Our inaugural Talent Brand Alliance board have allowed us to grow in new and exciting ways over the last two years. We’ve almost doubled new member growth, and added five new local chapters internationally.
The bar is set high, and we’re excited to share the next iteration of employer brand, recruitment marketing, and talent attraction leaders to join the board and support our community!
These five impressive talent branders will be joining our current Community and Partnerships board leaders, the amazing Lindsey Sanford and Aaron Kraljev respectively, as well as our co-founders and board co-chairs, Will Staney and Bryan Chaney. See the full board here.
Shaunda Zilich - Membership
Shaunda has a passion to connect people's purpose to what they do everyday. She enjoys her career but enjoys life even more! She continually finds purpose in family, faith, and friends but also helping others turn everyday life into experiences they can 'write home about'.
How does she do this you may ask? By not taking things too seriously, being real, making people laugh, helping people learn from her mistakes and successes, volunteering to transform her community, AND using storytelling and data to connect people to purpose for their full employee lifecycle.
She has been doing this for over a decade, first at General Electric, standing up and running their full Employment Brand department (in 30 different countries) for all GE Businesses (hiring over 80K a year) and now at Qualtrics, a high tech company where not only has she stood up #QualtricsLife but also is connecting it the full employee journey including Attraction, Candidate, and Employee experiences for Qualtrics and their customers.
Camille Richardson - Mentorship
Camille joined Facebook’s Talent Attract team in 2017 to build the team’s first employer brand in-house agency and its first diversity employer brand. Her love for branding began in consumer marketing, with experience across a variety of industries – airlines, home improvement, and hospitality. After a shift to the employer brand world in 2016 leading the newly formed EB team at Macy's/Bloomingdale's, she didn't look back.
Throughout Camille’s career, she’s utilized creative channels and impactful storytelling to engage customers (and now candidates) in authentic and relevant ways that drive strong business results. Camille, her husband Darian, and two boys (2 and 5) currently reside in Atlanta, Georgia and enjoy watching Hamilton, trying new restaurants, and nurturing their veggie garden.
Alex Her - Marketing
Alex Her leads the employer branding, recruitment marketing, and candidate experience at Informatica. As a team of one, he has built the program from the ground up and drives all initiatives across 26 countries. After graduating from the University of Phoenix in 2014, Alex got his start in employer branding at Cox Enterprises in 2016. Aside from being an active advocate for all things employer brand, Alex enjoys traveling, being around family, video games, and a good craft beer.
Heather Leszczewicz - Knowledge Base
Heather Leszczewicz is a recovering journalist who transitioned from writing about community stories in the Chicago area to employee stories from around the globe. She works for Gallagher, a global insurance, risk management and consulting firm, as the global Recruitment Marketing Manager, highlighting what #LifeAtGallagher is like. She champions employer brand as well as diversity and inclusion efforts.
Heather believes coffee is always the answer, she’s a social media addict and she loves a good personality test (Enneagram 1 / CD for DISC / INTJ).
Summer Baruth - Events
Summer is a forward-thinking marketing communications strategist who fell in love with talent branding five years ago and has never looked back! She is know as an influential leader with the unique ability to galvanize teams across organizations through effective communication, innovative perspective, and the fostering of positive relationships.
Summer is a natural connector and relationship builder who loves a great story, and takes great pride in developing ways for companies and individuals to make authentic connections, grow their footprints, and attract top talent. Summer is currently the Talent Brand Program Manager for Centene Corporation and resides in Charlotte, NC.
Hang on, we’re not done recruiting!
We need leaders for the committees who will work with these board members, to support the TBA mission and our community growth.
If you’re interested in playing a committee leadership role, with free pro membership and discounted Summit tickets, please share your interest here.