Dr. David DeLong

Dr. David DeLong is president of David DeLong & Associates, a research and consulting firm that helps organizations improve performance by solving tough problems created by the changing workforce. He is also a research fellow at the MIT AgeLab and has been an adjunct professor at Babson College.

An acclaimed keynote speaker, Dr. DeLong is co-author of "The Executive Guide to High-Impact Talent Management" from McGraw-Hill. He is also author of the widely-praised "Lost Knowledge: Confronting the Threat of an Aging Workforce" from Oxford University Press.

Dr. DeLong has spent more than a decade studying the strategic impacts of changing workforce demographics and costs of knowledge loss on organizational performance. In recent years, he has conducted over 600 interviews with scores of knowledge-intensive organizations to develop solutions for the knowledge retention and workforce and leadership development challenges posed by increased Baby Boomer retirements and great mid-career turnover.

Dr. DeLong's work has been widely cited in The New York Times, Fortune Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, CIO Magazine, US News & World Report, and The Boston Globe. He has also been interviewed on NPR's "Morning Edition" and "Talk of the Nation." Dr. DeLong is a widely-published writer whose work has appeared in such journals and magazines as Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Newsweek International, Organizational Dynamics, Computerworld, and Inc. magazine. A former researcher at both Harvard Business School and MIT's Sloan School, he has a doctorate in organizational behavior from Boston University and an MPA from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.