The Workforce Agility Podcast

Arran Stewart is the Co-Founder and CVO of blockchain-powered recruitment platform Job.com. Arran has spent over a decade working to disrupt the recruitment industry with innovative, first-of-its-kind technology. His expertise on hiring, recruitment, technology, and macro job market trends has been featured in Forbes, Inc., Reuters, Wired, Fortune, and Nasdaq, among others.

Don Townsend is an executive search consultant and an executive coach for senior leaders new to their roles. Don has experience in the energy, computer, telecommunications, instrumentation, IT services, financial services, and engineering/construction industries. He has conducted senior leadership and board of director assignments in Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States. He is particularly skilled in finding European leadership for US firms and American leadership for the US operations of European firms. In addition to his executive search work, Don assists chairmen and CEOs in recruiting directors for their boards. He has published articles on governance topics in Directors Monthly and Strategy & Leadership. Don was a Vice President at A.T. Kearney, the global management consultancy, from 1997 to 2003. Prior to that, he held Human Resources positions with Hilti AG, Teradata, and AT&T. During his industry years, Don also held leadership roles in Quality and Marketing. Don has bachelors and masters degrees from The University of Texas at Austin. He lives in Dallas, Texas.

As the CEO & Founder of Atlanta-based Mission Recruit, Patricia is driving force introducing human design to corporate America. With more than a decade of experience working with Fortune 500 companies nationwide, she launched Mission Recruit with the vision of delivering best-in-class services by combining the sophistication of a large recruiting company with the heart and personalization of a smaller staffing agency. Her extensive background in the industry started with a corporate recruiting career with a global leader in the IT staffing industry before transitioning to national staffing, as well as positions in strategy and philanthropy. Her strong entrepreneurial spirit is a result of her parents’ influence, immigrants from the Philippines, who taught her life’s most important lessons – and above all – the significance of giving back.

Topics:

• Business differentiators for a successful Agency setup

Len Adams is Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Adams Consulting Group/ACG Resources. He has a 40-year record of achievement in meeting the Talent Acquisition (Executive Search, Staffing and Consulting) needs of many prestigious corporations, software companies, banks, Insurance companies and financial services institutions – locally, nationally and internationally. In addition, the firm works with a diverse portfolio of client companies, ranging from Start ups to Middle market firms.

Along with the entire team, Len is committed to ensuring that ACG consistently provides clients and candidates with the highest quality of service possible in the Search and Staffing Industry. As a career Certified Personnel Consultant, Adams is an accomplished lecturer at the university and secondary school levels on various subjects relating to career planning, business ethics, recruiting and search.

Larry Brantley is the president of Chaloner. Chaloner is a national executive search firm specializing in communications, public relations and marketing recruitment.

Larry has more than 30 years of experience in the communications, marketing and advertising fields. One of his first key jobs was as a packaging designer at Frito-Lay where he developed his networking and people skills. He eventually started the first creative staffing firm in the DFW area. Since then he has been involved in recruiting and placement of industry professionals both nationally and internationally.

Larry has worked with such firms as JCPenney, HP, Perdue Farms, McDonalds, Texas Instruments, Johnson Outdoors, PRSA, TracyLocke, MaDougall Biotech, Phillips 66, Frito-Lay and Edelman. He has placed brand, creative, account service, interactive/web, public relations, marketing, media, traffic, production and other executive level talent.

Larry has been interviewed as a staffing industry expert by Business Insider, The Wall Street Journal, The Dallas Morning News, The Houston Chronicle, PROMO Magazine, Communication Arts Magazine, Dallas Men Magazine, The Dallas Business Journal and The Houston Business Journal. He is an award-winning designer through IABC (International Association of Business Communicators) and is a long-term member of AAF where he serves as a part of the executive leadership for the 10th district and Vice Chair for AAF Council of Governors on the national level.

He currently splits his time between Dallas and NYC. He has 3 sons.

Dan Fantasia is the President of Treeline, Inc., the nation’s top sales recruiting firm. Dan founded Treeline, Inc. in 2001 and since its launch the company has helped its clients hire more than 3,000 sales professionals nationally. The company has been recognized as One of America’s Best Executive Recruiting Firms by Forbes, an Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Company, one of the Best Places to Work in the Country and in Massachusetts for two decades by Inc. and the BBJ, one of the 50 Fastest Growing Private Companies in MA, and has received numerous awards for its sales hiring technology that gives hiring executives more insight into the hiring process. Dan Fantasia is recognized as an expert in the sales industry, and a trusted advisor to companies looking to harness a sales network of hidden talent.

As SVP, Head of Government and Industry Affairs with LHH, Murielle Antille is responsible for the relationships with external stakeholders such as policy makers, institutions, communities or think tanks. As a member of the Global Leadership Team and global thought leadership council, Murielle acts as an internal advisor on topics related to labor markets, regulations and further external developments impacting LHH’s activities. In the past, she held various functions in global sales as well as lead LHH European talent development business. Prior to joining LHH, Murielle worked in international business development, human capital management and partner management. Murielle is also the global chair of the Career Management Network at the World Employment Confederation, the global sector association of private employment firms.

Murielle holds an M.A. (lic. rer. publ. HSG) in economics, law and political science from the University of St. Gallen (HSG), Switzerland

Terri Gallagher is the founder of Gallagher and Consultants, a WBENC Certified Gig Workforce Solutions Company. She has over 20 years’ experience as a Gig Workforce Expert and has made it her personal mission to elevate the Gig workforce industry by leveraging a trademarked ecosystem model of delivery that includes best of breed talent, technology, and alliance partners to provide contingent workforce and multi talent supply solutions. She is also an accomplished speaker, writer and published author.

Topics:

• The rise of the external workforce and Soloprenuer movement