Stephanr Rivard

CEO & CoFounder

Stephane is the CEO at HiringBranch. He’s on a global mission to improve employee performance using skills-based hiring assessments and training.

Inspired by big data and AI, Stephane leads a team of AI researchers and behavioralists. In partnership with valued customers, they have proven that hiring for skills reduces attrition and improves business outcomes.

Whatever a company’s objectives are - be it improving customer experience, retention, or revenue - it’s their people who are the vehicle to get there. It starts with hiring the right people.

Stephane sees first-hand the dramatic impact of AI-skills-based hiring:

- Contact centers reduce attrition by over 18 %
- Online retailers getting under 1% bad hires
- Outbound sales teams increasing revenue by 15%

As of December 2023, Stephane has led and grown the company without venture funding. With Stephane’s strategic direction, the AI platform has evolved to assess any combination of 30+ soft skills and service over 500,000 candidates for 500+ recruiters.