List of Speakers

This is just a taste of who you will learn from at ERE Expo 2011 Fall. Check back often, as additional speakers get added:

Diane Borhani

Diane Borhani is currently the US National Campus Recruiting Lead, which she’s been serving in since September, 2006. Previously, she was the National Director of Campus Recruiting for Deloitte Consulting. Prior to joining our organization in 2005, she was the Global Director of University Relations for Motorola... [more]
Linda Brenner

Linda Brenner is Managing Director of Designs on Talent, a consulting firm based in Atlanta which helps organizations improve talent acquisition and talent management results. The firm has a unique approach to recruitment process improvement and recruiter assessment and development. Prior to consulting, Linda held talent acquisition and... [more]
Amy Buck

Amy Buck is a human resources leader with more than 19 years of broad experience in the high technology industry. Her passion is staffing and fueling company growth with top talent. Currently, she is the senior director for Cisco’s newly created Staffing Innovation Organization. Buck and her team ideate, incubate,... [more]
Steve Cadigan

Steve Cadigan joined LinkedIn in August 2009 to lead the organization’s employee growth around the world. He has more than 20 years of HR management experience in the U.S., Canada, and the Asia-Pacific region and has worked on acquisition integrations around the globe. Prior to his current role, he served... [more]
Bill Conley

Bill Conley is the head football coach at Ohio Dominican University, a private four-year liberal arts college, founded in 1911 in the Catholic and Dominican tradition. Conley gained national recognition as the Ohio State University football recruiting coordinator in 1991-92 and from 1994 to 2004. He was recognized by ESPN... [more]
Jeff Dickey-Chasins

Jeff Dickey-Chasins runs two consultancies: Job Board Doctor <http://www.jobboarddoctor.com/> , targeted at job board owners and operators, and Career Site Doctor <http://www.careersitedoctor.com/> , targeted at employers wishing to improve their online career areas. He is a veteran of the job board, publishing, and e-learning industries.... [more]
Jeremy Eskenazi

Jeremy is managing principal of Riviera Advisors, Inc., based in Long Beach, California, a leading human resources consulting firm focused on helping companies improve their internal recruiting processes. In addition to his more than 11 years of consulting with corporate staffing teams all over the globe, he has more than... [more]
Heather Flynn

Heather Flynn has more than 12 years of talent acquisition experience. She currently is a talent acquisition manager at Nike, where she is responsible for managing a team of recruiters, sourcers, and coordinators hiring for all corporate roles. She is also developing and leading the social media talent acquisition... [more]
Sjoerd Gehring

Sjoerd Gehring is Accenture’s global head of sourcing and the key architect of its successful employee referral program. [more]
Chris Hoyt

As a mobile marketing/recruiting evangelist, Chris Hoyt has been pushing the boundaries of each aspect of full-cycle recruiting for more than 15 years — most recently in his new role as talent engagement & Marketing Leader at PepsiCo. Historically he has successfully led the full-scale and enterprise-wide integration of social... [more]
Carmen Hudson

Carmen Hudson wears several hats. She is currently Engagement Manager, Sourcing and Social Media Strategy for Recruiting Toolbox and Founder and CEO of Tweetajob, Inc. Carmen draws from over 15 years of recruiting experience, with a strong focus on helping organizations attract, source and recruit top talent. Carmen’s expertise is in... [more]
Sharon Kaivani

Sharon Kaivani is a proven organizational effectiveness leader with a breadth of expertise in strategic change and talent management. She has 15 years experience crossing retail, financial services, transportation, and manufacturing sectors. Her career includes a blend of consulting and industry service. Prior to her current consulting work, Sharon... [more]
Daniel Kaplan

Dan Kaplan leads CTPartners’ global human resources practice and advises boards and CEOs on accessing and acquiring world-class leaders. His industry experience and knowledge of talent management issues are sought regularly by market influencers. He was named to BusinessWeek’s list of the World’s 50 Most Influential Headhunters in 2008. [more]
Tony Kubica

