Steve Cadigan helps organizations develop winning solutions for attracting, hiring, and retaining talent in a constantly-changing work landscape.
Steve is one of Silicon Valley’s hottest properties when it comes to people, talent, and culture. As the former vice president of talent at LinkedIn, he took the company from a private firm of 400 employees through an IPO and eventually the sale to Microsoft. The groundbreaking work Steve did as the executive responsible for culture, leadership, talent, and organizational development is widely seen as the textbook example of how a company can leverage its culture to scale profitably in record time.
In 2017, he co-founded ISDI Digital University, which offers a master’s degree in Internet Business – the first of its kind in the US. As founder of Cadigan Talent Ventures, he helps organizations worldwide develop winning talent strategies.
With more than 25 years of leadership and executive experience in global human resources, Steve has cultivated a deep understanding of business cycles, patterns, high growth, and the elements required to forge an organization’s sustainability. He also has a strong understanding of how cutting-edge advances in technology—such as generative AI—are impacting business. With creativity and wisdom, he shares his expertise with audiences and delivers vital takeaways on rapid growth, the future of recruiting, talent solutions, and building world class teams, workplace cultures, and organizations.
Steve’s book Workquake—a down-to-earth guide to creating a better model of work in a post-pandemic culture—was a bestseller.
- The Future of Work: Experience Matters
- The modern workplace has experienced a radical transformation over the past 30 years. There are many forces, including technology like generative AI, that have driven this transformation, and today we find ourselves faced with the new reality that we have the most fluid and disengaged workforce in history and we have a massive skills gap.
- What it takes to attract, hire, and retain talent in an organization is substantially different than it used to be. The skills and abilities you need to thrive in this new reality of work are also quite different. Steve Cadigan has built some of the most successful cultures in business at LinkedIn and Cisco and today he advises some of the most dynamic organizations in the world on how to build a talent strategy and culture to thrive in this constantly evolving new world of work. Key takeaways include:
- How to build a talent strategy with an increasingly disloyal and fluid workforce.
- The new workforce demands many things from employers – what are they and how can you leverage this to win?
- How to build a company when the skills you need are constantly changing?
- Acquisition, Retention, Engagement of Your Most Valuable Asset
- At a time when employment is at an all-time high, engagement is at an all-time low. Retention is becoming harder and harder. Organizations that want to thrive need to rethink their entire talent strategy and that includes how they attract, retain and engage top talent. They need to build a new model.
- In this frank, actionable keynote, Steve reveals what’s really going on in the job market today and how organizations need to rethink how they attract and look to retain top talent. The talent pool of today is changing rapidly and those who expect to survive will be forced to change their approach or be left behind. Key takeaways include:
- Properly positioned employee development trumps salaries and bonuses.
- Simple systems of awareness and fast action plan foster engagement.
- Discover how to utilize alumni as a major asset in recruiting and retention.
- World-Class Culture: The New Deal
- In a world where employees have more choice on where they work than ever before, if you want to hire and retain the best talent you must become the place where the best talent wants to be. This is all about culture.
- Steve helped create one of the most valuable cultures in the modern era of business at LinkedIn and since then, he has advised dozens of leaders and organizations around the world how to turn culture into a competitive advantage. In this engaging story-packed keynote, Steve offers new insights and practical measures you can take to fully leverage your culture, hire a world-class team, and realize world-class results. Key takeaways include:
- Having a great culture does not mean your culture is right for everyone.
- Culture is the most critical force available when it comes to recruiting and retention.
- Building culture today requires engaging your team in the ongoing effort vs. telling everyone what the culture is.