Sharlyn Lauby is president of Internal Talent Management (ITM) Group Inc., a training and human resources consulting firm located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She is also author of Motivating Employees from ASTD Press and the publisher of the workplace blog HR Bartender.

Sharlyn has spent almost 20 years in the profession - her last corporate position was vice president of human resources for one of the world’s largest organizational consulting firms. She has designed and implemented highly successful programs for employee retention, internal and external customer satisfaction, and leadership development.

She’s been named a top rated speaker at HR Southwest, the largest regional conference in the nation, for the past three years. In addition, she was rated one of the top speakers at the 2003 Employment Management Association conference and her workshop on human resources metrics was one of a handful selected by SHRM to be featured as an on-line learning program.

Sharlyn has been named one of the “Heavy Hitters in Human Resources” and a top ten “Excellence in Human Resources” recipient as compiled by the South Florida Business Journal. She is the 2005 recipient of the Human Resources Professional of the Year Award presented by the Human Resource Association of Broward County. In 2008, Sharlyn was one of the recipients of the Sam Walton Emerging Entrepreneur award, which recognizes women business owners for their community contributions.

Sharlyn earned a bachelors degree from the University of Central Florida, and is recognized as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) from the Society for Human Resource Management, a Certified Human Resources Executive (CHRE) from the American Hotel and Lodging Association and a Certified Professional in Learning Performance (CPLP) from the American Society for Training and Development. To learn more about Sharlyn you can follow her on Twitter, or connect with her on LinkedIn.