Y Scouts

As CEO of Y Scouts, I highlight the connection between purpose and leadership in the recruiting process to transform how people and companies connect through a shared sense of purpose. Over the past 9 years, my efforts have brought this conversation to the forefront in the boardrooms of some of the most highly respected companies across the country.

I’m proud to lead a team of fully-committed recruiting and leadership development experts who find and hire exceptional, deeply-aligned leaders.

Founder and CEO 

Prevail Recruiting

Co-Founder

TruPath Search (formerly Job Brokers, Inc.)

Started my own business with another co-founder called Job Brokers, Inc. which we rebranded to TruPath Search. We offered a full range of recruiting services including: Retained search, executive search, contingent search, contract, contract to hire, direct placement and a full array of research recruitment and market intelligence information gathering.

Grew to over $50M in revenue with clients like University of Phoenix, Goodrich, OMCO Solar, and others.

CEO and Founder

HUNTER Technical - htrjobs.com

In charge of getting new businesses and build sales pipeline for the recruiting team.

Account Manager

Aerotek

Learned from the best on how to recruit great talent in telecomm through seamless operations, professional development, and skills assessment.

Recruiter

CEO | We Find Purpose Driven Executives For Value Aligned Companies

I’m on a mission to change how we hire leaders in this country. Our employees and customers deserve to work with executives who are aligned on the values and the mission of the company, as well as being highly capable. 

The traditional hiring system is broken. Job boards and AI have created an unholy mess of the recruitment process and no one is winning. Candidates are anxious and over-applying, employers are drowning in applications and paralyzed by choice. 

At Y Scouts, we lead with purpose. We don’t advertise roles — we use our covert discovery process to handpick outstanding candidates for your leadership role. We obsess about 3 key characteristics: 

- Relentless learning
- Developing others
- Delivering results

If a candidate has all 3, they fit our Leadership Model and only then do we progress to assessing their experience and capabilities. We look for soft skills, culture alignment and an expectation of excellence.

My early career in recruiting started at Aerotek, one of the biggest aerospace recruiters in the country. A few years later, I started my own firm, Tru Path (formerly Job Brokers Inc.), a company that grew 100% year-over-year for eight years, scaling to $50 million in revenue. 

We hired over 50,000 people across many different industries. Churn was often high, and I realized that to drive real growth in a company's culture, you have to start at the top.

So in 2012, I co-founded Y Scouts, the world’s first purpose-driven executive search firm. We work with dozens of industries, from fashion to fitness, medicine to manufacturing. 

My philosophy is simple: hire like your business depends on it — because it does. 

Ready to find the leaders who are going to take your business further than you could have imagined? Let’s talk.

Max Hansen

General Motors

Working out of the GM Tech Center in Warren, MI. Supporting Ultium 3 Lansing, Factory Zero and Lake Orion Assembly. Special Projects and Support.

Technical Project Engineer - Safety Operations and Quality Assurance

Detroit Wushu

Director of a martial arts and self-defense school. Also offering English as a Second Language (ESL) * Teaching traditional martial arts, combatives, physical & personal safety, investigations, asset protection, health/wellness and spreading cultural understanding.

General Manager & Program Director ( 中國武術 )

SIGNATA USA LLC

All phases/gates of Quality and Warranty - Corporate, Customer, Prototype, Advanced, Launch, Project, Field, Supplier, Systems, Plant, Dealer...and more.

ZF and AEQUITA agreement on the acquisition of ZF’s product line Electronic Interfaces - Forming SIGNATA.
(Planned elimination of my position on April 1st - Cost savings by moving my positions to Mexico)

Senior Quality, Reliability & Warranty Leader

ZF Group

Electronic Interface, Mechatronics and Software Problem solving internally and externally. OEMs, Dealers, Suppliers and the whole supply chain. All phases/gates of Quality and Warranty - Corporate, Customer, Prototype, Advanced, Launch, Project, Field, Supplier, Systems, Plant, Dealer...and more.

Hired for one program and then transferred before start date to EI division to another program, which was then sold to a private equity company. AEQUITA/SIGNATA. Single point of contact for the customer.

Senior Quality & Warranty Engineer III

Originally applied for position in Michigan. Company offered role at larger plant in Phoenix, Arizona. Laid off during restructuring, along with CEO, my director and other managers.

Quality, Safety & Continuous Improvement Manager

Novelis

Shifted to hybrid work and moved into new building. Laid off without any warning when Michigan locked down during Covid-19 Pandemic.

Senior Automotive Quality Engineer

Autoneum

Laid off during restructuring, COO sponsor also moved on.

Advanced Quality Planning Engineer / Manager 

Dasan DMC Motors

Extensive work with NA OEMs and products manufactured in China and Korea. Managing all aspects of supply change quality. Left after receiving offer from Autoneum COO to manage a team with Autoneum.

Quality Assurance Manager

KPMG

100% Travel, Cross Functional Programs/Projects in business and manufacturing. Supporting clients in Automotive, Off Highway, Military, Aerospace, Medical Device, Consumer Products/Services, Security Operations, Logistics, Software, Health & Wellness and more... USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, China, Korea, Japan, Thailand, Vietnam...

Management Consultant – Manufacturing Production, Quality and Operations

Spencer // Butcher

Laid off during restructuring and downsizing.

Quality Assurance Manager / Asst Plant Manager

10 years in Law Enforcement/Homeland Security/Investigations/Safety
Air Force veteran - Security Forces/Phoenix Raven/OSI

10 Years in Motorcycle and Powersports Industry
Dealer Sales, Parts, Service
Customer Service
Aftersales
Call Center
Warehouse
Operations Management

15 Years in Automotive Tier 1 Suppliers
Voice of the Customer
Quality (Prototype, Advanced, Supplier, Systems, Customer, 
Purchasing
Supply Chain
Reliability
Warranty
Operational Excellence
Continuous Improvement
Safety

Programs w/ GM, Ford, Stellantis, Toyota, Honda, Hyundai, Tesla, Fisker, Rivian, and more.
Tier 1: Faurecia, Lear, Magna, Spencer-Butcher, Howard Ternes Packaging/3PL  
Outside of Automotive: Boeing, Héroux-Devtek, Dell, Caterpillar, John Deere, AutoZone (Alldata), UPS, Department of the Army (TACOM), Excelon Nuclear, Wackenhut Security/G4S

Six Sigma
World Class Manufacturing (WCM) and Total Quality Management (TQM) Systems
Certified Instructor of Kenpo and Kung Fu
ESL Teacher
International Education Coordinator
CPR w/ AED
Sales
Finance (Retail and Personal)
Auditor
Insurance Sales

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