Experienced Professionals
Greg Palmer
Greg Palmer began his career in staffing with the Olsten Corporation in 1985 as
a Branch Manager in Louisville, Kentucky. He retired as President and CEO of Remedy
Temp Inc. in June of 2006 after its successful sale to Select Staffing Services.
In 2006, Palmer formed the consulting firm G Palmer and Associates. His 22 years
of proven field and boardroom experience in the Staffing Industry in combination
with customer excellence, leadership and industry-know-how make his firm a tremendous
asset to the staffing industry.
In addition to his firm, Palmer sits on the boards of the publicly traded Diedrich
Coffee and Sperry Van Ness, one of the top commercial real-estate brokerage firms
in the US, as well as 3 privately held companies in the staffing and human capital
sectors. Greg also serves on the advisory boards for Georgetown University Business
School, CASA, and Taller San Jose.
In his continuous efforts as a leader in the Staffing Industry, Palmer has also
been a featured speaker to EO, Tech, American Staffing Association, Staffing Industry
Analyst conferences, Analyst presentations, CEO Distinguished Speaker Series at
UC Irvine, YEO (Young Entrepreneur Organization), and YPO.
It is from these experiences that Greg Palmer has gained expertise in strategic
turn around specialty, acquisition integration, franchise expansion, and 25 years
of sales and operations experience.
Amy Bingham- Director of Sales
Bingham Consulting Professionals is an organization dedicated to helping the staffing
industry optimize sales effectiveness. Managing Partner Amy Bingham brings over
18 years of sales leadership expertise to the firm with a concentration in strategic
growth planning, strategy execution, performance coaching, speaking, and writing.
One of seven elite performers among hundreds of executives recognized by a national
staffing organization for achieving exceptional results over time, Bingham attributes
much of her success to her ability to produce results through others, and it is
this competency that she most enjoys utilizing in consulting to enable her clients’
successes.
She is a member of the Institute of Management Consultants (IMCUSA), the American
Management Association (AMA), Staffing Industry Analysts, the American Staffing
Association (ASA), a features writer for SI Review magazine, and author of the forthcoming
book, “Everybody Sells.” Additionally, Bingham is a certified performance coach
for the Human Performance Institute in Orlando, Florida, where she teaches executives
strategies for managing their energy to help drive performance in today’s high-pressure
business environment.
Debi Ellis – Director of Technology
Debi Ellis has over 23 years experience in the staffing industry with expertise
ranging from accounting and finance, payroll and billing, multi state taxation,
project management, software design and deployment, training development and deployment
in support of operational processes and business systems improvement. She is an
expert in the high level design and delivery of cost-effective, high-performance
technology applications to address complex business problems. Her experience includes
but is not limited to:
Over 20 years experience with RemedyTemp, Inc., supporting over 350 direct and franchise
offices in various roles ranging from Director of Payroll and Billing to Director
of Business Systems and Director of Project Management Office within the IT Department.
Over 2 years experience as Vice President, Operations Support for Volt, a Fortune
1000 global staffing company with over 300 offices in the United States. In this
role Debi improved business processes, training programs and defined the needs of
the business community partnering with IT in the development and evolution of existing
applications and emerging technologies.
Debi is Managing Consultant at Deborah Ellis and Associates, leading companies to
greater profit, reduced overhead and maximized functionality and offerings by leveraging
leading edge technology to improve business operations.
Loren King Shields- Director of Recruiting and Fulfillment
Loren King Shields is a seasoned Staffing veteran with over 15 years of industry
experience in operations ranging in size from $50MM to over $1B. During her tenures,
Loren successfully developed and implemented Recruiting, Sales and Operational models
that significantly improved productivity and profitability. She is an accomplished
professional who possesses a proven ability to relate effectively at all levels
of an organization, and to translate top-line business goals into scalable Recruiting
and Sales processes that maximize the productivity and contribution of all team
members.
As an innovator and acknowledged leader in the staffing industry who serves as an
advisor to major industry services including Monster, CareerBuilder and Google,
Loren sees people and technology as partners in productivity. Her achievements include
the successful re-engineering of the domestic and international staffing models
for a major rehabilitative healthcare operation, the business process re-engineering
of staffing operations with national footprints and the implementation and optimization
of technology-based solutions including CRMs, relational-databases and contact management
systems.
Currently, Loren operates as an independent consultant.