Tony Kubica and Sara LaForest are founding partners of Kubica & LaForest Consulting LLC. They are management consultants, executive coaches, and business performance improvement specialists. They have more than 50 years working with senior managers and executives to help them achieve greater results. They specialize in understanding the people factor... [more]
Sara LaForest

Tony Kubica and Sara LaForest are Founding Partners of Kubica & LaForest Consulting LLC. They are management consultants, executive coaches, and business improvement specialists. They have more than 50 years working with senior managers and executives to help them achieve greater results. They specialize in understanding the people factor of... [more]
Matt Lowney

Matt Lowney has 11 years of recruiting and talent development experience having worked for large fortune 500 companies and smaller, locally owned organizations. Currently he is the Executive Vice President of Talent and Operations at The Buntin Group, which is Tennessee’s largest, most awarded advertising agency. In this... [more]
Paul Marchand

Paul Marchand is currently the Head of Global Talent Acquisition of PepsiCo, a corporate vice president role he assumed in February of 2008. In this role he leads overall external hiring and internal mobility for PepsiCo, a $60B consumer packaged goods company with nearly 285,000 employees worldwide. The essence of... [more]
Shannon Myers

Shannon Myers is the Managing Partner of Walton Search, a firm that specializes in the Recruitment & Sourcing industry as well as Social Media for small businesses. Shannon began recruiting in 2001 and has always been passionate about exploring innovative recruitment and sourcing methods. She was introduced to the SourceCon... [more]
Elaine Orler

Elaine Orler 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... [more]
Brent Phillips

Commander Brent Phillips is the Director of Marketing and Advertising for Navy Recruiting Command. His department plans and executes marketing efforts to support over 4,500 Sailors in 1,500 recruiting stations across the United States. In 2009, the Navy launched, “America’s Navy – A Global Force for Good” as... [more]
Carol Schultz

Carol Schultz is a pioneer in the Recruitment Process Optimization and career strategy Industry. She has built a client base of countless individuals and myriad companies from early stage pre-IPOs to publicly traded companies. Over the past 25 years, she honed her industry expertise and formed an intrinsic understanding of... [more]
Sheila Stygar

Sheila is currently the Sr. Director of Talent Acquisition at PepsiCo, based in Chicago, IL. She is responsible for leading the Global Talent Acquisition Center of Excellence providing strategic design & leadership for many global projects and programs related to recruitment. Global recruitment technology implementation, Employment Branding, Campus... [more]
John Sullivan

Dr. John Sullivan is renowned the world over as a provocateur and strategist in the field of human resources and talent management. For more than 30 years he has offered his critique and insight to professionals seeking to develop a true competitive advantage for their organization through strategic talent management... [more]
John Vlastelica

John Vlastelica draws from 18 years of recruiting experience, including eight years as a corporate recruiting leader and five years as a recruitment management consultant and trainer. A Corporate Practitioner He has successfully built, scaled, and led large recruitment functions during critical growth periods for well-known organizations. He was the Senior Director,... [more]
Jason Warner

Jason Warner left corporate America to focus on entrepreneurship with a clear mission: to help organizations recruit better. In early 2011, he founded RecruitingDash, a recruitment software company that delivers world-class SaaS-based reports, metrics, dashboards, and analytics from existing applicant tracking software. As with other trends in Big Data, RecruitingDash... [more]
Kevin Wheeler

Kevin Wheeler is an entrepreneur, teacher, consultant to many Fortune 500 companies, as well as a noted author. He has founded a number of organizations including the Future of Talent Institute, Global Learning Resources, Inc. and the Australasian Talent Conference, Ltd. The Future of Talent Institute provides research, white... [more]
Wendell Williams

Dr. Wendell Williams is one of those rare individuals with both on-the-job experience and the academic expertise to back it up. His practical experience includes line, staff, and executive management positions. He has worked on production lines, managed work groups of all sizes, established large training departments, managed two companies,... [more]