Barbara Ovesen, Msw, Lsw Email & Phone Number

Geneva, IL, US

Geneva, Illinois, US

Provide outpatient individual and family therapy to clients of all ages within this community mental health clinic that provides affordable and accessible quality mental health services, and fully supports, encourages, and respects all community members.

Provided outpatient individual and family psychotherapy to children, teens, and adults.

Geneva, Illinois, US

Provided outpatient individual and family therapy to children, teens, and adults in the Fox Valley area.

Geneva, IL, US

Provided compassionate support and counseling to grieving individual clients in the Fox Valley area. Co-facilitated grief support groups and assisted in preparing support group curriculum. Prepared and conducted training on the grief process to other not-for-profit organizations.

Various independent contract and other HR positions while preparing to attend graduate school in social work/clinical therapy at Aurora University.

Dresher, PA, US

Perform compensation services for clients to help them achieve or maintain market competitiveness and/or facilitate or improve their compensation administration. Services include bench-marking jobs; creation, analysis, and production of custom compensation and benefits surveys; creation of salary administration tools (for purposes of determining.

• (Position Eliminated Due to Downsizing)Partnered with corporate and facility human resource managers to maximize employee engagement and performance through the strategic use of incentives and rewards.
• Launched compensation management component of MyTalent, Sara Lee’s first ever fully-integrated HR management tool, allowing business leaders to plan performance goals, merit increases, bonus awards, stock grants.
• Interacted with 75+ Business Managers and HR Partners to align individual bonus factor allocations with employee accountabilities.
• Assigned appropriate bonus plan for every eligible employee from over 100 plans, tracked employee status (new hires, transfers, promotions, and terminations) and managed impact on bonus, tracked financial results.
• Collaborated with MyTalent vendor to design specifications, test, and launch new bonus summary reports for senior management, reducing the report preparation time from several hours to several minutes.
• Partnered with Supply Chain leaders to implement new annual increase budget process for plant hourly employees, bringing under-market facilities to competitive compensation levels within three years, and greatly.

Provided benefits and compensation consulting services to clients.

Downers Grove, IL, US

• (Position Eliminated Due to Economy)Consulted with members on employee relations, compensation and benefits, and legal and compliance issues.
• Trained member organizations on current HR topics by writing newsletter articles, developing training courses, and consulting daily with 300+ members via the association’s dedicated “HR Hotline”.
• Met with members and potential members regularly to maintain and build membership base, and to ensure that service quality expectations were met or exceeded.
• Consulted with member organizations on compensation, compliance, and other HR projects.

Deerfield, Illinois, US

• Ensured global compensation programs aligned with overall company business strategy and fostered attraction and retention of top-quality employees.
• Functional Lead for the Annual Compensation Review process, a proprietary web-based tool used globally for merit increases, bonus plans, and stock grants for Baxter’s 40,000+ employees. Lead a global team of pre-launch.
• Prepared compensation spending-to-budget analyses and presentations for senior management.
• As business liaison to manufacturing division, provided compensation expertise and worked on compensation projects, including the implementation of aligned hourly step structures across six manufacturing facilities.

• Analyzed and administered global compensation programs, consistent with company business strategies, and compliant with local regulations.
• Oversaw and administered global merit increase process for 10,000+ employees worldwide.
• Led job consolidation project for the company’s six largest US manufacturing plants, decreasing the number of hourly job titles from over 100 to less than 60. Developed a unified hourly step structure for the six plants.
• Trained managers in compensation philosophy and administration policies at quarterly manager training workshops.
• Wrote communication materials on compensation programs and eligibility, merit increase process and timeline, incentive plan accruals and payouts, etc.
• Performed job evaluations and prepared presentation of findings to senior management. Participated in major vendor salary surveys for all U.S. positions.

New York, NY, US

Met with clients - companies of all sizes and industry types - to determine compensation problem areas or areas of inquiry. Performed job evaluations, cost analyses to bring employees to competitive pay levels, and salary structure designs. Prepared presentations to share with clients and met with clients to determine action steps. Provided the high.

Master Of Social Work - Msw, Clinical/Medical Social Work

B.A., Psychology