Can You Visualize Gender Equity?

Visualize Gender Equity

The issues of proportional representation of women in the workplace — at senior levels of management, on the board, in equitable compensation — is an issue that I’ve been passionate about for years. I spend a portion of my time working with organizations that seek to correct the imbalance through increased societal awareness and profound […]

The Real Business Risks of an Aging Workforce: Finding The Eye of the Storm…

Photo:  Jim Reed, Scientific American, http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/compound-eye/2011/08/26/interview-photographer-jim-reed-on-hurricane-irene-and-storm-chasing/ A CLIENT RECENTLY described to me the threat of pending retirements among his organization’s aging workforce as a “silver tsunami”, a storm of major proportions poised to blow through the company over the coming 10 years.  They face imminent retirements from all positions, ranging between 20 and 50% of […]

CASE: Develop/ Execute Triage Plan for Business-Risk Management and Knowledge Capture

The New York Division of Retirement Services (DRS) supports and operates one of the largest pension and benefits programs in the nation, with millions of beneficiaries. A management audit surfaced substantial risk, due to the fragmented systems and processes, AND the pending swell of baby-boomer retirements of key employees from within every department, and at […]