About Michael
Who is Michael VanDervort?
Michael VanDervort
With two decades of HR experience at some of the top Fortune 500 and Great Place to Work employers, Michael is an eclectic HR professional with an extraordinary curiosity about how things work. Michael shares his thoughts on business in The Human Race Horses blog.
By day Michael works as an HR Specialist, doing web research and “think-tank” projects on human resources and employee relations issues for one of the largest employers in Florida.
By night, Michael writes about human resources and business topics related to social media, human resources. employee relations, the culture of organizations, leadership and best business practices.
The Human Race Horses Blog
The goal of the Human Race Horses blog is to commend companies that do things right, and to provoke dialog where things could improve. In other words, we rock the ideas of great companies, knock the bad ideas, and talk about the rest!
Human Race Horses LLC
At Human Race Horses LLC, our focus is to assist employers and individuals in transforming their business or career through the use of social media tools and implementing the best human resources practices.
We accomplish this by sharing best practices from Human Resource and social networking oriented events via live blogging and reporting from these events. Our 2009 events include:
- 2009 Employers of Excellence National Conference
- SHRM National Conference in New Orleans
- HR Florida State Conference & Exposition
- ERE Expo in Hollywood, Florida in September
- Barcamp Tampa in September
- IZEAfest in Orlando in October
- Blog World Expo in Las Vegas in October
Michael is also a regular contributor to the Examiner.com, Jobing.com, and numerous other venues on the web. He is also involved in a non-HR online business with his wife, handling the community building and social networking aspects for My World Spirit.
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