Diversity Recruiting Podcast: Recent Episodes
Cody Horton
A leader in diversity and inclusion recruitment, Diverse Recruiting Experts founder and managing director Cody Horton shares diversity sourcing and recruitment insights to help SAAS professionals meet their hiring goals.
Want to improve your diversity and inclusion recruiting and retention outcomes in a sustainable way?
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Cody Horton, Diverse Recruiting Expert Founder and Managing Director, shares his insights into the changes we've seen in the hiring environment. Work is changing, and companies who fail to recognize the shift in mindset that's needed to compete will be left behind.
In this brief discussion, Cody will give business owners key strategies to resolve their hiring issues. Specifically, you'll learn how to:
- Make finding top #talent easier
- Sell your company with candidates, before you even advertise the role(s)!
- Fill your roles faster with "pre-sold" candidates who love your brand
- Improve your diversity and inclusion efforts by working smarter, not harder
Ready to get a head start on next year's hiring and snap up top #talent before your competitors do?
Stack the odds in your favor and book some time with Cody to find out how the DRE team can help fill your difficult #SaaS #sales and #tech roles with top #diverse #talent.
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This podcast is a short excerpt from a much larger discussion surrounding the topic of recruiting and retaining women in sales.
Cody's guest, Cynthia Barnes is the founder and CEO of the National Association of Women Sales Professionals, 2021 Salesforce Influencer, 2020 LinkedIn Top Sales Influencer, highly sought-after global keynote speaker, and a pioneering champion for Women in Sales.
As author of "Reach the Top 1%: A Strategic Game Plan for Warrior Women in Sales", Cynthia is known for motivating others to feel confident, empowered, and brave. Her insights and unique understanding of what it takes for women sales professionals to excel have made her a sought-after expert, having appeared in over 250 major media outlets around the nation – including appearances in Forbes and the Wall Street Journal.
Sean Kelley, a long-time friend of Diverse Recruiting Expert's Founder and Managing Director, Cody Horton, serves as an advisor for several organizations.
In this series, you'll learn practical things both businesses and individuals can do to ensure that their diversity and inclusion efforts are effective.
From Sean...
As a leader, I believe in the power of teams supported with compassionate and human-centered leadership. Over the past 30 years, I've worked at amazing large organizations, on many start-up projects and new businesses, and honed my perspective on leading teams with heart while delivering operational excellence at scale through the power of people and technology.
Learn more about Sean here.
If your Saas company needs help with finding diverse, top talent, you can get on Cody's calendar here, or just visit our website to learn more about DRE.
Thank you for spending time with us.
Sean Kelley, a long-time friend of Diverse Recruiting Expert's Founder and Managing Director, Cody Horton, serves as an advisor for several organizations.
In this series, you'll learn practical things both businesses and individuals can do to ensure that their diversity and inclusion efforts are effective.
From Sean...
As a leader, I believe in the power of teams supported with compassionate and human-centered leadership. Over the past 30 years, I've worked at amazing large organizations, on many start-up projects and new businesses, and honed my perspective on leading teams with heart while delivering operational excellence at scale through the power of people and technology.
Learn more about Sean here.
If your Saas company needs help with finding diverse, top talent, you can get on Cody's calendar here, or just visit our website to learn more about DRE.
Thank you for spending time with us.
Sean Kelley, a long-time friend of Diverse Recruiting Expert's Founder and Managing Director, Cody Horton, serves as an advisor for several organizations.
In this series, you'll learn practical things both businesses and individuals can do to ensure that their diversity and inclusion efforts are effective.
From Sean...
As a leader, I believe in the power of teams supported with compassionate and human-centered leadership. Over the past 30 years, I've worked at amazing large organizations, on many start-up projects and new businesses, and honed my perspective on leading teams with heart while delivering operational excellence at scale through the power of people and technology.
Learn more about Sean here.
If your Saas company needs help with finding diverse, top talent, you can get on Cody's calendar here, or just visit our website to learn more about DRE.
Thank you for spending time with us.
Sean Kelley, a long-time friend of Diverse Recruiting Expert's Founder and Managing Director, Cody Horton, serves as an advisor for several organizations.
In this series, you'll learn practical things both businesses and individuals can do to ensure that their diversity and inclusion efforts are effective.
From Sean...
As a leader, I believe in the power of teams supported with compassionate and human-centered leadership. Over the past 30 years, I've worked at amazing large organizations, on many start-up projects and new businesses, and honed my perspective on leading teams with heart while delivering operational excellence at scale through the power of people and technology.
Learn more about Sean here.
