Karen loves change and believes that positive changes are attainable and vital to your success. She is a nationally known keynote speaker and expert on change, generational opportunities, and workforce trends. Today Karen gives us Generational Insights.

Diverse perspectives have changed the dynamics in the workplace. Leading in a multigenerational workforce has always had its challenges, and now more than ever, working from home magnifies the generational differences. Leading your multigenerational team requires new skills and the ability to develop a growth mindset.

Karen helps leaders cut through the generational biases and get back to reality by leveraging their team's strengths, enriching the work environment, and driving better results. She brings a realistic perspective on workplace trends, employee engagement while offering actionable content- and she's a lot of fun!

She began speaking on the generations in 2007, and she continually studies current generational trends. Today her interest in the generations has become her passion and mission. Her programs include case studies, current research, and up to date new information and discoveries about Millennials with a large focus on Gen Z.

For the past 15 years, Karen has shared her insights with top organizations such as VMware, Procter & Gamble, US Department of Justice, JPMorgan Chase, Symantec, McGraw-Hill, National Homebuilders, Shell Oil, Mercedes Benz, The World Bank, American National Insurance, Humana, United Way, American Heart Association and MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Before her speaking and early in her career, Karen owned and operated several retail fashion stores in Houston, Texas. Often, she hired many young employees with no work experience and zero in the retail industry. Karen had the keen ability to identify inexperienced workers who had the potential to become great employees- and they did, many staying on for years.! Little did she know that these early years were the foundation for her passion, understanding, and managing all generations.

Scott Love is passionate about inspiring people to reach their full potential in the workplace. He speaks professionally on the topic of client development, rainmaking, and high-level sales. He is the producer of The Rainmaking Podcast and has produced podcasts since 2009. As a speaker, he has delivered over 50 live keynotes annually and delivered over 600 hours of virtual training presentations (webinars, video training, and audio presentations).

He isn't just a thought leader. He's an 'action leader'. His battle-tested theories result from over twenty-five years of front-line experience as a high-stakes headhunter. His story-telling style, humor from the stage, and credentialed expertise give managers and executives ideas, strategies, and tactical action steps so that they can develop richer client relationships and expand their footprint in their respective fields.

He's the author of Why They Follow: How to Lead with Positive Influence and has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The American Lawyer, Above the Law, The Huffington Post, Selling Power Magazine, Business Insider, and dozens of business trade journals and newspapers around the globe. In addition to speaking at corporate, association, and legal meetings, he owns The Attorney Search Group, a partner-level legal recruiting firm focused on recruiting rainmakers to international law firms.

A graduate of the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, he is a former Surface Warfare Officer. During his shore-duty tour, he worked as a leadership trainer at the world's largest naval base, where he trained thousands of officers, senior enlisted and civil service workers on progressive leadership strategies.

He is a member of the National Speakers Association, a board member of the National Association of Legal Search Consultants, and an advisory board member for Protect Our Defenders, an advocacy group that is committed to ending the epidemic of sexual violence in the military.

Scott lives in Virginia and is married with two children, two rescue cats, and a rescue dog named Ruby.

Barb Bruno, CPC, CTS became a trainer so her clients could make more money. What separates Barb from other trainers is her commitment to Responsible Recruiting, Responsible Sales and her step-by-step comprehensive approach to training. Her techniques are specific, easy to implement and proven successful.

She is a dynamic international speaker, trainer and author who enthusiastically shares her wealth of knowledge. Barb’s passion is speaking at industry and corporate events where she teaches sales professionals, recruiters, managers and entrepreneurs how to be more effective and as a result more successful. She has been the #1 rated Speaker at many national, state and corporate conferences in the US and abroad.

Barb has received the highest national award from the Staffing and Recruiting Profession – The Harold B. Nelson Award and was inducted into the National Association of Personnel Services Hall of Fame. She was also the recipient of the Lincoln Award in Illinois and the Ancil T. Brown Award in Indiana. Barb also served as the Chairman of the Board for the National Association of Personnel Services. She also recently received the Women of Merit award for her philanthropic endeavors.

In addition, Barb has developed cutting edge web based comprehensive training programs delivering sales, recruiting and management training that provide LIVE access to Barb as well as continued, updated training materials. She has also developed a Career Portal for job seekers and has created many other training resources.

