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America Back to Work: Brent Tilson, TilsonHR
The Ps and Qs of PEOs
In this week’s episode of America Back to Work, host Arnette Heintze sits down with Brent Tilson, the founder and CEO of TilsonHR. Brent discusses his journey from a CPA to trailblazing the PEO industry with the creation of Tilson HR. The conversation delves deep into the world of Professional Employer Organizations (PEOs), their evolution, and the critical role they play in supporting small businesses.
Key Topics Discussed:
- Understanding PEOs: what a Professional Employer Organization (PEO) is and how it benefits small and medium-sized enterprises.
- Operational Structure of a PEO: how PEOs function within HR management, focusing on transactional, functional, and strategic HR.
- Co-Employment Model: legal and practical aspects of working with a PEO.
- Benefits and Competitive Advantages: how PEOs leverage their size for better benefits and the technology they bring to small businesses to help with recruitment and retention.
- Ideal Clients for PEOs: scenarios where a PEO might not be the best fit.
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S2Verify is one of the leading, privately held, pre-employment background screening companies in the United States.
Arnette Heintze is Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at S2Verify. Before establishing S2Verify, Arnette spent more than three decades working at the highest levels of federal, state, and local law enforcement.
He served more than 20 years in the United States Secret Service as a special agent and senior executive where he planned, designed, and implemented security strategies to protect U.S. Presidents, world leaders, events of national significance, and our nation’s most sensitive assets, including financial infrastructure.
After retiring from the Secret Service, Arnette focused on building growth and performance of innovative start-ups and SMBs. In 2004, he established Hillard Heintze, a globally recognized strategic security risk management and investigations firm. In 2009, along with Bill Whitford and Jim Zimbardi, Arnette established S2Verify with an approach and methodology that delivers fast, accurate, compliant, and affordable background screening insights crucial to better managing insider risks, threats, and vulnerabilities.