Paul Carney, SPHR

Do you trust your Human Resources team? Most people don't. And there is one major reason for that: the HR team has not earned their respect. Whether it be the employee on the frontline or the executive in the C-suite, the HR team MUST be a student of business and help the leaders incorporate HR into the business, not hold it back. I am not your typical HR executive. I am a business person who leads HR to be the trusted advisors to leaders. I have over 30 years of experience as a software engineer, entrepreneur, trainer, HR professional and career advocate. Currently, I work with HR professionals and business leaders to help them develop high-performing teams of employees who understand the value they bring to the team. A character called Æ (ash) is the hero my book, “Move Your Æ”. Throughout this book, I highlight why a changing job market requires a better way to qualify and quantify your entire career value, not just your current task load and skillset. I am a serial entrepreneur who built my first start-up web business back in 1997 as a challenge to figure out how to take advantage of this thing called the "web." I built an award-winning Baby Necessities gift basket business, which was written up in the "Wall Street Journal" and sold that product line to a national gift basket retailer in 1999. I then helped form 2 more internet-based start-up companies, one of which was sold to techies.com and the other, Natural Insight, sold to Movista in late 2019.