Barb truly cares about improving the lives of others and it shows in everything she had done and will do in the future.

As Vice President of Carlton Staffing, Cindy is responsible for recruiting, training and the professional development of internal staff. She has over 32 years of staffing industry experience (twenty-one of those with Carlton!) and has been recognized as an Outstanding Contributor to the Staffing Industry. She is a past president of the Texas Association of Staffing and continues to serve on their Legislative Advocacy committee.

Cindy has been an active member/volunteer with HR Houston since 2001, serves as a SHRM A-Team member and is active with the TexasSHRM Legislative Committee. She has presented programs on Legislative Advocacy and Transactional Analysis at SHRM chapters throughout Texas.

She also volunteers in areas outside of her profession. Cindy’s service to others has been recognized by the Federation of Houston Professional Women, named as a Woman of Excellence in 2019. In addition, Cindy currently serves on the Board of The Professional Group and is a member of the Advisory Board for the University of Houston’s Bauer College of Business Customer Experience Program.

Based in Houston, Mike Lejeune has a passion for developing tomorrow’s leaders. Mike delivers keynote addresses, workshops, courses and retreats designed to enhance leadership effectiveness, emotional intelligence, culture shaping and communications.

With over 25 years as a leader in the executive search industry, Mike served as President of Steverson & Company, one of the top search firms in Texas specializing in accounting finance, corporate administration, and information technology serving Fortune 500 corporations, Big 4 accounting firms, and rapidly emerging privately held companies.

He has presented workshops across the US, Canada, and South Africa. Each keynote, workshop and consulting project Mike leads focuses on reasons that today’s workforce becomes disenfranchised and offers techniques and strategies industry champions use to lead high performing organizations. His programs address the how-to for building sound engagement techniques and more importantly, challenges the “why” behind approaches and strategies to offer new windows into current day business solutions.

Mike is the author of the highly regarded blog, Lighting the Path, and, along with his daughter, Nikki, is the co-author of the award-winning book, A Father’s Love-The Generational Bridge That Changes Hearts Forever. Mike is also the host of the Podcast series Leadership Strategies for Tomorrow’s Leaders where he discusses leadership principles with nationally renowned experts. Mike has served as President of the National Speakers Association President, and is on the Executive Board of Outback Texas Ministries. He holds the national certification of Certified Employee Retention Specialist (CERS).

Rob is a Managing Partner for Next Level Exchange, a global learning collaborative dedicated to the Executive Search and Staffing Industry. Rob comes from MRINetwork™ Corporate where he served as the Chief Learning Officer, responsible for all training and sales development of more than 1,100 offices worldwide.

Previously Rob was with the Acclivus Corporation, an international performance development company. He has facilitated the Acclivus curriculum on six continents and is part of the Acclivus team responsible for global relationships with companies as diverse as Dell Inc., Accenture, Hitachi Vantara, KPMG Consulting, NASDAQ, Baylor Healthcare, Recruit Holdings Ltd, Japan, FiServ, Shell Energy, and Comcast/NBC Universal. Rob is currently a licensed master facilitator for Acclivus Train the Trainer programs worldwide.

Rob’s knowledge of the Executive Search and Staffing industries comes from 12 years with both Merritt Hawkins and Associates, and its subsidiary Staffcare, all now part of AMN Healthcare. Rob served as Vice President of Corporate Business Development.

He is a licensed facilitator for Stephen Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and Patrick Lencioni’s The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. Rob holds master certifications in Consultative Selling, Performance Coaching, Advanced Sales Negotiation, Team Effectiveness, and Major Account Planning & Strategy.  Additionally, Rob is a licensed practitioner for Lumina Learning, a global psychometric suite of development tools specializing in organizational transformation.

Rob is a keynote speaker and facilitator at continuing education seminars in the areas of business-to-business sales execution with a focus on consultative client development, negotiation strategy, team effectiveness, and performance management.

Past credits include Staffing Industry Analysts Executive Forum and Healthcare Forum, the American Staffing Association, The Fordyce Forum, the National Association of Personnel Services (NAPS), and the National Association of Physician Recruiters and National Association of Locum Tenens Organization.