Leif Wennerstrom

CEO

Dallas, Fort Worth, United States26 yrs 6 mos experience
Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Led AI-driven talent acquisition transformations.
  • Built high-impact teams for sustainable growth.
  • Coached leaders to achieve multiple promotions.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS talent acquisition leader with a strong focus on AI integration.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionExecutive SearchEnterprise AiData ProtectionAi Integration

Other Skills

CoachingTeam LeadershipOrganizational DevelopmentEndpoint ControlTalent Acquisition StrategyRecruiting OperationsCollaborationSales ProcessSales RecruitmentStaffing IndustryVendor ManagementTeam BuildingSocial MediaMentoringTemporary Placement

About

More disruptive than the Industrial Revolution, I’m obsessed with today's intersection of humanity, AI, and how work gets done safely and securely. I bring extensive experience leading tech, GTM, and executive talent transformations at high‑growth companies—leveraging AI and automation to reduce time‑to‑hire, improve quality, and meaningfully lower recruiting costs. Today, at Island, we’re rethinking secure work from the ground up by building the enterprise browser. By embedding security directly into where work actually happens—the browser—Island enables organizations to operate securely and productively in a cloud‑ and AI‑first world, without compromising user experience or speed. Through curiosity, empathy, and shared meaning, I coach recruiting teams to adopt growth mindsets, embrace new technologies, and strengthen advisory skills that elevate OKR performance. Leaders I’ve managed have gone on to multiple promotions as they scale both impact and influence. I’ve streamlined HR technology to measure and drive real business outcomes across people, process, and systems, and I’m passionate about partnering with executives to build diverse, high‑impact teams that fuel sustainable growth.

Experience

26 yrs 6 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 10 mos
Average Tenure
5 mos
Current Experience

Island

VP, Talent Acquistion

Jan 2026Present · 5 mos · Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex · On-site

  • The Island Enterprise Platform is the complete work environment. Not a collection of solutions, but an organic ecosystem, where all systems work together, creating the perfect conditions for work to thrive. It provides a full range of enterprise compute services: Enterprise AI, Network, Identity, Data Protection, Endpoint Control, and End User Productivity. Built upon a foundation of universal policy, visibility, data lake, and an integrations fabric. And built into everywhere work happens: The Enterprise Browser, consumer browsers, mobile devices, and the desktop. This is the future of work. And it just arrived early.
Executive SearchTalent AcquisitionCoachingTeam LeadershipOrganizational Development

Promptmates

Founding Member

Jan 2026Present · 5 mos · Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex · Remote

  • PromptMates is where recruiting leaders learn, build, and scale with AI. The community connects members with industry experts, peers, and hands-on resources to help them integrate AI into real hiring workflows. From practical playbooks to live sessions and plug-and-play tools, everything is designed to make recruiting teams faster, smarter, and more confident in using AI to elevate their impact.

Aviatrix

Talent Advisor

Oct 2025Dec 2025 · 2 mos

Growth-advisors

Founder

Sep 2025Present · 9 mos · United States

  • AI is reshaping the world of work faster than most organizations can adapt.
  • Growth Advisors exists to help leaders and teams embrace a “not yet” mindset- where only attitude and effort stand in the way of your outcomes. We help develop the curiosity, adaptability, and courage required to grow in the age of AI.

Dialpad

VP, Global Talent Acquisition

Apr 2022Sep 2025 · 3 yrs 5 mos · United States · Remote

  • With responsibility for all talent acquisition strategy, operations, and delivery, rebuilt Dialpad’s global talent acquisition function into a tech-enabled, AI-native recruiting engine, enhancing hiring quality and speed.
  • Collaborated with product and engineering teams to create Dialpad customer-centric interview intelligence workflows integrated into Greenhouse.
  • Established scalable recruiting centers in Buenos Aires, Manila, and Bangalore, enabling 24/7 sourcing and delivery.
  • Delivered 566 hires across sales, engineering, and product in 14 months, surpassing company goals.
Talent Acquisition StrategyAI IntegrationRecruiting OperationsTalent Acquisition

Procore technologies

4 roles

Director, Executive and International Talent Acquisition(2021 IPO)

Jul 2021Apr 2022 · 9 mos

  • Procore's global talent vision is to build a high performing healthy company that scales. 85% of Procore's opportunity is outside the US and my role focuses on expanding our international talent presence and attracting Procore's next generation of executive leadership.

