Starbucks, JP Morgan Chase and The Home Depot to Present at IQPC's Onboarding Talent Conference

Business Wire, Oct 28, 2008

NEW YORK -- Human Resources IQ and IQPC announced its only 2009 Onboarding Talent conference (www.iqpc.com/us/onboarding), taking place January 26-28, 2009 in Atlanta, GA.

Onboarding Talent is designed to offer companies strategic programs and methods that translate into high retention and productivity gains through their onboarding processes. The conference offers hours of learning and networking to ensure the best learned practices.

The three-day conference includes one full-day of pre-conference interactive workshops and two full-days of main conference topics and discussions on how to acquire and retain the highly skilled and scarce leaders in the marketplace. The event strives to improve initiatives for effective new hire and transfer integrations through keynotes, networking opportunities, and interactive workshops.

This year's pre-conference interactive workshops include Critical Elements of Onboarding, Onboarding 101, and Executive Onboarding. To address a range of onboarding strategies, industry leaders speaking include:

* Donna Kelly, Director, Performance Improvement, Chase Card Services, JP Morgan Chase

* Kristen Weirick, Director, Talent Acquisition, Global Human Resources, Whirlpool Corporation

* Nancy Kato, Senior Vice President, Human Resources, TIVO

* Erinn Mallory, Program Manager, Global Learning, Starbucks Corporation

* Leslie W. Joyce, Ph.D., Vice President and Chief Learning Office, The Home Depot

* Brian Fishel, Senior Vice President, Executive Recruiting and Staffing, Bank of America

* Hy Pomerance, Global Head, Talent Management, UBS Investment Bank

* Harold Cypress, Senior Manager, Global Learning and Development, Booz & Co.

Additional participating companies include IBM Corporation, Shell Oil Company, John Deere, Pfizer Inc., Sun Microsystems, Inc., Connect the Dots, Aberdeen Group, and more.

For more information on the Onboarding Talent conference, please contact:

Sarah Thompson

Senior Marketing Manager

IQPC

Email: Sarah.thompson@iqpc.com

Tel: 1 646-502-3266

About IQPC: provides business executives around the world with tailored practical conferences, large scale events, topical seminars and in-house training programs, keeping them up-to-date with industry trends, technological developments and the regulatory landscape. IQPC's large scale conferences are market leading "must attend" events for their respective industries. IQPC has global offices in Berlin, Dubai, Johannesburg, London, Madrid, New York, Sao Paulo, Singapore, Stockholm, Sydney, and Toronto. Visit us at www.IQPC.com for more information.