John Kearns is a principal and founder of Talent Strategies International (TSI). TSI is a management consulting firm that focuses on Building Talent Equity using a clear-cut, practical, and focused process for growing the value of business through people.

TSI works with organizations to ensure they have the right people in place who can drive results like increased revenue growth, profitability, operating efficiencies, productivity, customer service, stakeholder satisfaction, and return on investment. TSI depicts this linkage of people to results through the talent chain-all a business does to attract, select, manage, develop, and retain talent.

John Kearns is expert at linking human resources strategy to business strategy. John earned his doctorate and has held various leadership positions in the field of education. He was the Chief Personnel Officer of Nabisco's LifeSavers Company, where he crafted a strategy to ensure that LifeSavers would have the talent to profitably double its revenues over four years.

John also led the global Staffing and Organization Development functions for Nabisco, Inc. John founded his own management consulting firm and has also served as a regional General Manager for a major international consulting company.