2025 Spring Professional Development Conference
April 25
$175.00 – $250.00
Spring Professional Development Conference: A Day in the Life of HR
Adapting and Succeeding
Friday, April 25th, 2025 from 7:30 AM- 4:15 PM at IU-13 Training Center
AGENDA: Coming Soon
Session #1: Clear, Concise, and Confident Communication
Keynote Speaker: Christina Butler
Session Description: Discover the secrets to Clear, Concise, and Confident Communication in today’s fast-paced world. Join Emmy-nominated journalist Christina Butler for an engaging, interactive session designed to enhance your communication skills. Learn effective strategies to ensure your message resonates with employees, colleagues, and clients alike, elevating your impact in every conversation.
Learning Objectives – As a result of attending this program, attendees will be able to:
- Come across as confident and authentic when delivering a message
- Use simple acronyms to help them speak well on the spot
- Proactively handle questions and pushback in communication
- Amplify their credibility with word choice and use body language to their advantage to enhance tone and message
About the Speaker: Christina Butler is a clear, concise, and confident communication expert. Having spent two decades working as an Emmy-nominated television anchor and reporter, she instinctively connects with her audiences and brings the same level of energy to her programs as she did to breaking news. Christina’s updated and innovative perspective illustrates a well-known fact: those who speak well, do well. She has shared communication strategies with hundreds of individuals and dozens of organizations around the globe and is an international keynote speaker, but her favorite place to be is right here at home in Lancaster County.
Session #2: Information Security for the HR Professional: Strategies for Implementing Effective Workforce Policies and Practices
Speaker: Don Geiter
Session Description: This presentation will equip you with the knowledge and strategies needed to enhance your organization’s information security policies and best practices. It will cover key cybersecurity program elements, including regulatory compliance, data classification, access management, acceptable use, and incident response. As an HR professional, you will learn how to foster a security-conscious workforce culture and mitigate risks through effective policy implementation, training, and oversight.
Learning Objectives – As a result of attending this program, attendees will be able to:
- Understand common cybersecurity threats and attacks, applicable laws and regulations, and information classifications and controls
- Determine and communicate organizational security controls, including personnel security and access management, and acceptable use of IT resources
- Plan for cyber incident reporting and response, service provider risk management, and customer data protection
About the Speaker: Donald R. Geiter, J.D., M.S.L. is a partner of the law firm Barley Snyder, Lancaster office. Don is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (U.S.) (CIPP/US) and Manager (CIPM), serves as the firm’s Chief Privacy Officer, and leads the firm’s Cybersecurity Service Team. He also is a member of the firm’s Technology Committee.
Don is a frequent speaker on the topic of cybersecurity, with recent presentations given to the National Association of Corporate Directors, the Pennsylvania Bankers Association, the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Association of Corporate Counsel, PA Manufacturers’ Association, and the World Trade Center-Harrisburg. Don has also authored the publication titled “Corporate Officer and Board of Director Oversight of Cyber-Risk,” a tool he has used to train executives on risk mitigation in the area of cybersecurity.
Session #3: Panel Discussion: Managing a Hybrid Workforce
Facilitated by Janet McNally
Panelists: Heather Valudes, Stephane Smith, and a representative from the Community Action Program of Lancaster County
More information coming soon!
Session #4: Retention and Benefits
Speaker: Laura Hess and Terri Turner
Session Description: Coming Soon
Learning Objectives: Coming Soon
About the Speakers: Coming Soon
Session #5: Intentionally Building Trust Every Day Through HR
Speaker: Steve Goble
Session Description: Despite the advantages technology brings to the marketplace, people are still required for major decisions, critical thinking, and relationship building – with trust serving as the foundation. In this presentation, you’ll learn about the ‘8 Pillars of Trust’ and how they relate to enhancing your people skills, the positive business results increased trust brings, and provide you with tools you can use immediately to build stronger trust in your organization.
Learning Objectives – As a result of attending this program, attendees will be able to:
- Use tools to build trust for smarter meetings, including in a virtual world
- Learn four positive habits to increase capacity and awareness for compassion
- Engage in trust building through crisis and change
About the Speaker: Steve Goble is the Owner and Chief People Builder of the Goble Group, a talent and leadership development organization serving businesses, non-profits, and teams in Central PA and surrounding areas. He is passionate about growing organizations, helping them solve their people problems across generations and leadership levels, giving them a competitive advantage.
Steve is an author, a Founding Partner of the Maxwell Leadership Certified Team, a Trust Edge Certified Partner, and was a “40 Under 40” recipient from the Central Penn Business Journal in 2017. Steve currently resides in Lancaster County, PA with his family, where he serves on the preaching team at Good Shepherd Community Church. With the training he received under John Maxwell, and as owner of the Goble Group for the past 11 years, Steve has hosted and spoken at his own events with audience sizes ranging from five to over 900. This is in addition to speaking at organizations like Rotary, PA State SHRM Conference, FBLA-PBL, and West Shore Young Professionals.
Approved for 5 SHRM and HRCI Business credits
Ticket sales end: 4/21/2025
