Keynote Speaker - Angela Shaw

Voted the 2020 TXSHRM Volunteer Leader of the Year, Chief People Officer and DEI advocate Angela Shaw is an award winning HR leader, speaker and teacher. With a extensive background in human resources Angela worked her way up from an entry-level position to earn her seat at the C-Suite table. Angela is both a SHRM Senior Certified Professional and Senior Human Resources Certified Professional earning both designations within a year of one another.

Rick Gillis

Am I paid fairly for the work I do is a question a lot of people ask themselves today. Depending on the source, women earn 18-20% less than men while Black, Indigenous, and People of Color may earn even less. None of this is news but instead of waiting for the government or your company to make fair pay a reality, Rick Gillis, author of Leveling the Paying Field, A Groundbreaking Approach to Achieving Fair Pay, is putting the power of achieving the proper pay for what you do into your own hands.

Several books exist on the topic of fair pay, but none offers an individual approach to achieving fair pay like Leveling the Paying Field. Gillis has created a rich new metric for measuring the value of the work you produce he calls the QTNT® (pronounced: ‘quotient’). Your QTNT score can then be used to realistically challenge your current rate of pay. The best part is this process is astonishingly simple!

“Gillis provides readers with a broad array of ways for supervisors and workers to come to an equitable calculation of how much actual value each employee generates for the company. The long experience the author brings to the subject is obvious on every page; he comes across continuously as workers’ tireless cheerleader. Every employee in the world has commercial value, he insists, and in these brightly written pages, he seeks to help them all make the most of that worth.

“An infectiously evenhanded, useful approach to assessing fairer pay.” – Kirkus Reviews

Ultimately, the result of this groundbreaking new method is that not only will you be able to determine and defend the value you deliver to your company but equal pay for equal work will ultimately be realized. Even better, the proper pay for your outstanding performance now becomes the new normal.

Leveling the Paying Field is the sum of Rick Gillis' varied and colorful career in sales, as a manager, author, speaker, award-winning media host, and indisputable thought leader.  For more information on Rick Gillis, visit: https://rickgillis.com/

Randal Weidenaar

Randal Weidenaar is a researcher, author and national speaker. His passion was born out of the pain of broken workplaces, and leaders that wounded rather than served. Randal set out to discover a method that leads to life giving leadership and culture. 

Randal created VP Culture, a leadership system based on attachment science that inspires a powerful relational culture foundation. His research reveals that our neurobiology engages when our relationships are healthy and connected. This leads to actual health, vitality and productivity on all levels. Rather than just tips and tricks, VP Culture focuses on a profoundly relational way of leading and living. Randal has studied Business Processes Development at MIT Sloan School of Management; The Fundamentals of Neuroscience at Harvard-X; Quantitative Social Research Methods at University of Amsterdam; and Culture-Driven Team Development at University of Pennsylvania. He has helped corporations, government, and non-profit organizations unpack the art and science of leadership and culture creation. He wrote The VP Culture Workbook to help leaders develop this team culture. 

Randal has worked with diverse teams from over 42 countries, and consulted countless organizations in marketing and culture development. Additionally, he is the founder of Notionfront, a marketing firm that has clients across the United States. He is also the director of Grace Encounter, a self-development organization. Randal lives with his wife on a sustainable farm in central Missouri. 

Mike Coffey

Mike Coffey is an entrepreneur, human resources professional, licensed private investigator, and HR consultant. In 1999, he created Imperative to bring high quality, high tech, and high touch to the employment background screening market. 

Today, Imperative serves hundreds of businesses across the US and, through its PFC Caregiver Screening brand, many more private estates, family offices, and personal service agencies. Mike has been recognized as an Entrepreneur of Excellence and has twice been named HR Professional of the Year. Additionally, Imperative is included in the prestigious Best Places to Work lists for both Fort Worth and Texas and was named the Texas state chamber of commerce’s small business of the year. 

Mike maintains his certification as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) through the HR Certification Institute. He is also a SHRM Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP). Mike lives in Fort Worth with his very patient wife and they are one high-school graduation or juvenile court sentencing away from being empty nesters. He practices yoga and maintains a keto diet, about both of which he will gladly tell you way more than you want to know. 

Emily M. Dickens

Emily M. Dickens is Chief of Staff, Head of Government Affairs and Corporate Secretary for SHRM, the Society for Human Resource Management. A member of the executive team, Emily has responsibility for implementing the CEO's vision, corporate governance, global outreach, government affairs, and the organization’s buildings and property. She serves on the executive board of the North America Human Resource Management Association (NAHRMA), and is Secretary-General of the World Federation of People Management Associations (WFPMA).

Emily is an attorney with significant and progressive experience in government, higher education and the non-profit sector. She has served as a member of the leadership team at the University of North Carolina system, the Association of Governing Boards of Colleges and Universities and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. Her prior roles include general counsel, chief relationship officer, senior vice president, vice president for public policy and assistant vice president for federal relations. She has also worked at Duke University and Fayetteville State University in administrative and external affairs roles. Emily is actively engaged in board service. She is a member of the U.S. Council for International Business Board of Directors, Strategic Education, Inc. HIRE Advisory Board; North Carolina Central University Board of Trustees; National Foundation for Women Legislators Board of Directors; Bryce Harlow Foundation Board of Governors; and is Chairman of the International HBCU Task Force for Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated. She is a graduate of North Carolina Central University and North Carolina Central University School of Law.

