Speaker Bio Described by BusinessWeek as “the authority on headhunters” and by Fast Company Magazine as a leadership “recruiting expert,” Joseph Daniel McCool is a writer, speaker and advisor on executive recruiting and corporate management succession best practices. He is the author Deciding Who Leads: How Executive Recruiters Drive, Direct & Disrupt the Global Search for Leadership Talent (April 2008, Davies-Black Publishing), a book exploring the global executive search consulting business and its impact on corporate leadership, culture and organizational performance. It has been endorsed as “one of the 30 best business books of 2008” by SoundView Executive Book Summaries. Now a contributing editor and online columnist for BusinessWeek, Mr. McCool also writes as senior contributing editor with ExecuNet, a leading executive business network that has connected leaders since 1988, and as featured columnist for Search-Consult, His perspectives on executive search consulting, corporate talent management and management succession best practices have been cited in media worldwide, including The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The Economist, Investor’s Business Daily and three books by other authors. He has written on these and related topics for Chief Learning Officer Magazine, European CEO Magazine, Healthcare Executive Magazine and The Industry Standard. Mr. McCool has spoken to conferences exploring executive-level recruitment, talent management and corporate succession on four continents. Mr. McCool worked for eight years as editor of Executive Recruiter News. Previously, he worked as a correspondent for media such as The New York Times, NH Public Radio, United Press International, Boston Herald, The Union Leader & New Hampshire Sunday News and The Washington Times. Session: Online Strategies for Engaging Global Executive Talent Technology has put access to a world of talent at the fingertips of today's corporate and external recruiting professionals. But why hasn't online recruiting "disintermediated" the traditional executive search process? And how should technology be leveraged to win a looming global war for senior executive talent? Join BusinessWeek contributor and independent advisor Joseph Daniel McCool, author of Deciding Who Leads: How Executive Recruiters Drive, Direct & Disrupt the Global Search for Leadership Talent, for a revealing look at engaging senior executive talent and what hiring organizations must do to reengineer corporate management succession. .