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Jeannette Swist MSMOB, CMC, SPHR, RODP
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 Jeannette is the founder and principal of Applied Resource Management. She has 25 years experience in management, human resources,
adult learning,& organizational behavior /development. She has done extensive nationwide & international travel. Her
experience lends itself to understanding issues of human diversity and cultural differences. Many organizations have benefited
from her experience as a consultant, writer and trainer.
On a personal level, she is a native of Chicago with humble beginnings in the Back of the Yards community, a south-side
working-class immigrant neighborhood.
In the educational sector, she has worked over 16 years as adjunct faculty in the College of Management and Business and
Applied Behavioral Science program at National-Louis University in both their undergraduate and graduate accelerated, experiential-based
program for working adults.
Before forming Applied Resource Management in 1990, Jeannette started up and built a human resource consulting function
from the ground floor for two organizations. Initially as a Manager, Management Consulting Division of The Management Association
of Illinois (formerly MIMA), servicing nearly 2,000 member companies in Northern Illinois, Indiana, and nationwide affiliate
associations.
As a Regional Consulting Manager with RMS McGladrey (formerly McGladrey & Pullen) a large nationwide accounting, tax,
and consulting firm where she provided human resource consulting to client companies.
Prior to working in the consulting profession, she worked several years in human resource management with Draper &
Kramer, Inc., a closely-held, nationwide, diversified real estate/mortgage banking firm.
Education:
Master of Science degree in Management and Organizational Behavior from George Williams College, under the direction of
Dr. Peter F. Sorensen, Jr., the program is now housed at Benedictine University. The MSMOB degree emphasized the human element
of management with origins in humanism and the applied behavioral sciences in all major facets of the curriculum.
Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from Roosevelt University.
Advanced coursework in development, design, delivery/facilitation of training programs to adult learners, organizational
development intervention techniques, career counseling, and managerial/leadership assessment centers through the American
Management Association, NTL, Organizational Development Network,and Wilson Learning.
Certifications include:
CMC Certified Management Consultant,Institute of Management Consultants
SPHR Senior Professional,Human Resources,Society for Human Resource Management
RODP Registered Organization Development Professional,O.D. Institute
Volunteer Leadership:
O.D. Institute
Jeannette chaired the 35th & 36th Annual Information Exchange
SHRM
Jeannette has taken an active role in leadership positions with (SHRM) the Society for Human Resource Management. She
is past Vice Chair of the national Research Committee. In addition to Vice Chair, she worked several years with the Research
committee serving as Chair of recruitment and selection, marketing, SHRM Book Award, CCH,Inc/SHRM Research Project, Innovative
Practices award, and as Committee Secretary.
She served on the SHRM Consultants Forum Board of Governors. At the SHRM chapter level, she has served as Survey Director
and Chair of the Student Chapter for the Human Resource Association of Greater Oak Brook. Jeannette was President of the George
Williams College SHRM Chapter, where she led the chapter in receiving a Superior Chapter Merit Award.
IMC
Jeannette served as Treasurer of the Chicago chapter of the Institute for Management Consultants (IMC).
Memberships include:
ASTD American Society for Training & Development
EMA Employment Management Association In 2008 to be renamed: Staffing Management Association of Greater Chicago
SHRM Society of Human Resource Management
IMC Institute for Management Consultants
O.D.Institute (Organization Development)
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