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An expert with over 20 years of experience in the field of higher education, Elizabeth F. Ortiz was promoted to vice president for Institutional Diversity and Equity in 2006, after serving as senior executive for institutional diversity for four years.
Ortiz brings special talents in recruiting and retaining a diverse group of students, faculty and staff to higher education with her to DePaul. She comes here from Northern Illinois University (NIU), where she directed Affirmative Action, Diversity and Employee Relations.
Prior to her tenure at NIU, she spent 10 years at Chicago State University, serving as director of the Office for Hispanic Programs, university retention facilitator and academic support counselor. Ortiz spent a year at the City Colleges of Chicago as an Adult Learning Skills Program coordinator and began her career in higher education as an admission counselor and, later, a program and recruitment counselor at her alma mater, Calumet College of St. Joseph in Whiting, Ind.
As diversity officer at DePaul, Ortiz reports to the president of the university, and is responsible for building alliances with various university constituencies to maximize the university's potential as a truly diverse community of faculty, students and staff. Her functions include: performing an annual audit to assess DePaul's diversity initiatives and programs, including the Affirmative Action Plan; and assisting the president in building diversity relationships with Chicago corporations and civil, neighborhood and religious communities.
Ortiz currently is the president of the Illinois Latino Council on Higher Education (ILACHE) and serves on the Illinois Board of Higher Education Diversifying our Faculty's in Illinois Executive Board.
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Linda Overbey is Senior Vice President of the Human Resources Department for family owned First American Bank Corporation based in Elk Grove Village Illinois. She uses the skills she has learned to set high expectations for employees within the company and continues to manage, and as often as possible, participate in the internal training workshops. Training remains her passion and the core of her work philosophy. She believes that helping others understand what can be gained from the relationship, no matter what your field, is the key to success.
Linda has over thirty years experience in organizational training and development, and attended Towson State Teacher’s College (today Towson State University). Her focus in Education and Speech helped Linda realize the importance of strong communication skills and their impact on all areas of business. She has trained thousands of adults in the arena of relationship building, management skills, and sales, in banking, insurance and retail.
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Mr. Pamintuan, of Chicago, Illinois, is a senior consultant with Sherman Consulting, Inc, a communications and strategic solutions consulting firm. His practice specializes in identifying and implementing initiatives in highly regulated industries with various governments on behalf of firm clients. Mr. Pamintuan serves as Chairman of the Advisory Board for the US Asian Business Council and is an active board member of the National Center for Community Development. He is a member of the Executives’ Club of Chicago and the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations. In 2004, Mr. Pamintuan was appointed to the President’s Advisory Commission on Asian and Pacific Islands. President George W. Bush designated him Chair of the Commission in 2006. He attended Loyola University.
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Chris Paoli is Senior Vice
President and National
Head of Sales with Harris
Private Bank, which
provides comprehensive
financial services to
affluent clients. Mr. Paoli’s
primary role is to focus
on sales effectiveness and
business development
strategies on a national basis. He joined Harris
in 1988 in the corporate banking group, and he
has spent a large part of his career managing
sales professionals in multiple lines of business
and advising privately held companies and their
owners. His client advisory and sales management
background includes both domestic and
international experience.
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Alysa Parks serves as Director of Learning and Development for CDW, a leading provider of technology products and services for business, government and education. Parks is responsible for leading CDW's learning and development initiatives and programs, including onboarding, strategic sales, and technology services skill development.
Parks joined the CDW team in 2003 and has over 17 years of talent development and organizational effectiveness experience. Prior to joining CDW, she held positions in marketing and learning and development at Indeliq, an Accenture Company, Motorola, and Sun Microsystems.
Parks earned a Master of Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley, Haas School of Business and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and French from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She received the Chief Learning Officer 2007 Gold Award for Innovation Division I and recently served on learning leader panels at CompTIA Colloquium and Chief Learning Officer Symposium.
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Peggy has over 25 years experience in driving strategic change to improve organizational and individual performance. She draws upon varied disciplines including management of change, human performance improvement and project management to set program goals, define success measures and develop tactical plans.
Her clients are Fortune 500 firms whose needs include business operations improvement, services realignment and enhanced measurement processes to demonstrate the effectiveness and value of their services to internal stakeholders and external customers.
Peggy’s focus and passion over the past several years has been in the field of measurement and evaluation. Between 2001 and 2005, she was responsible for enterprise wide evaluation for the Learning & Development function at Hewlett-Packard Company. In this role, she drove a major culture change initiative to grow HP’s organizational maturity in training measurement and evaluation. During her tenure, training value, effectiveness and utility markedly and measurably improved.
In conjunction with her evaluation efforts,
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Art has 25 years of designing, developing and delivering technology and leadership education in a variety of instructor-led and e-learning formats. Notable firsts include the worlds first robotics and machine vision training for factory operators, mobile learning laboratories for factory education, and multimedia based software project management training. Awards were received for the first virtual reality applications in factory education ( Meckler Media), a global design, development and delivery process ( ISPI), a global systems availability curriculum. Art also received the Motorola University Presidents Award.
Art has taught part time for Lake Forest University and Loyola University in their MBA programs in Human Resources and at DeVry University.
Current projects include the Motorola Innovation Leadership Institute and Global Software Domain Technology Competency
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Deborah has the experience and knowledge to take risks and create organizational value by linking vision and purpose to business results. She has 15 years of demonstrated experience and high level skill in designing and leading global talent management, leadership development and organizational effectiveness programs and interventions.
Deborah has superior analytic and communication skills, highly flexible and adaptable with a broad range of experiences across Regions, Functions and Businesses. She is proactive, approachable individual able to win the respect of people at all levels in the organization through leadership, intelligence, hard work and presence.
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Daniel H. Pink is the author of a trio of provocative books on the changing world of work.
Dan's articles on business and technology appear in many publications, including the New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and Wired, where he is a contributing editor. He has provided analysis of business trends on CNN, CNBC, ABC, NPR, and other networks in the U.S. and abroad. He also lectures to corporations, associations, and universities around the world on economic transformation and the new workplace.
A free agent himself, Dan held his last real job in the White House, where he served from 1995 to 1997 as chief speechwriter to Vice President Al Gore. He also worked as an aide to U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich and in other positions in politics and government.
He received a BA, with honors, from Northwestern University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and a JD from Yale Law School. To his lasting joy, he has never practiced law.
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Roy Pollock serves as Chief Learning Officer for Fort Hill. Over the past ten years, Roy has held positions of increasing responsibility in both line management and strategy development including: Vice-President,Global Strategic Product Development, SmithKline Beecham Animal Health; Vice-President, Sales and Marketing, Pfizer Animal Health; President, IDEXX Informatics; and President, VetConnect Systems
Roy also served as a member of the global management teams for SmithKline Beecham Animal Health, Pfizer Animal Health, and IDEXX Laboratories, and as a corporate officer at IDEXX.
Roy has a passion and life-long interest in Leadership Development. He is a Fellow of the Kellogg Foundation National Leadership Program.
Prior to joining industry, Roy was a faculty member at Cornell University for 8 years where he served as Assistant Professor and Assistant Dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine.
Roy received his B.A. from Williams College, and his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell University.
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