Brian K. Dickson is the Senior Vice President, Professional Development and Strategic Partnerships, for the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), the world’s largest professional association devoted to human resource management.

Dickson, who serves on SHRM’s Leadership Team, has executive oversight of SHRM conferences, training and education, and certification preparation programs. He also leads SHRM’s efforts to build strong business relationships with corporations, government agencies, and other organizations. In addition, he develops SHRM’s partnership arrangements to create new sales and delivery channels for SHRM programs and services, and leads the Society’s business development efforts in the Americas and Europe.

Prior to joining SHRM, Dickson was a Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting and an Account Executive at IBM. He also served in executive roles at Federal Management Partners and Celerant Consulting.

Prior to entering the consulting field, Dickson served as a Foreign Service Officer for the U.S. Department of State, where he focused on Latin America and trade issues. He also worked at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a non-profit foreign policy research center.

Dickson holds an MS from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and a BS from Wabash College of Indiana.