How Will You Keep Your IT Staff in 2012?

In a recent survey of 1,200 IT hiring managers, Dice.com "found that 65% will add IT professionals in the first half of 2012 and a significant number -- 27% -- plan to expand their IT workforce by more than 20%"

How many of your valued IT team has between 6 to 10 years of experience? According to Dice.com, that is the most vulnerable group for recruitment. How do we as IT leaders motivate, develop and retain high potential technical talent?

And what about Baby Boomers choosing second careers or reaching retirement age? How will the IT community recruit over the next 18 years to keep up with an average of 10,000 citizens turning 65 on a daily basis?

Our speaker, Deborah Dale Brackney, is Vice President of Mountain States Employers Council, Inc. Her program is interactive so come prepared to engage, ask questions and share best practices from the metro area.

Deborah oversees four MSEC Departments: Human Resource Services, Management Development, Outsource Consulting Services and Surveys. While at the Council, Deborah has focused on employee development and organizational effectiveness. She has delivered hundreds of trainings on supervision, leadership and communication to member companies. She consults with organizations on aligning their vision, leadership, staff and operational practices to create better business results.

Deborah Dale Brackney, Vice President, Mountain States Employers Council, Inc.

Deborah oversees four MSEC services: Human Resources, Management Development, Outsource Consulting and Surveys. Deborah began working at the Council in 1988. She was promoted to Director of the Management Development Department in 1996, the Outsourced Consulting Services Department in 2002, and as Membership Development Director in 2004. She was named Vice President in 2005.

While at the Council, Deborah has focused on employee development and organizational effectiveness. She has delivered hundreds of trainings on supervision, leadership and communication to member companies. Deborah has also consulted with organizations on aligning their vision, leadership, staff and operational practices to create better business results.

Deborah is an adjunct professor at Metro State College where she teaches Human Resource Management. Before coming to the Council, Deborah worked in public policy on legislative analysis and assisted state legislatures on drafting new statues. She also worked on development and design of training for state and federal agencies as well as for judicial organizations.

Mindful of the Winston Churchill quote "You make a living by what you get but you make a life by what you give" Deborah is supported by MSEC in community activities. Some of her volunteer work is as follows:

• Red Cross (Chair of the Board of Directors)
• Metro Volunteers (Immediate Past Chair
• "A Visit from Saint Nicholas", DPS program teaching volunteerism, philanthropy
• Denver Metro Chamber Foundation (Board of Directors)
• Leadership Denver (Member, Class of 1997; Program Chair, Class of 2003)
• Impact Denver (develops community leadership; Program Chair 2005,2006)
• Rotary Club of Lower Downtown (Past President)
• Rotary Club District 5450 (Assistant District Governor)
• Martin Luther King Jr. Business Social Responsibility Awards Selection Committee
• Chair, MSEC MHUW Campaign (Winner, two years, Best MHUW campaign)