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As businesses emerge from the Great Recession into an uncertain economic environment many have dubbed “the new normal,” talent executives are under more pressure than ever before. Your task: to re-invent (and maintain) a best-in-class workforce that attracts the highest quality talent and fulfills the business objectives, while staying flexible and cost efficient.
In an environment of constantly shifting business needs and strong demographic pressures, achieving these objectives will mean tapping into the powerful talent potential and flexibility represented by independent consultants, contractors, freelancers, and other independent professionals. And yet, many human capital professionals are not fully prepared to effectively handle independent contractors, and may be concerned about the myriad risks of using them, such as co-employment and misclassification.
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Christopher Minnick brings an impressive background of developing and nurturing strategic relationships among clients, channel partners, and software/services vendors across the contingent workforce industry. As senior partner with Brightfield Strategies, Christopher delivers value to the firm's Fortune 100 clients by executing turn-key sourcing projects for contingent workforce management suppliers, including RFP development, sourcing facilitation, proposal and bid review, supplier presentation review and contract/service level negotiation. A Six Sigma Black Belt, Christopher helps to design and quickly implement winning contingent workforce management strategies with significant return-on-investment.Minnick's career in strategic alliances is characterized by building relationships with clients, partners, and internal stakeholders founded upon shared trust and know-how -- putting knowledge to work in the real world. Over the past 15 years, Christopher has made reliability the core of his work for clients and partners ranging from innovative start-ups to the world's largest companies.Prior to co-founding Brightfield, he took his high-impact experience to ProcureStaff, Ltd, a Volt Information Sciences subsidiary and provider of vendor management systems and managed services. There, he added to his arsenal the analytical mindset and tools of a Six Sigma Black Belt - developing a powerful combination of skills for success in the field of contingent workforce strategy and sourcing development.At ProcureStaff, Minnick led an inter-departmental team that designed a structured knowledge-transfer program that was projected to significantly increase revenue, while also reducing cost for the company. In the same time, he introduced tighter methods of revenue projection that provided the firm a much more precise method of business forecasting and allowed for greater decision making.Minnick maintains Brightfield's vendor alliances and client relationships, playing a pivotal role in the firm's ability to influence the future of today's emerging contingent workforce strategies.
Lonnie Goldman is a legal and human resources executive specializing in governance of public and private companies, mergers and acquisitions, commercial contracts and management strategy. He has over 13 years experience advising technology companies. His work has included managing the human resources function at Dorado, a San Mateo, California-based software as a service company focused on lending technology. Mr. Goldman has been at Dorado for four years and is the company's Vice President and General Counsel.
Gene Zaino, an accomplished and nationally recognized expert in the contract workforce market, launched MBO Partners and MyBizOffice® to re-invent the way independent contractors and organizations work together. Zaino is a major force in the development of best practices, risk mitigation programs, and independent contractor engagement tools that support workplace independence.Gene is an avid entrepreneur who graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, receiving a Bachelor of Science in Economics (BSE). After four years with KPMG Peat Marwick as a CPA and management consultant, he spent 20 years building, merging and selling various consulting companies, some funded by financial luminaries Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Austin Ventures and Goldman Sachs.He serves on the expert advisory board for the Human Capital Institute and collaborated with other industry leaders to create and develop the Contract Talent Research Practice Area at HCI, furthering education, ethics, and industry best practices. Zaino has led executive seminars at the Project Management Institute, the Institute for Supply Management, and the Military Officers Association of America. He is a frequent speaker and has appeared in publications, radio and television including the Washington Business Journal, CNNfn and USA Today.