LoyalNation Partners with Renowned Expert Dr. Paul Marciano to Enhance Employee Engagement, Rewards Services

Charlotte, NC (PRWEB) June 15, 2011

Full-service incentive, loyalty and employee recognition company LoyalNation has formed a partnership with renowned author and employee engagement authority Dr. Paul Marciano to broaden its services to businesses seeking to reward and incentivize customers, dealers and employees.

Charlotte (NC)-based LoyalNation provides leading-edge technology and turnkey management loyalty programs to companies across a wide range of industries, specializing in new technology platforms that use private labeled social media tools to enable peer to peer recognition and innovation with employees, sales teams and dealer networks.

“Dr. Marciano is a thought leader in employee engagement strategies and behavior modification. Case studies show that his real world application works,” said David Schroeder, president of LoyalNation. “He will collaborate with our team in the ongoing development of our technology platform that engages specific workforce populations through strategies like peer to peer recognition.”

Dr. Marciano is the author of “Carrots and Sticks Don’t Work: Build a Culture of Employee Engagement with the Principles of RESPECT” (McGraw-Hill Professional Division, 2010), which examines traditional rewards and recognition programs and typically asserts that an “employee engagement” approach is most effective. The book was selected as recommended reading by the prestigious Business Book Review (BBR) and is among just 700 titles summarized for the BBR Library over the past 25 years.

“The LoyalNation solution works because it measures employee engagement and provides meaningful incentives for behavioral changes that lead to the all-important cultural changes needed by an organization,” offered Marciano. “This approach combined with the newest social media platforms creates a powerful program that businesses can adopt seamlessly. I’m excited to collaborate with the LoyalNation team.”

Launched in 2010, LoyalNation was featured by the prominent industry media outlet Incentive (<chron>April 12, 2011). The article focuses on the new technology platform, dubbed PRIDE (Promotion, Recognition, Incentives and Driving Engagement). LoyalNation’s customized approach includes private label website creation/maintenance and social networking platforms to leverage the common interests of the populations involved.

The LoyalNation Board of Advisors includes founder J.C. Faulkner of Charlotte, the former head of industry-leading HSBC Mortgage Services who has been involved in the loyalty and incentive industry as a client and investor for over ten years, and Tom Reddin, former CEO of LendingTree and of the prominent NASCAR team Richard Petty Motorsports. The president of LoyalNation, Schroeder, is a 15-year executive in the financial services industry with organizations including Bank One, Wachovia and HSBC. Privately owned, LoyalNation also has offices in Kansas City, MO, and Jacksonville, FL.

LoyalNation clients include Interline Brands of Jacksonville, FL; BBVA Compass Bank of Birmingham, AL; Brooks Brothers of Enfield, CT; Intergraph Corporation of Madison, AL; Scott Insurance of Lynchburg, VA; and the North Carolina Bankers Association of Raleigh. Among the programs that LoyalNation offers are: dealer sales incentives; employee recognition; cross sales incentives; employee performance rewards; spot rewards; safety education rewards and travel incentives.

ABOUT DR. PAUL MARCIANO:
Dr. Paul Marciano has worked in the field of Organizational Development for over 20 years and is a leading authority on employee engagement and retention. He earned his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Yale University where he specialized in behavior modification and motivation. He has served on the faculties of Davidson College and Princeton University where he has taught courses in Leadership, Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, Survey Development, Research Methods and Statistics.

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