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 Kathleen Creech / Towers Perrin

Strategic Workforce Planning: 

Translating the Business Plan Into the People Plan

 

Your organization is facing unprecedented challenges - economic volatility, labor shortages and dramatic demographic shifts, widening talent gaps and a growing demand to engage top talent.  Under these circumstances, driving growth while managing current and future costs seems a daunting task.  How can your company develop a workforce strategy that ensures you have the necessary people to deliver on the business plan?

 

Please join Towers Perrin and Kathleen Creech, Senior Consultant with the Strategic Workforce Planning practice, to discuss current trends in workforce planning, how your organization can establish and enhance current workforce planning processes, and several case studies from other organizations.  Specific topics include:

 

- Identifying near term workforce strategies that will drive success through 2009

- How to develop an understanding of the future workforce needed to support your organization’s business strategy

- How to identify the key talent & skills needed to deliver on the business strategy through segmentation of the workforce

- How you can assess the cost and availability of needed talent in your labor market and identify alternative sourcing strategies

 

 

Biography

Kathleen Creech is a Senior Consultant in the Atlanta, GA office of Towers Perrin.  As a member of Towers Perrin’s global Strategic Workforce Planning practice, Kathleen consults with clients on a variety of workforce and rewards issues.  As part of the practice, she also assists in training and the development of intellectual capital around workforce planning strategies and best practices.

 

Kathleen has 17 years of experience in HR consulting with a focus on the management of retirement benefit programs, design of rewards programs, benefit communications and workforce strategies.  She has provided consulting services to many major corporations including Food Lion, Ryder, United Rentals, Cox Enterprises and Fruit of the Loom.

 

Kathleen received a B.S. in Actuarial Science from Vanderbilt University.  She is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries and Member of the American Academy of Actuaries.

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