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San Antonio, Texas, United States

Kinavic is a leadership acceleration and advisory firm focused on maximizing the potential of executive talent.

Provide executive level coaching to senior level leaders and their teams with a catered approach to identifying and maximizing strengths, understanding blind spots and remediating, and positioning teams and individuals for superior performance and achievement. Provide leadership coaching to up-and-coming leaders by gathering insights from the client and key stakeholders, developing a clear coaching and development plan, and conducting work both within the coaching session and outside to achieve desired outcomes.

San Antonio, Texas Area

Provide HR business partnership to senior executive leaders in multiple business functions across USAA including contact centers in the banking & insurance, life, investment, and wealth management product lines which included approximately 8,000 employees at the time.Lead the team of HR Business Partners that support USAA's Staff Agencies, which includes approximately 10,000 employees. USAA's Staff Agencies have approximately 9,000 employees and are supported by a team of approximately 40 HR Business Partners at various levels. Functions include Chief Administrative Office, Technology and Digital, Chief Legal Office, Chief Risk Office, Chief Audit Office, Chief Financial Office, Chief HR Office, CEO Chief of Staff Office, and Enterprise Strategy & Marketing. Directly provide consultative partnership to the CEO's Chief of Staff and was selected to support this function during USAA’s CEO transition. Lead through transformation of the HR function to drive for scale and efficiency in order to deliver on critical employee experiences.Lead a team of HR Business Partners dedicated to aligning key HR functions such as compensation, benefits, leadership development with business counterparts for successful planning and delivery of HR programs and services to the business.Partner with USAA's HR Centers of Excellence to operationalize and implement key people strategies across client groups. Strong focus on partnering with the CEO Chief of Staff and USAA's Control Partners to scale and drive for efficiencies in a demanding regulatory environment.Provide proactive guidance and support for organizational planning and development initiatives that align USAA’s HR agenda in support of key member strategies

Helios HR provides outsourced HR (interim and long-term support), HR consulting and recruiting services. Helios optimizes your workforce and HR operations and allow organizations to focus on core business.As Managing Director, led a team of approximately 40 professional HR consultants who provided both retained and project-based HR consulting in a variety of industries, including technology, consulting services, government contracting, and non-profit. Developed internal structures and protocols for the consulting firm, including compensation and sales practices aimed at scaling the business and providing superior support to client organizations.Partnered with business development to develop and clearly define scope of work, as well as determine the team and/or individual best suited to deliver based on skills and experiences.

HR leader in a highly competitive region (Northern Virginia). Acted as change leader during a period of vast business and cultural transformation. Aligned all people initiatives with strategic initiatives of growing an emerging line of business, maximizing the value of a legacy business, improving quality of service to our customers, and improving employee engagement. Widely recognized as a thought leader, key business partner, and valued people leader with a focus on a consultative HR approach and methodology.Oversaw teams responsible for staffing modeling and recruitment, organizational development and training, employee relations, compensation and payroll, benefits administration, and safety/risk management. With the region's senior team, guided the region through a major organizational change with focus on cultural and financial transformation. Led the ‘turnaround’ of an HR organization by designing a consultative and forward-looking model which led to YOY improvements in HR satisfaction survey as well as increased engagement of HR employees.Provided executive sponsorship of Cox Nova Diversity Council, which has been recognized in the community as model Diversity Council. Chair of the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce Women's Business Council (2009).

Strategic HR Business Partner Covad Customer Operations and Wireless organizations. Provide HR guidance and collaborate with business leaders to map organizational strategic plans and objectives with human capital needs.

Fairfax, Va

HR Management to various lines of business including Finance & Accounting, Operations, and State & Local Solutions.