Functional Skills
Communications
Data Collection / Research
Employee Engagement
Employee Retention
HEOR Strategy
HR Management
Human Capital Consulting
Innovation Management
Organizational Effectiveness
Organizational Leadership
Post-Merger Integration
Private Equity Investing
Requirement Analysis
Succession Planning
HR Transformation
Software Skills
Workday
UKG Dimensions
Certifications
SPHRSenior Professional in Human Resources
SHRM-SCPSHRM Senior Certified Professional
Sector Experience
Business Services
Healthcare
Retail
Technology
Experience
Northstar Anesthesia
Human Resources
Senior Director of Human Resources
1/2020 - 1/2024
Transformed HR operations, payroll, acquisition integrations, and benefits for a private equity-owned provider of outsourced anesthesia care with 4,800-plus employees in over 200 facilities.
● • Led strategic HR operations and played a pivotal role in M&A and process optimization, directly supporting executive leadership in achieving business objectives to support a successful sales and acquisition strategy.
• Developed comprehensive benefit strategies to attract and retain top talent, while ensuring they are cost conscious, competitive and aligned with industry standards.
• Designed and implemented HR initiatives, policies and processes to increase organizational effectiveness through comprehensive change management initiatives.
• Provided leadership and coaching to the team to deliver consistent, high-quality services and support across the organization by developing and implementing scalable policies, processes, and training programs to exceed operational needs and performance s
● • Led strategic HR operations and played a pivotal role in M&A and process optimization, directly supporting executive leadership in achieving business objectives to support a successful sales and acquisition strategy.
• Developed comprehensive benefit strategies to attract and retain top talent, while ensuring they are cost conscious, competitive and aligned with industry standards.
• Designed and implemented HR initiatives, policies and processes to increase organizational effectiveness through comprehensive change management initiatives.
• Provided leadership and coaching to the team to deliver consistent, high-quality services and support across the organization by developing and implementing scalable policies, processes, and training programs to exceed operational needs and performance s
WIS International
Human Resources
Head of Employment Practices
1/2015 - 1/2020
Championed an HR vision while forging sustainable HR infrastructure, systems, processes, and practices to support talent acquisition, retention, and employee engagement for a private equity-owned global inventory, experiential marketing, and data collection services company with over 15,000 employees.
● • Built, mentored and developed a high-performing HR business partner team to support growth, foster communication, enhance leadership capabilities across the organization and enable systematic decision-making across the entire team.
• Partnered with leadership on pre-acquisition diligence and post-acquisition integration plans and acted as a strategic advisor on all departmental restructuring, workforce planning, and business realignments.
• Optimized HRIS system and built a HRIS team to analyze HR data to identify trends and develop strategies for improving HR processes to streamline remote onboarding, benefits, performance evaluations, and communication
• Drove the implementation
● • Built, mentored and developed a high-performing HR business partner team to support growth, foster communication, enhance leadership capabilities across the organization and enable systematic decision-making across the entire team.
• Partnered with leadership on pre-acquisition diligence and post-acquisition integration plans and acted as a strategic advisor on all departmental restructuring, workforce planning, and business realignments.
• Optimized HRIS system and built a HRIS team to analyze HR data to identify trends and develop strategies for improving HR processes to streamline remote onboarding, benefits, performance evaluations, and communication
• Drove the implementation
The LaSalle Group
Human Resources
Vice President, Human Resources
1/2014 - 1/2015
Facilitated and managed the organization's people strategy, including talent acquisition and management, and employee engagement for a regional provider of senior living memory care facilities with over 1,200 employees.
• Developed competitive compensation structures and benefits strategies to attract and retain top talent while ensuring compliance with employment laws.
• Created transformational life-cycle approach to talent management, with a focus on forecasting, staffing, onboarding, development, and retention, resulting in cost savings, improved service, and enhanced positioning for growth.
• Designed an employee branding strategy to align company's unique identity to attract the right candidates, promote increased retention and a positive internet presence.
• Championed DEIB initiatives in recruitment, employee engagement, and thought leadership on Executive Team.
• Established and implemented data-driven tools to track key performance indicators, enhancing decision-making a
• Developed competitive compensation structures and benefits strategies to attract and retain top talent while ensuring compliance with employment laws.
• Created transformational life-cycle approach to talent management, with a focus on forecasting, staffing, onboarding, development, and retention, resulting in cost savings, improved service, and enhanced positioning for growth.
• Designed an employee branding strategy to align company's unique identity to attract the right candidates, promote increased retention and a positive internet presence.
• Championed DEIB initiatives in recruitment, employee engagement, and thought leadership on Executive Team.
• Established and implemented data-driven tools to track key performance indicators, enhancing decision-making a
Mosaic Sales Solutions
Human Resources
Director, HR Services, North America
1/2009 - 1/2014
Partnered with leadership of all business units to execute timely business decisions to drive profitability and minimize risk for a private equity backed sales, experiential marketing and merchandising firm with over 10,000 employees.
• Developed HR programs and identified key HR metrics to analyze and solve business problems that impacted organizational effectiveness (i.e., improve productivity, reduce cost, and increase productivity and profitability). Led Canadian and U.S. HRIS team through a system implementation.
• Established and implemented a cost-effective, progressive, and proactive compensation and benefits programs to provide motivation, incentives, and rewards for effective performance and to provide programs that utilize an employee and company partnership for health and retirement benefits administration.
• Created career pathing processes, company-wide leveling, compensation bands and developed succession planning programs and tracking mechanisms to evaluate bench str
• Developed HR programs and identified key HR metrics to analyze and solve business problems that impacted organizational effectiveness (i.e., improve productivity, reduce cost, and increase productivity and profitability). Led Canadian and U.S. HRIS team through a system implementation.
• Established and implemented a cost-effective, progressive, and proactive compensation and benefits programs to provide motivation, incentives, and rewards for effective performance and to provide programs that utilize an employee and company partnership for health and retirement benefits administration.
• Created career pathing processes, company-wide leveling, compensation bands and developed succession planning programs and tracking mechanisms to evaluate bench str
Rent-A-Center
Human Resources
Director, Human Resources
1/2003 - 1/2009
Delivered HR consulting services and solutions to the Midwest and Southern divisions (1,000-plus employees) of a publicly traded retailer with more than 2,300 locations and over 17,000 employees.
• Designed and operated talent acquisition initiatives, developing a robust talent pipeline and implementing succession planning that result in the attraction and hiring of high caliber candidates and to ensure leadership readiness.
• Provided expertise in dispute resolution, investigations, and documentation to ensure compliance with government regulatory requirements to prevent liability exposure, expedite the resolution of employee relations problems and developed appropriate steps for resolution and prevention.
• Constructed and implemented executive dashboards to monitor and report on enterprise-wide KPIs, providing critical insights that guided strategic decisions to promote a metrics driven, high performing culture emphasizing ethics, accountability, innovation, diversity, and inclus
• Designed and operated talent acquisition initiatives, developing a robust talent pipeline and implementing succession planning that result in the attraction and hiring of high caliber candidates and to ensure leadership readiness.
• Provided expertise in dispute resolution, investigations, and documentation to ensure compliance with government regulatory requirements to prevent liability exposure, expedite the resolution of employee relations problems and developed appropriate steps for resolution and prevention.
• Constructed and implemented executive dashboards to monitor and report on enterprise-wide KPIs, providing critical insights that guided strategic decisions to promote a metrics driven, high performing culture emphasizing ethics, accountability, innovation, diversity, and inclus