A Management Consultant with over 25 years of professional experience in talent recruitment, assessment and selection. Neil was the founder of HireSmart in 1998, a Talent Management Company Focused on Finding, Hiring, and Retaining Top Performers. He has a Bachelors, Masters and Doctorate Degree in Psychology. Neil specializes in AI assisted recruitment technologies and psychometric talent assessments. He partners with CrossKnowledge for eLearning leadership development solutions and with PXT Select for talent assessment solutions. Neil helps hiring managers improve their hiring process efficiency and results. His consulting work shows recruiters how to find Top Candidates Quicker, Interview them Sooner, Assess their Job Fit Faster so they can make an offer to the Best Candidate before the Competition. He helps talent acquisition (TA) teams integrate these new AI Staffing Technologies to identify and engage both active and passive candidates in one recruitment platform, eliminating the need to read and review tons of resumes. Consulting with the North Dakota Board of Nursing, he designed and implemented a workforce planning study that was placed in the Library of Congress. This research was considered instrumental in raising the educational requirements for entry into the state’s nursing practice.