Michael Watson is Senior Vice President, Human Resources for Girl Scouts of the USA.
From the Girl Scouts website:
“We cannot remain competitive as a nation or solve the country’s most challenging problems without tapping the full potential of girls and young women from every segment of our society. I joined Girl Scouts because we embrace diversity and help girls from every background become this country’s future workforce and tomorrow’s leaders.”
Michael Watson, Senior Vice President, Human Resources, directs the development and implementation of strategies, policies, and programs in the areas of staffing, employee retention, workforce planning, diversity, compensation and benefits, organizational development, employee relations, and succession planning for Girl Scouts of the USA.
Prior to joining Girl Scouts in 1999, Watson was a human resources partner for IBM Global Services, where he served as the senior human resources strategist for two businesses with combined revenues of more than $2 billion. Other positions he has held include manager-corporate human resources for Time Warner Inc. and manager-staffing and cultural diversity for GE Capital’s 7,500-employee Retailer Financial Services business. He was awarded GE Capital’s Pinnacle Club for top performance. Before joining GE’s Human Resources Management Program, Watson worked as an IBM marketing representative and received an IBM Golden Circle Award for ranking among the top performers in sales for the year.
In 1997, Watson took a one-year self-financed sabbatical. He spent part of that year as a volunteer at two public elementary schools in New Brunswick, N.J. He has been a business coordinator and volunteer for INROADS and an Association of Yale Alumni delegate, and is a graduate of Leadership Jacksonville and Leadership Canton. Watson is a lifetime member of Girl Scouts of the USA and the National Black MBA Association.
Watson is chair of the National Assembly’s Human Resources Council, an association of senior human resources professionals from the nation’s leading national nonprofits in the fields of health, human and community development, and human services. He is also treasurer of the Nonprofit Sector Workforce Coalition’s board of directors. Composed of nonprofit organizations, associations, foundations and academic centers, the coalition focuses on identifying and addressing issues facing the nonprofit sector workforce.
Watson has a bachelor of arts in economics from Yale University and a master of science in organizational management and human resource development from Manhattanville College. A native of New Brunswick, N.J., he now resides in Stamford, Conn.
See also: Michael talks about the Girl Scouts as his “encore career” (text)
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