Joyce O'Donnell Maroney

Joyce Maroney is the founder and executive director of The Workforce Institute at Kronos Incorporated. The Workforce Institute is a think tank focused on empowering organizations through education and research about workplace practices.

She blogs at www.workforceinstitute.org and as a spokesperson for Kronos has been quoted frequently in the media on a variety of topics impacting the workforce with comments appearing in, among others, The Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Boston Business Journal, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Fast Company, Human Resource Executive, SHRM online, Workspan, Forbes, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, NECN, Fox News and on The Wall Street Journal Radio Report.

She has published three management anthologies, Creating the Workforce – and Results – You Seek, Elements of Successful Organizations, and It’s All About Bob/bie – Strategies for Winning With Your Employees. She is publishing a fourth book in November 2019, Being Present: A Practical Guide for Transforming the Employee Experience of Your Frontline Workforce.

In addition to leading the Workforce Institute, Maroney served as senior director of customer marketing at Kronos. Prior to joining Kronos in 2006, Maroney served as vice president of services, products and recruitment outsourcing at BrassRing and has held management positions in marketing, sales, and operations for companies such as Lotus/IBM, Software AG, and Wang Laboratories. She holds a master’s degree in business administration from Boston University Graduate School of Management, and a bachelor’s degree in biology from Middlebury College.