As founder and president of Success Performance Solutions, Ira S Wolfe has led his workforce consulting firm to national prominence, helping organizations find and hire the right employees, align people with business operating objectives, and identify high-potential leaders.
Ira is a highly sought-after hiring expert, having been interviewed for dozens of publications, including The Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeekOnline, and business cable news shows discussing workforce trends, employee hiring and retention strategies. He is the author of three books, Perfect Labor Storm 2.0: Why Workforce Trends Will Change the Way You Do Business, Coming Job Book, and Understanding Business Values and Motivators as well as dozens of articles.
Ira has been the featured keynote at a wide variety of conferences, conventions, association meetings and Chamber of Commerce audiences, reaching thousands of business leaders and human resource professionals every year. His clients include small and mid-sized businesses, private equity and public companies, major trade associations and consulting firms, non-profits and universities.

There are plenty of good people looking for work. What turns these good workers into great employees? Motivation.

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The United States is in the middle of a talent crisis. For those skeptics who feel all the commotion about worker shortages is mostly hype, essentially given the deluge of layoffs resulting from the r...

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Managers make assumptions every day when they hire employees. They observe a candidate during the interview or on the job and make assumptions about his potential based on how he looks and what he cla...

According to a recent Pew Research Center study, 74 percent of 18 to 29 year-olds did not know that Condolezza Rice was the U.S. Secretary of State. Six times more of these young adults were more like...