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Our Team

Our team makes a difference because we treat them like they do.

Who We Are Makes A Difference

Our main players are a lean, creative-thinking team, dedicated to partnering with start-ups and small to mid-size businesses to help improve the way you attract, hire and retain your most valuable assets…your people.

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Managing Director

Susie Japs

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Senior Talent Strategy Consultant

Lindsay Coffey

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Lead Trainer

Shannon Peck

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Research Manager

Sarah Han

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HR Coordinator

Amelia Defrain

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Talent Strategy Consultant

Heather Cohan

Aaron Finley Wejungo
Recruiting Manager

Aaron Finley

Client & Talent Manager

Stephanie Powers

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Client & Talent Manager

Ramon Rustrian-Dallet

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Talent Strategy Coordinator

Kayla Schabbing

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Talent Strategy Coordinator

Michael Moreno

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Talent Strategy Coordinator

Sophie Gootter

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Talent Acquisition Specialist

Joining our Team Soon!

Maria Macalalad
Talent Acquisition Specialist

Coke Macalalad

Kim Parisi Wejungo
Talent Strategy Consultant

Kim Parisi

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Managing Director

Susie Japs

The fearless leader of Wejungo® since 2011, Susie makes sure the team is always creatively thinking and living our purpose to create success together for every person Wejungo® come in contact with. Susie is a highly regarded talent strategist and human capital management consultant whose work spans public, private and non-profit spheres. She spends her spare time volunteering, discovering new local restaurants and traveling with her family.

Favorite Food: EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING Italian

Favorite Places You’ve Traveled To: China, New Zealand and Italy

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Senior Talent Strategy Consultant

Lindsay Coffey

Lindsay supports our clients as a Senior Talent Strategy Consultant. With a background in sales operations and management, she brings with her a passion for promoting the importance of human capital contributions in order to fulfill an organization’s overall strategy, mission, and values. In addition to the many years of management consulting, Lindsay has a MA in Communication and a certificate in HR Management. In her spare time, she enjoys volunteering, and doing any activity that can be done outdoors with her family, including gardening, hiking a trail or being at the beach.

Favorite Food: So as an individual food, I would say either sweet potatoes or cereal. But not just 1 cereal, you have to mix 2-3 different boxes and flavors together. And sweet potatoes can be more sweet with cinnamon and maple syrup or more savory with butter and spices, it’s all delicious. As far as a cuisine, my favorite is italian. Any type of pasta noodle, sauce, and any combination of vinegar, oils, tomatoes, and cheese.

Favorite Place You’ve Traveled To: London, England. The history was so fascinating! Thoroughly enjoyed the museums, and exploring and learning the history of other cities/destinations nearby; Bath, Stonehenge, and Oxford.

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Lead Trainer

Shannon Peck

Shannon is a Talent Strategy Consultant on our Wejungo® team. She has a MS in Industrial/Organizational Psychology and has a Professional in Human Resources certification. Shannon has spent the last decade helping clients build positive cultures, streamline hiring processes and execute recruiting strategies that are much different than the “norm” and is the lead trainer for workshops at Wejungo. In her spare time, Shannon enjoys running, hiking, biking and spending time with her family.

Favorite Food: Fish on the grill.

Favorite Place Traveled: Sydney, Australia.

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Research Manager

Sarah Han

Sarah has been part of the Wejungo® team since 2011. As a research guru for over 8 years, she has specialized in the fields of business management and entrepreneurship. Now today as our Business Researcher Manager, Sarah’s major role is to manage all business intelligence research and systems administration. She continues to use her research skills to explore new places and foods around the world.

Favorite Food: Ramen

Favorite Place You’ve Traveled To: Taiwan and Prague

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HR Coordinator

Amelia Defrain

Amelia joined Wejungo® from the hospitality industry where she discovered her interest in promoting a healthy work environment for both employers and employees. Her BA in Communication allowed her to grow her skills and passion for excellent communication in all aspects of life. In her spare time, she enjoys being in the outdoors with her husband, whether on a trail, at the beach, or around the family bonfire.

Favorite Food: Charcuterie board with a warm baguette

Favorite Place You’ve Traveled To: Cozumel, Mexico

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Talent Strategy Consultant

Heather Cohan

Heather is a Talent Strategy Consultant on our Wejungo® team. She has a Master’s degree in Business Administration with an undergraduate degree in Business Management. Heather has spent the past two decades helping clients in a variety of industries achieve their goals, improve their business practices and find innovative solutions. With a background in both client and project management, she brings her passion for helping clients achieve success. In her spare time she enjoys finding new activities and adventures with her daughter as well as spending time with family and friends. 

Favorite food? Korean BBQ or Chinese food

Favorite place traveled so far? Roatán Honduras (She got to hold and play with Monkeys in the jungle)

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Recruiting Manager

Aaron Finley

Aaron transitioned into the Wejungo® team as a Recruiting Manager from an Operations and Logistics background. During his career, Aaron has worked as a leader and team builder in multiple areas of management and has always enjoyed leading projects from start to completion. Seeking to grow and expand his skillset while helping people find their own passion, Aaron discovered Wejungo® where he could do just that with the ability to lead a team while helping others find a career that they would love. Outside of the office, Aaron is often at the beach, playing volleyball, planning trips, and spending time with loved ones.

