types of messages and platforms, and the frequency are key in how you recruit for new talent and keep your teams informed around the clock. What are the biggest concerns and issues for leadership personnel?

Moderator:

Director, George H. Heyman, Jr. Program for Philanthropy and Fundraising, NYU School of Professional Studies

Panelists:

Executive Director, Future Leaders in Action

Manager; Strategy, Evaluation and Learning, Good Shepherd Services

Panel: Biggest challenges and best solutions in building your senior management teams

You’ll hear strategies on how to develop a distinct talent brand for your company that includes more than just effective hiring techniques and but developing career paths that will keep employees committed to the mission of your organization. Hear more on the right way to hire, managing turnover and vacancies, the new standards of performance, the importance of process, and the importance of internal opportunities to learn how to manage and lead. All of that changes an organizational culture, allowing it to compete effectively in the marketplace.

Moderator:

Director of Operations and Finance, IMPACCT Brooklyn

Speakers

Director of Career Development, Metropolitan College of New York 

Human Resources Director, Options for Community Living, Inc.

President/CEO, PNP Staffing Group

National Marketing Director, ReServe, Powered by Fedcap

Networking/Break

Panel: The Importance of Lifelong Learning

There are many benefits of lifelong learning, and there are a lot more ways and types of learning than what one may have experienced back a classroom. Young professionals are rising in the nonprofit sector by going through learning portals, like professional certificates or even university graduate programs in addition to online networking groups, formal study groups, annual conferences, commissioned research, and the publication of books and academic journals.

Moderator:

Director, Programs in Social Enterprise, Columbia Business School

Panelists:

National Director, Coming of Age

Assistant Professor of Public Administration and Policy, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy, University at Albany

Executive Director, Learning and Capacity-Building, Wildlife Conservation Society