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CONFERENCE SPEAKERS



Check out Danny Cahill talk about the nostalgia and greatness that
the NAPS Annual Conference is (and brings) every single year.


Speaker Lineup - more added soon!

Click on a speaker's name to view their bio. Additional bios will be added soon.

• Danny Cahill - Opening Keynote
• Jim Bleech - Owner/Manager Keynote
• Jon Bartos
• Barb Bruno
• Greg Doersching
• Mike Gionta
• Jeff Kaye / Rob Mosley
• Jenifer Lambert
• Amy Bingham
• Laura Stoker
• Lynn Mesmer
• Mike Goldman
• Marc Freedman
• Susan Young
• Danny Sarch



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 period from 1999 to 2009, he cashed in over $10 million in personal production. Jon has established Jonathan Scott International as a top 10% executive search and contract staffing firm. The office has won over 17 international awards in the MRI Network, including International Billing Manager of the Year and Top 10 SC Office. Jon also competes nationally in Masters Track and Field and is a three time National Champion in the Pole Vault. Jon’s passion for success led him to develop Magnum, a executive coaching program focused on helping others reach new levels of personal and professional achievement. Jon recently launched www.jonbartos.com and www.rpm-usa.com to assist those in the recruiting industry achieve their maximum potential. If you or your organization are ready to take it to the next level, contact Jon at 513-701-5910 or jon@jonbartos.com.


Barb Bruno, CPC, CTS
Barbara Bruno is president and owner of HR Search, Inc. and Good As Gold Training, Inc. For the past thirty years, Barbara has worked in all segments of the recruiting and staffing profession including direct, temporary, contract, and retained search. She is also one of the leading recruiting, sales, management, motivational, and internationally renowned training professionals today.

Barb also created and launched Happy Candidates which is a resource that Recruiting Firms can now utilize to help 100% of their Candidates with their Search. This customized resource greatly enhances the overall candidate experience and enhances sales and profits. Go to www.happycandidates.com for information.

Barbara has addressed audiences in North America, Asia, Africa and Europe. She is known for the wealth of information she shares in her sessions. If you want practical, logical, easy to implement content for your program, Barbara is the person to deliver just that! Barbara's keynote addresses leave her audiences motivated and aware of their unlimited potential. Her breakout sessions provide so many ideas the greatest decision her participants must make is which great ideal to implement first.

Barbara is an experienced sales manager who implements what she teaches! Her enthusiasm is contagious and her unique sense of humor makes learning fun. She writes for eleven national publications monthly including her "Ask Barb" column in the Fordyce Letter. She also writes the most widely read on-line newsletter for recruiters - the NO BS Newsletter. She has been quoted in The Staffing Industry Report, Chicago Tribune, New York Times, USA Today and numerous National Magazines.

Her awards include the highest national honor - The Harold B. Nelson Award. She was inducted into NAPS Hall of Fame, and also received top honors from two States – The Lincoln Award in Illinois and the Ancil T. Brown Award in Indiana. Barbara was also honored recently as a Woman of Merit in Indiana.

Barbara has developed the only 80 day on-line training program for the Recruiting Profession. The Top Producer Tutor takes the job of training off the desk of owners and managers. This recruiting training product is being utilized by recruiters worldwide. Her 26-week Strategic Management Tutor teaches Owners and Managers how to effectively own, manage and grow their business.

The Tutor is being used by recruiting firms to train their new hires as well as help experienced recruiters reach their next level of production. Corporations are also utilizing the Tutor software to deliver their in-house corporate recruiter training!

If you would like more information about Barb contact:
Beth Matthews
bmatthews@goodasgoldtraining.com
219.663.9609


Greg Doersching
Greg Doersching is Managing Partner and Founder of The Griffin Search Group, National Search Firm working in the direct hire placement industry. He is an active recruiter who still runs a highly productive desk. Day to day he is in the trenches just like the rest of us. He is also the developer and Chief Architect of the highly successful Bullseye Recruiting Process.

For the past 19 years Greg has been recognized as one of the most cutting edge voices in the recruiting industry. He is an International Trainer and has presented dozens of workshops and Keynote Addresses for the National Association of Personnel Services, American Staffing Association and the Association of Canadian Search, Employment and Staffing Services and numerous Regional, State and Local groups. He is consistently rated as one of the top presenters for each conference.

He currently consults with many nationally known staffing and recruiting agencies where he helps these firms improve their overall recruiting process. He is an expert in creating and establishing Direct Hire and Contract recruiting divisions, his knowledge and process have taken contract and temporary firms to new levels of productivity. There are very few Trainers/ Consultants who are true "students" of our industry the way Greg is and the knowledge he is able to share drastically improves recruiting production.

Greg has also mentored and trained 100’s of recruiters, his thorough style and step-by-step training approach develop a core foundation of recruiting excellence that is hard to beat.

Recognized as one of the "Top Producers" for the state of Wisconsin - he served for 2 years as the President of the Wisconsin Association of Personnel Services and now sits on their Board of Directors.

He is an avid fisherman and hunter and has been known to trade consulting services for a chance to go hunting or fishing in new places. He heads the Christian Sportsman’s Ministry for FRCC and is a member of Safari Club International, North American Hunting Club, Whitetails Unlimited and Ducks Unlimited. Greg is the father of 2 boys, Griffin (age 12) and Greysen (age 4); Greg’s wife Jessi is also a converted hunter!


