Mike Adamo is Director, Global Talent Acquisition for Edwards Lifesciences, the global leader in the science of heart valves and hemodynamic monitoring. With more than 11 years of experience in medical device recruiting, Adamo leads a team that supports strategic global staffing and executive recruitment. Prior to Edwards,... [more]

Lou Adler is the president of The Adler Group, a training and consulting firm helping companies around the world find and hire top talent using Performance-based Hirings. He is the Amazon best-seller author of Hire With Your Head (John Wiley & Sons, 3rd Edition, 2007) and the new Nightingale-Conant audio... [more]

Stephen Balzac is a consultant, professional speaker, and president of 7 Steps Ahead (www.7stepsahead.com), an organizational-development firm focused on helping businesses to increase revenue and build their client bases. His book, “The 36-Hour Course in Organizational Development,” is due out from McGraw-Hill in Fall 2010. Contact him at steve@7stepsahead.com. [more]

Master Burnett currently serves as the Director of Strategy for BraveNewTalent, a UK based company working on a next generation talent engagement platform. In this role he is dedicated to devising solutions that enable organizations to engage their total workforce and support life-long career development. Prior to joining BraveNewTalent... [more]

Gerry Crispin is an internationally recognized speaker, author, and thought leader whose views on technology and HR — especially on staffing strategy and hiring processes — are ardently sought by many of the world’s most competitive corporations. He is passionate about how firms design and build staffing processes, the technology... [more]

Kat Drum is the Manager of Global Social Networks and Employment Brand Programs for RIM/BlackBerry. She touts a vast array of specialties, including: global employment branding, marketing segmentation, strategic sourcing, social networking, videos, and developing interactive solutions to include mobile applications and SMS campaigns. She works hard to create unprecedented... [more]

Licensed in California, Indiana and Florida, Effland represents clients nationwide in all areas and at all levels of employment litigation, from pre-litigation risk avoidance through trial and appeal. Additionally, he provides training and counseling on employment issues to management in both the private and public sector in many of the... [more]

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]

Julie Fletcher is the senior vice president of human resources and in that role provides leadership for attracting and supporting talent for the AMN Healthcare corporate staff. Ms. Fletcher joined AMN Healthcare in 2008 after having served as the Chief Human Resources Officer for H&R Block’s Option One Mortgage Company... [more]

Kim Gerrard is the Sales & Marketing Talent Acquisition Manager at Research In Motion, with over 11 years of recruitment expertise in the Financial and Telecommunications verticals, having worked at iconic Canadian companies including Nortel, Royal Bank of Canada, TELUS, and RIM. She is an authority on resurrecting recruitment relationships... [more]

Randy Goldberg is responsible for the planning, implementation, and evaluation of Hyatt’s recruiting programs and initiatives to ensure that Hyatt’s Talent needs are met. He works cross-functionally to establish Hyatt’s talent acquisition strategy and integrate it into business plans and company-wide practices. These efforts have led to recent recognition for... [more]

Charles Handler, Ph.D., is the president and founder of Rocket-Hire. Throughout his career he has specialized in developing effective, legally defensible employee selection systems. He has taken what he learned while developing recruitment and selection solutions for a wide variety of organizations and combined it with his love of technology... [more]

With more than 16 years of recruitment management and strategic talent acquisition experience, George Hoffmaster plays a key role in the development of talent acquisition strategies for complex enterprise organizations. His expertise comes as a result of leading large-scale recruitment teams on a global level as well as the management... [more]

Matthew Jeffery is the head of EMEA talent acquisition & global talent brand for Autodesk. He was the global director of talent brand for Electronic Arts, the leading developer & publisher of interactive entertainment. He possesses 10 years’ recruitment experience and over five years’ marketing & sales experience. Before heading... [more]

Dan Jessup has been with Groupon since June 2009, directing recruitment as the company scaled from approximately 50 employees that summer, to over 1,000 in North America in Q4 of 2010.  He transitioned to Vice President of Human Resources in the Fall of 2010, as the company began to build... [more]

Carrah Johnston is Manager, Change Management & Learning Programs, for the global talent acquisition team at Research In Motion and is responsible for leading the development and execution of learning and change strategies for the entire global recruitment organization. She resides in Waterloo, Ontario, and has held various roles since... [more]

Jenifer Lambert began her career in the recruiting industry, the way so many have. “I literally fell into it.” What started as a summer job coming out of college filling in for a recruiter on maternity leave, turned into the sort of perfect job match we all dream... [more]

Beth McCormick has worked at two National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore, in recruiting. Previous to her nine years with the Department of Engergy she recruited for a Bay Area high tech firm. She has a colorful background including a BS degree in Chemical Engineering. She worked as... [more]

Molesworth manages Intel’s external recruitment channels, including job boards, talent networks, and employee referral programs. He also led the design and implementation of a channel analytics dashboard that measures channel return on investment. He hails from Phoenix, Arizona. [more]

