About David DeLong

At this stage of my career, I now focus solely on helping organizations explore ways they can find productive, loyal employees from talent pools that have traditionally been marginalized. I have been doing in depth research in this area for the last four years.

For more than 25 years, I’ve been an author, speaker and president of Smart Workforce Strategies, a consulting firm that helps organizations find solutions to critical skill shortages and risks of knowledge loss. In the course of my career, I have also been:

• A research fellow at the MIT AgeLab and an adjunct professor at Babson College, teaching MBA’s “Leading & Managing Change.”
• An nationally-recognized keynote speaker and co-author of the The Executive Guide to High-Impact Talent Management from McGraw-Hill.
• Author of the widely praised Lost Knowledge: Confronting the Threat of an Aging Workforce from Oxford University Press.
• A veteran researcher who has conducted over 600 interviews in knowledge-intensive organizations developing solutions for the knowledge retention and workforce development challenges posed by Baby Boomer retirements and changing values of Millennials.
• Author of Graduate to a Great Job: Make Your College Degree Pay Off in Today’s Market, based on more than 50 case studies of Millennials who have successfully launched their careers.
• Widely quoted in the New York Times, Fortune Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, CIO Magazine, S. News & World Report, and the Boston Globe.
• Interviewed on NPR’s “Morning Edition” and “Talk of the Nation.”
• A former member of the research staff at both Harvard Business School and MIT’s Sloan School of Management.
• Co-author (with J.F. Rockart) of Executive Support Systems: The Emergence of Top Management Computer Use from Dow Jones-Irwin.
• Presenter of dozens of keynote talks and workshops in the U.S., Europe, Australia, and South America
• A widely-published writer whose work has appeared in journals and magazines such as Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, Sloan Management Review, The Boston Globe, Newsweek International, Organizational Dynamics, Computerworld, and Magazine.
• Recipient of a doctorate in organizational behavior from Boston University and an M.P.A. from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.