Sarah Brennan is the Founder and CEO of Accelir Insights, a Milwaukee-based strategy and advisory firm that is focused on improving the conversation around talent, technology, and business outcomes. Her innovative, business, and brand focused design of corporate talent strategies led to work with corporate clients ranging from startup to Fortune 10 as well as numerous human capital management (HCM) vendors.
She has been named a top global influencer in HR Technology, Talent Acquisition and Human Resources by more than 50 publications since 2009 including Huffington Post, Aberdeen, Glassdoor & HR Executive Magazine with 10 in 2018 alone. Sarah Brennan has been featured on national media such as Huffington Post, Fast Company, NBC News; spoken at conferences like SXSW, Mashable, HR Tech Conference, HR Tech Europe, SHRM; presented at vendor user conferences & events for vendors like Bersin, ADP, SAP, ICIMS, Jibe, WePow, Ultimate Software, Hirevue, Cornerstone; and keynoted nonprofit events focused on women and at-risk youth.
In this wide ranging interview, Sarah Brennan talks to us about how her company, Accelir Insights, has evolved since 2011. She also talks about her perspective on the future of work and the new technologies and initiatives companies should be aware of and focused on over the next 5 years. Finally, she discusses HR technology products and 4 trends that will transform the modern workplace as released in a report by LinkedIn.