Our Team

OUR TEAM

RELATIONSHIP-BASED RECRUITING THAT WORKS FOR YOU

We define what we do at Kuhn Global Talent simply: resourceful recruiting based upon relationships, integrity, and accountability. All that we do for our great candidates and dynamic clients is guided by the belief that great recruiting is only possible with great relationships. We’ve followed these principles diligently as we’ve recruited across industries and continents over the past 25 years. Get to know a little more about our leaders and their backgrounds below.

JIM KUHN

PRESIDENT

ABOUT JIM

For 25 years Jim learned and acquired his unique global recruiting skills in Recruiting and HR leadership positions at The Sherwin-Williams Company, Hallmark Cards, Alcon Laboratories, Adria Laboratories, Cole Vision Corporation, and Life Line Screening.

He founded Kuhn Global Talent, LLC in 2011 and has built a trusted team of 11 candidate sourcing professionals in the Americas, the UK, the EU, China and India. Jim has done extensive work in the Americas, China, India, the UK, Australia, and Europe in starting and building businesses through talent acquisition and management.

Jim is directly engaged on all retained searches for leadership, commercial, and technical positions in all practice areas. His credibility and effectiveness are based upon the fact that he has traveled to and spent significant time in so many countries outside the US, and has about 30 years of corporate HR experience.

Jim Kuhn’s education includes a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Kenyon College, and a Master’s degree in HR from The Ohio State University.

BETH KLOSS

GLOBAL TALENT SOURCING

ABOUT BETH

Beth’s broad skills in communications along with her precise and passionate research acumen enable her to be a highly effective candidate sourcing professional.

Sourcing professionals, and partners at LinkedIn, complement Beth on her world-class Boolean search and candidate identification skills.

Beth has a background and exposure in the health and wellness industries, along with exposure to global business and human resources management in the health and wellness, manufacturing, consumer products, retail, and specialty chemicals sectors. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in Speech Language Pathology.

TESTIMONIALS

$10B coatings & specialty chemicals company
$10B coatings company
President/ CEO

“Jim has recruited for me since 2004, first as a direct report, and then as a third-party recruiter at two other companies. He is an exceptional recruiter because he consistently earns my TRUST, and the TRUST of hiring managers, HR business partners, and candidates, and he delivers results with SPEED and VALUE.”

$900M global manufacturer of specialty chemicals
$900M global manufacturer of specialty chemicals
President

“Jim’s commitment, trustworthiness, and results make him someone I continue to partner with. He has completed over 60 searches in the Americas, Europe, and Asia/Pacific regions for my previous company; and I recently engaged Jim to lead the talent management component of an acquisition project for a Private Equity firm.”

$500M global manufacturer in the paper and pulp industry
$500M global manufacturer in the paper and pulp industry
VP of HR

“Jim is unique in that he is able to directly and successfully recruit in the US, Europe, and Asia. Jim’s greatest value is his ability to confidentially attract passive candidates and sell them on the opportunity with our company. We engaged Jim on several searches in the US, Canada, Belgium, and China and will continue to rely upon him as a preferred third-party recruiter.”

$850M global manufacturer of specialty chemicals & polymer materials
$850M global manufacturer of specialty chemicals & polymer materials
VP of HR

“Jim has been an exceptional partner with our organization; he took the time to understand our organization and needs to be able to provide us with candidates who were clear fits for our needs, finding candidates for high-level domestic and international roles.. He went above and beyond to ensure that both my company, and our candidates, were cared for. If you are seeking a partner who is committed, responsive, and effective–I highly recommend Jim.”

$50M global environmental services company based in Europe
$50M global environmental services company based in Europe
CEO

“Jim confidentially recruited a new President for the Americas Region of my company. I talked to a previous colleague in another industry sector who recruited an American President for his company a while ago and he recommended me to get in touch with Kuhn Global Talent in Ohio. I went over and met with Jim and quickly developed trust in him. He found and presented three solid candidates to me within a short time, and I selected one of them who had previous experience in our type of industry. Even with the challenges that COVID-19 has presented, we successfully hired a uniquely well qualified individual.”

OUR ADVISORY BOARD

We trust and rely upon our advisory board to help guide our business and they are willing and able to support our clients in the areas of global business, M & A, fractional HR and recruiting services.

ALEX ZALESKY

MANAGING DIRECTOR

Alex and Jim first started working together in 2004 when Alex was President of Sherwin-William’s International Division and Jim reported to him as VP of HR. In his subsequent leadership roles at Ingevity and Amcor Flexibles Alex retained Kuhn Global Talent to recruit over commercial, technical, and operational positions in the Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific regions.

Alex owns and operates AZ Global Consultants, a consulting firm with the primary objective of helping its clients achieve maximum profitable growth. He accomplishes this by developing a deep understanding of a client’s business, customers and markets they serve, followed by strategy, talent, key processes and cultural assessments. Driven by a strong sense of urgency, short and mid-term executable initiatives are developed while positioning businesses for longer term opportunities. Backed by years of full P&L experience working with Eastman Chemicals, Sherwin Williams, Ingevity and Amcor, to boards/consulting projects, Alex’s focus is broad, from specialty chemicals, coatings and packaging segments and industry services, to working with private, private equity owned assets as well as multinational companies.

