Joseph Gibbons is a FutureWork Institute consultant specializing in Human Capital Management and Diversity. The author of seven books, he has served on the Towers Perrin People Strategy and HR Effectiveness Core Teams and has specialized in workforce demographics, selection, career and executive development as a human resource management consultant. He has been in the forefront of studies on the changing workforce and directed the nationwide Towers Perrin study: Workforce 2000: Competing in a Seller's Market. He completed a study with the National Association of Manufacturers on the state of America's skill readiness, has contracted with a federal agency on creative ways to fund national skills training needs at all levels, and has spoken at many forums on employment issues as they affect a changing workforce. Mr. Gibbons has been a tenured professor of Human Relations, a director of Training, a human resources vice president for a New York-based