David is a researcher, author, and advisor on how organizations can explore ways to find productive, loyal employees from talent pools that have traditionally been marginalized. His recently published fifth book is called Hidden Talent: How to Employ Refugees, the Formerly Incarcerated & People With Disabilities (readhiddentalent.com).

David is the president of Smart Workforce Strategies, a consulting firm that helps organizations find solutions to critical skill shortages and risks of knowledge loss. He has also been a research fellow at the MIT AgeLab and an adjunct professor at Babson College, teaching MBA’s “Leading & Managing Change.” He has written and spoken extensively about workforce development and talent management across generations and holds a doctorate in organizational behavior from Boston University and an M.P.A. from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.