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The Future of Talent Investment

Marcia Zaruba O’Connor, CEO and Founder, The O’Connor Group

October 28, 2022, 8:30 am – 9:30 AM

Talent has been the name of the game for the past two years, but will it stay the same and how can you stay in front of the best candidates?
She will be discussing the following areas:

  • Employees Expectations of their organizations – what has changed
  • Building competitive advantage and what does that mean?
  • The relationship between diversity and organizational performance
  • Re-evaluating the knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics such as personality needed to achieve strategic objectives
  • Well-being needs to be a part of the Talent plan and we will show you why
  • Redesigning work – what will it really look like and can it last?

Marcia Zaruba O’Connor is the CEO and Founder of The O’Connor Group, a leading provider of Human Resources and Talent Acquisition Solutions based in King of Prussia, PA. For the past 3 years, The O’Connor Group has been the recipient of the Inc. 5000, The Philadelphia Business Journals’ Healthiest Places to Work, The Inquirer’s Soaring 76 and Entrepreneurs Forum Philly 100 awards.
Currently, Marcia is currently the President for the Philadelphia Chapter for the Entrepreneur Organization (EO), a 15,000 CEO international organization, she is a member of the Chief Women Executive Officers, a member of the Forum for Executive Women and the association Chief.
Marcia earned her MS degree in Human Organization Development from Villanova and her BS degree in Accounting from Widener University.

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