Mel Kleiman is recognized as today’s most influential expert on how to recruit, hire, engage, and retain the best hourly employees and the people who manage them. Based on his 25+ years of pragmatic business experience and extensive research and consulting work, Mel has written six books, hundreds of articles for trade and professional magazines, publishes a respected blog, and is responsible for Convenience Store Decisions’ Annual State of the Industry Labor Report. Mel’s high content presentations captivate convention and corporate training audiences with specific, pragmatic ways to attract, select and retain frontline hourly workers and their managers. Mel’s clients include many well-known names including Exxon/Mobil, Harley Davidson, Time Warner, the National Restaurant Association, Pizza Hut, Coca-Cola, the International Association of Chain Drug Stores, the National Association of Convenience Stores, Comfort Keepers, Dairy Queen, Jiffy Lube, the Multi-Unit Franchising Conference & Expo as well as international audiences worldwide. After successfully owning and operating three businesses and being the largest holder of Hertz franchises in the country, Mel founded Humetrics in 1976 when he realized that while there was an abundance of books, tests, tools, and systems on the market to help business owners and hiring managers recruit and select professional staff, there was a dearth of resources for those who hire the hourly employees who actually comprise the majority of the U.S. workforce. Mel’s subsequent success is a result of his passion for helping employers minimize costly employee turnover, his extensive research work, and his development of simple, but effective tools and systems that solve common problems. His speaking, training, and consulting work with hundreds of clients over the years keeps him on the leading edge of today’s best practices and procedures for hourly employee recruiting, selection, engagement, and retention. In 1999, the National Speakers Association awarded Mel their Certified Speaking Professional designation (an honor earned by fewer than 10 percent of professional speakers worldwide). He has also been a member of the Society for Human Resource Management since 1999 and serves on the boards of The Workforce Institute and National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation. Titles Hire Tough, Manage Easy Beyond Behavioral Interviewing: The Next Evolution Hiring: How to Put the Odds in Your Favor // Winning the War for Talent in Today’s Turbulent Times How to Build a Frontline That Will Build Your Bottom Line Everything I Know about Retention And Engagement I Learned From A Kindergarten Teacher Hiring the Best Is Simple; It’s Just Not Easy How World-Class Organizations Recruit, Select, & Hire the Best How to Find, Select, Retain and Motivate a Safety-Oriented Workforce Top Tools, Tips & Techniques to Attract & Retain Top Talent The 5 Firsts: A Simple System to On-board & Retain Top Talent Topics Employee Retention, Humor, Human Resource, Generations, Business Click topic above to see more speakers on that topic Speaker's Asking Fee Range $7,500 - $9,999 Click on fee range to see more speakers. This is the starting keynote fee range - other programs may be higher. State TX Click on state above to see more speakers from that state. Fees The fee range quoted means the speaker's fee starts somewhere within that range. Note that speaker's fees are subject to change and some speakers may have special fee quotes.

TESTIMONIALS: “Excellent presenter, really put himself in our shoes and provided exactly the answers our audience needed.” — M. Lee Smith Publishing “Mel delivered a perfectly targeted program. We’ve never gotten such an extremely high level of customization from anyone else.” — Tesoro Petroleum “Mel’s programs are very insightful, practical and creative methods for hiring front-line employees. His combination of customized material and best practices information prepares managers to be better leaders.” — Continental Airlines “Mel spoke to our particular hiring problems so precisely that some of our managers thought he was in the car wash business himself.” — Minuteman Car Wash