Chris Ponder II is an HR professional with over 10 years of experience in the casino, retail, service, and aviation industries. He continues to challenge people to think outside of the traditional “thought box" and strive for something unique by pushing thoughts and actions to a different scale – the extreme. Recognized as one of SmartRecruiter's Top 10 Social HR Pros to Follow, as well as the HR Blogger Network's 40 HR Bloggers Under 40, Chris continues to shift thinking in the HR space with his contributor blog, Performance I Create , which was listed as one of the Top 50 HR Blogs to read in 2015 by HR Software Insight.