Employer Branding to Empower Recruiting and Retention

Sue Schaefer

As a former Fortune 100 company officer, Sue Schaefer has more than two decades of senior management experience in the consumer and business technology industry. She has met the challenges of building human capital while facing day-to-day business demands. Her current work is founded in her belief that the only source of sustainable competitive advantage is through human capital—attracting and hiring the right talent and aligning people to succeed.

With experience leading operations, marketing, product development and sales, Schaefer has built exceptional teams and developed successful strategies for start-ups and high growth business units, both nationally and internationally. She has a proven track record of creating and implementing management systems where actions are tied to results, business drivers and competitive benchmarks. She has collaborated with renowned leadership coach Marshall Goldsmith to implement new workplace partnering and career development programs across her 500-person organization and was coached personally by Goldsmith early in her executive career. Schaefer is a Marshall Goldsmith certified coach.

Schaefer holds a Master of Finance, a BS in Marketing, and has completed numerous executive leadership development programs. She is a frequent speaker and contributor to many business publications on the subject of talent and leadership.

Sue Wyman

Sue Wyman is President of Jivaro Group and a Partner at JivaroCXO, national search firms focused on strategic talent acquisition and retention. Wyman started Jivaro Group in 1999. The company focuses on searches primarily in the communications and high tech industries. JivaroCXO is a retained search firm focusing on Vice President and C-level searches in multiple industries. JivaroCXO also performs consulting engagements in the areas of Onboarding and Employer Brand. Wyman has fifteen years of corporate experience and three years of start-up experience. Both companies are WBENC-certified, woman-owned organizations.

While in the telecommunications industry, Wyman led the Data Solutions Group with sales teams in 10 cities; and was Director of the Sales and Marketing Academy. During her time at an e-learning start-up, she was in charge of business development for the telecommunications industry in the western half of the United States.

Wyman holds an Executive MBA from the University of Denver and a Bachelor of Science in Technical Management from Regis College. She is chairman of Communications Technology Professionals, and sits on advisory boards of University College at the University of Denver and the University of Colorado’s Telecommunications Law program. Wyman is also a co-chair of the Alternative Work Models committee of the Boomers Leading Change initiative for Rose Community Foundation.