Lisbeth M Claus

Lisbeth Claus, Ph.D., SPHR, GPHR, SHRM-SCP is Professor Emerita of Management and Global Human Resources at the Atkinson Graduate School of Management of Willamette University MBA in Salem, Oregon (USA), where she also served as interim Associate Dean from 2007 to 2008. Prior to joining Willamette University, she held faculty and administrative positions at the Monterey Institute of International Studies and managerial positions at Safeway Inc. and Maritz Inc.

Dr. Claus specializes in the implications for global organizations when their employees cross borders. She has been published widely in academic and professional journals on subject matters related to global HR. She is considered the leading expert on employer duty of care and informs employers of their obligation to protect their business travelers, international assignees and dependents. She is the author of the 2009 Duty of Care White Paper–viewed today as a major impetus for putting duty of care on the map for global organizations. She also authored the 2012 Duty of Care and Travel Risk Management Global Benchmarking Study—the first empirical study on duty of care. She is the co-author (with Danielle Monaghan) of the 2019 White Paper on Dynamic Open Talent.

A frequent keynote speaker at national and international HR conferences, she is the lead author of Be(come) an Awesome Manager (with Scott Baker and Peter Vermeulen), Editor-in-chief of four volumes of the Global HR Practitioner Handbook (Global Immersion Press, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018). She is co-author with Lesley Arens of #ZigZagHR (in Dutch: PelckmansPro, 2018; English: Global Immersion Press, 2019, available from Amazon) and was co-author (with Dennis Briscoe and Randall Schuler) of International Human Resource Management, 3rd edition) (Routledge, 2009).

A native of Belgium, she speaks Flemish and French, and has working knowledge of German.

Foremost an educator, she has inspired thousands of learners—graduate students and practitioners—to better navigate the global scope of management and the implementation of progressive HR practices.

Message

"Increasingly, it falls to human resource professionals to manage the "soft side" of today's global industry and to examine the cultural and human challenges facing organizations."

Domestic HR practitioners can no longer ignore the global nature of human capital. Increasingly, it falls to human resource professionals to strategically manage human talent in today's global environment and to examine the cultural and human challenges facing successful business, government, and not-for-profit enterprises. Global talent and performance management, virtual teamwork, global leadership development, cross-cultural savvy, HR analytics, work-life balance, international ethics and global sustainability are some of the important areas where human resources can add value and play a strategic role.