About James Henderson,
MBA, PHR,
SHRM-CP

An Operators Approach to Talent Acquisition

I have spent more than 20 years building and leading talent acquisition functions across professional services, enterprise technology, consulting, PE and high-growth healthcare services.

I founded Bearing Talent to give growing and mid-market organizations access to experienced TA leadership without requiring them to immediately add a permanent full-time executive.

Experience Built Inside the Function

Before founding Bearing Talent, I served as Head of Talent Acquisition for a large, multi-brand healthcare services organization, where I replaced a heavily outsourced recruiting model and built the internal function from zero.

I held talent acquisition leadership roles with Accenture, KPMG, Grant Thornton, Thomson Reuters, and Accordian. Those experiences gave me perspective across fast-growth businesses, global organizations, professional services, enterprise technology, and private-equity-backed environments.

I have led recruiting teams, managed high-volume hiring, selected and implemented technology, developed reporting, reduced external dependence, created referral programs, partnered with executive leadership, and built operating models designed to last.

I Build What You Keep

Many companies need senior talent acquisition leadership before they need that executive full time. Others already have recruiters and systems but need experienced ownership to repair, scale, or transform the function.

Bearing Talent is built around a straightforward idea: the work should leave the organization stronger. The goal is not to create long-term dependence on me. It is to build better people, processes, technology, data, ownership, and institutional knowledge that remain with the company.