Shirley Vandever serves as CEO and Founder at Agility Talent Advisors, a premiere boutique search firm based in Dallas, TX.  Shirley brings more than 30 years of experience in talent attraction and leadership specializing in digital and emerging technologies. 

Shirley offers more than three decades of building deep and meaningful relationships with high-performance, strategic and transformative IT business leaders. With a strong business acumen, she is skilled in partnering with clients to understand business, cultural, and technical requirements cultivating relationships, and creating and executing effective sourcing strategies.

Shirley began her career in IT Professional Services where she spent 11+ years before joining a high growth, eCommerce start up in 1999 which kicked off her career in corporate talent acquisition. She successfully completed hundreds of engagements in product development, architecture, and technology in Commercial Markets with expertise in Executive, Client Services, and ITO/BPO for global managed services, high growth, middle-market and enterprise companies with a focus in Big Data, Cloud and Digital.

With deep experience in the IT space and working with retained agencies throughout her career who over promised and under delivered,  Shirley saw a need in the market for a niche firm with a team of agency and corporate recruiters that specialize in both technology and industry.

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A staffing partner that understands the intersection of business and technology and the challenges many employers face in retaining and identifying the right talent in a timely manner. A partner who cares and promotes diversity in the workplace.

A partner that can easily pivot based on clients’ staffing or budget needs offering an agile recruitment approach in an industry known to be rigid and inflexible. 

A true partner with proven success impacting deliverables and revenue by reducing the average time-to-fill in executive recruitment, and she

succeeded with the formation of Agility Talent Advisors.

Shirley attended Amberton University in the Bachelors, Human Relations and Business program, and the accelerated Masters program in Sociology at Dallas Baptist University. In addition, she holds a PHR Certification as well as multiple leadership, compliance, diversity, unconscious bias, and recruiting certifications. 

Shirley is not only passionate about identifying talent and exceeding clients’ expectations, but is also an avid champion in the pursuit of finding a cure for Alzheimer’s and Diabetes which touched her family deeply. She also  coaches and mentors veterans helping them transition to civilian jobs.  She is active in the community where you will find her volunteering and fundraising for worthy causes.