S7E17 - The Keys to Success with a Distributed Workforce, with Clark Merkley

In this HCI Podcast episode, Dr. Westover talks with Clark Merkley about the keys to success with a distributed workforce. See the video here: https://youtu.be/LChhBhqQoYQ. Clark Merkley (https://www.linkedin.com/in/clarkmerkley/) is the Executive Director of BootUp Professional Development, a national nonprofit devoted to bringing coding and computer science to ALL elementary students by empowering their teachers. BootUp has worked with partner school districts around the country and has prepared over 350 teachers who are teaching over 170,000 students the essential literacy of code. Beginning in 2020, with the generous support of Amazon Future Engineer, BootUp will reach approximately 3,000 teachers and nearly 1 million elementary students in underserved communities throughout the United States.  Prior to joining BootUp, Clark was a senior executive at Emerald Data Solutions, Employee Solutions Group and Assurant Health. He has also served in a variety of human resources roles in the public and private sector. Clark served as an elected school board member in Wisconsin and had the honor, in the middle of his professional career, to be a junior high teacher at Springville Junior High School in Springville, Utah where he taught Algebra, Physical Science, Earth Science, and Law & Government. He loves being in the classroom and helping to shape the minds of future life-long learners. He considers teaching to be the greatest of all professions.   Prior to his career in education, Clark practice corporate health care law in Portland, Oregon and Chicago, Illinois. Clark received his law degree and MBA from the University of Chicago and his undergraduate degree in Zoology from Brigham Young University. Clark and his wife, Sheryl, live in Orem, Utah and are the parents of five and the grandparents of eleven.  For the last several years, Clark has either been the Chief Operating Officer of a for-profit software company or the Executive Director of a nonprofit, both of which have high-performing distributed workforces. He has shared his lessons learned with many other organizations, mastermind groups and colleagues. Ranked in the Top 15 Personal Development and Self-Improvement Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/personal_development_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 15 Leadership Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/leadership_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 15 HR Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/hr_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 15 Talent Management Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/talent_management_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 10 Performance Management Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/performance_management_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 10 Workplace Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/workplace_podcasts/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.