Diane Bastin Email & Phone Number

Belle Haven, VA, US

Washington, DC, US

• Manages the organization's human resources function, including
• HR Strategic Planning: aligns organizational core competencies; formulates, develops, and implements HR policies and procedures; presents HR matters at the Assembly of Parties meetings and chairs executive compensation.
• Total Rewards: conducts market research and benchmarking; designs, oversees, and implements executive and employee base and variable compensation, annual performance reviews, and benefits; ensures the internal equity.
• Resource Management: designs and implements effective strategies for sourcing, recruiting, evaluating, and onboarding of qualified candidates, including international assignments, relocations, immigration visa.
• Employee Relations and Organizational Development: coaches, mentors, and creates strategies to develop talent and ensure the retention of organizational knowledge
• Assembly of Parties and IAC Coordinator and Secretary: organized and managed the international assemblies of 149 member countries in June 2022 and June 2023

Alexandria, Virginia, US

• Leads the company's human resources function and manages a team of six professionals.
• Trusted Advisor: partners with the PMs/Directors of the federal contracts to implement Service Contract Act (SCA) and non-SCA compensation; benefits; onboarding and terminations; human capital management (HCM); leave.
• Subject matter expert: manages audit function and drives compliance with federal, state, local, and federal service contractor laws; designs and implements best practices, and promulgates HR processes and procedures.
• Corporate Engagement: leads event planning and charity initiatives; and fosters engagement, teamwork, and inclusion by soliciting employee feedback and developing and deploying HR generalists to contract offices.
• Consultative

• Provided advisory services to international and national association clients, including business process improvement, human resources, workforce planning, and financial modeling projects
• Leadership: provided HR advisory services for C-suite and presented in board facing roles for national and international projects
• Collaboration: added value by assisting clients in translating their vision into strategic HR policies and procedures for compensation, benefits, talent acquisition, recruitment, onboarding, talent management.
• Coaching: contributed over 20 years’ teaching and coaching experience in the aerospace and telecommunications industry
• HR Department of One: extensive experience designing and managing a comprehensive human resources/payroll/administration function for small to medium entities

• Managed the law firm’s people, financial, and client practices, and ensured regulatory compliance
• Enterpreneurship: created governance policies and procedures for new IP law firm
• Vision: collaborated to align the firm’s people management practices with founding members’ vision, and provided guidance to team members on all practice administration matters
• Resilience: researched and obtained Covid-19 pandemic relief; added over $100K in value through savings, loans, and new payroll, compensation, and benefit programs; managed transition to remote work and the dissolution.

Mclean, VA, US

• Developed and managed policies and procedures for total rewards-compensation & benefits, HRIS, and relocation, including visa clearance; managed team of six professionals
• Innovative: redesigned total rewards models and long term incentive plans to enhance employee recruitment, engagement, and retention in the competitive telecommunications market
• Creative: linked organizational and sales bonus programs, annual salary reviews, and performance management to foster internal mobility
• Presenter: trained executives, managers, and employees on implementation of HR practices, retirement planning, and equity awards in the privatized entity

Mclean, VA, US

• Delegated to interdisciplinary Corporate Restructuring Team to convert treaty-based organization into a for-profit US corporation
• Subject-matter expert: worked with cross-functional team leaders, C-suite executives, and outside legal counsel and advisors to reengineer HR and manage transition regarding complex legal, political, and people.
• Organizational change: delivered organization-wide training sessions and individual guidance
• Multitasking: Discharged these full-time responsibilities in addition to full-time duties in consecutive roles as Manager, Employment & Recruitment, and Compensation & Benefits Director

Mclean, VA, US

• Developed and implemented policies and procedures for recruitment, immigration and relocation (domestic and international), onboarding, exit interviews, employee relations, diversity, and ATS. Liaison between Office of.
• Talent Acquisition: Adapted the recruitment strategy to attract and retain a commercial oriented hires during transition from intergovernmental organization to private US company
• Strategic: Selected to lead HR on the restructuring team (see above)
• Solutions-focused: Completed law school and passed the bar while enhancing organization-wide recruitment processes and fostering increased teamwork in department to better serve the clients

Mclean, VA, US

• Management-level representative of Human Resources Division within Information Systems and Operations Divisions, with responsibility for recruitment, onboarding, exit interviews, implementation of compensation and.
• Teamwork: team of three generalists collaborated to create this new role which significantly enhanced HR's visibility and employee satisfaction
• Customer service: initiated first weekly HR visits to night-shift satellite mission control engineers, and developed empathetic and consultative relationships with clients at all levels
• Counseling: guided management and employees through individual and large departmental layoffs, and numerous complex employment and performance issues

Mclean, VA, US

• Served as operating and staffing budget officer, compensation and benefits analyst, and recruiter.
• Self-directed: reduced initial task portfolio by 75% within 10 months through function redesign, earning first promotion from assistant to analyst and gaining C-suite exposure
• Compensation subject-matter expert: analyzed position descriptions and calibrated employee, sales, and executive total compensation for 1,000+ technical employees; contributed to national and international surveys
• Data driven: reviewed and enhanced HRIS/ATS databases and budget reporting through Excel
• Communications: Composed and edited the organization’s first compensation and benefits handbook, Your Employee Benefits Highlights, as well as a recruitment brochure, and weekly human resources newsletter for.

• Worked for Prof. Dr. Emiel Van Broekhoven, Chair of Belgian Pension Fund Association and president of pension advisory firms
• Wrote explanatory booklets for General Motors Continental Pension Plan
• Drafted legislation for Ministry of Pensions for mutual pension fund plan for small and medium sized companies; co-authored such plan for major private insurance company as well as a book on personal financial planning

Juris Doctor, Employment And Space Law

Master Of Applied Economics, Multinational Finance