For more than 30 years, author, speaker, and consultant Dr. David DeLong, has helped leaders implement practical solutions to address critical skill shortages and improve knowledge retention in a fast-changing, technology-driven economy. Today, David focuses solely on helping organizations tap into the underutilized talent pools described in this book. As an author, David is also known for his widely-praised book, Lost Knowledge: Confronting the Threat of an Aging Workforce (Oxford University Press). He co-authored The Executive Guide to High-Impact Talent Management (McGraw-Hill) and also wrote Graduate to a Great Job: Make Your College Degree Pay Off in Today's Market.A veteran researcher, David has spent over two decades studying the strategic impacts of changing workforce demographics and knowledge loss on organizational performance. He served on the research staff at both MIT's Sloan School of Management and Harvard Business School and taught "Managing Organizational Change" as an adjunct professor at Babson College. He has consulted with and spoken for many organizations such as Microsoft, MasterCard, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, Kraft Foods, Lockheed Martin, The Conference Board, American Organization of Nurse Executives, Council of Manufacturing Associations, Michigan Works, and the Council of State Chambers. His work has been widely cited in The New York Times, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, the Harvard Business Review blog, and CIO magazine. David holds a master's in public administration from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and a doctorate in organizational behavior from Boston University's Questrom School of Business.