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Don’t Set New Year’s Resolutions, Work Your Life Plan

Like most hard working professionals, every year around the mid December time frame, I start to wind down projects, clean up paperwork, organize my desk and office space, minimize my demanding travel schedule, and bring outstanding financial matters to a close. I do it so that I can breathe a bit, rest a lot, reflect
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Let’s Celebrate, Not Desecrate CEOs for Making Diversity a Priority

In an interview with CNN’s Poppy Harlow that aired last week, I couldn’t have been more proud to hear Rosalind Brewer, CEO of Sam’s Club talk candidly about giving employees pay increases, how they were responding to the changing workforce, and to declare Diversity as a priority. When Poppy Harlow asked her about her commitment
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President & CEO Of SDS Global On WUSA9

WUSA9 Interviews Dr. Shirley Davis Shepard
Dr. Shirley Davis, a recognized authority on the global workforce and Master of Reinvention talks to Chris Leary and Markette Sheppard about megatrends and business implications that will shape the workforce of the future.
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Be Visionary, Be Visible, Be Vocal & Add Value

10 Strategies for Getting a Seat at the Leadership Table By Dr. Shirley Davis, SPHR As the global workforce becomes more complex and competitive, the demand for HR professionals to be strategic and business-focused is no longer an option. It is a necessity. By doing so, HR professionals are not only providing leadership and strategic
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If Companies Can Reinvent Themselves, So Can We

Reinvent Yourself Paperback book + Workbook bundle
For nearly a decade we’ve lived what Charles Dickens penned as “the best of times and the worst of times” in his 1859 novel: A Tale of Two Cities. Americans are recovering from one of the worst economic recessions since the Great Depression of the 1930s; major corporations have collapsed; people are being devastated by
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5 Key Drivers of Increasing Employee Engagement and Loyalty Part 3 of a Three Part Series on Employee Engagement

Employee engagement plus Leadership equals business results
In the first two parts of this series on Employee Engagement, I laid the foundational knowledge about how the workforce has and will be changing in the next decade, how it is impacting engagement, what are the key drivers of engagement, who’s most engaged and who’s not, and what are companies doing to become Great
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Keep the Dream Alive by Reinventing Yourself

Dr. Shirley Davis speaking at podium at Averett University.
MLKing Day Keynote at Averett University, January 19, 2015 All over the nation on Monday, January 19th communities united to celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. including in Danville, VA where Averett University held their annual MLK Community Celebration and Day of Service. I was honored to be the luncheon keynoter for
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My Top 14 Highlights and Most Memorable Moments of 2014

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I’m a big believer that it’s not how you start something, it’s how you finish it. To say that 2014 was a transitional year for me would be an understatement; yet I can also say that it ended up being one of my most phenomenal years. By the end of 2013, I was clear on
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5 Key Drivers of Increasing Employee Engagement and Loyalty: Part 2 of a Three Part Series on Employee Engagement

Dr. Shirley Davis speaking at podium at Averett University.
In part 1 of this three part series on Employee Engagement I outlined some of the dramatic shifts that will continue to shape the workforce in the next 10 years making it the most diverse, global, hyper-connected and virtual workforce than any other time in history. I shared some human capital challenges that will plague
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5 Key Drivers of Increasing Employee Engagement and Loyalty: Part 1 of a 3 Part Series on Employee Engagement

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This past week I conducted a webcast at the request of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), whom most of you know is where I worked for the past 8 years as Global Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer until launching my own global workforce solutions firm this summer. I am pleased to continue to
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