Amy Rawls, Phd (Phr, Shrm-Cp) Email & Phone Number

In my role at Pocket Prep, I have the opportunity to work with a great team pursuing the incredible mission of *empowering people to reach their full academic and professional potential through personalized, accessible test preparation and certification support* and build out an organization ready to scale and maximize the opportunities ahead. For the most part, you'll find me doing these sorts of things in my role:- Act as business partner & advisor to company leaders- Provide vision and LMA for the People Ops function- Co-create the strategy for high-impact organizational design and increasing effectiveness- Support and design our customized Strategic Planning processes - Facilitate internal learning & development and coaching programs

I partner with inspiring organizations and provide fractional HR Leadership, Strategic Business Partnering, Executive Coaching, and Professional Communication services. My mission is to work with small, scaling, start-up or nonprofit teams to help them achieve the great things that allow them to realize their own mission. I serve as a fractional CPO, VP of HR, or Chief of Staff for businesses too small to hire an HR executive and also too successful NOT to have executive HR guidance.Select Partnerships: - Cofactor Genomics (Fractional CPO) - CREO (Interim Fractional Organizational Effectiveness Lead) - Performentor (Executive People Ops Leadership) - Simple Change (Leadership and Culture Development) - BIOMILQ (Fractional HR Lead)"Connecting with the people who are meant to be part of your own North Star is much more important than any aspect of business. It's the essence of happiness, the full realization of your potential for joy." (Martha Beck)

Provided fractional executive HR leadership to small businesses balancing the need to grow and scale with creating a workplace where everyone will thrive.

Served as a senior leadership and culture development consultant, providing training, workshop facilitation, and leader coaching to transform workplaces.

Executive HR leader who enabled the success of the business and the people of the business. My passion and greatest strengths were best applied to building systems that helped the HR Team function as expert consultants and business partners in a specific area of HR. In my role, and alongside my team, I also owned employee relations, employer brand, performance management culture, and finding the right people for our teams. My favorite quote about how important HR is to a successful business is "Culture eats strategy for breakfast" (P Drucker), and I'm proud to work for an organization built first and foremost on people and culture.In my role as VP of HR, I am responsible for delivering the following for a rapidly scaling team of ~300 employees:- Leadership and Management Accountability for a 6-person HR Team- Robust systems for recruiting, onboarding, L&D, performance feedback, benefits, and compensation- Employer brand & culture dissemination- HR partnering & management coaching- Employee relations and policies- Technology-enabled HR innovation and program deliveryResearch Square is the parent company of American Journal Experts, and together we are making research publication faster, fairer, and more useful.

“Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders.” (Tom Peters)In my role as HR Director at Research Square, I oversaw the following:- HR partner & manager coach for our Operations and Engineering Teams- Management of L&D programs- Recruitment oversight- Employee relations- Employer brand & culture dissemination via recruiting, onboarding & L&D management

Durham, Nc

Responsible for recruiting and retaining great talent at Research Square and for offering career development and coaching to our employees. Research Square helps researchers succeed. As my first role in an HR function, the drive to connect with the right people for our business inspired me in ways I hadn't realized possible. As Jim Collins said, “Great vision without great people is irrelevant.”

Provided leadership to a team of managing editors, including training, mentoring, and managing them in all aspects of the position. As a member of the Editing and Translation Management Team, I lead special projects related to employee experience, feedback, and team communications.

Responsible for performing the approval step of our English language editing service. Our clients are international researchers from around the world aspiring to publish in top-tier English-language journals, and we work to remove the barriers that would otherwise exclude them from participating in the conversation.

Developed and studied an RNAi mouse model of a rare bone marrow failure disease.

Phd, Molecular Genetics

Studied pattern formation in the Drosophila eye to further our understanding of the role of conserved signaling pathways in development.

Bs, Biology With Honors

Activities and Societies: Honors Program | Club Soccer

Education record

Activities and Societies: National Honor Society | Soccer (captain) | Volleyball | Basketball