Book Signing with Melanie Booher, Jarik Conrad, Bonnie Low-Kramen, and Les Rosen
Get your book copies signed.
Melanie D. Booher
Melanie Booher is passionate Culture Coach who utilizes her 20+ years of business experience to help organizations THRIVE.
- President of PEOPLEfirst Talent & Consulting Solutions
- Creator of the THRIVETM Model
- and a newly launched business tool which gamifies culture and drives results called: Cards for Culture©
MB demonstrates the importance of intentional Culture – and more importantly, how to Bring It To Life.
Conscious Culture (her best-selling Amazon book!) creates a pay-it-forward legacy – leaving the world a better place than we found it. One leader, one game plan, one great workplace at a time. Join the movement – because together we THRIVETM!
Melanie resides in Cincinnati, OH with her husband and 3 children.
Jarik Conrad
Dr. Jarik Conrad, EdD, SPHR, SHRM-CSP, NACD.DC, is vice president of the Human Insights team at UKG, which consists of former HR practitioners, business leaders, and consultants who are distinguished experts in the HCM field and uniquely qualified to help leadership teams reach their organizational goals. With an acute pulse on industry trends, best practices, and technological innovations, Jarik and his team serve as liaisons, trusted advisors, and thought leaders who help to shape HR industry conversations and direction. He also serves as the Executive Director of the Workforce Institute at UKG.
Prior to UKG, Dr. Conrad spent more than 20 years in HR leadership roles in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. He is a sought-after speaker on employee health and wellness, the future of work, emotional intelligence, and workplace diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging (DEI&B), and has been recognized as one of the world’s top “people practitioners” as well as a “Top HR Influencer.”
Dr. Conrad is the author of the bestselling books, “The Fragile Mind: How it Has Produced and Unwittingly Perpetrates America’s Tragic Disparities,” and, “In Search of Humanity: Why We Fight, How to Stop, and the Role Business Must Play.”
Dr. Conrad, who grew up in public housing in East St. Louis, earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois, two master’s degrees from Cornell University, and a Doctor of Education from the University of North Florida.
Bonnie Low-Kramen
TEDx speaker Bonnie Low-Kramen is the former assistant to celebrity couple Oscar winner Olympia Dukakis and Louis Zorich, with whom she worked for twenty-five years. That work led to writing the best-selling Be the Ultimate Assistant, A celebrity assistant’s secrets to working with any high-powered employer and speaking in thirteen countries.
Bonnie is recognized as one of the world’s leading experts on workplace issues who is committed to bridge the communication gaps between leaders and their assistants in order to fix what is broken in our workplace. She is known for her work to end workplace bullying and close the wage gap.
Lester S. Rosen
Lester S. Rosen is an attorney and Founder of Employment Screening Resources (ESR) a service offering of ClearStar. He is the author of, “The Safe Hiring Manual,” (3d Edition 2017), the first comprehensive book on employment screening. He is also a consultant, writer, expert witness and frequent presenter nationwide on safe hiring and due diligence. He is both a former prosecutor and criminal defense attorney. Mr. Rosen was the chairperson of the steering committee that founded the Professional Background Screening Association (PBSA) and served as the first co-chairman in 2004. He received the PBSA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019.