Lora Soderholm Email & Phone Number

Minot, Nd, Us

Teaneck, New Jersey, Us

• Developed and implemented global HR communication strategies for newly acquired employees in M&A, ensuring seamless integration and fostering a culture of inclusion.• Collaborated with business leaders to align communication efforts, resulting in increased employee engagement and satisfaction.• Established repeatable communication processes and libraries with hundreds of templates, streamlining communication delivery and saving time and resources.

Teaneck, New Jersey, Us

Professional HR Mergers & Acquisitions Communications Director for a large global organization. Responsible for all HR related communications when acquiring and integration organizations into Cognizant. Started Cognizant career in a HR BP role and then advanced through various different areas including strategic deals/rebadging and then into global mergers and acquisitions. Developed end to end HR integration communication strategy and plans for thousands of newly acquired talent. Created communication baseline and library to improve employee integration satisfaction and eliminate errors. Key collaboration with C-suite executives and overall PMO to assess acquired company HR benefits and culture and then develop an effective HR integration approach. Provided training and guidance to other HR team members on how to utilize the communication library, move communications through proper approval channels, ensure all branding was accurate and required legal compliance was in place. Traveled to acquired company locations (globally) to train leadership on integration approach and facilitate HR change management with employees. Provided change leadership coaching and development to all levels of organizational leaders. Aligned with all workstreams to ensure our integration communication strategies and learnings were consistent across every discipline i.e. finance, legal, IT, operations, procurement, benefits, payroll etc.

Teaneck, New Jersey, Us

Leader of HR Integration and Communications for the Americas; apply all concepts of program management and working with HR Centers of Excellence to deliver a positive employee experience to acquired populations. Developer of numerous standard baseline processes including but not limited to aggregate communication "packs" with proven success records. Partner closely with target organizations and internal colleagues to identify the unique requirements needed to fully harmonize both operationally and emotionally to ensure minimum client disruption. Provide HR counsel to business partners to appropriately and financially align policies, procedures and legal requirements. Travel globally to plan and facilitate target HR integrations while considering geo and cultural nuances for effective implementation.

Manage a $35M dollar budget; negotiate vendor contracts and SLA's; develop and report out financial variance dashboards; troubleshoot vendor breakage/issues; mitigate compliance/security breach issues; collaborate with internal customers to ensure vendor service delivery; apply six sigma methodology to drive process improvement/financial saves; manage enterprise strategic projects/vendor relationships.

Amsterdam, North Holland, Nl

Minot, Nd, Us

Responsibile for providing business consulting services including but not limited to development of business plans, marketing strategy and plan development; advertising/communications; human resource advisement/policy creation and documentation; funding research/advisement.