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Bryan Wempen
Bryan Wempen
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Biography: Bryan Wempen

Bryan Wempen, Manager of Strategic Alliances for PeopleClues, is responsible for market development initiatives including sales, direct and indirect channel relationships. 

Before joining PeopleClues in August 2008, Wempen was a Partner with Reliant Live where he had leadership responsibility for business development and product management for Reliant Skills. He worked with clients in the hospitality, staffing, retail, manufacturing, healthcare and energy industries focused on employee selection and retention using Reliant Live’s HR Technology.

Before Reliant Live, he was President of MacKay Edge Assessment Group. He had responsibility for all aspects of MacKay Edge, leading the organization's strategy, market and product development. MacKay Edge served over 500 clients in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia and China. Previously, he was a Principal for Corporate Staffing Technology, where he led CST's sales and operational management along with the development of several early state recruitment advertising and resume distribution applications (Bigjobboard.com and Resumator.com) for recruiters.

Wempen was previously regional vice president and an officer for Labor Ready, Inc. [NYSE:LRW], responsible for all operations in the eastern region, which included the eastern U.S., Puerto Rico and Manchester, U.K. Wempen also served as Area Director of the Southeast U.S., making significant contributions to operational performance and expansion growing from 20 to 650+ locations worldwide. Labor Ready Inc. went public and was ranked #7 on Fortune’s Fasting Growing Companies during his tenure.

Wempen graduated with a bachelor's degree in business from the University of Nebraska-Kearney, and he earned a Certified Temporary-Staffing Specialist (CTS) certification from the National Association of Personnel Services (NAPS). He is actively involved in several community and industry organizations in the Tulsa area and is a current board member of the Tulsa Area Human Resource Association, Projects With Industry (a Total Source for Hearing-loss Access, or TSHA, organization) and Committee Chair for the 2009 Oklahoma State Council for Human Resource Management (OSCHRM) - State HR Conference.

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Recruit and Develop Sales Champions: Top Grading Your Sales Force

Top grading serves to connect an organization with high performing sales people, and then develop them, as they are the ones who keep moving those performance bars higher.

Why I Continue to Practice “Think before You Speak”

I say to those in the business of leading people or supervising employees: I highly recommend that you install a filtering device of “think before you speak” into your brain.

Personal Coaches Do More Than Give Employees a ‘High-Five’

Effective coaches keep ladder climbers from falling off the steps.

Everyone Wins! Coach and Mentor Employees to Higher Performances

Some observers might think that managers should coach the weak and mentor the strong. I disagree with that statement, and I’ll explain why. 

Employee Recruitment Strategies Help Businesses Compete

Imagine the chaos if organizers of the Boston Marathon failed to successfully recruit and plan for thousands of runners, volunteers, cheerleaders, etc., and for crowd control.

Your Employees Have the Answers If You Ask Them! Encourage an Entrepreneurial Spirit

Some employee voices, especially the meek, need to be louder and heard from more often. Even the "under-spoken" can share an idea that can save you thousands or possibly millions of dollars.

Energize Everyday Entrepreneurs by Mandating Out-of-Bounds Thinking

Everyday entrepreneurs are the everyday people who challenge stale busines ideologies. Stale or outdated ways of doing business can rob an organization's potential to take care of its clients.