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[ 12 ] HRO TODAY MAGAZINE | MARCH 2014 What's On Your Mind? Get your questions answered at this year's HRO Today Forum. By Debbie Bolla Leading by experience: It's a central theme of the upcoming HRO Today Forum. The conference is set to bring together thought leaders in the industry to share their experiences. It offers the opportunity to glean advice on how to grow and drive the HR business forward. As Cindy Fiedelman reveals in the cover story, Piloting Success, HR is the central business unit to drive strategy around talent management and growth. • Want to find out how to lead initiatives in employee engagement, internal branding, and talent management for 62,000 employees? Michelle DiTondo, senior vice president of human resources for MGM Resorts International will be sharing her secrets on stage. Your organization may not be to the scale of this hospitality leader, but DiTondo's advice will surely be transferable. • Perhaps building culture and aligning human capital management with strategy are part of your goals for 2014. Then pick the brains of leaders Michael Pilnick, executive vice president and head of human resources for First Advantage; Joe Cabral, senior vice president and CHRO for North Shore-LIJ Health System; John Murabito, executive vice president of human resources and services Cigna Corporation; and Carole Slover, senior vice president of human resources for UniTek Global Services. Pilnick has a narrow focus on leveraging HR to aggressively grow revenue in existing, emerging, and unsaturated markets for the screening provider. Cabral works to drive the firm's business objectives, vision, and values forward in all aspects of talent management and HR. Murabito helps drive growth through effective human resources and people strategies, planning, staffing, talent management and succession processes. Slover casts a wide net, owning responsibility for the telecommunications firm's talent management, employee relations, performance management, training and development, among others. Talent management, benefits, healthcare staffing, technology, workforce planning, big data, and social media: These are all major hot topics central to HR. Here's how each will be explored at the Forum—and the key takeaways that will be delivered. 2014 HRO Today Forum Preview