Facilitated by Dustin Snyder, chief advisor and founder of Buffalo-based organizational development firm Wayforward Associates, the HR Expert Exchange is designed as a confidential space to share top-level insights and discuss common challenges, problems and experiences in a supportive group setting.
What to expect:
- Sessions are the third Tuesday of each month from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.
- Discussions around recruitment and retention strategies, approaches to employee buy-in, generational changes in the workforce, and human resources as a profit center
Learn more about the facilitator
Prior to launching Wayforward Associates, Snyder was the President of the US manufacturing division of Aurubis AG (commonly known in the US as the former American Brass), where he led this 600 employee heavy manufacturing group to its first profitable operating result in several years. His legacy is colored by a complete re-imagining of product strategy. But, more importantly: instituting an effective and sustainable management team and cultivation of a trusting and engaged labor/workforce relationship.
In 2021, Snyder moved on from this role and founded Wayforward. In founding the firm, Snyder determined that his value to an organization is precisely what makes him a poor choice (his words) for long-term
corporate employment. He’s restless. He works quickly. And when expectations are successfully exceeded, he’s immediately ready for the next challenge. Contributing to many companies across industries,
locations, and most importantly, situations, is vigorously attractive to him, either in a short-term episodic capacity or as a long-term fractional contributor. In 2023, he functions as Wayforward’s chief advisor -
focused on setting the right structure for the firm’s client engagements, conducting EEX assessments, and facilitating leadership offsites.
His prior HR leadership roles spanned the European Tier 1 automotive supplier Oetiker Group, the Kaleida Health hospital system, and Roswell Park Cancer Institute. The Hatchets & Hops chain of axe throwing
venues across New York State was also founded by Dustin. He earned his MBA from SUNY University at Buffalo, an MA in Industrial & Labor Relations from Cornell University, and a BA in Organizational Psychology from Canisius College. Dustin is a Six Sigma Black Belt, as well as a Meyers-Briggs certified practitioner.
