As a seasoned HR executive, I have dedicated my career to helping companies and recruiting leaders achieve high performance. It all began with my passion for creating effective and impactful HR strategies that drive success for organizations. Let me share with you a glimpse into my journey. Throughout my career, I have honed my expertise in high-performance recruiting, organizational development, talent optimization, and business operations. I take great pride in crafting forward-thinking HR strategies that enhance workforce engagement, attract top talent, foster retention, and ultimately elevate corporate achievement. Collaborating with global industry leaders, I have spearheaded groundbreaking HR initiatives in talent acquisition, strategic workforce planning, diversity and inclusion, performance management, and employee relationship building. By leveraging HR technologies, harnessing the power of data analytics, and refining HR methodologies, I have significantly streamlined human resources functions and propelled businesses to new heights. What sets me apart is not just my extensive experience but also my genuine approach to communication. Those who engage with my insights on my website or read my books get a firsthand look at my candid style of communication. From nurturing high-performance teams to taking a visionary approach to HR leadership, I strive to shape corporate environments that allow employees to excel and transform human capital into a dynamic competitive edge for the company. Beyond the professional realm of HR, I am deeply invested in community enrichment. I devote my time and expertise to various boards and committees that champion educational advancement, workforce development, and the enrichment of diversity initiatives. Giving back is not just a responsibility; it is an integral part of who I am. I offer consulting services specifically focused on high-performance recruiting. If your organization is seeking to unlock the secrets of achieving maximum performance from your recruiting team, I am here to guide you through the process. Additionally, I speak at conferences and company offsites, sharing valuable insights with other recruiting and HR practitioners. If you're curious to learn more about my work beyond LinkedIn, feel free to check out my profiles on TikTok, YouTube, and Twitter, where I share tips and advice on high-performance recruiting. You can also find my blog, where I delve deeper into various HR topics and strategies. Follow me on other platforms: https://linktr.ee/highperformancerecruiting

I am the CEO and Founder of Tech Valley Shuttle, a company that aims to combat poverty through transportation. Through Tech Valley Shuttle, I continue to provide equal access to employment, combat food insecurity, and transportation deserts, reduce recidivism, increase equal access to education, and aim to decrease the school-to-prison pipeline. The company has also expanded Medicaid transportation services to more than just doctors’ visits. Tech Valley Shuttle's approach is unique, as we go beyond transportation services by focusing on community support, engagement, and improvement for underrepresented people and those who are formally incarcerated. I have grown the business from a hotel-based transportation agency in 2016 to a fully customizable company specializing in workforce transportation. I now own two of the larger Black-owned businesses in the Capital Region. I have been highlighted in Bloomberg Business Week, Forbes 1000, and the New York Times for my work. I was also recently named the 2023 SBA Upstate NY Small Business Person of the Year for expanding ride services during the pandemic, filling a critical community need. I was formally incarcerated, and since my release, I have dedicated my career to creating opportunities for others in the same position through Tech Valley Shuttle. My ultimate goal is to be a resource for others by shifting how organizations perceive and hire underrepresented groups. Please contact me at trent@techvalleyshuttle.com for more information or collaboration inquiries.

Innovative Solutions Consulting leader, focused on the betterment of my people, the value I can deliver to my customers and to creating the most compelling selling strategies in the industry. My career has been defined by a handful of guiding principles and I believe they hold as true today as they ever have: Investment in people is the surest path to winning at anything you try to do. People expect competent management at work, but what they crave is advocates and partners. As a leader, it is 100% on you to give your investment into the establishment of trust with each person under your care and commit to helping them to flourish. You are not the story. They are. Listen. Listen to data to find facts. Listen to people to learn truths. Those who succeed do this better than most and I have built my career on listening, the curiosity to interpret what I hear and then to find creative was to apply what I hear. Determine what is valuable, and double down on it. If you can get to the heart of where value lives and throw all other distractions aside, you will most likely succeed. This is true in your own career development, in selling and in leading. The discipline of learning where value shifts and adjusting your approach to attaining it is where careers are made.

I build referral partner programs from scratch as an additional, relationship-based revenue channel. I specialize in partner vertical identification and selection, creation of mutually beneficial partnership models, partner prospecting, logistics, partner pipeline management, and partner success to enable long-term referral sources. The motion is a marketing outcome (lead generation) with a sales skill set (relationship building). It requires close collaboration with executives in sales, marketing, legal, and operations. My business, sales, and technical training – MBA, top sales performer, Masters in Engineering, and an alumni of the Lassonde New Venture Development Center – have helped me develop a skill set that has accelerated revenue for several companies.

I'm a writer, marketer, brand designer, co-owner and Swiss Army Knife at Roots Down, Doomer Optimist, and full-tilt advocate for a regenerative world. When I'm not trying to turn the whole world into a regenerative food forest, I write stories, dream wild dreams, and work on solutions to the toughest challenges of modern life. LONGER BIO: I'm an experienced B2B marketing and design professional with extensive skill managing small to mid-sized teams. Having worked successfully in a variety of industries--financial services, software development, public safety technology, and small business consulting--I have a unique, wide-ranging perspective of the buyer's journey in the business and entrepreneurial communities. I completed my MBA at the University of West Georgia in July, 2013, where I was honored with induction to the prestigious Beta Gamma Sigma business honor society, and since then I have built a career out of helping SMB's create their brand, design a digital strategy, and articulate the message clearly and honestly to the marketplace. I've found success everywhere I've gone, consistently meeting or exceeding expectations. Most recently, I completed the brand and website redesign for the ecological consulting firm Roots Down, which not only won me the approval of my client, but also an ownership stake in the company. Now I work full time trying to save the world. Oh, and I’ve also started two successful(ish) entrepreneurial ventures: the digital mapping software Walkabout, and branding and web design firm DogEatCrow.

I'm a customer focused marketer with a proven record as marketing leader delivering product campaigns, brand strategies, integrated marketing plans, digital marketing, content marketing, events and one-to-one communications. I’m passionate about the role marketing can play in driving clear and measurable business results for small and medium-sized businesses. I'm experienced working with and influencing senior leaders as well as mentoring, training and developing team members. Outside of marketing, I’ve also worked in a number of industries in both creative and organisational roles.

I’m a data scientist specialized in Natural Language Processing. I plan, design and build products using spaCy and foundation models (like those developed by OpenAI, Anthropic and Cohere). Here's my GitHub: https://github.com/trevyyy