ASA State of the Industry Webinar Series—First Quarter Update for Staffing Professionals

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Who Should Attend

Staffing, recruiting, and workforce solutions professionals, including company owners, executives, sales and marketing staff, and search and placement professionals

Highlights

ASA and ClearlyRated, the association’s satisfaction survey partner, for more than a decade bring you the ASA State of the Industry webinar series for 2025. This highly rated, free quarterly webinar brings industry leaders the most important trends, research and legislative updates affecting the industry right now. These quarterly sessions will help your firm stay the course and outpace your competition.

Presenters

Eric Gregg 

Founder and CXS, ClearlyRated

With more than 20 years of research experience in the staffing and recruiting space, Gregg and his team at ClearlyRated have analyzed more than seven million surveys with the goal of determining what drives success for staffing and recruiting firms. Gregg has served as an adjunct faculty member in Portland State University’s marketing program and has published numerous articles, business cases, and technical notes in the field of marketing, client loyalty, and employee satisfaction.

Dave Meyercord

CEO, AREVO Group

Dave Meyercord joined WorkForce Unlimited after having spent 30 years in a variety of leadership positions in the staffing, venture capital, financial services, and international development arenas. He has worked domestically and internationally, leading teams in strategy, corporate reorganizations, operations, sales, and account management, among other things. He has had full profit and loss responsibility of startups and runs a $500 million business unit. Meyercord has worked extensively with public and private organizations and served on multiple boards of directors, most recently as a passionate advocate for survivors of domestic abuse. Meyercord earned a bachelor’s degree from Wake Forest University, a master’s in Latin American studies and anthropology from the University of Florida, and a master of business administration degree from the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. He and his wife Hunter live in Virginia and enjoy spending as much time as possible with their grown children and grandchildren.

Richard Wahlquist

CEO, American Staffing Association

Wahlquist is the association’s primary spokesman and is responsible for the overall direction and performance of the association. Before joining ASA in 1989 as vice president, administration and government affairs, he led and coordinated government affairs activities on behalf of the staffing industry in all 50 states; Washington, DC; Puerto Rico; and Canada. He speaks regularly before business groups on employment issues and trends and has been a featured lecturer in Europe, South America, South Africa, and Japan. He was recognized by Human Resources Outsourcing Today magazine as one of the “100 Superstars of HR Outsourcing” and by Recruiter magazine as one of the 100 most influential individuals in the staffing and recruiting industry. Wahlquist also serves on the board of directors for the World Employment Confederation and Jobs for America’s Graduates.

Toby Malara

Vice President, Government Relations, American Staffing Association

Malara advises on all staffing-related legislation and regulation, including the Affordable Care Act, immigration/I-9, paid sick leave, sales tax and per diem issues. He also directs the association’s political activities through its political action committee, StaffingPAC.

Noah Yosif

Chief Economist, American Staffing Association

Yosif is chief economist at ASA. In this capacity, he serves as head of the ASA research team, leading economic and policy research initiatives which support staffing companies across the United States. He also represents ASA on the Economic Affairs Committee of the World Employment Confederation. Yosif previously served as an economist with both the National Association of Federally-Insured Credit Unions and the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA). He is a prolific speaker on economic policy issues and is regularly featured within major financial media including Bloomberg, Barron’s, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Fox Business, Marketplace, as well as Kiplinger.

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