Chris Spencer – Director of Operations, Oracle Corporation, is a passionate servant leader focused on bringing people together to help develop people solutions that keep things moving. With 30 years of experience building and leading teams, Chris is driven to think critically about process efficiencies and how what we do affects the way we should be doing it. Chris’ current role is helping lead the global onboarding effort within Oracle. He also leads the planning team for a campus hiring program for the US-based sales organizations. His passion lies, however, in co-leading the Oracle veteran employee resource group, MAVEN – Military Affiliated Veteran Employee Network, where he can wrap his skills, day job, and purpose into one intended outcome.

Chris joined Oracle in 1996 after separating from active duty with the US Army. Starting as a contractor within the marketing organization, he established relationships across many lines of business to begin creating his network and eventually landed a permanent role supporting sales. This was his early lesson of how important relationships are for success. This offered Chris the opportunity to learn and grow from within and establish his own career path with the support of others.

Outside of being actively involved in his family’s lives, Chris’ center of attention in his current life stage is continuing to deliver value within the veteran affiliated community.

The PsychArmor resource for this week is the PsychArmor Course, Building a Veteran Employee Resource Group (ERG) Do you want to increase Veteran retention or recruitment within your organization? Are you looking to bolster your company's community outreach programs and build a military-friendly culture? Employee Resource Groups may be the key to achieving these goals. This course discusses the steps to successfully building an Employee Resource Group and the benefit these groups provide to the employee, employer and your organization on a broader scale! You can access this course by following this link https://psycharmor.org/courses/building-veteran-employee-resource-group/

This episode is sponsored by PsychArmor, the premier education and learning ecosystem specializing in military culture content. PsychArmor offers an online e-learning laboratory with custom training options for organizations.

Our theme music Don’t Kill the Messenger was written and performed by Navy Veteran Jerry Maniscalco, in cooperation with Operation Encore, a non profit committed to supporting singer/songwriter and musicians across the military and Veteran communities.