Welcome to our 18th annual North America Impact Partner Planning Conference.
Welcome to our 18th annual North America Impact Partner Planning Conference. In 2021 we executed a hybrid event. Impact Partners traveled to Marshalltown as well as having a virtual option. Expanding the opportunity for many others from the Impact Partners and Flow Control to participate and get the information first-hand. The meeting will be held this year providing the same options and flexibility to maximize attendance while providing a positive and motivating experience.
Special Guest Speaker: Mike Train
Senior Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer
Michael Train was named Emerson’s first chief sustainability officer in March 2021. In this role, he leads the company’s environmental sustainability strategy, with a focus on advancing technologies and advocacy to enhance company operations and enable customer improvements through Emerson’s solutions and partnerships. He joined Emerson’s Office of the Chief Executive, which helps develop and guide the company’s global business strategies, in 2016.
From 2018 to March 2021, Train served as the President of Emerson, where he oversaw software and digital technology development, major investments, international growth and global shared service organizations.
Train began his career at Emerson in 1991, starting as an international planner, and was promoted to Vice President of planning and development for Emerson Asia-Pacific in 1004. He became President of Emerson in Japan and Korea in 1996, before moving back to the United States to lead Emerson’s planning group from 1997 to 2002 as Corporate Vide President of Planning and International. In 2002, Train returned overseas when he was named President of Emerson Process Management Asia-Pacific, a role he held until 2008.
Special Guest Speaker: Seth Mattison
Seth Mattison is an Internationally renowned expert and author on workforce trends, generational dynamics, and business strategy. As Co-Founder and Chief Movement Officer of Luminate Labs, Seth advises many of the world’s leading brand and organizations on the key shifts happening around talent management, change and innovation, leadership, and the future of work.
His ideas have been featured in such publications as The Wall St. Journal, Forbes, The Huffington Post, and The Globe and Mail and was recently named to the Editors’ Picks for Speakers to Watch in 2017.
For the past decade Seth has shared his insights with thousands of business leaders around the world and has received accolades from many of the worlds best brands including: MasterCard, Johnson and Johnson, Microsoft, Kraft Foods, AT&T, PepsiCo, GE Energy, Cisco, State Farm, Merrill Lynch, Dow, and Disney.