Ray Baumruk

About Ray Baumruk

Great organizations consistently seek to provide relevant, compelling, and meaningful experiences to employees and customers. My passion is helping organizations really understand what people want or are experiencing, then design and enhance their culture and employee experience to produce real, measurable impact for people and business results. I want to fundamentally influence the future of employee experience in the marketplace and for organizations individually. I love to use data and analytics to understanding deeply what makes people tick then share those learnings and insights with audiences around the world. Live - Learn - Invent - Inspire is my operating motto. I\'m a compassionate people, product, and business leader focusing on employee experience, wellbeing, engagement, research, thought-leadership, culture, total rewards, product development and related client relationships for over 25 years. I\'ve had the honor and pleasure of working with different organizations around the world to measure and improve employee engagement and wellbeing. And I\'ve led teams to achieve significant financial growth targets while enhancing engagement and satisfaction. I love to create and have designed significant innovations in employee engagement, employee experience, organization effectiveness, culture assessment, workforce segmentation, human capital analytics, total rewards optimization (conjoint), and employee value proposition and employer branding solutions. I also enjoy writing, presenting, and speaking and have authored many articles and thought-leadership pieces (including several years of Workforce Mindset and Employee Wellbeing Mindset Studies) to build new learning and new solutions to complex problems. Finally I love to learn and grow and have graduated from a two-year business professionals course and earned designation as certified consultant in Culture Transformation Tools with Richard Barrett Values Centre I\'ve also earned MIT executive education certificate in Design Thinking: Innovation of Products & Services: MIT\'s Approach to Design Thinking (August 2017). I\'m an avid reader, podcast enthusiast, and webinar junkie on subjects from the workplace to analytics to behavioral economics to science and the environment- Extensive experience in employee research, people analytics, consulting, innovation, business development, content development, marketing, coaching, measurement, employee experience, employee wellbeing, employee engagement, and human resource strategy and transformation.

Experience

1. Senior Director, Employee Experience Innovation & Solutions

   WTW

   Jun 2022 — Present · Chicago, IL, US

   Proud to serve as our global leader for Employee Experience product and services development related to organizational insights, research, and measurement solutions to produce great outcomes for our clients and their employees. Our team gathers relevant market and client intelligence to understand trends and anticipate needs, then collaborates with colleagues to enhance current products or build new solutions to address those needs effectively, test those solutions, and launch solutions to drive client and employee satisfaction, revenue, and profitability.

Education

• Northwestern University

  MS Predictive Analytics - completed various classes, Predictive analytics

  2011 — 2016

• Purdue University

  BS Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing and Production Systems

  1985 — 1989

• Purdue University Daniels School of Business

  MS Management (MBA Equivalent), Marketing and Strategic Management

  1989 — 1991

• Emeritus

  Certificate, Innovation of Products and Services: MIT's Approach to Design Thinking

  2017 — 2017