OUR TEAM
Nik Pollock - Employability Partners (US Affiliate)
Nik Pollock
Senior Employment Specialist
Nik Pollock is a Senior Employment Specialist with extensive experience applying DTG-EMP methodologies to support competitive, integrated employment outcomes for individuals with disabilities and others who experience significant barriers to employment. His work is grounded in evidence-based job development, employer engagement, and systems that consistently produce meaningful employment results.
Nik began his career after completing EOPII training with Allen Anderson and has served as a Job Developer and Employment Specialist with Pacific Opportunities in Oregon, The Diversity Initiative, and MacDonald Training Center in Florida. He has supported both individuals and employment teams, helping strengthen implementation fidelity and improve outcomes across programs.
Over the course of his career, Nik has assisted hundreds of individuals in securing meaningful, competitive, integrated employment by focusing on access, employer partnerships, and practical solutions to employment barriers.
Nik currently resides in Florida, where he continues to advance integrated employment practices and expand access to meaningful work—one job at a time.
Allen Anderson - DTG-EMP (International)
The President of DTG-EMP, has been engaged in the job development field since 1980. Allen is an internationally recognized thought leader and speaker on issues related to employment outcomes for people with employment barriers.
His focus includes:
Job Development Marketing Skills and Techniques
Job Development Model Development (Conceptual/Strategic/Operational)
Job Development Direct Service Delivery
Job Development Creative Problem Solving
Facilitation & Presentation Skills
Employment Programming and Organizational Development.
Allen has a Master’s degree in Sociology with a specialization in criminology. He entered the job development field in 1980 to pay for his Master’s education and never left. Since then, he has worked as a Job Developer, Director of Job Placement, Director of Training and Development as well as Vice President and President of training companies. He has consulted since 1990.
Allen has developed 15 training programs for job development professionals, published numerous articles and spoken extensively about the requirements for successful employment outcomes. His ideas have guided the design of government employment programs in the US as well as Canada. Two of the programs on which he consulted and assisted in the design are responsible for placing over 100,000 people a year.
He designed and wrote the Employment Outcomes Professional series of workshops, EOP, EOPII, EOMP, EOMPII, RHD, RHDII, EOF, EOPR, EOP Coaching, and Advanced Marketing Skills for Job Developers. His work is benefiting US State Agencies for people with disabilities, TANF, ex-offenders, disadvantaged youth and seniors. In Canada, his programs are used with new immigrants, people with disabilities, disadvantaged youth, apprenticeship programs, workers compensation programs, education programs and not-for-profit organizations serving a wide range of people with employment barriers.
Allen’s unique philosophy that “nobody needs to be left behind to unemployment” drives all of his program development and consulting advice. He takes a systems approach to link all of the elements impacting successful employment outcomes.
Allen Anderson’s awards include the American Society for Training and Development’s Disabilities Awareness Network Quality Service Award in 1993; and in 2006, the Ontario March of Dimes Vocational Rehabilitation Award.
Angela Hoyt - Evolution Group Inc. (Canadian Affiliate)
The principal of Evolution Group, is an experienced facilitator, consultant, trainer and award winning executive coach. Her clients appreciate the personalized, friendly approach she brings to every training and consulting opportunity.
Currently working towards her Masters in Interdisciplinary Studies, Angela has over 20 years of experience helping organizations to grow and to thrive.
