While CFO Jennifer Prospero is responsible for the fiscal integrity of Staffmark Group, she prioritizes people ahead of numbers. Faced with ever-changing challenges during the pandemic, she focused on health and safety for all, resulting in increased productivity, efficiency and employee satisfaction. Prospero leveraged employee engagement and quantitative metrics while viewing immediate performance on shorter [...]
As the executive leader of Centerline Drivers and PeopleReady Skilled Trades, Jill Quinn ensures that their customers receive the skilled craftspeople or qualified drivers they need. Not only has Quinn helped lead the brands’ success, but she also champions women in skilled trades and transportation. With women accounting for 50% of its leadership team, Centerline [...]
Sonu Ratra is co-founder and president of Akraya Inc., whose diversity initiative Women Back to Work is helping change the narrative for professionals returning to the workforce. Ratra also recently created partnerships to launch return-to-work initiatives in the contingent programs at Splunk, ServiceNow and Pure Storage, and she also built an advisory board and honorary [...]
Corinne Ripoche became CEO of Adecco Americas and Pontoon Global last year after serving as global president of Pontoon — Adecco’s total talent, statement-of-work, MSP and RPO services brand — since 2017. Having held several leadership roles since joining The Adecco Group in 1993, Ripoche has a global perspective with an activist mindset. She led [...]
CEO Allison Robinson is disrupting the workplace for moms so they don’t have to choose between family and career. Disturbed by statistics around women leaving the workplace upon starting a family, Robinson in 2016 founded The Mom Project, a digital talent platform that connects professionally accomplished women with world-class companies. To date, The Mom Project [...]
As president of the Adecco Group US Foundation, Joyce Russell is committed to helping ensure equity in the world of work. Launched in January 2019, the foundation focuses on upskilling and reskilling American workers, including underserved populations, to enable them to reach their full potential. Russell first joined Adecco in 1987 as a branch manager [...]
AMN Healthcare Services CEO Susan Salka is a longtime proponent of promoting women in leadership. She has prioritized gender equality since joining the nation’s largest US healthcare staffing firm, which this year achieved the top ranking in the Bloomberg Gender Equality Index and Human Rights Campaign Foundation Corporate Equality Index. Also in 2021, Salka was [...]
Jackie Schaffer is the senior VP at Cella, a creative staffing and consulting agency acquired by Randstad in September 2021. In the last year, Schaffer has led a team of company and client staff in designing a solution that led to more than $7 million in new business. In addition, she was integral in the [...]
As chief global solutions officer at Volt Information Sciences, Lori Schultz oversees several business units, including Volt Consulting Group, International, Technical and Arcten, which is based in India. In 2020, Schultz led an operational transformation to streamline processes by relocating several back-office operations to India, which positively impacted the organizations’ overall reported results. In 2020 [...]
Global head of consumer products, life sciences and industrials at Pontoon Solutions, Karen Selfors-Thomann is an activist leader with a passion for driving diverse talent practices, foraging inclusive behaviors and specializing in cross-ecosystem expansions to grow customer accounts. Selfors-Thomann leads customer pursuits to win new logos, renew contracts and deliver critical enhancements while growing key [...]
