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Enhanced company culture by promoting the company’s commitment to equal opportunity, diversity and inclusion in business processes and programs including hiring, development, retention, promotions, compensation, customer-focused initiatives, supplier diversity, and community relations efforts.Selected accomplishments:- Successfully served as HR Director and Facility Corporate Compliance Officer 2017-2020.- Expanded diverse talent pipeline with networked HBCUs for the CEO development program, resulting in hiring 13 diverse interns and 8 direct diverse hires into CEO development (10% increase).- Drafted Diversity Leadership Committee charter and championed development of the 5-year DEI strategic plan.- Collaborated with local HBCU to provide a support letter for multi-million grant to support increasing the number of qualified and diverse public health informatics and technology professionals from underserved communities, resulting in 12 students in inaugural class.

Responsible for talent development, employee relations & engagement, change management, diversity, and compliance.Selected accomplishments:- Reduced 80% license / certification expiration by integrated training, license, and competency completion dates into HRIS upgrade, resulting in timely certification / license renewal notifications to staff.- Expanded talent pipeline, resulting in 100% staffing of RNs and counselors.- Maintained efficient and effective HR performance year over year resulting in zero HR deficiencies during 2 Joint Commission audits.

Managed and directed a high performing team whose responsibilities are staffing, training, safety, team member relations, employee health benefits, and compensation. Selected Accomplishments:- Drove facility safety program from 64% annual audit to 92% audit score in 1 year becoming 1 of 5 runner ups for corporate COO Safety Award for 2 consecutive years.- Implemented employee relations and training strategies resulting in highest employee engagement score (91%) in history of the facility.- Partnered with employee health nurse and corporate labor relations, resulting in $150K annual reduction in Workers’ Compensation spend.

HR consulting, soft skills training and contingency staffing to healthcare, engineering and manufacturing industries. Managed up to 17 simultaneous consulting contracts including Coca Cola, Procter & Gamble and local rural health facilities. Developed affirmative action plans for engineering firms, resulting in multi-million government contracts.