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Columbus, Oh, Us

Dallas, Texas, Us

Works collaboratively with the executive team to provide leadership and strategic perspective in driving the company's ongoing growth. Responsible for developing and executing the overall human capital strategy. While running the HR function, primarily focuses on all elements of organizational transformation (structure, culture, employment brand, talent, change management, and engagement).

Covington, Ky, Us

At TiER1, we partner with you to understand your unique challenges and meet you where you are. We help you define, build, and maintain a high performance culture—whatever that looks like for your company. We start by looking at your challenges with the simple goal of helping your people perform better. Then we work with you to design a solution that’s just right for you, leveraging our extensive experience in strategic change, corporate learning and organizational effectiveness.Our experience and creative solutions, based on sound research and methodologies, differentiate us in the marketplace. Our focus is on providing custom “Total Performance Solutions.” Total Performance Solutions is a holistic approach to communications and learning that delivers discrete knowledge to the right people at the right times through various mediums.As a company focused on improving performance, we bring a highly engaged and dedicated staff with extensive experience in creative design, adult learning, leading technologies, change management, and end user acceptance to focus on your problems. The focus of all our efforts is on the development of holistic communication and learning solutions to solve practical business problems.

Stoughton, Ma, Us

Recruited to this New Mountain Capital healthcare company (~$850M) as a keyexecutive to provide disciplined leadership and actionable insights to guideseveral crucial HR functions to optimize company culture, alignment, growth, andvaluation. Specifically positioned to architect company turnaround by buildinghuman capital capability – aligning structure, developing talent andsystems/processes to drive results, and continuous improvement. - Trusted advisor and partner to CEO / C-suite with significant Board-levelinterface - Successfully led HR diligence and integration efforts for three acquisitionsadding $210M in topline revenue, whereby increasing company valuationby > 45%. - Improved human capital capability across >18 nationwide distributioncenters to enable accelerated growth objectives. - Negotiated temporary labor cost reductions of $750K (30%) and reducedenterprise turnover by 20%, safety-related “days lost” by 67%, andrecordable events by 59%. - Direct involvement in the planning and implementation of businessdevelopment and expansion strategies to include strategic acquisitions –ensured synergy attainment by proactively managing the integration ofresources and workforces. - Designed and introduced talent assessment and leadership developmentprograms utilized at the Board of Directors level and throughout theorganization to unlock individual/team potential to a competitive advantage. - Strategic business partner to executive team by taking an active role inshaping the company’s long-range vision and strategy - and aligning thepeople and organization to create long-term shareholder value.

Dublin, Oh, Us

Recruited to this $120B, publicly traded, global healthcare company as a leadership partner to the CEO and Executive Team members to develop internal growth, expand/build people and process capabilities, create/drive a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence, and strengthen the business alignment to meet company growth objectives. - Created a long-term culture building plan, based on contemporary benchmarks, that resulted in a 20% increase in employee engagement scores over a six-year period – across a global base of employees of >37K. - Improved manager effectiveness by 12% by assessing leader capabilities, identifying needs, and executing development efforts at a macro level - aligned HR Business Partners and leaders at a micro level. - Developed and executed the roll-out plan - leveraging partnership with companywide HR business partners - for a global employee engagement and satisfaction survey. - Introduced standard approaches to change management and organizational design that enhanced workforce planning and enhanced the success rate of large-scale initiatives.

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Shared accountability for co-leading comprehensive human resource efforts for eight regional retail stores.

Masters, Industrial/Organizational Psychology

Management And Labor Relations, Human Resources