Karen V. Beaman is the Managing Partner of Jeitosa International, a global business consultancy focused on achieving organizational effectiveness through transnational leadership. Previously she held global responsibility for the sales and delivery..
Karen V. Beaman is the Managing Partner of Jeitosa International, a global business consultancy focused on achieving organizational effectiveness through transnational leadership. Previously she held global responsibility for the sales and delivery of ADP’s professional services across the Americas, Europe, and Asia/Pacific. She was based in Paris for four years, where she was responsible for building and leading ADP’s professional services business across Europe and for launching the company’s professional services in Latin America. She has more than 25 years of experience with information systems and human resource management specifically in the development and integration of global enterprise-wide systems. Ms. Beaman has a B.A. from Old Dominion and an M.S. from Georgetown University and was promoted to Ph.D. candidate in Sociolinguistics and Historical and Computational Linguistics. She is the co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of the IHRIM Journal, past-Chair of the IHRIM.link Magazine Editorial Committee, and a former member of the IHRIM Board of Directors. She is an internationally recognized speaker and author and has published works in the fields of Linguistics, Humanities, and HRIS, on such topics as global human resources issues, information technology, transnational organizational design, outsourcing strategies, cultural diversity, and global leadership. Her first edited volume, Boundaryless HR: Human Capital Management in the Global Economy (2002), addresses global strategic planning and implementation issues, and her second, Out of Site: An Inside Look at HR Outsourcing (2004) takes an in-depth look at human resource outsourcing. In 2002, Ms. Beaman received the IHRIM's Summit Award, honoring her lifetime achievements in field. She is fluent in English, German, French, and Portuguese. She can be reached at karen_beaman@jeitosa.com.
Less
New Directions in the Humanities
