With a passion for excellence, Lori provides expert consulting services in the area of human resource management, executive coaching, team alignment, employee engagement, leadership development, change management, and talent management to ensure efficient and effective leadership in healthcare organizations. Lori is certified to perform organizational and talent assessments with the goal of ensuring that organizational talent is optimally maximized for excellent results. Lori has the ability to explore organizational needs by asking questions that require organizational leaders to dig deep to understand the underlying workings of the organization.Lori also possesses a passion for serving in interim HR Leadership roles that allow her to the opportunity to keep HR departments running while assessing current organizational needs and making recommendations for future HR operations

Responsible for ensuring that that talent needs of this 65,000 employee organization that is spread across five states, are met. This includes ensuring effective recruitment strategies to hire the best and the brightest, workforce planning to ensure that we have forecasted our future needs, succession planning for known upcoming vacancies, and development of our talent at all levels. Current activities involve creating a new structure that will oversee this function for the whole system, moving away from the former regional structures to become a single talent structure.

Providence Health & Services, CA Region consists of five acute care hospitals in Los Angeles County, which employs 10,000+ employees in the CA Region. The CA Region is one of eight Regions of Providence Health & Services, headquartered in Renton, Washington, employing approximately 50,000 employees in total.Provided leadership to the Human Resources function in the California Region, ensuring oversight in the development of all Human Resources programs, services and functions, including labor/employee relations, contract negotiation and regional labor strategy, talent acquisition and talent stewardship, benefits planning and administration, compensation, occupational health and HRIS.

Contributed to company success by providing oversight and development of all Human Resources programs, services and functions, including: labor/employee relations, contract negotiation, recruitment and retention, benefits planning and administration, compensation, employee health services, workers compensation, EEO, management training and development.

Scripps Health is a well-known large, multi-hospital system in the San Diego area with approximately 11,000 employees. Increased participation in the employee Great Place to Work survey by 35%. Provided Human Resources leadership to the organization while senior leadership conducted a search for a permanent Human Resources Director for the Encinitas campus. Provided day to day direction to the HR staff in delivering support in all aspects of the human resources function, to include employee relations, compensation and benefits, recruitment and organizational

Provided consulting services to several Kindred Hospitals in the West Region, to include: designing and delivering Leadership Development modules, one on one coaching of the Executive Teams, consultation with CEOs on human resources related issues and development of employee Service Standards.

Banner Health is a highly-matrixed, multi-state healthcare system with approximately 22,000 employee. Banner Health was formed in the year 1999 as a result of a merger between Samaritan Health System and Lutheran Health System. Served as a key member of the Senior Leadership teams of six hospitals within the Banner Health System over 15+ years. Developed strategic HR functions bringing both respect and trust to an HR function that previously regarded as dysfunctional and unresponsive.