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John Sullivan , Ph. D.
Professor, Management

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John Sullivan, Ph. D.

Professor, Management

Dr John Sullivan has been a professor of management for over 20 years at San Francisco State University. His specialty is HR strategy and designing world class HR systems and tools for Fortune 200 firms. He has worked with over 175 different businesses and organizations around the world as a speaker/advisor.

He has written a weekly column for ERE for over five years and a monthly column for the IHRIM Journal for three years. Overall, he has written eight books and white papers and over 500 articles. He was the chief talent officer for Agilent (the 40,000+ employee HP spin off). He has appeared on the CBS and ABC national nightly news, CNN and in various publications including Fortune, the Economist, CIO, BusinessWeek, the WSJ, the Washington Post, Money, Time and every major HR magazine. Fast company called him the Michael Jordan of hiring. He was listed among the 40 most influential people in HR. Tom Peters cites and utilizes his work in his latest book Re-Imagine.

Areas of Expertise

Others have acknowledged his leading edge expertise in various areas including:

• Strategic HR
• Building a performance culture
• Metrics and the dollar value of HR results
• Retention
• Workforce planning
• Employee referral programs
• College recruiting
• Recruiting strategies
• Recruiting structures
• Employment branding
• On-boarding/ orientation
• Increasing workforce productivity

Professor Sullivan advises, designs strategies and gives presentations to HR and management teams throughout the world. His personal web site is www.drjohnsullivan.com

Contact Information

Email: johns@sfsu.edu

Website:http://www.drjohnsullivan.com

Office Hours: F 8-10am (Reserved 1 hr block appts. only by email requests); F 12:45-2:45pm (Walk ins with no reservations needed)

Phone: 415-338-1717

Department: Management

Location: SCI 372

Education

• Ph. D. (1978), University of Florida

Honors and Awards

Editors award - Outstanding Article of the year NCHRA , HR West (2003)

Intellectual Contributions

• Building A Business Case for On and Off Boarding: Making the Dollars Count (2009)

• Excelling at Corporate Alumni Relations in Recruiting (2009)

• Presentation: Making the Business Case for Strategic Staffing in a Down Economy (2009)

• Webcast Presentation: Contract Labor Management: Superior Workforce Strategies for a Demanding Market (2009)

• College Recruiting on a Shoestring Budget – Low Cost Ways to Land the Very Best (2009)

• Improving New Hire Productivity and Return on Talent with World-Class Onboarding & Orientation (2009)

• Workforce Planning in a Recession: Plan Now for the Future (2009)

• Building Your Employment Brand (2009)

• 1000 Ways to Recruit Top Talent Book (2009)

• Catch Them if You Can! (2008)

• Employee Referral Program Design Guidebook (2008)

• Assessing Employee Referral Programs: A Checklist (2008)

• What are the Best HR Metrics for a Large Organization? (2007)

• Improving Interviews and the Candidate Selection Process (2007)

• Rebuilding a Damaged Employer Brand (2006)

• Marketing HR to your CEO (2005)

• Guerilla recruiting, It's time for a revolution (2005)

• An applicants Bill of Rights (2005)

• Talent management: To build, buy or trade? (2005)

• Measuring the impact of executive development (2005)

• CEO's must expect more from their HR function (2005)

• End equal treatment today, focus on top performers  (2004)

• Could HR have saved Enron (2004)

• The return of the war for talent requires that HR immediately focus on workforce planning (2004)

• Substain your talent advantage through outsourcing (2004)

• A mamagers guide to orientation (2004)

• “Inside the Crystal Ball: HR Service Delivery” (2004)

• Deploying a world class employment brand (2004)

• Measuring the Quality of Hire - The ultimate metric (2004)

• Chair - Top issues in recruiting (2004)

• Outsourcing HR (2004)

• Metrics for measuring outsourcing effectiveness (2004)

• How many turkeys do you hire Part I (2004)

• How many turkeys do you hire Part II (2004)

• The problems with job boards - Monsters can be ugly (2004)

• The future of recruiting and retention (2004)

• Becoming a Great Recruiter (2004)

• Metrics For Measuring Outsourcing Effectiveness (2004)

• Book - Re-thinking strategic HR (2004)

• Becoming a great recruiter (2004)

• Book - Improving Productivity the World Class Way (2003)

• Knocking down the silos (2003)

• Does HR measure up? (2003)

• Redeploying your talent. Proactively moving people to where they can have the most impact (2003)

• Why CEO's hate HR: Lessons we failed to learn from the boom and bust cycle (2003)

• How recruiters can wow managers and become corporate “heroes” (2003)

• Reinventing HR -- How HR can increase revenues and profit (2003)

• You Can't Be A Champion Unless You Keep Score (2003)

• You can't be a champion unless you keep score (2003)

• Book - HR Metrics the world class way (2002)

• Workforce Planning Why to start now (2002)

• Why workforce planning is the key to success (2002)

• It's time to fire th HR department (2002)

• Knocking down silos The last great unsolved problem in HR? (2002)

• The case against oursourcing HR (2002)

• Diversity recruiting is a failure (2002)

• It's time to drop the  (2002)

• Why VP's of HR never become CEO's (2002)

• The Top 25 Things Great Recruiters Do Right - Becoming A Great Recruiter -  (2002)

• Changing the DNA of HR (2001)

• The future of HR (2001)

• How should HR and managers react in the aftermath of 911? (2001)

• HR people are from mars, CEO's are from Venus (2001)

• How to tell an "A" player from all the rest (2001)

• E-HR a walk through 21st century HR (2001)

• Experience  (2000)

• The six levels of HR technology (2000)

• Recruitment and retention - An Introduction (2000)

• The managers toolkit for retaining ERP/HRIS professionals (1999)

• The brave new world of e-HR in the 21 st. Century (1999)

• What labor shortage? (1999)

• Developing a world class college recruiting program (1999)

• From evolution to revolution (1999)

• Recruitment in the new milennium (1998)

• Cinco requisitos para um bom emprego (1998)

• Internal recruiting takes a twist (1998)

• High Tech HR (1998)

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