Author, Mentor, & Facilitator,
Katrina Collier Limited
Collaborative hiring
Katrina Collier is on a mission to end the collaboration chaos that ruins recruitment and candidate experience; exacerbated by hybrid working. She is one of 2 people globally delivering design-thinking workshops specifically for recruitment, that swiftly help companies fix the real issues preventing successful talent acquisition. She is also a Mentor, Author of The Robot-Proof Recruiter, a global keynote speaker, and host of The Hiring Partner Perspective podcast. Katrina is an Ambassador for Hope for Justice charity, and you’ll find her on LinkedIn and on Instagram & Twitter @KatrinaMCollier.
Founder and CEO,
Blue Haired Unicorn
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Madison Butler is a native New Englander who has brought her east coast energy to Texas. She is a Black, queer woman, and she is also a survivor. She is the owner/founder of Blue Haired Unicorn, a consulting agency. Her work is focused around designing spaces and creating scalable strategies to achieve psychological safety. She is an outspoken advocate for mental health, removing the stigma around trauma and advocates for being “human at work’. She is passionate about facilitating hard conversations through storytelling, data and tough empathy. Madison has been featured in major news outlets such as New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Business Insider and Der Spiegel. She has been recognised by Linkedin as a top Black voice to follow. She was also recognised as Austin’s rising star by DivInc in 2021.She is looked upon as an expert in her field and is passionate about using her platform to have the hard conversations.Madison is committed to deconstructing the status quo and rebuilding corporate America, one organization at a time. Her mission is to ensure that no one ever feels like spaces were not made for them because we all deserve to live out loud. She is a start-up enthusiast and is passionate about building inclusive teams from the ground up with early stage companies. Madison is committed to helping change the narrative around what it looks like to be “human at work”, and hopes to reshape the way we look at ourselves at work and in life.
Founder and CEO,
Blue Haired Unicorn
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Madison Butler is a native New Englander who has brought her east coast energy to Texas. She is a Black, queer woman, and she is also a survivor. She is the owner/founder of Blue Haired Unicorn, a consulting agency. Her work is focused around designing spaces and creating scalable strategies to achieve psychological safety. She is an outspoken advocate for mental health, removing the stigma around trauma and advocates for being “human at work’. She is passionate about facilitating hard conversations through storytelling, data and tough empathy. Madison has been featured in major news outlets such as New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Business Insider and Der Spiegel. She has been recognised by Linkedin as a top Black voice to follow. She was also recognised as Austin’s rising star by DivInc in 2021.She is looked upon as an expert in her field and is passionate about using her platform to have the hard conversations.Madison is committed to deconstructing the status quo and rebuilding corporate America, one organization at a time. Her mission is to ensure that no one ever feels like spaces were not made for them because we all deserve to live out loud. She is a start-up enthusiast and is passionate about building inclusive teams from the ground up with early stage companies. Madison is committed to helping change the narrative around what it looks like to be “human at work”, and hopes to reshape the way we look at ourselves at work and in life.
CEO and Founder,
Three Ears Media
Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
Katrina (Kat) Kibben [they/them] is a keynote speaker, writing expert, and LGBTQIA+ advocate who teaches hiring teams how to write inclusive, unbiased job postings that attract exceptional talent. With 15+ years of recruitment marketing and training experience, Katrina knows how to turn talented recruiting teams into empathetic, confident writers. They’re a featured expert in publications like The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and Forbes and have been named to numerous lists, including LinkedIn’s Top Voices in Job Search & Careers. When not speaking, writing, or training, you’ll find Katrina traveling the country in their van.
Senior Technical Recruiter,
Twitter
Sourcing
Brian Fink is currently a Senior Sourcing Technical Recruiter for Twitter. With 10+ years of specialized recruiting experience, he has helped a wide range of professionals ranging from entry-level candidates (new grads) to C-Suite executives take the next step up in their careers and stretch their professional capabilities. Brian specializes in recruitment tooling, building boolean strings, natural language search, and raw sourcing. He believes and advocates that you are never done learning, regardless of where you are in your career.
Co-Founder & Director of Creative Content @ Boom Chicago
Hybrid workspace
Brian Fink is currently a Senior Sourcing Technical Recruiter for Twitter. With 10+ years of specialized recruiting experience, he has helped a wide range of professionals ranging from entry-level candidates (new grads) to C-Suite executives take the next step up in their careers and stretch their professional capabilities. Brian specializes in recruitment tooling, building boolean strings, natural language search, and raw sourcing. He believes and advocates that you are never done learning, regardless of where you are in your career.
