If You've Got A Strategy, The Only Way You'll Get It Done Is Through Your People - President & CEO, SHRM
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In an interaction with People Matters, Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., SHRM-SCP, The President and Chief Executive Officer of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) takes us through his journey from a lawyer to the CEO of world's largest HR professional society.
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If You've Got A Strategy, The Only Way You'll Get It Done Is Through Your People - President & CEO, SHRM

Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., SHRM-SCP, is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), the world's largest HR professional society. SHRM has grown to a record 3,00,000 members in over 165 countries, impacting the lives of more than 115 million workers and families globally.

Taylor has a diverse background in leadership and people strategies across various global organizations and industries. Before joining SHRM, he was president and CEO of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. He also has been responsible for the global HR function at IAC, a portfolio of publicly traded media and Internet businesses, later assuming the CEO role for one of IAC's operating companies. In addition, he was a labor and employment partner at McGuireWoods, LLP, where he was president of the law firm’s HR consulting section.

Taylor has served on multiple for-profit and mission-driven boards, while always making good human resource management a priority. Before becoming CEO, Taylor was a long-time SHRM member and served as chair of its board of directors in 2005 and 2006.

In an interaction with People Matters, Johnny takes us through his journey from a lawyer to the CEO of SHRM, the expert of all things work, workers and the workplace.

You started your career with a major law firm after pursuing a joint degree in law and mass communications. You then started a tech company as its founding CEO and then moved into the non-profit higher education space. Can you tell us more about your diverse career and what was the key motivator for you while going through these shifts?

Everything in the formative stages of my career was focused on becoming a lawyer.

As a matter of fact, going to law school was the only “planned” part of my life. I saw my neighbor go to law school and become a lawyer. I thought, ”I want to be that.”

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