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Steven M. Darien

	Steven M. Darien
Industry	Consulting
Title	Chairman/Chief Executive Officer
Expertise	Human Resources, change management, labor/employee relations, communications, compensation, succession planning, organization design
Current Organization	The Cabot Advisory Group
Type of Organization	Consulting firm
Major Product	Human resource consulting
Area of Distribution	International
University/Degree	B.A., Economics, Rutgers College; M.B.A., Columbia University, New York, 1966
Born	October 29, 1942, New York City, New York
Honors & Awards	Honor Economics Society (Rutgers College); Outstanding Exchequer (Alpha Epsilon Pi); Elected to Beta Gamma Sigma (Columbia Graduate School of Business); Featured in a Dun's Review cover story on Management Troubleshooters; Profiled a 3-part Harvard Business School case study; Recipient of the 1995 CIO-100 Award for Best Practices in Human Resources; Human Resources Advisory Board of the Amer. Mgmt. Assoc.; Employee Relations Exec. Committee of the Business Roundtable; Advisory Board of the Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies at Cornell Univ. School of Industrial and Labor Relations; NJ Commission on Employment and Training; Executive Committee of the Labor Policy Assoc.; Chairman of WNET New Jersey Advisory Board; Chairman of the John M. Olin Institute for Employment Practice and Policy; Treasurer, Crossroads Theatre Co.; Elected as Fellow of National Acad. of Human Resources; Guest lecturer, Columbia Univ. Business School, Harvard Business School, Michigan Business School and UCLA Business School
Affiliations	Society for Human Resource Management; John M. Olin Institute for Employment Practice and Policy; Alpha Epsilon Pi
Hobbies & Sports	Computers, swimming
Career Accomplishments	Youngest Executive in the history of the Company at that time; Was a pioneer in integrating business strategy, organizational processes and human resource plans; Revitalized College Recruiting Program; Revamped employee relations, diversity and labor relations approaches; Implemented one of industries first: flexible benefits programs, on line HR information systems, smoke free work environments and relaxed dress codes; Selected in 1984 by Merck's Chairman to lead a team of executives as part of the Grace Commission, President Reagan's Private Sector Task Force to improve the efficiency of the Federal government
Work History	1966-96, Merck & Co. Inc., Various positions, retiring as Senior Human Resource Officer
Children	Jodi, 37; Andrew, 33
Spouse	Susan Kinsley Darien
Married	May 30, 1965
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