About Michael

Who is Michael VanDervort?

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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