Megan Hayward is the Founder and CEO of TempGuru, an event staffing platform that places pre-vetted, W-2 compliant workers across 300+ markets in the US and Canada. She has spent 14+ years in staffing: she started in the industry in 2012, founded her own agency in 2014, and launched TempGuru in 2018. Her company has placed 100,000+ workers across 5,000+ events at a 99% fill rate, so she speaks from operations, not theory. Megan is a working authority on hospitality and event labor, worker classification, multi-state employment compliance, and what it actually costs to staff a live event well. She is direct, specific, and willing to say the thing other operators won’t. Reporters get usable quotes grounded in real numbers and real decisions, not buzzwords. A 2026 Jacksonville Business J...