Favorite Food: Anything Chocolate

Favorite Place You’ve Traveled To: New York City

Client & Talent Manager

Stephanie Powers

Stephanie joined Wejungo® as a Client & Talent Manager, after a number of successful years in recruiting and people management within a number of different industries. She enjoys helping great people find the best fit for the next chapter in their career story.

Favorite Food: Everything

Favorite Place You’ve Traveled To: Everywhere possible

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Client & Talent Manager

Ramon Rustrian-Dallet

Ramon completed his Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration in the area of Marketing with a specialization in professional sales and management. He has a background of 6 years of working in retail customer service, and B2C sales. His motive is to help people in any way that he can to reach their goals. Ramon is interested in music and recently got into collecting records and going to concerts. Also, he loves outdoor activities, so whenever he has a chance he goes camping or explores new places like national parks.

Favorite Food: Sushi

Favorite Place You’ve Traveled To: Manchester, UK

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Talent Strategy Coordinator

Kayla Schabbing

Kayla joined Wejungo® as a Talent Strategy Coordinator after obtaining her B.A. in Psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno. Prior to joining our team, Kayla has experience as an administrator and managerial associate in behavior management, assessing customers’ needs, implementing marketing activities, resource management and service quality across various environments. Through her personal and professional background she has found a passion for assessing the needs and wants of others and helping them obtain those goals. In her spare time she loves cooking, reading, going to live music shows and spending quality time with her friends and family

Favorite Food: Chicken Adobo
Favorite Place You’ve Traveled To: Indonesia

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Talent Strategy Coordinator

Michael Moreno

Michael joined Wejungo® as a Talent Strategy Coordinator with a M.A. in Organizational Psychology at Alliant International University from San Diego, CA. He supports our team and clients and has experience across several departments including Sales, Marketing, Management in high end retail, Fitness and Behavioral Health. Michael is passionate about diversity, equity and inclusion throughout his personal and professional life. This is shown through his work with communities to help solve homelessness as he is a Volunteer Service Coordinator for the Mustard Seed Project. In his spare time he enjoys being outside hiking, running in the park and wants to add “surfer” to his repertoire.

Favorite food: CAKE 

Favorite Place You’ve Traveled To: It’s a tie between Copenhagen, DK and Osaka, JP

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Talent Strategy Coordinator

Sophie Gootter

Sophie is a Talent Strategy Coordinator here at Wejungo® where she helps clients find the perfect candidate for the positions they are wishing to fill. With a bachelor’s degree in Psychology at San Diego State University, Sophie loves interacting with and helping people and feels lucky that she has a job where she is making an impact on people’s lives. In her free time, she loves being out in nature and spending time with her loved ones. 

Favorite Food: Hamburger 

Favorite Place You’ve Traveled To: Yosemite 

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Talent Acquisition Specialist

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Favorite Place You’ve Traveled To:

Maria Macalalad

Talent Acquisition Specialist

Coke Macalalad

Coke works as a Talent Acquisition Specialist at Wejungo. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology and her past work experiences have been focused on HR, Admin, Compliance and BPO. 

Favorite Food: My favorite food is kare-kare

Favorite Place You’ve Traveled To: Ilocos Norte, Philippines.

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Talent Strategy Consultant

Kim Parisi

Kim is a Talent Strategy Consultant on our Wejungo® team. She brings over
10 years of sales and marketing experience and over 6 years of operations
and management experience. Kim’s biggest strength is her passion for
helping people achieve their goals. In her spare time, Kim enjoys
volunteering, kayaking, hiking, swimming, cooking, and spending time with
her family and friends.

Favorite Food: My favorite food is anything Mexican

Favorite Place You’ve Traveled To: Cork, Ireland

We partner with companies to redefine & set new standards for people success

  • Talent Strategy

    The quality of people that your company hires depends on the quality of your interviewing process. We create customized recruiting, interviewing, and culture-fit best practices that last.

  • Recruiting Strategy

    We help you make better hiring decisions through our executive search focus, spending 100% of our time finding, engaging and presenting the best sales, marketing and operations candidates in the passive-employed talent market, many of whom you would normally never see through your own recruiting efforts.

  • People Planning

    We assess your organizational structure and help formalize the actions, processes, and people data needed to ensure that you have the right talent in the right places with predictive data visualizations telling you the story of how to drive better bottom-line results.

  • Customized Trainings

    Engagement is not a one-way street with the responsibility solely on Managers. We develop and facilitate custom trainings to help managers and leaders inspire accountability and develop motivated, supported, engaged, and fulfilled employees

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Success Stories

“I had the pleasure of working with Susie Japs and her amazing team. Wejungo® did an outstanding job from start to finish. In building our recruitment  & hiring strategy, to a revamp of our job descriptions and selection process. They even came to our office for an interviewing training workshop session with our team. It was amazing. We will be working with you again soon. Thank you so much.”

