CIO Bulletin

Josh Wand, CEO of ForceBrands: Innovating the Consumer Brand Landscape through Entrepreneurship and Community Building

Many organizations underestimate the strategic importance of their recruitment function until they encounter significant challenges within their workforce. However, when a company successfully identifies candidates who not only meet the required skills and qualifications but also align with its culture and values, it can have profound effects on the organization's trajectory.

Finding the right candidates goes beyond simply filling vacant positions; it sets the stage for a harmonious alignment of goals and objectives. When employees are well-suited to their roles and resonate with the company's mission and values, it fosters a sense of purpose and unity within the organization. This alignment, in turn, facilitates the establishment of new objectives and initiatives, enabling the company to evolve and adapt to changing market dynamics effectively.

ForceBrands stands out as a leader in strategic hiring for consumer brands, offering executive recruiting services and a specialized job board for professionals in the consumer brand industry. By focusing on building teams that build brands, the company has established itself as a go-to resource for businesses seeking top talent in the industry. With a fully remote workforce spanning across the United States, ForceBrands prioritizes genuine connections with both job seekers and employers, taking the time to understand their unique strengths, weaknesses, and future aspirations. Since its inception, ForceBrands has prioritized collaboration with clients as trusted partners in achieving transformative goals. Through its industry-specific divisions such as BevForce, FoodForce, BeautyForce, HerbForce, and PetForce, the company facilitates connections between employers and specialized talent across all levels.

In response to evolving market needs, ForceBrands has introduced innovative products and services to enhance the hiring process. In 2021, the company launched goHire, a revolutionary job board network designed to empower investment groups and membership organizations with a branded career platform for attracting, managing, and hiring talent in real-time. Looking ahead to 2022, ForceBrands will debut Impactful Search, a groundbreaking Executive Search experience aimed at accelerating purpose-led companies by engaging and integrating catalytic leaders. Through these initiatives, ForceBrands continues to redefine how talent and brands intersect, driving meaningful outcomes for both employers and job seekers in the consumer brand industry.

Strategic Recruitment Now Made Simple with Robust Products and Services

Impactful Search™: It fuels the acceleration of purpose-driven companies by integrating leadership through executive search. ‍For companies driven by business growth that amplifies social and cultural impact, their specialized executive search practice delivers catalytic leadership talent. When facing a critical inflection point of scale or sale, founders, ESG investors, private equity, boards of directors, and chief executives of purpose-driven companies engage us to build out their leadership bench. In addition to a corporate family tradition of responding to social, cultural, and environmental needs in the world and the communities where they work, they are literally paying it forward here at impactful. For every executive placement fee, a percentage goes to the client’s philanthropic organization of choice, or to one of the many charitable partners ForceBrands support.

Forcebrands Executive Search: The search for leadership and strategic talent is complex, confidential, and time-sensitive, so the company has created a uniquely collaborative process to ensure the ForceBrands team is consistently aligned and a step ahead of your hiring needs and timeline. No company’s hiring needs are the same. Your ForceBrands experience is crafted & curated for your business needs, growth vision, and company culture. ForceBrands Retained Executive Search provides the highest level of recruiting support for C-suite and executive placements.

ForceBrands' Board of Director & Advisory Recruitment Services: It connects hiring companies and investors directly to consumer brand executives. ForceBrands is the trusted source for industry board members and strategic advisors who can address the functional needs of your business. They set up a pre-launch consulting session with your CEO and current board to learn more about your business needs and assess growth objectives and opportunities. They also advise on the strategic additions of board members or advisors who will help you to achieve your objectives. The company taps into their established network and present bios of only the most qualified and engaged board members and advisors aligned with your goals. They go beyond placements and provide access to their proprietary network and strategic partners.

The Ardent Visionary

Josh Wand is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of ForceBrands. He is an entrepreneur who creates businesses that power the growth of consumer brands by connecting people, technology, and community. His entrepreneurial journey began in 2007 when he founded ForceBrands, the leader in strategic hiring for consumer brands that offers a full spectrum of services for recruitment as well as a job board for consumer brand professionals.

Through building consumer businesses, Josh recognized the lack of consistency and data around field activations and agency relations. This led him to launch PINATA in 2016, a task management software platform that optimizes operational field management and data transparency. In 2021, Josh, alongside fellow entrepreneurs, co-founded a specialized venture capital firm, The Family Fund and Founder Community (FFFC) that invests alongside top-tier firms and repeat entrepreneurs.