Tamara Erickson
Tamara J. Erickson, an experienced speaker and presenter, is an expert on the changing workforce and innovative ways to shift the relationship between individuals and organizations, and, in so doing, powerfully enhance workforce productivity. She is President of The Concours Institute, the research and education arm of The Concours Group, a professional services firm supporting senior executives through the blend of leading-edge intellectual capital and pragmatic business results, and an Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors of the firm.
Tamara and her co-authors are the recipients of the 2004 McKinsey Prize for the award-winning Harvard Business Review article, "It's Time to Retire Retirement," March 2004. A second Harvard Business Review article, "Managing Middlescence," appeared in the March 2006 issue. She is co-author of the book Workforce Crisis: How to Beat the Coming Shortage of Skills and Talent, published by Harvard Business School Press in 2006 and was a lead contributor to two multi-year research initiatives: Demography is De$tiny, exploring the implications of current demographic changes on human resource practices, and The New Employee/Employer Equation, developing new and powerful approaches to increasing employee engagement through segmentation. She is also a respected authority on technology and its implications for business and coauthor of the book Third Generation R&D: Managing the Link to Corporate Strategy, a widely accepted guide to making technology investments and managing innovative organizations, published in 1991.
Tamara has extensive experience in corporate strategy and organizational effectiveness and oversees both the human capital practice and intellectual capital development at The Concours Group. She is a member of the Board of Directors of PerkinElmer, Inc., a Fortune 500 company competing in advanced technology markets, a member of the Audit and Governance Committees, and a former member of the Board of Allergan, Inc.
Tamara holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Chicago and a MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration where she was the recipient of the James Thomas Chirurg Fellowship.
Tamara J. Erickson, an experienced speaker and presenter, is an expert on the changing workforce and innovative ways to shift the relationship between individuals and organizations, and, in so doing, powerfully enhance workforce productivity. She is President of The Concours Institute, the research and education arm of The Concours Group, a professional services firm supporting senior executives through the blend of leading-edge intellectual capital and pragmatic business results, and an Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors of the firm.
Tamara and her co-authors are the recipients of the 2004 McKinsey Prize for the award-winning Harvard Business Review article, "It's Time to Retire Retirement," March 2004. A second Harvard Business Review article, "Managing Middlescence," appeared in the March 2006 issue. She is co-author of the book Workforce Crisis: How to Beat the Coming Shortage of Skills and Talent, published by Harvard Business School Press in 2006 and was a lead contributor to two multi-year research initiatives: Demography is De$tiny, exploring the implications of current demographic changes on human resource practices, and The New Employee/Employer Equation, developing new and powerful approaches to increasing employee engagement through segmentation. She is also a respected authority on technology and its implications for business and coauthor of the book Third Generation R&D: Managing the Link to Corporate Strategy, a widely accepted guide to making technology investments and managing innovative organizations, published in 1991.
Tamara has extensive experience in corporate strategy and organizational effectiveness and oversees both the human capital practice and intellectual capital development at The Concours Group. She is a member of the Board of Directors of PerkinElmer, Inc., a Fortune 500 company competing in advanced technology markets, a member of the Audit and Governance Committees, and a former member of the Board of Allergan, Inc.
Tamara holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Chicago and a MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration where she was the recipient of the James Thomas Chirurg Fellowship.
Global Generations
Tammy's research has extended to the generations in a number of specific countries around the world, including the four...
Building Collaborative Organizations
We are on the brink of an important transformation. New technologies are making their way into the workplace, offering significant improvements in generating, capturing, and sharing knowledge, finding helpful colleagues and information, tapping into new sources of innovation and expertise, and harnessing the "wisdom of crowds." Over time, these collaborative technologies will change the way work is done and the way organizations function. They will shift the way we interact with people on...
Leading a Multi-Generational Workforce
Four generations are working together in today's workplace-and a fifth is on the way. Each brings unique assumptions to the job. As a result, events in the workplace are often interpreted differently by individuals in different generations. What may seem like good news to a Boomer might well be an unsettling and unwelcome development to a member of Generation X. Things that members of Gen Y love often seem unappealing or frivolous to those in older generations.
Today it's...