Head Cheerleader,
The Talent Hunter
Sourcing
Vanessa Raath is an International Talent Sourcing Trainer who is passionate about training Recruiters & Sourcers to find the best talent, more effectively and efficiently than their competitors. She has trained a large number of recruitment agencies, as well as many internal Talent Acquisition Teams, in all parts of the world. Some of her clients include Twitter, Adobe and Eventbrite, to name a few. Vanessa also still actively works as a Freelance Global Talent Sourcer. She knows that by staying active and operational in this space, she is better equipped to train others to source candidates better. Her speciality lies in the Tech space as this is where her experience, and passion, lies. Currently, Vanessa is the Head Cheerleader, or Owner, of The Talent Hunter (https://www.vanessaraath.com). When she is not training Recruiters to source, or sourcing herself, you will probably find her delivering a keynote presentation on a stage near you.
Talent Sourcing & Recruitment,
WAN-party mentor, Riot Games
Sourcing
Alla Pavlova, Tech Recruiter and Sourcer, based in Amsterdam. Building tech teams from 2008. Got lucky to be a part of Miro, GameHouse, Viber, Dott, My.Games, Blendle, Relive, and other great companies’ journeys. Currently scaling Riot Games Hong Kong & Singapore studio.
Leading Slack Platform Community in Amsterdam and conducting weekly free WAN-parties for Tech Sourcers.
Love creating and testing sourcing tools, pair-sourcing with other sourcers, programming on Scratch or playing computer games. Any AD carry looking for a good support?
Director, Talent Acquisition,
Remote
HR tech
Anastasia is the Director of Talent Acquisition at Remote, one of the most fast-paced unicorn companies. In one year alone her team has hired 750+ team members and she’s always willing to share their story and global hiring best practices with the community.Anastasia always said that a well-developed technology becomes magic in real life. She is extremely passionate about people, and the changes and impact brought by technologies for them - it drives her recruiting career and life. Anastasia’s previous experience is focused heavily on Recruiting for big Tech industry players. Prior to Remote she built from scratch and led the Global Sourcing at GitLab and before that she was driving various recruiting initiatives at Uber, Dell, and a local data science start-up.All her free time is devoted to her family and traveling, and she is still in search of an ideal mix of these 2 hobbies.
Founder,
Select Software Reviews
HR tech
Phil Strazzulla is the founder of SSR, a site dedicated to helping HR Teams find and buy the right software through free online guides.
Senior Technical
Recruiter
Hybrid workspace
Brian Fink is currently a Senior Sourcing Technical Recruiter for Twitter. With 10+ years of specialized recruiting experience, he has helped a wide range of professionals ranging from entry-level candidates (new grads) to C-Suite executives take the next step up in their careers and stretch their professional capabilities. Brian specializes in recruitment tooling, building boolean strings, natural language search, and raw sourcing. He believes and advocates that you are never done learning, regardless of where you are in your career.
Strategic Advisor,
HRTechRadar
HR tech
Anita Lettink has spent more than 20 years of her career in global consulting, corporate and executive leadership roles. She has in-depth knowledge of the HCM and Payroll Ecosystem and is recognized as a Top25 Global Thought Leader on the Future of Work. Anita brings insights and perspectives about the changing world of work to companies, investors and startups worldwide. She is the founder of hrtechradar.com, where she helps young companies that are innovating the HR industry reach their full potential, and supports clients and investors with investment decisions.
Founder and CEO,
SEE Change Happen
Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
Joanne Lockwood, Founder and CEO of SEE Change Happen, is an Inclusion and Belonging specialist and speaker. She works with organisations throughout the UK, Europe and beyond, challenging corporate mentality, and providing a service that goes far beyond “just” Diversity & Inclusion.Living by the mantra: “Smile, Engage and Educate,” Joanne believes that people are people, whatever their ethnicity, gender and abilities, deserving to be treated with dignity and respect to work well and thrive.
Keynote Speaker,
Smiley Poswolsky LLC
Hybrid workspace
Adam "Smiley" Poswolsky is an internationally renowned keynote speaker, workplace belonging expert, and bestselling author of three books including most recently, Friendship in the Age of Loneliness. Smiley regularly speaks at Fortune 500 companies and has advised heads of state and foreign leaders about the future of work. Smiley’s TED talk on “the quarter-life crisis” has been viewed over 1.7 million times, and he has spoken in front of fifty thousand people in twenty-five countries. Smiley’s writing has been published in Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and the Washington Post, and his work has been featured in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Wall St. Journal, and the World Economic Forum.
