Time | Session |
9 - 11 am | Pre-session: Employer Round table (employers only) |
11 - 11:30 am | Registration & Icebreaker |
11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Networking Lunch |
12:30 - 1:15 pm | Keynote Speaker 1: Kristi Rubenstein, Gallup The State of the American Workplace and what Graduate Students Need to Succeed |
1:15 - 1:30 pm |
Networking Break |
1:30 - 2:15 pm | Keynote Speaker 2: Dr Sharon Shavitt, Walter H. Stellner, Professor of Marketing at the University Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Feedback: Survey Methods and How to Get Valid Insights; Lessons and Best Practices |
2:15 - 2:30 pm | Networking Break |
2:30 - 3:30 pm | Round Table Discussions |
3:30 - 4 pm | Round Table Take-aways and Forum Wrap-up |
State of the American Workplace presents an unparalleled look into the modern workforce. The report is based on Gallup’s in-depth research and study and was created to help business leaders optimize their attraction, retention, engagement and performance strategies in a time of extraordinary change. The findings and best practices speak to employees’ evolving wants and needs and give leaders a clear understanding of what it takes to be an exceptional workplace.
Kristi Rubenstein is a Managing Consultant at Gallup. She is responsible for Gallup’s professional services consultants in Chicago where she works with her team to advise Fortune 1000 organizations, dramatically improving their business performance by implementing strategies that maximize human capital.
With more than 13 years of experience in consulting, Kristi has managed complex, organization-wide change initiatives that delivered multimillion-dollar benefits to her clients. She specializes in designing operating strategies that maximize human capital to drive long-term sustainable growth. Kristi consults closely with clients to ensure their strategic needs are met and manages the internal project team throughout the planning, development, implementation and support phases of each client relationship.
As the manager of Consultants in Gallup’s Chicago office, Kristi strives to create an engaging work environment where her team has all of their workplace needs met, so they can do what they do best everyday. She also leads committees to support her team’s physical, social, financial, community, and career well-being.
Kristi has a passion for developing the next generation of women leaders and serves on the Auxiliary Board for Girls in the Game, an organization that provides leadership development for young girls through sports. She also served as the 2007-2008 President of Future Women Leaders, a community of over 200 professional women who support each other’s development.
Kristi earned her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration at the University of Colorado, Boulder and her Masters of Business Administration at the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business. She enjoys spending time with her husband, Marc and two daughters, Brooke and Rose.
Feedback: Survey Methods and How to Get Valid Insights; Lessons and Best Practices
Sharon Shavitt is Walter H. Stellner Professor of Marketing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received her Ph.D. in social psychology from the Ohio State University and was an NIMH Postdoctoral Fellow at Indiana University from 1985-1987.
Sharon is a Fellow of the Society of Consumer Psychology, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, and the Society for Experimental Social Psychology. She is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Consumer Research (2014-2017 term), Associate Editor for Research Dialogues for the Journal of Consumer Psychology, and currently serves on the editorial board of Journal of Marketing Research and Journal of Consumer Psychology.
Sharon’s research program primarily focuses on cultural factors affecting consumer motivations and survey response behaviors. Her research in these areas has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Fetzer Institute. She has published in Psychological Review, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Consumer Psychology, Journal of Marketing Research, and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, among other outlets. Shavitt is Past-President of the Association for Consumer Research and has served as co-Chair of the Association for Consumer Research 2008 conference, and as co-Chair of the Policy Board of the new Journal of the Association for Consumer Research.
Sharon teaches courses on consumer behavior, promotions management, and survey methods, to undergraduates, MBAs, and PhD students. She has appeared many times on the University’s List of Excellent Teachers for student ratings in numerous courses. She has also taught diverse audiences outside of the University, including executives from Norway, South Korea and the U.S. At Illinois, Sharon is also appointed in the Department of Psychology and the Survey Research Laboratory.
These small table talk discussions are meant to encourage dialogue and information gathering/sharing among Career Center professionals, vendors/affiliates/guests and employers. Each table will be assigned a specific on-trend career topic with a facilitator leading the group discussion. Attendees can pick the topic of their choice and jump into the conversation.
- International Student Support
Subtopics: educating employers on H1B sponsorship, managing international student psyche in this ever-changing political climate, international student preparation for an often difficult job search, career centers’ role in educating government and policy makers on the advantages and skill set of our international graduate students. - Student Engagement Success and Challenges
Subtopics: How do we maximize student involvement in career center activities, how do we ensure we are collecting student feedback appropriately, how do you assess student outcomes, how do you address feedback timely - Who is the current student?
Subtopics: What changes are you seeing in student’s interests, what challenges do you have in meeting students’ ever-changing job search needs/interests (and solutions to those changing needs/interests) - Professional Development for YOU: (everyone is welcome)
Subtopics: What are the pro’s and con’s in your industry, what do you see as the trends in your profession, where do you go for professional development and insight (certification, training, education), what’s it like to switch from corporate to college, how to move from school to school, what have you learned about how to manage your time in an academic calendar, what helped you the most when you started your current role, who’s been your best mentor.