My guest today is a former Microsoft and Expedia employee. He has also founded his own knowledge transfer and consulting company. I’m talking about Steve Trautman. His previous books include Teach What You Know: A Practical Leader’s Guide to Knowledge Transfer through Peer Mentoring and The Executive Guide to High-Impact Talent Management, a book co-written with David DeLong.  Steve’s latest book is called Do You Have WHO It Takes? Managing Talent Risk in a High-Stakes Technical Workforce. In it, Steve offers revolutionary yet practical ideas for every level of an organization (including the corporate board) so that you can manage talent risk with clear, measurable, and relevant date. And, he goes beyond academic theory to include a talent risk methodology, scripts for critical conversations, case studies, and useful tools gleaned from his own experience. Join in on our chat below Subscribe: iTunes | Stitcher | RSS In today’s episode, I ask Steve to share: * The differences between talent risk and traditional employee retention * Strategies for mitigating talent risk by effectively transferring knowledge * Common practices you may be guilty of that DON’T help you to effectively manage talent risk * …and plenty more! This Episode is Sponsored By Cloud Accounting Software FreshBooks FreshBooks cloud accounting software is currently offering a month of unrestricted use to all RtLP listeners – totally free right now. And, you don’t need a credit card for the trial. To claim your free month, click here and be sure and enter ReadToLead in the “How Did You Hear About Us?” section. If your business uses Freshbooks, and you’d like to share your experience with the Read to Lead audience, click the contact tab at the top of this page and let us know. Be sure and include “FreshBooks” in the subject line.  Steve’s Book You can order Do You Have WHO It Takes? Managing Talent Risk in a High-Stakes Technical Workforce right now! Steve in Action Books Steve Recommends The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim Check Out These Resources Visit Steve’s website for more about him and his work. Be sure and grab your copy of Steve’s