Keynote: Tamara Erickson

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Creating high levels of employee engagement is the most important challenge facing corporations today—it will improve retention rates as the talent shortage grows and provide the foundation for a culture of collaboration and innovation. The critical importance of engagement puts the spotlight back on HR professionals and the contributions they bring to their organizations.

Tamara Erickson’s keynote explores the signature employee experiences of world-class companies and how these experiences become powerful ways to encourage self-selection and reinforce values. She shows how engaging employees is not about copying another corporation’s best practices—there is no single best practice. Psycho-demographic research shows individuals all want different things from work. Companies with extraordinary employee-employer relationships leverage these differences: they know who they are and understand their current and future employees and they demonstrate this with actual practices—not through slogans and posters.

The result: high engagement, high customer satisfaction and high productivity—and relationships that capture both hearts and minds.

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About Tamara Erickson

Erickson is a McKinsey Award-winning author and expert on changing demographics, employee values and the secrets of successful organizations. She is co-author of Workforce Crisis: How to Beat the Coming Shortage of Skills and Talent and author of Retire Retirement: Career Strategies for the Boomer Generation.