Has Casual Day Gone Too Far? - Business Etiquette

Our Presenters

Bob Gregg is a partner in the Boardman Law Firm in Madison, Wisconsin, has been involved in Employment Relations and Civil Rights work for more than 30 years. Bob has conducted over 2,000 seminars throughout the United States and authored numerous articles on practical employment issues. His career has encompassed canoe guide, carpenter, laborer, Army Sergeant, social worker, educator, business owner, Equal Employment Opportunity officer, and employment relations attorney. Bob is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management, the National Speakers Association, and is a National Faculty Member of the American Association for Affirmative Action.

JOAN F. GILLMAN

As Director of Special Industry Programs, Executive Education, for the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business, Joan's office acts as a conduit between University resources and the business community. In this role, she currently co-hosts a daily radio show, On Air with In Business on Madison 1760 from 6-7 PM, focusing on local business issues.

Joan’s duties span Executive Education from small business and entrepreneurship to teaching managers and designing executive programs. She has taught in both the Small Business Development Center (Business Planning) and Executive Education for the Supervisory Management Series. She was co-director of the Agribusiness Executive Management Program that assisted farmers and agribusinesses in Wisconsin. As founder of The Family Business Center, a regional membership program which addresses the special needs of the family business dealing with succession, communication, and strategic planning issues, she successfully completed succession planning for the center.

From 19 89-2006, Gillman’s national duties have included Executive Director for USASBE-United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, the national division of the International Council for Small Business. She coordinated the functions of a comprehensive organization of 1100+ outstanding researchers, scholars, teachers, administrators, and policy makers interested in entrepreneurship and small business. Gillman coordinated activities with The Coleman Foundation, the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, and The Edward Lowe Foundation as well as develops strategic alliances for the organization.

Gillman currently serves on the board of FOCCUS (Friends of the Children of Chernobyl US).

A native of Pittsburgh, she received her B.S. from Indiana University in art education and radio and TV.

Since coming to Madison in 1968, she has worked for the departments of Preventive Medicine, Psychology and Waisman Center. In 1984 Gillman took her GRE's with a pencil that said "Life begins at 40" and completed her Master's in business in December 1986. She has been Program Coordinator, then Director of Madison’s Small Business Development Center until 1996 when she started her two new programs. The Madison-SBDC serves 15,000 businesses plus all those thinking about going into business by offering one-on-one counseling and courses in the areas of marketing, management, finance, and business feasibility/strategic planning.

Gillman has two children and enjoys traveling whenever possible. Her most recent travels have been in Croatia, Macedonia and Bulgaria for the Open Society Institute, the nonprofit foundation of George Soros, where she is starting centers for Entrepreneurship. She is also the second woman ever to publicly address men in Saudi Arabia. She is active in many local organizations.

For more information contact:

GMA SHRM Management Team
2830 Agriculture Dr.
Madison, WI 53718
(608) 204-9814
fax (608) 204-9818
chapteradmin@gmashrm.org

Program Schedule subject to change.