Director, Business and University Talent Acquisition

Apr 2019Jun 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Early career, industry, and executive Talent Acquisition ownership for all Talent, Finance, Strategy, Operations, Legal and Revenue organizations globally.

Director, Global Revenue Recruiting

Promoted

Feb 2018Mar 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Did you know construction is an $11T industry that is expected to grow 20% by 2025?
  • Procore builds the software that builds the world. As Director, Revenue Recruiting, my team delivers the customer facing and business focused talent that scales Procore- globally. We are a “forever” company that sets benchmarks for revenue growth and customer success, while giving our people the best job of their career and transforming the construction industry.
  • Since 2014, Procore has quickly grown from 75 to over 1300 employees with these recognitions:
  • Forbes Cloud 100 (#16)
  • GlassDoor 2019 Best Places to Work #4
  • InMyPlace: Best Companies for Women (#2)
  • Symplicity - Top 25 Best Places to Work for Recent Grads 2017

Executive Recruiter

Sep 2017Jan 2018 · 4 mos

Cisco

Sr. Manager, Global Talent Acquisition

Aug 2016Sep 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo · Dallas/Fort Worth Area

  • Global Talent Acquisition contact and North American talent delivery responsibility for the following Cisco enterprise sales organizations: Enterprise Networking, Global Security, Collaboration, Service Provider, Partners, Sales Strategy, Virtual Sales and Customer Success.
  • Outperformed budget, delivery and KPI expectations as Cisco’ top TA people lead in Q4 FY17.
  • We Connect Everything, Innovate Everywhere, and Benefit Everyone to change the way we live, work, play and learn. #lovewhereyouwork #wearecisco

Yext

Principal Recruiter(2017 IPO)

Nov 2015Aug 2016 · 9 mos · Greater New York City Area

  • As a Principal Recruiter, I lead all enterprise and Vice President level revenue hiring for the Americas with these results: Within six months, hired several seasoned VPs from some of the world's most innovative technology companies like Facebook, Adobe, and others.

Cloudera

Head of Global Field Recruiting(2018 IPO)

Sep 2013Nov 2015 · 2 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Cloudera delivers the enterprise platform for machine learning and advanced analytics built on the latest open source technology, Hadoop.
  • Results: Joining as the sole account executive and sales leadership recruiter, built and trained an exceptional team of 18 recruiters, sourcers and coordinators that doubled company headcount and scaled revenues globally within 24 months by entering seven new countries.

Netapp

Field Recruiting Leadership, Executive Search, Revenue Ops, and Recruiting Programs

Jun 2006Sep 2013 · 7 yrs 3 mos · Dallas/Fort Worth Area

  • Joined NetApp at 5,000 employees to help drive a primarily organic scale to over 13,000 employees globally by 2013. After playing a contract recruiter role, I lead a 22 person recruiting team, delivered executive level search, played an interim sales ops role,and drove the roll out of larger projects like interview and selection training. Part of M&A deal team representing talent acquisition.

Sap

Sr. Recruiter(contract)

Oct 2004Jun 2006 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Sales, Pre-Sales, and Consulting recruiting for
  • SAP America, Inc.

Lawson software

Recruiting Leader

Jun 2001Sep 2004 · 3 yrs 3 mos

  • Global recruitment responsibility for sales, pre-sales, software development and some G&A functions. Reported to head of global recruiting.

Scient- the ebusiness innovators

Recruiting Leader(1999 IPO)

Mar 1999May 2001 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Designed a regional high volume recruiting/staffing operation by attracting, hiring and assimilating consulting staff to executive level talent into one of the fastest growing ebusiness consutlancies of the internet boom.

Education

Southern Methodist University

Bachelor's degree — Communications

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