LEADERSHIP

Tanya Freedman is an industry expert with more than 25+ years of full-cycle recruitment experience. For the last 13+ years, she and her team have successfully placed thousands of experienced RNs at acute care hospitals, surgery centers, long term care/skilled nursing, rehab facilities and correctional organizations throughout America. Tanya says “as a result of the looming nurse shortage, many facilities nowadays are exploring internationally educated RNs as an `additional tool in their toolbox`, to supplement their current recruitment and retention of nurses. This solution can be of enormous benefit to healthcare leaders challenged with balancing return on investment, patient safety, and retention issues“.

Tanya has long been considered a `career matchmaker`, and she and her dedicated team of specialists work together with healthcare organizations and RNs to ensure a holistic “one size fits one” match and a solid long term partnership. Tanya was an immigrant herself many years ago and is passionate about building a heart-centered recruitment framework to help the facilities set the nurses up for success.

“On a personal level, moving to America was a rollercoaster – one of the happiest but also the scariest and most stressful experiences of my life – and now I want to“pay it forward“ for others. At Connetics USA, we know and understand this business and that’s why we have built our own proprietary set of tools and methodologies to help the healthcare facilities and nurses make as smooth a transition as possible.”

Under Tanya`s leadership, Connetics USA has developed our own unique RELI (R=relocation, E=employment, L=licensing, I=immigration) technology solution, so we can assist our healthcare clients and nurses step by step to navigate successfully through the required process.

Tanya holds a Bachelors’s and Master’s degree in psychology from the University of Witwatersrand (South Africa). Connetics USA is certified by the CGFNS alliance for ethical recruitment practices and is a National Rural Hospital Association(NRHA) Partner. Tanya is a vendor member of NAHCR (National Association for Health Care Recruitment) and hosts regular Facebook live sessions on the Connetics USA nursing Facebook page on various pertinent questions, such as nurse immigration, the latest legislation updates, licensing and testing.

Stacey Katz is an industry leader in the healthcare world and primarily focuses on creating and fostering partnerships with healthcare providers and specialists. As a result of her extensive experience and connections, Stacey acts as a liaison between healthcare facilities and the different departments within Connetics USA to ensure every nurse working with Connetics USA is transitioning smoothly through the recruitment, training, immigration, and eventual onboarding and hiring process.

Stacey holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from U.C. San Diego in 1992 and earned her MBA in Finance from Louisiana State University – Shreveport in 2019. She is married with 3 children and lives in San Diego, California after immigrating from South Africa in 1986.

Lisa is another industry leader with Connetics, with nearly thirty years of experience in healthcare. This has included recruitment and staffing in various realms and has successfully recruited Nursing and Allied professionals worldwide, from the United States, Canada, Asia, and the Middle East.

For over 15 years she has dedicated herself to assisting thousands of International Nursing and Allied professionals in fulfilling their “American Dream” with Connetics USA. As the Vice President of Operations, she is developing and overseeing many of the operational areas of the company including the recruitment process, immigration, and licensure, compliance, onboarding, and retention. International recruitment is her passion and will continue to drive her success.

Meg Meyers brings more than two decades’ worth of experience in healthcare and more than fourteen of those specializing in international nurse recruitment when she joined the Connetics team over five years ago.

Meg’s hard work is one of the reasons Connetics has enjoyed so much success. Her experience includes international recruitment with both staffing and long-term placement as well as direct hire. As the immigration climate changes, recruitment strategies must also change. It has become one of Meg’s passions to have the opportunity to share with facilities and health care providers how international recruitment also advances their United States recruitment strategies. It has long been her motto that this program presents a “Win, Win for all involved”.

When hiring international nurses, the facility “wins” with a nurse to fill one of their shortage positions and the nurse “wins” in having the opportunity to live out their dreams of living and working in the USA!

Cheryl King is a native Californian with a long background in management and utilizes these skills well in her Connetics job as onboarding specialist! She takes care of our nurses after they arrive in the USA and does her very best to make their transition as smooth as possible. She will assist in anything the nurses need and works hand in hand with our clients to make sure their experiences are a positive one! She is a single mother of a 17 year old daughter and their 2 dogs and 2 snakes, happily residing in northern San Diego County. Cheryl has a soft spot in her heart for animals, especially dogs, and spent several years volunteering for a local shelter. She has had a variety of animals including dogs, cats, peafowl, and all manner of rodents and reptiles.

Luciana has over 14 years of marketing and communications experience. Her specialties include Marketing Management, strategy, journalism, SEO, graphic and web design, video, photography, and content production. She has a MBA in Marketing Management and two BA degrees in International Relations and Spanish Language and Literature. Luciana is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese. In her spare time, Luciana loves to dance, play violin, and soak up sun on the beach in sunny San Diego, CA.

Eric Goodman is responsible for implementing, improving and maintaining technology systems and processes for Connetics USA. With a unique ability to enable flexible Enterprise class results Eric has found a way to maintain industry best practices in security and scalability while keeping a strong focus on ease-of-use. Eric brings 25+ years experience implementing and designing systems across various industries as well as building technology teams including nearly 10 years in the recruitment and workforce space.

Holly Musselwhite began her nursing career over twenty years ago, working in acute and post-acute settings, including 8 years in international healthcare professional staffing. She joined Connetics in the fall of 2021 as their Clinical Educator, bringing with her experience as a Clinician, NCLEX & NPTE Educator, Nurse Preceptor, Nurse Leader, and Clinical Educator. Her love of learning extends to exploring the similarities and differences in healthcare cultures around the world. She is deeply committed to developing Clinical transition programs that leverage the strengths of the nurses, helping to bridge the divide between nursing practice overseas and US nursing practice, and seeing nurses fulfill lifelong dreams.

Holly holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Adventist University in Orlando, Florida and earned her MBA from Southern Adventist University in Tennessee in 2011. She enjoys traveling anywhere she can, and has been blessed to visit the Philippines, Guam, Jamaica, Belize, Great Britain, Mexico, and France – her personal favorite. The only downside of traveling is not being able to take her three doggos on long trips!