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Cal-ISBOA

2025 HR Workshop 

 Sunday, May 4, 2025
Claremont Club & Spa, Berkeley, CA

We are so excited to offer some incredible sessions for you to broaden your HR knowledge as we know there is never a shortage of HR topics to discuss! This interactive program is designed for both new and seasoned HR professionals, as well as business officers who also wear the HR hat.  Sessions cover a breadth of HR topics from compliance to strategic HR thinking.

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The workshop features compelling topics such as:

  • Navigating Leave Issues In The School Environment
  • Retaining Top Talent: The New Normal
  • Back to Basics: Understanding California Wage and Hour Laws
  • Benefits Excellence 2025: Strategies for Growth and Success
  • AI as Your Superpower: Reclaiming Time for What Matters Most in HR

General Session Keynote

Leadership Offense and Defense Strategies: Mastering Collaboration, Teambuilding, and Accountability

with Special Guest Paul Falcone


Building the muscle of your senior and frontline operational leadership teams is a wise investment that strengthens your people practices and culture. What makes managers excel lies in their ability to inspire, develop talent, and turn around flagging teams by creating a safe space for employees to do their very best work every day with peace of mind. Yet a “carrot” isn’t enough; operational leaders, senior executives, and business owners likewise need to know how to apply a proverbial “stick” from time to time in order to address substandard job performance, inappropriate workplace conduct, and other challenging situations that demand higher levels of employee accountability.


Join Paul Falcone, author of the five-book Paul Falcone Workplace Leadership Series as well as The First-Time Manager: HR and The First-Time Manager: Leading Through Crisis to drive higher employee performance by:

  • Engaging in constructive conversations that rely on employee recognition to build self-confidence or that require greater accountability and employee awareness, both in terms of performance and conduct.
  • Employing the leader-as-coach model to build your leadership bench while addressing minor problems before they become major impediments.
  • Building “team emotional intelligence” by creating and sustaining a culture based on trust, respect, and open communication.
  • Engaging in tough conversations or formal progressive disciplinary interventions to reset expectations, accord due process, and structure terminations that will withstand legal scrutiny.
  • Whether you’re looking to coach and mentor more successfully, to build stronger teams that thrive on recognition and an achievement mindset, or to address problematic performance or conduct challenges holding your organization back, this workshop will help you build managerial muscle and make it easier to confront problems head on and in a more strategic yet compassionate and supportive way.

Hotel & Travel Information

The 2025 HR Workshop will be held at:


Claremont Resort & Club

41 Tunnel Rd, Berkeley, CA 94705


Room Block reservations will be available soon.

Interested in more professional development?

Don't miss the Annual Conference on Monday, May 5!


Can't attend the sessions on Monday, but want more time to break bread with friends? Register for the Reception & Kick-Off Dinner only on Sunday, May 4 following the HR Workshop!

Full Schedule and Session Descriptions

Presenter Information


Meet Paul Falcone, Workplace Leadership Consulting, LLC

Paul Falcone is a renowned expert on effective hiring, performance management, and leadership development, specializing in helping companies build higher performing leadership teams. He spent the last three decades in human resources executive roles at organizations including Nickelodeon, Paramount Pictures, NBCUniversal, Time Warner, and City of Hope Cancer Center Hospital. He is also a bestselling HarperCollins Leadership, SHRM, and American Management Association author and long-term contributor to HR Magazine.

Schedule


Sunday, May 4, 2025


6:30am - 7:30am                     Group Wellness Activity: Sunrise Hike (as space permits)

7:30am - 5:00pm                     Registration

7:30am - 9:30am                     Breakfast

8:30am - 9:30am                     Welcome, Introductions, Warm-up Activity

9:30am - 11:00am                   General Session: Keynote Speaker Paul Falcone

11:00am - 11:30am                  Break

11:30am - 12:30pm                 Breakout Sessions

12:30pm - 1:30pm                   Lunch

1:30pm - 2:30pm                     Breakout Sessions

2:30pm - 3:00pm                     Break

3:00pm - 4:15pm                     General Session and Closing Remarks

4:30pm - 5:30pm                     Group Activity: Historical Property Walking Tour (as space permits)

6:00pm - 9:00pm                     Annual Conference Welcome Reception and Kick-Off Dinner (separate registration required)



Continuing Education credits (4.5 hours offered):

Each of the breakout sessions are intended to be eligible for and are pending approval for SHRM and HRCI continuing education credit. This program has been submitted to the HR Certification Institute for review.

HR Workshop Sponsors

Cal-ISBOA thanks the following HR Workshop Sponsors for their generous support that helps underwrite the cost of providing Cal-ISBOA members with affordable access to up-to-date professional development opportunities in a relaxed, collegial environment. Thank you!



Registration Fees

HR Workshop:

(includes sessions, breakfast and lunch)

Member Rate: $265

Non-Member Rate: $345


Annual Conference

Kick-Off Reception & Dinner:

(held following HR Workshop)

Member Rate: $125

Non-Member Rate: $175


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Cal-ISBOA accepts Visa and Mastercard (preferred) or check; we are unable to accept American Express.

Substitution and Cancellation Policy

    • Substitutions and/or registration transfers may be made among members at the same school any time prior to the conference. Please note that dinner menu selections can only be modified until April 16.
    • Cancellation requests submitted by March 26, 2025 will be granted a full refund, less a $25 processing fee. Cancellations received March 27- April 6, 2025 will be granted a refund of 50%. No refunds will be granted after April 6, 2025.
    • Please email transfer and cancellation requests to Membership Engagement Manager Peggy Marshall at peggy.marshall@isboa.org.

      Thank you to the HR Workshop Planning Committee!

      • Marya Davis, Head-Royce School, Committee Chair
      • Amy Chang, Chinese American International School
      • Sean Dwyer, Polytechnic School
      • Elizabeth Hoffman, Milken Community School
      • Jeanne Honig, Castilleja School
      • Michelle Jones, The Branson School
      • Heather Kruse, Viewpoint School
      • Jessica McCullagh, Archer School for Girls
      • Juana Ochoa, St. Matthew’s Parish School
      • Angela Oliver, Sage Hill School
      • Sandi Pierce, Cate School
      • Kim Rojas Rodriguez, Urban School of San Francisco
      • Sarah Tinsley, Curtis School

      Please contact us for more information or questions:


      Workshop Registration:

      Peggy Marshall, Membership Engagement Manager 

      peggy.marshall@isboa.org

      818-731-0342, ext. 701


      Corporate Sponsorship:

      Scarlett Vanyi, Executive Director 

      scarlett.vanyi@isboa.org

      818-731-0342, ext. 702



      HR Certification Institute’s® (www.HRCI.org) official seal confirms that Cal-ISBOA meets the criteria for pre-approved recertification credit(s) for any of HRCI’s eight credentials, including SPHR® and PHR®.



      Cal-ISBOA is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for the SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP®. For more information about certification or recertification, please visit shrmcertification.org

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