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Human Resources Director
Huron Valley Sinai HospitalHuman Resources Director
Jul. 2024Commerce, Michigan, United States• Develops and implements HR strategies, programs, and initiatives that align with the hospital’s business objectives. • Provides strategic HR leadership across core HR services including recruitment, employee relations, health and safety, learning and development, and legal and regulatory compliance. • Enhances efficiency in HR operations by implementing HR enterprise services and overseeing salary, wages, benefits, labor standards, staffing, contract labor, overtime, premium pay, and performance metrics. • Oversees onboarding and orientation activities to improve the new hire experience and reduce first-year turnover rates. • Partners with leadership to develop People Strategies aimed at reducing turnover and enhancing retention. • Collaborates with C-Suite executives to achieve business results, sharing best practices and successes during HR Leader calls. • Establishes trust with leaders as an expert HR advisor, influencing decisions and acting as a trusted confidante to the CEO. • Communicates across the organization to build awareness and gain support for HR decisions, considering their impact on the entire organization. • Leads and participates in employee advocacy and engagement programs, supports operational initiatives, and creates action plans for improvement and recognition efforts. • Employs critical thinking and influencing skills to resolve divergent positions, using metrics and data to support positions and ensuring timely communication of final investigative results of employee relations or labor complaints. • Works collaboratively with legal and ethics/compliance departments to enforce policies and procedures, leading HR efforts during internal and external audits, such as Joint Commission reviews.
AVP Human Resources
GentivaAVP Human Resources
Jan. 2022 - May. 2023• Provided senior level strategic counsel and influenced key strategies and initiatives to drive organization effectiveness and strengthen the culture in Hospice and Palliative Care. • Developed strategy and implementation plans in the areas of employee engagement and satisfaction, retention, compensation, and talent development for 3500 employees in SW Region by reducing overall turnover below 30%. • Collaborated, coordinated, and provided strategic partnership to Executive Leadership to develop alignment with the overall HR strategy. • Educated, communicated, and standardized best practices in the areas of performance management, retention, compensation, compliance, and employee relations. • Effectively communicated business goals and priorities to the HR Business Partners. • Partnered with Operations Leaders to provide strategy and implementation of plans to drive measurable progress on employee engagement, diversity, equity & inclusion, and organization culture. • Utilized workforce data to determine key metrics and trends to proactively identify risk and opportunities and lead actions to impact results. • Coached and developed direct reports to enhance and improve professional effectiveness through capability development including consultation, solutioning, critical thinking, collaboration, change management, and strategic problem solving. • Implemented and provided oversight to the performance management process, provided guidance and support to managers to ensure fair and consistent evaluations, goal setting, and development planning. • Partnered with Talent Acquisition to develop and implement recruitment strategies to attract top talent and impact turnover. • Oversight of all aspects of HR concerns and processes including learning and development, employee relation concerns, compliance, the employee lifecycle (new-hire onboarding, offboarding), benefit and leave of absence concerns/processes, compensation concerns and overall employee support.
HR Director | HR Business Partner
RHA Health Services, LLCHR Director | HR Business Partner
Mar. 2021 - Dec. 2021Atlanta, Georgia, United States• Planned and directed human resource programs to ensure the organization's current and future HR requirements are met at a local level. • Contributed to the overall business strategy and its execution by partnering with business leaders to identify, prioritize and build organizational capabilities. • Liaised with area leadership to develop and implement local HR strategies that are appropriate for unit/department business needs and consistent with the organization's overall HR strategy. • Led resource allocation and program planning in alignment with the vision and objectives of the local branch, department, and HR. • Advised leadership and managers on compensation data and best practices to facilitate appropriate budgeting. • Partnered with management to identify and address gaps in skill sets to achieve organization objectives and foster a high performing workforce. • Communicated unit/department talent strategy and priority to talent acquisition and learning development to facilitate ongoing sourcing and growth. • Provided leadership guidance to implement changes needed to improve branch(s) functional performance. • Monitored and analyzed various human resource metrics and provided proactive consultation to address potential business issues. • Partnered with COE Leads, Human Resources Business Partners, and organization leadership to effectively administer and improve administration of human resources programs and services. • Prepared development plans for high potential employees in key positions. • Partnered with leadership and created processes to reduce turnover and build a culture of trust.
Corporate Human Resources Manager (formerly Gentiva/Kindred At Home)
Kindred at HomeCorporate Human Resources Manager (formerly Gentiva/Kindred At Home)
Feb. 2018 - Mar. 2021Atlanta, Georgia, United StatesEarned a promotion in 2020 following a highly successful tenure as Regional Human Resources Manager, serving as an influential leader who demonstrates strategic thinking abilities and provided HR consultation and support to home health locations across the south region. • Engaged leadership and fostered collaboration between human resources departments and executive leadership; responsible for communicating the organization’s strategic approach. • Created and implemented employee engagement action plans for executive leadership. • Monitored and provided expertise to full life cycle recruitment including strategic sourcing, interviewing, negotiating offers, closing qualified candidates and on-boarding new employees. • Identified cultural and corporate developmental needs. Researched, created, and delivered training programs which include, sexual harassment, FMLA/LOA, Diversity and Inclusion, annual performance reviews and progressive discipline training. • Provided appropriate HR leadership when investigating all employee relation concerns including compliance investigations, conflict resolution, terminations and other disciplinary actions. • Introduced strategic and tactical action plans to address company turnover. • Proactively respond to employee questions regarding but not limited to the following: benefits, payroll, talent acquisition, company policies, practices and guidelines. • Made appropriate employment decisions and analyzed leave information for employees on ADA/FMLA/Personal leaves. Partnered with corporate legal executives to determine best practices with workers comp claims.
Senior Human Resources Consultant
Wellstar Health SystemSenior Human Resources Consultant
Nov. 2011 - Feb. 2018• Partnered with business executive leaders in corporate Shared Services (Home Health/Hospice, Information Technology, Revenue Cycle, Medical Imaging, RN Float Pool, Security, Supply Chain, etc.) to design and delivered targeted solutions, including strategic planning, change management and team building spanning throughout 11 hospitals including corporate locations. • Provided consultative advice and support to senior leaders and managers to address complex issues impacting the business, including mitigating risk and managing solutions. • Managed compliance across the business, including assistance with policy creation and execution. Provided support on HR-related matters including talent acquisition, compensation, benefits administration, and employee relations. • Served as a key strategic HR leader, analyzing HR trends across the corporation and proactively designing programs to address trends. • Facilitated New Employee Orientation for employees, including the completion of I-9 and other new hire documentation to ensure compliance. • Partnered with department executive leaders to provide successful employee transitions to outsource companies such as MedSpeed, Conifer Health Solutions and Health Port. • Partnered with Talent Acquisition Consultants to develop strategic recruitment initiatives to recruit top talent and implement processes for recruiting critical staffing needs. • Created and revised department policies and remote/offsite agreements and provided interpretation of HR policies and procedures.

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