Speaking engagements
Bring TJ to your stage.
TJ Kastning runs construction leadership searches across the West. Put him in front of your audience and he talks about what he deals with every week: how builders hire, how they interview, why good people leave, and how to reach the ones worth hiring.
What he speaks about
Four topics he can build a talk around.
- Hiring
- Why capable builders still make bad hires, and the process that fixes it: defining the role honestly, then deciding without the time pressure that wrecks judgment.
- Interviewing
- How to actually read a candidate. Getting past the rehearsed answers to how they think, what they've done, and what they want next.
- Retention
- Why good people leave, usually for reasons you could have seen coming, and what keeps the ones you want from taking the next call.
- Recruiting in construction
- How hiring really works in this market. The best people aren't reading job posts, so what does it take to get them on the phone.
Formats
Three ways to bring him in.
- Keynote
- A talk for a conference, association meeting, or company event. One subject, taken deep.
- Workshop
- A working session with a leadership team or peer group, built around the hiring decisions they're facing now.
- Panel
- A panel seat or fireside chat, with straight answers when someone asks how hiring really works.
Your speaker
He runs the searches he speaks about.
Founder · Managing Partner, Ambassador Group
He founded Ambassador Group to match leadership talent for construction companies across the American West, and he's in these hiring decisions every week. The examples in his talks are real ones, from current work.