PERRY-MARTEL INTERNATIONAL - Key Persons


Anita Martel

Job Titles:
  • Senior Partner
  • Senior Partner at Perry - Martel International Inc
Anita Martel is a senior partner at Perry-Martel International Inc. and a performance consultant in Emotional Intelligence. She is also a partner in Guerrilla Job Search International and is a member of the team of professional recruiters that put together the Guerrilla Job Search System of products and services using leading edge job search techniques. Through her +35-year career Anita has focused on program development and management, education and counseling within the human resources, academic and addictions fields. Anita is an international speaker on executive recruiting and job search techniques. She is the author of the Absolute Job Search Guide, a contributing author for all three editions of Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters (WILEY 2005, 2009, 2011), co-author of Don't Hire a Liar (PMI 2003) and Beyond Great: Hiring the Best Leaders (PMI 2001). Anita graduated from McGill University with a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in Psychology & Women's Studies, was a Commissioned Officer holding the rank of Captain in the Canadian Armed Forces Reserves, is a Registered Guild Recruiter and member of the Canadian Advance Technology Alliance.

Jim Durbin

Job Titles:
  • Director Talent Acquisition
A life-long learner and early adopter of the Internet, Jim has been at the forefront of social change in the United States. As an early blogger and social media expert, Jim co-founded and ran the operations for a digital marketing firm for 12 years, while running an executive search firm focused on the social technology space. As social media swept across the internet in the 2000's, Jim taught thousands of tech executives, salespeople, headhunters, and start-up founders how to find and connect with prospects and employees. Using cutting edge tools, he helped train the next generation of digital natives on how to integrate social habits into the work environment. In the last few years, Jim specialized in hiring, managing, and training teams for fast growing companies. As a writer and speaker, he provided clear direction on technology trends, focused on how to apply technology to job performance. What he found was a world awash with data, so much so that our employees struggled to do what were once simple tasks. To address this, he moved into a corporate position to build teams and technology hiring over 200,000 people a year.

Josef Kadlec

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder at GoodCall
Josef lives in Prague, Czech Republic and likes beer.

Ron Wiens

Job Titles:
  • Author, Speaker, & Advisor on Cultural Change
Ron's focus is on helping leaders build high-performance cultures. Ron has spent the past 35 years helping organizations effect positive, sustainable and bottom-line-enhancing change. He has been involved in organizational transformation in Canada, the United States, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Europe and South Africa. Ron also works with the managers of these organizations, taking them through a process of personal transformation that enables them to build the behaviours and competencies needed for leadership in times of rapid and ongoing change. Ron is a noted speaker on the topics of leadership and cultural change. His work on organizational transformation has been featured in CIO Canada and his white papers on leadership and cultural change have been published in the UK's Local Government Chronicle and Outsource magazines. His most recent book, ‘Building Organisations that Leap Tall Buildings in a Single Bound' is a leader's guide to the building of a high-performance culture.