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Wednesday, May 19, 2021

Strategies for CEOs: How to Set Yourself Apart to Hire Top Talent

Start Date: 5/19/2021 12:00 PM EDT
End Date: 5/19/2021 1:00 PM EDT

Venue Name: Zoom Webinar


Organization Name: SECAF

Contact:
Julia Nelson
Email: info@secaf.org
Phone: (703) 574-1117

Wednesday, May 19, 2021
12:00 - 1:00 PM

 

Webinar Series: Strategies for CEOs, How to Set Yourself Apart to Hire Top Talent
 
In this continued competitive market for small and mid-size government contractors, we will discuss strategies for CEOs to entice and retain top talent. The recruiting process is enhanced and accelerated when CEOs leverage their brand and are engaged with candidates and employees.  Join as we share considerations in how to increase your success rate of employment offer acceptances when paying the top of the market may not be an option.
 
Helios HR’s CEO Kathy Albarado will interview talent expert Kyle Robertson, Babs Doherty of Solerity, Michael Waddell of INTEGRITYOne Partners, and MJ Wivell of BTI 360, three prominent CEOs making remarkable developments with attracting and retaining top talent for their businesses. Discover how you can strategically and intentionally set yourself apart in this tight market to grow and scale.
Panelists:
  • Kathy Albarado, CEO, Helios HR
  • Babs Doherty, President and CEO, Solerity
  • Kyle Robertson, Senior Management Recruiting Consultant, Helios HR
  • Michael Waddell, Managing Partner, INTEGRITYOne Partners
  • MJ Wivell, CEO, BTI360

Kathy Albarado founded Helios HR, an award-winning human capital consulting and recruiting firm, with a commitment to aid leaders in solidifying strong human resource practices that build and enhance their corporate culture. With more than 25 years of progressive human capital management experience, she works with executives to help them establish a culture of intention--a culture that allows them to attract, retain and engage exceptional people. Helios is known for helping their clients scale to their next stage of growth. Kathy and her team have helped launch and grow hundreds of organizations ranging from start-ups to the Fortune 500.
 
Kathy is active on many Boards to include the Executive Committee for Leadership Mission International, Northern Virginia Chamber, the Small Emerging Contractor’s Advisory Forum (SECAF), the Professional Services Council (PSC), and is a founding Board member of George Mason University’s School of Business, Women in Business Initiative. An Alumni of GMU, Kathy holds her B.S. in Psychology and her M.A. in Human Resource Management. Kathy is an active member of the Washington Business Journal’s Leadership Trust and Leadership Greater Washington.

Recently, Kathy was recognized by Virginia Business Magazine as one of the top 100 people to meet in 2020. Renowned for her commitment to leadership and community, Kathy has been recognized for multiple leadership awards and has been featured on television, radio and quoted in numerous media publications including The New York Times, Forbes, The Washington Post, The Washington Business Journal and Virginia Business. Among their awards, the Helios team was recognized with the National Capital Business Ethics Award, Best of Reston, Corporate Impact Award for Excellence in Philanthropy, and the CARE Awards for creating a culture of caring.

Kathy and her team at Helios HR support the community in many ways, with the belief that in community is where real change happens. The Helios team loves to engage in team building by supporting regional nonprofits to include Shelter House, Northern Virginia Family Service, Women Giving Back, and Family PASS.

Babs Doherty is President and CEO of Solerity Inc. Solerity is a mid-tier technology company enabling cloud technologies, unifying big data analytics and business intelligence and developing custom applications that meet mission needs for national security.  Ms. Doherty oversees the strategic direction of the Reston-based IT services company to deliver innovative solutions by identifying and resolving customers’ complex problems utilizing proven engineering principles, mature technologies, and optimized business processes that adapt to a rapidly changing operational and technical environment.

