Mike Bettley

I'm a highly experienced people leader and mentor in talent acquisition, HR, sourcing, talent intelligence, and people analytics space. With more than a decade of experience ranging from industry shaping titans like Google & Thomson Reuters, through to disruptive start-ups from Series A-C, I'm comfortable navigating to the core of problems and incisively solving them.

Having fallen into recruitment out of school (didn't we all?!) it wasn't initially an obvious calling for me, but a serendipitous opportunity with Google opened my eyes to what Talent Acquisition could be! After moving to Toronto, I've helped scale two companies (so far); Flipp went from 320-450+ in under a year, and at Opencare I built Talent from the ground up taking us from 19-130+ in 18 months. I joined Thomson Reuters to build a world-class talent sourcing and talent intelligence function as we moved through a huge transition phase. My most recent role was an evolution of my passion for using data to inform decision making, and making data less scary for everyone! Primarily, the focus was on understanding our current, past, and future workforce to identify ways to empower our leaders and employees in building strategies to move Thomson Reuters into the future.

Please feel free to reach out to me to discuss mentorship, consulting, or speaking opportunities.