RVP, Sales @ Bullhorn - I talk about creating systems for sellers to scale your impact, not your hours

3 years ago, I was drowning...

As an RVP at a fast-growing tech company, my life had become an endless stream of:

• "Urgent" emails
• Back-to-back meetings
• And constant fire-fighting

Waking up early and working late into the night.

My phone was always buzzing with notifications.

To make matters worse, it was taking a toll on my family.

The breaking point:

Missing my son's jujitsu belt test.

Something I'd promised I wouldn't do.

That night, seeing the disappointment in his eyes, I knew something had to change.

I spent the next year obsessively learning, developing & testing different productivity systems that would allow me to:

• Still perform at a high level
• Stop feeling perpetually overwhelmed
• End working nights/weekends just to keep up

I started creating what I called "mini-systems"

Small changes that had a compounding effect.

What began as a quest to regain control of my calendar...

Evolved into an operating system that helped me recover 10+ hours every week.

More importantly, spend more time w/ family. 

I've started documenting my learnings & "mini-systems" and now share them with others through my content and weekly newsletter The Systematic Sales Leader.

My goal is to help as many sales leaders as possible avoid the same burnout I and so many others experience through tested and proven systems.

If you're curious to learn more, check my "featured section" for a few free resources.

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Lauren B. Jones 🐐

A staffing industry powerhouse. Workforce technology whiz. Change management mastermind. Fierce female leader champion. Professional storyteller.   

Lauren Jones is all of these things as well as the founder and CEO of LEAP Advisory Partners. After decades as an innovator and influencer in the staffing industry, Lauren founded LEAP to make recruiting companies more efficient, more successful, and more human. How? By helping firms define and understand their technology needs, embrace change, and optimize their technology investments. 

Lauren is a powerful voice on staffing, technology, entrepreneurship, and women’s leadership. With several industry peers, she recently published her first book called "Together We Rise," a compilation of their personal stories of women empowerment. Her reputation has landed her guest spots on almost every recruiting industry podcast, including Settle Smarter, You Own the Experience Podcast (which she now co-hosts), TheEdge, Ivy Podcast, Staffing Hub, HR Lift Off, and more. 

Lauren is at her best when she’s on stage. She’s a sought-after speaker with impressive experience at all of the top recruitment industry events including Staffing World, the TechServe Executive Summit, CSP, Alternative Staffing Alliance, Staffing Industry Analysts’ Executive Forum, The World Staffing Summit, and Bullhorn Engage. 

A major career highlight is receiving the ASA Care Award for helping connect veterans with work opportunities. Lauren was also on the list of LinkedIn Inspiring Women and the lists of the Top 15 Staffing Professionals to Watch and the Top 200 Thought Influencers to Watch.  

Lauren is fueled by an endless curiosity, deep commitment to helping others, and Peloton rides. She is a community activist with organizations like National Charity League, Women’s Empowerment, and Saint John’s Program. She is a recent empty nester and proud mom to two powerhouse boss ladies, Emily and Allison. Lauren lives on a farm in Elk Grove, California, with her husband, Peter. Contact her at lauren@leapconsultingsolutions.com to inquire about speaking engagements and media opportunities, or to talk about recruiting tech stacks, empowering women, raising goats, or even racing cars.

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LEAP Consulting is focused on 3 primary offerings: BUILD, CHANGE, ADOPT
These 3 focuses support agencies in prioritizing relationships. Staffing is really about relationships powered by - and empowered by - technology. Recruiting businesses that engage LEAP Consulting Solutions all have one thing in common: a need to optimize their use of technology to create better experiences - and business outcomes. And, they need help doing it. 

The purpose of LEAP Consulting Solutions is to make recruiting companies more efficient, more successful, and more human. Founder and CEO Lauren Jones’s obsession with technology fuels her endless curiosity for helping firms make sense of the workforce tech at their disposal, in both powerful and meaningful ways. A huge part of that success is managing change for both people and systems, and redesigning business operations for efficiency and effectiveness.

Lauren Jones

Your Monday dose of humor...

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We kicked off 2026, and everywhere I look, staffing leaders are finally having a reckoning with their tech stacks. Our tools are supposed to make work easier, but somehow, many agencies are juggling a dozen platforms that rarely play nicely together. Fragmentation isn't just an inconvenience—it's costing teams real productivity, real margin, and real sanity.

This is the year to get ruthless about what stays and what goes. Every disconnected login, every manual export, every "workaround" is a red flag. Start by mapping out every system in your workflow. What's bringing clarity and true impact? What's just adding noise and work for your people?

More agencies are recognizing that less—done right—is so much more. Audit your stack, streamline your processes, and reclaim your team's time for the work that counts.

If you looked at every tool in your stack today, which one would you actually fight to keep?

#StaffingStrategy #DigitalTransformation #TechStackAudit #TakeTheLeap #MotivationMonday

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Overwhelmed by the AI buzz?🌊You're not alone—tools like LLM's are everywhere, but figuring out how to go beyond basic prompts can feel daunting. If you're just dipping your toes into AI, this might be a bit advanced to start with. But if you've mastered prompting and are itching to level up—creating real efficiencies while unleashing your creativity—then combining AI, automation, and MCP (Model Context Protocol) is the perfect next step. It's the mix that turns ideas into powerful, custom systems without the usual tech headaches. 🚀

Let's break it down simply, step by step:

1. Start with AI (Your Creative Brain) 🧠: You've probably used ChatGPT or similar for drafting emails, job descriptions, or candidate summaries. That's your foundation—plain-English prompts drive the whole thing.

