HR in an Aging Industry

Tamara J. Erickson is a McKinsey Award-winning author and widely respected expert on organizations and the
changing workforce - on the shifting relationship between individuals and corporations - and on enhancing
innovation and workforce productivity. She was recently named one of the 50 most influential living
management thinkers in the world by Thinkers 50, a biennial guide created by Dearlove and Crainer and
published in The (London) Times. Her work is based on extensive research on changing demographics and
employee values and, most recently, on how successful organizations innovate through collaboration.Tammy has co-authored four Harvard Business Review articles: "It's Time to Retire Retirement" (March 2004),
winner of the McKinsey Award, "Managing Middlescence" (March 2006), "What It Means to Work Here,"
(March 2007), and "Eight Ways to Build Collaborative Teams," (November 2007), as well as the book
Workforce Crisis: How to Beat the Coming Shortage of Skills and Talent, published by Harvard Business School
Press (2006). She has also co-authored an MIT Sloan Management Review article, "Bridging Faultlines in
Diverse Teams," (Summer 2007). Tammy is the author of one of Harvard Business Review's Breakthrough
Ideas for 2008, "Task, Not Time," (February 2008), one of HBR's Forethoughts on Unconventional Wisdom in a
Downturn, "'Give Me the Ball' Is the Wrong Call," (December 2008), and the HBR Case Study "Gen Y in the
Workforce" (February 2009).Tammy has recently completed a trilogy of books on how individuals in specific generations can excel in
today's workplace. Retire Retirement: Career Strategies for the Boomer Generation and Plugged In: The
Generation Y Guide to Thriving at Work were published by Harvard Business Press in 2008. What's Next, Gen
X? Keeping Up, Moving Ahead, and Getting the Career You Want was published in 2010. Her blog "Across the
Ages" is featured weekly on HBP Online (http://discussionleader.hbsp.com/erickson/).The research initiatives she and colleagues have undertaken include 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. Her most recent research, Cooperative Advantage, done in collaboration with a team at
London Business School, explored the working practices of over 50 teams in 15 multi-nationals, representing
the most extensive academically-grounded study of industry-based team working ever conducted.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.Tamara is a former member of the Board of Directors of PerkinElmer, Inc., a Fortune 500 company competing
in advanced technology markets, and a former member of the Board of Directors of Allergan, Inc.She works with clients independently, as part of nGenera's Onsite Solutions business, and in affiliation with
Manpower, 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.

Rachel Everaard is a Director in the Human Capital Management consulting practice at Buck Consultants, an ACS company, in Houston. Her areas of expertise include talent management, HR transformation, organizational change and communications, and HR strategy, serving clients in a wide range of industries. Rachel focuses on helping organizations address their talent management issues through aligning their workforce strategy with their business strategy. She has published multiple articles on workforce planning and the aging workforce and spoken at numerous conferences around talent management, HR transformation, managing multiple generations, and, most recently, optimizing people assets in the economic downturn.