• Identify issues/paradoxes for leaders today.
• Introduce LHH’s Core, Edge and Agility™ Framework.
• Gain understanding about the key concepts of the Core, Edge and Agility™ Framework.
• Understand and develop skills about leadership through the application of core, edge and agility.

SPEAKER BIO:   

Alma Hughes represents Lee Hecht Harrison, SHRM's exclusive sponsor of their new career transition center.  A global talent management solutions company with over 240 offices worldwide, Lee Hecht Harrison will offer advice and tips to attendees at the SHRM Conference in New Orleans in June.

Alma has over 20 years business experience in the financial services and consulting industries and is a facilitator and trainer, career management expert and executive coach.  As a facilitator/trainer, Alma has delivered hundreds of career management seminars that are directed toward engaging employees and increasing their connection to their organizations.  She is also a Master Facilitator career management workshops, seminars and programs tailored to meet client needs. As an executive coach, Alma provided coaching for middle and senior level leaders in the area of skill development, executive presence and aligning personal strengths with experience to improve performance and career satisfaction.

Alma brings significant coaching experience through her work with LHH clients:  Wachovia, Dominion Resources, Altria, Capitol Broadcasting, SAIC, Sodexo, Flowserve and Capital One.  She has also facilitated sessions at A. H. Robins School of Business Management at the University of Richmond, The Center for Accounting Education at Howard University, McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University, and the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, as well as local, regional and national conferences.  She has also been a speaker at regional and national conferences, and for numerous chapters in the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM) and The Association of Colleges and Employers (ASCE).

Before joining Lee Hecht Harrison in 2002, Alma’s career was in the financial services industry spending over 20 years at Bank of America (and its predecessors), where she culminated her career as a Senior Vice President responsible for managed an internal consulting function supporting HR needs for more than 5000 information technology professionals throughout the organization.  She was an Adjunct Instructor at J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College, where she taught courses in management and consulted to local and state government agencies on management and leadership skill development and team building. She has authored articles on career transitioning.

Alma holds an A.B. degree from the College of William and Mary and a M.Ed. degree from Springfield College in Industrial Psychology.  She is qualified to administer the Myers Briggs Type Indicator.  Alma is a member of Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM) and the National Association of African-Americans in Human Resources (NAAAHR).

For questions about this program please contact Training & Development (T&D) SIG Co-Leaders: Sarah-Day Snipas and Andrea Grant-Wright