The Power of People: Meet the 80+ Engage Boston Speakers
The staffing industry is constantly evolving, but one thing remains constant: staffing is all about people. Technology, talent, innovation, leadership—they’re all driven by the power of people, the theme of Engage this year.
And what would a conference about the power of people be without an all-star line up of inspiring, informative, and insightful speakers? Across three incredible days, you’ll hear from 80+ power-house speakers and learn how to transform our industry, your business, and peoples’ lives through the power of people and technology.
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These expert speakers will cover everything from building trusted relationships and providing skilled talent, to the technologies enabling scalability and transforming the recruiting landscape. They’ll address the complex challenges facing our industry and our world today like digitization and automation, the opportunity divide, talent shortages, globalization, and diversity.
Read up on the first round of Engage Boston 2018 speakers here, then read on below to learn about the next round of Engage Boston speakers!
Meet these marketing mavens
What does it mean to be a chief marketing officer in the staffing industry? As the role—and the industry—becomes more people-focused and data-focused, the answer to the question is constantly evolving. Bullhorn Chief Marketing Officer Gordon Burnes has assembled a panel of CMOs who will discuss the challenges and opportunities they face around ideas like budget allocation, account-based marketing, and candidate engagement. The panel will also introduce exclusive research data that attendees can leverage to improve their 2018 marketing outcomes.
Gordon Burnes, CMO, Bullhorn
Follow on Twitter Follow on LinkedInLeslie Vickrey, CEO and Founder, ClearEdge Marketing
Follow on Twitter Follow on LinkedInKyle Power, Sr. Director, Interactive Marketing, CHG Healthcare Services
Follow on Twitter Follow on LinkedInAdam Bleibtreu, CMO, On Assignment & Creative Circle
Follow on Twitter Follow on LinkedInMeet these healthcare staffing stars
Healthcare is a red-hot, high-growth sector within staffing, but it’s also full of unique challenges. The healthcare staffing industry is one where ‘getting it right’ actually can be a matter of life or death. The talent pools are smaller, the requirements are higher, and the opportunities are highly appealing. So how can you use the power of people to overcome these challenges?
Bullhorn’s Gretchen Keefner will lead this all-star panel of healthcare staffing leaders to speak frankly about the candidate engagement challenges that keep them up at night, strategies for overcoming them, and where they see the market headed in light of potential legislative changes.
Gretchen Keefner, Managing Director, Bullhorn
Follow on Twitter Follow on LinkedInAbigail Tremble, President, Randstad Health
Follow on Twitter Follow on LinkedInBuffy White, SVP Recruiting Strategy, Cross Country Healthcare
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There’s no escaping the omnipresence of the skills shortage in discussions about the staffing industry. But what if this skills shortage doesn’t really exist? Cindy Pasky believes that there really isn’t a skills shortage if you know where to look. It may just be a matter of asking the right questions. Do you have inherent biases that you need to overcome? Are you nurturing a corporate and candidate culture that appeals to marginalized but qualified talent pools such as veterans, returning mothers, and the LGBT community?
Cindy will discuss how Strategic Staffing Solutions’ unique culture has helped the company attract a huge and loyal roster of consultants and how they leverage technology to make their recruiters even more human and effective at their jobs, so that you too can use the power of people to thrive as a business.
Cindy Pasky, Founder, President, CEO, Strategic Staffing Solutions
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We’re thrilled to announce our next keynote speaker at Engage Boston 2018—Joyce Russell! Joyce Russell will be participating in a fireside chat with Bullhorn CEO, Art Papas.
Few people embody the power of people in staffing like Joyce Russell. Joyce—who was named one of the 10 Most Intriguing People in Staffing by Staffing Industry Review Magazine and part of the Global Power 100: Women in Staffing list by Staffing Industry Analysts—has had an impressive career in staffing spanning 30 years.
As the most senior ranking woman in the United States’ staffing industry, Joyce Russell has channeled her passionate and strategic leadership to lead the largest business unit of Adecco Group North America, with more than 450 branch locations, approximately 1,800 colleagues and a diverse portfolio of clients, including many of the Fortune 500.
Joyce Russell, President, Adecco Staffing US
Follow on Twitter Follow on LinkedInMeet these leaders who challenge adversity
Recent social media movements like #MeToo, #TimesUp, #OscarsSoWhite, and #NeverAgain, have embodied the power of people to fight for change. And the people at the center of those movements—or opposed to —are your candidates, your employees, and your customers. How, as leaders, do we navigate the social and cultural challenges that affect our world, our homes, and our businesses? Bullhorn’s Vinda Souza will explore these themes and more with this panel of leaders who have faced or are helping people navigate adversity including gender and racial biases, sexual harassment, economic disenfranchisement, age bias, and much more.
