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10 talent acquisition consultants
These ten talent acquisition consultants advise companies on recruiting and hiring, working independently or through their own consulting firms. A reader can learn from them how to design a hiring process, build or fix a recruiting function and decide when to bring in outside recruiting help.
Professionals to explore
01—10Demetria Johnson CDP
LinkedInExperience: Talent Acquisition & People Experience Consultant · Independent Consultant
Independent Talent Acquisition & People Experience Consultant since 2016, and former Early Career Partner Americas at Genentech (2021–2024) and Inclusion & Diversity Talent Acquisition Strategist (RPO) at Gilead Sciences (2019–2021). The profile describes building early career pathways and strengthening global recruiting teams across biopharma, global law firms and mission-driven organizations.
Gary Kokesh
LinkedInExperience: Executive Talent Advisor Talent Acquisition Strategy & Executive Search · Independent / Kokesh Talent Advisory
Executive Talent Advisor Talent Acquisition Strategy & Executive Search at Independent / Kokesh Talent Advisory since 2026, and former Head of North America Talent Acquisition and Global Executive Search Practice at QuidelOrtho (2025–2026) and Senior Director, Global Executive and European Recruiting at Catalent (2023–2025). The profile describes building enterprise talent acquisition functions and modernizing global TA operating models with CEOs and CHROs.
Heather Langlais
LinkedInExperience: Founder Principal Consultant · Talent Refined
Founder Principal Consultant at Talent Refined since 2024, and former Corporate Recruiter (Remote) at Envoy Solutions (2022–2024) and Senior Corporate Recruiter (Remote) at Eclipse Advantage (2020–2022). The profile describes a talent acquisition and recruiting operations consultant who partners with organizations to design, stabilize and scale hiring functions and advises executives on workforce planning.
Jason Pistulka
LinkedInExperience: Company Owner · StratTech Talent Consulting and Advisory
Company Owner of StratTech Talent Consulting and Advisory since 2019, and Strategic Advisor at Match2, Zare Innovations, Fountain and Joveo since 2025. The profile describes helping organizations optimize hiring strategies, improve efficiency and create better candidate experiences, drawing on talent acquisition, HR technology and data-driven recruiting.
Josephine Lui
LinkedInExperience: Founder Talent Acquisition & Strategy Consultant · Hello JoJo Consulting
Founder Talent Acquisition & Strategy Consultant at Hello JoJo Consulting since 2023 and Senior Recruiting Consultant at Change.org since 2025, and former Interim Head of Talent (Consultant) at Iterable (2024–2025). The profile describes leading full-cycle recruiting across tech, G&A and executive functions for companies from early-stage startups to global organizations.
Kavita Patel
LinkedInExperience: Founder and Principal Consultant · Talent Undiscovered
Founder and Principal Consultant at Talent Undiscovered since 2018 and Talent Acquisition Consultant at ENC - ElDorado National California Inc. since 2024, and former Talent Acquisition Consultant at Golden West Packaging Group (2022–2025). The profile says the firm works with leadership teams to design and implement the operational foundation behind effective hiring.
Kerri Cufaro
LinkedInExperience: Founder and Trusted Talent Partner · Trusted Talent Strategies
Founder and Trusted Talent Partner at Trusted Talent Strategies since 2025, and former Talent Acquisition Advisor at Aylo Health (2023–2024) and Senior Director of Talent Acquisition Operations at The Oakleaf Group (2021–2022). The profile describes hiring system audits, fractional head of talent acquisition work, and creating and improving talent acquisition processes for small to medium-sized companies.
Leah Collingwood, CDR, CTR
LinkedInExperience: Senior Talent Acquisition Consultant Fractional TA Leader & Strategic Advisor · Independent Consultant
Independent Senior Talent Acquisition Consultant Fractional TA Leader & Strategic Advisor since 2022, and former Senior Talent Acquisition & Operations Partner at Windstream (2020–2022) and Lead Talent Acquisition and Operations Partner at ScentAir (2018–2020). The profile describes building scalable recruiting systems and personally running full-cycle hiring in high-growth environments.
Patricia Quartini
LinkedInExperience: Independent Talent Acquisition Consultant · Independent Consultant (Recruitment)
Independent Talent Acquisition Consultant since 2023, and former Principal Talent Partner, G&A-Legal, Finance & Procurement at Databricks (2022–2023) and Senior Talent Partner, G&A at Splunk (2018–2022). The profile describes leading sourcing and talent acquisition for G&A functions such as executive, legal, finance, risk and compliance, treasury and investor relations at hyper-growth tech companies.
Tara McCool
LinkedInExperience: Global Talent Acquisition Consultant · Independent Consultant
Independent Global Talent Acquisition Consultant since 2017, and former Director of Talent Strategy at Microsoft (2011–2017) and Senior Talent Acquisition Manager at Amazon (2005–2011). The profile describes building scalable recruitment frameworks, leading global TA teams and delivering hiring strategies across high-growth tech, consulting and multinational environments.
Choose the right perspective
Match the consultant's background to the roles you need to fill and your company's stage, since executive search, technical hiring and high-volume hiring call for different experience. Decide whether you need hands-on recruiting capacity, a fractional TA leader or an audit of your hiring process before you choose.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How would you assess our current hiring process, and which problems would you fix first?
- 02When should a growing company hire an in-house recruiter instead of using agencies or contractors?
- 03Which recruiting metrics should leadership track to know whether hiring is working?
About this directory
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