Debra J. M. Best, Sphr, Shrm-Scp Email & Phone Number

Albany, NY, US

Albany, New York, US

Deb Best Practices, a New York state Certified Women-Owned Business Enterprise (WBE), provides outsourced human resources (HR), corporate recruitment and third-party employee complaint investigation services; strategic planning; change and project management; workplace dispute resolution; career / leadership coaching; and recruitment branding / social.

Edmond, Oklahoma, US

Minneapolis, Minnesota, US

Remember the communication breakdown(s) with that boss who never understood you (and who you frankly never understood)? We know why... and we can help.Have you ever wondered why some people just don’t get you? Or ever thought “I cannot even begin to know what my boss needs—even when I ask her, I still don’t know.”Most of us have felt that way at one time.

Hoboken, NJ, US

Simply put: cohesive teams at all levels produce better bottom-line business results. The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team™ has a simple goal: To facilitate a learning experience that helps professionals and their organizations discover what it takes to build a truly cohesive and effective team. The Five Behaviors profile, which provides both individual.

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Saratoga Springs, New York, US

CultureTalk provides a new framework of understanding that fuels professional / personal growth and organizational fulfillment: most importantly, CultureTalk allows organizations to more accurately define their culture, company and recruitment branding. Using the power inherent in Archetypes, CultureTalk opens doors to a more conscious and positive way of.

Schenectady, New York, US

New York BizLab's BizHub brings together experts of accounting, human resources, legal and recruiting services from the Capital Region ready to advise start-up businesses and coordinate them with the best resources.

Albany, New York, US

Capital Region Women@Work was a bimonthly magazine for professional women / entrepreneurs / leaders published by the Times Union until the end of 2021, when it went online, integrating with the Business section of the Times Union e-Edition - join the online Women@Work Connect community! http://www.timesunion.com/womenatwork/

Norwalk, Connecticut, US

Autotask provides the world's leading hosted IT business management software to streamline and optimize business processes for technology solution providers. Autotask’s software supports information technology service providers that manage and maintain IT infrastructure and operations for small- to medium-sized companies Our mission-critical software.

Albany, New York, US

Led the Workforce Readiness, Communications and Assistive Technologies / Section 508 Compliance initiatives for the New York Statewide Financial System Program, the largest public-sector PeopleSoft Enterprise implementation in the nation. Collaborated with NYS Agency and System Integrator leadership stakeholders to ensure enterprise-wide readiness for.

We were an Albany, New York-based, invitation-only group of professional women executives, practitioners and entrepreneurs who act as each other's "Sounding Board of Directors" to support our mutual success. PWN was founded over 28 years ago.

• Recruited in 2008 to help develop and implement strategic growth and sustainability plan. Payroll reallocated in support thereof. Position responsibilities included:- Plant Operations- Logistics- Customer Service- IT.
• Implemented a GPS system for our truck fleet saving $75,000 annualized in labor, compliance and routing costs.
• Remediated IT network and a failed 2007 distribution system upgrade, saving $15,000 annualized in dispatch and IT costs.
• Saved the Company over $100,000 annualized by cost-avoidance; in-sourcing; and absorbing 2.5 FTEs: IT, HR and the Plant.

Marlborough, MA, US

• Led a Human Resources team of HR, Recruiting and Training Consultants operating in a new HR Centers-of- Excellence matrix model for the only New York-based operations site of a Fortune 500 medical device manufacturing.
• Led change management strategy: Transition to HR PeopleSoft Employee Self-Service / Outsourced HR Services; Employee Engagement; FDA Training Audit Readiness; Company Sale of Site.

• Led coordination and remediation of corporate HR legal and compliance issues -Led corporate recruitment programs-Responsible for Home Office and Distribution human resources at all levels for approximately 2,000.
• Direct-sourced executive / IT placements as company’s senior recruiting leader, saving $125,000 annually in recruiter fees.
• Led process-improvement team to eliminate 2 days from distribution center inventory process, saving $30,000 annually.
• As human resources project leader, successfully integrated 90 stores and closed a corporate home office and distribution center without legal issues; also led human resources integration for subsequent 500-store.

Boston, MA, US

• Employee communications-Press relations-HR Generalist-Benefits Communications Leader-3 different assignments during tenure
• Increased benefit-plan enrollment by up to 36% per plan, the highest increase in six years, through design and implementation of highly effective enrollment campaigns. Saved $150,000 by instituting preferred.
• Saved $272,000 by leading an HR team marketing effort to enroll 80% of the workforce in lower-cost health-benefit option.
• Facilitated team-building effort to reduce cycle time and cost on a $30 million physical plant expansion.
• Saved $15,000 by modifying and in-sourcing facilitation training.