Premier Sponsors IACPR Global Conference About the IACPR Our Global Conference Register now for the IACPR Global Conference 2008, the premier event in the industry. It is the only forum where corporate recruitment and retained search can come together to discuss talent acquisition and retention issues in an atmosphere of complete partnership and trust. October 5-7, 2008 at the InterContinental The Barclay Hotel in New York. The Agenda Find out more about the leading-edge topics and top speakers confirmed for our 2008 conference agenda. At the IACPR Global Conference 2007 last fall, Irv Becker, Executive Compensation Practice Leader at Hay Group; Robin Bond, Esq., Founder and Managing Partner of the employment law firm Transition Strategies, LLC; Richard Pinola, Former President of Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company and Former Chairman of Right Management Consultants; and William Strahan, Vice President of Compensation & Benefits at Comcast, spoke about the changes in compensation practices. How do you structure attractive packages in this new environment? Have the new proxy disclosures made a difference? And what can we expect down the road? Read excerpts from that panel in our latest Talent Strategies newsletter, The Shifting Scrutiny on Executive Compensation. Nancie Whitehouse, 2008 Chair, shares more about the IACPR and our plans for 2008 in our Year in Review 2008. Want to hear directly from corporate and retained search members about the value they have gained from joining the IACPR? Click here for video interviews with some of our key members. IACPR Events Sponsorships Join us for the IACPR Fall Small Search Firm Forum 2008, Sunday, October 5, in New York City – held in conjunction with our 2008 Global Conference. This is a chance for smaller firms to come together to focus on issues specific to growing their businesses. The sessions are interactive and confidential – with peer-to-peer discussions in an atmosphere of complete trust and support. The draft agenda for this year's session shows topics already submitted by past attendees; this year's participants will also have an opportunity to contribute other topics that would be of particular interest to the group. See a video of our panel of experts – Jennifer Brooks of GlaxoSmithKline, Eileen Finn of Eileen Finn & Associates, John Goldberg of Coca-Cola and Nancie Whitehouse of Whitehouse Advisors – discuss latest recruiting trends and challenges with students from The Wharton School. Gain visibility with our elite audience of corporate and retained search executives for your product or service. Click here to learn more about our sponsorship opportunities or email office@iacpr.org to find out how you can become an IACPR sponsor. Which is the world's largest retained search firm? The answer may surprise you. See the search-consult article, which names International Executive Search Federation to the number one spot for 2007, with 89 offices globally. Learn more about the search-consult conference in Frankfurt October 20-21, 2008, co-sponsored by the IACPR. The conference brings together thought leaders from around the world to address key issues involved in cross-border talent management.