John Vlastelica draws from  20 years of recruiting experience, including almost 10 years as a corporate recruiting leader and over 8 years as a recruitment management consultant and trainer. He was the Senior Director, Global Recruiting for Expedia, a Recruiting Director at Amazon.com, and the engineering recruiting leader for two start-up divisions of McCaw/AT&T Wireless. In 2002, he started Recruiting Toolbox to help other companies improve their in-house recruiting capabilities.

John has provided training and recruitment management consulting services to companies of all shapes and sizes, including leading organizations in high-tech, bio-tech, healthcare, financial services, and retail. John has shared his expertise with colleagues as an entertaining and credible repeat presenter at regional, national, and international recruiting conferences (including ERE Expo, SourceCon, RecruitingTrends, AIRS Symposiums, Talent42, SmartResourcing UK, Australalsian Talent Conference, iRecruit Europe, and SHRM’s national HR conferences), through online webinars, and as an instructor for various Sourcing and Recruiting Leadership workshops and academies.

Joseph Grenny is a New York Times bestselling author of eight books, including the communication classic, Crucial Conversations. His whose work has been used by nearly half of the Forbes Global 2000 and has helped millions of people achieve better relationships and results. He cofounded Crucial Learning, one of the world’s most respected learning and organization development firms, offering courses in communication, performance, and leadership.

John Fay is an attorney and technologist with a deep applied knowledge of business immigration, I-9 compliance and E-Verify rules and procedures.  During his twenty-plus year career, John has advised corporations, educational institutions, and individuals on a variety of U.S. immigration and I-9 issues.  At the same time, he has also been uniquely involved in information technology, having designed several immigration and I-9 management software applications.

As Director of Product Strategy at Equifax, John provides strategic leadership and direction in the development and support of Form I-9, E-Verify, and immigration case management software solutions.

Clinton Wingrove is Executive Vice President and Principal Consultant at Pilat HR Solutions.  An extensive writer and speaker on contemporary Human Capital Management, Clinton has spent more than 35 years in the field of performance management and development.  With his early careers in clerical work design & measurement, and computer systems design, followed by line management and, later, training and development, and then consulting, Clinton was recently described following a keynote presentation as a "Futurist, Pragmatist and Passionator."  

Clinton believes passionately in designing and implementing processes and tools that are future-focused ("Waiting to discover what others have already done is a recipe for stagnation and decline").  He also believes in the behavior engineering power of integrated processes and technology ("Anyone in the Apple-era who believes that you can’t change behavior with technology probably also believes that the world is flat").  

Lastly, he believes that those organizations that will ultimately succeed will (a) realize the power of the connective (those transitory connections, across space and time, between people who may never know each other or even connect again), (b) the importance of respect in the workplace, and (c) the power of passion; ensuring that employees truly believe in and enjoy what they do.  

Joe Stubblebine is Vice President of Corporate Outreach at Beyond.com. Beyond.com, known as the ‘The Career Network’, focuses on helping people grow and succeed professionally. By connecting job seekers and employers through 70 unique career channels and 3,000 industry and regional communities, they are changing the way job searching is done. In his role, Joe is responsible for the development and execution of corporate outreach initiatives, including speaking engagements, conferences and other communication efforts. Joe is also tasked with the development of career events that offer Beyond.com members the opportunity to connect face-to-face with hiring companies.

Joe has over 14 years of entrepreneurial recruitment products & services experience. Prior to joining Beyond.com, Joe was the Co-Founder and CEO of JobCircle.com, a robust regional career site that served the Tri-State area (PA, NJ, and DE) and was the founder of hired! Magazine, an employment publication in the Greater Philadelphia region. JobCircle.com was acquired by Beyond.com in 2012. Joe has served as an IT consultant & project manager for many notable brands, including Wyeth, Glaxo SmithKline and Hershey Foods. Joe is also an advocate for businesses to embrace social media as a tool to increase sales and engage with employees and customers, and has presented at social, recruitment, and executive leadership events. He has been featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer "Who’s Who Under 30", "Top Tech" by Computer User magazine, and JobCircle.com held the 11th spot on the Philadelphia INC 100 List in 2002. Joe attended Clarion University of Pennsylvania, where he majored in Accounting.

Clients looking to win the war for talent and marshal a qualified workforce can benefit greatly from the expertise of Michael Gruber. In addition to his 10 years of experience in recruitment process outsourcing, Michael was an HR Leader for the largest personnel branch of the U.S. Army in Europe. 

As Divisional Vice President for The RightThing^®, an ADP^® Company, Michael designs and manages operational strategy. Michael pursues a variety of business strategies and works continuously to enhance the company’s portfolio of service offerings, develop relationships with strategic partners and reviews competitive analysis trends and educates the marketplace about the advantages of RPO. 

Michael has been a key member of The RightThing since inception in 2003 and has served in a variety of roles including Director of Onsite Programs, Strategic Account Manager, Chief Operating Officer, and Chief Client Officer before being promoted to his current position.

Eric C. Peterson, MSOD is a Senior Consultant with Cook Ross Inc. He is a recognized facilitator and educator in the Diversity & Inclusion space with over 15 years of experience in Unconscious Bias, Diversity & Inclusion (D&I), Learning Strategies, and Organization Development. Eric is certified in the use of both the Predictive Index and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, and is a graduate of the Facilitation Learning Partners Program of Healing the Heart of Diversity. He has been published in Profiles in Diversity Journal and Echelon Magazine, and has been sourced as a D&I expert by CNN, National Public Radio, USA Today, The Bloomberg Group, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, and the Los Angeles Times.

Antoine L. Andrews, Senior Director of Diversity and Inclusion for Gap Inc. which includes Gap, Banana Republic, Old Navy, Athleta, Piperlime and Intermix.  Antoine is responsible for building Gap Inc.’s Global Diversity Strategy, focusing on diverse talent development, employee engagement and retention, and understanding diverse consumers.  Under his leadership, Gap Inc. has recently introduced an executive level Diversity Dashboard to help drive change, build leadership accountability throughout the company, and track the organization’s progress incorporating diversity.  His vision led to Gap Inc. designing a talent development program which has increased the number of promotion-ready diverse leaders within the field and HQ talent pipelines.  Antoine is also the Chair for the Gap Inc. Executive Diversity Council which includes leaders who are responsible for leading the diversity and inclusion efforts within each of the company’s brands and corporate functions.  

In collaboration with Gap Foundation, Antoine identifies and establishes partnerships with local non-profit organizations, creating mutually beneficial opportunities for employees to engage in skills-based volunteering while preparing the community’s youth for successful careers.  Antoine sits on the Board of Directors for Oakland based non-profit Mosaic Project.  The Mosaic Project works toward a peace­ful future by unit­ing chil­dren of diverse back­grounds, pro­vid­ing them with essen­tial com­mu­nity build­ing skills, and empow­er­ing them to become peace­mak­ers.  Antoine is also the Chairperson for Gender Equality Council which is a part of The City of San Francisco’s Department on the Status of Women.  In this role, he works with leaders from multiple Bay Area companies to introduce the Gender Equality Principles and Challenge.   The Gender Equality Challenge is a new project of the Gender Equality Principles Initiative, which is an ongoing global effort to link women’s empowerment and corporate policies.