Speaker: Corbette Doyle
Topic: Work On-Demand
About the Speaker:Corbette Doyle is a Lecturer of Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness at the Peabody College at Vanderbilt University. Up until July 2008, she was the global Chief Diversity Officer at Aon, a Fortune 250 consulting and risk management firm headquartered in Chicago. In that role, she reported directly to the CEO, who had been the youngest Managing Principle at McKinsey.
Prior to her role as CDO, her responsibilities included leading a dozen different industry practices, launching new practice groups, acquiring companies, closing companies, and serving on the boards of venture capital companies Aon invested in. She graduated first in her MBA class at the Owen School at Vanderbilt and has her undergraduate degree in Economics and Math.
About the topic:The race to downsize the workforce has positioned U.S. employers for a perfect-storm of a talent crisis: massive boomer retirements, a generation of commitment-phobic under-educated employees, and technology that allows companies to compete from anywhere and everywhere.
As a result, many traditional workplace settings will be populated with workers who operate more like independent contractors or temporary staff than longtime employees. But crises create at least as many opportunities as problems.
This presentation will discuss strategies employers can and should embrace to prepare for this crisis, opportunities for individuals willing and able to serve as flexible workers, and entrepreneurial opportunities for the future – from sourcing flexible workers to training managers to handle a 21st century workforce to developing talent assessment solutions.