Michelle Denman Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Santa Barbara, California, Us

As Chief People Officer, my team is responsible for hiring, retaining, and developing top talent across the organization. I am particularly focused on developing a people strategy that aligns people operations with business strategy. I am also deeply committed to creating a community of diverse, engaged employees that feel a sense of belonging and understand the value of their contribution to the company's success. I oversee the People Excellence team including Talent Acquisition, People Development, People Operations, and Business Partner teams around the world.

Oakland, California, Us

I led a global team of exceptional Talent Partners, People Operations, Business Partners, and Office Managers who were responsible for all phases of the employee life-cycle. We facilitated and supported an award winning culture with an A+ Culture rating on Comparably that included 22 awards for SMB companies.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

As VP of People at Mixpanel I led an amazing team of People Operations and Recruiting professionals and touch all aspects of the employee experience from hiring and on-boarding through career and leadership development. With a passion for creating an environment where employees from diverse backgrounds can thrive we created trend-setting benefits and rewards programs that allowed employees to customize their plans to fit their personal needs and lifestyle. Our focus on community service and volunteerism was infused in everything we did and our workspace and perks support our fun and engaging culture.

Us

Responsible for designing talent strategies to attract, develop and retain world class talent in 12 countries and operationalizing those strategies to focus on driving higher engagement and building AppSense's reputation as a great place to work. Aligned all aspects of talent programs from rewards, learning, coaching, and recognition to maintain a culture of engagement and high performance; ensuring our global employee base understood the company's goals and aligned their work behind our business initiatives while building out a top performing HR organization that adapted to the needs and growing scale of a global organization.Selected Contributions:♦ Played a key role in the transformation of the company culture and operations through a change in executive leadership. Led the organization to blend old and new company culture, bridge geographic and functional divides and improve collaboration.♦ Developed and implemented a rigorous and consistent performance management process to ensure goal alignment and drive performance based reward systems♦ Transformed and rebuilt the HR operation to scale globally with a 25% reduction in headcount and a 40% reduction in cost♦ Rebuilt the company’s employment brand to attract top talent in Sales, Marketing and Engineering. Received designation from Glassdoor as one of the Top 50 SMB companies to work for in 2015.

Tokyo, Japan, Jp

Selected to drive alignment of global HR strategy with business goals focused on establishing a high-performance culture combined with a collaborative, innovative, and entrepreneurial philosophy. Orchestrated all aspects of human resources, including talent recruitment, development, structuring, and management as well as coordination of compensation and rewards programs, global assignments, and employee relations. Functioned as member of the North America Executive Site Operating Committee charged with monitoring management operations of 10 corporate facilities. Play a leading role in the ongoing innovation of management practices aimed at improving productivity, engagement, and retention and of highly skilled knowledge workers.Selected Contributions:♦ Impacted organizational and competitive performance through executive counsel / coaching globally, serving as mentor to HR Business Partners in the US and overseas.♦ Successfully planned and implemented $1.2M HR budget (achieving goals 5% under budget) through strategic creation and delivery of HR communications, recommendations, and best practices.♦ Served an instrumental role in corporate growth through facilitation of successful business acquisitions following expert due diligence. Applied extensive expertise in M&A.♦ Boosted performance quality of HR team while slashing budget by 45% in 3 years through strategic restructuring of human resources operations.

Spearheaded analysis and restructuring of Commercial Banking division, identifying and addressing areas in need of improvement in order to elevate leadership quality and overall corporate performance.Provided expert leadership development, team effectiveness programs, change management, and redesign of organizational solutions / services. Leader of enterprise-wide project focused on structuring HR Business Partner development program. Trained and developed top-performing HR leaders and personnel.Selected Contributions:♦ Improved performance quality within human resources units by designing and implementing a competency framework and facilitating training of more than 100 HR staff members ranging from leaders to administrators.♦ Orchestrated large-scale ventures such as liquidation of the company’s Commercial Banking division encompassing re-structuring of workforce totaling over 800 staff members.♦ Received honors and commendations for top performance, including President’s Club Award and Performance Award in 2004.

Austin, Texas, Us

Led HR operations within company’s Software Development Division encompassing overall management of four Senior HR Generalists and support staff.Selected Contributions:♦ Provided integral collaboration in redefining corporate performance management philosophies, processes, and metrics as part of the Performance Management Task Force.♦ Facilitated enterprise growth by spearheading business aspects of two corporate acquisitions.♦ Honored with “Company Maker” designation (defined as top 5% of staff).