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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! 

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