Actively targeting HR business partnership and fractional executive opportunities to leverage vast array of human resource skills and abilities.

A real-life, best practice primer on the people equation for those new to supervision and management employing the basic premise that how employees are treated can make or break a project, even an entire organization. The book promotes aligning talent with business strategy to craft and shape a results-oriented team by leading with integrity, empathy, authenticity, mindfulness and humility.

Start-up role establishing procedural, programmatic and operational functionality around employee-centric matters for workforce that ballooned to 1,200 at peak season. Position focused on seasonal and year-round talent acquisition; benefit plan design and administration; employee-relations and recognition; time-and-attendance; and cost containment efforts involving employee and customer safety, Workers Comp, Unemployment Comp, and various other forms of risk mitigation.

Scholastic is the world’s largest international publisher of children’s books; a leader in adaptive learning technology products, producer of magazines and multi-media educational entertainment; employing over 9,000 globally. Rotated through substantive HR positions, at the vice president level, deepening and broadening strategic HR skills while remaining an engaged HR tactician.DIRECTOR OF HUMAN RESOURCES 2005–2015Trusted adviser and strategic business partner to Presidents of the two largest growth divisions for Scholastic Inc: Scholastic Ed-Tech and Scholastic Classroom & Community Group. Scholastic Ed-Tech (now part of Houghton Mifflin) develops adaptive technology to increase teacher effectiveness and raise student achievement while serving as a digital solutions partner with school districts across the country. The Scholastic Classroom & Community Group provides relevant and engaging student text via classroom books and instructional materials to meet differentiated student needs, professional development workshops and extensive teaching resources, and works with communities to ensure that students receive learning support 24/7.• Directed team of 12 HR professionals in all facets of employee service support in NY corporate office and 7 business divisions. Oversaw installation of company's first online recruiting and ATS, learning management platform, and Success Factors compensation system. Partnered closely with IT group on conversion of PeopleSoft HRIS to cloud-based Workday portal.Member of both Education Divisions' executive leadership teams: translated business objectives into HR strategy. Responsible for labor relations and collective bargaining within Classroom Magazine Group. • Led HR functions for e-commerce and Scholastic@Home (direct marketing), worked with International divisions, eventually leading to the evaluation of the latter’s negative-option business model and its sale/closure.

CHIEF-OF-STAFF, Corporate HR DIRECTOR 2003-2004• Served as Chief-of-Staff to SVP, Human Resources and Employee Services Group. Responsibilities included generalist Corporate HR Director functions in addition to partnership with nine Employee Services Group directors, (e.g., employee communications, corporate real estate, travel and food service, facilities and maintenance); designed and facilitated bi-annual offsite staff development retreats; handled confidential correspondence; responsible for C-level and senior corporate recruiting.INTERIM HEAD of HR 2004 -2005 • Tapped to lead and direct entire HR function for corporation while assisting CEO and BOD in the search for HR leader with public Board experience. Advisor to late CEO, Dick Robinson, to whom I reported, as well as divisional BU presidents -- while concurrently managing HR staff (VPs, Directors and CoE managers) on an interim basis.

(Div. Of Gianni Versace, SpA – Milan) DIRECTOR OF HUMAN RESOURCES• Developed and delivered the full range of human resource services, including workforce planning, recruitment, compensation practices and employee relations to U.S. business divisions (wholesale/retail) and corporate offices of Versace fashion empire throughout North America, reporting to the U.S. Chief Executive Officer.• Conducted RFP process for CFO on employee benefits redesign. Successfully contracted with new vendor to contain company and employee contribution costs even with prior fiscal year.