How companies can improve their hiring, culture, and training to fill the most in-demand positions.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated a shortage of one million software developers in 2020 and expects the demand for software developers to grow 22% per year through 2030. In today’s funding environment, technology companies are growing faster and paying more than ever. But most of us are competing for the same talent pool. This session brings together leading educators and entrepreneurs in tech education, culture, and recruiting to discuss how we, as leaders and executives, can solve this growing problem and fill our most in-demand positions.

For many growing companies, processes fine-tuned for a small team can start showing cracks as the companies undergo rapid transformation, leading to misalignment of business operations and organization design and sometimes preventing teams from reaching their strategic goals. Diana Callaghan, Managing Director of Endeavor Detroit, sat down with Antonio Ortiz, CEO/Co-Founder of Connect Assistance, and Karina Sobieski, Human Capital Director of Advent International, to explore what founders of high-growth companies can do to scale their leadership team as they scale their business and how they can preemptively solve some of the most common executive team growing pains.

Today, Scott Miller, Managing Director of Endeavor Colorado sits down with Kent Thiry, Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of DaVita Inc. to learn how he was able to cultivate a distinctively engaged culture that has a global reputation for developing well-rounded general managers and leaders so much so that his techniques have been the subject of leadership and culture case studies written by both Harvard and Stanford.

During his leadership at DaVita, the company grew revenues from approximately $1 billion to $11 billion, emerged as the leading clinical innovator in the kidney care community, and a leader in clinical outcomes generally, and grew equity market value from approximately $150 million to $10 billion, and a stock price of approximately 70 cents to $100.

Kent made a public pledge in 2015 that DaVita would be one of the first Fortune 500 companies to have a majority diverse board, and they fulfilled that pledge in 2016.

Today, Aaron Hurst, Managing Director of Endeavor Atlanta, sits down with Dawn Whaley, President, Chief Marketing Officer of Sharecare, to get her insights on how to design healthcare programs for high-growth companies and the best metrics to track when building an inclusive employee healthcare and wellness strategy to retain top talent. Sharecare is an Atlanta, Georgia-based health and wellness company that provides consumers with personalized information, programs, and resources to improve their health.

Competition for top talent in today's market remains a key challenge for scaling companies, and few founders understand how to bridge the gap between the skillsets needed and flaws that currently exist in the hiring process. Ankur Gopal, Founder, and CEO of Interapt, believe we have the opportunity to ignite human potential. And today on the show, Ankur sits down with Jackson Andrews, Managing Director of Endeavor Louisville, to shares how he and his team at Interapt are continuing to solve the tech talent gap in the heartland through their unique programs and how together, founders can build a more inclusive narrative for the tech industry.

Rory Guinan, Managing Director of Endeavor Ireland, sits down with Fiona Mullan, Chief People Officer at Ding, to discuss how companies can continue to revise and reimagine inclusion in the workplace, how to maintain cultural cohesiveness as a company scales, and some of the unique opportunities the people function has on building and growing great businesses in the next five years. Prior to her role at Ding, Fiona has held recruitment and HR leadership roles at Facebook, Microsoft, and Accenture.

Endeavor Atlanta's dynamic leader in fintech, Lynne Laube, CEO and Cofounder of Cardlytics, shares employee retention strategies, tips for hiring your c-suite, and recruitment tactics for developing a healthy culture with Managing Director, Aaron Hurst. Lynne was featured as an Inspiring Women to Watch by Inc. Magazine. She received The Women of the Year Award from Georgia’s Women in Technology and was named one of the top 10 venture-backed female founders by Inc. Magazine and Entrepreneur 360.

Today on the show, we're joined by Todd Simmons, CEO and Vice Chairman of Simmons Foods. Todd talks about how he has cultivated a diversified talent recruitment strategy at Simmons as the company requires so many different skill sets with over 8,000+ employees and counting. Todd and the team have also built a profound healthcare program for employees which has created a no-cost structure to cover Simmons team members at the Simmons Care Clinics. He also shares his strategies for ensuring safety during recruitment and retention in the last few years since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.

SQUIRE developed the first all-in-one technology-enabled point-of-sale and business management system specifically designed to cater to men’s barbershops and salons. Co-founded by Dave Salvant and Songe LaRon in 2015, the team has seen incredible growth and certainly knows a thing or two about talent acquisition, developing a high productivity team and building a sustainable community starting from the c-suite. Listen to hear how they are transforming local economies, one salon at a time. This episode is co-hosted by Endeavor Western New York Managing Director, John Gavigan.

This week we’re excited to be sharing an amazing interview with our Endeavor Louisville office — Managing Director, Jackson Andrews sits down with Stacy Griggs, President and CEO of El Toro to discuss how he has scaled his team through strategic employee development and training programs, ultimately building an iconic employer brand for the region.

We are privileged to have Jason Borschow, founder and CEO of Abarca Health with us on the show. In 2019, he was selected as Endeavor Puerto Rico's first Endeavor Entrepreneur and in 2018, EY named him Entrepreneur of the Year for the financial and insurance services segment in the Florida region. He started his career at Borschow Drug, which was founded by his grandfather in 1951 and acquired by Cardinal Health in 2008. Since then he has launched and grown Abarca and two other successful healthcare enterprises. And today, he talks about how In order to attract and retain top talent, you need a strong and distinct employer brand—which he believes is an extension of the corporate culture. He also discusses the value of an extraordinary talent strategy team and the power of a positive culture —which sets Abarca apart from a lot of organizations in the healthcare space. 'Abarcans,' as he calls his team, are encouraged to find new solutions, operate with full transparency, and focus on the experience and many have thought it was too good to be true. But that’s the Abarca way, and the results speak for themselves.

In this episode, Federico Robbio speaks to how his experience in strategy, finance, human capital, and recruitment was a key factor to help Belatrix to grow from 0 to 800 employees in 5 countries, with their own cash flow, having a continuous growth of 35% and solid profits. He also played a key role in developing the innovation culture through the creation of teams, human capital, and recruitment practices leading the industry and was recognized several times by being top 10 at Great Place to Work. If you are an entrepreneur in a growth phase where you’re evaluating expanding operations in different geographies and are wondering what the secret sauce is to build a contagious company culture, Federico shares his secret for success in this episode.