Eric Shepherd

Eric is an accomplished leader of international businesses and associations focused on talent, assessments, and success. His new book, written together with Joan Phaup, is called Talent Transformation: Develop Today's Team for Tomorrow's World of Work.  Eric recently stepped away from a CEO role where he worked to build a SaaS company into a multi-million-dollar international assessment software business. Eric has also led industry and standards initiatives to promote best practices for assessments, learning, and interoperability. He currently serves as Chair of the IEEE P1484.20.2 working group, developing Recommended Practice for Defining Competencies.  Eric is also a founder of the Talent Transformation Guild, which provides analysis and consulting services to professionals to help them prepare for the future of work. Its goal is to help them manage the constantly changing human resource landscape, driven by the effects of the global pandemic and the use of automation.