Dawn Burke HR is a firm specializing in strategic people practices, executive coaching, and leadership development. Utilizing 20 years of corporate executive People Team, facilitation, and nat'l speaking experience, I help companies elevate People strategies, processes, and team capabilities. As a specialist in strategies to attract and retain modern employees, I help evolve leaders of all levels, from "enforcers" to "engagers." Clients represent many industries, including Tech, Architecture, Recruiting/HR Services, Retail, Security, Marketing, and Banking. Highlights: 1. Multi-state Retailer: Provided recruiting/retention diagnostic, resulting in new sourcing, recruiting metrics, pre-employment testing, leadership training, updated onboarding, and just-in-time hiring practices. 2. Architecture /Design Firm (NYC): Provided executive coaching, strategic HR, and recruiting services to NYC based firm. Examples: Company performance diagnostic; resulted in creating a new performance review and coaching program incorporating cultural standards and accountability measures. Executive Coaching; resulted in facilitating a conflict resolution program to mitigate communication breakdowns between Sr. Leaders. Also provided recruiting services for critical job placements. 3. RPO/HR Consulting Firm: Engaged to facilitate customized leadership training program to HR clients over a variety of industries. The onsite trainings covered Behavioral Interviewing, Coaching, Goal Setting and Compensation. 4. Food/Wine Retailer: Services included a company performance audit, leadership coaching, building foundational practices, employee training, and employee relations assistance. Result: Uncovered practices that put the company at risk of losing its business license. 5. Momentum Leadership's "Upward" Early Career Program: taught customized half-day workshops to class participants, "Own Your Career: How to Understand Your Purpose & Take Control of Your Career Development."

Kinetix, known for its culture, specializes in Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO), HR Consulting, Recruitment Marketing, and Employer Branding. As a member of the Leadership Team, I served in the hybrid roles of VP of Talent Consulting (HR Consulting) and VP of People, reporting to the CEO. My Top strategic priorities were to:1. Execute programs to support the workplace transition from 100% onsite to 90% remote2. Attract and retain employees in the stressful, post-COVID recruiting market3. Quickly improve Kinetix's HR client consulting operations to retain critical, at-risk clients. Teams I led were comprised of HR Consultants, Training Facilitators, Graphic Artists, Content Creators, Social Media Coordinators, Media Specialists & Website Designers. In addition, I partnered with our COO on HR operations. Notable Contributions:1. Turned around a struggling recruitment marketing team resulting in the retention of 2 at-risk clients, higher customer service satisfaction scores, and the internal promotion of two team members. 2. Revamped the performance management program that included 1-1 coaching, goal setting, and reviews. 3. Delivered approximately seventy customized, live, and virtual trainings to our HR consulting clients, including behavioral interviewing, unconscious bias, coaching, goal setting, and performance management. Also, updated these classes for a 2021 audience by adding new unconscious bias, diversity and inclusion, and current workplace law modules, and redesigning slide decks. 4. Created transparent HR client success metrics which improved our team's credibility and provided objective data to strategize future work. 5. Updated our Recruiting Assessment and Recommendations Diagnostics to include new talent acquisition strategies necessary in a post-covid world. This resulted in selling this product at three times the original price. 6. Implemented scheduling software resulting in a 50% time reduction in administration.

As a Sr. Consultant at Recruiting Toolbox, my job was to transform recruiters into strategic talent advisors and hiring managers into engaged recruiting partners. Recruiting Toolbox is not a recruiting firm but a niche consultancy that helps organizations struggling to attract and hire talent in a diverse, technologically savvy, and highly competitive market. I provided specialized talent acquisition training and consulting services to startups and international organizations, including Pinterest, Columbia Sportswear, Centene, Autodesk, and GS1-US. Working with C-Suite, SVPs, and Talent Acquisition Leaders, I helped organizations build and define their foundational "culture of recruiting," organization-wide hiring standards and values, align all interviewers on the correct hiring criteria, and improved interview, sourcing, and decision-making processes.My primary services included:1. The delivery of customized Recruiter and Hiring Manager trainings programs. The trainings presented 8-16 hours of content in both live and virtual settings.2. I conducted robust talent acquisition program assessment, analysis and recommendation reports for organizations looking to level-set their operations. >>In addition to providing recommendations on recruiting process, metrics, and team skills, I also provided recommendations on: 1. Diversity and inclusion strategies.2. Identifying organizational culture and utilizing those unique factors into all recruiting elements.3. Social media recruitment strategies, including content creation, identifying target candidates, creating effective career websites, and relevant technology. 4. Company branding, identifying your employer value proposition, interviewers ability to articulate and sell the brand differentiators.5. Candidate experience and candidate engagement strategies.

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As VP of People, I led a five-person People Team responsible for recruiting, performance management, employee development, benefits, technology implementation, & preserving the unique corporate culture, one awarded The Great Place to Work Institute/SHRM "50 Best Small and Medium Sized Companies in the US", Achiever's "50 Most Engaged Workplaces in the US", and The BBJ's "50 Companies we Admire".Contributions: 1. On leadership team, executed two recapitalizations and five acquisitions, increasing revenue from 14MM to 175MM.2. Grew from 1 to 3 locations (across multiple states). Increased FT headcount from 90 to 400.3. Led engagement strategy, resulting in a 4.3 (of 5) engagement score, 4.5 Glassdoor rating, 16% turnover rate (vs. 25% industry average), 7:1 promoter vs. detractor ratio (NPS).4. Recognized as the "leader I'd most like to work for." My focus on team member development resulted in 2 People team member promotions to exec. positions.5. Oversaw TA, including sourcing, marketing, interviewing, selection, & hiring manager consulting.6. Early adopter of branded career websites, recruitment marketing, & content focused on target candidates.7. Developed recruiting strategy for new services division, resulting in 120 additional team members. 8. Led training team responsible for leadership dev., recruiting, onboarding, & HR technology training, contributing to 35% promotion rate.9. Responsible for benefits (plan design, cost control, wellness initiatives), transitioned from self to fully insured. Resulted in 8% average YOY cost increases (vs. double-digit nat'l average).10. Implemented HR technology. Resulted in 35% reduction in admin time, 30% reduction in recruiterpre-screening time, and higher engagement.11. Led employee relations: risk assessment, coaching conversations & terminations, policy creation, H1-B visa admin, & partnering with legal counsel. Resulted in zero lawsuits/employee-based liabilities.