Julian Placino

Recruiting Consultant, Leadership Trainer, Podcast Host

Topics: Branding & Marketing, Leadership, Business, Business Leadership, Corporate Culture, Employee Engagement, Inspirational & Motivational, Professional Development, Sales, Success, Elite Performance

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Biography

Julian Placino is a recruiting consultant who helps organizations create a culture of recruitment where people thrive.

As a recruiting practitioner for over 15 years, he’s led talent acquisition at world-class companies and has hired and coached thousands of top performers throughout his career. For 7 years, Julian led recruitment at Bottle Rocket, one of the world’s top mobile development firms. Through speaking and consulting, he teaches recruitment strategy, personal branding, and leadership development.

As host of Pathways to Success on YouTube, iTunes, and Spotify, he interviews inspiring leaders about their businesses and keys to personal success.

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Julian Placino Speaker BIO Video

Welcome to Pathways to Success

Resilience Unleashed: Mastering Change & Adversity with 3 Essential Tools

Recruitment Masterclass Session 1 Trailer: Personal Branding

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Mastering the Talent Puzzle: 3 Immutable Secrets to Recruiting Success

Unlock the full potential of your recruiting strategy with this keynote. Julian believes that hiring exceptional talent is the universal key to business success and will equip your audience with the tools to achieve this. In this keynote, Julian will share proven methods and tactics to enhance your ability to attract, recruit, and retain top talent.

Learning Points:

How to craft an irresistible Employment Value Proposition (EVP)
A viral recruiting strategy that boosts your employer brand awareness
Secrets of world-class recruiting organizations

Resilience: Mastering Change & Adversity with 3 Essential Tools

Turn challenges into stepping stones on your pathway to success. Every journey to achievement involves facing obstacles, failures, and setbacks. The most successful individuals have mastered the art of turning these challenges into advantages that propel them forward. In this keynote, Julian will guide your audience through the art of reframing adversity, bouncing back from failures, and fast-tracking their path to achieving goals.

Learning Points:

Harnessing adversity as a catalyst for success
Transforming your reality with three powerful questions
Unleashing Julian’s accelerated learning methodology for rapid progress

Personal Branding: Harnessing The Power of Your Reputation

In today’s competitive environment, establishing a strong personal brand has become essential for business success. Whether you’re generating sales, recruiting talent, inspiring employees, or cultivating successful partnerships, your ability to win trust is crucial to driving business outcomes. In this keynote, Julian will teach your audience how to harness their reputation to foster connections, increase engagement, and ascend as market leaders.

Learning Points:

Enhanced self-awareness, confidence, and clarity of purpose
Crafting a personal brand statement that elevates professional image
LinkedIn strategies that boost online presence and authority

Stewardship: The Hidden Path of Leadership

Elevate your leadership journey by embracing stewardship – a great spiritual principle and powerful strategy for leadership growth and crafting an individualized lane for success. The process begins with recognizing your unique gifts and channeling them to generate value for others. Julian’s presentation will empower your audience, guiding them to not only discover their strengths but also find a deeper sense of purpose in their professional journey, leading to thriving success.

Learning Points:

Understanding the Stewardship Success Cycle: Discover. Serve. Grow.
Practical ways to apply your strengths to make a lasting impact
Cultivating continuous improvement by adopting a service mindset

Testimonials

Our organization has been growing. In order to scale, our sales team has been faced with regular change initiatives and increased workloads. We asked Julian to speak on resiliency and overcoming obstacles. The message he crafted was perfect for our team at this time and crafted based on our conversations about our needs. He does an excellent job engaging the audience and encouraging people to speak openly and with vulnerability. His message is personal, authentic, and heartfelt. I would highly recommend Julian as a keynote for your next event.

– Jen Lowery DeBuhr, VP of Sales at LeadingResponse

Julian helped us build one of the best workforces in Dallas by showing us how to operationalize our existing staff to find new staff. He saved us several hundreds of thousands in head hunting fees.

– Calvin Carter, Founder at Bottle Rocket

Julian’s innovative approach to recruitment gave us a competitive advantage in recruiting top talent. We started making hires within 30 days of using his method.

– Lawrence King, CEO at Headstorm

Julian’s program has helped us grow and evolve into a recruiting culture. Our team enjoyed how interactive and fun Julian’s sessions were, and has remained more active and engaged on LinkedIn ever since!

– John Wallach, Director of Recruiting at Alto Experience

Julian Placino lived up to his promise of delivering an electrifying and engaging presentation on the significance of personal branding and recognizing your unique strengths. Our audience was thoroughly captivated and enthusiastically participated throughout the session.

– Michelle Rea, Executive Director at New York Press Assocation

Julian spoke at our conference and we could not have been more pleased! He has a fresh perspective on recruitment strategies, candidate lead generation, and a proven track record of hiring and retaining talent. Julian is a dynamic and engaging speaker. We would bring him back again.

– Lori Rahi, President at NorthEast Association of Communication Executives

We hired Julian as the opening keynote for our conference. He was scheduled in the first slot of the morning, a time when his yawning audience trickled in clutching coffee. Very quickly he woke us up, challenged us, kept us engaged and thinking, and managed to cajole even the most reluctant attendees into the conversation. Every person in the room was a participant in his high-energy keynote. Julian worked the room with heart and delivered his message with conviction. It was a provocative and fun way to start the conference.

– Judy Meyer, President at New England Newspaper & Press Association

Julian is an incredibly engaging speaker who helps people discover and maximize their gifts and talents.

– Tad McIntosh, President at HumCap Experts in People

Julian Placino is an excellent trainer, obviously an expert in his field; the practical sessions really helped the staff understand how they can improve their personal branding, Linkedin and recruitment skills. It was a very engaging presentation with lots of opportunities to participate for the entire team. We walked away with tips we could implement immediately that are now making a difference at our organization.

– Robin Lankton, Director of Marketing at Observer Media Group

I highly recommend Julian Placino as a dynamic speaker for modernizing your recruitment strategies. With his expertise and engaging style, Julian delivered valuable insights and practical advice on how to adapt and optimize recruitment processes in today’s fast-paced and competitive environment to hundreds of Florida media executives at the Florida Media Conference. His presentations are informative, inspiring, and relevant, which made him an excellent choice to help media organizations enhance their recruitment strategies. We’re excited to have him back this coming year!

– Jim Fogler, CEO at Florida Press Association

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