People Are Our Passion
We come from different backgrounds but together we are a powerful team.
One with a high-touch, hands-on approach that gives equal weight to authenticity and attention to detail.
Sustainable Talent is poised to help with flexible engagement models to fit almost any need.
We are passionate about helping people and organizations realize their full potential through the impact we make at work and within our communities.
Meet the Team Behind Your Team
Stephanie Rodis, Chief Vision Officer & Founder
Fifteen+ years leading Talent Acquisition teams for Fortune 500 tech companies and explosive start-ups, including Microsoft, Amazon, Nike, Box, Sprinklr and Dyson. Founded Sustainable Talent in 2016 to help others build progressive, diverse and inclusive teams and practices.
Superpower: Seeing The Big Picture – Always staying one step ahead of what everyone else is doing. Listening and inspiring our teams to push beyond the status quo and adversity to find and hire the very best talent for our clients.
Helene Wiese, Chief Strategy Officer
A decade+ of leading Global Talent Acquisition teams for Fortune 500 tech companies including Amazon, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, and Ball Aerospace.
Superpower: Orchestrator – Knows how business works, how to assemble resources and talent, and produce solutions. A people connector who is able to easily create group commitments to meet common goals and loves being of service to others.
For as long as she can remember, Stephanie has always been interested in emerging work trends, tech, and people practices. This curiosity not only fueled her career, but furthermore granted her the privilege of solving complex talent challenges as she conducted searches for some of the biggest brands in their respective fields, including Microsoft, Amazon, Nike, Box, Sprinklr, and Dyson.
Her journey as a tech recruiter began in Atlanta and New York during the dot.com 1.0 days of the late 90’s. Working with startups, she had a front-row seat to the rise and fall of the first internet economy. Eventually, Stephanie decided to go in-house and joined iXL, an internet professional services firm, to help ramp up their new business model. The next ten years of her career were focused on a recruiting leadership track and leading global recruiting teams at Sun Microsystems (acquired by Oracle) and then Microsoft. Stephanie soon discovered her passion for helping companies build progressive, diverse, and inclusive teams and began to channel her efforts to search for ways in which she could actively promote inclusion in her workspace.
In 2016, Stephanie launched Sustainable Talent to leverage her experience and interests in the evolving nature of work and the role of HR, with the mission of helping companies build inclusive people, teams, and talent strategies. Stephanie firmly believes that how well a company manages its hiring, recruitment, and retention practices directly affects its competitive edge and may very well be the deciding factor in its survival.
Her vast experience in different fields has contributed to Stephanie being an orchestrator who not only knows how business works, but further how to foster success. She utilizes her extensive knowledge to assemble resources and talent teams to produce real, meaningful results for her clients. In terms of diversity and inclusion, she specializes in a variety of areas such as outreach, recruiting, and retention. Stephanie also has expertise in management, sourcing toolkits, recruiter/hiring manager training, ambassador programs, and events/communication strategies.Her professional development and certifications include WBENC, AIRS, DDI, and Inclusive Hiring Accreditation Trainer.
We Make Giving Back a Priority
We Pledge 1%
Pledge 1% is a philanthropic organization that encourages businesses to pledge 1% of time, equity, and product to nonprofits. For us, generosity doesn’t stop at 1%. Our goal is to live generously day in and day out in order to make a difference in our communities, economies, and future generations.
We pledge 1% of our Profits
Pledge 1% is a philanthropic organization that encourages businesses to pledge 1% of time, equity, and product to nonprofits. FoWe make yearly donations to nonprofits who are making the world a better place, and it couldn’t put a bigger smile on our faces.
We pledge 1% of our Time
We hire people who are passionate about their community and want to see it thrive. We all volunteer locally and always encourage other members of the community to join us on our projects.
We pledge 1% of our Product
We know finances can be a hurdle for nonprofits looking to improve their technology. We do everything we can to lighten the load by offering them discounted consulting services.
We Are a 100% Female Owned & Operated Workforce Solutions Company
And are a certified majority women-owned business with
- The Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) – delivering a quantifiable benefit for our clients who strive to increase their use of diverse suppliers. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer
- The Small Business Administration WOSB (Women-Owned Small Business) certification
“Securing these certifications is not only empowering for myself as a female entrepreneur but also for other strong and determined women who want to break through professional glass ceilings. By promoting inclusivity, we are able to show up and do our best work and in turn deliver a level of service that has clients praising our unmatched flexibility, responsiveness, and ability to discover untapped talent pools.”
Stephanie Rodis, Founder & Chief Vision Officer.