Gerry Crispin is a consultant, a former Human Resources practitioner, a recognized thought leader in the HR profession, and an author of eight books and 100 articles. His views on employment strategy, hiring process and staffing technology are sought by the most competitive corporations. 
 
Acknowledged as one of the most influential leaders in the staffing industry, Mr. Crispin and his business partner, Mark Mehler, founded CareerXroads 15 years ago. Today their firm facilitates intense, small-group meetings with staffing leaders at more than 70 of the world’s largest multi-nationals. They create experiences that probe cutting-edge employment issues, contrast staffing best practices and contribute to the evolution of the recruiting function.
 
Mr. Crispin continues to pursue a lifelong passion for understanding and explaining how firms design and build staffing processes, the technology to enhance them, and the systems to manage them.
 
His extensive professional experience includes:

• 10 years as an HR leader and executive at Fortune 50 firm, Johnson & Johnson;
• years of successful business development responsibilities for the largest independent advertising agency in recruitment communications, Shaker Advertising
• volunteer leader, contributing at every level of the Human Resource/Human Capital profession—including stints on three boards affiliated with the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM) the world’s largest HR association with 260,000 members.

Mr. Crispin has spoken at SHRM national conferences every year since 1996 and participated in delegations to China and India with other HR executives to meet with government and business leaders. Mr. Crispin currently leads an international task force of more than 100 experts in Staffing and Workforce Planning to develop ANSI and ISO HR standards over the next 10 years.