Chris Long

Chris Long, an expert in talent and workforce optimization, is a progressive leader with over 20 years of experience. Holding educational credentials from the prestigious London Business School in Business Studies, Chris has an innovative approach towards people strategy, recruiting, and HR technology. His experience is dated back to many industries which make him an expert in Workforce Intelligence, People Operations, and HR Technology. Chris holds a modern approach to leverage big data and advanced statistics to align a company’s workforce with its organizational structure. Through his expert approaches, Chris identifies talent levers which are optimally leveraged and manipulated to transform a company’s most valuable asset - “people and tech” into a superior-performing workforce. Chris actively delivers talks on Talent Solutions, Talent Acquisition, and Workforce Optimisation making him a speaker-in-demand. He is the Founder at Elev8 and was previously an advisor at Workplace Accelerator. He has also held multiple roles such as Founder at Talentria, Program Lead, Talent Acquisition at Secure Code Warrior, THE ICONIC, Atlassian, SafetyCulture, Zip Co, and more. Chris has also worked as Senior Manager of Workforce Strategy and Analytics at Transport for NSW, Senior Manager Global Talent Operations at Amcor, Global Talent Operations Manager at Orica, EMEA Talent Acquisition Manager at Nestlé and Novartis, Talent Acquisition Manager at IBM, and Recruitment Consultant at Creative Personnel. He has served on the Board of HR Open Source (#HROS) and was the RL100 APAC Chair at The Recruitment Events Co. Chris is an expert in HRTech, TATech, Talent Acquisition, Talent Strategy, People Analytics, and Workforce Optimisation.