Member Spotlight

Each month at the chapter meeting we draw a name out of the hat to highlight one of our members.  This month it is Margaret Salmon

Margaret Salmon founded Walnut Valley Consulting with a commitment to helping others find a better way to succeed. As a performance consultant and coach, Margaret assists businesses and individuals improve results and reach new levels of performance. These results are achieved through strategic business planning, organizational development, process improvement, and individual coaching.

Margaret has held positions in Systems, Training & Development, and Human Resources. She has a proven track record of designing and developing solutions that align with business objectives, resulting in improved performance of the organizations that she has been associated with.

Margaret is certified as a Senior Professional in Human Resource (SPHR). She is affiliated with Resource Associates Corporation and a network of Affiliates around the world that is dedicated to helping organizations and individuals manage strategic change, innovation, cultural transition, and goal achievement.

Margaret’s experience as a performance improvement specialist and consultant to Senior Management enables her to identify the barriers common to all industries that prevent people from achieving top performance. She believes that, if organizations are to achieve top-level performance, they must align business processes to the corporate strategy; create an environment that fosters innovation; and optimize all the components of their HR systems.

The key to getting results is a Leadership Development Process that aligns the organization, supports a strategy that attracts and retains loyal customers, and engages employees. Margaret can help you design a structure and processes that support your business strategy. Together we then look at the rewards and recognition systems to assure that they support the strategy. For example, if the strategy is team based but you are only rewarding individuals, your teams will not meet with success.

Moving on to your people, we look to answer the following questions: Do they have the attitudes, skills, and knowledge to implement strategy? Do you have the right people in the right places, doing the right things for the rights reason? Are they aligned with your strategy? Do they even know it?