
HRCC 2025
Conference
Tampa, Florida
May 2025
2025 Agenda
35th Annual Human Resources Construction Council Meeting – Tampa, FL
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All Meetings - 2nd Floor Skyway Rooms
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Tuesday, May 13, 2025
4:00pm - 6:30pm Registration, Check-In, Badge Pickup - 1st Floor(Lobby)
6:30pm – 8:00pm Welcome Evening Reception - 4th Floor Pool Deck – Tradesman International – Dan Bennet
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
6:30am – 8:15am Open Breakfast – Cascades 1st Floor
7:45am Late Registration - 2nd Floor
8:00am – 9:15am Welcome, Bill Burns, Chair, and Clay Hicks, Co-Chair
Safety Moment – Courtney Lockwood, Waskey
HRCC Mission & Purpose – John Hall, Fluor
Introductions of participants - Bill Burns
HRCC Board/ Introduction / Board invitation – meeting at end of today / Your board will vote on the next Co-Chair, and we will announce the winner tomorrow morning.
HRCC Trivia / Door Prizes – Dana Hohn Strange, Board Member/Previous Chair
9:15am – 10:15am NCCER – “New NCCER Programs and Products” - Boyd Worsham & Jennifer Wilkerson
10:15am – 10:30am Break
10:30am – 12:00 noon “Positive Employee Relations / Preventative Labor Relations” – Mark Stubley, Ogletree-Deakins
12:00 pm – 1:00pm Lunch - Cascades 1st Floor
1:00pm – 2:00pm “Navigating the Employment Law Minefield – What Every Construction Contractor Needs to Know” - Mark Stubley – Ogletree Deakins
2:00PM – 2:15PM Break
2:15pm – 3:00pm Staff Compensation / Trends – PAS, Jeff Robinson
3:00pm – 4:00pm Retention Strategies – Panel Discussion – Facilitated by Clay Hicks
Samantha Coker, CHRO, Apache Industrial
Terrence Mason, Industrial Relations Manager, Bechtel
Hilary Skiba, Human Resources Business Partner, Kiewit
4:00pm – 4:15 pm Break
4:15 pm – 5:00pm CORE Occupational Medicine – “Current State of Drug Testing in the Construction Industry” - Chad Scott, Managing Partner
5:00pm – 5:15pm Host / Sponsor Recognition; Reception announcement / Ask current and new volunteers for Board positions to stay / Co-Chair nominations and silent voting- Bill Burns and Clay Hicks
6:00pm – 8:00pm Evening Reception - 4th Floor Pool Deck – Ogletree/Deakins – Mark Stubley
Thursday, May 15,2025
6:30am – 8:15am Open Breakfast – Cascades 1st Floor
8:15am – 8:20am Safety Moment – Clay Hicks
8:20am – 9:15am “Construction Working Minds” – Zeke Smith, Director, Leadership and WFD, Apache Industrial – Introduction by Ivan Dominguez / Ivan introduced by Bill Burns
9:15am – 10:00am Alpha Resources Update – Deb Johnson
10:00am – 10:15am Break
10:15am – 11:00am A Mental Health Blueprint for HR: Supporting Construction Workers with Innovative Solutions – Molly Stanton, Business Development Specialist, Enthea
11:00am – 12:00pm Recent developments in Labor Law – Dion Kohler, Jackson/Lewis
12:00am – 1:00pm Lunch - Cascades 1st Floor
1:00pm – 2:00pm Conducting Effective Investigations – Dan Barker, Jackson/Lewis
2:00pm – 3:00pm SkillsUSA – “Learn who we are, what we do and why we do it" - Julie Dufour,
Associate Director of Business Partnerships and Development
3:00pm – 3:15pm Break
3:15pm - 3:45pm NCCER – Measurable Impact – Achieving Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
Objectives – Dr. Melissa Perkins, CFRE, Director of Philanthropy and Partnerships at NCCER.
3:45pm – 3:50pm HRCI & SHRM Certificates – Sponsored by B&I – Mike Biskie
3:50pm – 4:00pm Wrap up and adjourn – Bill Burns & Clay Hicks
Note: You put must be present until the end adjournment to receive HRCI & SHRM Certificates!
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Note: You put must be present until the end adjournment to receive HRCI & SHRM Certificates!