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Janice Bryant Howroyd didn’t have a talent strategy when she started her company in 1978.
Howroyd, the CEO of workforce solutions firm ActOne Group, is the first Black female founder of a multibillion-dollar company. Over the last 40 years, she’s built her business and talent strategy from the ground up for her roughly 2,600 employees.
“I didn’t take the traditional journey of, ‘If you build it, they will come.’ Customers asked us to do more of what we were doing for them in new and different locations, and [in] new and different ways,” Howroyd told an audience at Indeed’s FutureWorks conference in