Sponsors
To learn more about sponsorship opportunities and if your organization has been nominated to participate, please contact our conference facilitators.
Please note:
Nominated partners who elect not to sponsor may not otherwise attend the conference. Qualified partner organizations may, however, submit a request for an invitation for their HR Executive to attend as a conference attendee.
National Presenting Sponsors
A recruitment industry pioneer, CareerBuilder® has been empowering both individuals and businesses to maximize their potential, increase employment and create a stronger economy for nearly two decades. Through market-leading innovation and research, we empower businesses to perform better by attracting and retaining the best talent. We give America’s workers access to the most U.S. jobs and the resources necessary to master critical skills for today’s working world. As the job market shifts, so do the needs of our businesses and workers—and CareerBuilder will be there every step of the way, empowering employment.
Learn more at www.careerbuilder.com/brochure
SuccessFactors provides state-of-the-art Business Execution Software solutions that help organizations of every size and category realize maximal business results. The insights we've gained serving 3,000+ customers with over 8 million+ users in 185 countries and 32 languages has helped us better serve and grow companies like yours each and every day.
With a customer-focused ethic as our single most important and recognized quality, we have worked to achieve a growth rate 3x that of our nearest competitor. In fact, we’re one of the fastest growing public software companies in the world.Simply stated, SuccessFactors works every day to help companies just like yours achieve the best possible business results with business execution software solutions that incorporate the latest research, the smartest technology, and the most secure systems on the planet.
Learn more at www.successfactors.com/
Leading organizations worldwide use Taleo on demand talent management solutions to assess, acquire, develop, and align their workforce for improved business performance. Taleo combines software, best practices, and services so organizations can increase process efficiency, improve quality of hire, reduce risk, and return financial results. More than 4,100 organizations use Taleo to attract, hire, and retain top talent with 2,900,000 users processing more than 175 million candidates from 200 countries and territories in 25 languages. Requiring no capital investment, software as a service and on demand delivery offer 99.9% availability and 100% accountability.
Learn more at www.taleo.com
Towers Watson is a leading global professional services company that helps organizations improve performance through effective people, financial and risk management. With 14,000 associates around the world, we offer solutions in the areas of employee benefit programs, talent and reward programs, and risk and capital management.
Learn more at www.towerswatson.com
Presenting Sponsors
Knowledge Infusion is a world class HR consulting organization, focused on driving change in the industry. We provide traditional and on-demand advisory and consulting services focused on HR, talent acquisition, talent management, talent intelligence, and enterprise collaboration, helping clients transform people, process, and technology to drive business results. With over 300 clients worldwide, Knowledge Infusion has been recognized as one of the fastest growing private companies in the nation with the INC 500/5000 award, and is part of the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal Fast Fifty.
Learn more at www.knowledgeinfusion.com
National Sponsors
Grow your people. Grow your business. Grow your bottom line. Talent moves where it’s appreciated. But appreciation does more than keep people happy. It reveals hidden talents and inspires people to grow. O.C. Tanner is uniquely qualified to help you engage employees in the growth of your business, align what you appreciate with corporate goals and values, and determine your greatest potential for growth. We start by understanding the possibilities—and then create a solution for you to appreciate people who do great work. Because celebrating success inspires people to invent, to create, to discover. And when people are inspired, companies grow.
Learn more at www.octanner.com
Workday is the leader in enterprise-class, software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions for managing global businesses, combining a lower cost of ownership with an innovative approach to business applications. Founded by PeopleSoft veterans Dave Duffield and Aneel Bhusri, Workday delivers unified Human Capital Management, Payroll, and Financial Management solutions designed for today’s organizations and the way people work. Delivered in the cloud leveraging a modern technology platform, Workday offers a fresh alternative to legacy ERP. More than 280 customers, spanning medium-sized organizations to Fortune 50 businesses, have selected Workday.
Learn more at www.workday.com
Local Sponsors
Aon Hewitt is the global leader in human capital consulting and outsourcing solutions. The company partners with organizations to solve their most complex benefits, talent and related financial challenges, and improve business performance. Aon Hewitt designs, implements, communicates and administers a wide range of human capital, retirement, investment management, health care, compensation and talent management strategies. With more than 29,000 professionals in 90 countries, Aon Hewitt makes the world a better place to work for clients and their employees
Learn more at www.aonhewitt.com
Heidrick & Struggles International, Inc. (Heidrick) is the world's premier provider of senior-level executive search and leadership consulting services, including talent management, board building, executive on-boarding and M&A effectiveness.
Connecting leaders around the globe is what we do best. For over fifty years we have been building deep relationships with the world's most talented individuals on behalf of the world's most successful companies.
Organizations the world over rely on our expertise to help assemble and maintain powerful and diverse leadership teams. As leaders in the executive search industry, we solve business problems for our clients every day. As innovators we are actively redefining top-level search to encompass complementary services that help build strong companies and the leaders of tomorrow. Our comprehensive approach to leadership acquisition, assessment and development enables us to help our clients build high-performance, diverse leadership teams.
Learn more at www.heidrick.com
Minnesota Life, a Securian Company, is the nation’s fifth largest group life insurer. We provide customized group life insurance programs to large employers and, through our affiliation with Ochs, Inc. to small municipal groups. We also offer value-added extras such as health and wellness, beneficiary financial counseling, legal services, and travel assistance.
Our creative benefits solutions have consistently earned us the industry’s highest client satisfaction and retention rates.
Learn more at www.LifeBenefits.com
PDI Ninth House is the world’s premier global leadership solutions company. For more than four decades, we have provided integrated assessment, development, and coaching solutions around critical leadership and business challenges that most directly impact each leader’s success and the success of their organization. PDI Ninth House’s solutions help clients improve the quality and strength of their leaders, so they can improve talent selection, placement, and development, and ultimately achieve greater business results. PDI Ninth House serves thousands of clients on six continents, including 70 percent of the BusinessWeek Top 100 Global Brands, 75 percent of the Forbes Global 100, and 80 percent of the Fortune 100 firms in the United States.
Learn more at www.pdininthhouse.com


