Talent Management

San Rafael, Calif. – October 06, 2026 -- BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. (Nasdaq: BMRN) appointed Cara Bauer, Ph.D., as Executive Vice President, Chief People Officer, effective Oct. 5, 2026, succeeding Amy Wireman, who is retiring after nearly 14 years at the company.

Bauer arrives with 25 years of HR leadership across biotech and technology

Bauer joins BioMarin from Kyverna Therapeutics, Inc., where she served as Chief Human Resources Officer starting October 2024. She previously held the role of global head of human resources at Kite, a Gilead company, and led HR for the entertainment division at Riot Games. Earlier in her career she held HR leadership positions at Netflix, Amgen and Novo Nordisk.

Minneapolis – October 05, 2026 -- apg Solutions has appointed Cassandra Sink as Vice President of Human Resources, tasking her with leading people strategy across the company's global workforce.

Sink brings 25 years of HR leadership across manufacturing and consumer sectors

Sink's background spans manufacturing, distribution, technology and consumer products. She most recently served as Vice President of Human Resources at ILLUME and Good Chemistry, with earlier leadership roles at Shippers Supply and Würth Industry USA.

CEO cites talent development focus as key to organizational growth

"Cassandra's experience, leadership style and passion for developing talent will be invaluable as we continue to build a high-performing organization," said Heather Stewart, CEO of apg Solutions. Stewart added that Sink will strengthen company culture and support employees internationally.

Menlo Park, Calif. – October 02, 2026 -- Robert Half (NYSE: RHI) reported that 92% of its employees called the company a great place to work, versus 57% at a typical U.S. company, as the talent solutions and business consulting firm earned a spot on Fortune's Best Workplaces in Consulting & Professional Services for 2026.

Robert Half and subsidiary Protiviti both secure Fortune recognition

Protiviti, Robert Half's global consulting subsidiary, was also named to the list, reflecting workplace culture across both entities. The rankings were compiled by Fortune in partnership with Great Place to Work®, drawing on survey responses from more than 125,000 employees at Great Place to Work Certified organizations in the consulting and professional services sector.

Binghamton – October 01, 2026 -- McFarland-Johnson, Inc. (MJ) has secured the 15th spot on the 2026 Fortune Best Workplaces in EngineeringTM list, marking the employee-owned infrastructure firm's first appearance on the ranking.

Great Place To Work based the list on survey data from more than 14,000 engineering-sector employees

The ranking draws from Great Place To Work's broader 2025-2026 workforce study, which collected over 1.3 million confidential survey responses representing 7.3 million U.S. employees. Of those, more than 14,000 responses came from staff at Great Place To Work Certified companies within the engineering industry, forming the basis for the Fortune list.

Redwood City, Calif. – September 22, 2026 -- Findem has launched Findem Studio, a suite of AI agents designed to deliver finished, evidence-backed people-analytics work rather than raw data or search results. The platform is now available for free trial at studio.findem.ai/solutions.

Studio agents produce succession plans, market maps and benchmarks with supporting evidence

Findem Studio combines the company's proprietary people intelligence with AI agents built on methodologies from named practitioners. Outputs include succession plans, leadership benchmarks, hiring briefs, skills gap analyses, org charts and CHRO and VP of Talent Acquisition benchmarks. Rather than returning a candidate list for a succession plan, for example, an agent evaluates potential successors against expert-defined criteria and produces a plan with documented rationale that teams can review, challenge and refine before acting.

Greenwich, Conn. – – September 22, 2026 -- Hunt Scanlon Ventures, an M&A advisory firm focused on human capital markets, has completed an investment in millionways, a New York-based AI lab building what it calls a behavioral intelligence layer for artificial intelligence systems.

millionways built a proprietary Large Psychology Model to decode human behavior

The company's platform, Thorsten-4, is designed to interpret human signals, motives, communication patterns and behavior for use in AI governance, executive hiring, talent management, leadership assessment and broader enterprise settings. Thorsten-4 draws on more than a decade of proprietary psychological research and 35 million tagged words of behavioral data, according to the company, which is led by co-founders Martin Cordsmeier and Max Weidemann.

Las Vegas – September 22, 2026 -- IGT will install Jamie Knight as Chief Studios Officer on Jan. 1, 2027, succeeding Jean Venneman, who retires Dec. 31, 2026, after more than three decades in the gaming industry.

Venneman rebuilt IGT's global studio operations into a 1,200-employee organization

Venneman began her career at IGT in the early 1990s, held senior roles across product development, licensing, technology and operations, and rejoined the company in 2024 to rebuild its global studio function from the ground up. Under her leadership, IGT assembled a studio team exceeding 1,200 employees and standardized best practices across studio cultures, work the company says now positions IGT and Everi for accelerated growth.

McLean, Va. – September 21, 2026 -- Attain Partners has been named to Consulting Magazine's 2026 Best Firms to Work For list, marking the second consecutive year the McLean, Va.-based management and technology consulting firm has earned the national honor.

Attain Partners ranks among 10 firms in the Best Midsized Firms category

The firm is one of ten organizations recognized in the 2026 Best Midsized Firms to Work For category. The annual program evaluates consulting firms across six areas: culture, career development, work/life balance, client engagement, compensation and benefits, and firm leadership, based on confidential surveys of each firm's consultants.

New Orleans – – September 17, 2026 -- First Horizon Bank has appointed Jennifer Feske as Senior Commercial Portfolio Manager for its New Orleans market, tasking her with managing the bank's Northshore commercial portfolios.

Feske brings 15 years of banking experience to St. Tammany Parish accounts

Feske's background spans commercial banking and portfolio management, and she will now oversee client relationships across the Northshore region of the New Orleans market.

Jimmy Dunn cites market expertise as key to regional growth

Jimmy Dunn, New Orleans Market President for First Horizon Bank, said Feske's banking experience and market knowledge would benefit clients as the bank expands relationships throughout St. Tammany Parish.

Pittsburgh – September 16, 2026 -- Lawyers score just 30% on resilience compared with 50% for the general public, a gap that has held steady since 1994, according to 30 years of data from Talogy's Caliper Profile assessment cited in a new American Bar Association book.

New ABA book credits 4.5 million Caliper assessments for resilience findings

Thin-Skinned: Why Lawyers Are So Low in Resilience and the New Science That Can Help, authored by legal psychology experts Dr. Larry Richard and Dr. D'Arcy Lyness, draws on a database of 4.5 million Caliper Profile assessments compiled by talent management firm Talogy. The book finds that nine out of 10 lawyers score in the bottom half of the resilience scale.