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Dr. William Shepherd bio
Dr. Shepherd is Senior Vice President and Director of Recruitment and Development at Huntington Bancshares (HBAN). He is responsible for overseeing the creation and implementation of human capital programs that attract and retain top talent and foster individual learning and organizational performance.
Shepherd has over 10 years of experience improving organizations' employee recruitment and development processes. He joined Huntington as a result of Huntington's acquisition of Sky Financial Group where he was the Corporate Vice President and Director of Training and Organizational Development. At Personnel Decisions International (PDI) and ePredix he developed systems to identify and improve the processes by which companies source, screen, select, hire and retain high-performing employees. Prior to joining PDI and ePredix, Shepherd was a member of the Employee Selection group at Verizon.
Shepherd obtained his doctoral and master’s degree in industrial/organization psychology with a minor in quantitative psychology at Bowling Green State University. He received his bachelor's degree in finance and psychology from The University of Northern Iowa. He is a licensed psychologist and a member of the American Psychological Association and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP). He holds the Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) designation. He has also served as an adjunct collegiate professor for a variety of graduate-level applied psychology and human resource courses.
In addition to presenting at various conferences, his research has been published in academic journals such as Personnel Psychology, International Journal of Selection and Assessment, Employment Relations Today, and the International Association for Human Resource Information Management. He has also contributed as a subject matter expert in stories for a wide variety of media outlets such as National Public Radio and HR Magazine.
William Shepherd, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President - Human Resources
Director - Recruitment and Development
Huntington Bancshares Incorporated
