Building a Go-Fast Organization: Performance Improvement Out-Takes from the book "Rebooting Leadership"

As Globoforce’s Vice President Client Strategy and Consulting, Derek is a seasoned, internationally minded management professional with over 20 years of experience working across a diverse range of industries. During his career he has lived in many countries including Spain, France, Ireland, Canada, Sweden, UK and the USA. In his role as a thought leader at Globoforce, Derek helps clients set a higher ambition for global strategic employee recognition, leading consultative workshops and strategy setting meetings with such global organizations as Avnet, P&G, Dow Chemical, Intel, Intuit, KPMG and Thomson Reuters. Derek also heads up the rewards team at Globoforce, building an industry leading rewards portfolio that is now the most global and largest rewards selection in the world today.

Prior to his role at Globoforce, Derek worked for the management consultancy firm PA Consulting Group, where he advised clients in corporate strategy, organizational behavior, marketing and corporate communications. He also worked in consumer marketing for many years, working on the world-class brands of Johnson & Johnson and Jameson. Derek holds a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce and a Master of International Business Studies degree from University College Dublin.

Bill Catlette is an author, leadership trainer, speaker, and human resources consultant with 35 years’ experience helping build highly successful organizations. He is co-author of Contented Cows Give Better Milk: The Plain Truth About Employee Relations and Your Bottom Line; Contented Cows MOOve Faster: How Good Leaders Get People to Put More OOMPH! into their Work; and the new book, Rebooting Leadership: Practical Lessons for Frontline Leaders (and their Bosses) in the New World.

Mr. Catlette earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Miami and immediately embarked on a career that has included a variety of Human Resource management and executive roles in several highly regarded service distribution firms. His corporate ports of call have included Genuine Parts Company, the Atlanta-based distribution arm of NAPA; Automatic Data Processing, where he served as the company's Corporate Manager of Employee Relations; and FedEx, beginning in the company's early years. Mr. Catlette also founded The Westar Group, a human resource consulting firm which concentrates primarily on the areas of Employee Relations, Teamwork, Leadership Development, and Business Strategy. In 1996, Mr. Catlette and Richard Hadden formed Contented Cow Partners, LLC. Since then, the firm has served more than 300 organizations in numerous industries by delivering customized keynote addresses, corporate leadership training, and employee engagement surveys.