Same role, new name

As a member of Infrastructure and Sustainability leadership team, I am directly involved in the strategic direction of the division. In addition, I advise directors, managers and supervisors on employee relations issues and organizational development. I direct the operations of a seven-person human resources unit for the I&S division of the University of Colorado Boulder. The division has approximately 725 permanent and temporary employees in Facilities Operations and Services; Planning, Design and Construction; Environmental Health and Safety; and Real Estate Services. My team helps recruit candidates, provides departmental trainings (including an award winning mentoring program), coaches supervisors on performance plans and evaluations, manages worker's compensation and Family and Medical Leave cases, and creates and upholds departmental policy.

With a team of nine, the two co-chairs planned and executed a three-day regional conference for approximately 300 participants. The conference included educational sessions and a business partner exhibit hall as well as networking opportunities.

Rocky Mountain CUPA-HR is a local chapter of the National College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR) representing public and private colleges and universities across the United States. Rocky Mountain CUPA-HR encompasses Colorado, Nebraska and Wyoming. I started my time as the program manager and then moved into president-elect, president and past president.

The Chancellor's Committee on Women (CCW) is an informed advocate for all women on the campus — classified and unclassified staff, tenure-track and non-tenure track faculty; instructors, undergraduate, graduate, and professional students, and administrators. As a representative committee of women across campus, our collective experience is diverse and proactive, and we are committed to the following ongoing goals: We monitor the status of women on campus.We recommend policy to create significant change. We work to assure justice and equity for women at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

I was brought in as team lead during a hiring boom to advise managers on best hiring practices, find and implement process improvements and source, hire and orient new employees.