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MKSSA 2025 Annual Conference
November 13th - 14th
Le Meridien St. Louis Clayton, MO
Gateway to Growth
As our industry faces rising expectations from clients and candidates and pressure to do more with less this year’s MKSSA Annual Conference invites you to the Gateway to Growth.
It’s a moment to reconnect with the strategies that drive performance, the tools that enhance your delivery, and the people who power staffing across every function from business development to recruiting, leadership to operations.
Join us and gain practical insights into how alignment, innovation, and execution can help you solve today’s biggest challenges, while creating real value for those you serve.
Registration Information: MKSSA 2025 Annual Conference
Conference Venue: Le Méridien St. Louis Clayton 7730 Bonhomme Avenue St. Louis, Missouri, 63105
Hotel: Plan your stay at the host venue. Booking link: MKSSA Room Reservation
Le Méridien St. Louis Clayton Hotel(s) offering our special group rate: $189.00 USD per night
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We are proud to introduce this year’s outstanding speakers, who will share their expertise and real-world insights at the MKSSA 2025 Annual Conference. Together, they’ll explore the strategies and solutions driving growth across every part of the staffing industry — from client and candidate relationships to leadership, operations, and sales excellence.
MKSSA Conference Speakers
JEFF KOZIATEK
CORE AUTHENTICITY
“Champion Within: A Leadership Mindset”
With speaker: Jeff Koziatek, Executive Coach and CEO of Core Authenticity
Lead with Confidence. Adapt with Resilience. Grow with Integrity.
The staffing and recruiting industry is built on people - and people are unpredictable. You’re balancing candidate needs, client expectations, legislative changes, and competitive pressures, all while working to sustain your own energy and growth. In this dynamic environment, leadership isn’t just about filling roles - it’s about cultivating clarity, confidence, and resilience in yourself and your organization.
That’s where the Champion Mindset comes in.
In this engaging and practical keynote, Jeff will challenge you to rethink how you lead in the staffing industry. Drawing on his unique background in business, entertainment, and leadership coaching, Jeff will equip you to:
You’ll leave with actionable strategies, fresh perspective, and the inspiration to lead like a Champion - so you can elevate your impact, grow your business, and serve your clients with excellence.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
KIM HENDERSON
Cobalt Compass
Differentiation, Gaining Client Share, and Value Add Do You Want to Be the Staffing Firm of Choice?
Join us for “The Differentiation Playbook: Strategies to Grow Accounts and Market Share” where you'll learn strategies to stand out in today’s crowded staffing market, and gain client share within key accounts. In this environment, it takes intentional planning to become the go-to partner for clients.
In this session, you'll learn how to:
Go from vendor to valued counselor! Don’t blend in—stand out and become your clients' "go to" firm.
Client Retention Did you know that it’s 5 to 25X more expensive to gain new clients than it is to keep existing ones! Repeat customers are crucial to ensuring a staffing organization’s lasting success, and yet many don’t have a strategy for retaining clients.
Join us as I share strategies and techniques to retain our clients and solidify our place as their "go to" advisor. This session outlines a 10-step plan for staffing providers to keep customers engaged in any economic climate, as well as gain client share and increase significance.
During this session:
No matter what staffing landscape we encounter in 2026, it's always important to minimize customer churn and gain their loyalty.
STEFANI SEEK
Seek Coaching
The Abundance Shift: How Sales Pros & Business Leaders Can Reprogram for Wealth, Joy, and Impact
The greatest shift in sales and leadership success doesn't come from more hustle, it comes from unlocking an abundant mindset. Through powerful stories and actionable steps, Stefani reveals how professionals can remove outdated programming and rewire their beliefs to create extraordinary results in business, income, and life.
Key Themes:
Identifying What You DO Want (not what you don’t!)
Reprogramming Your Inner Dialogue
Rewriting Your Personal Paradigm
Releasing the 'How' and Enjoying the Process
Audience Will Walk Away With:
A powerful framework to align their mindset with their goals
Real-world inspiration from people who’ve applied these principles to double their income, launch businesses, or reinvent their careers
A renewed sense of purpose, possibility, and personal power
Workshop - Objection-Handling: How to Receive, Reply & Break Through Objections that hold back Sales
DEREK WEBER
GBG MARKETING
How to Leverage AI in Your Business: From 0-to-100 in 90 Minutes
Derek Weber believes AI shouldn’t replace people; it should multiply them.
What makes Derek different? He’s not an AI consultant, he’s a business owner who spent the last few years transforming his 22-year-old marketing company with AI, then reverse-engineered those battle-tested successes and failures into systematic methodologies anyone can follow.
Derek understands the real challenge isn’t learning the technology… it’s navigating the psychological walls every professional face: initial resistance, confusion and overwhelm, and the identity shifts that come with becoming AI-powered. His workshop addresses both the human and technological sides of AI adoption, meeting participants exactly where they are on their journey.
You won’t just learn, you will build. During the workshop, regardless of your current AI experience, you’ll move through the complete progression: baseline understanding of how AI actually works, strategic prompting that gets results, and hands-on creation of your own AI Assistant (CustomGPT or Claude Project) tailored to your role and company. You’ll leave with working systems and the confidence to start utilizing AI your day-to-day activities.
Derek’s philosophy is simple: Don’t give people fish or even teach them to fish, instead show them how to build their own fish farm. In 90 minutes, you’ll have yours up and running.
TODD BOSSLER
TOP ECHELON
Tech-Powered Recruiting: Work Smarter, Not Slower
In today's hyper-competitive recruiting landscape, staying ahead means leveraging the right technology and sourcing strategies, without getting lost in the tools. Join this veteran NAPS speaker and self-professed "student of recruitment geekery" for a power-packed session that will transform how you approach your daily recruiting workflow. Through live demonstrations and real-world case studies, you'll gain immediately applicable strategies to streamline your workflow, enhance candidate engagement, and boost your placement rates. No theoretical fluff, just proven methods you can implement the moment you return to your desk. Perfect for: recruiters who want to stay competitive without drowning in technology or losing their recruiting instincts. Whether you consider yourself tech-savvy or tech-challenged, you'll walk away with practical solutions that fit your working style.
Rachel JansenEmail: mkssa.info@gmail.com
