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Overview:
With the worst of the recession seemingly over, organizations find themselves facing tough challenges and complex choices. Many have streamlined, restructured and downsized operations to ride out the recession. Now they're looking ahead, planning and preparing to execute M&A strategies to help their organizations re-capture growth.
But the two processes can be tough to reconcile. How do merging organizations ensure they have the right staffing levels, mix of talent, and cost of employees needed to achieve their strategic objectives? Have organizations cut too far too fast? Are we on the brink of talent wars? What are the key human capital planning criteria you need to consider to ensure deal value is captured quickly and effectively?
To get answers to this new set of questions, make sure you join The Deal and Towers Watson for a 60-minute webcast to explore what it means to translate a company's changing strategic M&A objectives into a detailed workforce plan that positions the merged company for success. After listening to our editor and leading workforce and talent integration experts, you'll have fresh insight on how to best align the merged workforce with your strategic M&A objectives, and ultimately, drive business performance.
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KENNETH KLEE
Editor, Corporate Dealmaker
The Deal LLC
Kenneth Klee leads editorial operations for Corporate Dealmaker, launched by The Deal LLC in November 2003. A blog and quarterly report published in The Deal, Corporate Dealmaker provides a deeper understanding and a unique perspective on the trends that drive corporate growth.
Klee's previous editorial post was at Newsweek International, where he oversaw the magazine's business section as a senior editor. He wrote on international business topics for Newsweek's domestic and international editions and orchestrated various special sections on international economic and business trends. For much of the 1990's, Klee was the managing editor of Institutional Investor's international editions, responsible for coverage in Europe and Asia. He began his tenure at Institutional Investor in 1987 as a senior editor focused on commercial banking and Wall Street.
Klee started his journalism career at Forbes, working on the copy desk. Shortly thereafter, he moved to a technology publication, Datamation, as features editor and later to Venture Magazine as managing editor. Klee earned a bachelors of arts degree in English literature from the University of Wisconsin.
MAX CALDWELL
Managing Principal
Towers Watson
Max Caldwell is the Managing Principal of Towers Watson's global Workforce Effectiveness practice. In this leadership role, he helps organizations develop and implement strategies to improve workforce engagement and business performance. Max joined Towers Watson in 1993 and is based in the firm's New York office.
In over 20 years of consulting to business leaders, Max has focused on improving business performance through enhancing workforce, human resources and total rewards effectiveness as well as through leadership and organizational change strategies. During Max's tenure with Towers Watson, he has served as global change management practice leader and helped to lead the firm's landmark Global Workforce Study, the most extensive research of its kind on what attracts, retains and engages workers around the world. Max's prior experience includes serving as CEO of a consulting unit of the WPP Group specializing in change management and internal branding.
Max has worked with operating and HR executives in global organizations across industries. A representative list of recent projects includes:
Max is a member of the advisory board of the Human Capital Institute, a leading global organization dedicated to advancing thought leadership in the area of talent management. He has been a featured speaker at numerous conferences and has been interviewed by the Wall Street Journal, CNN, NPR, the BBC and others on a variety of leadership and workforce-related topics. He was also one of the people featured in a 2008 TIME Magazine article entitled "The Rage to Engage" about engaging workers to enhance productivity and performance. He holds a bachelor of fine arts degree from the University of Connecticut, Storrs and has completed professional studies in the area of leadership effectiveness.
MARY CIANNI
Principal
Towers Watson
Mary Cianni is a Principal in Towers Watson's Human Capital Group the Global Practice Leader for M&A. She consults with clients across a broad range of M&A, change management and talent issues. She recently rejoined Towers Watson having spent two years as the Vice-President, Global Human Resources at Stiefel Laboratories. During her tenure at Stiefel, she led a global HR team (US, Canada, LATAC, EMEA and APAC) and transformed the HR structure with newly designed global processes and roles and launched performance-driven HR programs in support of the business strategy. She led the people integration of three acquired companies.
In her previous time with Towers Watson (1998-2007) her client engagements included:
In addition, she led a number of talent and learning assignments, including succession planning, development of workshops on health care behavior change, global workshops on co-promotion partnerships, and the design of portfolio of experiences to strengthen the capacity for leadership roles. She has extensive experience with clients in the pharmaceutical industry, as well as clients in financial services and insurance.
Before joining Towers Watson, Mary was an Associate Professor of Management at Susquehanna University. She has published articles on a range of HR topics. Her work has appeared in International HR Journal, Academy of Management Executives, Human Resource Development Quarterly, Executive Development, Applied HRM Research, Sex Roles, Gender, Work and Organizations, and Group and Organization Management. Mary is the lead author for two chapters in the Towers Watson/SHRM book on Making Mergers Work, now in its second edition. She holds a Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Penn State University.
ROSELYN FEINSOD
Principal
Towers Watson
Roselyn Feinsod is a Principal based in the New York City office of Towers Watson. She helps clients develop workforce and rewards strategies. Roselyn manages a variety of projects, including strategic workforce planning, workforce and rewards strategy and establishing scorecards. Roselyn leads the Global Strategic Workforce Planning practice working to develop and deliver next practice tools and capabilities.
Prior to Towers Watson, Roselyn worked for a large global consulting firm and advised clients on workforce and rewards design issues.
She has provided consulting services to many large organizations, including large healthcare systems, manufacturing and entertainment industry giants, as well as major nonprofits.
Roselyn is the co-author of a major study on behalf of AARP entitled the "Business Case for Workers Age 50+" released in December 2005. She is a frequent speaker on workforce and rewards topics to a variety of audiences including the Conference Board, Harvard's School for Continuing Public Health, World at Work, the Towers Watson HR Service Delivery Forum, the National Conference on Aging, the Federal Reserve presidents and Congress. She has been quoted in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Chicago Tribune, US News and World Report, HR Executive and Plan Sponsor.
Roselyn earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Actuarial Science from the College of Insurance in New York City. She is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries and Member of the American Academy of Actuaries.