Mike Gionta
Michael has been described as one of the most exciting, innovative new trainers in our industry. He opened his recruiting firm in early 1990. He has ranked in the top-10 billing managers several times, ranking as high as second across all MRI divisions with cash in on his desk in excess of $2 million in ONE YEAR. In 2001 Michael, based on the secrets he learned from over ten years in the business, made the strategic decision to grow his recruiting firm instead of developing his individual practice.

After years of learning the WRONG way build a recruiting team, Mike began training his team on the techniques that he discovered and that launched him. The result? He developed an office that ranked in the top 3% of MRI. He was ranked the 11th-fastest growing IT search firm in the country (outside of MRI) and the fourth fastest growing search firm within MRI out of 1,100 offices with almost $3 million in annual revenues.

In 2007 Michael founded his training, speaking, and consulting firm, TheRecruiterU.com. Mike is sought out by owners of recruiting firms who want to grow their revenue, reduce their turnover, and who want to stop being a "slave" to their business. He teaches the RIGHT step-by-step system for growing a recruiting firm with VERY predictable revenue streams. Contact Mike at info@theRecruiterU.com.


Jeff Kaye
Jeff Kaye is the chief executive officer of Kaye/Bassman International and Next Level Recruiting Training. During his tenure as CEO, Kaye/Bassman International has grown into the largest single-site search firm in the country which achieved annual search revenues in excess of $18 million, won national awards for philanthropy and workplace flexibility, and has been named the #1 "Best Company to Work for in Texas" four consecutive years.

He is considered an industry expert and has appeared on CNN, FOX, Bloomberg, and NBC. He is quoted regularly in publications including USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Time, and Fortune. Jeff is also a frequent speaker within the recruiting and human resources community and been featured in dozens of international training meetings and videos. He has also help create www.nextlevelexchange.com which is dedicated to elevating the competencies of search professionals around the globe and as a result their reputation.


Jennifer 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 a the sort of perfect job match we all dream about orchestrating. "I had planned to go into journalism, but I discovered I love selling, I really loved earning commission checks and at the same time I enjoyed uncovering someone's life story and helping them write the next chapter."

Jenifer started out in the temp side of the business twenty years ago and for many years ran a blended temp and perm desk. She has worked in a variety of capacities including management, training and business development roles and eventually became a partner in TERRA Staffing Group, one of the largest privately-held regional staffing firms in the Seattle area.

In 2003, she launched a new division of the company focused exclusively on executive search nationally. Within four short years, she became the dominant recruiter in her niche and has been featured in business publications including "Selling Power" magazine and has been a speaker at national sales conferences. Jenifer was inducted into the Pinnacle Society, a consortium of the nation's top producing recruiters, in October 2008.

Jenifer continues to lead a very active search practice while managing and training a team of highly productive recruiters. She is also the Director of Training for TERRA Staffing Group.

In early 2008, Jenifer launched Elevate Performance Systems, LLC to give back to an industry that has given so much to her. "I want to help other recruiters elevate their game and breakthrough to new levels of production. After eighteen years in this crazy business, I still love it and I want to show others how to get the most out of the toughest job you'll ever love."

Jenifer has been a speaker at national and state recruiting conferences. She also consults with other recruiting and staffing firms across the country speaking at staff retreats and leading management training. Jenifer is also a certified trainer for AccordingtoDanny, one of the nation’s most respected training and consulting firms to the recruiting and staffing industry.


Marc D. Freedman
MARC FREEDMAN is an attorney engaged in the private practice of law. His law firm, Freedman & Gersten LLP concentrates in business and corporate law, corporate acquisitions, employment law, litigation and he specializes in providing legal and consulting services to business executives primarily in the staffing industry.

Mr. Freedman was a senior executive officer and general counsel to one of the largest and most diversified companies in the temporary employment industry. His duties included being the Chief Legal Officer of the Company and the direct supervision of the Human Resource and Risk Insurance Departments. He had overall responsibilities for legal compliance with securities laws, labor laws, and other state and federal laws and regulations. He has extensive experience in all areas of corporate and employment practice including corporate acquisitions, financing agreements, labor relations, contract negotiations, collective bargaining, litigation, wage and hour laws, discrimination litigation and investigations, employment termination, unjust dismissals, creation and review of corporate policies and procedures, licensing, security clearances and establishment of branch and subsidiary businesses internationally. Much of his time was spent with senior corporate executives advising on legal, business and operational issues.

Mr. Freedman conducts seminars for various groups on many aspects of employment and labor law, writes articles on various legal subjects germane to temporary employment, and published an advisory on the topic of co-employment within the temporary employment industry. He also authored the Recruiter and Salesperson's Manual for Legal Issues Arising in the Temporary Technical Staffing Industry, which was published by the NTSA in the Spring of 1998 and updated annually, and now published by the ASA as Employment Law for Technical and Contract Staffing Professionals and teaches the ASA TSC certification course. He testified before the U.S Department of Labor Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans Working Group Studying the Benefit Implications On the Growth of the Contingent Workforce in July, 1999.

Mr. Freedman is currently the General Counsel for the New Jersey Staffing Alliance, and before its dissolution, was Special Counsel to the NTSA. He was Co-Chairman of the National Technical Services Association Legal/Legislative Committee, and served on the Association's Board of Directors and the Board's Executive Committee. He is a member of the American Bar Association and its Business and Labor Law sections, the New Jersey State Bar Association and its Computer Law Committee and past member of its Corporate and Business Committee.

Mr. Freedman is a 1973 magna cum laude graduate of the University of Bridgeport, holds a Juris Doctor degree from New York Law School and a Masters of Law (LL.M.) degree in Corporate Law from New York University School of Law. He is admitted to practice in New Jersey and New York and in Federal District Courts and the Circuit Courts of Appeals in those states.




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