Louis Song, Co-Founder, Proven Recruiting
Follow on Twitter Follow on LinkedInMegan McCann, CEO and Founder, McCann Partners
Follow on Twitter Follow on LinkedInBill Peppler, COO, Kavaliro
Follow on Twitter Follow on LinkedInDiane Johnson Flynn, CEO and Co-Founder, ReBoot Accel
Follow on Twitter Follow on LinkedInVinda Souza, VP Marketing Communications, Bullhorn
Follow on Twitter Follow on LinkedInMeet these global thinkers
What does “Think locally, act globally” mean in an era of Brexit, data protection regulations, financial oversight, trade tariffs, and a continuously shifting political landscape? This panel of global staffing and recruitment leaders led by Bullhorn’s David Stott will provide their thoughts on how to navigate and grow a business in a rapidly evolving and oftentimes counter-intuitive economic climate.
Janette Marx, Global COO, Airswift
Follow on Twitter Follow on LinkedInChris Hartman, Global Development Officer, Allegis
Follow on Twitter Follow on LinkedInYvette Cleland, CEO, Clinical Professionals
Follow on Twitter Follow on LinkedInDavid Stott, VP, Enterprise International, Bullhorn
Follow on Twitter Follow on LinkedInMeet this vocational training pioneer
The talent shortage is the top cited challenge for staffing firms. But much of the complaints levied against the perpetual “skills gap” are actually complaints against the limitations of obvious talent pools. When one looks beyond the obvious—and towards retraining and vocational education opportunities—a whole new world of skilled labor emerges. Richard Wahlquist—a staffing leader and expert with his finger on the pulse of national legislation affecting the staffing industry—will elucidate the tremendous potential of vocational training in a lively fireside chat.
Richard Wahlquist, President and CEO, American Staffing Association
Follow on Twitter Follow on LinkedInMeet these M&A masterminds
How do you plan to grow your business? Organically or through acquisitions? Will you build or to buy? It was the subject of Bullhorn CEO Art Papas’ Keynote speech at Engage 2017, and the questions are even more pertinent now. With private equity companies taking a keen interest in the staffing industry, an influx of funding, cheap debt, and a plethora of intelligence to be leveraged through “acqui-hiring,” now is an incredible time to build your business through M&A. Bullhorn’s Ryan Murphy will lead a panel consisting of storied staffing leaders and PE experts to shed light on the opportunities inherent to staffing M&A.
Timothy Billings, Partner, Quad-C Management
Follow on Twitter Follow on LinkedInGreg Netland, Founder and Principal, The Netland Group
Follow on LinkedInBrian Waller, Chief Strategy Officer and Founding Partner, Vaco
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Ryan Murphy, Global Head of Enterprise, Bullhorn
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In addition to these sessions about the people, ideas, and technologies powering the staffing industry, Engage Boston will be jam-packed with speakers who will help you harness the power of Bullhorn and the Bullhorn Ecosystem. On Wednesday, June 13th, these speakers—a mix of industry leaders who use Bullhorn and Bullhorn developers and experts—will cover tips, advice, product updates, and more.
Gina Chisholm, Director, Marketing and Technology, KellyMitchell Group—More Placements, More Money: Maximizing Your Efficiency with Bullhorn
Justin Thomason, Regional Director of Recruiting, Matrix—Scaling with Bullhorn
Jason Smith, VP, Enterprise Americas, Bullhorn—Change Management and Organizational Evolution
Rob Waddell, SVP and CIO, Principal—FOMO: Making the Most of the Bullhorn Ecosystem
Jeff Neumann, Senior Director, Product Marketing, Bullhorn AND Mitesh Ashar, VP, Technical Product Management, Bullhorn—The Novo Experience
Ed Holmes, SVP, Workforce and Revenue Cloud, Bullhorn AND Kendra Cato, Senior Manager, Enterprise Research and Strategy, Bullhorn—Evolution of the Middle Office: Vision, Roadmap, and Strategy
Shaun Weise, Managing Director, Global Accounts, Bullhorn AND Lee Elkinson, CEO, Snelling AND Rob Lowry, EVP, Apex Systems—C-levels and the CRM
Gary Cook, President and CEO Pacific Companies Inc. and Matt Dichter, Senior Account Executive, Bullhorn—Healthcare Best Practices: A Case Study
The Bullhorn Development team: Adam Crowe, John Sullivan, Brian Kimball, Nathan Dickerson, Amrutha Rajiv, Joshua Godi, Charles Barnes, Beth Carretto, Keith Goff, Jay Pennington
These 50+ speakers at Engage Boston will help inspire, influence, and reshape the way you think about the staffing industry and the power of people. And there are still more speakers to come! Subscribe to the blog to ensure that you get all the latest and greatest Engage updates.
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More about Engage
Discover how to more effectively engage talent, leadership, and the future of staffing at Engage, the leading staffing and recruiting conference in North America. Over three full days, recruitment leaders and practitioners will come together for unparalleled industry insights and tactical Bullhorn product training. With more than 1,000 attendees, Engage is the best event to make new connections and learn from the brightest minds in the field but is still intimate enough that you’ll see some of your favorite staffing friends. Register now.
