Beth Hanson Email & Phone Number

Downers Grove, Il, Us

The People Collective ("TPC") is an exclusive community of executive-level People Leaders. As a Founding Member I am excited to engage and network with this group of leaders and participate in the curated programming.

Lisle, Illinois, Us

Lisle, Illinois, Us

Lead the HR Business Partner, Talent Management, and Employee Relations teams.

Oak Brook, Illinois, Us

Highland Performance Solutions is a boutique, woman-owned organizational consulting firm. HPS brings creative solutions and fresh perspectives to today’s evolving workforce challenges. Provided contract consulting for start up and mature clients in the cryptocurrency, manufacturing, and M&A advisory sectors. Built an HR infrastructure for a start up client from the ground up, which included but was not limited to implementing and managing: ATS, background vendor, drug screening, personnel file mgt., pre-boarding, onboarding, salary and bonus structure, and performance management. Built a TA strategy and led a recruiting team that filled roles ultimately helping the client grow over 100% within 5 months.

Coral Gables, Florida, Us

Oversee Talent Acquisition, Talent Development, and Culture and Engagement teams.

Bolingbrook, Il, Us

Provide HR support and guidance to the Chief Marketing Officer, marketing leadership team, and broader marketing department.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Report to VP, HR. Provide HR consulting to VPs, Directors and their respective groups within global shared operations, strategy and innovation (Portugal based), and accounting.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Reported to the VP of Talent Development and Talent Acquisition. Over tenure managed HR senior analyst and HR systems analyst. Supported 12,000 colleagues both domestic within the USA and globally within Brazil, the Caribbean, Portugal, Europe, and Asia. Collaborated with talent acquisition, field HR business partners and institution leaders to create talent processes and strategies to enable a high performing organization. Areas of oversight included the annual talent review and succession planning process, enterprise-wide performance management strategy, leader and colleague onboarding, assessment strategies for hiring and development including pre-employment approach to psychometric assessments, 360s and niche assessments. Led overall career development and learning and development strategy and curriculum and managed back-end LMS, change initiatives, and OD interventions. Engaged in disaster relief rescue for colleagues, students, and family located in the Caribbean during Hurricanes Maria and Irma. Part of the steering committee, virtual chapter, and reporting and analytics committee for Adtalem’s first women’s affinity resource group.

Chicago, Il, Us

Report in through the corporate Strategic Talent Solutions department.Consult with leadership at multiple levels within the organization. Conduct performance analyses across broad populations and locations. Develop and implement large-scale behavioral and cultural change interventions and other OBM initiatives (i.e. enterprise-wide dynamic engagement process, enterprise-wide cultural transformation, succession and talent action planning, etc.) Provide performance improvement solutions including performance measurement and feedback systems, change management, performance systems analysis, strategic planning, teaming, and process improvement. Utilize analytics to help drive engagement and the OE practice. Establish and monitor a budget within the OE function; achieve financial objectives and plan/measure ROI on OE services.

Schaumburg, Il, Us

Promoted to Manager of Organization Development. Report to the Vice President of Talent Management. Lead a team of direct reports. Support over 11,000 employees in all 50 states. Provide a broad range of consultative services to all levels of employees. Assist in establishing overall strategic direction of department and in selecting appropriate tools and services to support the talent development needs of the organization inclusive of change management, business planning, productivity, process improvement and skill development. Initiate and lead medium to large sized companywide and Education Group specific projects and programs. Project manage talent management projects across the areas of performance, culture, competencies, leadership development, careers and succession planning.

Schaumburg, Il, Us

Promoted to Talent Management Consultant. Led a performance culture by providing consulting services, thought leadership, and organizational effectiveness tools to functional areas, to aid them with change management, business planning, productivity, process improvement and skill development. Identified talent gaps and developed and implemented relevant talent solutions. Identified and developed tools and resources to support and enable managers and the business to effectively manage, develop and retain talent. Utilized appropriate assessment methods and tools to measure knowledge, experience and competencies. Developed field capability in development planning conversations to facilitate development discussions and support the overall talent management process. Applied talent data to identify key development areas, and oversee strategies to accelerate development of key talent and successor candidates.

Schaumburg, Il, Us

Conducted performance needs analysis; job, skill and task analyses. Applied instructional design methodologies to develop clear and measurable learning objectives, appropriate learning strategies, creative instructional techniques and course evaluation outcomes. Developed instructor led and on-line courseware according to industry standards. Managed all aspects of multiple projects simultaneously, including scope, budgets, communication, and schedule and, where appropriate, vendor(s) / consultant(s). Leveraged Subject Matter Expertise (SME) to gather, understand and organize content, as well as understand and incorporate their feedback into the learning solution. Interfaced with the business and HR leaders to uncover organizational improvement needs, explored potential solutions, and implemented organizational, learning and development strategies that meet development objectives of the business.

Colorado Springs, Co, Us

Designed, delivered and evaluated training programs and workshops for employees and leaders across the university. Collaborated with and provided thought leadership to dispersed training functions on best practice in instructional design, facilitation, new employee orientation and new leader assimilation. Partnered with HR and organizational leadership in order to support employees through coaching and professional development programs. Initiated and led small to medium sized projects and programs for the department. Managed vendor projects assuring the delivery of quality products from external sources.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Us

Extensive background designing, developing, facilitating and evaluating both job skills and professional skills training programs using SharePoint, WebEx, PeopleSoft, PowerPoint, Articulate, beta systems, and on-the-job methods designed to drive improved business goal attainment. Consistently achieved a 4.8 or higher on a 1-5 evaluation scale. Facilitated retention meetings with supervisors to determine employee job fit. Utilized SPSS for extracting survey data and performed data analysis to create narrative reporting and action planning identifying trends and opportunity for improvement that were implemented.

M.A., Industrial Organizational Psychology

B.A., Major: Psychology, Minor: Business Administration