ATD Footer Logo

Flores

Brian James Flores is a talent management and organizational development advisor at Zebra Technologies where he contributes to performance management and high-potential leadership development programs. Among his previous roles, he served as a senior manager of organizational development at CommerceHub; a talent and organizational development consultant at Zoom Video Communications; and a senior training manager of learning and development at Performics, where he redefined onboarding and led cross-agency training efforts. Brian discovered his love for talent development in his early career during his tenure with Apple Inc. Brian holds a master’s in education in human resource development from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. A sought-after thought leader, Brian enjoys speaking engagements at industry events. 

Brian James Flores

November 2020 - ATD Links

Some nights I dream about a florescent computer screen or wake in a panic about feeling unprepared. My days are filled with meetings, mostly Zoom calls, which drain my energy.

Feeling Hectic and It’s No Good

The L&D Guide to Organization Development

ATD’s Organization Development Handbook is a tactical, hands-on book for those in learning and development looking to make that first step into organization development or those who are a one-person band doing both. While many books and textbooks exist on organization development—the effort to improve an organization’s capability through the alignment of strategy, structure, people, rewards, metrics, and management processes—this volume is the first of its kind to address OD from the talent development and, specifically, L&D perspective.

More than ever, L&D professionals are taking on organization development work to drive organizational effectiveness and performance. Sometimes this happens out of choice when seeking a new career challenge, and other times out of necessity when the organization adds OD to their responsibilities. In either case, L&D professionals need new knowledge and skills—as well as insight into how to utilize their analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation abilities—to become successful in creating OD solutions.

Edited by OD practitioner and expert Brian J. Flores, this volume includes in-house experts and consultant contributors from the OD field itself as well as those who crossed over from L&D to OD. Readers will learn how to apply the foundations of organization development to their multiculturalism, upskilling and reskilling, soft skill development, and succession planning processes and programs. 

ATD's Organization Development Handbook

How to have a successful strategic planning meeting

In today’s rapidly changing world, the ability for an organization to anticipate trends and embrace uncertainty is not just advantageous—it’s essential. Strategic foresight equips organizations with this very capability, fostering a

Embrace Uncertainty—and Opportunities—With Strategic Foresight

Harnessing the Power of Foresight for Exceptional Change Management

The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked crisis agility—rapid organizational change on a scale never seen before in times of peace. Many organizations experienced the sudden shift to remote work and the ad hoc re-engineering of business processes. But now we need to ask ourselves these essential questions:

How can organizations get better at seeing around corners and having the foresight to anticipate major issues before they arise?
How do we engineer foresight as a practice?

Ferrazzi Greenlight’s Go Forward to Work initiative, in partnership with Harvard Business School, crowdsourced best practices about the future of work from more than 2,000 executives during the pandemic. Evidence of a framework for developing disciplined foresight emerged. This webinar will be led by Keith Ferrazzi and will outline the results of that research, which will be featured in his forthcoming book Competing in the New World of Work.

During this webinar, you will learn:

Why some companies were able to detect early warning signs of the pandemic more than others
How to create a foresight taskforce
Five factors to guide your taskforce’s thinking
How to create a “risk radar” to monitor and evaluate risks


Lead With Foresight in the New Hybrid Work World

June 2018 - TD Magazine

How much do mobile devices distract you at work? If the call of your cell phone eats into your productivity, try out the Forest app.

Cool Tool: Forest

There are several ways to ensure that an investment in training is beneficial for your agency, but these steps can be largely ignored in the government realm. Timothy Howell explains.

Search results for 'Flores'

Categories

Refine By

Search results for 'Flores'

Categories

Refine By

Role

Topic

Industry