Beverly Kaye is an internationally recognized expert in career development, employee engagement, and retention. She founded Career Systems International, which provides talent solutions and programs to help organizations retain employees and improve performance. Some of her notable clients include American Express, GE, Marriott, and Microsoft. She has authored several bestselling books on career development and employee retention, including Love 'Em or Lose 'Em, which has sold over 500,000 copies and been translated into 25 languages. She received the 2010 Distinguished Contribution to Workplace Learning and Performance Award from the American Society for Training & Development for her contributions to the field.

1. Beverly Kaye's name is recognized The resilient processes and offerings
internationally as one of the most designed for clients link directly to
invested, knowledgeable and business strategies and
practical professionals in the increase productivity and
areas of career profitability to deliver the
development, employee best returns on investment.
engagement & retention,
and mentoring. A dynamic Prior to earning a
and committed keynote doctorate at UCLA, Dr. Kaye
speaker, Bev's presentations did graduate work in
engage participants, organization development at
stimulate learning and MIT Sloan School of
inspire action. Management and has taught
executive seminars at UCLA and USC.
With her organization, Career
Systems International, she has In the early '80's, Dr. Kaye first
developed a powerful suite of talent published her now classic book, Up Is
solutions that continue to help NOT the Only Way (revised, Davies-
organizations reduce costs associated Black, 1997), which foresaw the effects
with talent loss and underperformance. of leaner and flatter organizations on
They are also designed to foster a individual careers. With this
culture of support for individuals, publication, Bev truly became a game
managers and leaders. changer in the field. Career
development became an area of
CSi continues to offer innovative and practice and Career Systems
creative ways to help organizations International, an authority in the
solve their greatest challenges in industry.
employee engagement, creating hard
core impact with measurable and Bev has spent years researching
sustainable results. corporate strategies for developing,
retaining and engaging knowledge
Her clients, representing nearly 60% workers. Her book, Love 'Em or Lose
of the Fortune 1000 organizations, 'Em: Getting Good People to Stay, co-
include such leaders as American authored with Sharon Jordan-Evans
Express, Archer Daniels Midland, (Berrett-Koehler, 4th ed. 2008), has
Caterpillar, GE, Marriott International, sold over 500,000 copies, is printed in
McDonalds, Microsoft, Morrison 25 languages and has reached Wall
Healthcare, and WellPoint. Street Journal and Amazon best seller

2. status. Love 'Em or Lose 'Em provides 26 practical In recognition for her ground-breaking
strategies (A-Z) that any manager can easily implement. and continual contributions to workplace
Ideas in this book have been delivered to managers learning over the past two decades, Bev
from large and small companies worldwide. received the 2010 Distinguished
Contribution to Workplace Learning and
Their companion book, Love It, Don't Leave It: 26 Performance Award by the American
Ways to Get What You Want at Work (Berrett-Koehler, Society for Training & Development
2003) suggests that employee engagement is also the (ASTD). They also honored her as a
responsibility of the individual contributor. In the same “Legend” and pioneer in the area of
A-Z format, it offers practical tips and actions to find career development in 2007.
more satisfaction right where they are.
She has also received many honors and
These books serve as the foundation for Career awards including the National Career
Systems International's highly successful practice in Development Award of the American
career development, employee engagement and Society for Training and
retention. Development. Her organization
also received the ASTD Best
Learn Like a Leader (Nicholas Brealey Publishing), Practice Award for work with clients
edited by Dr. Kaye, is a collection of essays from top Bechtel, Chevron, Dow Corning, and
leadership experts. It offers rich lessons on learning to First USA.
lead, overcoming setbacks, remaining open to change,
mentoring, developing self-awareness and more. The
Many Facets of Leadership was also edited by Dr. Kaye,
and addresses leadership challenges as shared by some
top thought leaders. Designing Career Development
Systems (Jossey-Bass) was another classic book co-
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