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John W. Boudreau, Ph.D.
Professor & Research Director, University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business & Center for Effective Organizations

John Boudreau is recognized worldwide for breakthrough research on the bridge between superior human capital, talent and sustainable competitive advantage. Dr. Boudreau consults and conducts executive development with companies worldwide that seek to maximize their employees’ effectiveness by discovering the specific strategic bottom-line impact of superior people and human capital strategies.

His consulting and research clients include American Express, Asian Development Bank, Avon, Boeing, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Citigroup, Corning, Dell, Electronic Arts, Frito-Lay, Gap, GE, The Hartford, Mattel, Merck, Microsoft, Northrop Grumman, Novartis, PepsiCo, Royal Dutch Shell, Sun Microsystems, ToysRUs, United Technologies, Unisys, the United Nations, the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, and Williams-Sonoma. He is an invited contributor to executive programs with IMD, Wharton, and Cornell University. He a strategic advisor to a wide range of organizations, including early-stage companies, global corporations, government and military agencies, and non-profit organizations.

Professor Boudreau was an architect and the first Visiting Director of Sun Microsystems’ unique Research and Development Laboratory for Human Capital. He co-authored a best-selling textbook on human resource management that reached its eight edition and was translated into Chinese, Czech, Spanish and others. His research has received the Academy of Management’s Organizational Behavior New Concept and Human Resource Scholarly Contribution awards.

Dr. Boudreau has published more than 50 books and articles. Dr. Boudreau’s large-scale research studies and focused field research addresses the future of the global HR profession, HR measurement and analytics, decision-based HR, executive mobility, HR information systems and organizational staffing and development. His scholarly research is published in Management Science, Academy of Management Executive, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Asia-Pacific Human Resource Management, Human Resource Management, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Human Relations, Industrial Relations, and Journal of Human Resources Costing and Accounting. Features on his work have appeared in Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Fast Company and Business Week, among others.

Professor Boudreau is a Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources. The recipient of the General Mills Award for teaching innovations at Cornell University, Dr. Boudreau also founded the Central Europe Human Resource Education Initiative, which links American HR professionals and academic researchers with faculty and students in the Czech and Slovak Republics. A strong proponent of corporate/academic partnerships, Dr. Boudreau helped to establish and then directed the Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies (CAHRS), at Cornell University, where he was a professor for over 20 years, and continues his support of such partnerships in his current role as Research Director for the Center for Effective Organizations, at the University of Southern California.

Dr. Boudreau is a member of the board of advisors the Human Resource Planning Society and WorldatWork. He is a Trustee for the Foundation of the National Academy of Human Resources. He chaired the Academic Advisory Board of the California Strategic HR Partnership, a silicon-valley HR executive consortium, and served on the boards of advisors for the Saratoga Institute, a global source of human capital benchmarking and performance measures, and Brassring, a talent information company. He has also been elected to the executive committees of the Human Resources Division of the Academy of Management and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

Dr. Boudreau holds an undergraduate degree in business from New Mexico State University, and a Masters degree in Management and Ph.D. in industrial relations from Purdue University’s Krannert School of Management.

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Sherry Benjamins
S. Benjamins & Co.

FOUNDER & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Vincent Caimano, Ph.D.
Human Performance Consultation, Inc.

SECRETARY
Sonya L. Kemp
March Vision Care

TREASURER
Peter Levin
RHR International

ACTING PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR
Sherry Benjamins
S. Benjamins & Co.

MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE CHAIR
Peter Leets
The Leets Consortium

PAST PRESIDENT
Edie Goldberg, Ph.D.
E.L. Goldberg & Associates

 

Directors at Large

Janet Clardy
Experian Interactive

Paul De Young

Towers Watson

Tim Dorman

Authentic Leadership Institute

Ken Goldstein
Mattel

Michael L Kent
Jeitosa Group International

Tracy Layney
The Gap

Annette Pellinat

Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems

Ruth Ross

Wells Fargo

Paula Schmidlin
Global HR Executive
 

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Mark Alders
Avery Dennison Corporation


Karen Hague

Bowne Inc.

Joyce Murdock
California Pizza Kitchen


Donna M. Salvo
AAA Northern California, Nevada, Utah


Kim Scow
Chevron Corp


David Yudis
Disney Consumer Products

 

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