Unzip your forehead, buckle your seatbelt, and get ready to Get Weird with John Putzier - renowned speaker and author of Get Weird! 101 Innovative Ways to Make Your Company a Great Place to Work and Weirdos in the Workplace! The New Normal ... Thriving in the Age of the Individual.

In this Singapore exclusive presentation, John will show you why and how a little weirdness may not be a bad thing - and how it can be harnessed to help you achieve a high-performance work culture.  He will demonstrate how HR and Business Leaders can recognise when weirdness has worth, as well as help you to identify when it does not, and how you can tailor your performance management systems to recognise the difference.

You will also learn a new way of thinking that will move your organisation from an Age of Compliance to an Age of Creativity and in doing so make HR a more valued and strategic player within your organisation. 

As well as being a best selling author, John Putzier is an international speaker and human resources expert. He speaks regularly to HR and business leaders and appears frequently in the media advising on current workplace issues and trends, These include: CNN, ABCNews and NPR television, as well as in TIME, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, INC., Business Week and many others.

In this very special HR Summit presentation, Nanz Chong-Komo will share "real world" experiences and the many lessons gleaned from her entrepreneurial journey, including the strategies used to strengthen the team in the very dark hours before the closure of her former business, ONE.99shop. She will share her passion on how to build positive employees and offer take home strategies to help you transform a negative work culture into an irresistible one that not only retains its staff but draws them.

A powerful speaker and motivator, Nanz Chong-Komo is a highly regarded business woman and author who has won the Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Award and the International Management Action Award. She is known for delivering honest, highly energetic and thought-provoking presentations that will assist you to meet the challenges of today's competitive business environment.

Discover how Cisco structured a successful engagement initiative by setting up both a foundation and infrastructure that defines and measures employee engagement. Learn to identify engagement drivers for different employee populations and delve deeper into productivity oriented strategies, such as organisational alignment, development and rewards and recognition, to increase engagement.

Jodi Krause is based in the USA and is Ciscos Director of Organisation Development where she leads change and strategy development initiatives for over 25,000 employees located in over 100 countries. She works closely with the senior executive team on their group effectiveness, as well as leading projects around strategic business initiatives such as employee engagement, culture change, and inclusion & diversity.

With layoffs dominating the headlines, talent shortages may seem like a distant challenge. But as the economy rebounds, will you be ready for a CV tsunami generated by employee defections and baby boomer retirement? In this Singapore exclusive presentation, international recruitment expert - Laurie Lazar, will discuss how to prepare for the return of the war for talent by:

• Incorporating Social Media Effectively
• 4 generations, 4 strategies
• Retention Strategies - Avoiding Defections
• Communication is Key - How to communicate internally and externally to simultaneously create the best talent retention and attraction

Explore actions you can take today to separate yourself from the pack when the CV tsunami hits and the war for talent returns.

For over 15 years, Laurie Lazar has successfully matched hundreds of exceptional candidates with highly complementary working environments.  Her unique approach to talent acquisition is both warm and effective, creating outstanding staffing results.

With her extensive hands-on experience, Laurie is more than a trainer in the field of recruiting; she is a passionate practitioner who inspires hiring professionals to shift their approach to recruitment and attract top talent.  From smaller firms to global organisations, Laurie's experience with a broad client base has provided her with insight she shares in an engaging, entertaining, and effective manner. Her talks leave audiences energised and ready to incorporate ideas that lead to immediate improvements in their recruiting efforts.

In addition to tactical recruiting expertise, Laurie has been instrumental in strategic human resource process and planning initiatives.  Her perspective on this critical function is infused with practical tactics easily incorporated into any working environment.  Laurie's enthusiasm for connecting people with opportunity is contagious and inspiring.

Find out what makes the "Digital Natives" of Generation Y different from earlier generations, and discover how to engage the creative, high-tech leadership abilities of this youngest-and-soon-to-be-largest employee group in your workplace. Explore ways your organisation can use Gen Y to uncover cutting-edge markets and ideas; and determine how you'll build a deep bench of 21st century talent. In her presentation, Amy Lynch creates a new paradigm for cross-generational business creation in our global, digital economy.

Attend this presentation and discover more on:

• Digital Natives: How they think and what they bring to the table
• Engaging and Energising Generation Y
• Crossing the Digital Divide: Bringing Generations Together in Get-it-Done Teams that Create Business

Amy Lynch is an author, entrepreneur and Generation Y expert who specialises in high-energy presentations that will enable you and your organisation to engage Generation Y employees for positive bottom line results. Her experiential approach guarantees 100% participation from all those attending this Singapore exclusive presentation, leading to long-term, sustainable results.

