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EXPERT ALERTS

• The Human Element to Data
• ‘Debugging’ Your Employees for Peak Performance
• Millennials Are Redefining Work Happiness

MEDIA JOBS

• Editor, Gears & Gadgets  – The Wall Street Journal (NY)
• White House Reporter – MLex (DC)
• Writer/Editor, Electronics  – Consumer Reports (NY)

OTHER NEWS & RESOURCES

• 2017 Global Social Journalism Study
• 9 Tips: Defeat Your Inner Editor to Write Better and Faster
• Blog Profiles: TV Blogs

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EXPERT ALERTS:

The Human Element to Data
Chris Astle
CEO
QSR International
“You can’t forget the human element to data. From rebuilding after a natural disaster to elections to managing customer satisfaction to sales, the human voice can and should be filtered out from all of the data that you are probably sitting on, or certainly will gather. We used data analysis to help the leaders of Christchurch, New Zealand, rebuild a better city after a natural disaster destroyed it. It was necessary to listen – really listen — to the residents whose homes were decimated and make the right change. Ignoring their data would have been the greater tragedy.”
Astle is a humanitarian with more than 20 years of experience in leadership and data analytics. He can share stories and lessons learned from working with hundreds of leaders — primarily in government, academia, and commercial (luxury and household name) brands — to improve or make decisions based on data, both numerical (quantitative) and unstructured (qualitative). He is a seasoned communicator with a warm, inviting tone, authoritative, knowledgeable demeanor, and intoxicating English accent. Key topics of expertise include disaster relief, hurricane recovery, earthquake rebuilding, polling, voting, infrastructure, government, policy-making, healthcare, corporate leadership, customer experience, product development, software, academic research, Big Data, data science, and data analytics. He has been quoted in GCN (Government Computer News) and Community College Week, and was published in Route Fifty. He was also interviewed as a thought leader in Big Data for One Million by One Million and in The Middle Market Thought Leader podcast.
Website: www.qsrinternational.com
Contact: Kristina Groves, kgroves@volumepr.com 

‘Debugging’ Your Employees for Peak Performance
Dr. Dave Sharar
Managing Director
Chestnut Global Partners
A workforce dominated by “artificial intelligence” doesn’t have HR issues: robots work 24/7, don’t demand a competitive benefits package, feel stress or show up to work with aches and pains. Despite these built-in advantages, we humans should be employable for many years to come — but we’ll need all the help we can get to stay competitive. When AI-driven systems break down, they’re debugged and re-programmed; when we “break down,” it’s typically due to stress, depression, etc., that causes lack of focus, absenteeism, and any number of counterproductive behaviors. Says Dr. Sharar: “Optimizing workforce performance isn’t as easy as a software update or patch — we’re ‘debugged’ by getting mental health and wellness support to address or ‘fix’ impediments to productivity.”
A recent study by Chestnut Global Partners and the Employee Assistance Professionals Association (EAPA) assessed over 16,000 EAP counseling cases, and showed the correlation between employee assistance programs (EAP) and positive effects on absenteeism, presenteeism, work engagement, workplace distress, and life satisfaction. The study can be downloaded here: http://www.eapassn.org/2017WOSReport
Website: http://chestnutglobalpartners.org
Contact: Charles Epstein, che@backboneinc.com

Millennials Are Redefining Work Happiness
Jody B. Miller
CEO
C2C Executive Search & Strategic Management
“Millennials didn’t get to have the same freedom in childhood as previous recent generations. Technology made parents more aware – then, after 9/11, fear became a part of daily life. Safety became families’ number one concern. Millennial kids were driven to and from everything and never really had time to explore on their own. School and education were the main focus. With all that structured time and intense schoolwork behind them, adult Millennials naturally feel the need to change the rules and ‘do their own thing.’ They didn’t get as much freedom in childhood, so they want freedom now.”
As a work happiness expert, Miller, author of the new book, “From DRIFT to SHIFT: How Change Can Bring True Meaning and Happiness to Your Work and Life,” has helped thousands of people find true meaning in their work and in their lives. Her previous positions include investment banker, strategic consultant to Fortune 100 corporations, CEO of a software startup, assistant producer for a PBS television series, and sales and marketing executive for CBS Television. She is also the author of “HIRED! in 2017” and “Hired! Expert Advice from A Leading Wall Street Recruiter.” These books provide roadmaps for getting hired in today’s competitive job world. Miller contributes to Ignites Financial Times Magazine, LinkedIn and The Huffington Post, and has written numerous articles about job satisfaction, work/life balance and finding meaning. Her books are available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and iBooks.
Online Press Kit: http://jodybmiller.onlinepresskit247.com
Website: www.JodyBMiller.com
Contact: Jennifer Thomas, jennifer.wasabi10@gmail.com

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MEDIA JOBS:

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• Editor, Gears & Gadgets  – The Wall Street Journal (NY)
• White House Reporter – MLex (DC)
• Writer/Editor, Electronics  – Consumer Reports (NY)

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OTHER NEWS & RESOURCES:

Following are links to other news and resources we think you might find useful. If you have an item you think other reporters would be interested in and would like us to include in a future alert, please drop us a line at profnetalerts@cision.com

• 2017 GLOBAL SOCIAL JOURNALISM STUDY.  It’s the sixth in a series of studies published by Cision that survey and chart changes in how journalists use social platforms. The study also closely examines problems social media has created for the industry (Read: Battling fake news and the increased focus on speed vs. analysis): http://bit.ly/2ymJCiM  
• 9 Tips: Defeat Your Inner Editor to Write Better and Faster.  Don’t let your inner editor become a bully. Here are nine reminders to help write stronger pieces, and more often: http://prn.to/2xBCYsD
• BLOG PROFILES: TV BLOGS. Each week, PR Newswire’s Audience Relations team selects an industry/subject and profiles a handful of sites that do a good job with promoting and contributing to the conversation. This week, they look at TV blogs:http://prn.to/tvblogs

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