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Learn the secrets of big billers. Dare to be the industry's most lucrative third-party recruiter. Learn how you can start earning five- and six-figure fees consistently. The Fordyce Forum is a serious conference for serious recruiting and search professionals. We hope you fit the profile.

Speakers

Meet your Fordyce Forum 2010 Spring speakers:

  • Jon Bartos

    Jon Bartos is a premier writer, speaker, and consultant on all aspects of human capital and achievement. As President and CEO of Jonathan Scott International, he has achieved industry-leading success. He is one of an elite group of executive recruiters who have billed over $1 million annually. In a 10-year... [more]

  • Paul DeBettignies

    Paul DeBettignies is managing partner of Nerd Search, LLC, a Minneapolis IT search firm, author of the Minnesota Headhunter blog, co-founder and coordinator of Minnesota Recruiters, listed as a Top 20 Minnesota Social Media Innovator, frequent speaker and article contributor on recruiter, career, networking, and social media topics with... [more]

  • Fernando Espinosa

    Senior Managing Partner & Co-Owner of Qualifind, Inc. based in our corporate-owned offices in Chula Vista, CA (suburb of San Diego). • First credentialed member of The Pinnacle Society from Mexico. Membership in The Pinnacle Society is limited to 75 of the highest performing recruiters in North America. Membership is attained... [more]

  • A. Bernard Frechtman

    A. Bernard Frechtman is the pre-eminent attorney in the staffing industry with over 50 years experience. He is the author of six books on staffing industry law. His latest, Staffing Industry Law: A Guide for the Personnel Professional, at 531 pages is the most comprehensive ever published.... [more]

  • Jordan Greenberg

    SAMPLE OF CAREER HIGHLIGHTS 2010 - Successfully placed Sales Director with the world’s leading BI Software Firm in January. Actively working 1 VP Sales and 1 Managing Director search project for software development clients; among other activity in first Q of year. 2009 Made 17 placements with 5 new clients... [more]

  • Glenn Gutmacher

    Glenn is a partner in ACES, the Arbita division that focuses on recruiting research skills development, employment branding, SEO and SEM consulting, with over 140 corporate and third-party staffing firm clients. He has also presented to big billers at the annual conferences of the Pinnacle Society, New England Executive... [more]

  • Jeff Kaye

    Jeff Kaye is the Co-Chief Executive Officer of Kaye/Bassman International and Next Level Exchange Recruiting Training. Jeff graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor in Business and entered the search profession immediately. He has spent over two decades in search, migrating from being one of the... [more]

  • Tom Keoughan

    Tom Keoughan has spent 29 years running a successful solo recruiting practice in an interesting niche. Toyjobs is the dominant executive recruiter in the toy and juvenile product industry. [more]

  • Jenifer Lambert

    Jenifer Lambert began her career in the recruiting industry, the way so many have. “I literally fell into it.” What started as a summer job coming out of college filling in for a recruiter on maternity leave, turned into the sort of perfect job match we all dream... [more]

  • Neil Lebovits

    Neil Lebovits, industry guru and executive, is the founder of The Dynamic Sale, a learning, coaching & development company. The Dynamic Sale enables individuals to shatter their performance expectations in the Staffing & Recruiting industry. Neil has done it all in the industry: Permanent & Temporary Placement, Sales, Branch Management, Regional... [more]

  • Rob Mosley

    Rob is a Partner and Sr. Director of Training and Development for Next Level Exchange. Rob comes to Next Level from MRINetwork™ Corporate in Philadelphia, PA, where he served as the Chief Learning Officer, responsible for all training and sales development of 1,100 offices worldwide. Rob is a Performance Development Partner... [more]

  • Shannon Myers

    Shannon Myers is the managing partner of Walton Search, a recruitment and sourcing firm that specializes in the healthcare industry. She began working in the recruitment industry in 2001 and established Walton Search in 2007. She is passionate about exploring innovative recruitment and sourcing methods and was a Grandmaster Sourcing... [more]

  • Karen Pickens

    Since joining Kaye/Bassman in 2001, Karen Pickens specialized in the search and recruitment of professionals for clients in the commercial construction, specialty contractors, and real estate development markets. In 2006, she pioneered the redevelopment of Kaye/Bassman’s corporate training program. She is now responsible for professional development throughout the organization... [more]

  • Rick Rush

    Rick Rush has been recruiting for the soft goods Industry since 1994, and joined Pinnacle in 1999. He started his own firm in 2003. His staff consists of one office manager and one candidate recruiter. His biggest year was 2000, with 46 placements for $942,000 in billings. [more]

  • Jeff Skrentny

    Jeff Skrentny, CERS*, had his first deal fall off. He was voted least likely to succeed in his training class. Three years later he was his firm’s top producer. From top producer, to manager, to entrepreneur, Jeff has grown in this profession from contingency placement to engaged search over his 23-year placement,... [more]

  • Dave Staats

    Dave Staats’ firm SearchPartner has become so focused that all their searches are now for highly cleared technologists in the DC metro area. With groups of recruiters as high as 9 and as low as 2 1/2 since 1999 Dave has collected an average of $412,296.00 per year in personal commission-paid... [more]

  • Shally Steckerl

    Often compared to a shot of adrenalin for recruiters held back by confusion, hesitation or fear, Shally is passionate about encouraging people to experiment in their search for talent and color outside the lines with audacity. Because of his unparalleled obsession with sourcing, and continuous drive to probe for practical... [more]

  • Carolyn Thompson

    Carolyn Thompson resides in the Washington, D.C. area and has been an executive recruiter since 1988. She is Director of Human Resource Services at Goodman & Company, soon becoming Dixon Hughes Goodman, one of the largest CPA firms in the US. A creative entrepreneur and a certified career coach, she... [more]

  • Tim Tolan

    Timothy J. Tolan is the senior partner and managing director of Sanford Rose Associates-Charleston. SRA-Charleston has a primary focus on placing executive level talent in the healthcare services, healthcare IT, insurance, and revenue cycle industries. Tim has been a member of SRA’s “President’s Club” since he opened his office in 2005 and is... [more]