Event Speakers & Panelists
Suky Sodhi
Suky Sodhi has been disrupting the staffing and recruiting industry for over twenty-five years.
She’s an award-winning industry coach and trainer who has helped recruitment leaders around the world build stronger businesses through her events, masterminds, programs, and courses.
Suky is highly respected in the recruitment space and is globally recognized expert for businesses and consultants who want to take their earning potential to the next level. A serial entrepreneur, she has founded numerous businesses and her clients include global staffing brands, start-ups, mid-sized agencies, and European recruitment businesses growing into the North American market.
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Hung Lee
Hung Lee is the Editor of leading industry newsletter Recruiting Brainfood
He is an industry professional with over 20 years of experience as an agency recruiter, Recruitment manager, Internal Head of Talent, recruitment trainer, founder of award-winning online recruiting platform WorkShape.io, and now Editor and Community builder at Recruiting Brainfood - the best weekly newsletter in recruitment.
Mark Coetzee
25+ years at executive/board level constantly achieving excellent returns for shareholders with a a proven track record of formulating, advising & assisting in execution of chosen strategy, resulting in high impact performance improvement, business transformation & company turnarounds in multicultural environments.
Janelle Bieler
Janelle Bieler is the Western Division President at Employbridge, the largest industrial staffing company in the U.S. As a Senior executive, Ms. Bieler has comprehensive experience in Leadership, Sales, Strategy, Operations, Marketing, and Financial Management.
Craig Brown
A strategic leader with more than 25 years of experience within the staffing and retail industries. Craig has focused on building outstanding teams with a focus on service excellence. Recognized for his consultative approach to sales and marketing, Craig believes in asking questions and the importance of being an avid listener.
Travis O'Rourke
Travis setup and established Hays' outsourced talent solutions business and played an integral role in building Hays’ temporary and contract divisions throughout Canada. Initially joining Hays with a deep background in Technology, he holds extensive cross functional knowledge to provide clients with talent solutions in Financial Services, Energy, Mining, Manufacturing, Retail, and the Public Sector.
Louisa Benedicto
Louisa Benedicto is Senior Vice President of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I), Corporate Social Responsibility, and Sustainability at Hays – covering the Americas region including Canada, the U.S. and Latin American Countries. She specializes in DE&I within the recruitment process, enabling our clients to implement best practices that ensure everyone gets a fair opportunity in the recruitment practices.
Chris Horak
Senior Director, Staffing & Recruitment Agencies, Indeed Canada Since joining Indeed in 2015, Chris has supported thousands of employers and staffing agencies to hire top talent. For almost 20 years, he has cultivated high-performing teams with a strong foundation rooted in diversity & inclusion. His work with DEI&B programs, such as "Women@Indeed", underscores his commitment to fostering a collaborative workforce.
Evelyn McGinley
Introduced from a client-side HR desk, Evelyn consciously sought a move to staffing. With a proven track record in HR, Benefits, Compliance, Onboarding and Sales Operations, Evelyn has contributed her expertise to five global agencies of various sizes. Evelyn helps organizations increase efficiency of delivered services by leveraging recruitment technologies through the design, implementation and continuous improvement of staffing systems and processes.
Yashpal Dhaliwal
Yashpal Dhaliwal, a seasoned entrepreneur in Canadian staffing, leads Digistaff, founded in 2020, revolutionizing Virtual Staffing from Toronto, ON. His expertise spans business development, operations, and relationships, driving Digistaff's tailored solutions across sectors. Beyond business, Yashpal champions philanthropy and mentors entrepreneurs, embodying a commitment to innovation and positive impact in the industry.
Bryan Doyon
Bryan is the founder of Professional Sourcing Solutions Inc., a permanent placement agency that focuses on the candidate experience and ease of process. In 2022, PSS has designed and developed a cutting-edge candidate management platform and mobile app that is changing how recruiting is done. Gone is the paper resume and hand-delivered application. In is the PSS Platform and SourceMe App, which is reducing recruitment times by up to 90%.
Michael O’Rourke
Michael works diligently with clients to develop strategic talent and immigration plans that meet their short-term and long-term needs. He understands how confusing it can be to navigate the immigration systems in Canada and the U.S. and provides his legal services with compassion and dedication to his clients.
