Hello, world.

Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love.

I'm your host, Don Hutchison.

Every Tuesday, I interview someone from around the world who's discovered their talents to do work they love to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.

On Fridays, I interview an individual with many years of experience from one of the most popular or interesting occupations or professions who shares an insider's look at what it's really like to do what they do.

Today I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Chuck Cooper, and our topic, A Day in the Life,

what's it really like to be a human resources consultant? Welcome, Chuck. Good afternoon, Don.

It's great to be with you today. It's good to be with you too, sir. A few words about

Chuck Cooper. He's the founder and managing member of Whitewater Consulting, and he sets the

mission, vision, and values for the company. Over the past 25 years, he's had the experience

of starting, acquiring, building, and selling businesses in multiple industries.

During this time, he experienced the thrill of victories and the agony of defeat.

His passion for founding Whitewater Consulting is to help and enable employers and HR practitioners

to drive their organizations to realize and improve company culture,

enhance employee engagement, grow revenues, control expenses, maximize profits, all the while

taking care of their greatest assets, their people. Well, that's amazing work, Chuck,

and we're delighted to have you on the show with us. So tell our listeners around the world just

for a couple of minutes what you're engaged in right now, and then we'll dive into your backstory.

That sounds great. As you mentioned, Don, I'm the founder and managing member of Whitewater Consulting,

and we specialize in working with small and mid-sized companies throughout the U.S., helping them really

in everything that falls under that HR umbrella.

And so whenever I look back over the last few years, the key areas that our clients have reached

...