Randy Anderson

Randy Anderson is co-founder of E3 Professional Trainers…a training firm that provides workplace and life training for individuals, teams, and companies. His strategies are designed to help people become more engaged in their work, better equipped to do it, and feel empowered to live a more fulfilling and influential life. 

Before starting E3 in 2005, Randy spent 20 years in sales and management. Most of that time was spent in media sales, which gave him the opportunity to work with virtually every type of business and industry. It is from that experience that he draws the ideas and strategies to help his clients improve their performance in the workplace and to achieve their maximum potential in life. 

Randy was awarded the designation of Certified Speaking Professional in 2012. This is the highest earned designation given by the National Speakers Association, recognizing proven expertise in speaking eloquence, business enterprise, and professional ethics. 

Randy received his Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Communications from Texas Tech University in 1990. Since that time, he has participated in and completed numerous training courses including; Your Leadership Legacy (Ken Blanchard Co.),Changing the Picture (Ziglar Corp.), Ethics 101 (Cox Enterprises, Inc.), LifeNet Time Management Training (Life Net Inc.), Basic Selling Skills (AVI International), Top Selling (Ziglar Corp.), Professional Selling Skills (Learning International), System 21 Selling (Executive Decision Systems), and Fast Track Media Sales (Cox Media, Inc.). His most valuable experience has come through more than 25 years of on-the-job, real-world experience: 12 of which were spent managing others, and over 16 years running his own company. 

Steven Smith

Steven J Smith, SHRM-CP, PHR has been in the Human Resource profession since 2005 after graduating from Brigham Young University with a BS in Finance. His strong background in Finance and Sales has helped Steven be very successful when it comes to organizational development and growth by bridging the communication gap between HR, CEOs and the Executive Suite. 

In 2008 he saw an opportunity to enhance the growth of organizations worldwide by helping with the founding of a new company called ApplicantPro, helping HR professionals of companies from 1 to 20,000 employees be more of a strategic partner within their own organizations. He has consulted with thousands of organizations across the country on strategic ways to improve hiring processes in 100s of industries. Steven has been a member of SHRM since 2008 and currently serves as Utah SHRMs State Director where he is responsible for 5 chapters across the state and their more than 2500 volunteers. On a quick personal note, Steven has 3 teenage daughters, 2 labradoodles, 2 cats, and LOVES Star Wars. 

Art Goetze

An experienced business leader, healthcare innovator. Art Goetze is a serial entrepreneur. His first roll-up company hit the Fortune 500 and NYSE in its first year. He led the acquisition and integration of over 200 companies, comprising 36,000 employees and $4.6 billion in sales. Art went on to develop and operate the nation's first freestanding emergency centers and also the first subscription-based primary care practice in Texas. He is an expert at integrating direct primary care with group health benefits using ICRHA.

Jason Lambert

Dr. Jason R. Lambert is an Associate Professor of Management in the College of Business at Texas Woman’s University (TWU), and he serves as the Chair of the Chancellor’s Diversity and Inclusion Council for the TWU system. He is also a Principal of IMAGIN Consulting, LLC, a consulting firm that provides diversity climate change consulting for organizations, and coaching for traditionally underrepresented BIPOC and LGBTQ professionals. Dr. Lambert received his PhD. in Business Administration from the University of Texas at Arlington, and his scholarship and teaching primarily cover organizational behavior and workplace diversity. 

Before serving in higher education, his professional career spanned more than a decade in managerial roles in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. His research investigates how attitudes, values, beliefs and experiences of members from different identity groups affect work decisions and outcomes. Dr. Lambert has received the "Most Promising Educator Award" from the PhD. Project, the "African- American Achievement Award" from Saint Xavier University as their first African-American Chair of the Management & Marketing Department, and the "Best Theory to Practice Paper Award" from the Academy of Management Healthcare Management Division for his research.

He has presented his research at numerous regional and international conferences, and he has published op-eds, book chapters, and peer-reviewed academic journal articles across various outlets including the Chicago Tribune, Journal of Business Diversity, International Journal of Human Resource Management, and Personnel Review.

Leiza Dolghih

Leiza is a partner at Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, the sixth largest firm in the country. She co-chairs the firm’s trade secrets and non-compete disputes practice area and is Board Certified in labor and employment law. She has been selected to The Best Lawyers Under 40 in 2018 - 2021, and The Best Lawyers in Dallas in 2017, 2019 -2021 by D Magazine, Dallas Top 50 Women Lawyers in 2018, by Texas Diversity Council, and “Rising Stars” in 2017- 2021 by Texas Lawyer. Leiza frequently litigates commercial and employment disputes and serves as an outside counsel for a variety of companies.

2022 North Texas SHRM Annual Conference