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Michaela Wong is a content creator who helps Resume Now create insightful career development articles. She is a graduate of San Diego State University with a background in digital marketing. In her free time, she enjoys reading and exploring her home state of California with her corgi.

Bsharah Public Relations, with operations in Dearborn, Michigan and Charleston, West Virginia, provides exceptional strategic and image development, messaging, executive writing, media placement, crisis management and public affairs services to private and public sector clients.

Michael Hurwitz is the Co-founder and President of Careers In Government, one of the nation’s largest recruitment marketing agencies for state and local government. Since 1996, he has led the company’s AI, social media, and advertising strategies, helping thousands of public sector organizations and executive recruiters attract top talent. Careers In Government has been recognized multiple times by Forbes as the premier site for public sector hiring.

Sarah Hollenbeck is a writer for rentspree, a homeowner, yoga teacher and marketing expert. When she isn't writing content, you can often find her catching up on the latest marketing videos, taking her dog for a walk or practicing yoga. Sarah prides herself on helping brands and small businesses in a variety of industries expand their audience and improve their marketing strategy.

Mary Elizabeth Bradford is an award winning, multi certified resume writer and job search coach. She helps executives worldwide land more interviews, secure bigger offers and reach their career goals. Her website, maryelizabethbradford.com was recently named “Top Website for Your Career by FORBES.

Sarah Wilson is the community manager for TheLadders. TheLadders is a career resource dedicated to helping to professionals at all stages in their career market, move up, and manage. A New York native, Sarah spends most of her time outside of work pursuing hobbies such as cooking, photography and hiking.

Riya Sander is a Digital Strategist, having 5+ years of experience in the field of Internet Marketing. She is a social media geek, a complete foodie and enjoys trying varied cuisines. A perfect day for her consists of reading her favorite author with a hot cuppa coffee.

Shaun Conrad is a CPA, author, and finance instructor. When he’s not helping students, you can find him thrill seeking on his longboard or motorcycle.

Diversity and inclusion strategist, renowned for her visionary work in culture competence, nationally recognized speaker, and best-selling author Sara Taylor is dedicated to changing the world through the workplace by making organizations across the globe more effective and inclusive and their leaders more culturally competent. She founded deepSEE Consulting in 2002 to provide insightful consulting and strategic diversity training, paired with measurement tools to build individual and organizational cultural competence. In her deepSEE Consulting role as President, Sara has worked with hundreds of national and global companies and their executives, including Chief Diversity Officers, Organizational Development and HR leaders as well as staff at all levels throughout the organization. She helps them to understand the full complexities of today's diverse workforce and to build the competencies necessary to create inclusion and equity. Her clients over the years have included reputable companies such as Walmart, 3M Company, AARP, Cleveland Foundation, Coca-Cola, Marriott International, General Mills, United Way Worldwide, National Credit Union Administration, Ingersol-Rand, Seagate Technologies, Thompson Reuters, Thrivent Financial, among others. Prior to deepSEE Consulting, Sara was the Director of Diversity and Inclusion for Ramsey County, Minnesota, where she established a new department to lead D&I efforts for 5,000 employees. She began her career as a Leadership and Diversity Specialist at the University of Minnesota, where she developed state-wide diversity and leadership programs, created and managed a grant program to fund community-based diversity initiatives, and directed the activities of diversity and leadership educators. On July 9, 2024, Sara will launch Thinking at the Speed of Bias: How to Shift Our Unconscious Filters (Berrett-Koehler) to help individuals tackle their unconscious bias and empower organizations to scale cultural competence to transform their structural and systematic landscapes to become more effective and equitable. She previously authored the 2017 best-selling book Filter Shift: How Effective People See the World, which is used by numerous individuals and organizations across the globe to increase success and create greater effectiveness. She has been an active member of the Society of Human Resource Management, Twin Cities Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Practitioners, Human Resource Professionals of Minnesota, Minnesota Society for Human Resource Management, Twin Cities Human Resources Association, Association of Talent Development, and Society for Intercultural Education, Training, and Research. She’s been featured in and quoted as an expert in Upsize, Twin Cities Business, and HR Magazine and has had several articles published in Forbes and Diversity Woman magazine. Sara earned a master’s degree in Diversity and Organizational Development from the University of Minnesota. She and her husband, Miguel, split their time between their home in the Dominican Republic, close to Miguel’s family, and their home in Minneapolis, closer to their children and grandchild.

Matt Glodz is the Founder and Managing Partner of Resume Pilots, an award-winning resume writing service that works with clients pursuing roles in the government and public sector as well as clients making military-to-civilian career transitions. Matt, a Certified Professional Resume Writer and Certified Professional Career Coach, graduated from Cornell University, where he studied business communication with leading professors in the field. He served as a Communication Consultant in Cornell’s Communication Center and is a former writer for a Chicago Tribune publication. At Resume Pilots, Matt applies his journalism background to powerfully convey his clients’ work experience, where he and his team bring writing excellence, superior service, and market expertise to applicants who are looking for job-search services beyond mere resume assistance. The Resume Pilots team leverages an unparalleled combination of writing and coaching expertise and in-depth understanding of today’s recruiting environment to support you in your career growth.

William Vanderbloemen is an entrepreneur, speaker, author, and CEO and founder of Vanderbloemen Search Group, an executive search firm serving churches, ministries, and faith-based organizations. He is a regular contributor to several major publications including Forbes where he covers topics about having a strong faith and building a business, Fortune, and Outreach magazine. He has also been published through Fast Company, Entrepreneur, and Inc. Under his leadership, Vanderbloemen has won several culture awards and was named one of Forbes 2018 Small Giants companies. Vanderbloemen was also named #24 on Forbes’ Best Executive Recruiting Firms in America. In 2015 and 2016, the company placed in the top 5 of Entrepreneur.com’s Top Company Culture – Small Business Category in the nation and top 6 of Houston’s Best Places to Work by Houston Business Journal. Culture Wins is William’s third book following NEXT: Pastoral Succession That Works (2014) and SEARCH: The Pastoral Search Committee Handbook (2016). William holds degrees from Wake Forest University and Princeton Theological Seminary.

Scott Mautz is a passionate expert on employee engagement/motivation/inspiration, workplace fulfillment, and others-oriented leadership. Scott is the CEO of Profound Performance – a keynote, workshop, coaching, and online training company that helps you “Work, Lead, & Live Fulfilled.” He is also a Procter & Gamble veteran who ran several of the company’s largest multi-billion-dollar businesses, including its single largest, a $3 Billion Dollar division. At P&G, Scott consistently transformed business results and organizational/cultural health scores along with it. Scott is also an award-winning keynote speaker, and author of Find the Fire: Ignite Your Inspiration and Make Work Exciting Again (October 2017), as well as Make it Matter: How Managers Can Motivate by Creating Meaning, a book that was named “The 2016 Leadership Book of the Year – First Runner Up” by Leadership & Management Books and a “Best 30 Book of the Year” by Soundview Business Books. Scott’s been named a “CEO Thought-leader” by the CEO Executive Guild and a “Top 50 Leadership Innovator” by Inc. Magazine, where he writes a weekly column for the national publication on topics such as employee engagement, others-orientated leadership, meaning in and at work, workplace culture, the how tos of motivation/inspiration, success, and entrepreneurship. Scott also teaches leadership and employee engagement/motivation at Indiana University. He’s appeared in Harvard Business Review, Entrepreneur and many other national publications and podcasts. Scott was born in Central New York and has an undergraduate degree from Binghamton University (1991) and an MBA from Indiana University (1994). He lives in Cincinnati with his wife and daughter.