If your Saas company needs help with finding diverse, top talent, you can get on Cody's calendar here, or just visit our website to learn more about DRE.
Thank you for spending time with us.
Sean Kelley, a long-time friend of Diverse Recruiting Expert's Founder and Managing Director, Cody Horton, serves as an advisor for several organizations.
In this series, you'll learn practical things both businesses and individuals can do to ensure that their diversity and inclusion efforts are effective.
From Sean...
As a leader, I believe in the power of teams supported with compassionate and human-centered leadership. Over the past 30 years, I've worked at amazing large organizations, on many start-up projects and new businesses, and honed my perspective on leading teams with heart while delivering operational excellence at scale through the power of people and technology.
Learn more about Sean here.
If your Saas company needs help with finding diverse, top talent, you can get on Cody's calendar here, or just visit our website to learn more about DRE.
Thank you for spending time with us.
Sean Kelley, a long-time friend of Diverse Recruiting Expert's Founder and Managing Director, Cody Horton, serves as an advisor for several organizations.
In this series, you'll learn practical things both businesses and individuals can do to ensure that their diversity and inclusion efforts are effective.
From Sean...
As a leader, I believe in the power of teams supported with compassionate and human-centered leadership. Over the past 30 years, I've worked at amazing large organizations, on many start-up projects and new businesses, and honed my perspective on leading teams with heart while delivering operational excellence at scale through the power of people and technology.
Learn more about Sean here.
If your Saas company needs help with finding diverse, top talent, you can get on Cody's calendar here, or just visit our website to learn more about DRE.
Thank you for spending time with us.
The results are in...if you want your organization to succeed in today's #business climate, all elements of your #company #branding need to be congruent with your company #values.
Presented by: Cody Horton, DRE Founder and Managing Director and guest host Scot Sessions, TalVista Co-Founder and CEO
The full webinar covers the following topics:
- What do your #candidates see?
- Is your employment brand and messaging really inclusive?
- Brand transparency
- Authentic messaging
- Tools that help
- How to increase your pipeline of #diverse #talent through #brand
Cody Horton
For more than two decades, Cody has shared expert insight into diversity hiring strategies and processes.
Scot Sessions
With over 25 years of business and leadership experience in start-ups, Scot is driven by products that make a positive impact on people’s lives.
Diverse Recruiting Expert Founder and Managing Director Cody Horton speaks with guest Latasha Gillespie, Executive Head of Global Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Amazon Studios, Prime Video and IMDb.
Latasha was featured in Forbes in 2020. Black Enterprise Magazine named her one of the 2019 Most Powerful Women in Corporate Diversity and she is a 2018 Ebony Magazine Power 100 Honoree.
Regularly speaking on stages around the world, Latasha has been honored as a guest lecturer and presenter by Stanford University, the Hollywood Commission, the Recording Academy, the Television Academy, the NFL, the American Black Film Festival (ABFF), and others.
Latasha shares her wisdom with us, showing how women can:
- Get out of their comfort zone
- Take risks and be bold
- Choose to challenge the "status quo" and
- Play to win
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Cody Horton, Diverse Recruiting Experts Founder and Managing Director speaks with Tonie Leatherberry. An accomplished individual, Tonie is a passionate and invested leader who has helped to create opportunities for women and people of color.
At Deloitte, she was the principal architect of The Board Leadership Forum and the NextGen CEO Academy, each of which has had a meaningful impact, ultimately placing more than 70 Black leaders into executive-level and board roles.
Some of the topics discussed include:
- The challenges facing middle managers
- The solutions needed for developing middle managers
- How to recognize that a middle manager has ability to scale to the next level
- The role of senior leadership in the development of middle managers
- What leaders should do to connect longer term goals with short-term goals as they grow middle managers
- The challenges businesses might face for growing women and people of color from middle management to senior leadership (from a diversity and inclusion perspective)
- What your organization can do to move forward with a better approach to growing middle managers
- Advice for an aspiring middle manager to help them grow and develop
- What a leader can do to impact their organization's ability to attract, develop and retain middle managers
As an early adopter of using video for interviewing, Diversity Recruiting Experts Founder and Managing Director Cody Horton is uniquely positioned to offer expert advice on #virtual #interviewing.
Gain insights into the many benefits of using #remote #interviewing, not the least of which is maintaining #recruiting #continuity during times of social distancing.
Key discussion:
- Who should use virtual interviews
- Benefits of virtual interviews
- Adapting your process
- Video interview options and platforms
- Employer tips for virtual interviews
- Candidate preparation for virtual interviews