Ken Eslick is the President of Summit Careers a talent acquisition firm specializing in placing leaders with Fortune 500 companies. Prior to starting Summit Ken was a VP of Sales and Operations for Cintas. While with Cintas Ken led teams as large as 1000 and was the dealmaker on more than 50 acquisitions totaling over $300,000,000 in revenue. Earlier in Ken’s career he served in the U.S. Army and started and sold his first company to Cintas. As a lifelong learner Ken is very active with Tony Robbins as a Senior Leader and was the previous COO of M1. Some of Ken’s awards include being a lifetime appointee of International Who’s Who in Business, a multi-year LinkedIn top 1% member, a two time Rotary International Club President, a three time NYC Marathon finisher, and Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the year finalist. Ken has been married to M1 alumni Shannon for 33 years and they have two children and two grandchildren. Ken & Shannon live in Brooklyn, NY.

John is a certified human resources professional with over 35 years’ experience. Starting in the newspaper industry, he worked for local newspapers owed by Dow Jones & Company Inc. and worked with publishers all over the country. After leaving newspapers, John joined a direct response marketing team that grew from a 30-person call center to over 300 sales professionals in less than three years. He now works in municipal government addressing employee concerns for a small team of 70, while handling community relations for over 30,000 commercial and residential customers. He is active in community service, his church, and is a Governor-appointed Justice of the Peace in Massachusetts.

Linzee and Steve are the Founders of Ciprani Consulting– a recruiting and training company that specializes in the field of small business building and recruiting. This company has placed and trained over 3000 talented individuals within the small business community. In addition, Linzee is the Founder of The Linzee Ciprani Team- a real estate team within Keller Williams that uses the processes and systems of Ciprani Consulting. The Linzee Ciprani Team was built from the ground up in 1 year and closes $40,000,000 a year. The couple also owns Ciprani Productions which has multiple training programs for sale to help Real Estate Teams double or triple their businesses, multiple rental properties and the co hosts of The Leader Equation leadership podcast. They are the true description of entrepreneurs. 

Damon has a perfected the formula for hiring the right candidates and on this episode he shares his secret sauce.

As far as business goes, over a decade ago Damon beat a billion dollar company by outranking their website on Google. Since then, he knew he was onto something and has gone on to build an international search engine marketing company that’s worked with NBA teams, and Inc 5000 & Shark Tank featured businesses.

In the decade+ of running a global team, surprisingly, he’s never met ANY of his team in person. Burton can speak on how to manage a remote team, as well as how he approaches dedicating time to family and balancing it all.

Having started his business right before the 2008 recession, Damon is familiar navigating and growing a business through times like today.  Never before has there been so many people needing something to focus their attention on… AND the time to do it.

Erin is a Career Accelerator and delivers Executive level coaching for the experienced, driven professionals. She firmly believes that your career success has less to do with your expertise and more to do with your presence and positioning. As an industry-leading Certified Professional Development and Leadership Development Coach, she is your results partner with action-based coaching to remove the roadblocks keeping you from seeing the career results you want. What surprises most professionals is how much change they see from small, yet significant shifts in their professional brand.

As a Principal of Prince, Perelson & Associates, Josh leads the firm and specializes in the recruitment of executives across the globe. Drawing on a decade of experience, Josh is a strategic and consultative recruiter. An expert in identifying the top tier talent with a cultural fit for the role, he is driven by a passion to exceed clients' expectations and thrives on building elite executive teams.  Josh started his recruitment career with Prince, Perelson & Associates in 1999. During his time he recruited heavily across Utah and developed a vast talent pool of highly diverse individuals. Several years later, he transitioned into the role of Executive Recruiter, where he stays actively involved in the recruitment, market development, and delivery of leadership talent.

Contact Josh: [email protected] 

Twila Alexander is the Manager of HR and Talent for EDUCAUSE, a non-profit association that works with higher education institutions and industry partners to advance technology in higher education. She holds a Master's degree in human resources and industrial relations from Loyola University Chicago and has worked in human resources, people development and recruiting for over 20 years.  She started out her career receiving resumes through snail mail, then thermal fax, then email, and soon text, and is looking forward to seeing what comes next. Twila's professional interests are centered on improving organizational diversity through re-imagined recruiting, hiring and training practices.  She currently enjoys working from her make-shift home office near Boulder, Colorado. 

Tony is a Silicon Valley based Human Resources Leader. He has spent his career helping companies improve their culture and giving leaders and employees guidance on how to build great places to work. He has authored a book on how to address difficult bosses called Tangling with Tyrants: Managing the Balance of Power at Work, as well as created a mobile coaching app called iPocket Coach. He holds a Master’s in Organizational Development and Human Resources from the University of San Francisco and is a certified coach. He has been featured in media including Psychology Today, CBS Moneywatch, and CNN.

If you're having challenges getting interviews or articulating your best responses during the interview (and not getting called back or any offers), or, you're not clear on what your new career path should be, this is the Podcast for you! Your front row seat gives you immediate access to hear what America’s Top Hiring Managers and Recruiters have to say about how to land your dream job faster. You will learn exactly what you need to say and do to compete and win the job you want in today’s challenging workplace. And, you’ll hear it right from the horse’s mouth…the actual people who could hire you!