Zeynep I.President, Health and Wellness Tech Company

“We hired Wejungo® to first conduct a reviewal and identify what’s working and not working when it came to our current hiring process. Wejungo® worked with us to help implement sourcing and interviewing techniques to increase the volume of quality applicants and strengthen the relationship between HR and our hiring managers. With the new sourcing strategy customized to our business, we have accelerated and improved the quality of our staffing on our 3-4 most recent hires. I highly recommend Wejungo® to any company who truly wishes to elevate the quality of new hires AND improve their company’s hiring capabilities.”

Dan M.President, Manufacturing company

“We engaged Wejungo® to review our organization of 22 locations and our Talent Acquisition and Recruiting needs in particular. They exceeded our expectations on all fronts. Their analysis of our needs and recommendations were outstanding. Susie Japs and her team conducted interviews with our key leaders/employees and got to the bottom of the key areas that needed to be addressed including a fresh look at our organizations’ functions. We further enhanced our engagement with Wejungo® to assist with the implementation of their recommendations as well. The entire company is extremely satisfied with the successful outcomes from our consulting assignment with Wejungo® and look forward to continuing to use their professional services to support our People and Culture initiatives.”

Nigel L.COO, Hospitality West Coast

“Wejungo® came in and changed our whole perspective on the recruiting, or as I now know it, sourcing process. They were able to walk us through the entire process and change the way we think about hiring. Susie opened our eyes and allowed us realize that in order to attract top talent, we want to stand out. They were so thorough that we were able to use the tangible takeaways and seamlessly integrate these steps to improve how we hire. We have received positive feedback from candidates who were impressed with the unique look of our talent profile as well as from our internal team who appreciated the fact that the process allowed them to see the full scope of what they needed to successfully fill the position. We are incredibly grateful to Wejungo® and thank them for our sourcing makeover!”

Mark G.CTO, Online Technology Company

“We found Wejungo® after we heard from a client how great they were, we then found them online. Right away I could tell they were different by their messaging and the way they presented themselves on their website. The first meeting with Susie and her team impressed me and the decision to work with them on our Business Development Leader role was a “no-brainer” based on their creative recruiting approach and the thoughtful questions they asked me in that first meeting. We are so thrilled with the market intelligence, honest feedback and suggestions that were made to us along the way to help ensure we saw the best of the best in the market. I have honestly never worked with a recruiting firm as thorough and focused on the long-term fit as this one.”

Caroline T.EVP Sales, International Marketing Agency

“As a not-for-profit, Feeding the Soul Foundation we are always open to ways we can improve from people we trust. I reached out to Susie at Wejungo® to guide us in what I originally considered a simple question and what I received was better then I had ever anticipated. Susie was able to help us identify our goals and most importantly she inspired me to open the door to something greater than I could have imagined. As we set the foundation, she gave me the clarity to address challenges and follow-up on action steps we much needed to take. My original simple question was really a big challenge, which was aligned, confronted and solved with direction and strength from Susie. As an entrepreneur and the Director of Events I am would recommend any one seeking business guidance and new development opportunities to contact Susie at Wejungo® immediately. Thank you Susie for what you created for us!”

Melissa G.Director of Events, CA Non-Profit Organization

“Susie Japs and her staff at Wejungo® did a fantastic job in moving my company and my mindset into social media and branding. As a small business owner, I spend most of my time focused on my clients and their needs, so I often miss out on new ways of marketing and presenting my firm. Wejungo® helped me to better understand social media and provided the steps and encouragement needed to build an online presence that meets my company’s goals. Thank you, Susie!”

Jonathan D.Chief Attorney, Midwest Law Firm

“Susie was very thorough and really knows how to help entrepreneurs like me. She was accepting of my own style, yet assertive in keeping me on track. She followed through with concise summaries of the work we did, giving me assignments and next steps. What I appreciate most is that Susie was very focused on me and my new venture so it felt like she is a member of my team. I highly recommend her services since she helped me do what others could not!”

Linda B.President, California Consulting Firm

“Susie intuitively picked up our business concepts, helped define customer targets, internal systems-problem areas, shape our hiring guidelines and collaborated with me on our strategic plans. Her tireless enthusiasm to help our national nonprofit will have lasting effects for years to come. I strongly recommend Susie as her skills and abilities extend far and wide.”

Jerry H.Executive Director, National Non-profit Organization

“Thank you for listening to my needs as a business owner and uncovering our true potential. This was truly an investment in the success of our business rather than yet another consultant fee. My business immediately benefited from your ability to understand my company and to get right to the point with a plan of action with measurable results to top it! My whole staff and company saw an immediate benefit from your brief time with us and we continue to be energized with all the new improvements in our performance. You were right, we really DID create success TOGETHER, and we will continue to do that!”

JBCPresident, Midwest Architecture Firm
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