Profiles

Founded as Heritage Meetings and Incentives in 1980 by Paul Ferreira, now President and Board Chairman , HMI Performance Incentives has always sought to be one step ahead of the game, says Lincoln Smith, Chief Strategy Officer. ... [ read more ]

Colorado UpLift's staff of 40 mentors and teachers have a challenging job helping kids from troubled homes navigate multiple challenges to find their way in life. The Denver-based not-for-profit has hired ProsperBridge to help employees address the financial and other challenges in their lives through the support of dedicated Personal Prosperity Assistants. ... [ read more ]

As author of Strategic Management, A Stakeholder Approach, first published in 1984, R. Edward Freeman can be considered one of the founders of the theory underlying the Stakeholder Capitalism movement of the 2020s. He's Professor at the Darden School at the University of Virginia and of the more recently published Stakeholder Theory, an update on the topic since the publication of his first book. ESM recently interviewed Freeman to learn his views on the state of the Stakeholder Capitalism movement.... [ read more ]

EGR International was one of the first firms to position itself as an enterprise engagement agency to help organizations align all stakeholders around a common vision. It was also one of the first in the incentive field to diversify beyond face-to-face events and incentive programs into other forms of communications through its in-house creative agency BlackLab Media.... [ read more ]

When the subject of Stakeholder Capitalism and reporting comes up, the first challenge often is: provide an example of an organization based on Stakeholder Capitalism principles and of an ideal human capital report. ... [ read more ]

Despite all the talk about innovation in CX (Customer Experience), most observers say that customer service, in the US at least, is as bad as quality manufacturing was in the 1980s, before ISO 9000 quality standards and the concept of Total Quality Management took hold. Today, while quality in US manufacturing has steadily improved, the American Customer Service Index remains mired in the low 70% range.... [ read more ]

When Dr. Bob Randall founded Transcend Engagement over five years ago, he saw an opportunity to disrupt the employee engagement field by creating a platform and methodology to demonstrate a bottom-line impact. Today, he sees more interest in strategy and analytics than ever and has added a full suite of advisory services to provide clients a complete, measurable employee engagement solution. ... [ read more ]

One of the first companies to the market with an employee engagement platform in 2010, Kudos sees a significant expansion of recognition beyond basic years-of-services, employees-of-the-month, and birthday programs to support key organizational goals. ... [ read more ]

As a retention advisory firm serving the trucking industry, Stay Metrics has faced almost any retention and recruiting challenge imaginable. A highly cyclical business, with recurring shortages and gluts of drivers, the trucking industry faces long-term demographic challenges that, along with a new generation of management, is opening the doors for a more strategic and systematic approach to managing retention and recruitment across all demographic groups. ... [ read more ]

One10 Marketing, a top-10 full-service performance improvement company, faced the pandemic by finding new ways to serve customers and leverage its people and expertise, says Richelle Taylor, Vice President Strategic Marketing. It is helping companies rapidly shift to new ways to engage, from moving travel incentives and meetings to merchandise and other rewards and virtual events; connecting to the hearts and minds of employees through enterprise engagement technology and effective communications and training, and by helping clients benefit from analytics to make better decisions.... [ read more ]

As a senior HR executive with a 30-year career that spans chief human resources positions at the highest levels of the federal government and business, as well as marketing, sales, and profit-and-loss positions for a newspaper and media company, few HR leaders share Mike Anderson’s journey to and in human capital management. ... [ read more ]

Laura Queen rose through the ranks of human resources at multiple companies for more than 20 years. She made the decision to use her expertise to assist mid-cap private equity, venture capital and strategic buyers in mitigating risks by better evaluating the human capital aspect of potential acquisitions. ... [ read more ]

Gary Rhoads, Co-Founder of Xvoyant.com, a SaaS-based software to support effective one-on-one sales management, believes that the current crisis could cause a permanent change in the way organizations engage their people and sell. ... [ read more ]

According to Dr. Paul White, co-author of The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace, managers can start improving culture in their own departments even without the support of the CEO by addressing every human’s innate desire to feel appreciated. His research and process call into question the validity of many if not most recognition, incentive, and loyalty programs but provide simple and useful ways to significantly improve them. ... [ read more ]

Richard Blabolil, a 20-year veteran of the incentive business, and CEO of 41-year-old Marketing Innovators, Rosemont, Ill., sees a new focus on program design and measurement that has the potential to upend the 120-year-old incentive industry. ... [ read more ]

Michelle Holmes, Senior Director at Travel and Transport and head of its loyalty division, shares her perspective on loyalty trends based on her company's nearly 30 years in financial services and retail loyalty programs. ... [ read more ]

As the SEC weighs final rules for human capital disclosures following the commenting period that just closed, SEC Chair Jay Clayton expresses strong support in a recent Dublin speech.... [ read more ]

Probably no one has done more for the cause of culture and workplace experience than Chester Elton, who since the last century has crisscrossed the globe, spoken regularly on national radio, and written multiple influential books on recognition and culture, starting with his best-selling "The Carrot Principle" up to his latest with co-author Adrian Gostic, “All In”. Their new book, "Leading With Gratitude,"” comes out in March. ... [ read more ]

In its quest to provide clients a lifetime career management solution, E2E Group has the potential to transform the traditional recognition field from focusing primarily on rewards and technology to providing full-service human capital management solutions. ... [ read more ]

When the CEO of a leading technology company warns business leaders to beware of 'bright shiny objects,' one should listen. With extensive experience in customer relationship management, human resources and other technologies, MaritzCX Inc. CEO Mike Sinoway knows a thing or two about the impact of technology in business. ... [ read more ]

This interview with Jim McCann, Founder and Chairman of 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, based in Carle Place, NY, continues ESM's new Quality People Management CEO series honoring chief executives at organizations that value the importance of a strategic and systematic approach to engaging all stakeholders. ... [ read more ]

This profile of Colleen Wegman, the CEO of Wegmans, the 37th-largest supermarket chain in the U.S., continues ESM's new Quality People Management CEO series honoring chief executives at organizations that base their success on a strategic and systematic approach to engaging all stakeholders - customers, distribution partners, sales and nonsales employees, vendors and communities. ... [ read more ]

This profile of Bill McDermott, the American CEO of SAP, Europe's largest software company, continues ESM's new Quality People Management CEO series honoring chief executives at organizations that base their success on a strategic and systematic approach to engaging all stakeholders - customers, distribution partners, sales and nonsales employees, vendors and communities. ... [ read more ]

This profile of Hubert Joly, CEO of the consumer retailer Best Buy, kicks off ESM's new Quality People Management CEO Profile series highlighting chief executives at organizations of all types and sizes whose success is based on a strategic and systematic approach to engaging all stakeholders. ... [ read more ]

Dr. Ron McKinley, Vice President and Chief Standards Officer for the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, co-founder of the UTMB’s Enterprise Engagement Advisory Practice focusing on the healthcare and hospitality fields, and co-founder of the International Center for Enterprise Engagement (ICEE), recently spoke to ESM, outlining the benefits of the ISO 10018 framework and how to obtain certification... [ read more ]