Prior to her position at Solerity, Ms. Doherty founded Eagle Ray, Inc. in February of 2002 which was acquired by Solerity in February 2020.  Eagle Ray is an agile mid-tier woman-owned business delivering a full range of business and technical capabilities to solve critical programmatic and technical problems across the intelligence community, Departments of Defense and Homeland Security.    

She was a 2017 Women in Technology Leadership Award finalist, 2015 Washington Technology Fast 50 recipient, GOVCON 2014 Award Recipient, 2013 recipient of SmartCEO’s Brava! Award, and multiple Virginia Chamber Fantastic 50 awards.  Ms. Doherty is a member of numerous professional organizations and currently serves as a Board member and on the Executive Committee for the Professional Services Counsil (PSC) and has served on the Board of Directors for the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA).  She holds a Bachelor of Science in Management.  She is an avid scuba diver and instructor and spends her spare time advocating for cleaner oceans.

Kyle Robertson, as a Senior Recruiting Consultant at Helios HR, Kyle brings 20+ years as a strategic professional with a background working in consulting, corporate and staffing agency environments. Over the course of her career, she has provided specialized recruiting and executive search for hundreds of clients to include the Fortune 500, commercial real estate, private equity firms, law firms, non-profit, trade associations, financial institutions, healthcare, finance and accounting, sports marketing, public relations and communications, transportation, logistics, technology, and government contractors. In her role as a consultant, Kyle becomes an integral part of an organization’s team, providing talent acquisition and retention guidance for long-term success. Kyle enhances corporate processes for efficiency and effectiveness through recruiting assessments and provides advice and counsel to leaders on the candidate experience and employer branding. With a strong business development background, one of Kyle’s greatest skills is building and maintaining relationships. She earned her bachelor’s degree from University of Maryland College Park and is a Certified Diversity Recruiter (CDR), Certified Social Sourcer (CSSR) and has her Professional Recruiter Certification (PRC). 

Michael Waddell began conceptualizing a professional services firm that would deliver superior IT solutions to clients with unparalleled integrity. He visualized this organization being one that would offer IT professionals technically challenging work along with   the   support   to   successfully pursue their own goals as professionals and as members of families and communities. INTEGRITYOne Partners (IOP), originally founded as Prizum in 1995, is the realization of this vision.
 
A strong believer in life-long learning, Mr. Waddell has successfully completed The Harvard Business School Owner/President Management Program, as well as The Harvard Business School's Leading Professional Service Firms. Mr. Waddell used his continual thirst for knowledge to bolster his ability to provide the visionary, operational, and financial leadership that allows IOP to continue delivering superior business and IT solutions built on trust. With this background, Mr. Waddell leads the firm's efforts to develop tools and bridge costly disconnections between technology and operations in the federal government. He is responsible for the firm's allocation of resources and cost-efficiencies, based on a broad knowledge of all operational and investment functions of the firm. Moreover, Mr. Waddell invests much of himself with fellow employees by sponsoring and participating in numerous charities, encouraging open dialogue, participating in mentoring and initiating a reverse-mentoring program, coaching, and other relationship- and team-building activities.
 
Mr. Waddell brings to his leadership role functional experience in program management, quality assurance and software development. He utilizes a multitude of experience to ensure IOP achieves its mission of delivering solid IT solutions based on trust, thereby sustaining the long- term health and growth of the firm.
 
Michael Waddell's rich technical and business experience allow him to ensure that clients' technical and business requirements are kept in balance while also providing manageable work- life balance for the IOP team.

MJ Wivell is a visionary, big-picture thinker and one of BTI360’s founders. When he’s not percolating on the next big idea he’s usually meeting one-on-one with our engineers to find out what drives them. He’s the reason our company has such a fervent passion for developing people – it’s what drives him.

When he’s not developing our team or envisioning the future of the industry, he is either spending time with his high school sweetheart and two kids or trying to sneak in a round of golf.

Registration is required.
  • SECAF Members - Complimentary
  • Non-Members - $35
Please register by Tuesday, May 18th at 12:00pm.
 
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