About

Vadim Liberman is a workplace renegade advancing how we think, work, and live. He disrupts the status quo in the best ways possible, stirring a pot of employee engagement, leadership, development, performance management, and a range of other HR matters.

Vadim is also editor and conference programmer at ERE Media, which delivers daily need-to-know information, webinars, and a job board to talent acquisition professionals. (Kooky opinions expressed on this site are not necessarily those of his employer.)

Prior to his role at ERE, he was strategy and insights lead at The Starr Conspiracy, a marketing agency that embraces humanity in business to build emotional resonance with enterprise software and services brands.

Before that, Vadim worked at Prudential Financial, a Fortune 50 company where he managed talent engagement and focused on HR communications. He battled bureaucracy often and even won, developing and leading impactful (and measurable!) initiatives to help employees, leaders, and business units achieve greater success.

For 14 years prior, Vadim worked at The Conference Board Review, an award-winning print and online magazine of ideas and opinion for business leaders. As senior editor, he produced a variety of content that garnered praise — yet he is equally proud of a reader’s scathing letter comparing him to a Nazi general. Today, he continues to draw on the expertise of the many global senior executives whom he’d interviewed to address current workplace issues.

Vadim also co-organizes and speaks regularly at DisruptHR New York events, where he delivers talks to energize HR and other business executives. Additionally, he has been published in an array of print and online outlets, including TLNT.com, TheMuse.com, Time Out New York, The Village Voice, and Out.

Vadim holds a Bachelor of Science in Marketing Communications from the Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, where he also earned an Associate in Applied Science in Fashion Design. (You might question this if you saw his closet!) In addition, he has a Certificate in Journalism from New York University.

A Russian immigrant, Vadim remains conversant in his original language and proficient in eating his homeland staple of potatoes (do Wise BBQ chips count?). He also enjoys spending time in and out of his overpriced and undersized apartment in New York City, where he’s always eager to get into some fun trouble.

For more information, view Vadim’s speaking and writing pages. You may also contact him here.