Jeremy Schreifels
Jeremy Schreifels is a multi-talented individual who has made a significant impact in the realms of audio production, writing, voice activation, and executive coaching. With a relentless commitment to integrity, a burning passion for his craft, and an unwavering dedication to creativity, Jeremy has emerged as a force to be reckoned with in his diverse fields of expertise.
Michael Coffill
With over 30 years of experience in staffing and recruitment, I founded Wages Corp in 2019 to provide various services to help you manage your Canadian workforce. Wages Corp is a business passionate about enabling independent recruiters, as well as small businesses, to reduce costs and risks, using our experience-based, back-office support system.
Kelsey Orth
Having completed a Master’s Degree in Industrial Relations in addition to his LL.B., Kelsey strives to understand his clients’ “big picture”, allowing him to provide strategic and proactive advice. With this approach, Kelsey has assisted employers across a broad range of industries, both federally and provincially, in avoiding exposure and limiting risk, by helping them to develop and implement sound human resources and labour relations policies and practices.
Brian Kennedy
In March 2023, Brian will be celebrating his 42nd anniversary in the staffing industry. He joined the industry in 1981 as a full-cycle, direct-hire (“perm”) IT Recruiter, but before long added contract/temp, employee leasing and retained search to his resume. Brian’s managerial, leadership and ownership journey began in 1996 and his staffing industry career now includes launching, growing and managing third-party staffing companies with revenues as high as $40 million.
Jaime Alvarez
I get excited easily when I see an opportunity to help and influence companies improve their talent acquisition process and subsequently see fast improvement in their business. I am passionate about people, about their careers and what we do, as a company, to support them. In this fast moving world I adapt fast, build teams and solutions that represent a need today or anticipate the one for tomorrow.
Francis Larson
Francis Larson is the founder and CEO of Ascen, a back office platform and employer of record for staffing firms expanding into the US, providing payroll, onboarding, and funding for US placements. Ascen is funded by Y Combinator, the top seed investor in startups in the world. Before founding Ascen, Francis was the founder and CEO of Leif, a fintech lending platform he sold in 2018.
William Branum
He is a retired Navy SEAL with 26 years of service. He has served on both traditional SEAL Teams, taught as a SEAL Sniper Instructor and served on Teams that specialized in undersea operations who’s missions must be approved by the President of the United States. He led major combat operations ranging from protecting the interim Iraqi elected officials to Direct Action missions in Baghdad and across Ambar province.
Tracey Both
A seasoned recruitment professional, Tracey chose to leave the large, global recruitment firms behind to build a forward-thinking, people-first firm that believes that relations comes first. Thoughtful, yet direct, Tracey brings transparency, responsiveness and a little bit of humour to her client and candidate relationships.
Maria Arvanites
Maria has held progressive roles within the human capital industry and has deep knowledge of talent programs, technology and supplier strategies. Over the last 20 years, she has created solutions to help clients overcome challenges they experience at a localized or enterprise level and has led RPO delivery with bluechip clients. In 2017, she conceptualized and created Direct Hire MSP, creating a Total Talent Management Program within the MSP-VMS framework. It continues to change the world of talent engagement.
Eileen Gittens
Eileen Gittens is an accomplished strategic and transformative leader with over 18 years in the Staffing Industry where she has extensive experience leading and inspiring purpose driven teams that deliver top talent and best in class workforce solutions to our clients. As an agile executive, she is known for her ability to build high performing teams, finding and implementing innovative strategies to attract talent to deliver on-time to our clients, and develop the markets that we are invested in.
Tracy Rocca
Tracy Rocca has over 30 years of experience in the recruitment, staffing and consulting industry. Tracy excels at managing clients and their needs by implementing strategies that allow our clients to realize a return on investment when in partnership with TalentWorld. As the National Vice-President, Tracy is able to build relationships both internally and externally that create a win/win for everyone involved.
Marie Trillot
arie Trillot, who began her journey as an intern, now holds the positions of President and Associate at Totem, the Canadian division of the Adequat Group. With over 18 years of experience in the Staffing Industry, she is a respected strategic leader. Renowned for fostering purpose-driven teams, her management philosophy centers on human-centric values, workplace well-being, and performance development. She specializes in attracting top-tier talent and implementing innovative strategies to deliver exceptional workforce solutions.
Sinead Finnegan
Sinead Finnegan brings over a decade of invaluable experience from her tenure at a staffing association.. With a strong commitment to personal growth, she continuously refines her skills. Sinead's dedication to excellence and relentless pursuit of improvement distinguish her as a trusted leader in the industry.
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