Meet The Talent Evolution Team
Talent, technology and passion are major components of their career evolution!
Jared S. Smith,
Co-Founder and CEO
Jared Smith is an executive level insider with an entrepreneurial eye. Motivated by his intimate perspective of talent management technology and its effects on the recruitment strategies of top employers, Smith co-founded Talent Evolution, a company that builds personal and business brands for job seekers and business owners by harnessing the power of social media and social networking.
John Walker,
Co-Founder and Chief Career Solutions Officer
John Walker has seamlessly blended 20 years experience in corporate recruiting and career coaching with online marketing expertise to carry out his dual role of chief career solutions officer and co-founder of Talent Evolution. Talent Evolution builds personal and business brands for job seekers and business owners by harnessing the power of social media and social networking. Whether it’s blogging for jobs, twittering resumes, or creating online portfolios, Walker packages the knowledge job seekers need to brand a professional identity and develop a comprehensive job search in the digital world.
Melissa Kerlin, Project / Operations Manager
Melissa’s career path reflects the talents of a results-oriented, detail- minded businesswoman who is challenged rather than daunted by the ever-changing world of communications and its effect on product development and project management. She has worked in advertising and marketing for more than 15 years with an emphasis on project management, product development and operations. Working with the nation’s Fortune 1000, Melissa has honed brand management skills in addition to superior project management and team leadership skills to facilitate profitable and targeted project solutions.
Melissa has extensive expertise leading and directing project development teams, including creative, programming and marketing. Throughout her career, Melissa has thrived on mastering new technologies that make businesses run more efficiently.
Kristall Lutz, Executive Content Creator
With over a decade of corporate event marketing experience and a flair for writing, Kristall Lutz, is excited to bring her expertise and creativity to Talent Evolution as Executive Content Creator. After teaching English in Rome, Italy in 2007, Kristall returned stateside with a greater interest and intent in both business and creative writing. After launching her own blogs and mastering social media tools and strategies to grow them, Kristall began offering her expertise to other blogs and businesses. At a seminar in Santa Monica, Kristall met Talent Evolution…and well, as they say, “the rest is history”.
As a Certified Meeting Professional (CMP), Kristall has held positions in various industries and overseen thousands of corporate events ranging from intimate luncheons with United States Senators, large annual conferences & trade shows, and gala awards shows. She’s worked with everyone from President Obama and President Clinton to Jon Stewart and Martha Stewart. Two events she organized were named “Top 5 Media Industry Events” and “Top 100 Events in New York City” by BizBash Magazine. Kristall brings the same enthusiasm and attention to detail that has made her an award-winning corporate event planner to every blog post, tweet and Facebook update!
