Modern AI for Staffing Leaders: From Tools to Teammates

Who Should Attend

Staffing, recruiting, and workforce solutions industry owners, principals, chief executive officers, presidents, and branch managers; recruiting professionals

Highlights

95% of companies investing in AI are failing. The 5% that are winning have figured out something the rest haven’t: They stopped buying AI tools and started building AI-powered workforces. AI doesn’t fail from bad technology. It fails from bad management. Most staffing firms are stuck in the same place we see across every industry: overwhelmed by options, experimenting in silos, and investing in tools that never deliver real results for recruiting operations, client relationships, or back-office efficiency.

Staffing firms face this challenge from both sides. They need to operationalize AI in their own businesses, and their clients are about to start asking how AI agents fit into workforce planning. This session gives staffing leaders a clear, grounded framework for adopting AI, not as hype, not as fear, and not as another experiment, but as a managed workforce solution that delivers measurable results.

During this webinar, attendees will learn
• Why AI requires a management discipline, not just better technology
• The single biggest mistake organizations make: treating AI like software instead of a workforce solution
• The three pillars of AI Workforce Management: Secure Your Knowledge, Develop Your Team, Unify Communication
• AI Enterprise Maturity: the path from initial LLM setup and training all the way to full agentic workforce solutions
• Getting Started: initial workforce setup, roles, budgets, training, adoption, and the missteps to avoid
• How to identify low-risk, high-impact AI opportunities specific to staffing operations without the guesswork
• What staffing leaders need to understand now to advise clients on blended human/AI-powered workforces

Presenters

Dave Albertson

co-founder and chief executive officer, Manage AI

Albertson is CEO & co-founder of Manage AI (manageai.io), where he and his team help midsize companies build and manage AI workforces on infrastructure they own. A product-minded leader with a background spanning Fortune 500 companies, high-growth venture-backed businesses, and startups, Albertson previously co-founded Shelvspace, taking it from idea to acquisition. Albertson holds an MBA in Supply Chain Management from Arizona State University’s W. P. Carey School of Business.

Dan Ray

co-founder and chief customer officer, Manage AI

Ray is the co-founder and chief customer officer at Manage AI and a recognized expert in AI Management for growth-stage and enterprise organizations. With more than 20 years of experience helping organizations scale from startup to acquisition, Ray brings a rare blend of enterprise discipline and product-focused execution. He previously co-founded Shelvspace, helping lead it from inception through a multi-million-dollar acquisition, and co-founded Streaming Social as CTO. Ray has held roles at Ernst & Young and Apple, and over the last five years has advised global brands including Mars, Hershey, Amazon, and Whirlpool on advancing operations through AI, image recognition, and mobile technology. His focus is helping leaders move beyond AI hype into adoption that is operational, secure, and accountable.

This webinar qualifies for 1.0 hour of CE toward maintaining your ASA credential.