About Kathleen Kurke

Well known for her 30 year history of high dollar production and growth-oriented leadership, Kathleen has worked extensively with companies and individuals to leverage learning as a business success strategy. Clients ask Kathleen to work with them on increasing Production, Profitability and building high-performing recruiting teams in the Executive Search, Perm and Staffing industries. Having served as Chief Learning Advocate with Global Recruiters Network, Inc (GRN), Kathleen worked with the almost 200 franchised offices to implement a learning strategy that increased system-wide and individual office revenues by launching over 1000 hours of annual learning content. While National Practice Leader with StarbridgeGroup, Inc. Kathleen worked with training and consulting companies around the world to recruit and hire executive talent to convert their business goals into reality. Her tenure in the learning business has included highs and lows in her various roles as practitioner, search team leader, building and managing a 15 person search firm, as a franchise owner and a franchise consultant and learning leader. Kathleen now works with a variety of recruiting and human capital companies as a speaker, trainer, coach and business consultant. Kathleen began her professional career in 1980 when she traveled around the country teaching sales effectiveness to thousands of fund raising executives on behalf of a national non-profit organization. After several years, Kathleen shifted into sales, starting with opening new territories and moving up to Vice President of Sales for an educational software firm. Moving into recruiting provided Kathleen with a powerful way to leverage her sales and executive experiences, and her long history of helping executives build organizations and struggle with career decisions established her as a trusted advisor and coach. Kathleen has remained a leader in the executive search industry for the last 20 years of her recruiting career, and was selected in 1995 for membership in the Pinnacle Society, a recruiting industry honor society recognizing 75 of the top executive recruiters in North America. Kathleen was honored to serve as President of this prestigious organization for 4 consecutive years, and has now returned to the organization as an honored member Emeritus. Kathleen’s core expertise is in helping others learn and get things done. Working with others as coach and consultant, she is known for helping her clients build dreams, make plans and execute to create results. Often that means laying out a roadmap, identifying roadblocks and building a detour so the journey is productive. Kathleen Kurke specializes in Productivity and Profitability Coaching in the Recruiting Industry. If you or your team would like to make better choices on working Job Orders to increase your production and pro tability, reach out to Kathleen at kathleentkurke@gmail.com.

 

Kathleen's Survival Tips through Uncertainty

  By Kathleen Kurke  |    Mon Mar 23, 2020

Category: Expert Advice, Productivity

Our heads are spinning with the fast changing realities associated with our shared enemy COVID19. When so much seems uncertain, it's important to create a laser focus on what we can create that is certain, reliable and repeatable. Try these 3 tactics on for size: 1. Take care of you. You were...

Gift that Keeps on Giving

  By Kathleen Kurke  |    Thu Nov 21, 2019

Category: Expert Advice, Trends

It’s a beautiful thing, this crazy world of ours. There’s always something going on. The stock market is going up. Or, it’s going down. Companies are merging. Or they’re selling off a business unit. New technologies change older ways of doing business. Tariffs will ruin the holiday selling season. And...

Gift that Keeps on Giving

  By Kathleen Kurke  |    Thu Nov 21, 2019

Category: Expert Advice, Trends

It’s a beautiful thing, this crazy world of ours. There’s always something going on. The stock market is going up. Or, it’s going down. Companies are merging. Or they’re selling off a business unit. New technologies change older ways of doing business. Tariffs will ruin the holiday selling season. And...

Back-2-School Party: Everybody’s Invited!

  By Kathleen Kurke  |    Sat Aug 31, 2019

Category: Columns, Expert Advice

Kids are getting new sneakers and college dorms are starting to smell like beer again, but just because we work full time doesn’t mean we have to miss out on the fun of Back-to-School. You can create our own Back-2-School party! Here are some ideas that can work for both solo...

If the Early Bird Gets the Worm, Do you want to be an Early Bird? Road Out?

  By Kathleen Kurke  |    Wed Aug 21, 2019

Category: Columns, Expert Advice, Homepage Showcase, Productivity

Let’s not knock the worm. If you’ve jumped on the Keto or Whole 30 bandwagon, a worm would qualify as a high-protein win with rich nutritional value. If you’re an American robin, scoring a wiggling earthworm is a great start on the up to 14’ of worms you might collect...

The Q Factor

  By Kathleen Kurke  |    Tue May 14, 2019

Category: Columns, Expert Advice

Kurke Report EM Info The Q Factor My coaching clients are often asking about the magic that makes for a star recruiter. Or, the sprinkle dust that creates a big biller. They ask as if there is an “it” factor. Nope. No such thing. But, there is a “Q Factor”. It’s the “Q...

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