Donna B. Email & Phone Number

United States

Rochester, New York Metropolitan Area

Responsible for planning, developing, and executing human resources strategies including the areas of talent acquisition, performance management, training and development, safety, compliance, employee relations, employment policies and programs, organizational development, employee engagement, HRIS, compensation, and benefits.

Establish and maintain an intimate understanding of the client organizations, in the interest of building effective and productive working relationships with client groups at all levels of the organization.• Manage overall human resources service delivery to the business directly or through collaboration, providing services that are responsive to the business strategy.• Define HR policies, practices and procedures for managers, teams, and individual employees that support the needs of the business based upon short and long-term organizational goals.• Provides solutions to business issues in an initiative-taking and positive manner.• Guide organizational divisions through reductions in force (RIFs) ensuring respectful offboarding.• Collaborate with front line managers and the executive team on engagement survey review and development of action plans. Executed action plans that resulted in a decrease in turnover for front-line production workers. Utilizing data from exit interviews, focus groups and employee surveys.

Rochester, New York Area

Consulted with department heads, managers and employees on all issues related to human resources, including employee relations, compensation, staffing, training, and diversity.• Provided leadership in fostering employee engagement and a climate of innovation, achievement, challenges and teamwork for 37 individual newspaper sites that included more than 400+ employees.• Managed and effectively communicated comprehensive performance management initiatives, compensation, engagement survey results and employee benefits programs.• Created an environment conducive to discussions with managers/staffers in various departments to assist in achieving their business objectives.• Managed safety initiatives, workers' compensation, and unemployment programs.• Guided organizational divisions through several reductions in force (RIFs) ensuring respectful offboarding and minimal disruption to workflow. • Managed/liaison for the contracts of more than four unions within the regions. Member of the union negotiation team. • Managed two direct reports.

Binghamton, New York, United States

Consulted with department heads, managers and employees on all issues related to human resources, including employee relations, compensation, staffing, training and diversity.• Provided leadership in fostering employee engagement and a climate of innovation, achievement, challenge and teamwork for three newspaper sites, Binghamton, Ithaca and Elmira.• Directed employment processes that attract and retain job candidates who will contribute to the success of the newspaper in a timely, cost-effective manner.• Managed and effectively communicates comprehensive performance management initiatives, compensation, and employee benefits programs.• Directed and conducted management and supervisory training and provided a continuous learning environment for employee and managerial development.• Created an environment conducive to discussions with managers/staffers in various departments to determine how HR might assist in achieving business objectives.• Prepared and monitored the department's operating budget. Directed departmental staff and resources according to organizational needs.• Managed/liaison for the contracts of two unions within the region. Member of the union negotiation team. One union was decertified during this period.• Managed safety initiatives, workers' compensation and unemployment programs.• Ensured that all human resource practices follow applicable employment laws and company policies. Applied an understanding of key legal precedents, policies and practices to protect the interests of the newspaper and individual employees.• Managed up to four direct reports.