Wayne Tarken
Adjunct, Powers HR Services

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.

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