Tim Brennan
HiringSmart
Halifax, NS, CANADA
Chief Visionary Officer; Performance & Retention Innovator
Biography
Tim Brennan inspires organizations to change their hiring process so they can get better results. With more than 25 years of business, management and human resources experience, Tim has become known for delivering bold fresh ideas to executives, managers and human resource professionals on how they can find, hire and keep the right people – and improve their bottom line.
Tim is co-founder of HiringSmart, a company that has turned the traditional approach to staffing on its head. He has been instrumental in helping clients such as Atlantic Superstores, Admiral Insurance, Eden Valley Poultry, CanElson and Nestle Waters reduce turnover, increase efficiencies, and generate a return on investment of more than 300% in one year – all through better people practices. Tim’s eye-opening and practical hiring advice has been featured in media across the country including CBC News, BNN, Breakfast Television and Canadian Small Business Magazine.
Prior to HiringSmart, Tim founded the Brennan Group of Online Companies – a firm that provided training to North American businesses on how to better manage their teams and strengthen their sales leadership. It was here that he first started counselling clients on the impact of HiringSmart. He built an impressive roster of clients including Canadian Tire, Humpty Dumpty, Subway, UPS stores and Westmont Hospitality. Tim also spent more than a decade working in sales, management, IT and human resources at Hostess Frito-Lay – where he first developed his passion for understanding the differences between top and bottom performers.
Tim is constantly testing and exploring new ways to improve the hiring process – so he can help organizations reduce expenses, increase revenue and improve efficiencies. He speaks frequently on hiring and retention issues to corporate, institutional, academic and association audiences.
A wonderful storyteller, known for his engaging and humorous style, Tim offers his audiences practical steps they can take to improve the way they hire and the way they evaluate their people. Audiences have called him: “visionary,” “enlightening,” “creative” and “energetic.”
Industry Expertise (3)
Talent Management
Staffing and Recruiting
Management Consulting
Areas of Expertise (3)
Retention
Engagement
4 Critical Aspects of Fit
Links (1)
Sample Talks (1)
Rocking the Workplace: 3 Bold, New Hiring Ideas
Have you ever thought of doing a retention interview instead of an exit interview? Why do we care so much about why employees leave when we should be asking why they stay? These are some of the many questions that Tim explores in this dynamic, hands-on session. A wake up call for business owners, front line managers and HR professionals, Tim will make you think twice about the way you hire. Demonstrating how the current hiring system is broken and how to fix it, Tim draws on more than 25 years of helping organizations get better results with better hiring practices. Learn about 3 game-changing ideas that will revolutionize the way you look at your people and the impact they have on your bottom line results. Discover why fit is the number one predictor of success in a role, how to hire more top performers, and how to look in the right places.
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- Keynote
- Panelist
- Workshop Leader
- Corporate Training
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