Sheila Azari (She/Her), Executive Mba, Shrm-Scp Email & Phone Number

United States

• Provided compassionate care for Alzheimer’s and Dementia patients at ACASA Senior Care Franchise in Laguna Woods, California.• Assisted with daily living activities, medication management, and emotional support for patients and their families.• Implemented personalized care plans to ensure the highest level of comfort and quality of life for each individual.

- As People Operations & Total Rewards leader, drove strategy, design, implementation, communication, and operations for Compensation, Benefits, HRIS, and Payroll. Led and coached team of 5 HR employees.- Completed ADP Workforce Now implementation for Raytheon spinoff, while leading all facets of Human Resources function.- Managed employment contracts for overseas military operations employees in Qatar, Afghanistan and other MidEast regions as well as U.S.- Provided total rewards and compensation program design and analysis to clients. Delivered in areas of improving compensation programs, market pricing, and improving pay equity.- Partnered with leaders, operations, finance, and HR to establish overall compensation plans’ processes including design, administration, calculations, governance, and communication. - Presided over redesign of U.S. time-off plans/policies into one Paid Time-Off (PTO) program simplifying administration requirements and increasing flexibility for employees.- Led benefits plans, including health, welfare, medical, dental, vision, life, disability, employee assistance, 401(k), and COBRA, as well as voluntary/supplemental programs. Performed vendor negotiation and selection, budget analysis, and staff communication.- Independent consultant supporting clients with leading HR strategy offsites, employee engagement strategies, DE&I, recruitment strategies, focus groups, employee handbooks, policies, employee engagement strategies, HRIS, employment law, FMLA / ADA & employment issues.Former clients: Genentech/Roche (M&A team), Providence St. Joseph, Warner Bros, CIT, Deckers Outdoors, Hyundai, Amgen, two law firms, Raytheon spinoff, architecture firm.

Aliso Viejo, California, Us

• Strategic HR Business partner for human resources consulting company. Enabled establishment of HR functions while ensuring compliance with federal, state and labor laws for small to medium companies via partnerships with operations and C-suite.• Developed employee handbook & policies, managed benefits outsourcing, LOA outsourcing, development of executive leadership training, RIF’s, employee relations & investigations, multi-site/multi-state & international, legal, workers compensation, benefits development, and employee training (Supervisor Responsibility in HR Compliance, Regulatory Requirements for Paying Your Employees, Sexual Harassment and more)• Partnered with Operations across 7 to 22 clients to significantly scale capacity, developing talent strategies to enable future growth plans.• HR expert for HR Help Line

Glendale, Us

Led HR function through the COVID pandemic for 400+ employee healthcare company following sudden departure of HR manager. Led a team of 4 recruiters and payroll specialist, and managed all workers compensation.

Duarte, Ca, Us

Responsible for overall operations and strategic delivery of the "Accelerating City of Hope Excellence" team and portfolio of projects; facilitating lean process improvement activities and cultural transformation. Partnered with CHRO on Physician Leadership Development program design, and led organization design and change workstreams during $4 million EPIC (EHR) implementation. Led due diligence activities for T-Gen (precision medicine) merger & acquisition.

- For Providence St. Joseph Healthcare, implemented WorkDay across 4 Southern California hospitals - Mission Hospital Laguna Beach, Mission Hospital Mission Viejo, St. Joseph Orange and St. Jude.- For Southern California Edison, supported OpEx restructuring, led organizational development interventions, leadership strategy sessions, developed new Compliance operating model and organization design, and stood up OCM office in HR function.

Irvine, Ca, Us

Led and developed a department of 12 HR professionals at global headquarters who provided both direct HR services for all 4,800 employees ($96 trillion in global assets) and regional shared services for consumer financial services (auto, private and corporate financing) subsidiary unit of Hyundai Motor Group across 12 countries - Korea, U.S, UK, China, Germany, Canada, Russia, Brazil, India, Australia, Indonesia, and Singapore. - Developed Hyundai's first-ever Leadership Development Program, First 90-Days Leadership Acceleration Program, and Management Development Program.- Stood up Talent Management Center of Excellence focused on Organizational Development, Talent Development, and Change Management- Developed customized change management methodology and tri-level certification program. Certified over 200 Hyundai project managers, and coached executive leaders on effective project sponsorship.The company's focus on digital transformation propelled its Certified Pre-Owned car business. HCA supports the financial needs of Hyundai Motor Group, Genesis Motor America, and Kia Motors America, serving more than 1.8 million customers and 1,600 dealers nationwide.

Irvine, Ca, Us

Irvine, Ca, Us

Paris, Ile-De-France, Fr

Successfully drove large-scale change initiatives to improve speed, cost, effectiveness and delivery of strategic projects for Shared Services. Established a culture of continuous improvement using Lean Sigma. • Developed and deployed first Balanced Scorecard for Chief Financial Officer.• Developed Westfield's first functional competency models with SVP, Human Resources.• Led change management for portfolio of projects and provided business impact assessment to Senior Executive Team. • Supported PMO in implementation of Portfolio Management tool to plan and prioritize all projects based on strategic objectives, cost/benefit considerations, timing and capacity. Outcomes reduced portfolio reporting time from 2 days to 2 hours. • Corporate wide Purchasing Card Program. Generated savings of $75k per year by eliminating in house transaction processing costs. • Implemented web based Procure to Pay (P2P) solution. Conducted Activity Value Analysis (AVA) for AP department, with PMO redesigned approval workflow and electronic invoice data capture. Reduced invoice-processing time by 45%. • Converted 55% of checks to electronic payment (ACH) - shaved off 10 hours per week in check printing and bank reconciliation time. • Program managed a complex SAP platform upgrade that was delivered on time, within budget, and without any service disruptions to employees or external customers.

Thousand Oaks, Ca, Us

Hired as consultant in Corporate Communications & Global Marketing, and converted to full-time, high potential role as Chief of Staff to EVP, (Clinical) Operations function - the group that manages all Amgen clinical trials globally. Developed marketing communications strategies for Amgen's oncology and nephrology therapeutic areas. Functional communicator for EVP, Sales & Marketing. Received two Amgen awards - Client Service Award and Oncology Communications.In 2021, Amgen was named one of the world's best workplaces by Great Place to Work and Fortune magazine, ranking eighth among 25 companies. Amgen was also recognized as a Great Place to Work in 2023. Amgen has been named one of America's best large employers by Forbes for eight consecutive years. In 2023, Amgen moved up to the top 60 on the list. Amgen has also been named one of Forbes' best employers for women, diversity, and new grads. Amgen was awarded the SkillsFuture Employer Award in 2019 for its emphasis on employee skills development.

Deerfield, Illinois, Us

$12.8B in revenue. Promoted to VP, Global Communications from Human Resources after managing three consecutive restructuring efforts (including closure of 20 plasma centers) and all associated communications, supporting division President and ELT.

Deerfield, Illinois, Us

HR Generalist and project management responsibilities for global corporate headquarters for Baxter's largest division. Part of global HR function and "Project Evolution" team that decreased core HR costs at Baxter International by $20 million (25%) and optimized future HR operating model on initiative to develop Field HR, Centers of Excellence (COEs), and HR Shared Services for 43 locations across US, EMEA, APAC, LATAM and Canada.

Master, Executive Mba

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Communication, Journalism, And Related Programs