Webcast:
The amount of difference that a good hire can make compared to a mediocre one is staggering. Business leaders are already asking, “Where do our best leaders come from? Internal candidates? External candidates? Employee referrals? Is the recruiting team actively aware of the talent pools that will yield the best leaders? What positions will likely need to be filled a year or two from now?”
Learn how to create a proactive model for sourcing leaders that will keep talent acquisition in the conversation and building a pipeline before a requisition is officially opened. According to recent polls, well over half of American workers are open to a change in positions already and organizations need to learn how to take advantage of that sentiment.
Presenters
Deirdre is currently Assistant Vice President of Executive Talent Management at The Hartford
Financial Services Group, responsible for executive recruiting and the executive assessment
program across the Hartford Enterprise and partnering with business leaders to build a
holistic Talent Management strategy. In this role, she plays a key role in building and driving
the Enterprise talent agenda in support of the business strategy, bringing an increased
emphasis and structured approach to the acquisition, development and assessment of
executive talent and succession planning.
Since joining the Hartford in late 2003, she has held a variety of roles, including leading
recruiting across Property & Casualty, Hartford Life and Hartford Investment Management
Company (HIMCO) and has personally completed executive searches across all business
lines and led the recruiting efforts that resulted in HIMCO doubling its number of employees
in four years.
In her talent management and executive search career, she has completed talent
assessments and search assignments for clients in various industries, including investment
management, investment banking, insurance, finance, human resources, while also building
best-in-class recruiting teams to deliver on talent gaps. Prior to joining The Hartford, Deirdre
was a member of the executive committee for one of the largest retained executive search
firms in the world, working in partnership with the CEO, sector leaders and office managing
partners, to design and implement an organizational model to drive the North American
search division. Her duties included hiring, training and developing the firm’s 60+ Research
Specialists, Associates and Consultants, who supported the execution of executive-level
searches across the U.S. and Canada. In this role, she worked across all industries to staff
each search assignment, develop search strategies and manage the knowledge-sharing
infrastructure, ensuring that the firm was maintaining a “best-in-class” approach to servicing
its clients and motivating and rewarding its recruiting teams.
Deirdre began her career in executive search as a recruiter and researcher, specializing in
the financial services sector, with an emphasis on investment management. Prior to joining
the Executive Recruiting Industry, she was the Marketing & Operations Manager for a world-
renowned modern dance troupe and also led Development and Operations for the oldest not-
for-profit in New York City. Born and raised in KY, Deirdre started her career managing the
programming and administration of the state’s premiere educational program for artistically
gifted students.
Deirdre received her B.A. from Centre College, and has completed graduate courses at New
York University. She is or has recently been a member of IACPR, Society of Competitive
Intelligence Professionals (SCIP), Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), World
at Work.
