Teneka Truesdale ~ Motivator | Speaker | Career Consultant | Small Business Advisor |

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Teneka Truesdale

Founder & CEO | Workforce Strategist | Entrepreneur | Community Advocate | Speaker

Teneka Truesdale is the Founder and CEO of RelyAble Source Workforce Solutions, a staffing, recruiting, and workforce consulting firm helping businesses strengthen their talent acquisition strategies, workforce systems, and people operations. With more than 20 years of experience, Teneka has contributed to recruiting and talent acquisition efforts for organizations including PwC, Amazon, Cengage, Draper Laboratory, Compass Group, and Takeda Pharmaceuticals, with experience spanning numerous industries and levels of employment.

Her commitment to creating opportunity is rooted in her own journey. After experiencing profound loss early in life, Teneka later became a young single mother raising two children. Temporary employment gave her the flexibility to care for her family while continuing to work and build her career. That experience ultimately shaped her belief that circumstances may alter someone's path, but they should never determine their potential.

Today, her work extends well beyond traditional recruiting. Teneka is developing workforce technology, software, and app concepts designed to address real world challenges in hiring, candidate reliability, workforce intelligence, and employment. She is also a speaker and motivator who uses both her professional expertise and personal journey to encourage others to recognize possibilities beyond their present circumstances.

Community service is equally central to her leadership. Through RelyAble Source, Teneka created the ACTS Initiative, Aspiring Contributors That Serve, recognizing individuals whose service is making a meaningful difference throughout the Triad. Her community involvement also includes REACH, the Help & Hope initiative, complimentary résumé and interview assistance, workforce education, recruiting training opportunities, and outreach supporting individuals and families experiencing hardship.

At the foundation of Teneka's life, leadership, and service is her faith in Jesus Christ. She considers every measure of success in her life a byproduct of what faith and the Word of God can produce when put into action. Her journey through loss, motherhood, adversity, entrepreneurship, and service has strengthened her conviction that her accomplishments are not hers alone, but evidence of God's grace, direction, and purpose in her life.

Teneka carries that commitment into her service at Mount Olive Church of Christ, including her involvement with the Marriage Ministry and other areas of church and community engagement. For her, faith is not separate from leadership or service. It is the foundation from which she strives to lead, give, encourage, and create opportunities for others.

Whether she is advising a business, developing a workforce solution, creating technology, serving through her church, supporting a community initiative, speaking to an audience, or helping someone prepare for their next opportunity, Teneka's work is connected by one consistent purpose: to use what she has learned, built, and overcome to serve others, create opportunities, strengthen communities, and demonstrate what faith, perseverance, and purpose can produce.

One of the best pieces of career advice I ever received was simple: if I don't believe in myself, believe in what I provide, and believe that my work can make a difference, I cannot expect anyone else to believe in it.

For many years, that was difficult for me. My past had conditioned me to think in terms of limitations. I struggled to believe that I could make a meaningful difference or experience success without placing a ceiling on how far I could go.

What changed was not simply my ambition, but my thinking and my prayers. I began to truly embrace my faith and understand that God means me well, that the gifts He has given me are meant to be used, and that abundance is not simply about what I can receive. It is also about having more to pour into others, to serve, to create, and to be fruitful.

Once I understood that, I stopped praying only for enough to make it through and began praying for the capacity, wisdom, resources, and opportunities to do more with what God had placed in me.

That shift changed how I saw myself, my career, and success. I no longer view my past as evidence of what I cannot become. I see it as part of the testimony behind why I am so committed to helping other people recognize what is possible for them.

Today, success means being fruitful with what God has entrusted to me and allowing that fruit to create opportunities, resources, encouragement, and impact in the lives of others.

I would polish this while preserving your message about assurance, faith, and being willing to receive help:

My industry is unique because every industry needs what we provide. Every organization needs people, and behind those people are real lives, circumstances, goals, and challenges. So while staffing and recruiting is my profession, helping people is what I truly do.

The advice I would give to a young woman entering this industry, or really any industry, is to know who you are and move with assurance. Be willing to learn, allow people to help you, accept wise counsel, and remain open to opportunities you may not have considered. But do not allow the opinions or expectations of others to divert you from something you genuinely believe God has placed in you.

If you believe in what you are asking for, stand on it. You do not have to know exactly how everything will happen before you begin. I have learned that when you are faithful with what has been placed in your hands, God can add to it and take you in directions you never imagined.

Some of the greatest opportunities in my life did not look like the path I originally envisioned. That is why I would tell another woman: have a vision, but leave room for God to expand it. Accept help without surrendering your conviction. Remain teachable without losing your voice. And never assume that where you started determines where you are capable of going.

One of my biggest challenges right now is expanding and automating our services while making sure we do not lose the human connection that has always been at the heart of our work. The staffing, recruiting, and HR industries are changing rapidly as AI and automation become more integrated into how companies attract, evaluate, hire, and manage talent.

For RelyAble Source, I see that change as an opportunity. We want to ensure that small and growing businesses have access to technology and workforce solutions that help them compete, operate more efficiently, and scale without losing sight of their people. At the same time, I want job seekers to benefit from these advancements rather than feel left behind by them.

My focus now is on finding ways to combine technology, automation, and more efficient workforce systems with the personal support and advocacy that have always defined our company. Ultimately, the goal is bigger than growing RelyAble Source. I want what we build to help other businesses grow and scale, create more opportunities for job seekers, and prepare both employers and individuals for where the workforce is going next.

The values that are most important to me, both professionally and personally, are integrity, compassion, wisdom, and discernment. At the foundation of those values are my faith and biblical beliefs. I believe in doing what is right according to the principles of the Word of God, even when doing what is right is not necessarily what is easiest, most popular, or most profitable.

Compassion is equally important because we never fully know what another person is carrying. I want the way I lead, serve, make decisions, and conduct business to demonstrate both accountability and humanity.

Over time, I have also learned the importance of wisdom and discernment. Perseverance does not mean pursuing every opportunity at any cost. There is wisdom in knowing when to keep pushing, when to change direction, and when God may be telling you it is time to walk away.

For me, an opportunity must align with my biblical beliefs and values. I do not believe that every open door is necessarily a door I am supposed to walk through. Not every opportunity, connection, financial gain, or level of exposure is worth what it may cost us spiritually or morally.

I want to be successful, but not at the expense of my faith, integrity, or character. True success, for me, is being able to grow, achieve, serve, and make an impact while remaining aligned with God's Word and faithful to who He has called me to be.