The Corporate Sourcing Leadership Exchange meetings will be facilitated by faculty members who are thought leaders in the sourcing area.
Denny Clark, Co-Founder, Thought Leadership Institute
Denny is a well-recognized and respected leader in Human Capital, sourcing and recruitment. He is best known for his role as SVP and Director of Recruiting for Wachovia where he led the implementation and provided leadership for the centralized sourcing and recruiting function. Denny also had responsibility for two specialty recruiting functions – an internal fee for service administrative and professional temp/IT contractor service, FirstPlace, and an internal fee-based retained search service called the Executive Search Group – with combined gross revenues of $168 mil.
In his role as Recruiting Solutions Director, Denny enhanced the recruiting business model through establishing a dedicated sourcing group, creating a vendor management function and improving productivity through implementation of a consistent sales management process (Short Cycle Sales Management). After running a recruitment consulting business for the past year, Denny has joined ExecuQuest as Director, Advisory Services.
Marc Hutto, Co-Founder, Thought Leadership Institute
Marc is Founder and Managing Principal, Reveal Global Intelligence, LLC His previous fifteen years with Wachovia Corporation in conducting and leading recruiting, research and sourcing brings an execution-focus to Reveal in the delivery of-
-Search/Research Services
-Customized Research and Sourcing Training
-Contract Recruiting and Sourcing Professionals
-Performance Coaching
-Advisory Services to companies that wish to build or optimize and internal sourcing function.
Prior to joining Reveal, Marc served as the SVP, Sourcing Solutions Director, for Wachovia. He built and led a team of geographically dispersed research and sourcing professionals that grew from 6 to 55 over a six-year period. He is a member of the International Association for Corporate & Professional Recruitment, the International Coach Federation, and he served on the Board of Directors for the American Cancer Society and the Regional HIV/AIDS Consortium and has served on the National Advisory Board for the Human Capital Institute.
Conni LaDouceur, Co-Founder, Thought Leadership Institute
Conni is the Founder and Managing Principal of ExecuQuest, Baltimore, MD. She delivers over twenty years of combined search/research experience to ExecuQuest in service of her client’s critical hiring needs. The innumerable clients that Conni has served over the years span multiple and diverse industries from Abrasive Sand Mining to Wealth Management.
This breadth of industry and functional experience brings precision in the pursuit of passive candidates to the Fortune 500 clients and retained executive search clients of the firm. This knowledge-base is also instrumental in the effective delivery of the unique-in-the-market SEARCH/RESEARCH SUCCESS™ by ExecuQuest Learning Workshop.Prior to launching ExecuQuest, Conni honed her research skills over a five-year period at Heidrick & Struggles, Inc. in New York and Greenwich, CT. Conni has successfully led ExecuQuest and its valued clients through multiple years of challenging labor and financial market conditions. In an era of picked-over databases and directories, Conni believes in the effectiveness of original human intelligence in securing accurate, actionable research for successful recruiting.
John Chaisson, Director, Thought Leadership Institute
John has served most of his career as a high-tech lawyer then business development executive and consultant to high-tech firms. He holds a law degree from Stanford University and an economics undergraduate degree. He has worked with hi-tech start ups in Silicon Valley for almost two decades. John has twice served as General Counsel and VP Business Development with leading technology firms, including a subsidiary of major public multi-national technology player Ceridian. John began working in the Human Capital industry when he joined Resumix, then the No. 1 ATS software provider and a new subsidiary of IT services giant Ceridian, as its new General Counsel. John has distinguished himself within Human Capital Circles as an innovator and provocateur. John is the author of numerous articles on talent management and leadership, was the founding editor of the Center for Global Workforce Excellence, and developed two ground breaking white papers: "Global Talent Management: Fostering Global Workforce Practices That Are Scalable, Sustainable and Ethical" (HCI: 2004) & "Top Ten Challenges of Corporate Recruiting: Emergence of the Talent Management Organization" (Peoplesoft Paper: 2001).
Today, John continues to support both HR leaders and vendors within Human Capital circles as a faculty member of the Thought Leadership Institute. He also serves the industry through his consulting group, The Prophet Group. John continues to innovate in other sectors. He is President of a fast-paced alternative energy firm based in San Francisco, Green Energy Technology, Inc. which is devoted to the development of biomass power in California and biofuels throughout the world.
Shally Steckerl, Faculty Member, Thought Leadership Institute
Shally Steckerl is a talent acquisition consultant, strategist, and speaker originally from Colombia, South America, now residing in Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. Steckerl is the Founder and Chief CyberSleuth of JobMachine, Inc. (jobmachine.com), the premier provider of sourcing consulting services and workforce development. Early in his career Mr. Steckerl realized that as a contingency recruiter he could beat the competition by finding people who were not available in mainstream sources. Since then he has been instrumental in building numerous world class sourcing and research organizations.
Because of his passion for the Internet as a recruitment tool and his continually innovative methods, Mr. Steckerl has developed a reputation as one of the most respected authorities in passive candidate research and talent pipeline development worldwide. A pioneer in recruitment Internet research, accomplished author and celebrated speaker, he is a regular contributor to many industry publications. Mr. Steckerl is frequently requested to present at leading domestic and international recruiting conferences and conduct private workshops.
Mr. Steckerl now spends his time consulting with organization interested in building passive candidate pipeline generation and recruitment teams, and developing their advanced sourcing skills.
Please visit the Press & Publications Page http://aces.arbita.net/press for a complete listing of Mr. Steckerl's speaking engagements and publications. You can reach Shally at 612.278.0000, shally@arbita.net, Windows Live Messenger via shally_steckerl@hotmail.com, Text SMS 16785756960@txt.att.net or via skype:jobmachine.
