Sandy Nebel Email & Phone Number

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

I consult on a wide range of areas such as HR department reorganization, employee engagement, culture, change management, recruiting, compensation design and analysis, performance management, benefits, policy and process improvements, leadership coaching.Industries I've served include small to mid-size manufacturing, medical device, financial services.

St Louis Park, MN

• Led corporate and regional Human Resources departments, consulting with senior leadership to align people strategy with business goals. Includes performance management, talent management, employee development.
• Directed employee-facing acquisition activities, communicating changes related to benefits, payroll, policies.
• Improved sales 10% year-over-year, through such performance improvement initiatives as on-boarding, compensation, leader development, coaching, engagement.
• Changed talent acquisition model that has resulted in saving $100,000+ annually, improving recruiting effectiveness, and reducing attrition by 50%. Added new 70 person call center. Implemented social media recruiting.
• Led cross-functional change team to develop a high performance organizational culture, increasing employee engagement by 17%. Created toolkit of best practices to drive engagement at all levels.
• Created a talent pipeline by implementing leadership development tools and processes such as talent identification and tracking, succession planning, training, coaching.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Provide interim services as Human Resources Leader and HR Business Partner.Design and develop onboarding, product, skill, and systems training.Consult organizations on a wide range of issues involving its workforce including:Talent Acquisition | Culture Transformation | Performance Management | Succession Planning | Leadership Development | Employee.

Minnetonka, MN

• Led staff of 23 and managed employee development projects to achieve corporate goals. Developed internal consulting relationships with cross-functional teams at 5 call center locations regarding human capital.
• Implemented strategy to increase revenue to exceed goal by revising sales staff selection, training and processes.
• Improved supervisor performance through design and development of specific, skill-based training program.
• Prepared measurement and evaluation plans. Analyzed and reported results leading to improved decision-making.
• Increased efficiency by leveraging the use of elearning technology.

Plymouth, MN

• Supervised staff and development of training to improve effectiveness of Global Services team in the storage area networking industry. Expanded responsibilities to include technical documentation team.
• Reduced learning curve of new technical employees and enabled service technicians to take a broader range of calls, adding flexibility to meet customer demands.
• Accelerated new product launches through creation of a blended learning strategy.
• Increased product time-to-market and added value for customers by revising organizational design, defining work flows and processes. Improved department production by 41%.

Brooklyn Park, MN

• Consulted with management and individual contributors in support of the strategic business direction.
• Led project team to design, develop and implement e-learning sales training and certification program to increase sales with new product launches.
• Collaborated with executive team on employee engagement initiatives such as core values assessment and professional development.
• Conducted strategic planning sessions with leadership and employees.

Mba, Management

"Managing Critical Talent," research paper and presentation

B.A., Education