Instructors

Lou Adler - Lou is the president of The Adler Group, a training and consulting firm helping companies make hiring top talent a more systematic process. His Amazon best-seller Hire With Your Head(John Wiley & Sons, 1997, 2002) started the performance-based hiring and selection movement. This was followed-up with the award-winning Nightingale-Conant audio tape program, POWER Hiring: How to Find, Assess, Hire and Keep Great Talent (1998). His latest book project, The Future of Hiring (2005), describes how to combine technology, creative sourcing, and a great recruiting organization to make hiring the best a true business process.

Adler is a veteran recruiter and founder of CJA Executive Search. His early industry career included general management positions with the Allen Group, as well as senior-level financial management positions with Rockwell International's Automotive and Consumer Electronics groups. He holds an MBA from UCLA and a B.S. in Engineering from Clarkson University, New York.

Bryan Johanson - Bryan Johanson is Executive Vice President of the Adler Group, a consulting and training company specializing in hiring process reengineering. He has been consulting and training for the last 8 years with companies as diverse as Mellon Bank, Royal Canadian Bank, Kinecta Federal Credit Union, Arby's Restaurants, Panda Restaurant Group, REI, and the YMCA of the USA. His previous career includes over 15 years experience in management, the majority of which has been in high technology sales and marketing. His leadership experience in start-up companies and Fortune 500 companies has provided him with a unique perspective on the issues of hiring top talent.

Prior to The Adler Group, Mr. Johanson has held positions including Executive Vice President of POWER Hiring, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Enfish Technology, Director of Channel Programs and Services for Novell Inc., and Director Channel Programs and Strategies for WordPerfect Corporation.

Bryan is the father of eight children and lives and works in Parker, CO.

Kathleen V. Barton - Kathy is a senior vice president with the Adler Group, focusing on business development and marketing. She is a proven executive with a reputation for developing strategies and tactics to drive revenue and support corporate goals. Kathy has worked with fast-growing technology companies, Fortune 500 companies, and start-ups, with expertise in IPO preparation and mergers and acquisitions.

Prior to joining the Adler Group, Kathy was the senior vice president of marketing and product management for Peopleclick, a leading total workforce acquisition solution provider, where she led the strategic direction of Peopleclick's product line and the company's branding and positioning. Previous to Peopleclick, Kathy held VP level roles with companies such as Sodalia North America, (a division of Telecom Italia), FutureNext, and GE Information Services. As VP of Marketing at The Hunter Group, an HR solutions consulting firm, she developed marketing programs that helped fuel a growth in revenue to $135 million from $19 million. Kathy started her career as a trainer for a division of British Telecom.

Kathy has served on the National Advisory Board of the Human Capital Institute and is a member of SHRM and IHRIM. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and International Relations from the College of William and Mary.