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SPECIAL FEATURE: NEW HIRE ORIENTATION – MOMENTUM FOR THE JOURNEY

FTI Consulting’s 2014 New Hire Orientation was recently held September 7th-9th in Washington D.C. where new hires were provided with the framework and tools to facilitate a quick and efficient integration into FTI Consulting

It was very clear after spending three days at New Hire Orientation that our new professionals wanted to leave with

two things: learn more about FTI Consult-ing and meet new people within the firm.

FTI’s New Hire Orientation program, Momentum for the Journey, was specifi-cally designed to provide our firm’s new professionals with the information, tools and resources they need to begin their successful career at FTI Consulting, in-cluding an overview of our business, our core values, what makes FTI Consult-ing a great place to work and more.

Over 150 recently hired consultants and senior consultants (and equivalent titles) and 30 instructors attended this year’s program, which was the larg-

est class our Learning & Development (“L&D”) department has ever hosted.

"Nothing energizes me more than welcoming over 150 new hires to FTI Consulting at our New Hire Orienta-tion this first week of September. This is an exciting time in the history of the firm, and the number of new hires attending this year’s program is an example of our growth potential.” – Nancy Palmerin, Managing Direc-tor, Head of Learning & Development

DAY 1 – NETWORKING RECEPTIONAfter arriving in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, September 7th, our L&D depart-ment hosted a networking reception for all of the new hires. Participants were en-couraged to introduce themselves to one another and most importantly, have fun!

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The L&D team officially welcomed FTI’s new hires to the firm and expressed how excited they were for the days ahead.

DAY TWO – FRAMEWORK AND TOOLSAfter a delicious breakfast, our L&D team kicked off the day by welcoming our new hires to the firm and providing an outline of the day. Next, Adam Bendell, Chief Innovation Officer at FTI Consulting, provided our new hires with an overview of FTI Consulting, shared the firm’s humble beginnings all the way to where the firm stands today and hosted a Q&A session.

Following Adam’s insightful presenta-tion on the Company, new hires were then introduced to Ron Tite, Chief Executive Officer of The Tite Group, a content marketing agency based in Toronto. Ron brought humor, engaging and interactive presence to the stage, and was also the master of ceremony throughout the program. During this time, Ron presented on “Living up to the Line”, in which he discussed how companies must live up to their values and take full responsibility if they are ever doubted on their products or services.

Next, Matt Pachman, Vice President and Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer at FTI Consulting, provided an overview of business ethics and compliance at our firm. Matt made the presentation engaging by providing our participants with real life examples, case studies and reasons why employees should be aware of the firm’s Code of Conduct.

After a quick lunch break, Suzanne Alexander, Vice President of Human Resources at FTI Consulting, offered an insightful presentation on FTI’s greatest asset, our people, and shared the firm’s core values. FTI’s new hires also partici-pated in an interactive activity and had

the chance to share what their personal values were with one another and how they ultimately fit into the firm’s values.

Alicia Jones, Digital Marketing Director at FTI Consulting, then took the stage and spoke about the firm’s internal and external integrated communications. She also encouraged the new hires to follow FTI Consulting on Twitter, Face-book and LinkedIn in order stay on top of the firm’s latest news and also shared a sneak peak of FTI Consulting’s new and improved website design!

Ron Tite came back to the stage and gave a great presentation on how our new hires can build their own personal, unique leadership brand at the firm and an overview of our success stories. New hires were then asked to move to a breakout room for an informational session on the role of a consultant and senior consultant. New hires were able to get an idea of what their roles and re-sponsibilities entail, FTI’s leadership core competencies and the firm’s commit-ment to developing leaders at all levels.

Later on in the day, our new hires were introduced to two members from a local chapter of the Washington, D.C. Boys and Girls Club. The Boys & Girls Clubs of America aims to promote and enhance the development of boys and girls by instilling a sense of competence,

usefulness, belonging and influence. This amazing organization provides a place for underprivileged children to learn and grow, while having fun in a safe environment. It was inspiring to hear from a young woman who grew up going to the Boys & Girls Club and how much it has meant to her over the past several years. This introduction set up the context for the evening activity.

At dinner, our new hires got a special visit from Steve Gunby, President and Chief Executive Officer of FTI Consulting. Dur-ing dinner, Steve stressed how excited he was to meet our firm’s new hires. After introducing himself and sharing insights on the firm, Steve opened the floor to questions and was very engaged with all of our new professionals.

