Roberta Matuson

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Strategic Advisor on Talent | Global Executive Coach | Public Speaker I Brand Ambassador | HBR Contributor I Helping organizations attract & retain the best people.

Brookline, Massachusetts, United States
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Why didn't I call you sooner? I hear that a lot.

Businesses today waste millions and millions of dollars on unwanted employee turnover. They struggle to increase the retention of top talent and yield a dramatic reduction in hiring costs.

For more than 25 years, I’ve helped leaders in Fortune 500 companies and small to medium-size businesses achieve dramatic growth and market leadership through the maximization of talent. The businesses I’ve worked with include General Motors, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, The Boston Beer Company, and more.

In addition to being a Forbes, HBR, and Fast Company contributor, I’m the author of six commercially published books on leadership and talent, including the international bestseller, Suddenly in Charge, Evergreen Talent, and the recently released, Can We Talk? Seven Principles for Managing Difficult Conversations at Work.

I’ve also been named one of LinkedIn’s Top Voices in Leadership and am a former executive who knows how to succeed in the world of business and thrive in the executive suite.

My services include:

• Advising CEOs and executives on strategic matters related to talent
• Helping leaders dramatically improve Individual and team performance
• Executive coaching
• Leadership training and development
• Creation of strong employer brands that attract and retain talent

I've created and taught numerous online courses for Lynda.com/LinkedIn Learning, Udemy, Knowable, and Skillsoft, including Motivating and Engaging Employees, Executive Presence for Women, Developing Managers in Organizations, Managing Up, Down, and Across the Organization, Managing Up, Employer Branding to Attract Talent, and Managing a Multigenerational Workforce.

Connect with me here on LinkedIn or reach out directly via phone (617 608 – 3633) or email ([email protected]) to talk with me about how you can maximize your company's talent.

For additional info, visit my website: www.matusonconsulting.com

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  • Matuson Consulting Graphic

    President

    Matuson Consulting

    - Present 27 years 7 months

    Brookline, MA

    Helping the best organizations attract and retain the best people. Clients include GM, Microsoft, and Takeda Pharmaceutical.

    Executive Coach and Advisor to top senior leaders in companies including Takeda, NextRNA, and Rogers Corporation.

    Recent keynotes include Brandon Hall Excellence Conference, Baltimore Gas & Electric, Boston University, International Sign Association Expo, LinkedIn Talent Connect, SHRM Talent Conference.

    Author of 6 books on leadership and talent…

    Helping the best organizations attract and retain the best people. Clients include GM, Microsoft, and Takeda Pharmaceutical.

    Executive Coach and Advisor to top senior leaders in companies including Takeda, NextRNA, and Rogers Corporation.

    Recent keynotes include Brandon Hall Excellence Conference, Baltimore Gas & Electric, Boston University, International Sign Association Expo, LinkedIn Talent Connect, SHRM Talent Conference.

    Author of 6 books on leadership and talent including the newly released, Can We Talk? Seven Principles for Managing Difficult Conversations at Work, Evergreen Talent, international best-seller, Suddenly in Charge and The Magnetic Leader.

    LinkedIn Top Voice in Leadership and Workplace. LinkedIn Learning Instructor, with eight courses on the LI platform.

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    Director of Human Resources

    Weingarten Realty

    - 6 years

    Houston, Texas Area

Education

  • Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coaching

    Certification Executive Coaching

    - Present

    Helping successful people improve their leadership skills and secure their future.

  • Northeastern University Graphic

    Northeastern University

    BS Human Resource Management

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  • University of Houston Graphic

    University of Houston

    MBA Finance and Management

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  • Can We Talk? Seven Principles for Managing Difficult Work Conversations

    Kogan Page

    Are you avoiding an uncomfortable conversation at work? If you're an executive or a team leader, strengthening your organization's ability to have difficult conversations is necessary and worth the discomfort.

    Is there something that you want to say to your boss or a peer that's difficult for you to communicate? Then this book is for you.

    The key to successful dialogue starts and ends with changing the conversation. Recognizing that it takes two people to engage in meaningful…

    Are you avoiding an uncomfortable conversation at work? If you're an executive or a team leader, strengthening your organization's ability to have difficult conversations is necessary and worth the discomfort.

    Is there something that you want to say to your boss or a peer that's difficult for you to communicate? Then this book is for you.

    The key to successful dialogue starts and ends with changing the conversation. Recognizing that it takes two people to engage in meaningful outcomes, Can We Talk? outlines what each contributor needs to do to achieve the best possible result. Using examples from everyday work situations, this book offers guidance on how to create the right conditions for a meaningful discussion. The author identifies the seven key principles that enable both parties to gain a deeper understanding of what the other person may be thinking and will help establish their point of view more clearly: confidence, clarity, compassion, curiosity, compromise, credibility, courage.

    Can We Talk? includes examples and advice from those who have been there and thrived, as well as lessons learned from conversation failures and example scripts of productive conversations. Readers will learn how to prepare, start and manage the potentially challenging exchange of words that typically occur at work, and come away with an understanding that for any conversation to take place, both parties must be engaged.

