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In today’s world, to be recognized as a trusted and impactful leader and a continual learner, you’ve got to stay informed of best practices in Culture Shifts, Leadership Development, People Systems/HR & OD, DEI, Change Management, and Retained Search.

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What Great Leaders Will Focus on Now

Around the world, organization leaders are reeling from the sense of drinking through multiple firehoses simultaneously while attempting to figure out how to quickly reposition themselves to weather and emerge from the potentially high impact of COVID-19. Many larger retailers shuttered their brick and mortar operations, laid off or furloughed employees and looked to their…

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Paths for Organizational Resilience

On Saturday, our firm ‘celebrated’ its 25 years in business… not with hoopla but, with serious reflection about the current state of organizations across the Northeast.  We’ve been renegades, implementing integrated systems in human resource management and organization development since we opened on March 21, 1995.  And, we’ve worked as a virtual team for 25…

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Diversity and Inclusion Success

Critical Factors for Effective and Rapid Transformation Baseline Understandings The practice of diversity and inclusion has evolved significantly since it began. For the most part, approaches, concepts and practices of the early years are no longer effective in today’s workplaces. Awareness was the focus; transformation and D&I competence is today’s necessity. With the increase of…

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High Value, Low Investment: HR as Organizational Value Accelerator

Accelerating change in organizations can be dizzying. The myriad of shifts in strategies and structures, re-positioning to gain market share, managing floods of data and analytics, growing digitalization, regulatory changes and political uncertainty, pushing for faster innovation and speed to market, tightening labor markets, increasing salaries and benefits costs as well as ensuring highly engaging…

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