Hiring You Can Stand Behind: Building Mutual Trust With Candidates

Adam holds a Master’s in Industrial-Organizational Psychology and has worked in the talent management industry for 20+ years leveraging assessments and technology for candidate selection, leadership development, team collaboration, and employee engagement. He has extensive experience advising F500 customers on the valid and legally defensible use of assessments and approaches to integrate employee development into the flow of work. Above all, Adam’s career passion is to help people improve their lives at work. 

Alison Donnelly is Senior Director of Talent Acquisition at Greystar, a global real estate investment, development, and property management company. She leads the organization's global TA function, overseeing recruiting strategy across corporate business lines, high-volume property management hiring, and early career programs. With 15+ years of experience in talent acquisition and recruiting leadership — including prior roles at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, LLP — Alison has built a career scaling recruiting functions, modernizing talent technology, and developing programs that attract and retain top talent. She's passionate about aligning talent strategy with business growth and building high-performing teams that drive organizational success.

Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza is a freelance journalist and From Day One contributing editor who writes about work, the job market, and women’s experiences in the workplace. Her work has appeared in the BBC, The Washington Post, Quartz at Work, Fast Company, and Digiday’s Worklife.

Felix Martinez is an innovative, metrics-driven Human Resources leader with extensive experience in talent acquisition, diversity, and organizational leadership. Throughout his career, he has built and transformed high-performing Talent Acquisition organizations that deliver measurable business results.

Felix is recognized for developing scalable recruiting strategies that improve the quality of hires, reduce hiring costs, standardize service delivery, expand representation of underrepresented talent, and enhance stakeholder satisfaction. His data-driven approach, combined with a passion for building inclusive workplaces, has helped organizations strengthen their workforce and achieve sustainable growth.

As a speaker, Felix shares practical insights on modern talent acquisition, diversity and inclusion, recruiting strategy, leadership, and using data to drive better hiring outcomes. He brings a blend of strategic vision and real-world experience, offering audiences actionable ideas they can apply to build stronger, more inclusive organizations.

Chandra Williams is a Talent Acquisition and Human Resources executive with extensive experience helping organizations build, scale, and transform their recruiting functions. Throughout her career, she has partnered with Fortune 500 companies, federal government organizations, and high-growth startups to design and execute talent strategies that drive business success.

Her expertise spans talent acquisition strategy, executive recruiting, advanced sourcing, HR operations, recruiting process optimization, performance management, legal compliance, and organizational scaling. Chandra has successfully led hiring initiatives across nearly every major business function, including technology, AI and machine learning, engineering, data science, healthcare, manufacturing, supply chain, finance, legal, telecommunications, sales, marketing, human resources, and government contracting.

Chandra's experience includes working with leading organizations such as AT&T, Microsoft, Amazon, The Coca-Cola Company, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, KPMG, UPS, Bank of America, Citigroup, The Southern Company, Labcorp, the American Red Cross, Cox Enterprises, Saks Fifth Avenue, and numerous Department of Defense and federal government clients.

Known for combining strategic vision with operational excellence, Chandra helps organizations create scalable recruiting solutions, strengthen employer brands, and build high-performing teams. Whether advising established enterprises or emerging startups, she is passionate about delivering innovative talent strategies that enable organizations to attract, hire, and retain exceptional people.