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  • Evergreen Talent: A Guide to Hiring and Cultivating a Sustainable Workforce

    Career Press

    Finding the right talent is hard. Finding the right talent that will prosper and stay is even harder. Business growth is being stifled and fields of office cubicles remain empty due to the fierce competition for talent today with job openings having recently surged to a record high: 6.55 million.

    Evergreen Talent will show you how to attract, find, and keep employees for the long-term. What many organization leaders fail to understand is that you can’t simply transplant a competitor’s…

    Finding the right talent is hard. Finding the right talent that will prosper and stay is even harder. Business growth is being stifled and fields of office cubicles remain empty due to the fierce competition for talent today with job openings having recently surged to a record high: 6.55 million.

    Evergreen Talent will show you how to attract, find, and keep employees for the long-term. What many organization leaders fail to understand is that you can’t simply transplant a competitor’s talent strategy and achieve the same results—just as you can’t take plants suited to a warm climate and expect them to thrive in chillier locales. The conditions are too different. But a company that takes the time to examine its own environment, select talent accordingly, and nurture its people will stand tall, regardless of economic conditions.

    In Evergreen Talent Roberta Matuson, aka the Talent Maximizer, challenges leaders to think differently about their approach to growing a sustainable workforce—one that will regenerate regularly, with minimal effort on their part. The book is filled with pragmatic advice, case studies, and best practices from companies that have done this successfully. Also included are tools to help readers assess their workplace environment and populate their organization with talent that will continue to grow, year after year.

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  • The Magnetic Leader: How Irresistible Leaders Attract Employees, Customers and Profits

    Taylor and Francis

    Employees don’t work for companies; they work for people. The more irresistible you are as a leader, the more pull you have for employees to want to stay and for your customers to remain loyal. In The Magnetic Leader, Roberta Matuson asks us to consider that the quality of a company’s leadership is the most important factor in attracting and retaining high-quality employees. Matuson has spent 20 years helping organizations achieve both market leadership and dynamic growth by maximizing the…

    Employees don’t work for companies; they work for people. The more irresistible you are as a leader, the more pull you have for employees to want to stay and for your customers to remain loyal. In The Magnetic Leader, Roberta Matuson asks us to consider that the quality of a company’s leadership is the most important factor in attracting and retaining high-quality employees. Matuson has spent 20 years helping organizations achieve both market leadership and dynamic growth by maximizing the talent they already have, in addition to creating a magnetic environment that attracts high-caliber new hires.

    Many are searching for a magical formula, but the fact is that the answer lies inside businesses’ organizations. Instead of offering crazy perks, companies need to focus on the one perk they can’t get anywhere else, which is the opportunity to work with a truly magnetic leader.

    The Magnetic Leader aids readers in transforming their leadership style from push to pull, repel to attract, dismal to good, and then good to great. They’ll become magnetic leaders who attract the cream of the crop and ultimately create legions of loyal, talented superstars eager to beat the competition.

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  • Talent Magnetism: How to Build a Workplace That Attracts and Keeps The Best

    Nicholas Brealey

    Your company is only as good as the talent you keep. In Talent Magnetism, Roberta Matuson, bestselling author of Suddenly in Charge, explains how to navigate the changing talent pool and the challenges of recruitment. The impact of extraordinary workers—ambitious, driven employees who are reliable under a tight deadline, are always seeking to improve, and consistently deliver results—is undisputed, and having such workers can determine a company’s success. With concrete tips and enlightening…

    Your company is only as good as the talent you keep. In Talent Magnetism, Roberta Matuson, bestselling author of Suddenly in Charge, explains how to navigate the changing talent pool and the challenges of recruitment. The impact of extraordinary workers—ambitious, driven employees who are reliable under a tight deadline, are always seeking to improve, and consistently deliver results—is undisputed, and having such workers can determine a company’s success. With concrete tips and enlightening employee comments, Talent Magnetism is an invaluable guide to attracting and retaining the top talent that can transform your organization.

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  • Suddenly in Charge: Managing Up, Managing Down, Suceeding All Around

    Nicholas Brealey

    As companies reorganize and reengineer, thousands of people are finding themselves tossed into management every day. The key to success is managing effectively both up and down the line of the organization. And Suddenly in Charge provides this unique approach with two books in one: read it one direction and you'll find all the tips and tools you need to manage down and establish credibility with your team; flip the book over and you'll find success strategies for managing up, the key to…

    As companies reorganize and reengineer, thousands of people are finding themselves tossed into management every day. The key to success is managing effectively both up and down the line of the organization. And Suddenly in Charge provides this unique approach with two books in one: read it one direction and you'll find all the tips and tools you need to manage down and establish credibility with your team; flip the book over and you'll find success strategies for managing up, the key to managing your reputation and your career. With a foreword by Alan Weiss, bestselling author of Million-Dollar Consulting, this handy little book is a must-have resource to help the new manager truly shine from day one.

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