2. Add Automation (The Efficiency Engine) ⚙️: Platforms like n8n let you connect apps and automate repetitive flows (e.g., pulling data from LinkedIn → enriching → pushing to your ATS). Great in theory, but manually building them takes forever with node-dragging and debugging.

3. Bridge with MCP (The Magic Connector) 🌉: This is the game-changer. MCP lets advanced AI directly understand and edit automation tools like n8n. You just describe the workflow—"Build a flow that scans LinkedIn for sales reps in Texas, scores them on experience, and adds top matches to insert ATS of choice"—and the AI creates the entire setup: nodes, connections, logic. Clean, accurate, fast.

The result? Your creative ideas become fully automated systems in minutes, not days. Here's how it plays out in recruiting:

Candidate Sourcing on Autopilot 🤝 : Prompt the AI to build a flow that searches LinkedIn, enriches contacts, filters by skills, and loads qualified profiles into your CRM.
Smarter Screening & Outreach✉️: Automate resume parsing from emails, skill-matching against job reqs, scoring, and generating personalized outreach drafts.
Interview Scheduling Magic🗓️: Collect availability, cross-check calendars, propose times, book via Calendly, and notify the team—all hands-free.

This combo isn't beginner territory—it's for when you're ready to build custom tools that give your team a real edge. Low-risk to experiment with, and the time saved on grunt work lets you focus on relationships, strategy, and landing top talent. 💪

Want to learn more—or just outsource the setup and get a ready-to-go system tailored for your firm? Grab some time with the team at LEAP. 

Drop an email to: taketheleap@leapadvisorypartners.com 
What's your next big automation idea? Sourcing? Screening? Scheduling? Share below—let's brainstorm! 
 #taketheleap #learnwithleap #mcp #ai #technology #innovation #staffingandrecruiting #advisory

STORYTIME  - gather round' the campfire 🔥🔥 📚📚

As a leader have you ever known EXACTLY how you wanted to see your business or run  your day and just never quuuiiiite been able to make it a reality? 

Always using a combination of reports, or a dashboard and ancillary reports you created? 

Well let me help you understand the power of MCP (Model Context Protocol), n8n (automation made easy), and a tool like Replit or Abacus (enter your webapp tool of choice here). 

Here is what was on my wishlist:

💰Integrated Hubspot dash with pipeline, activities, and tasks
📞Integrated Grain dash with conversation summaries and NEXT STEPS 
📩Integrated Outlook for quick what's the daily plan
💟Integrated Gratitude Journal with AI suggestions/weekly summaries/where is my gratitude focused - is it in the right place? 
🙏🏼Daily scripture to stay focused on my faith as well as an entry for daily prayers and a weekly summary of where my prayer is focused
💪🏼Weekly wins - its important to have accomplishments front and center as there are plenty of weeks where you feel like there are none as a business owner. 
 💰Profitability & Finances
👩🏻Personal goals for the year and tracker
🐸Our business goals for the year and tracker
🤖AI news/industry news feed
💻Social media management, content ideas, and reminders

When I tell you I tried a million different journals, entrepreneur downloads, One Note, Evernote, Notion - you name it, I tried it. So when in doubt, build it yourself and with today's tool ANYONE can do it. 

So as we start our fresh new year on this fine Monday - January 5, 2026 - I have the Executive Dashboard of my dreams (I can even upload photos in gratitude and prayer). The power of these tools is limitless...

Have more questions about AI, MCP, automation and beyond? 

Schedule some time with me here:

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Is it just me, or does it sometimes feel like everyone's talking about adopting AI, but nobody's sharing what actually works—and what just creates more chaos? There's a big gap between agencies adding AI to their tech stack and actually seeing any real impact from it.

Here's what I've gathered from seeing these tools in action: most agencies are now using AI somewhere, but effectiveness is lagging way behind adoption. We're layering automation onto messy workflows, hoping for a miracle—but meaningful results come from intentional, focused changes, not just plugging in the latest shiny tool.

The key isn't sweeping transformation overnight. Start with targeted, practical applications that your team will truly use—a tool that double-checks job descriptions for bias, or a bot that handles repetitive outreach steps. When tech meets a real pain point (and fits seamlessly), that's where AI starts making a difference you can see and measure.

When's the last time you stepped back to ask, "Is this tool solving a real problem, or just checking an innovation box?"

If you had to pick one part of your recruiting process that still feels stuck in 2022, what would you want AI to actually fix?

#AIAdoption #StaffingTech #NoMoreCheckTheBox #TakeTheLeap #TechnologyTuesday

We spend so much time trying to patch up leaks in our workflow—chasing down late timesheets, fixing invoice errors, and updating records.

But here's the reality: most operational headaches in staffing don't start with the loudest pain point. They start at the source, often with disconnected systems or missing data early in the process.

In 2026, integration complexity is still one of the top challenges agencies face. When your tech doesn't work together, your team loses hours each week on manual workarounds, chasing info across platforms, and cleaning up avoidable messes. It's not just inefficient—it drags down your margins and creates frustration for everyone involved.

So, what's the play?

Start by auditing where your biggest recurring fires start—not where you first spot the smoke.

💙 Are data silos making people duplicate work?
❤️ Is onboarding relying on emails instead of automated workflows?
🧡 Is your ATS acting more like digital storage than a process engine?

Action step: Map out a single core process and flag every manual handoff and disconnected tool. Then ask: what would it look like if your systems actually talked to each other at every step?

Nobody wins awards for "clean handoffs" or "boringly reliable data"—but those are the shifts that build sustainable, scalable operations.

Where is your team still bridging gaps that your tech could be closing for you?

#StaffingOps #WorkflowIntegration #ProcessImprovement #WorkflowWednesday #TakeTheLeap

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