I enjoy helping clients transform their organizations with humans at the center so that HR can be a driver in achieving their business goals.

Tom Taliaferro

Managing Director, People Advisory Services, Ernst & Young LLP

Leader of innovative HR technology transformation, with emphasis on clients embarking on or experiencing disruptive change; father of four; Navy submarine veteran; nonprofit board member.

Tom is laser-focused on achieving the “so what” out of an HR technology implementation, placing HR as a strategic partner in achieving corporate business goals. With his 30 years of HR consulting experience, Tom knows where the project pitfalls and land mines are lurking and works with clients to help eliminate them.

He has deep experience in domestic and global human capital management (HCM) vendor selection and business case development, as well as HR operating model design and business process optimization, focusing on the functional integration between HR and finance systems. His technology experience includes multiple HCM programs and offerings.

Tom received a BS in Mathematics from the U.S. Naval Academy. He is a director of the Families of the Wounded Fund, which supports families of combat-wounded veterans injured in the global war on terrorism.

How Tom is building a better working world

Most organizations have a worthy vision and goal when they embark on a transformational journey enabled by implementing a new HR technology, but they often fall into the trap that the technology implementation alone will realize that vision. I help clients enhance their people, processes and technology so that they can focus on the true value that technology brings. This focus on achieving the “so what” of that HR technology enables HR to drive the achievement of business goals. 

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