David DeLong

Dr. David DeLong is president of Smart Workforce Strategies, a firm based in Concord, Mass. that helps leaders deal more effectively with an aging, changing workforce. He is also a research fellow at the MIT AgeLab and has been an adjunct professor at Babson College where he taught “Leading & Managing Change.”

David is co-author of The Executive Guide to High-Impact Talent Management (McGraw-Hill), and author of the widely-praised Lost Knowledge: Confronting the Threat of an Aging Workforce (Oxford University Press).

His newest book is Graduate to a Great Job: Make Your College Degree Pay Off in Today’s Market, which is based on more than 30 case studies of recent college grads who have landed successfully in the job market.

He has spent more than a decade developing solutions for addressing skill shortages created by major shifts in workforce demographics and the rapidly changing work environment.

In recent years, David has delivered keynote talks, workshops and consulted with organizations such as the Precision Metalforming Association, American Organization of Nurse Executives, Mental Health Corporation of America, Wisconsin Manufacturing Extension Partnership, Indiana Hospital Association, Organization of Nurse Leaders—Mass & RI, Public Utilities Risk Management Association, Society of Chemical Manufacturers & Affiliates, Microsoft, Kraft Foods, Lockheed Martin, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, The Conference Board, Northwest Public Power Association, the International Sign Association, the Council of Manufacturing Associations, and the American Society of Association Executives.