“New Hire Orientation was fantastic! It was great learning more about FTI Consulting and meeting new people. I also feel very fortunate that our

FTI Consulting professionals and members from the Boys & Girls Club

President and Chief Executive Officer, Steve Gunby, welcom-ing FTI’s new hires to the firm

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President and Chief Executive Of-ficer, Steve Gunby, attended dinner on the second day and was genu-inely excited to be with all of us.” – Wesleigh Donadio, Corporate Communi-cations, New Hire Orientation participant

As the evening wrapped up, our profes-sionals were able to partake in an activity that demonstrated FTI Consulting’s commitment to corporate citizenship, while indulging in Ben & Jerry’s ice cream along the way. Our L&D team planned an activity called, “Building Backpacks for Success,” which sup-ported the local chapter of the Wash-ington, D.C. Boys and Girls Club that our new hires learned about earlier.

“The Building Backpacks for Suc-cess activity was designed to ac-complish the following two goals: Promote a fun and engaging way for individuals to get to know each other, while re-enforcing some key learnings covered throughout the day.” – Ivelise Zambrano, Senior Manager, Learning & Development

New hires learned they would be filling over 72 backpacks with school sup-plies for members of the Boys & Girls Club, in a fun, competitive spirit. After forming groups, there were four dif-ferent team building stations that our new hires competed in, including:

1. Inspiration – At this station, our new hire participants put together cards that were going to be placed in each backpack. Our new hires wrote kind, motivating words that would get members of the Boys and Girls Club excited about school!

2. FTI’s Got Talent – New hires had to work together and come up with two talents to present to our judge of the evening, Suzanne Alexander. There were many different talents, including

speaking in different languages, sing-ing, doing flips, dancing and more.

3. Spelling Bee – New hires had to put their spelling skills to use and spell from a lengthy list of challenging words.

4. FTI Feud – On the first day of New Hire Orientation, our professionals were asked to fill out a short question-naire. Little did they know, the L&D team collected all of the top answers so they could use them for a competi-tive, exciting game of family feud. We all now know that if FTI were a celebri-ty, it would be George Clooney, well…according to our new hires that is!

“New Hire Orientation was an edu-cational and exciting experience, I left with a better understanding of FTI’s services and developed last-ing relationships. I enjoyed building backpacks for success, and it was great to see how the Company gives back to the community.” – Jennifer Omasta, Forensic & Litigation Consult-ing, New Hire Orientation participant

DAY THREE – TYING EVERYTHING TOGETHERDay three kicked off with a panel discussion that was made up of repre-sentatives from seven of the Company’s businesses. Each representative gave an overview of their business and people, which gave our new hires a sense of what our people do at FTI Consulting, and also elaborated on some of the top success stories from their respective business.

Panel participants included: • Suzanne Alexander, Vice

President of Human Resources, represented Corporate;

• Peter Decaro, Managing Director, represented Corporate Finance/Restructuring;

• Steve Turner, Senior Managing Director, represented Economic Consulting;

• David Alfaro, Senior Managing Director, represented Forensic & Litigation Consulting;

• David Turner, Senior Managing Director, represented Forensic & Litigation Consulting;

• Caroline Conneely, Managing Director, represented Health Solutions;

• Matt Clark, Managing Director, represented Strategic Communications;

• Brett Harrison, Managing Director, represented Technology.

FTI’s new hire participants creating inspiring notes for the Boys & Girls Club

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“I found New Hire Orientation to be an extremely impressive program. The participants and speakers were highly engaged and the program was top-notch.” – Shauna Weber, Managing Director, Human Resources

After the panel discussion concluded, new hires were asked to move to a breakout room, which consisted of individuals from their respective busi-nesses. During this breakout ses-sion, our new hires were able to meet everyone in their business and under-stand the business’ services, clients, best practices and more. It was an opportunity for our new hires to fully understand the business they be-long to and meet their constituents. As the third day concluded, the panel was brought back and our new hires were able to ask them questions about

the firm, their business and pieces of advice. Ivelise Zambrano, Senior Manager in our L&D department, wrapped up the day with by thank-ing all of our new hires for being great participants throughout the program.

We encourage our new hires to send their final personal leadership brand statement to training@fticonsulting.com by October 1, 2014, and join the 2014 New Hire Orieniation pro-gram group on Linkedin and follow FTI Consulting’s corporate Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn accounts.

“Partaking in the New Hire Orienta-tion was a very insightful experi-ence, which taught all of us about the values and great reputation that FTI Consulting embraces. It was also a very engaging experi-

ence that allowed all of the new hires to network with fellow col-leagues across different business segments. I look forward to my new career with FTI Consulting and wish the very best to all of the new hires.” – Nick Mohr, Economic Consult-ing, New Hire Orientation participant

Atlas Addendum would like to thank our L&D department for hosting such a successful, fun and insightful program and wishes the best of luck to our next group of leaders as they begin their journey at our firm. Welcome to our global family!

“The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are mov-ing.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes•

Panel discussion participants

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FTI Consulting new hires networking

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