James Bonk joined G4S Compliance and Investigations in May 2013, as the Regional Vice President for the Midwest Region. Prior to G4S, Mr. Bonk spent 35 years in many facets of investigations in the private and public sector, including the insurance industry and state government. He held several senior executive roles focusing on SIU operations and investigations, surveillance, fraud awareness training, best practices and fraud, waste, abuse, corruption and misconduct investigations in state government. Bonk also worked in the law enforcement sector as the Assistant Vice President of a Special Investigations Unit for a nationwide insurance carrier, Director of Investigations and Deputy Inspector General for the Illinois Office of Executive Inspector General, Senior Vice President of a national investigative company and also served as a police officer with a Chicago suburban police department.

Bill Burke has 30 years of experience in training and development. Holding a degree in journalism, Burke started out writing training materials for automotive service provider, Midas International. Before long, he had earned certifications from some of the leaders in the training and development community, becoming an accomplished curriculum designer and an expert facilitator. Over his career, Burke has designed hundreds of training programs and delivered several thousand hours of training every year since 1991. His expertise lies in customer service, management and leadership development, and trainer skills development.

Jane Clark is Vice President, Member Services for NationaLease. In this position, she is focused on managing the Member Services operation, as well as working to strengthen member relationships, reduce member costs, and improve collaboration within the NationaLease supporting groups. Prior to joining NationaLease, Jane served as Area Vice President for Randstad, one of the world’s largest recruitment agencies, and before that, she served in management posts with QPS Companies, Pro Staff, and Manpower, Inc. Jane received a B.A. degree in Communication from North Central College and an M.A. in Communication from Northern Illinois University.

Neil Dishman is a Principal in the Chicago, Illinois, office of Jackson Lewis P.C. His business is helping employers prevent and resolve disputes with their employees. Mr. Dishman helps employers reduce risk and minimize legal costs by giving advice on difficult personnel decisions before litigation ensues. When litigation is unavoidable, he helps employers protect their assets and reputations by vigorously and efficiently defending them from employee lawsuits. Mr. Dishman counsels and defends employers on a wide spectrum of issues, including race, sex, age, religion, national origin, disability and sexual-orientation discrimination; sexual harassment; retaliatory discharge; Family and Medical Leave; and wage-hour compliance. He assists employers in a wide variety of industries, with particular experience in the real-estate, non-profit, manufacturing, and health-care fields. Mr. Dishman has jury-trial experience and is a member of the Trial Bar of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Published author, dynamic international speaker, and professional trainer/coach/facilitator, Mary Erlain offers business professionals the development services they need to thrive in their business roles. Erlain founded Peak Development Strategies in 2007. “Connecting the dots and removing barriers!™” embodies Erlain’s mission in business. Accelerating growth in organizations is Erlain’s passion and mission. She speaks on topics that get down to the core of the issues that stand in the way of professional growth. The inability to communicate is creating problems in business today. With that in mind, Erlain’s latest books offer a perspective for organizations to move from a place of struggle and conflict among their staff members to empowerment, achievement, and excellence through understanding their generational differences.

As the Director of Organizational Development at HR Source, Candace plays a key role in the design and implementation of organizational development programs. With 25 years of experience in human resource management and training, Fisher is an expert for developing and executing successful training sessions on topics including leadership development, employment law compliance, harassment and discrimination sensitivity, and prevention. She also provides human resource, employee relations and supervisory/management services for member organizations via the HR Hotline.

Jim Still is a member of BKD National Construction & Real Estate Group and is the Kansas City office leader for the real estate industry. He also serves as Tax Director of BKD’s Kansas City, Des Moines and Madison offices, managing the tax practice of each office and providing quality control, oversight and consultation to assist other BKD tax professionals. Still has more than 18 years of experience providing tax compliance and consulting services to real estate entities and professional service organizations as well as health care entities. As a tax specialist, he focuses on the area of partnership taxation.

As President of The International Consortium for Organizational Resilience (ICOR – Build-Resilience.org), a 501c3 education and credentialing organization, Lynnda manages the day-to-day operations of ICOR’s education program. Lynnda is the editor, course developer, and instructor for ICOR’s business continuity courses and for the Certified Organizational Resilience Competency curriculum.

As a member of the US delegation to the ISO 292 Continuity and Resilience series of standards, Lynnda is an expert on international standards for business continuity management systems. Lynnda holds a Bachelor’s degree from Northeastern Illinois University and a Master’s degree from the University of Illinois.

A “serial entrepreneur,” author, speaker, as well as a principal in numerous companies, Tom Walter has forty years of experience as an owner and operator in the service industry and has learned a lot of life lessons from the startup of 32 companies, acquisition of three, sales of several, and—in a few cases—the termination of businesses, in a broad spectrum of markets. Walter is also the co-author of the award winning business book It’s My Company, Too! , which contains evidence-based case studies on eight organizations that achieved high performance through employee engagement.

Dean was named President of NationaLease in 2012 and has been with the company since 2005. At that time, he was part of the National Account team in the Midwest, where he helped grow the National Account Program to more than $447 million in term sales. In 2008, he became Vice President of Member Services, executing a strategy that provided a sustainable competitive advantage to NationaLease Members and growing the membership base. In 2010, Dean became Vice President of National Accounts, leading that team, in 2011, to a record-breaking year in sales.