Bio

Specialties: Career Development/Management, Career/Employee Engagement, Curriculum/Program Development, Research, Human Resource Management. I'm an award-winning human resources / career and workforce development professional. My work, over 25+ years, has been incredibly varied but always with the underlying message of the importance of a good career fit . . . getting the right people into the right jobs at the right time. Essentially, my career is focused on helping individuals find work that allows them to thrive and helping organizations with their “people practices” including employee recruitment, retention, engagement, and development. As an educator, much of my work now involves training the trainer which allows me to influence, support, and help so many more . . . as a career professional I can see one client at a time but, as an educator, every professional I teach applies that learning to his/her own practice, thereby impacting every client. It is why so many say that education is the most empowering force in the world. I'm co-author of the Career Engagement model which conceptualizes career engagement as the alignment of challenging, stimulating work with a matching level of capacity (e.g., access to the proper skills and education; social support; self-care). It is an important addition to the engagement literature, helping individuals and organizations understand the route to disengagement and, therefore, how to best design interventions to maximize engagement. Read more at: http://tinyurl.com/8u3b4jq Please don't hesitate to connect via email or LinkedIn. I'd love to hear from you. Cheers Deirdre