ANDRE YOUNG                                  

Speaker, Author, Leadership Trainer, & Founder of You Evolving Now, LLC       

Andre Young is a Professional Speaker, Author, Leadership Trainer, and Founder of You Evolving Now, LLC. He worked as a Mental Health Therapist for 19 years, played sports at every level from high school to professional, has been an employee, a business owner, and self-employed, and has written 5 books focused on enhancing Leadership & Work/Life Harmony. As Founder of You Evolving Now it's his mission to enhance Leadership and Work/Life Harmony for organizations, leaders, employees, and teams with his high-energy, interactive, culture-impacting leadership training programs and speaking engagements; allowing a professional and personal evolution!

Keynote - Evolve Your Leadership in 3!

This high-energy, interactive, culture-changing training is focused on Management and Employees enhancing Leadership Skills, Personal Leadership, Work Culture, and Work/Life Harmony for themselves, their team, and the organization.

• 5 Points of Your Day – Everyone has 24 hours in a day… Leaders use theirs differently! Learn the 5 points to live the life of your dreams, professionally and personally!
• The 5 Types of Employees – Learn the 5 types and what each Type needs from you most right now!
• The Leader’s 3 – Learn the 3 Building Blocks of Your Leadership; providing a GPS to “SUCCESS” and making your “Yes’s” powerful and your “No’s” meaningful!

Workshop - The Leader's Toolbox: 3 More Tools to Help Lead, Prioritize and Prepare Your Team

The workshop is a complement to Evolve Your Leadership in 3! The framework for this session involves:

• A Leader’s Meetings – Learn the 3 Meetings all Leaders must have…and have well: The Reveal, the 1-on-1, and The Reverse Shadow.
• Activity Time – Meetings are erratic and may lack traction without your Leader’s 3 guiding the way. Attendees will work in teams to construct their Vision & Vision Factors, Expectations, & Rules.
• A Leader’s Priority Quadrant – Most companies begin to struggle when EVERYTHING becomes a High Priority/Handle Now. The other Quadrants matter! Learn what goes into them and how to delegate like a Leader.
• Activity Time – Attendees will work in Teams to construct their own Priority Quadrant to take back and implement in their respective business/organization.
• A Leader’s Succession – Learn how to move on like a Leader; enhancing your Leadership, empowering your successor, and protecting your company culture.

7 Ways to Lead shares common sense and easy to use insight to enhance personal leadership and effective leadership skills. 

The number one complaint from many companies is, “Our leaders don’t know how to lead!” Why would they? Most people are promoted because they did one thing really well or outlasted their “addicted to average” co-workers/teammates not because they knew how to lead.  They haven’t proved they can manage or lead anyone; they’ve only proven they can sell a million dollars worth of product… their way. Work/Life Harmony is more important now than it’s ever been. The notion of leaving home at the door before entering work and leaving work at the door when entering home is obsolete. The fact that cell phones are always accessible means significant others, relationships, and outside life now enter work with every employee… ALL DAY. So, when things are bad intimately, parentally, and socially it shows up at work with employees trying to do their job in between responding to ten pages of “Hate Texts”. In contrast, when that same employee returns home, their phone may continue to ring, ding, or chime with work emails, work texts, etc. If they respond, they’ve effectively communicated it’s okay to invade their time. If they don’t, it doesn’t erase the anxiety of not responding or knowing a pile of work is building up. There may not be a true balance between both realms, but 7 Ways to Lead helps leaders find and create harmony between the two.

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The Leader’s Toolbox is Andre Young’s second book for business professionals, managers, and team leaders seeking to enhance their leadership skills. Young breaks down the essential aspects of leadership into two categories: personal leadership skills and the daily leadership skills it takes to effectively lead, connect, build, and succeed as a team! According to Andre Young, personal leadership involves how someone chooses to show up to their life, their work, and their relationships in a way that makes people respect and enjoy how they are and who they are.

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MONTE BLOCK                              

CEO, Equiliem

At the helm of Equiliem for 30 years, Monte Block has redefined the company priorities, placing the health, happiness, and growth of his employees at the forefront. With almost 50 years of staffing industry experience, he is instrumental in advocating for the industry to reshape temp worker and other highly impactful legislation at local and national levels. In 2024, Block partnered with Forbes to author a book that delves into the heart of the staffing business and shares the values of working with family. He speaks on various panels, training and educating people throughout the industry.