Pat Chadbourne, Faculty Member, Thought Leadership Institute
Pat is the director and owner of APAC Associates, Inc., a company that specializes in workforce planning solutions. Pat is a well recognized and respected leader in workforce planning, human resources and talent acquisition solutions. As a senior leader and industry consultant, Pat has over 20 years experience in development and implementation of long term business strategies designed to address the human capital needs of an organization. As a certified six sigma black-belt, Pat combines her industry knowledge together with a disciplined project management style to help client organizations arrive at sustainable long term workforce planning and human capital solutions.
Prior to establishing APAC Associate, Inc., Pat held senior leadership/consulting positions in several domestic and international world class companies including Bank of America; First Union/Wachovia; MCI/Worldcom; Panda Motors – China; General Dynamics; and Magnavox Government Systems.
David Earle, Faculty Member, Thought Leadership Institute
David Earle, Faculty Member for Thought Leadership has been active in educational and information ventures for many years.
His business experience includes four startups, and his professional interests include the acquisition, development and management of talent, knowledge management, business alignment, technology, and business process reengineering. Immediately prior to forming Edvise Partners and acquiring Staffing.org, David was Vice President of Worldwide Sales Operations at META Group, a large research advisory firm serving the enterprise technology market, where his responsibilities included the management of corporate training, sales operations and communications in North and South America, EMEA, and Asia.
David currently serves as Managing Partner of Edvise Partners, an investment group focused on the enterprise Human Capital Management market, and President of Staffing.org. The mission of Edvise Partners is to provide authoritative, objective and trusted information on best HR practices, benchmarking and vendor selection to enterprise clients through various combinations of published products and consulting. Staffing.org, which the company acquired in 2007, is a 10-year-old publishing and consulting company with an international reputation in the area of staffing and recruiting best practices and metrics.
David Szary, Faculty Member, Thought Leadership Institute
David is a leading authority on developing radical, just-in-time recruitment solutions for companies seeking to develop an Elite staffing organization. His vast experience qualifies him as a leading expert on talent acquisition in today’s competitive market.
In 1998, David founded The Recruiter Academy, and over the past 11 years he has worked with more than 2000 companies in 45 states and 9 countries -including some of the largest and most recognized organizations in the world. His renowned Recruiter Academy Education & Development Solution has helped educate thousands of recruiters worldwide on recruiting “best practices” and how to manage an efficient staffing process. He is also the creator of the industry’s first objective, performance-driven Certification Program for recruiters!
David has studied and benchmarked numerous experts and theories in the fields of performance improvement (Toyota Production System (TPS), Six Sigma, and Theory of Constraints), behavior modification, time management, and personal achievement. Combining this knowledge with his years of consulting and educating recruitment organizations, he helped develop LEAN Human Capital’s Analytic and Process Optimization methodologies.
David is a requested keynote speaker at a variety of corporate and industry events including; Kennedy Information Conference, ERE expo, Local and State-sponsored SHRM/EMA Meetings/Conferences, NAHCR annual conference, and the World Job Summit. He has published numerous articles on staffing, just-in-time hiring, Lean Recruiting, and best practices of elite recruiters and is the author of The Recruiter Handbook and Best (and worst) advice for Job Seekers.
Elaine Orler, Faculty Member, Thought Leadership Institute
Elaine Orler, President & Co-Founder of Talent Function has been implementing recruitment software for large organizations since 1993. Her introduction to recruitment technology started as an employee of Qualcomm. She implemented an early version of Resumix and became the head of the regional user group for Resumix customers. She then joined Gateway Computers to define and lead a vendor selection process. She started her consulting career in 1999 for Watson Wyatt Consulting and has been instrumental at building recruitment software consulting practices for Talent Market Group, The Newman Group, and Knowledge Infusion. Elaine has taken an active role in over 75 recruitment software implementations across 15 different vendor platforms.
In her 16 years in the industry she has worked with both practitioners and solution providers to shape the way Talent Acquisition solutions are delivered. A dyed-in-the-wool “early adopter,” Elaine has guided her clients through the evolutionary shifts in the market including:
–The widespread adoption of enterprise-wide, client-server recruitment systems
–The dawn of Internet-based electronic recruiting (job boards)
–The emergence of SaaS recruitment solutions
–The move towards outsourced recruitment
–The proliferation of global recruitment implementations
–The emergence of the Talent Management paradigm
–The revolution of social media platforms
Pamela Teagarden, Faculty Member, Thought Leadership Institute
Pamela works at the intersection of business and psychology, seeing the business drivers in behavior measurement and using them to ensure organizations get real results. Starting her career as a banker and with addition of post graduate studies in corporate behavioral psychology she developed a ROI for people practices. She is certified in over 35 psychometric tools, partnering this with expert selection and use. She is recognized for making sense of data, marrying behavior with good strategy, and communicating information in a simple, meaningful way.
Mergers, acquisitions and organizational change have played an enormous part in Pam’s practice. Her experience in leading the merger of Price Waterhouse with Coopers & Lybrand gave her an understanding of, not only how to create a business culture, but the relative importance of culture to productivity, the retention and the market-share in any business. She continues to be an expert advisor in mergers, acquisitions and corporate change in companies of all sizes.
Having lived in Nizhneyvartovsk, Moscow, London, Washington DC and Dallas, Pam has a diverse and global perspective on human capital. Her clients include Microsoft, ABN-Amro,PricewaterhouseCoopers, Yum Restaurants International, Royal Bank of Scotland, Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers, KPMG, Deloitte and Unilever, among others. She works across small-to-medium companies, entrepreneurs and individuals.
Pam is the founder of both the Architects of Business and Corpus Operis, a global academy on workforce and innovation. She also serves as Director of the Talent Management Exchange of the Global Thought Leadership Institute. She is a consultant, coach, published author, widely read blogger, and sought-after keynote speaker.