Tom Darrow

With more than 35 years of professional human resources and talent acquisition experience, Tom helps his clients find strategic and impactful HR leaders. Talent Connections has conducted approximately 2000 HR searches across the US since they company’s founding in 1999 and those placed have impressive retention rates. He has built two successful companies himself–the other being an outplacement services and executive coaching firm, Career Spa. His previous work with global professional services firms Price Waterhouse (now PwC) and Accenture shaped Tom with substantial depth and business acumen. His infinite knowledge in human capital, hiring processes, and career management best practices is nationally acclaimed, and he’s often sourced by the media.

With a huge heart for service and a need to give back to the human resources profession he has served nationally as Board Chair for the SHRM Foundation and Inaugural Board President for the Association of Talent Acquisition Professionals (ATAP). In the Atlanta area, he served two years at President of SHRM-Atlanta and is the most recent recipient of the SHRM-Atlanta Lifetime Achievement Award. He is deeply invested in the community as well, serving on the boards of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta, The Partnership Against Domestic Violence (PADV), the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) and he founded the Atlanta HR Prayer Breakfast ministry. Tom holds an BBA in Accounting from the University of Notre Dame.

When he isn’t solving people and business challenges, he enjoys travel, concerts, golf, spectator sports, and spending time with family and friends. He is a shareholder and season ticket holder of the NFL’s Green Bay Packers. Anyone who knows him knows that Tom also loves to make people laugh with his gift of humor. He made his stand-up comedy debut at The Punch Line, the premiere comedy club in the Southeast.