"The Challenge is Not How You Bring Back Yesterday... It's What's Going to Be Tomorrow?"

Kevin Wheeler

"How do we have the right mix of talent? How do we have a sustainable talent model? How do you right size an organization? -- The jobs we have now require innovation, creativity, they require a real strategic understanding of where the business is going and how we're going to get there... What's Different With This Recession? Manufacturing is Gone. It's Not Coming Back." Kevin Wheeler

Welcome to a Inside Recruiting podcast on Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton reporting. Joining us today is Kevin Wheeler, founder and president of Global Learning Resources; and conference founder and lead of the Future of Talent Institute, a consortium of organizations and individuals who explore emerging issues in talent management, staffing, recruiting, employee development, retention and leadership development.

Kevin is a globally known speaker, author, teacher and consultant in human capital acquisition and development, as well as in corporate education. He is the author of numerous articles on human resource development, career development, recruiting, and on establishing corporate universities. He is a frequent speaker at conferences. I had an opportunity to interview Kevin at the recent ERE Expo in San Diego.

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Kevin works with organizations to establish learning strategies, corporate universities, succession plans, strategic staffing programs, and human capital architectures. Kevin has been a research affiliate at SRI International and a research affiliate at the Institute for the Future in Menlo Park, CA.

He has headed talent acquisition function globally and is the founder of two corporate universities. He has an extensive national and international consulting practice with such organizations as Yahoo, Eli Lilly, Corning, Inc., Starbucks Coffee Company, Edwards Lifesciences, and Federated Department Stores, and BP, as well as with organizations in China, New Zealand, Australia and El Salvador.

He has served as adjunct faculty at the University of San Francisco and on the business faculty at San Francisco State University.

Kevin spent 7 years in Thailand as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer and has a Masters Degree in Human Resources and Organizational Development. Most recently he was the Senior Vice President for Staffing and Workforce Development at the Charles Schwab Corporation.

Previously, Kevin worked in Thailand as the Vice President of Human Resources for Alphatec Electronics, Inc. and spent 16 years at National Semiconductor Corporation in a variety of human resource roles, including founding and acting as the director of National Semiconductor University.

He sits on a number of boards, served as a member of the National Board of Directors for the American Society of Training and Development from 1995-1997, was an advisory board member for the College Board in the early 1990’s as they architected the new SAT I and II exams, and was a member of the ACT Advisory Board. He speaks at international conferences on a regular basis and hosts an exclusive, invitation-only forum called the Future of Talent (www.futureoftalent.org) for human capital practitioners that explore emerging technologies and practices for talent acquisition and development.

Resources
Global Learning Resources
Future of Talent
Kevin's Articles on ERE