Dr. Jac , as he is known worldwide, is acknowledged as the father of human capital strategic analysis and measurement. During the 1970s he carried out original research which led to the first human resources metrics in 1978 and to benchmarks in 1985. As founder of the Saratoga Institute in 1980, he developed the first international HR benchmarking service, eventually covering 2,000 companies in a dozen countries. Recently, he was cited as one of the fifty persons who have “significantly changed what HR does and how it does it” in the past fifty years.

In the recent years, Dr. Fitz-enz has researched to develop a unique process that combines data from corporate HR departments with research from human resource and talent management vendors, national research institutes, management journal publishers and university researchers. This led to the publication of the Workforce Intelligence Report®. Now in its second year, this document has grown to 100 pages covering everything from workforce planning to retention, including outsourcing and metrics / analytics.
 
Dr. Fitz-enz has published over 220 articles, reports and book chapters on measurement and management. His eight books have been translated into Chinese, German, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish. He is the only two-time winner of the SHRM Book of the Year Award for Human Value Management (1991) and The ROI of Human Capital (2001).

He has trained more than 85,000 managers in 40 countries. Although his work is widely imitated, he remains "The Source" for human capital strategy, measurement and benchmarking.

Among his recent honors are:

 

2007

2006

• Named by SHRM as One of Fifty most influential persons in human capital management
• Received Chairman's Award from IHRIM for pioneering human capital benchmarking

2005

• Honored as a "Legend" by the American Society of Training and Development

2004

• Elected Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources
• Appointed to Thought Leaders Board, Human Capital Institute.
• Featured Speaker at the World Congress on Human Resources; Rio de Janeiro
• Honorary Doctorate and Medal from Universidad Ricardo Palma, Lima, Peru
• HR Symposium Award for Innovation in HR Management

2003

• Profiled in HR Magazine, Workforce Management, HR Executive and Human Capital journals
• Superstar HR Outsourcing Specialist - HR Outsourcing Today

In 2002, Dr. Fitz-enz retired from Saratoga Institute, and in 2003 launched Human Capital Source® and the Workforce Intelligence Institute to take human capital valuation to the next level. His latest research, published in the 2007 Workforce Intelligence Report® (WIR®), applies workforce analytics to integrating all HR functions from workforce planning to retention and outsourcing. The WIR™ incorporates data from hundreds of corporations plus 30 research institutes and HR vendors connecting talent management practices to business results

Prior to founding Saratoga Institute Dr. Fitz-enz held human resource vice presidential positions at Wells Fargo Bank, Imperial Bank and Motorola Computer Systems. He holds degrees from: Notre Dame (B.A), San Francisco State (M.A.), and USC (Ph.D) in organizational communications.