Monday Talent Expands C-Suite
July 27th, 2022
News from Monday Talent
Monday Talent has officially announced the appointment of Carly Mednick as Chief Operating Officer and Gillian Williams as President. Previously, both women functioned as founders and partners of the recruitment agency. Since Monday Talent’s inception during the pandemic, the company has grown to a team of nineteen. This, the company’s CEO and founder Jamie McLaughlin, explains, is in large part due to the brilliant leadership of these women.
Fiercely committed to the mission of placing inclusive and equitable talent across industries, the founding team knew modeling diverse leadership started at Monday. “It’s important that our clients, candidates, and team have role models that don’t look like me,” shares McLaughlin. Imagining Mednick, a Forbes 30-Under-30 honoree and committed leader, in the role of COO was only natural. Williams, a big-picture visionary and the first in her family in a president-level role, knows the power of seeing a black female making decisions at the C-suite level. “There was a time in my life where I could have never imagined myself as president. My parents weren’t in the corporate world. I didn’t have those kinds of role models to look up to.” Mednick comments on her excitement to share in leading Monday Talent toward new ventures and even great expansion alongside Williams. “This was a collaborative decision between the three of us,” she shares.
Over 56% of Monday Talent’s predominately female team is made up of people of color. This year to date, over 50% of the talent the recruitment agency has placed have been people of color. As far as the future, this is just the start of what leading with diversity-focused values looks like. “We have a huge vision for what could live under the Monday Talent umbrella. We’re expanding our reach, and seeing more diversity in the industries we’re recruiting in,” shares Williams. “It’s important,” says Mednick, “that our company reflects the change we hope to see in the traditionally male-led, white corporate structure.”