For more than 25 years, Roberta Matuson, president of Matuson Consulting, has helped leaders in Fortune 500 companies, including Best Buy, New Balance, The Boston Beer Company and small to medium-size businesses, achieve dramatic growth and market leadership through the maximization of talent. She is the person that Monster turns to for advice on matters related to talent. Roberta is known worldwide as 'eoeThe Talent Maximizer.'eĀ Roberta, a leading authority on leadership and the skills and strategies required to earn employee commitment and client loyalty, is the author of the top-selling book, Suddenly In Charge: Managing Up, Managing Down, Succeeding All Around (Nicholas Brealey, 2011), a Washington Post Top 5 Business Book For Leaders. Her new book, Talent Magnetism (Nicholas Brealey) will be released in 2013.As a former executive, Roberta has the vantage point of understanding what it is like to work at all levels of the organization. At the age of 24, she found herself catapulted into the executive suite, where she was responsible for building a world-class HR department for a commercial real estate firm. Shortly thereafter, she was involved in taking the company through a public offering.
By her own wits'e"and through trial and error'e"she has built on her success and has become an internationally-recognized thought leader and consultant, often appearing on television on programs such as CBS'e(tm)s The Early Show, Fox'e(tm)s The O'e(tm)Reilly Factor, Fox Business News and on CNN International'e(tm)s Quest on Business with Richard Quest. She is a frequent guest on radio shows around the country.Roberta is a highly sought after speaker who has presented keynotes to Fortune 500 companies including, Best Buy, Inc., New York Life Pension Services, General Re Corporation, and such prestigious organizations as the Treasury Executive Institute, American Craft Brewers Association, SHRM, and the Massachusetts Restaurant Association.She is the author of over 500 articles for publications around the globe including The Christian Science Monitor, British Airways Business Life, The Telegraph and The Globe and Mail. In addition, she is one of the top expert bloggers for Fast Company and Forbes.com and the author of a bi-monthly column for Hotelexecutives.com.
Roberta holds an MBA from the University of Houston and a BS in Human Resource Management from Northeastern University. She is a graduate of Alan Weiss'e(tm)s Million Dollar ConsultingĀ® College.Contact: Roberta@matusonconsulting.com. For more information, please visit www.matusonconsulting.com.