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Boyden Names New Managing Partner to Lead Dallas Office

by | Nov 10, 2023
San Francisco-based global leadership and talent advisory firm Boyden United States has named Issy Perez as a managing partner. He'll head the firm's Dallas office and serve as leader of the firm’s global consumer & retail practice.
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How UT Southwestern Medical Center Nurtures Next-Gen Health Care Leaders
by | Dec 30, 2022
As one of the nation’s premier academic medical centers, nurturing employees for management and leadership roles is mission critical. The medical center, with its workforce of nearly 23,000, received the 2022 BOLD award for its leadership development. “As we do with our scientific, medical, and training missions, we apply data-driven strategies to nurture leaders who contribute to our institution’s culture of integrity, inclusiveness, and collaboration, and extend those qualities throughout the organization,” Holly Crawford said.
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Dallas College Job Training Cuts Turnover, Boosts Engagement
by | Apr 12, 2022
Dallas College, which received a $10 million U.S. Department of Labor grant to train workers in information technology, advanced manufacturing, and transportation-related skills, is on the verge of expanding its job training efforts to the national level.

Closer to home, five Southern Dallas County companies are taking part in the college's Skills Development Fund program.
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DI People: McLaren, Cyber Defense Labs, ResMan, and More Make Moves
by | Dec 3, 2021
In this week's roundup of hires and promotions in North Texas, you'll also find news from ClubCorp, Excellarate, Dallas College, Arlington Economic Development Corporation, 5G LLC, Envy Gaming, Alpine Advanced Materials, Ryan, StatLab, and more.
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Dallas Innovators you need to know this week, including Bill Britian, Frank Deutschmann, Grant Griffin, and Alex Shootman.

DI People: Alkami, Perot Museum, Buff City Soap, and More Make Moves

by | Nov 5, 2021
In this week's roundup of hires and promotions in North Texas, you'll also find news from BBG, Imaginuity, Eyemart Express, JAMCO Interests, The Nonprofit Alliance, RGT Wealth Advisors, Mohr Partners, and Complexity Gaming.
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Plano’s AmplifAI Closes $18.5M in Series A Funding to Boost Its People Enablement Platform
by | Oct 13, 2021
AmplifAI aims to continue shaping the future of work with its AI-driven employee enablement platform for people-centric enterprises—a category that the team says it created and continues to define.
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HackDFW Drew More Than 600 Hackers—and Big Name Employers Hunting Hires
by | Oct 7, 2021
Students and experienced engineers alike hacked solutions to real-world challenges with algorithms, coding scripts, and data in three days of problem-solving. Some of the world’s biggest names in business—Amazon, McKesson, and USAA (to name a few)—were taking note.

Hackathons have became the new career fair for tech talent.
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DI People: Match Group, KDC, BenefitMall, and More Make Moves
by | Sep 10, 2021
In this week's roundup of hires and promotions in North Texas, you'll also find news from IOMAXIS, Lux Amber, Propelled Brands, Weitzman, and Priority Power.
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StaffDNA Expands Its Platform To Offer Permanent Job Placements for Healthcare Professionals

by | Jun 21, 2021
StaffDNA launched its first-of-its-kind digital marketplace for the healthcare industry last year. Now the firm is releasing a permanent placement offering for nursing and allied workers.
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DI People: Argano, ZeOmega, TracyLocke, UNT, and More Make Moves
by | Jun 11, 2021
In this weekly roundup of executive moves in North Texas, you'll also find news from Cyber Group, the Dallas Regional Chamber, Imaginuity, and Questpro.
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Flexible Labor Platform Ramps Up with Five Leadership Hires and Promotions
by | Mar 4, 2021
The online marketplace is moving fast to leverage its labor ecosystem that directly connects the right worker to the right job. The moves come on the heels of Shiftsmart co-launching Get Shift Done, a locally based initiative that helped hospitality and service employees displaced by COVID.
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DFW Is a Top Spot for UX Professionals, Per LinkedIn’s 2021 Jobs on the Rise Report
by | Feb 18, 2021
Jobs on the Rise in 2021 analyzes the shifts COVID-19 has caused on employment and hiring trends. In the digital transformation category, LinkedIn named Dallas-Fort Worth as a top region for user experience professionals, a job that grew five times over from 2019 to 2020.
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Dallas Innovates’ 10 Most Popular Stories in October

by | Nov 2, 2020
Rising to the top of the list: With all office space spoken for within The Star, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is moving forward with a speculative building at his 91-acre, $1.5 billion, mixed-use development in Frisco. Here's our roundup of the Top 10.
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Fidelity's 337-acre campus in Westlake, TX. [Courtesy: Fidelity Investments]
Fidelity Is Hiring 550 Client-Facing Positions in North Texas to ‘Fuel the Innovation Talent Pipeline’
by | Oct 19, 2020
Fidelity Investments is responding to evolving needs during the COVID-19 pandemic with 4,000 new client-facing roles across the U.S. It is also using technology to enhance its hiring process, recruiting college students and new graduates, and improving its onboarding processes.
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Dallas Innovates’ 10 Most Popular Stories in September
by | Oct 1, 2020
Rising to the top of the list: How the private charitable foundation of Dallas Mavericks Owner and “Shark” Mark Cuban partnered up with tech companies to bring an "AI Bootcamp" to underserved DFW students. Here's our roundup of the Top 10.
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Top 10 Dallas Innovates August 2020
Dallas Innovates’ 10 Most Popular Stories in August
Rising to the top of the list: How the private charitable foundation of Dallas Mavericks Owner and “Shark” Mark Cuban partnered up with tech companies to bring an "AI Bootcamp" to underserved DFW students. Here's our roundup of the Top 10.
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