Travis Janko
25+ years leading sales teams and hiring, developing, and coaching high-performing talent across high-growth companies. After that the last 10 years CEO of GSD Coach & Recruiting.
UpskAill is a professional training provider offering live, instructor-led cohort programs for working professionals. As AI changes how established work gets done, our courses focus on the durable skills professionals need to adapt and perform well in that changed environment.
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25+ years leading sales teams and hiring, developing, and coaching high-performing talent across high-growth companies. After that the last 10 years CEO of GSD Coach & Recruiting.
Travis Janko is CEO and Co-Founder of GSD Coach & Recruiting. He spent more than 25 years in sales and sales leadership before building GSD Coach & Recruiting over 10 years ago, where he works primarily with founder-led SaaS companies on hiring, sales leadership, and building high-performing teams.
Travis has personally hired more than 500 people and brings an operator’s perspective to recruiting and talent assessment. He also leads practical workshops for founders, executives, sales leaders, and hiring managers focused on building better hiring processes, interviewing effectively, and making stronger hiring decisions.

For 13+ years, I've guided CEOs, founders, and executive teams through growth, transformation, M&A, and AI-driven change.
Hana is a strategic HR and organizational development leader with 13+ years of experience partnering with CEOs, executives, and people leaders across technology, aerospace, and global organizations.
Through LEADERIS Consulting, she helps organizations and leaders strengthen leadership capabilities, manager effectiveness, communication, feedback, psychological safety, and team dynamics.
Her work combines hands-on HR and organizational development experience with behavioral science, executive coaching, and practical learning experiences. Her focus is on helping leaders turn knowledge into practice, build stronger leadership habits, and navigate the people challenges that come with growth and change.

25+ years’ experience helping organizations improve digital capability, marketing performance and practical AI adoption.
Irma Karsten is a digital marketing and AI adoption strategist, corporate trainer and curriculum designer with more than 25 years’ experience.
She helps organizations improve digital capability, marketing effectiveness and practical AI use across teams. Her work includes AI productivity training, workflow design, digital and content strategy, LinkedIn social selling, SEO/AEO/GEO, analytics and curriculum development.
She works with corporate clients, agencies and training organizations internationally, with a strong focus on practical application, responsible AI use and measurable business value.