Travis Lachner

Founder & CEO

Beast Node

Executive Producer | B2Beast Podcast Host

Spark & Spear

Content Marketing Consultant

Publishing.com

Creative Director

South Ventures 

Bee-High

✓ Post-acquisition advising and consulting

Executive Advisor

Denver Kids

Technology & Communications Director

Global Dance

Digital Marketing Manager

Helping founders open doors & close deals with killer content systems and series 🌋 B2B Producer ▹ Podcast ▹ Livestream ▹ Video

Wanna turn your sales funnel into buttery smooth slip-n-slide?

Here's how to do it with max ROI 👇

Use your own show to open doors, close deals, and create content all-in-one. 

This system has been used to generate HUNDREDS of millions in revenue. 

(and I've been optimizing it since the MySpace days.)

If you can invest 1 hour a week... 

You'll get:
➤ Targeted relationships and access to bigger deals.
➤ Daily content marketing to build your brand.
➤ Your own media asset to grow/rent/sell.
➤ Social authority and thought leadership.
➤ Compounding ROI (increasing results for same amount of effort)


Do you want to activate this cheat code for your business?

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CEO | B2B Podcast Producer

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Search & Rescue - Talent Strategy Solutions

Search & Rescue offers consultative talent acquisition services on a fractional basis, including Retained Search, Recruiting Enablement and Recruitment Process Outsourcing. 

Deeply committed to optimizing the candidate experience, Search & Rescue brings form, function, finesse and flexibility to recruiting operations as an embedded partner, providing foundational and/or supplemental services to companies - small business, start-up or otherwise - as they scale. 

Offering diverse experience across industries, including B2B SaaS, Behavioral Health Tech, Mental Health Care, Real Estate Development, Commercial Construction and Property Management, Search & Rescue leads searches across a variety of disciplines, such as:

◦ Clinical roles in Behavioral Health & Mental Health
◦ Functional roles in Construction Management & Real Estate Development
◦ Go-to-Market roles in Marketing, Sales, Implementation & Customer Success
◦ Operational roles in Human Resources, Finance, Accounting & Administrative Support
◦ Non-Technical roles in Software Development, Project Management & Product Support

Search & Rescue also offers content creation services to support employer branding and recruitment marketing initiatives, as well as freelance writing on topics related to people operations, including talent attraction, candidate experience, onboarding & orientation, employee engagement, performance management and professional development.

Talent Acquisition Partner⛑

ClearCompany Talent Management Software

As a Strategic Advisor to ClearCompany - makers of the world's fastest-growing talent management platform - I consult on the development and marketing of their Employee Engagement and Performance Evaluation & Goals products.

Strategic Advisor - Performance Management

Brinkman Construction

Deployed full-cycle recruitment initiatives designed to scale across a trio of integrated organizations, including a B-Corp certified real estate developer and a 100% Employee-owned commercial construction company generating over $300 million in annual volume. 

✔️ Employer Branding: Developed multi-channel recruitment marketing content and collateral to articulate and amplify our Employer Value Proposition in alignment with corporate brand standards and strategic business objectives.

✔️ Talent Pipelining: Designed innovative scouting, sourcing, and executive search strategies, employing push/pull communication and collaborative relationship building to engender trust and ensure a steady stream of well-qualified candidates to support present and potential workforce planning needs. 

✔️ Recruitment Process Optimization: Delivered an engaging candidate experience marked by timely communication, transparency and elegant transitions across each stage of the recruitment continuum, from first impression, on-site interviews and final offer through onboarding,  orientation, acclimation and integration. 

✔️ Engagement Activation: Augmented the employee experience and increased organizational effectiveness by originating and operationalizing special projects and events, including a comprehensive campus recruiting strategy, pre-boarding program,  onboarding mentorships, multi-disciplinary early career rotations and a redesigned performance management system.

Talent Acquisition Manager

Encompass Technologies

Led performance management and professional development programming for a B2B SaaS organization offering an integrated ERP, CRM and Supply Chain Management platform servicing food, beverage and cannabis distributors.

✔️ Performance Optimization: Developed tools and processes to measure and manage employee performance, including KPIs and associated metrics, as well as data-driven reports and dashboards providing objective analysis and qualitative assessment of success across roles and teams.