The legal sector is one of the most competitive industries for retaining and managing talent. With lawyers comes valuable employees, essential to business success, who often possess strong personalities.  HR and talent management practices therefore need to be at their very best if the firm is to thrive whilst retaining and managing its core talent. In this exclusive HR Summit presentation, J Jayaprakash will share his experiences and strategies that can be applied to talent management across any industry sector. In it he will cover:

• The Legal Industry - People & Hierarchy
• HR's strategic role in Business Development
• How to Engage Strong Personalities
• Developing strategies which are mutually beneficial
• Importance of training & development in managing resistance at all levels
• Implementing and managing a cultural change - promoting a more commercial and business focused proposition

J Jayaprakash is the head of Human Capital at KhattarWong, one of Singapore's largest law firms. He has amassed over a decade of experience working with leading law firms in the fields of human resource, operations and administration.

In an increasingly competitive legal recruitment environment, he has helped law firms distinguish themselves through initiatives in areas such as Corporate Social Responsibility, Pro-bono work and Risk Management. 

He has played a vital role in attracting, recruiting and managing the best talents through developing and executing continual training programmes, which focus on both legal and soft skills. He has also created and effected initiatives designed to encourage a continuous learning culture.

In the fast-paced legal world where time equals money, it is essential that law firms are able to respond to changes promptly and efficiently. He recognises top-to-bottom organisational buy-in as an integral component of the successful implementation of initiatives and programmes, and has achieved this through effective communication and successfully managing strong personalities.

The majority of employees are guilty of resisting change, but in this Singapore exclusive presentation, Ian Berry will show how you and the people in your organisation can be empowered to deliver true value to all your stakeholders through change and innovation .

You will leave this session inspired and with tools to really make a difference in: 

• Taking the journey from information to insight  -  to inspiration to idea  -  to innovation
• Attracting, engaging, and retaining your best employees through building and growing a culture of innovation
• Aligning the story, strategy, structure, and systems of your organisation so that innovation actually happens
• Surviving as well as thriving in the red and blue oceans of modern business 

For almost two decades Ian Berry has been helping HR and leaders around the world to do today what others will only be thinking about tomorrow. Regarded by many as Australia's most engaging and inspiring business speaker, Ian is the author of three books, including his latest, Differencemakers - how doing good is great for business. 

In this special HR Summit - Inside Case Study, Katia Konrad shares success stories and challenges on how Bayer HealthCare is Walking the Talk in Asia Pacific regarding Talent Management. Because of today's fast changing demands of the market, HR professionals urgently need to find effective ways to merge business needs with HR initiatives. Additional competencies are emerging, new ideas are missing and pressure for delivery and cost reduction is rising. Find out more on how she and HR are dealing with all these challenges whilst working towards the future.

Katia Konrad, a Brazilian by descent, is Senior Talent Manager at Bayer Healthcare, responsible for Asia Pacific and Japan. She has been working for Bayer for more than eleven years in four different continents, from which six years in the HR field. She is responsible for supporting the organisation in the areas of Talent Management, implementing new methods and tools for talent identification & development, Attraction & Retention, creating and tailoring mentoring programs for the region and developing the company's current and future leaders.

Her past experiences range from operational to strategic HR activities. Today she is known for her expertise in People Development and unlimited creativity when exploring new solutions for Talent Management.

Do some employees seem to be unfairly branded as a certain type of person at work?
Are they trapped in a set of behaviors that limit their ability to move ahead or achieve recognition?

Without even knowing it, employees may be trapped in roles or behaviors that hurt them on the job.  Playing a role is like portraying a character in a play. Some people naturally act as heroes, caretakers, rebels, peacemakers, entertainers, invisible ones or martyrs.  These roles and their accompanying behaviors are fine unless they restrict an employee's career choices and impede success.       

Find out if your employees are caught in roles or trapped in behaviors that limit their ability to succeed.  We'll describe the seven most common roles that people fall into at work, and help you determine if one (or more) of these roles is impeding members of your organization. You'll learn field-tested techniques that can help individuals break free from self-constructed constraining situations.

• Learn about the seven most common roles people play ay work
• Assess how certain behaviors may be holding employees back in the workplace.
• Discover simple steps that help others break free from any confining role.

Kathi Elster is a highly renowned published author, college educator, public speaker and veteran consultant. She is well known as the co-author of Working for You Isn't Working for Me - The Ultimate Guide To Managing Your Boss and the best selling business book Working With You is Killing Me - Freeing Yourself From Emotional Traps At Work.

Kathi is also the President of K Squared Enterprises, a Management Consulting firm located in NYC. As a management consultant and executive coach, Kathi specializes in staff training and development.

Published author, college educator, public speaker and veteran consultant, Kathi Elster, along with her co-author Katherine Crowley, has created a process that allows employees at all levels to achieve their business goals while managing difficult personalities and emotionally charged situations.