Kurt Wilkin

About Kurt Wilkin

HireBetter is a national recruiting firm working directly with leaders of high-growth companies to build game-changing teams. We are transforming the recruiting industry by bringing a business-first, professional service approach, by identifying and recruiting game changing talent our clients can’t access on their own and helping them think strategically “three moves ahead,\" through professional services such as Strategic Talent Planning sessions. HireBetter partners with our clients through all phases of their growth offering recruiting and talent partnership through our three divisions: Advisory Services (Strategic Talent Planning and Executive Integration)Permanent Search (Executive and non-Executive positions)Interim Solutions (Interim Executives and project-based consultants)To learn more, please visit HireBetter.comKurt is CEO at HireBetter with broad responsibilities including strategy, client satisfaction and practice development. His 19 years of public accounting, business development and consulting leadership include advising high-growth and middle market CEO’s in a variety of industries.Kurt is also founder of BusinessEarth, which invests in companies committed to offering products or services which profitably make a significant impact on the world and BE also encourages and educates corporations and employees on how to “Profit Responsibly” through BusinessEarth.com.Kurt previously founded and led The Controller Group (TCG), a professional services firm focused on Accounting, Technology and Recruiting. TCG was acquired by Tatum, a $250m CFO consultancy, in 2006 after growing to $18m in revenues and 80 professionals. During his career at Tatum, Kurt provided strategic and operational leadership for Tatum’s consulting practice, which represented over $50m in revenues and a significant portion of Tatum’s EBITDA and had offices across the U.S. Kurt focused his time on business development, marketing and people initiatives, and served as a member of Tatum’s Board.

Experience

1. Founder

   Businessearth

   Apr 2009 — Present

   I am also founder of BusinessEarth (BE), which invests in companies committed to offering products or services which profitably make an impact on the world and encourages and educates corporations and employees on how to “Profit Responsibly”. BusinessEarth.com.

Education

• Stagen Leadership Academy

  Columbus ILP Graduate

  2015 — 2016

• University of Arkansas

  Bachelor of Science, Accounting

  1987 — 1992

Skills

• Accounting
• Business Process Improvement
• Whiteboarding
• Organizational Structure
• Leadership
• Recruiting
• Entrepreneur
• Start-Ups
• Leadership Development
• Talent Acquisition
• Budgets
• Management
• Business Strategy
• Talent Management
• Entrepreneurship
• Business Development
• Management Consulting