Leaders, Sean Ring
is a window into the future, as he's been a founder and leader building
one of the most important trends in our space, the shift to enterprises
accessing multiple freelance marketplaces. Sean
was the Co-Founder of Fulcrum, one of the earliest startups tackling a
multi-marketplace aggregator model, and now is the VP of On-Demand
Talent Solutions at People 2.0. In Sean's Expert Insights, we'll hit on:
- Why Sean believes "democratizing access to opportunity" is at the core of our industry
- How companies will go from playing defense to playing offense in how they engage with Independent Talent
- The
current Inflection Point of Enterprises embracing freelancers,
specifically the well analogy of leaders looking for talent in a dried
up well
- Our industries shift being a sexy new toy, to quantified gains, to now being a painkiller
- The
top two challenges that we continuously face with enterprise adoption
are underinvestment in change management, and not enough trust to break
the "no one gets fired from hiring IBM" paradox