Dr. David DeLong

Dr. David DeLong is president of David DeLong & Associates, a research and consulting firm that helps organizations improve performance by solving problems related to changing workforce demographics and knowledge transfer. He is also a research fellow at the MIT AgeLab and an adjunct professor at Babson College.

Dr. DeLong is the author of the widely-praised book Lost Knowledge: Confronting the Threat of an Aging Workforce from Oxford University Press. He has spent more than a decade studying the impacts of changing workforce demographics and knowledge loss on organizational performance. In recent years, he has conducted over 400 interviews with dozens of knowledge-intensive organizations to develop solutions for the knowledge retention and workforce development challenges posed by increased baby boomer retirements and more mid-career turnover. His work has been widely cited in the New York Times, Fortune Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, CIO Magazine, U.S. News & World Report, and the Boston Globe. He has also been interviewed on NPR's "Morning Edition" and "Talk of the Nation."

A former researcher at both Harvard Business School and MIT's Sloan School, he was also co-author (with J.F. Rockart) of Executive Support Systems: The Emergence of Top Management Computer Use. Dr. DeLong has lectured in the U.S., Europe, Australia, and South America, and is a widely-published writer whose work has appeared in journals and magazines such as Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Newsweek International, Organizational Dynamics, Computerworld, and Inc. Magazine. He has a doctorate in organizational behavior from Boston University and an M.P.A. from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.