Wayne Tarken,
MBA, SPHR - Senior Management Consultant - brings over twenty years
of business and human resources experience as the Chair of the HR-CEO
Roundtable. Tarken serves as an advisor to senior business & human
resources leaders in developing and executing business and human resource
strategies and identifying and eliminating the barriers to improving
organizational performance.
He helps
organizations improve business operations by increasing management capabilities,
improving customer service, optimizing the use of technology, aligning
management programs to support business goals, implementing business
growth strategies and improving work & process flow. He develops
an organizational "talent roadmap" to foster accountability,
improve results and ensure that the right people are in critical impact
positions.
Tarken
is recognized as an outstanding leader and educator in the human resource
profession. He was selected as the Chair for the 2002 Society for Human
Resource Management (SHRM) Annual Conference, the largest meeting of
HR professionals in the world. He has served as President of the Tri-State
Human Resource Management Association and is the current chair of the
National Human Resource Technology Management Committee.
He has
also served on the faculty of the Cornell University, Temple University
and Pennsylvania State University where he taught Managing Distant Workers
& Teams, Strategic Human Resource Management (MBA), Managing People
and Organizations (MBA) and Internet-based organizational staffing (undergraduate).
He is a
highly valued and dynamic speaker and presenter who appears at national
and local conferences to address the issues of improving business performance
with your employees, running human resources as a business, work &
process improvement, management of distant employees, teams & outsourced
operations and "Employer of Choice" management strategies.
He has served as an advisor to five new business startups.
Tarken
graduated from Temple University with an M.B.A. in Human Resource Management
and a B.A in Economics.