Jeanne Meister

Jeanne Meister is Founder, Future Workplace, workplace visionary, and the best-selling author of three books, Corporate Universities: Lessons in Building a World-Class Work Force, The 2020 Workplace: How Innovative Companies Attract, Develop and Keep Tomorrow’s Employees Today, and The Future Workplace Experience: 10 Rules for MasteringDisruption in Recruiting and Engaging Employees. Jeanne went on to launch and successfully exit from two HR Peer Network companies, Corporate University Xchange (corpu.com) and Future Workplace (futureworkplace.com), both serving the workplace learning needs of senior HR and corporate learning leaders.

Jeanne is the receipt of the ATD Talent Development Thought leader Award given to one HR executive each year by Association for Talent Development (ATD). This award honors Jeanne’s body of work on the future of workplace learning. Jeanne is also the receipt of the Colin Corder award, recently renamed as Colin Steed Award for Outstanding Achievement in Workplace Learning by The Learning and Performance Institute (LPI).

Jeanne is a sought-after expert on the future of working and learning, and she has been interviewed and contributed articles to such publications as; Chronicle of Higher Education, CLO Magazine, Financial Times, Fast Company, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, HBR Japan, HR Executive Magazine, HR Magazine, Journal of Business Strategy, TRAINING Magazine, People Matters, People & Strategy Journal, Tech Target, and Workforce Management. Jeanne is also an international sought after speaker on workforce planning and development and she has been invited to speak through-out the United States and in the following countries: Brazil, Canada, Chile, Estonia, France, Holland, India, Italy, Jamaica, Scotland, Spain, and the UK, to name some recent engagements.

Jeanne was previously Vice President of Market Development at Accenture.

Jeanne is a graduate of University of Connecticut with a Bachelor of Arts degree and a master’s in education from Boston University. Jeanne also serves as ViceChair of Excelsior University board of trustees. Jeanne resides in New York City.