AZ Global Consultants offers flexible engagement proposals that maximize mutual value creation.
Alex is a strategic, mission-driven executive with a track record of creating and transforming business platforms for profitable growth. In addition to his full P&L and segment expertise, Alex has significant experience enhancing sales opportunities across various channels to market, including B2B, B2C, retail and direct or third-party distribution. He is passionate about helping clients build winning teams to develop and execute differentiating strategic plans. Alex earned his MBA from the Sloan School of Business, MIT and his BS, Chemical Engineering from Mississippi State University.

L.T. and Jim first met when Jim recruited her to become the Director of HR at a best-in-class behavioral health organization. They then partnered together to recruit the organization’s new Executive Director and several other positions. L.T.’s specialty is providing businesses with innovative, customized human resource solutions and programs. She boasts more than 25 years of experience in human resources and business management with both domestic and global organizations. Her background spans a variety of industries, private and public sectors, and small businesses and Fortune 500 companies. She works with leaders, teams, and individuals to improve productivity, performance, protection, and profitability.

L.T. provides a broad range of services and guidance in leadership development, team facilitation, benefits, policy development, communications, labor relations, payroll, organizational analysis and alignment with strategy, executive coaching, performance management, training, compliance, employee relations, workplace investigations, compensation, recruitment, onboarding and offboarding, recruitment, and strategic planning.

In 2013, she started and managed her own consulting practice, Excel HR Consulting, as the President and Executive HR Consultant. Excel HR Consulting focuses on directing small and mid-size companies in their human resource department startup projects, HR audits, workforce planning, and general human resource support.

Her educational background gives her a solid foundation and understanding of organizational culture, leaders, teams, business drivers, organizational design, business models, and compassion for others. She completed her Master’s in Business Administration at Kent State University, and a Bachelor of Business Administration at Kent State as well.

L.T. dedicates her time to giving back to others as her self-proclaimed life’s mission is to help businesses and people improve their quality of life. She spends her extra time speaking and volunteering on causes such as animal welfare, addiction and recovery, fair housing, women’s leadership and coaching, small business development, and youth leadership. She currently serves on the boards of the Greater Akron Chamber and Fair Housing Contact Service.

LT MYERS

STRATEGIC HR CONSULTANT
EXCEL HR

LT MYERS

STRATEGIC HR CONSULTANT
EXCEL HR

L.T. and Jim first met when Jim recruited her to become the Director of HR at a best-in-class behavioral health organization. They then partnered together to recruit the organization’s new Executive Director and several other positions. L.T.’s specialty is providing businesses with innovative, customized human resource solutions and programs.

She boasts more than 25 years of experience in human resources and business management with both domestic and global organizations. Her background spans a variety of industries, private and public sectors, and small businesses and Fortune 500 companies. She works with leaders, teams, and individuals to improve productivity, performance, protection, and profitability.

L.T. provides a broad range of services and guidance in leadership development, team facilitation, benefits, policy development, communications, labor relations, payroll, organizational analysis and alignment with strategy, executive coaching, performance management, training, compliance, employee relations, workplace investigations, compensation, recruitment, onboarding and offboarding, recruitment, and strategic planning.

In 2013, she started and managed her own consulting practice, Excel HR Consulting, as the President and Executive HR Consultant. Excel HR Consulting focuses on directing small and mid-size companies in their human resource department startup projects, HR audits, workforce planning, and general human resource support.

Her educational background gives her a solid foundation and understanding of organizational culture, leaders, teams, business drivers, organizational design, business models, and compassion for others. She completed her Master’s in Business Administration at Kent State University, and a Bachelor of Business Administration at Kent State as well.

L.T. dedicates her time to giving back to others as her self-proclaimed life’s mission is to help businesses and people improve their quality of life. She spends her extra time speaking and volunteering on causes such as animal welfare, addiction and recovery, fair housing, women’s leadership and coaching, small business development, and youth leadership. She currently serves on the boards of the Greater Akron Chamber and Fair Housing Contact Service.

KAREN HAN

DIVERSITY
& INCLUSION THOUGHT LEADER/RECRUITER

Karen is a savvy and passionate Talent Acquisition consultant with successful organizational transformation, recruiting fulfillment, diversity hiring, and business development experience across multidisciplinary fields of industries and functions in Asia, North America and Europe. She has successfully initiated and accomplished executive recruiting programs, diversity and inclusion recruiting programs, global centralized recruiting programs, artificial intelligence powered sourcing, career coaching, cost saving programs, evaluation and implementation of metrics, process improvement initiatives, training of recruiting processes and interview techniques.

Since relocating from Shanghai, China to the US in 2013, Jim has helped Karen assimilate into the US business community so that she could excel in talent acquisition leadership positions at Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Babcock & Wilcox, and Swagelok.

Karen earned her BA in Pharmacognosy and Literature from China Pharmaceutical University and received certificates in Strategic Human Resources Leadership and Social Media in Human Resources from Cornell University. Karen leverages her broad recruiting and HR expertise across geography, industry, and culture to expand her clients’ access to diverse executive talent.

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