Joel Patterson is the founder of The Vested Group, a business and technology consulting firm in the Dallas, Texas area. Joel has worked in the consulting field for over 20 years. He began his consulting career at Arthur Andersen and Capgemini before helping found Lucidity Consulting Group in 2001.

For 15 years Joel specialized in implementing Tier One ERP, software systems designed to service the needs of large, complex corporations with many departments and locations. These systems were too complex and expensive to meet the needs of his smaller customers.

With the small-to-medium market in mind and years of experience under his belt, he founded The Vested Group in 2011. The Vested Group focuses on bringing comprehensive cloud-based business management solutions to start-ups and well-established businesses alike. Joel and his exceptional team at The Vested Group strive to exceed client expectations and deliver solutions and support that allow companies to thrive.

Joel holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Baylor University. When he’s not creating a fun company culture at The Vested Group, Joel enjoys watching baseball with friends, listening to new music, and spending time outside. He attributes his success to his lovely wife and his patience to his children.

Episode transcription:

[00:00:00] Joel Patterson: [00:00:00] Recruiting has become the number one thing. And we want to always keep that recruiting pipeline filled because we're always looking for really solid culture fits and people that want to learn. And that doesn't just happen when you're in a hiring mode. So you've always gotta be thinking about that and you have to have recruiting in a hiring process that matches it. So what we've done, because we struggled with it just like. Any company, but we've got a process that we're pretty happy with now, and it really starts with a video. So what we tell people is that when you want to apply or you're interested in the organization, whether you were referred in, or you came in through an ad, we will ask you for a two minute video about why you're a good fit for the Vested Group. And that's all the instructions that we give.

You're listening to Ivy podcast, where we feature weekly leadership conversations with thought leaders and industry experts. Now, here is your host, Courtney Dominguez.

[00:01:07] [00:01:00] Cortney Dominguez: [00:01:07] Joel Patterson, welcome to the Ive Podcast. Thanks for hanging out with me today.

[00:01:13] Joel Patterson: [00:01:13] Thank you, Courtney. Glad to be here.

[00:01:15] Cortney Dominguez: [00:01:15] It's been a while. So, tell me a little bit about, obviously tell our listeners about your background and also about the Vested Group.

[00:01:23] Joel Patterson: [00:01:23] They're heavy too. So, Courtney and I have known each other for a lot of years. And if I've done a lot of work together over the years though, it's been a little while, so I had been in the ERP space for over 20 years. And for those of you who don't know what that is, it's basically enterprise, software and really the process of developing requirements and working with companies to define who they want to be, what their future state really looks like. And then implementing a system to support that growth and that expansion in all phases of their business, whether it's accounting and financials or order taking. And we work a lot with industrial manufacturing companies. So we get to work with a lot of companies that are doing some really cool things, making new products, but also companies that have been doing the same thing for a lot of years. Like we've got a company that makes electrical cable. So, for homes. So there's a good variety of companies that we work with. This is the cool thing about this industry and you and I got to work together a long time ago, implementing these systems for various companies, so, yeah, that and I'm actually working on my second company now star