Steve Samek’s career has spanned 49 years. He is a CPA by training and has been the CEO of several companies ranging from a 20,000 employee, Multi Billion $ Global Big 6 accounting firm to a publically held consulting firm and several highly successful entrepreneurial startups. He has written 7 books covering a variety of business topics including strategic planning, profit improvement techniques, and business forecasting. The most notable was the New York Times best seller, “Cracking the Value Code “ released in 2000 that identified successful techniques for companies and transforming industries in the dawn of the knowledge age In the then “New Millennial”. For 15 years Steve worked closely with the NAW and was the original author of the NAW’s “Facing the Forces Of Change” series. Steve is currently focused on helping entrepreneurial companies navigate their way from start up through the growth phase and mature companies facing significant transformation issues. His passion is helping midmarket firms (and their CEO’s, Owners, & Key Executives) transform their companies & themselves in this new age.

Mr. Wallace has worked in a wide variety of industries addressing assessment and pay issues. He has worked in the consumer and commercial banking, insurance, consumer products, financial, manufacturing, and other industries.

Mr. Wallace is accountable for direction of Korn Ferry’s Incentive Pay and Sales Compensation practices as well as projects in general rewards practices and executive compensation. In recent years, his work with clients and research in the field has been published in the New York Times, Personnel, Workspan, World at Work Journal, HR Magazine, Pharmaceutical Executive, and other publications.

He is a frequent speaker on rewards topics in addition to assisting clients to strategically address critical compensation issues.

Mr. Wallace received his bachelor degree in economics from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, WI. He has an MBA from the Garvin International School of Management in Phoenix, AZ, and a certification in administration from the University of Aix-Marseille in Aix-en-Provence, France. He is a WorldatWork Certified Sales Compensation Professional.

Robert (Bob) leads Gallagher’s Enterprise Resilience Practice that provides risk consulting services to a variety of companies in Wholesale Distribution, Energy, Chemicals, Natural Resources, Transportation, Higher Ed, Real Estate and Financial Services.  Bob was President of Continuum Solutions Ltd that was acquired by Gallagher in February 2016.

Bob has extensive experience in risk consulting. He was Practice Leader for Booz Allen Hamilton’s Commercial Resilience business.  In this capacity, he served as client relationship manager and project manager for a variety of global Fortune 100 clients in Life Sciences, Consumer and Media, Financial Services, and Infrastructure. Capabilities included program management, strategic risk assessments, plan development/implementation, governance programs as well as testing/training/exercising.

Prior to joining Booz Allen, Bob was Managing Director of Marsh McLennan’s Corporate Preparedness Practice, where he was responsible for global client relationship management in a variety of industry verticals; with a heavy concentration in financial services and life sciences.  Bob was also responsible for program development/implementation that included: corporate preparedness policies & procedures, risk assessment & mitigation programs as well as business continuity & crisis plans.

Lance Simon, CVEP has been working in the technology industry since 1982. Lance is the senior member of the Acendre Learning sales team. He has worked specially in eLearning for the past 12 years. Before Acendre, Lance was VP Sales & Marketing and then CEO for iCohere, a leading LMS in the association industry.  Lance is also the Creator of the Certified Virtual Event Producer (CVEP) credential with over 400 graduates to date.