For more than 25 years, Roberta Chinsky Matuson, president of Matuson Consulting, has helped leaders in Fortune 500 companies, including Best Buy, New Balance, The Boston Beer Company and small to medium-size businesses, achieve dramatic growth and market leadership through the maximization of talent. She is known world-wide as “The Talent Maximizer.” Roberta, a leading authority on leadership and the skills and strategies required to earn employee commitment and client loyalty, is the author of the top-selling book, Suddenly In Charge: Managing Up, Managing Down, Succeeding All Around (Nicholas Brealey, 2011), a Washington Post Top 5 Business Book For Leaders. Her new book, The Magnetic Workplace (Nicholas Brealey) will be released in 2013. Her clients include Best Buy, Inc., New Balance and the Boston Beer Company.

Roberta has written and published over 400 articles for a number of publications around the globe including The Christian Science Monitor, British Airways Business Life, The Telegraph and The Globe and Mail. She is currently a workplace expert for Monster’s small business community, and is one of the top expert bloggers for Fast Company and Forbes.com. She writes a bi-monthly column for Hotelexecutives.com.

Visit Roberta's website to sign up for her complimentary monthly newsletter, The Talent Maximizer. Roberta can be reached at Roberta@matusonconsulting.com; follow her on Twitter: @matuson and Google+.