Why Al Gore Shouldn’t Be This Year’s SHRM Annual Keynote Speaker
An Inconvenient Choice?
Last week, China Gorman used Twitter to announce that Al Gore had been selected as the Keynote Speaker for the 2010 SHRM Conference and Exposition in San Diego. It didn’t take long for the news to spread, or for a debate to spring up on Twitter about whether the selection was an appropriate one. My own take is that Gore is a good choice in juxtaposition to Jack Welch last year. You can see my full post on Why Al Should Be This Year’s SHRM Annual Keynote Speaker by clicking here.
HR people love a controversy.
One of the more vocal opinions against Gore that I encountered on Twitter was that of Martha Finney. To say that she was not in favor of the selection would be putting it far too mildly. It is more adequate to describe Martha as feeling disenfranchised by SHRM as a direct result of this choice.
I thought the best to describe how Martha feels was to ask her to say so for herself. She was kind enough to agree to pen a guest post on the topic, and so here is Martha Finney, kindly sharing her thoughts on Al Gore speaking at SHRM in her own words. I think you will find them thoughtful, compelling, and perhaps even provocative!
If you don’t know Martha, here is a short bio. Martha Finney is, an employee engagement consultant, who vastly prefers writing and speaking about great corporate cultures and people who love their work, as well as giving her Career Landscape workshop to internal corporate groups. You can tell her off at martha@marthafinney.com.
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