Announcing the 2011 HR Indiana Conference.
August 29-31, 2011

Why Should You Attend?

See what some of our attendees say...

"This year's conference was the best SHRM conference I have ever attended."

"I have attended this conference for several years and believe this may have been one of the best State conferences."

"Conference featured some great speakers. I was impressed by the fact that I had heard many of these speakers at the national conference."

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Our Opening Keynote Speaker:
Steve Gilliland

Steve Gilliland, CSP, is one of the most in-demand and top-rated speakers in the United States and Canada. Steve's motto is "If you take care of people, the business will follow." Implementing this principle, he has helped people grow their businesses and expand their lives by teaching them to rethink their work, their relationships and themselves. Steve launched his full-time speaking career and built a multimillion-dollar company on the same philosophy he expounds to his audiences. If you continually learn more about your company, your industry, your customer and yourself, you will always be a leader. You will be purpose-driven rather than process-driven, and you will make a difference. Steve learned great compassion for people and commitment to a hard-work and balanced-life ethic at the knee of his highly principled Christian mother.

A talented speaker and author, Steve Gilliland has an appeal that transcends barriers of age, culture and occupation. He is one of the seven percent of speakers in the world, among the 5,000 who belong to the International Federation for Professional Speakers, to hold the designation of Certified Speaking Professional. He has also been recognized by Who's Who for Speakers and Business Professionals. Steve has shared the platform with such distinguished people as Ken Blanchard, the late Governor Ann Richards, Rudolph Giuliani, Bruce Jenner and Bob Eubanks, as well as Jack Canfield, creator and cofounder of Chicken Soup for the Soul.

Our Opening Workshop
Back by Popular Demand:
Everything Legal Presented by Barnes & Thornburg LLP

Presented by Kenneth J. Yerkes, Partner at Barnes & Thornburg LLP
The landscape keeps changing, thanks to new laws, legislatures and activist courts and unions. You want legal advice? We have it! An annual highlight of the Conference, Ken Yerkes will bring a team of experts from Barnes & Thornburg LLP to the podium again. Come for a fast-paced overview of the significant legal issues facing organizations today and get an update on current events. Ken and his team always deliver an interactive program of outstanding content and supporting materials for the attendees. It's a great session to get the conference started!

Ken Yerkes, Chairman of the Labor & Employment Department, has spent over 25 years successfully fighting for his clients' business objectives at the bargaining table; in federal and state court matters; in arbitrations; and on the ground, in plants across the country, through proactive training, counseling, and union-avoidance campaigns. Ken's ability to transform complex matters into workable strategies has earned him his clients' trust and also acclaim as one of the country’s recognized leaders in labor and employment law. It is no surprise, then, that Ken is a Fellow in both The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and the Litigation Counsel of America, and has received the highest rating in every edition of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business. Ken has been interviewed and quoted in numerous publications, including The Wall Street Journal; Inside Counsel Magazine; and Law 360.

Barnes & Thornburg LLP is a full service law firm that is committed to the constant reinvigoration of classic values - values like excellence, integrity, reliability, and loyalty. We are equally zealous about your most important objectives and about helping you achieve them in the best or most challenging of times. Balancing tradition and innovation, agility and stability, inspires our highest achievement - and our ongoing dedication to yours.

Our Closing Keynote Speaker:
Marcus Buckingham, Presented by Ice Miller LLP

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Marcus Buckingham has dedicated his career to helping individuals discover and capitalize on their personal strengths. Hailed as a visionary by corporations such as Toyota, Coca-Cola, Master Foods, Wells Fargo, Microsoft, and Disney, he has helped to usher in the “strengths revolution,” persuasively arguing that people are dramatically more effective, fulfilled and successful when they are able to focus on the best of themselves.

In his nearly two decades as a Senior Researcher at Gallup Organization, Buckingham studied the world’s best managers and organizations to investigate what drives great performance. His research laid the foundation for a string of New York Times best-selling books that use empirical data to challenge preconceptions about achievement. First, Break All the Rules (co-authored with Curt Coffman) kicked things off in 1999, followed by Now, Discover Your Strengths (co-authored with Donald Clifton, 2001), The One Thing You Need to Know (2005), Go Put Your Strengths to Work (2007) and The Truth About You (2008).

Buckingham’s latest book, Find Your Strongest Life: What the Happiest and Most Successful Women Do Differently, was inspired by the overwhelming response to his appearance on “The Oprah Winfrey Show”—100,000 unique contributors posted messages online after the show and 1.7 million people downloaded his three-hour workshop video. The book tackles head-on the numerous studies revealing a drastic decline in female happiness over the last 40 years, and offers strategies for reversing this disturbing trend.

In addition to “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” Marcus Buckingham has been featured on “Larry King Live,” “The Today Show,” “Good Morning America,” and “The View.” He has been profiled in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Fortune, Fast Company, and Harvard Business Review.

Buckingham founded TMBC in 2007 to create strengths-based management training solutions for organizations worldwide, and he spreads the strengths message in keynote addresses to over 250,000 people around the globe each year.

A member of the Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee on Leadership and Management, Marcus Buckingham graduated from Cambridge University with a Master’s Degree in Social and Political Science. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife Jane and children Jackson and Lilia.


Ice Miller's lawyers and business professionals, through their understanding of businesses, industries and government entities, help simplify the complexities faced by its clients. Ice Miller attorneys have more than 60 years of experience advising and representing employers in every type of business and industry in labor and employment practice. Our clients range from start-up entrepreneurial businesses to established Fortune 500 companies, and include state and local governments, and public, secondary and higher education institutions. Ice Miller provides counseling, planning and training services; assistance in employment discrimination and wrongful termination claims; advice on collective bargaining, contract administration and arbitration; representation in labor disputes; and the development of plans, documents and procedures that address labor issues and employee benefits. Ice Miller's Internet, Technology and Social Media Practice is a comprehensive multi-disciplinary practice that addresses nearly all facets of legal issues related to the transformation and evolution of consumer and commercial business practices from print to electronic medium over the course of the last 18 years. Our goal is to help you avoid the costs and aggravation that could result from preventable workplace disputes and instead focus on growing your bottom line. At Ice Miller, our attorneys understand that knowing your business is our business. The Firm has offices in Chicago; DuPage County, Ill.; Indianapolis and Washington, D.C. For additional information, visit online at www.icemiller.com.