This program will be held at the LaCava Center, Bentley University, Waltham, MA
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New Member Welcome Breakfast: 7:30 - 8:25am
Registration/networking: 7:45am - 8:30am; Program: 8:30am - 11:30am

Nobody said HR was rocket science, but future success in our field may require at least a nodding familiarity with brain science! Thanks to new findings from brain scans, cognitive experiments and behavioral studies, there have been incredible discoveries about how people reason, learn and even take pleasure in their work. Please join us on March 18 when HRLF presents Charles Jacobs, author of Management Rewired, sharing this new information and its implications for how we understand and practice the art of managing people. Be prepared for some surprises: at this session, Jacobs will show that much of what we take for granted about management is probably wrong!

About Charles Jacobs

Charles S. Jacobs is the founder of the Amherst Consulting Group, founder and managing partner of 180 Partners, and the author of Management Rewired: Why Feedback Doesn’t Work and Other Surprising Lessons from the Latest Brain Science. For over two decades, he has helped the leadership of the most renowned corporations improve performance of their businesses. He numbers among his clients fifty of the Fortune 100, and has worked in Europe, Asia and the U.S.

His unique approach enables managers to use the understanding of how the brain works to comprehensively rethink their businesses, creating more robust competitive strategies and the performance-oriented organizations needed to implement them. His works provides the key to overcome the number one obstacle to meaningful improvement in business performance – the rapid and effective management of change.

He is sought after to print, broadcast, and internet interviews. His seminars and speeches offer an overview of the stunning discoveries of brain science and the direct, practical application of those discoveries to management. He completed his B.A., M.A. and work towards is Ph.D at the University of Michigan.

Charles Jacob’s Book, Management Rewired: Why Feedback Doesn’t Work and Other Surprising Lessons form the Latest Brain Science, will be on sale during the break.

Thanks to our sponsor, Vertex Pharmaceuticals for creating and sponsoring our new bookmarks.

Agenda:

7:30 – 8:25 New Member Welcome Breakfast
7:45 - 8:30 Registration, continental breakfast and NETWORKING
8:30 - 8:45 Announcements, President Cathy Welsh
8:45 - 8:50 Introduction of Charles Jacobs, Marcie Schorr Hirsch, Program Committee
8:50 - 10:00 Program
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:30 Program