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Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Los Angeles, California, Us

Founded in Los Angeles, California in 1985, the law firm of Wisner Baum has earned a reputation for breaking new legal ground, holding major corporations accountable, influencing public policy, and raising public awareness about important safety issues. Our trial experience across a broad range of practice areas includes over $4 billion in verdicts and settlements.Some of my achievements:Designed and implemented a competency framework and leadership development program, boosting leadership skills and employee engagement.Rolled out performance management company-wide and created a comprehensive compensation framework.Developed a feedback enhancement program, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.Conducted feedback training for managers and employees, increasing the frequency and quality of feedback.Led a coaching initiative to empower employees to reach their full potential.Introduced personalized coaching plans, resulting in improved individual performance and job satisfaction.Streamlined the hiring process and attracted top talent by revamping recruitment strategies.Implemented innovative sourcing and interview techniques, reducing time-to-fill by 50% and increasing hire quality.Overhauled operational efficiency, optimizing workflows and enhancing productivity.Designed and delivered a leadership development initiative to build a future leadership pipeline.Conducted leadership coaching and training workshops, enhancing leadership skills and employee engagement.Introduced Agile methodologies like Scrum and Kanban, improving project workflows and success rates.Led Agile training sessions and implemented Kanban boards, reducing project completion time by 30% and increasing success rates by 20%.Revised the organization's mission, vision, and values, aligning them with modernized job descriptions and policies.

San Diego, California, Us

Plaza Home Mortgage is a proven national leader dedicated to Wholesale and Correspondent lending. Since 2000, we’ve built our business on relationships and our deep understanding of the needs of the TPO community.Some of my achievements:Implemented a modern HR Operating Model capable of adeptly navigating the turbulence inherent in the mortgage industry's volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA). This model prioritized delivering results and creating value, all while adopting a proactive and strategic approach.Conducted a comprehensive assessment of our HR technology stack, resulting in a significant enhancement of efficiency, automation, and effectiveness. This initiative concurrently achieved a remarkable reduction of over 50% in technology expenditures.Overhauled the sales compensation structure to align and incentivize the right behaviors and create equity across the whole sales department.Conducted a comprehensive company-wide compliance audit, correcting FLSA statuses, pay practices, handbook, and policy updates, pay equity disparities, meticulous RIF (Reduction in Force) due diligence, and enhanced hiring, onboarding, and offboarding procedures.Crafted a fresh set of company mission, vision, and core values that are not only meaningful and unique but also authentically aligned with the organization's identity and purpose.Developed and delivered training to all managers, equipping them with effective documentation, feedback, and coaching techniques explicitly designed to inspire and enhance the engagement and productivity of their teams.Established and expanded a dedicated talent acquisition team, refined, and continuously improved our recruitment processes, and successfully introduced a new Applicant Tracking System (ATS) that led to a remarkable 100% increase in both hiring volume and speed.

Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

Scorpion is a full-service digital marketing and technology company that partners with law firms, home services businesses, franchises, small businesses, and healthcare organizations, to deliver an experience unlike any other.Some of my achievements:Established organizational structure for national People team including People Strategy & Experience, Compensation, Talent Acquisition, Employee Relations, Compliance and Talent Advisory & Development (HRBP & L&D).Developed and implemented HR strategies which resulted in increased employee engagement, satisfaction, and lowered Scorpion’s attrition rate to below 10%.Established people strategy including focus on integrating diversity, equity and inclusion throughout talent acquisition, leadership development, succession planning and retention of top talent.Managed and scaled the talent acquisition team from one recruiter to a team of seven, growing employee headcount from under 400 to over 1,200 in a 4-year period.Authored a Talent Acquisition framework that enabled recruiters to enhance industry metrics in terms of Cost Per Hire, Time to Fill, Selection ratios, Turnover rates, and eNPS scores and grew team output by 600%.Developed and implemented people communication and engagement plan to bring desired culture to life and deployed people listening strategy.Directed employee relations including all employment policies; disciplinary actions, performance management, HR related regulatory requirements as well as the state/federal laws and employment litigation.Co-authored the nationwide compensation philosophy, framework, and total rewards for all levels of employees.Managed employee relations complaints for years while building and training a team while building out an HRBP/ER department and framework.Led five tech acquisitions from due diligence to post-close integration. Led the strategic divesture of a Business Units (handled full cycle activities of these exits).

Los Angeles, California, Us

Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman is recognized as a preeminent plaintiff firm that handles commercial transportation litigation, pharmaceutical drug and medical device product liability, toxic torts, class actions and whistleblower lawsuits.

Sun Valley, California, Us

Before becoming Pacific Outdoor Living, we started out as Pacific Pavingstone, and only doing one trade: paving stone driveways and patios. Over the years, we were asked to do more and more things—from fireplaces to swimming pools.