Dustin Talley is the founder and lead consultant at Talent Simplified. Talent Simplified is a consulting firm focused on helping companies build and grow direct-to-talent solutions. In In addition to Talent Simplified, he leads Direct Collective – a community of contingent program leaders for education and networking.

Dustin spent the last 15 years building better contingent labor programs. He combines his background in MSP, VMS, IC Compliance, Payroll, and Direct Sourcing to help companies build manager and talent centric programs and solutions. As an early advocate in direct sourcing, Dustin has implemented over 30 direct sourcing programs. He also launched a two-sided talent marketplace and commercialized digital staffing platform.