Empowering voices in Diversity and Inclusion hiring and recruiting. The Diversity Recruiting Blueprint is a practical guide designed for talent leaders committed to building a more inclusive and diverse workforce. It offers actionable strategies and proven recruiting practices to help you attract, hire, and retain diverse talent effectively.

Diversity and Inclusion Talent leader with extensive experience leading talent acquisition for experienced and early in career talent. Empowering companies to create and implement successful diversity and inclusive recruiting efforts. After years of working in large enterprise organizations, I am focused on extending Diversity and Inclusion practices and success to medium, small and start up businesses.- Diversity and Inclusion Recruiting Strategy: I work with companies to develop and implement D&I recruiting strategies that are aligned with their business goals.

DSIX is a member-driven community of global Corporate Diversity Recruiting Leaders. DSIX uniquely delivers a community of peers who transparently share what’s working in diversity recruiting and what isn’t so that we can meaningfully advance diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging through recruiting practices. http://ixcommunities.com

HireBetter acquired Diverse Recruiting Experts.

Built a diversity sourcing as a service company to support large and small companies with their candidate pipelines and hiring. Provided the vision and strategy to grow a team of sourcers and recruiters. Oversight of P&L and company delivery. Great from 1 to 30 people through bootstrapped organic growth. Generated $1.8M in revenue at the time of acquisition and maintained achieve 40% year of year growth from start-up to acquisition. Lead business development, sales and sourcing team development and growth. Lead team of sourcers and recruiters to deliver over 90% candidate success rate for client recruiting teams.

Diverse Recruiting Experts is a division of NETPUT LLC. Head of Global Talent Acquisition for NETPUT. Global Managing Director for Diverse Recruiting Experts.

Responsible for strategy and execution of all recruiting functions including executive, college recruiting, diversity and experienced hire recruiting.

Led Talent Acquisition for ThoughtWorks North America. Responsible for all aspects of talent acquisition strategy and execution. Created enterprise diversity recruiting strategy.

Responsible for all recruiting functional areas. Developed strategies and execution plans for Talent Acquisition. Worked closely with the DEI leader on company DEI efforts.

Lead technical and business recruiting for Microsoft's Windows division. Responsible for recruiting strategies and hiring for strategic devices, hardware and software products. Oversight of sourcing and full-life cycle recruiting efforts. Recruiting engineers, software engineers and developers, program managers, user experience design and research professionals and a wide range of technical and business focused roles. Champion diversity recruiting and DEI initiatives and innovative approaches to improve recruiting efficiencies. Oversight of staffing budget, planning and staffing needs in support of a wide range of businesses.

Overall leadership for early in career, college and diversity recruiting strategy, execution and budget to support enterprise wide diversity recruiting efforts. Directed efforts to enhance and transform Campus Recruiting, DEI Recruiting, Corporate Internship, and engagement with professional organizations to support multiple functional areas across the company. Improved overall company image and brand on campus and with professional organizations. Partnered with Vice Presidents, Directors, Recruiters at all levels of the company to establish and deliver recruiting solutions.

- Develop strategies, engagement framework and execution plans for sourcing, diversity and college programs to support, IT, Finance, Marketing, Services and Sales.- Manage and develop budget. Leveraged addition budget through business unit charge backs supporting recruitment efforts.- Reviewed metrics and data to ensure accountability and adjust tactics as needed. Team on-boarded over 600 new hires and led new hire orientation for multi-site locations. Team recognized in new hire survey for 90% satisfied score from new hire orientation.- Developed Diversity accountability template and socializing with SVP of Diversity and recruiting leadership team.- Team established and successfully implemented On-the-Spot offers for diversity events, reducing the number of callbacks and saving approximately $30,000 in reduced travel costs per event.- Sourcing team leveraged technologies, social networks and multi-media approaches to attract a broader candidate pool.Dell Global Services:Partner with Services Vice Presidents and Directors to build hiring plans and deliver improved recruiting results. Team was able to decreased time to fill by 50% and increase offer accepts by 50% within 3 months due to improved understanding of business and candidate needs. - Mentor and coach recruiting teams in various areas including diversity sourcing, research, candidate management and client engagement. Client satisfaction for team increased by 10% each recruiter as the result of better communication and reporting to the hiring managers. - Led team to Developed Diversity Tool Kit to support recruiters and managers. Ensured that 100% of interviews received refresher training and interviewer dos and don’ts handout.- Global collaboration with EMEA, APJ and LATAM recruiting teams to support global services business to resolve cross regional issues and facilitate inter-country transfers and hiring.SPHR - Senior Professional in Human Resources

Leadersship and responsibility for diversity and inclusion recruiting efforts at Deloitte Consulting. Worked cross functionally with diversity recruiting teams, leaders and directors of campus and experience hire recruiting to implement an integrated approach to diversity recruitment.- Created and execute recruiting strategies for building a more diverse and inclusive workforce. Resulting in increased hiring results and diversity conferences. Hired 18 MBA candidates during initial implementation at National Black MBA conference and 9 at National Society of Hispanic MBAs conference.- Drive organization and event strategic and tactical efforts in support of diversity recruiting initiatives.CDR - Certified Diversity Recruiter

- Build diversity recruiting strategy and event participation framework and sourcing strategies. - Develop diversity consideration process for senior and technical candidates- Analyze hiring results, workforce requirements and affirmative action data to establish hiring diversity hiring targets. - Recognized as a hands-on diversity recruiting leader across the company.Staffing Consultant- Mentored recruiters and consulted with hiring managers and business leaders to provide full life-cycle recruiting for technical, sales, finance, marketing, and management positions. - Lead diversity recruiting efforts working collaboratively across the company to develop measure and implement diversity initiatives. - Managed internal relationships with senior managers, HR management and the Microsoft corporate diversity team.- Certified Diversity Recruiter

Directed diversity recruiting operations, relationship building, sourcing, account and vendor management. Built marketing strategy and branding initiatives.

- Led multi-site, technical support teams to deliver 24x7 technical support and consulting solutions to enterprise customers. - Worked collaboratively with multi-site teams in Microsoft Consulting Services, developers and the beta product support teams to implement and support emerging technologies.- Leader in Diversity Recruiting Action Committee and delivered presentations for Microsoft Recruiting. Member of Blacks At Microsoft (BAM).Maintained MSCE, MCT, Network+ Certifications.

Information Technology and Enterprise technical strategy and execution for mission critical operations. Experience leading operational teams for various operations on shore and aboard ship. Human Resources and Recruiting leadership including EEO, diversity and leadership development.Healthcare/Medical and Officer Recruiting Leadership and College Recruiting Scolarship Programs.Masters of Science - Information Technolgy ManagementMicrosoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT)Network+Network EngineeringSoftware Development LeadershipSurface Warfare OfficerSpace and Electronics