Kristy Fields Email & Phone Number

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Lead a team of business partners that provide support functions to the Assets Protection pyramid. Responsible for building, leading and advancing company strategies for stores, supply chain and headquarters. Strategies include financial management, resource allocation modeling, training and development, communication and portfolio management.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Lead and consult on workload, training and communication efforts for numerous AP projects to drive efficiency for field and store AP teams.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Led a team of communication specialists that created supported Human Resources and Assets Protection communication strategies for store and field teams.
• Utilized strong partnerships across enterprise human resources departments to train, coach and problem solve in order to deliver the right information, at the right time, to the right field and store human resources.
• Selected to lead communication strategies for numerous confidential change management projects that highly impacted the culture of field and store leaders.
• Optimized engagement and development of our team by creating and implementing a successful team development series.
• Led our team onboarding committee to provide a positive and consistent onboarding experience for all new employees.

• Led human resources training initiatives for a group of 60 stores.
• Trained, developed and onboarded 250+ new store leaders, over 2.5 years
• Reduced new-in-role turnover of exempt store leaders by 20%
• Led stores to achieve the highest training completion results. Increased compliance training results by 38% in one-year
• Assessed and collaborated with business partners to determine training needs, gaps and goals to achieve.
• Created and implemented leader position-to-position training and development programs.

• Led human resources generalist initiatives including staffing, training, employee relations, team development, retention, performance management, scheduling and payroll for a team of 200.
• Coached, trained, and developed staff from entry level to senior leaders. Administered benefits, compensation programs and led a compliance culture that mitigated legal risk.
• Led the District Resource program (10 stores); acted as a key contact for colleagues at 10 stores. Facilitated and led monthly conference calls, trained new store leaders.
• Developed a team-focused culture of open communication, empowerment and positive engagement of team.
• Facilitated performance management, operational transformations with new and tenured staff; earned trust and approachability while leading the team to embrace change.
• Ensured employee relations concerns are handled correctly, promptly and within company policy.