From Jim Starmer· Retired as Owner, Dixie Sales Company, Inc.
 * Darla is a “change” manager who consistently and systematically challenged our usual way of doing things. She always supports her challenges to the norm with ideas and concepts that stretched out thinking. And from our new knowledge, a positive and exciting change in our management style or our business processes would result. * Darla also has an uncanny skill at identifying and validating potential candidates for key positions who had exactly the skills and abilities we needed to make a positive impact on our business and our people. Darla taught us that “stars” could make a real difference in our business. * Darla always has a genuine concern for our people and for helping them to reach their potential. She believes in the inherent abilities and qualities of each individual and always expected them to believe in themselves as much as she believes in them. * Darla is one of the best examples I know of how a single individual can affect people and an organization in so many different positive ways.Specialties: High Performance Work Place (HPWP), Creating Empowering/Engaging Workplaces, Aligning Structure to Strategy, Talent Management, Recruiting, Appreciative Inquiry, World Cafe, Change Management, Lean, Process Improvement, HR Generalist, Organizational Development. Distribution, Manufacturing, Sales, Contact Call Centers, Publishing, Logistics, Tech Web Development, MBTI Certified, SPHR, TinyPulse, Human Centered Design, PayScale