Bryan Lenzo, Dba, Mboe, Shrm-Scp Email & Phone Number

Columbus, Oh, Us

New Albany , Oh, Us

Charged with playing a transformational role in moving from the legacy of family ownership to a period of aggressive growth—for the #1 provider of senior care, skilled nursing, and affordable housing in the U.S.—requiring maturation of existing HR practices; significant standardization; and the scaling of services to support 1,100+ hourly and 150+ HQ staff in 200+ locations across the country. Optimally allocate an $11M+ budget.➤ Championing operational excellence transformation at the enterprise level, serving as the executive sponsor for creating a culture of continuous improvement, establishing pilot communities across the portfolio, grounding teams on best practices, and constructing an OpEx model.➤ Built a high-performance HR organization, expanding team from 4 to 25 experts, developing standardized policies and processes, and leveraging HR playbook to fuel operational excellence through Lean principles and methodologies.➤ Expanded accountability to include the PMO in early 2024, providing oversight of 6 team members and 100+ projects representing multimillion-dollar capital investments, and leading efforts to build a modern, world-class PMO.➤ Broadened enterprise impact with leadership of the Business Intelligence function; charged with creating a sound and scalable BI infrastructure, applying OpEx focus to establish KPI dashboards and provide unprecedented business insights.➤ Captured $1M+ in annual savings and 10% YOY benefits cost reduction—while improving offerings—performing comprehensive plan and vendor analysis, managing an RFP, and selecting partner to build highly competitive programs.➤ Reengineered the talent acquisition strategy to enable 100% growth in annual hiring, building the infrastructure to support 1,000+ hires, while optimizing quality of hire to mitigate attrition of hourly and salaried talent.

Columbus, Ohio, Us

Recruited to establish a solid HR infrastructure for the world’s largest manufacturer of exercise equipment, a 12-year-old business experiencing explosive growth and never having had the opportunity to address HR needs as its focus had been on delivering on-demand for production and catapulting revenue to $900M. Immediately triaged organizational needs and defined a go-forward strategic plan to provide policies, processes, and programs to the company’s 600+ hourly and salaried workforce consisting of 230 manufacturing, 115 warehouse, and 250 HQ personnel. Lead, coach, and develop a team of 10.➤ Leveraged Master of Business Operational Excellence degree to identify opportunities to impact efficiency and effectiveness at a granular level, and play a lead role in shaping the infrastructure to fuel operational excellence.➤ Assessed HR programs including compensation strategy and benefits design, championed migration to a total rewards strategy—target implementation date of January 1, 2020—to attract, engage, and retain top talent.➤ Sought, selected, and onboarded a Learning and Development Manager, partnered with individuals to develop a comprehensive training framework, retool employee orientation, and improve the employee experience.➤ Provided seasoned leadership to the HR team consisting of a manager, generalists, coordinators, and assistants; stepped into an environment experiencing 30% team turnover, instilling the leadership to thwart continued attrition.

Columbus, Ohio, Us

Provided transformational HR leadership for 1,000+ faculty, staff, students, and special appointees across 3 academic units, working with senior leadership to establish HR philosophy, culture, and shared services model. Spearheaded policy development, talent acquisition, compensation administration, training, OD, and employee and labor relations.➤ Identified continuous improvements, implemented training programs, and created Standards of Excellence. Migrated team from a transactional to a strategic orientation, deepening connectivity between people and processes.➤ Restructured and automated processes to ensure alignment with strategic directives; revamped talent acquisition and performance management processes, and provided on-demand training to drive enterprise adoption.➤ Structured an improved compensation system with a new annual merit process and philosophy, leveraging market data and employee ratings to fuel equitable decision making; increased employee engagement and satisfaction.➤ Reengineered the college’s talent acquisition and hiring process to achieve dual objectives: (1) meet the hiring needs and expectations of managers and (2) cultivate a diverse talent pipeline to produce the best and brightest candidates.➤ Led the college with the preparedness to emerge with zero reportable findings following an internal audit, placing the college’s transactional and tactical HR performance among the best at the university.

Columbus, Ohio, Us

Led team in developing employee-centric practices to create a high-performance culture emphasizing empowerment, quality, productivity, standards, goals, and the recruitment and development of a top-performing 375-person workforce. Coordinated implementation of people-related services, policies, and programs while advising leaders on a wide scope of HR practices.➤ Orchestrated an organizational transformation and a robust human resources infrastructure by serving as a key business partner and providing broad-based generalist leadership to a workforce of 375 throughout 5 locations.➤ Commended by employees for inspiring them to stretch beyond what they thought they could do, provide clear expectations, deliver timely feedback, and provide guidance and standards for management and staff.➤ Created, implemented, recruited, and trained the first IT recruiter for the university—a first-of-its-kind position—offering an additional service and new HR value proposition to the enterprise.

Columbus, Ohio, Us

Coordinated strategic planning, policy development, issue resolution, and HR consultation in the areas of talent management, OD, learning and development, and employee and labor relations, effectively providing support for 10,000+ employees.➤ Invited to, and serve as, the sole HR representative on a 10-person steering committee charged with business process redesign and centralizing the HR functions to deliver what was estimated to be $12M in cost savings by 2014. ➤ Facilitated the formulation of a talent management strategy for the new Ohio Union, planning for a 10-fold increase in FTEs—from 50 to 500—and a dramatic shift to transforming the environment to a Disney-like operation.

Newark, Oh, Us

Managed the generalist spectrum for a 1,500-employee healthcare system, focusing on developing a sound infrastructure with first-time policies and procedures. Oversaw functional areas including recruitment, personnel administration, employee and labor relations, unemployment and compensation management, compliance, benefits, OD/OE, and HRIS administration.➤ Captured $365,000 in cost savings within 18 months, by identifying that the organization was allocating funds for unnecessary bonding and not thoroughly investigating unemployment claims.➤ Initiated morale-building efforts including creating an annual Employee Health Fair and new, unified dress code. Selected a new uniform and vendor, transitioning from five suppliers to one, reinforcing the hospital’s brand, reducing turnover, and driving measurable morale increases.➤ Researched, selected, implemented, and migrated a paper-based applicant tracking system to a fully automated infrastructure, eliminating the administrative burdens associated with the processing of 5,000 paper applications per year.➤ Retooled the HRIS to establish KPIs, allowing for a measurement to gauge success and improvement opportunities; new system contributed to being the first hospital in the country to achieve ISO 9000 accreditation.

Doctorate Of Business Administration - Dba, Labor Economics

Master Of Business Operational Excellence - Mboe

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Political Science, Minor In History