Senior Technical
Recruiter
Hybrid workspace
Brian Fink is currently a Senior Sourcing Technical Recruiter for Twitter. With 10+ years of specialized recruiting experience, he has helped a wide range of professionals ranging from entry-level candidates (new grads) to C-Suite executives take the next step up in their careers and stretch their professional capabilities. Brian specializes in recruitment tooling, building boolean strings, natural language search, and raw sourcing. He believes and advocates that you are never done learning, regardless of where you are in your career.
Author, Mentor, & Facilitator,
Katrina Collier Limited
Collaborative hiring
Katrina Collier is on a mission to end the collaboration chaos that ruins recruitment and candidate experience; exacerbated by hybrid working. She is one of 2 people globally delivering design-thinking workshops specifically for recruitment, that swiftly help companies fix the real issues preventing successful talent acquisition. She is also a Mentor, Author of The Robot-Proof Recruiter, a global keynote speaker, and host of The Hiring Partner Perspective podcast. Katrina is an Ambassador for Hope for Justice charity, and you’ll find her on LinkedIn and on Instagram & Twitter @KatrinaMCollier.
The free interactive online event for HR and recruitment professionals to engage with experts on the best tactics to future-proof your hiring.
Author, Mentor, & Facilitator,
Katrina Collier Limited
Founder and CEO,
Blue Haired Unicorn
Founder and CEO,
SEE Change Happen
CEO and Founder,
Three Ears Media
Senior Technical Recruiter,
Twitter
Head Cheerleader,
The Talent Hunter
Talent Sourcing &
Recruitment, WAN-party mentor,
Riot Games
Director, Talent Acquisition,
Remote
Founder,
Select Software Reviews
Strategic Advisor,
HRTechRadar
Keynote Speaker,
Smiley Poswolsky LLC
We've all heard the saying "teamwork makes the dream work," but what does it really mean to be part of a winning team?
The answer lies deep in the foundation of your organization, below surface-level perks and company benefits. A thriving team is built on individualities: from experience, ability, perspectives, beliefs, and more.
Join this session to hear how to build and grow a purpose-led team and achieve collective success.
Going remote has opened up the talent pool, and you can now hire top-quality people from anywhere in the world.
So how do you elevate your skills? Learn how to tackle multiple talent pools, navigate time zones, and overcome fierce competition.
Join us for unique insights and techniques on building and maintaining your talent pipeline with a winning sourcing strategy that goes beyond borders.
What does "collaborative hiring" mean to you? How can you succeed in attracting, hiring, and retaining talent by implementing a collaborative approach?
In this session, we'll explore how collaborative hiring can transform your candidate experience and improve your overall recruitment process.
Collaborative hiring increases your chance of finding the right candidate, significantly reduces your time to hire, and allows your team to hire better together.
However, not all employees are trained hiring managers, and if not executed correctly, this can disrupt your employees' day-to-day workload, cause confusion amongst team responsibilities, and ultimately leave your candidates looking elsewhere.
By bringing these challenges to light, we'll explore how to overcome them and foster a positive and successful hiring process for candidates and hiring teams alike.
What role does DE&I play within your organization?
In this session, we'll explore how DE&I initiatives are a vital part of your hiring approach, how they help attract, hire, and retain candidates, and steps you can take to implement an inclusive hiring process too.
As workplace dynamics continue to shift, it's more important than ever for organizations to invest in the future of hybrid and remote work and embed DE&I initiatives at their core.
Has remote work led to new biases, discrimination, and employee alienation? How can we overcome these challenges?
Our panelists will share insights on how to mitigate biases within the hiring process, diversify your talent pipeline, and foster a culture of acceptance, understanding, and belonging for all employees.
Three industry experts will deep dive into the current state of the hiring landscape and examine the role HR tech plays in building future-ready teams.
With the rise of hybrid and remote-first organizations, we will analyze how the HR tech ecosystem has continued to evolve, discuss the latest tech driving change, and share insights into integrations that are essential in driving workplace efficiencies.
Another way to think of the Great Resignation is as the "Great Disconnection." As we emerge from the pandemic, the move to remote/hybrid work has increased the lack of human connection at work. Only 30 percent of employees feel connected to their teams. In this inspiring and timely presentation, Smiley makes the case that the future of work is human connection. Smiley will share how we can attract, retain and engage top talent, increase human connection, and create more belonging, by building supportive communities inside the workplace. We’ll discuss practical tools to stay engaged in a hybrid workplace, how to make hybrid meetings more inclusive, and ways to bring more connection to the whole employee experience, from recruitment and onboarding to learning & development, diversity and inclusion initiatives, and employee well-being and recognition. Smiley will share how to re-imagine a collaborative, inclusive, purpose-driven culture, shifting this challenging time from The Great Resignation to The Great Reconnection.
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