Come meet AFS Talent Development Division members and other summit attendees for cocktails and networking. 

Amanda Groves
Chair of the AFS Talent Development Division

Doug Kurkul
CEO of AFS

Amanda Groves
Vice President of People & Culture, Lodge Cast Iron

Insights Discovery is an easy to use, fun and effective behavioral tool to help you better understand your own personal preferences when it comes to work styles and communication.  Based on the work of psychologist Carl Jung, the Insights Discovery system helps an individual recognize that each person is unique with different styles of working, needs and expectations.  Insights Discovery uses a simple four-color model to help individuals remember their personal preferences and more easily identify the feelings and needs of others in turn driving better relationships, more effective communication, and team productivity.  Attendees will be asked to complete a 25-frame questionnaire which will generate an entirely customized Insights Discovery Personal Profile.  Attendees will receive a link to complete their assessment 2-3 weeks prior to the event, so please make sure to register with your email address.

Included in registration fee.

Mitch Quick
Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

Legislators, courts, federal agencies, and plaintiff’s lawyers aren’t making it any easier for today’s managers and their companies.  Attorney Mitch Quick will provide a fast- paced recap on the most significant developments in employment and labor law from 2022, forecast likely developments in 2023, and offer practical tips to reduce exposure from costly and time consuming legal claims.  Overtime pay claims, the “U” word (unions), the new FLSA salary thresholds, recent discrimination and retaliation decisions, new federal workplace legislation, and the continuing challenges of remote work will be discussed. 

If you asked a full room of people to define employee engagement, you would probably get a variety of different answers. The word "engagement” has many definitions and means different things to people. Engagement must be defined by your organization and leadership team. During this panel, you’ll hear from several foundry professionals on what engagement means to them, why it is a critical focus area for successful businesses, and what they're doing to help drive employee engagement in their organizations.  

What’s impacting you?  Please submit topics during the registration process.

Hyatt Shuttle will provide your transportation back to the Hyatt House.

Hyatt shuttle will provide your transportation to Topgolf

Join the AFS Talent Development Division and other summit attendees for networking and fun.  A shuttle will take you from the Hyatt House to Topgolf, where you will join other attendees for some networking, competitive fun, dinner and cocktails.  No prior golf experience is necessary.  *Included in your registration fee. (Bring a guest for an additional cost of $125.00, add this during registration.)

5:30 p.m. Arrival at Topgolf

5:45 p.m.  Cocktails/Dinner at Topgolf

6 p.m.  Topgolf play starts

7:30 p.m. Topgolf play stops

7:45 p.m. Hyatt Shuttle departs from Topgolf back to Hyatt House

8 p.m.  Arrival at Hyatt House

Amanda Groves
Chair of the AFS Talent Development Division

Kristen Ziman
Former Police Chief of the Aurora IL Police Department (Ret.)/Change Agent

Organizations suffer when they fail to confront the risks that come with the uncertainty of the unknown crisis that looms. Kirsten Ziman has 27 years of experience as a police officer and as the Chief who led her department through a mass shooting at a manufacturing company, that was an also an AFS Corporate Member. Additionally, Ziman is a member of an International Mass Violence Advisory Team and called upon by the Department of Justice to investigate crisis. Kristen has come to learn that the key to confronting the uncertainty of a crisis is through preparedness. Kristen will teach you to equip your organization for the ever-looming uncertainty by supporting your team to craft the skillset needed to adapt through a crisis and the mindset to embrace (not brace for) the incoming change.  She will share her knowledge and training to help you transform your organization into a team of first responders who can expertly navigate any challenge in business and life.

Stephanie Salmon
VP Government Affairs, AFS

As we move into the second half of the Biden Administration’s first term, OSHA is making good on its promise to “use all of the tools available” in its regulatory and enforcement toolbox.  In part, these initiatives have taken the form of increasingly aggressive enforcement (more inspections, more significant penalties, etc.), hiring more compliance officers, and expanding its enforcement policies like its Severe Violator Enforcement Program.  It has also taken the form of a broad-based rulemaking agenda that includes work on a new heat illness rule and expanding its E-Recordkeeping requirements, among a number of priorities.  Hear the latest on these new enforcement and penalty developments, OSHA’s rulemaking agenda, and a snapshot of foundry inspections so far in 2023.