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Is your organization under cost pressures or considering down-sizing, right-sizing and/or having layoffs during these turbulent times? Now, more than ever, is the time to ensure that you have the right workforce at the right cost given the current economic conditions, while still positioning the organization to support future business needs.
With all the day-to-day turmoil in our global stock markets, many organizations are struggling to figure out how to react. While there is a justifiable tendency to minimize or even freeze hiring activity during these times, it is the stock market itself that should teach us to respond differently. "Buy low; sell high," brokers tell us. Down markets are a key time to consider buying critical talent assets both to take advantage of labor cost opportunities and to build the talent pipeline for the future. Retention, too, is important in down markets because, once you have lost--through layoffs, etc.--this talent, it may cost more to get these needed skills back when markets improve.
This all sounds reasonable, but how can you afford to buy and retain talent assets during these uncertain times? This webcast will give you some key pointers that will allow you to manage workforce risk and current labor costs, while driving workforce value for the long-term.
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Presenters
Kerry Williams is a Principal and consulting leader for Hewitt's Talent Forecasting & Acquisition consulting offers and is responsible for building and delivering services in the areas of Workforce Planning & Forecasting and Talent Acquisition. Kerry understands what's required for effective talent acquisition and has both a strategic and operational level perspective to ensure that solutions are applicable to current and future business needs, and something that can be adopted and deployed at an enterprise level.
Helen is a Senior Consultant in Stamford, CT, and leader of the Workforce Analytics and Planning practice in the U.S. East division. She has 25 years of experience in leading and supporting client efforts across a broad array of analytics, including workforce planning and optimization, dashboards and reporting, site selection and labor market analysis, and total rewards strategy.
Helen also is one of Towers Watson’s key thought leaders supporting the development of our strategic offerings and technology for global workforce planning and reporting. In addition, she has implemented sophisticated statistical modeling techniques that are being applied to uncover drivers of key organizational outcomes, answering questions such as: who is successful at our organization, what drives our turnover, and what workforce factors accelerate revenue growth?
Prior to joining Towers Watson, Helen was a Principal at another leading HR consulting firm and was responsible for that firm’s workforce planning and specialized analytics offerings. Over her years in consulting, she has had both direct consulting responsibilities and global management roles with regard to service development, including leading efforts to build proprietary technology to support workforce planning.
Helen is known in the HR consulting community as a thought leader in the area of workforce planning. Fortune 25 companies have consulted with her to better understand workforce analytics methods and solutions. Over her career, Helen has worked with large, multinational organizations in a number of industries, including defense, energy, financial services, healthcare, high tech, hospitality, specialty materials and retail.
Helen also has a background as a defined benefit retirement plan consultant with experience in all aspects of retirement plan consulting, including actuarial valuations, government compliance testing, and plan design.
Helen is a sought-after expert and speaker at national industry and general HR conferences and her work has been published in national journals including the Journal of Organizational Excellence. She earned her B.A. in Mathematics at Haverford College and an MBA with highest honors at Columbia Business School in Finance and Management.