Stacy Donovan Zapar is a 20-year TA / Sourcing professional for Fortune 500 tech companies and Founder of The Talent Agency, a boutique recruiting consultancy launched in 2012. She has served on multiple recruiting technology advisory boards and has led talent acquisition, sourcing, talent attraction, training and search initiatives for clients ranging from startups to top employers including Netflix, Zappos, Amazon, TripAdvisor, Restoration Hardware, Meetup and many more.
Stacy was named Trendsetter of the Year in Talent Acquisition by SHRM’s HR Magazine, has been featured in The Washington Post, Forbes, Fortune, Harvard Business Review, Entrepreneur and many other publications and has more than 350,000 followers on LinkedIn and Twitter. She is a #1-rated keynote speaker at recruiting conferences around the globe and served as Technical Editor & Contributing Author for Wiley’s LinkedIn Marketing: An Hour a Day, is #6 on Huffington Post’s 100 Most Social HR Experts and is #5 on LinkedIn’s 50 Most Popular Recruiting Influencers.
Stacy graduated from Washington & Lee University, studied abroad in Paris and has a California teaching credential. She enjoys tennis, yoga, travel, classic films, gaming and logic puzzles and lives near the beach in San Diego with her husband and two children.