Topic Abstract

Finding the employer-employee value exchange in a talent-driven market

Employers are shifting their thinking on how they look at people and how to employ them. With the power shifting to the employee, it’s time to look very closely at your engagement and workforce planning strategies.

Are you a great place to work? Do you walk the talk? What do you have to offer the superstar candidate? The Chief Executive Officer is now making way for the Chief Talent Officer with talent acquisition and retention topping the list of priorities. Finding the right value exchange will help you to attract and keep the right people.

Speaker Bio

Terence M. Donnelly, EVP, Technology & Telecom Practice Leader, CIO & Chief Privacy Officer
Mandrake Management Consultants Corp.

Mandrake is Canada’s largest privately held executive search firm and the exclusive Canadian partner in the International Executive Search Federation, the fourth largest network of executive search firms in the world with revenues in excess of USD$200,000,000.

Mr. Donnelly has worked extensively in the selection of executive leadership and management in the information technology and communications industry for nearly twenty years. He currently sits on the Board of Directors of the firm and is Mandrake’s Chief Information and Privacy Officer with accountability for Mandrake and its operating subsidiaries, wwwork!com and Nexcareer Management Services. He is Director and Audit Committee Member of Active Control Technologies (TSX-V:ACT) was a Director and Chair of the Compensation Committee of Atlantis Systems Corp. (TSX:AIQ) from 2004-2008. He is a member of the management advisory board of the Manta Group, a privately held technology strategy firm ranked by Profit Magazine as the 13th fastest growing company in Canada, and Rugman.com, a leader in online retailing.

He has served as a member of the Board of MarketingCanada.com, SMART Toronto, the Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance, and the Wireless Industry Congress. Mr. Donnelly also sits on the Canadian board of directors of the Right to Play Foundation, a global charity providing leadership, health and sport programs to over 700,000 children weekly in 23 countries, and was a board member and committee chair for the White Ribbon Campaign from 1993-2000. He is recipient of a Gold Moebius award for fundraising advertising.

He is married with three children and resides in Willowdale, Ontario.