Lee Skaalrud, President

• More thanTwenty Years of Experience
• Consultant and Employee Retention and Measurement Expert
• Fortune 500 HR Leadership Experience
• Transition Specialist

Lee is President of Career Partners International, Professional Edge. Lee leverages his HR experience and expertise when consulting in the areas of career, retention, and measurement. His focus is producing results that are meaningful and actionable by his clients.

Conferences

• Minnesota Career Development Association, “ Retention, Resilience, Commitment, and Career Development,” May 2007
• Second Annual Hellervik Classic, “Re-Shaping Succession Management at Texas Instruments: Scaling Back Process and Enhancing Development,” 1999
• 27th International Congress on the Assessment Center Method, “Succession Development and the Assessment Center Method,” 1998

Publications

• PDI, CMS Briefing Series, “Employees Are Changing…Are You? Managing Expectations for Employee Development, 2005.
• “Return-on-Investment Impact and Efficiency”. Optimance, August 2004.
• “TeamFit”, Optimance, May 2004.
• “Hiring: The Right Person, The First Time”, Optimance, April 2004.
• “The Exit Interview”, Optimance, March 2004.
• “Workforce Macro Analysis”, Optimance, February 2004.
• “Why Measure Workforce, Employee Performance, or Organizational Success Factors?”. Optimance, January 2004
• IEEE/SEMI Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Conference, “The Effect of Performance Standards in a High Volume Semiconductor Facility”, Contributor, 1999.

Professional Affiliations

Member, International Association of Career Professionals
Member, Twin Cities Human Resource Association
Member, Minnesota Employee Relocation Council

Background

Currently Lee leads the retention and measurement consulting practice areas for CPI, is an active career coach and serves as President of the organization. Outside his professional life, Lee serves as an advisor to the White Bear Lake School District on bond elections and is active in his community.

Lee Skaalrud has focused on personal and organizational success factors his entire career. Starting as a University Professor, Lee then moved to publishing with Dow Jones Irwin (now McGraw-Hill) and training and development with the Wilson Learning Corporation. Lee was then recruited to Texas Instruments as Senior Manager of Succession Planning and Development. During his tenure at Texas Instruments, Lee re-shaped the succession planning process into Succession Development by integrating individual aspirations to organizational needs. Lee was then hired as the Director of Workforce Strategy for the Enterprise Division of Nortel Networks. There he managed the talent strategy for nine metropolitan areas in North America.

Lee completed his graduate studies at Minnesota State University Mankato. He is very active in the community and has served as Director for the Colleyville Texas Economic Development Corporation, Board Member for The Center for Nonprofit Management of Dallas, President of the Colleyville Lions Club and Head Coach, The Wave girl’s soccer team.