Authoria and JohnsonDiversey to Co-Present at 2006 Talent Management Strategies Conference

Tod Loofbourrow, CEO of Authoria, and Debra Lake, VP of Organizational Effectiveness at JohnsonDiversey, to Speak on Deep Succession Planning and Career Development throughout the Enterprise

Authoria, Inc., the company in strategic talent management solutions, today announced that President and CEO Tod Loofbourrow will co-present with Debra Lake, vice president of organizational effectiveness at JohnsonDiversey Inc., at The Conference Boardís 2006 Talent Management Strategies conference.

The presentation, titled ìCreating Internal Labor Markets: Opening the Door to Career Paths and Strengthening Succession,î will be held at the Hilton Hotel, New York, on March 21, 2006. This session will focus on how to identify talent, feed a succession management process, and clearly communicate expectations and development paths to employees. Lake will discuss her organizationís strategic use of Authoria SuccessionTM to drive its innovative program encompassing competency assessment, performance management, and succession planning.

ìThere has never been a greater need for executives to create succession plans that cover the entire organization, and communicate well-thought-out career paths to all their employees,î said Loofbourrow. ìEmployees are the life-blood of an enterprise, and management should leverage succession planning as a competitive advantage.î

Who: Tod Loofbourrow, president and CEO at Authoria, Inc. and Debra Lake, vice president of organizational effectiveness at JohnsonDiversey Inc.

What: ìCreating Internal Labor Markets: Opening the Door to Career Paths and Strengthening Successionî ñ This presentation will discuss how corporate leaders can create systems that identify talent, feed a succession management process, and clearly communicate expectations and development paths to employees.

When: Tuesday, March 21, 2006, from 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Where: The Conference Boardís 2006 Talent Management Strategies Conference will be held at the Hilton New York in New York City, March 21ñ22, 2006.

The Conference Board is the world’s leading business membership organization, with a global network of nearly 2000 enterprises in 61 countries. This two-day conference will analyze how organizations are meeting the challenges of how to source, develop, and deploy talent to the organizationís greatest advantage by focusing on their businesses first, then adapting and integrating the key elements of Talent Management to meet their needs. Additional information on the conference can be found at: http://www.conference-board.org/.