Deirdre Hudson

Deirdre brings over 20 years of professional talent acquisition leadership and corporate executive recruiting, HR compliance and training experience to HERS Advisors, having placed professionals in a wide range of areas, including legal, healthcare, accounting, insurance, real estate, compliance, IT, pharmaceutical and others. Throughout her career, Deirdre has built, managed and developed diverse teams operating synergistically in high-volume environments. In these roles, she has overseen budgets and negotiated national contracts in partnership with both national and international firms. She is a cost-effective professional focused on creative, inclusive and strategic talent acquisition and development.

Within two months after hire at her first international recruitment firm she was awarded the organization’s North American “Leader of Growth”. She was soon headhunted by a large national recruiting firm where she spent a 15-year tenure with a record of five promotions and 7 “Platinum/Chairman’s Club” awards including a “Lifetime Achievement” award for branch leadership and independent top production on a national scale managing a market frequently ranked first out of 165 offices. Growing to a national Director role within the start-up division she helped build, she moved on to executive recruitment within a multi-billion Fortune 200 corporation before satisfying client requests by opening her own firm.

A Los Angeles native, Deirdre studied international relations, sociology and history at Eleanor Roosevelt College of the University of California, San Diego. She spent a year focused on her degree at the University of Grenoble, France. In her free time, Deirdre is a devoted aunt and mom to rescue dogs, Sasha Fierce and Cody. She enjoys international travel, gourmet international cuisine and cookery, local cultural adventures with friends and family, hiking, water sports (swimming, kayaking, sailing) and tennis in addition to spending generous quality time giving back to her community.