Eric Shepherd leads the Foundation for Talent Transformation, a non-profit foundation helping individuals strive by helping them understand themselves, others, and the future of work. Before Talent Transformation, he worked to build a SaaS company into a multi-million-dollar international assessment software business. Eric is a recognized expert and has led industry and standards initiatives to promote best practices for assessments, learning, and interoperability. Eric leads the C3 Connecting Competency Communities webinars, serves as Chair of the IEEE working group developing Recommended Practice for Defining Competencies and Vicechair of the IEEE working group developing the Standard Data Model for Sharable Competency