Joaquin B. Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Sacramento, California, Us

Houston, Tx, Us

• Coached and guided site leaders who oversaw nearly 2000 employees regarding policy and procedure interpretation and application, dispute resolution, corrective action, leaves of absence, harassment, and terminations.• Improved company-wide support of LGBTQIA employees by implementing engagement programs which increased eNPS scores to 71% for males, 100% for females, and 88% for Caucasian Sysco employees who selected "Yes" when asked "Is your company supportive of LGBTQ employees?"• Perform investigations and prepare written responses to EEOC claims and unemployment claims.• Reviewed, interpreted, administered, and ensured compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws and company policies and procedures. • Developed cultural diversity programs and a network of Hispanic employees, the Hispanic Employee Resource Groups (ERG’s), which fostered professional and career development of its members as well as Sysco’s success. • Ensured that competent, diverse, and skilled workers were hired, and workload levels were appropriate and maintained to reduce turnover by 21% year over year.• Directed resources and activities to support a culture of prevention awareness and accountability across the organization.• Union Negotiations: - Implemented union mitigation practices in multiple locations throughout the Sacramento region by: o Organizing workshops to review & separate technical jobs into three levels.o Classifying all personnel into one of the designated categories.o Recommending changes to salary due to that re‐classification.o Organizing employee communication with regional supervisors.o Running focus groups and managing employee complaints.- Improved union relations by effectively investigating several employee grievances from the national union.

Commerce, Ca, Us

• Effectively provide strategic business partnering in driving regional strategic projects for multiple organizations composed of an employee population of approx. 6,000 associates.• Maintained fiscal health of the organization by reconciling expenditures consistent with fiscal policies.• Transformed the organization’s culture, systems, and processes through effectively working closely as a business partner to the Regional Group Leader. • Advised General Managers (GMs) and Senior Leadership Team on a wide range of business and people issues by:• Partnering on long-range and annual plan development, • Pro-actively identifying implications for organizational strategy, along with recommendations to support longer-term business growth, and • Identifying development opportunities for talent within the division, implementing action plans for improvement, tracking progress on those plans, and building people and organizational plans to ensure divisional readiness and capability to meet changing business conditions.• Counseled executive leadership on organizational design to streamline operations and promote growth. This included revising department work structure evaluations, job design, manpower forecasting, and clarifying roles and responsibilities.• Los Angeles, San Francisco,Bay Area, Reno, Nevada.

• Increased organizational productivity in talent acquisition, staffing, employment processing, compensation, health benefits, training and development, succession planning, employee relations and retention, AA/EEO compliance, and labor relations. • Increased organization’s financial health by estimating, forecasting, and anticipating requirements, trends, and variances; aligning monetary resources; developing action plans; measuring and analyzing results; initiating corrective actions; and minimizing the impact of variances. • Maintained a highly-trained and motivated staff of over 400 employees through best practices in recruiting, hiring, orienting, training, coaching, counseling, and disciplining.

Pinnacle Strategies• Drove the US strategy for the international productivity improvement procedures to help organizations successfully translate operational improvements into business value.• Provided operations management consulting, training and workshop solutions that lowered operational costs and efficiently reduced cycle times to improve on time delivery.• Managed the consultation on diversity-equity and inclusion for multiple clients in the health care industry.

St. Vicent de Paul August 2014 – February 2015• Increased employee engagement and performance by setting performance goals and targets, coaching employees, and reviewing employee performance. • Ensured long-term health of the company through succession planning and talent reviews, including working with and supporting human resource partners on talent review tools, high-potential identification, job assignments, and progression plans. • Assessed organization strengths and weaknesses in employee metrics and leadership development to uncover trends and insights, identify causes of organizational issues, and proposed talent-based solutions.

Irving, Tx, Us

CHRISTUS Health 2013 – 2014• Designed and delivered company-wide diversity education that included generational diversity, unconscious bias training, and cultural competence education.• Ensured longevity of diversity by supporting regional diversity councils, developing a manager’s diversity toolkit, and designing diversity training targeted at executives.• Revised company-wide trainings to fit the needs of Latin-American interests including translating materials into Spanish and making cultural adjustments to training materials.

Dallas, Tx, Us

SPCA of Texas 2013 – 2014• Managed 22 staff members over multiple offices with a budget of $785,000.• Developed and gave oversight to community and educational outreach programs including identifying, building, and maintaining corporate, community, and volunteer relationships. • Developed a community-wide engagement plan targeting congressional staff, boards of directors, educators, internal partners, business and community groups, and key partner organizations and increased revenue from educational and community departments from $5,000 to $170,000 in less than a year.

Irving, Tx, Us

Boy Scouts of America 2009 – 2012• Designed and implemented internal systems and programs that have consistently enabled the Boy Scouts of America to be internationally recognized as a leading non-profit in D&I programs including numerous awards and honors from the EEOC, Department of Labor, and named one of the “Top 100 Non-Profits to Work For.”• Managed strategic design and development of diversity programs and cultural understanding in the US—including Puerto Rico—Germany, and Japan.• Implemented unemployment insurance practices that saved significant amounts of the nearly $1 million budget.

Irving, Tx, Us

Promoted to fulfill a broad range of non-profit functions.Responsible for the fundraising of $3 million dollars for council operations. Achievements included recruiting and training volunteers, volunteer development, and membership development, budget management, accounting oversight, administering funds, overseeing employee disciplinary action and managing HR records. 1-Acquired and managed over $1.5 million in grants for local initiatives that impact poor and disadvantaged populations. Developed comprehensive fundraising strategies for local organizations involving foundation grants, corporate contributions, and individual donor programs.2-Led various strategic planning processes for both national and local organizations. Well-versed in translating missions and goals into operating plans with clear benchmarks and annual objectives.3-Designed and provided technical assistance to community-based and non-governmental organizations in the areas of board and program development, community assessment, and process/outcome evaluation. Active member in various boards and advisory committees.4-Extensive background in development and monitoring program and organizational budgets. Designed financial protocols and procedures to control costs and monitor disbursements.5-Extensive experience in articulating issues in health and public education on the benefits of the program in selected communities.

Boise, Id, Us