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• Perform employee relations activities including employee investigations, benefits administration, new hire orientation, and acting as the primary HR contact for 600+ employees • Increase employee retention and morale by conducting stay interviews with 60+ employees and synthesizing any actionable suggestions for executive leadership• Introduced and developed a Change Management Toolkit to provide HR Professionals and Managers with training, workbooks, and additional resources to implement change activities• Facilitate management trainings including change management, inclusion and diversity, and interview skills• Overhaul the new hire orientation program to provide a better, smoother experience for new hires• Established a standardized attendance policy for 2000+ non-exempt employees in 40+ locations to forecast efficient operations, provide consistent employee experiences, and legally protect the company• Led the execution of a change management plan and communications to successfully implement a standardized attendance policy in partnership with regional HR managers

• Consult with executive-level clients to understand the organization’s change needs, provide tailored change mitigation solutions, and increase stakeholder engagement • Develop change management strategies that are tailored to best engage the organization and move stakeholders along the change curve • Complete and analyze change management deliverables such as stakeholder analysis, change impact assessment, and change readiness assessment• Engage and support impacted stakeholders through their specific change journeys by utilizing creative channels including roadshows, newsletters, animated videos, etc. • Proactively identified potential change risks and anticipated points of resistance within the organization and develop mitigation plans to address the concerns• Create a change adoption KPI dashboard and selected relevant KPIs to track technology and process adoption for regional deployments throughout hypercare • Support organizational change management workstreams for various global system implementations including SAP S/4HANA, SuccessFactors, Blackline, and Kronos

HR Generalist & Program Management Experience• Coach and influence senior leadership and hiring managers on best university hiring practices, intern development opportunities, and rotational program assignments • Redesign and manage national internship program across five main locations with the goal of developing and identifying top talent for full-time conversion while increasing intern engagement• Revise onboarding and orientation processes for over 150 interns to improve efficiency and intern experienceChange Management & Process Improvement Experience• Created guidelines for the intern program and campus recruitment to increase consistency in university relations across 12 business units who were recently centralized into the recruitment hub • Train and consult hiring managers and HR partners on new HRIS requisition management and process• Build internal processes to create more efficient practices for campus event planning, representative management, resume distribution, and general recruitment expectationsRecruitment Experience• Responsible for full-cycle recruitment across all functions (engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, finance, ect.) leading to more than 150 intern and full-time hires per year • Project lead for a team of six to design and implement TE’s recruitment presence at a national diversity engineering conference including: executive and representative training, career fair recruitment/coordination, and branding • Analyze ROI for university relations hires to enhance target school, event, and intern conversion strategies • Partner with 20 target universities to build relationships with key programs and source applicants on-site• Coordinate over 150 university events per year in conjunction with the logistics vendor and recruit at over 50% of these events during the Fall and Spring recruitment cycles

GE's HR Leadership Program is well known for growing future HR Leaders by trusting them with difficult assignments and supporting their development with advanced training. I was placed with Erie Manufacturing’s Supply Chain where I assisted the HR and Union Relations team to support around 2,000 manufacturing employees. My assignments exposed me to a variety of HR functions including: Union Relations, Training and Organization Development, Recruitment, and Process Improvement.