Tom Schin

Building stronger leaders helps your business thrive. Strong and effective leaders impact their teams, build greater engagement, loyalty, and productivity. I help you get them to that top performing level. Through executive coaching, group coaching cohorts, and tailored leadership development programming, I craft programs to upskill your managers to where you need them to be for the long run. By investing in your leaders, you're investing in your teams, and in the end you'll Build Better Culture. Having a structure and plan to build off of ensures that you're not just winging it. Let's tie your company mission, vision and values to your employees in meaningful and intentional ways. Remember: Stronger leaders help build employee engagement --> Stronger engagement leads to better results --> Better results creates a healthier foundation to continue to build with --> A Healthier foundation builds employee retention and loyalty.

This podcast is for those who don’t want to hear all the fancy business jargon, and just want to listen to a couple of regular Tom’s talk about practical, (sometimes nonsensical), real-world conversations on workplace challenges ALL business leaders face. From who wants to work, to who’s running the proverbial asylum and HOW it’s being done, we’ll dive into a long list of topics and industries. While much of our experience relates to business owners and HR professionals (where we’ve lived and breathed for most of our careers), there’s a truth serum atmosphere and chemistry the Toms bring to the table as we talk about the workplace of today and tomorrow. Our guests will bring a variety of thoughtful conversations stemming around Employee Experience, Company Culture, and Leadership. We’ve all sat through dozens of presentations or company meetings that went on FAR too long, with only minute amounts of useful information (if any). It’s part of what the inspiration was behind this show. Our goal is to entertain you, bring you useful nuggets, and hopefully inspire change (one step at a time).

Led an RPO style recruiting team based on client needs and processes. The workplace has definitely changed, so have recruitment needs and processes. Helped clients determine what recruiting models were best suited for their short and long term needs. Collaborated on marketing efforts, co-hosted a nationally broadcast podcast, and more.

Relationship and sourcing ninja. Day to day tasks included building and developing client partnerships. Networking, providing great customer service, and follow through on commitments. Speaking with business owners, HR professionals, hiring managers and job seekers. Provided advice, commentary, and recommendations to each based on the situation at hand. This included employee counseling, ramping up staffing levels, or planning for growth. 'Other duties’ included sourcing candidates, and creating brand awareness through other means including job board advertisements, marketing messages, managing web site/content, and developing/implanting social media and SEO/SEM strategies.

This is my personal, consulting, marketing and curriculum business. It's a small side business that comes into play in an as-needed basis. It started as an opportunity to create custom lesson plans, course outlines, test banks, and other support material. It grew into creating customized course and content correlation guides to illustrate the connection between a syllabi and related materials. My experience with education, training and development is interspersed into my Creative side. Additionally, I advise on sales strategies, personal and employment branding practices, social media, and small business market presence. The name says what it means. Ask a question, then Learn from it.

Building brand awareness through results. Responsible for Business Development, Key relationship building, managing a staff of high performance recruiters and sales people. Overall accountability for branch performance including branch profitability, budgeting, growth, quality, customer service, training, staff training, and brand reputation. Responsible for the success of two branch offices, and two onsite recruiting offices. Note - Select Staffing purchased Ablest Staffing in June 2007. Responsible for Ablest Staffing area reputation and business performance including, but not limited to sales, profitability, budgeting, staffing, training, advancement and quality.

multiple roles at Thomson (now Cengage) - Sales Management, Editorial, Sales

Master's of Science in Curriculum Design from the School of Education Theory and Practice. Bachelor's of Arts:Major- Anthropology; Minor - Psychology.