Our Core Faculty
Kevin Wheeler [ Conference Founder and Chairman ] :: Susan Burns [ Executive Director ]
Eileen Clegg [Research and Graphics] :: Jay Cross [Learning and New Ideas]
Kevin Wheeler Founder and Chairman the Future of Talent Institute. Kevin started FOTI five years ago out of his passionate belief that organizations need a more powerful and thoughtful architecture for talent than they have. After a 25 year career in corporate America serving as the Senior Vice President for Staffing and Workforce Development at the Charles Schwab Corporation, the Vice President of Human Resources for Alphatec Electronics, Inc. in Thailand, and in a variety of human resources roles at National Semiconductor Corporation, Kevin has firsthand knowledge of the need for better strategies and approaches to finding, developing and retaining people.
Today, Kevin is a globally known speaker, author, teacher and consultant in human capital acquisition and development, as well as in corporate education. He is the author of numerous articles on human resource development, career development, recruiting, and on establishing corporate universities. He is a frequent speaker at conferences. He writes a weekly Internet column on recruiting and staffing, which can be found at www.ere.net, and he and Eileen have written a book on corporate universities, The Corporate University Workbook: Launching the 21st Century Learning Organization. He serves as adjunct faculty at San Jose State University, the University of San Francisco and on the business faculty at San Francisco State University.
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Susan Burns serves as the Executive Director of the Future of Talent. She is also the founder and Chief Talent Strategist of Talent Synchronicity. Susan develops talent strategy solutions through an integrated alignment with core business functions and processes. Enabling success by further enhancing the essential relationship between business and talent to advantage companies is grounded in Susan's core philosophy. Susan has leveraged technology, branding and alignment with strategic business directives to create intrinsic value. She achieves objectives through a creative, resourceful, and collaborative approach to planning, development, and implementation. Susan is a frequent speaker and author on trends and strategies in the talent space.
Previously, Susan was Worldwide Talent Acquisition Leader with Waggener Edstrom, the second largest privately held PR firm. Susan led the global talent attraction and acquisition function, developed a workforce planning model, and guided the Agency Executive Board on talent initiatives. Susan established the framework for an integrated sourcing strategist and CRM tool to further advance the talent acquisition function.
Prior to Waggener Edstrom, Susan was Operating Vice President of Employment Initiatives and College Relations for Federated Department Stores (Macy's Inc). Her contributions included selection, development, deployment and utilization of recruitment technologies, employment brand development, SEO, marketing, change management, and talent-centric initiatives to further educate and align key constituents. Susan established a platform for continued growth and expansion of talent attraction and acquisition strategies through her leadership in creating the Recruitment Leaders Conference and developing the company's employment platform Retailology.com, which included macysJOBS.com and bloomingdalesJOBS.com, among others. Through Susan's leadership and contributions, Federated was recognized by Business Week as one of the Top 50 employers for new college graduates.
Eileen Clegg is a visual journalist, book author and founder of the company Visual Insight creating large-scale, real-time murals for organizations. She works with top leadership invoking visual language to wordlessly introduce the power of emotion and meaning into group communications. Her visual journalism combines contemporary reporting techniques with ancient , universal symbols. Her practice emphasizes metaphor, intuition and story to facilitate business transformation, strategic planning, and team effectiveness. Her clients have included Art Center College of Design, IBM, Kaiser Permanente, Federated Department Stores, Starbucks, Edwards Lifesciences, American Society of Training and Development, and the Gates Foundation’s Model Secondary Schools Program. She has worked with Institute for the Future since 1999, Eileen was a daily newspaper journalist for 20 years with emphasis on education and environment. At IFTF, Eileen worked closely with graphic facilitation pioneer David Sibbet before developing her unique visual journalism approach in 2001. Eileen has published and/or illustrated numerous articles and books including: The 21st Century Corporate University (Jossey Bass Pfeiffer, 2005), a chapter in Creating a Learning Culture (Cambridge University Press 2004), Claiming Your Creative Self (New Harbinger, 1999.
Jay Cross is a champion of informal learning, web 2.0, and systems thinking. He puts breakthough business results ahead of business as usual. His calling is to change the world by helping people learn to learn.
He has challenged conventional wisdom about how adults learn to be productive since designing the first business degree program offered by the University of Phoenix thirty years ago. Now in its ninth year, Internet Time Group LLC has provided advice and guidance to Cisco, IBM, Sun, Genentech, Merck, Novartis, HP, the CIA, the World Bank, the World Cafe, and numerous others.
He is currently researching and refining informal/web 2.0 learning approaches to foster collaboration and accelerate performance. as CEO of eLearning Forum for its first five years, was the first to use the term eLearning on the web, and has keynoted major conferences in the U.S. and Europe. He is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Business School. He and his wife Uta live with two miniature longhaired dachshunds in the hills of Berkeley, California.
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