Seth Lockner Email & Phone Number

• Key role in development of short and long-term strategic direction for HR, with significant autonomy in the day-to-day leadership functions including Benefits, Business Partners, Employee Relations, Faculty Pay Administration, Service Center, and HRIS.• Serve as member of University Executive Committee, with dotted line reporting to the University President.• HR business partner to executive leadership on matters ranging from organization design and alignment, leadership development, talent planning, complex conflict resolution, and change management.• Oversight for employee relations practices, including investigations, disciplinary protocol, policy interpretation and application, risk-assessment, negotiation, severance, reduction in force planning, and leave-related issues.• Strategic leadership for Business Partner team, providing leadership in talent practices, employee relations, conflict-resolution, communications, compensation application, resource planning, organization alignment, performance management, engagement, and project management.• Oversight for foundational service teams including benefit plan design/administration, HR service center, adjunct faculty pay administration, compliance, and policy development/application.• Leadership of the Organization Effectiveness function, development and application of talent management programs and initiatives, including succession planning, and retention initiatives.• Significant involvement in compensation design and the application of compensation practices, including highly regulated plan design and executive pay practices.• Provide key support and direction for Talent Acquisition function, in-house executive search resource, and workforce planning process.• Oversight of HR budget and annual planning process.• HR leader for merger & acquisition initiatives, including due diligence and integration.• Strategic design and application of Department of Education guidelines for HR practices.

Served in a dual role as manager of the Staffing function and as Senior HR Consultant to the Hardware, Software, and Corporate Marketing Divisions, supporting over 450 colleagues in engineering, marketing, operations, and manufacturing.• Operated as a member of the Hardware Division and Software Division Leadership teams, providing consultation to senior management and participating on new product development core teams.• Led organization-development initiatives such as goal setting, management training, and engagement events.• Consulted with all levels of management on issues ranging from compensation, engagement, performance issues, communication, organization design, and career planning.• Coordinated, advised, and implemented strategies on individual terminations and organization-wide layoffs.• Led performance management initiatives to ensure consistent employee evaluation and assessment.• Set strategic direction on workforce planning, staffing deliverables and initiatives, including budgeting and forecasting, and providing day to day work direction for staff of four recruiters.• Served as HR representative on acquisition / due diligence teams for two separate acquisitions of European technology companies.• Earned three “Outstanding Contributor Awards” and was awarded discretionary performance-based stock option grant given to less than 5% of the company.• Served as onsite Office Manager/HR Consultant for Datacard start-up subsidiary organization called MedAssure, in Irvine, CA. Managed start-up office and all related vendor relationships; responsible for all HR-related functions including corporate communications, company policies, benefits, compensation, and performance management. Hired and developed staff from three to over twenty in less than four months. • Promoted from entry Staffing Specialist role into HR Consultant/Office Manager role in 18 months.

St. Cloud, Mn