Speaker Info

Rahul Yodh is a talent acquisition executive with 20+ years of experience driving private equity, F500, startup and hypergrowth companies to achieve operational excellence in talent acquisition, human capital, and broad business strategies.

As Vice President of Talent Acquisition at New Western, Rahul is responsible for building and executing a scalable talent acquisition strategy to help sustain the company’s hypergrowth. He has built and leads a distributed team of TA professionals who have helped increase the recruiting capacity of the team by 150% to over 1,000 hires annually.

Prior to joining New Western in 2021, Rahul worked with Apax Partners, a UK based private equity firm providing transaction advisory services. The executive search firm Rahul founded was winner of Texas Lawyer’s “Best of” in 2018, 2019 and 2020 prior to and after being acquired by a national staffing firm.

Rahul is recognized as a talent acquisition and recruiting industry expert source by CNBC, ABC News, CBS Moneywatch, industry publications, and podcasts.

Rahul attended the University of Texas at Dallas while pursuing his bachelor’s degree and MBA and attended Texas A&M School of Law while pursuing his JD.

Rahul Yodh’s Session(s)

10:15 a.m.–11:15 a.m. —

Keynote Panel: Big Brain Energy: Neurodiversity in Talent Attraction

When it comes to neurodiversity, it can be confusing. “Neurodiversity” focuses on the group, while neurodivergence is individual.

With 15 - 20% of the global population is considered to be neurodivergent, it’s time clear up the confusion and put that big brain energy to work in your talent strategy. GBS CEO, Crystal Miller Lay, will unveil the results of a multi-national, year long study conducted in partnership with the University of Wales and Ducere, revealing the current gap in neuroinclusive talent attraction and how we can close it to create more inclusive employer brands. Joining Crystal are panel participant Rahul Yodh, Vice President of TA for New Western, to share how they are addressing this issue in their own talent strategies. In this keynote session, you will learn:

- What neurodivergence covers and the existing gap

- The benefits of neurodiversity for your organization

- How to connect your EVP to the neurodivergent

- Neuroinclusive “must-dos” for your employer brand