✔️ Consultative Coaching: Facilitated critical conversations and career counseling sessions in collaboration with employees and managers, in an effort to increase competence, ignite purpose and inspire contribution. 

✔️ Organizational Development: Consulted with the Executive Team on initiatives related to recruitment and retention, employee engagement, compensation strategy and succession planning, in an effort to drive continuous improvement and cultivate a culture of autonomy, accountability, empowerment and excellence.

Performance Management Coach

Westfield Company, Inc.

Managed all People Operations processes and programming for a privately held
real-estate investment, development and property management firm.

✔️ Human Resources Service Delivery: Managed HRIS, maintaining data integrity and ensuring timely processing of employee  change events, including onboards, enrollments, transfers, adjustments and separations; Served as primary point of contact regarding company policies and procedures, providing accurate and actionable information as needed.

✔️ Compensation and Benefits Administration: Developed total rewards strategy and benefits plan design, including compensation benchmarking, broker selection, contract negotiation, vendor relationship management and account reconciliation; Processed payroll, prepared labor allocation and job costing reports; Administered 401(k) and Section 125 plans, including remittances, record-keeping, reporting and participant communication. Managed annual open-enrollment, serving as subject matter expert around plan design, utilization, coverage, cost-sharing and claims; Facilitated the transition to a Professional Employer Organization (PEO).

Human Resources Manager

Alfson Energy Land Services 

Operationalized Human Resources programming for a privately held professional services organization in oil & gas, formalizing policies and procedures as the company transitioned from start-up to emerging growth.  

✔️ Process Origination: Consulted with organizational leadership to define and align strategic objectives and codify operational objectives related to people operations, ensuring compliance with state and federal regulations. 

✔️ Recruiting and Onboarding: Conducted job analysis and specification, managed requisitions, composed job-postings evaluated applicants, selected candidates, scheduled interviews, presented offers and negotiated compensation; Optimized job-readiness through the implementation of high-quality onboarding, orientation and training programs. 
 
✔️ Performance Management: Created a company-wide performance evaluation and improvement system, identifying KPIs, implementing employee 360s, devising repeatable processes, and delivering performance management training for managers and senior leaders. 

✔️ Organizational Development: Executed special projects in strategic planning and marketing, including the launch of a new line of business dedicated to oil-field photography and videography and a complete redesign of the company website.

Human Resources Generalist

Leader's Challenge

Managed co-curricular experiential education program centered on leadership development, service-learning and civic engagement, serving 350+ students in 35+ high schools across 10 school districts along Colorado’s Front Range on an annual basis.

Program Manager

Driven by curiosity, delighted by irreverence and dispirited by rigidity, I’m not the HR Lady of yore.

I'm a fractional talent strategist, full-cycle recruiter and freelance writer, providing foundational and/or supplemental talent acquisition support to companies - small business, start-up or otherwise - as they scale. Deeply committed to optimizing the candidate experience, I bring form, function and finesse to recruiting operations as an embedded partner, on-demand.

Leveraging diverse experience across a variety of industries, I lead searches of all stripes, including:

◦ Clinical roles in Behavioral Health & Mental Health
◦ Functional roles in Construction Management & Real Estate Development
◦ Go-to-Market roles in Marketing, Sales, Implementation & Customer Success
◦ Operational roles in Human Resources, Finance, Accounting & Administrative Support
◦ Non-Technical roles in Software Development, Project Management & Product Support

In addition to retained search, recruitment process outsourcing and recruiting enablement, I create content to support employer branding and recruitment marketing initiatives, as well as short-form writing on topics related to people operations, including talent attraction, candidate experience, onboarding & orientation, employee engagement, performance management and professional development. 

I'm available for speaking engagements and offer speechwriting services on each of these topics as well. 

As a remote work advocate and solopreneurship enthusiast with a wicked case of wanderlust, I Iove showing my family the world - and seeing it though their eyes - via immersive international travel and experiential education. 

Learn more about our journey to location independent family life in the book, "Digital Nomad Moms: Women Who Carved Out Successful Remote Careers to Travel the World With Their Children," available now on Amazon.

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