Strategic HR executive & forward-looking leader with 35+ years of progressive experience serving Fortune 500 healthcare and retail organizations with ultimate accountability for a variety of business functions. As part of the LifePoint Health Executive Leadership Team (ELT), significantly contributed to the firm’s explosive growth, enhancing culture, employee engagement and encouraging action. Transformed HR functions into strategic enablers of business growth, fostered enterprise-wide collaborative cultures of trust and continuous improvement, and solved business problems. Expertise in strategic management, business plan development, change management implementation; talent development; results-based leadership, performance measurement, comp/benefits programs and Employee & Labor relations. Board experience.Joined LifePoint Health as SVP, HR & Admin, became EVP & Chief Admin Officer in 2009. Full participant in board meetings, served as Leader from the mgt perspective on Board’s Comp Committee, played integral role in managing Company’s spectacular growth. Strengthened the ELT by fostering ability to support a common vision/communicate in a unified manner, enhancing its overall focus, and championing leadership development programs. Provided Fortune-500 readiness & supported business needs by aligning operators, HR & Communications, and by leading an HR transformation. Built bench strength; enhanced Company’s performance by creating/managing comp & benefit plans. Furthered growth by creating/implementing in-house internal marketing function capability. After 2018 merger with RCCH, combined $8B-revenue company’s 2 corporate offices, achieved targeted people synergies & hired successor.Before, contributed to Province Healthcare’s growth as VP of HR, bringing big company thinking/processes to a small company.Earlier, served in progressive positions with The Kroger Co.BS, Middle TN State University. Completed many advanced corporate/academic mgt programs.
Listed skills include Change Management, Talent Management, Strategic Planning, Healthcare Management, and 9 others.
