GMA Board Meeting and The FMI Midwinter Executive Conference

January 11, 7 a.m. 2014
The Phoenician, Scottsdale, AZ

As one of the GMA Coffee With Sessions, this session will focus on CPG industry business growth and executive talent conundrum. This sessions is complimentary to any GMA member or FMI Midwinter Executive Conference attendee and will bring together the best and brightest to discuss the most pressing issues and leadership trends facing the industry.

The full schedule you can find here to assist with your planning.

Session Title: Solving the Consumer Goods Executive Talent Conundrum

Session Description:

For consumer goods manufacturers and retailers around the globe, human capital processes are failing to keep pace with a changing business environment. This session will focus on understanding and addressing two of the biggest challenges:

"Organizational Capability Gap" -- due to consumer trends, technological developments, and ever increasing global scale, the mix of specialized and general management capabilities that consumer companies need to compete and win continues to change.

"Attracting Scarce Leadership Talent" -- the associated roles are ever more challenging to fill as functional experts and general managers are drawn to other industries, and local competitors are fighting global players fiercely for management talent. The good news? Some of the most recognized and respected companies in the world are challenging these dynamics.

Moderator Joe Hunt will engage a panel of the industry’s best on how they innovate to identify, attract, develop and retain the best people and solve their “executive talent conundrum.”

Moderator:

Joseph B. Hunt, Managing Partner/Director, Hunt Executive Search/The Hunt Group, Inc.

Panelists:

J. Alexander Douglas, Jr., SVP and Global Chief Customer Officer

Bryan Hancock, Organization & Human Capital Management, Partner, McKinsey & Company

Apu Mody, President, Mars Incorporated

Jack Sinclair, EVP Food, Wal-Mart