Growing and Expanding Your Business

This session will cover a range of topics, including:

• The cost of doing business
• Working smarter, not harder
• Understanding MSP business
• Revenue is vanity, profit is sanity

Insurance Panel Discussion - Moderator

In The Building Blocks of Success: An Inside Look at the Technical Contract Staffing Industry, industry veteran Monte Block shares his wealth of knowledge gained from nearly five decades in the technical contract staffing world. This comprehensive guide offers readers an unprecedented glimpse into the inner workings of an industry that shapes the modern workforce.

Drawing from his journey from a young recruit to the CEO of a multi-million dollar staffing empire, Monte provides invaluable insights for both newcomers and seasoned professionals.

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JOSH BRITTON                              

Express International Office Services Fast Track Coach

Josh Britton is a lifelong believer in the Staffing Industry and has spent over 25 years working in it! Born and raised and currently working from Springfield, IL. Josh was a key piece along with his two brothers J.T. and Zachery Britton, and a little help from their parents Jim and Carole , this family has grown their Express Employment business to be a permanent part of the Central Illinois business community and a Top 10 office consistently within the Express Franchise group of 800+ locations.

With the goal of helping as many people as possible succeed at work, Josh believes that our business is one of the best ways to make a positive impact on families, local businesses and the overall economy. “The more people who are working, the better it is for everyone!”

Josh will tell you that he’s had every job in our business from “Janitor to Manager”. Experiencing both Inside and Outside sales success and growth as well as more than 5000 documented face to face interviews helping people find work through his early career.

In the current role of Office Services Fast Track Coach, Josh partners with Express Employment Professionals Franchisees when they are ready to expand their service offerings or grow to a new level of white collar/administrative business in their markets. Working with more than 300 offices through 6 month coaching engagements since 2020 has helped identify some of the common and creative ways that business owners compensate/acknowledge/reward their employees to create a sales and service mentality and culture of win-win that compliments the overall mission of your staffing business.

Building teams and systems that last is a passion in our business, and Josh believes that how you incentivize and encourage active engagement from your employees is the most crucial part of growing a successful business and a culture of “Willing Winning” from and for your people.

Pay Structures

BRITTANY SAKATA                                

General Counsel at American Staffing Association 

Brittany Sakata serves as general counsel for the American Staffing Association. She is a former labor and employment litigator who advises ASA members on a broad range of legal and compliance matters, including EEO and wage and hour laws, immigration/I-9, OSHA, artificial intelligence in employment, and paid leave issues. She is principal ASA liaison to the formal ASA/OSHA temporary worker safety alliance, Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) alliance, and ASA’s Legal/Legislative and Employee Safety Committees. Brittany graduated from George Mason University and earned a J.D. from the Washington College of Law at American University.

Legislative Review

RACHEL SEDERBERG,   Ph.D.                                

Labor Economist and Director of Research for Professional Services at Lightcast       

Dr. Rachel Sederberg is the Director of Research for the Professional Services Team at Lightcast, where she explores the impact of emerging technologies on the labor market, including AI, green jobs, data privacy, automation, and disruptive skills. In her role, she advises leading companies on talent strategy, skills-based hiring, and related issues. 

An accomplished author, researcher, and speaker, Dr. Sederberg specializes in the intersection of emerging technologies and the labor market, with a particular focus on green jobs, automation, and future workforce trends. Her insights have been featured in major media outlets, including CNN, The New York Times, Axios, NPR’s On Point, CNBC, USA Today, INC, Wired, Fortune, Barron’s, and The Business Journals.

Alongside her work at Lightcast, Dr. Sederberg continues to contribute to the field of labor economics through academic research on emerging technologies. She has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, such as Economics Letters, The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, and the Journal of Consumer Affairs.

Dr. Sederberg earned her Master’s Degree and Ph.D. in Economics from Northeastern University and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from Stonehill College. Before joining Lightcast in 2020, she served as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics at Bowdoin College during the 2019-2020 academic year. She is also an Adjunct Faculty member in Economics at Stonehill College.

Economic Overview and Outlook