Based in the UK, Simon Moore is the Global Strategic Sourcing Manager for Research In Motion. His team is responsible for building talent communities for future vacancies throughout the world. He began his recruitment career as a Resourcer for an executive search organization. Quickly moving into the role of recruitment... [more]

Melissa Mounce leads the talent acquisition group for PNC Financial Services. Her team consists of 200+ managers, recruiters, sourcers, and screeners that fill 20,000 openings annually. PNC is the 5th largest bank in the US with over 2,400 branches in 16 states and 56,000 employees. She is an innovator and... [more]

Peery is responsible for driving strategic partnerships with internal partners and external vendors to deliver proactive and reactive candidate supply through virtual channels. She has more than 11 years of engineering recruiting experience and has spent the last three years developing and driving virtual recruiting strategies and pushing social media... [more]

Lisa Rosser is the founder of The Value Of a Veteran, a training and consulting firm that teaches organizations HOW to develop military veteran recruitment and retention strategies. Her expertise combines 22 years of military service and 14+ years of HR staffing and consulting experience. [more]

Morit Rozen is a veteran HR leader in Israel. She has experience in different managerial roles in HR at Intel’s Fab18 @ Israel, as part of the startup HR team, and manager of the Fab’s recruiting team during the Fab ramp (1,500 hires in two years). In 2005 she founded... [more]

Originally educated in the British school system, Shaheen received his undergraduate degree in Engineering and Physics from Murray State University, and began his career as a process engineer. In his role he was responsible for applying Lean and Six Sigma business improvement methodologies to manufacturing environments. He has earned his... [more]

Often compared to a shot of adrenalin for recruiters held back by confusion, hesitation or fear, Shally is passionate about encouraging people to experiment in their search for talent and color outside the lines with audacity. Because of his unparalleled obsession with sourcing, and continuous drive to probe for practical... [more]

Stephens is the Recruitment Marketing Program Manager for Intel’s Global Staffing organization. He is responsible for Intel’s strategy for employer branding, recruitment marketing, and social media. He brings traditional marketing experience to the business of talent acquisition. He is based in Portland, Oregon. [more]

As an experienced research expert with more than 15 years of experience, Stoker serves as AIRS’s Senior Director of Training. She leads AIRS sourcing research and course development. Since joining AIRS in 2000, Laura has trained numerous recruiters and corporate clients from many different industries around the world. She began... [more]

Dr John Sullivan is an internationally known HR thought-leader from the Silicon Valley who specializes in providing bold and high business impact; strategic Talent Management solutions to large corporations. He’s a prolific author with over 900 articles and 10 books covering all areas of Talent Management. He has written over... [more]

William Tincup, SPHR is an experienced entrepreneur and senior executive who helps HR teams do great work. He describes himself as a specialist in user adoption marketing, employee communications, internal branding, HR software marketing, branding strategy, message strategy, and social media strategy. He’s also one of the country’s leading thinkers... [more]

Stacy Van Meter is an innovative, experienced emerging media leader. A passionate entrepreneur, she has spent most of her 20 year career working in newly created or undefined roles. She has a geeky dedication to developing creative solutions to complex business problems. In her current role as Talent Community... [more]

John Vlastelica draws from almost 20 years of recruiting and HR experience, including almost 10 years as a corporate recruiting leader and 7 years as a recruitment management consultant and trainer. He was the senior director, global recruiting for Expedia and a recruiting director at Amazon.com. Now, through his consulting... [more]

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]

Susan is the Director of Corporate Human Resources for FMC Corporation, a global specialty chemical manufacturing firm, where she has responsibility for the development and delivery of corporate human resource programs and services. She re-joined FMC in 2010, after serving as the Chief Human Resources Officer for Staff One, Inc.,... [more]

Keith Watts, a founding and Co-Managing Shareholder of the Orange County, California, office practices exclusively labor and employment law and has handled a wide variety of matters, including sexual harassment, age discrimination, disability and wrongful termination claims. His employment law practice focuses heavily on the “prevention side” of employment claims... [more]

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]

For over 10 years, Jason has specialized in recruitment marketing and technology, working with clients to develop award-winning recruiting campaigns and career Web sites. At Indeed, Jason focuses on client education, measurement and tracking, helping clients track the ROI of their online recruitment advertising and understand the performance of... [more]

Mary Wright advises employers from startups to global corporations on all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including workplace investigations, competition and confidentiality, employee classification issues, and employee terminations, including reductions in force. She served as Chair of her former firm’s Personnel Committee for seven years, during which time she learned... [more]

John is the founder and CEO of Accolo ([www.accolo.com](http://www.accolo.com) ). Accolo is recognized as a pioneer in Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) – winning numerous awards including: 2010 HRO’s Bakers Dozen as a Top On-Demand RPO company and #1 On-Demand Recruitment Process Outsourcing company in 2009 and 2008, one... [more]

John was a newspaper reporter and editor until his geek gene lead him to launch his first website in 1994. Never a recruiter, he instead built online employment sites and sold advertising services to recruiters and employers. As VP of one large media operation, his employment revenue alone approached $2.5... [more]