Progressive, enthusiastic, insightful leader with 20+ years of diverse, increasingly responsible experience in global total rewards. Background includes contemporizing multinational reward strategies for Fortune 150 company. MA in Labor and Industrial Relations. Certified Compensation Professional._________________________BACKGROUNDWhen I took my first college course in the psychology of work behavior, I discovered a genuine passion for the subject. I was particularly intrigued by the connections between total rewards, talent, and operational results. I've since made a career developing reward strategies that optimally align people and business priorities, creating transformative and sustainable change along the way.As the leader of Global Total Rewards for some of the world’s best-known brands, I'm accountable for all compensation, benefit, and recognition strategies affecting employees around the world. I've built a portfolio of hands-on experience and valuable insights via progressively responsible roles across International, US, and Corporate operations.__________________________CAREER HIGHLIGHTS• Overhauled global total rewards strategy, creating values-based, insights-driven reward programs to boost employee engagement, attract a diverse workforce, and reinforce growth objectives.• Orchestrated company’s first global pay gap initiative across 20 markets, establishing foundation for pay equity strategy. • Built company’s first Rewards Center of Excellence, integrating total rewards teams from 15 decentralized international markets - creating synergies across teams serving 200,000 worldwide employees. • Refined COE’s strategic focus to meet local market and corporate objectives by restructuring operations, consolidating equity plan management and relocation support, and outsourcing health plan administration.• Embedded quantitative human capital metrics into executive compensation with an emphasis on diversity, equity, and inclusion. • Rebuilt pay-for-performance culture by optimizing differentiation in rewards.• Transformed global mobility program to enable talent development priorities, realigning policies and governance on international assignments, localizations, and relocations._________________________EDUCATIONMaster of Arts (MA), Labor and Industrial Relations, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, ILBachelor of Science (BS), Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL
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