James Nicholas Kinney Email & Phone Number

Austin, Tx, Us

Austin, Tx, Us

James Nicholas Kinney was named the Ad Industries therapist in 2023 and has spent the last 15 years working on the front lines of mental health. As a board member of The Big Silence, james gets to continue this work.

London, England, Gb

Led company share and equity plans for 9000 employees across 31 countries ensuring equitable short-term and long-term incentive plans across all job levels resulting in less than 20% attrition. Developed the company’s first-ever global DEI program across 31 countries and 4 regions aligned with company ESG and shareholder metrics including collegiate and office sustainability programs.Built a senior management retention program across the top 5% of the workforce called MOTIF with Harvard Business School resulting in a 2% attrition rate.Rebranded talent acquisition to become talent discovery and hired over 2,500 employees in 24 months.Built out Workday, HRIS, Greenhouse, and other platforms into one data and analytics tech stack for cost savings and optimization. Executive sponsored an inclusive marketing team that led to +5M in revenues across NA and EMEA. Engineered the company’s first-ever internal communications program across 4 business units. Negotiated global benefits with Epic partners and Aon across 31 countries with a net global increase of only 6% in 2023.Became Newsweek’s #12 Global most loved workplace in 2023.Led the company’s first-ever global merit cycle across 4 business units. Stood up the company’s first global people desk. Routing all employee relations, leaves, and day-to-day HR into one place through a ticketing system.

London, England, Gb

Global Chief Diversity Officer across 9300 employees, 60 plus offices, and 4 global regions. Leading a staff of 400 professionals in all aspects of the people function.

New York, Ny, Us

James Nicholas Kinney has been appointed Global Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer. James will partner with leaders across the company’s global network to develop and evolve practices, policies, and programs to ensure Ogilvy has a strong culture of belonging — one that fosters an open environment for everyone to thrive regardless of their race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, veteran status, ability, domestic violence victim status, age, citizenship, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression. In addition, James will serve as Chief People Officer for Ogilvy North America. In this role, he will oversee all aspects of talent management, recruitment, learning and development, and wellbeing for the USA and Canada.

London, England, Gb

North American Chief Human Resources Officer at Mother USA. Driving business growth through culture, inclusion, equity, and diversity. Breaking traditional models of HR, recruiting, talent management, learning, leading, compensation, organizational design, and benefits.

New York, New York, Us

Core competencies include: Diversity and Inclusion, professional branding, pre-boarding, recruiting, on-boarding, benefits, culture, compliance, compensation, communication, change, and performance management, coaching, employee engagement, and relations, professional development, FMLA and leaves of absence, the ADA, Human Resource Information Systems, investigations, workers’ compensation, RIFs, and terminations.

New York, New York, Us

#3 on the Ad Age "A" List 2019Fast Company's Top 100 most innovative companies in the world 2018 Breakthrough Agency of the year Linkedin Top 50 Hot Start UpsTop HR/People leader at Giant Spoon responsible for our LA and NY offices. Leading all compliance, diversity, culture, benefits, compensation, recruiting and more. HR business partner to co-founders and CFO.

Legal client - Conducted organization design research to understand impact of training program, shadowed staff and attorneys to understand work style, created training process maps to understand firm workflows, designed L&D initiatives through six sigma lens for efficiency and process improvement, built custom intranet along with vendor developers to house LMS platform, authored courses in Articulate 360, created firm-wide roll out communication and marketing plan. Led workshop training resulting in a projected $250,000 Y-O-Y training cost reduction.Staffing and Recruiting Client - Created meeting formats and a weekly reporting system to hold staff and management accountable, designed quarterly business review system for transparency and goal setting, Helped design an online form system to streamline processes, provided professional development for 12 employees on a weekly basis resulting in additional top-line revenue. Civic organization - Helped restore communication, morale, and culture through a six-month process of meeting restructuring, feedback loops, and 360 feedback training. Successfully separated employees that were the root of the conflict. Redesigned the organization for profitability and optimization. Resulting in 4 new hires including a new EVP role to help streamline growth. Finance client - Brought together a fragmented office and redesigned their sales process according to Salesforce.com training methods. Improved office teamwork, morale, and culture by creating new metrics, rewards and incentives resulting in a $10,000,000 fund acquisition. Human Resource Management client - Consulted on how to understand and translate software to internal company culture, streamline the performance review process, make diversity and inclusion have a fiscal impact on the organization and represented the brand at CHRO Chicago resulting in a contract with a leading apparel brand.

HR generalist and people operations program manager.Tri-Net PEO, compensation and benefits manager.Employee relations and culture programs. Coached firm new hires and associates on business development and personal branding.Managed $50,000 annual employee programming budget. Full cycle recruiting, hiring and terminations.Executed all firm new hire onboarding and training. Wrote firm employee handbook according to state laws including employment status, vacation, insurance, harassment and technology policies. Firm newsletter, internal communications and event planning.

Course, Artificial Intelligence

B.A, Political Science

Political Science