About Us

The Talent Foundation is a Seattle-based, boutique talent-acquisition consultancy founded by Adam Kovacs. Prior to building The Talent Foundation, Adam held several roles across two continents in Amazon’s Talent Acquisition. As a founding member of the AWS Talent Intelligence Program, he established the global talent intelligence function for AWS Recruiting. He created site selection and expansion strategies globally and influenced thousands of hires in North and South America, and in the EMEA region.

With his passion for developing others, Adam has trained over 800 recruiters and helped create recruiting upskilling programs. Adam has become an industry leader in training recruiters and building data-driven solutions to solve talent acquisition problems. A topic that he regularly speaks about at recruitment conferences, such as ERE Talent42, HRTX, and SOSUHACKS (Sourcing Summit). Adam also co-founded and is the Executive Director of the relaunched Sourcing7 non-profit organization supporting the growth of the sourcing and recruiting community in the wider Puget Sound area.

Guiding values
and principles

At The Talent Foundation, we understand that the right people can make all the difference in your business. That's why we're committed to helping our clients find and attract the top talent they need to thrive. 

The way we operate and deliver impact is defined by our guiding values and principles. These are deeply rooted in:

  1. Design thinking principles that we heavily rely on when solving hiring challenges for our customers. We work backward from their needs and put them into the center of the solution. By deploying rapid iterations,  we can quickly and efficiently research, identify, prototype tests, and implement new workflows and solutions.

  2. Having a growth mindset, we believe in the power of incremental gains, this is why continuous improvements are at the heart of everything we do. We continuously seek out the“better way of doing it.”

  3. Radical transparency and honesty, our philosophy is that direct and honest communication is the way to build trust, and it’s the key to achieving success. We work closely with our clients to ensure that they are always informed and involved in every step of the process, and we hold them up against the same standards. We're passionate about helping our clients achieve their goals, and we're committed to being a trusted partner every step of the way.