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.
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.
Read the writing on hiringInterviewing
How to actually read a candidate. Getting past the rehearsed answers to how they think, what they've done, and what they want next.
Read the writing on interviewingRetention
Why good people leave, usually for reasons you could have seen coming, and what keeps the ones you want from taking the next call.
Read the writing on retentionRecruiting 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.
Read the writingThree ways to bring him in.
A talk for a conference, association meeting, or company event. One subject, taken deep.
A working session with a leadership team or peer group, built around the hiring decisions they're facing now.
A panel seat or fireside chat, with straight answers when someone asks how hiring really works.
He runs the searches he speaks about.
He founded Ambassador Group to match leadership talent for construction companies along the West Coast, and he's in these hiring decisions every week. The examples in his talks are real ones, from current work.