Kelsey Gregory, MBA, MSSM

Senior Total Rewards Consultant

Kelsey Gregory is a proven compensation and total rewards practitioner with substantial experience in higher education and municipal government. Her professional scope has included broad-based compensation program design and administration, audits to ensure compliance with federal and state labor regulations, job evaluation, market pricing, data analysis, policy and procedure review, compensation cycle and process planning, training facilitation, communications planning, and consultation at levels within organizations, inclusive of organized labor compensation.

Prior to joining The Human Resource Consortium, Kelsey honed her compensation expertise within higher education at both large public research and smaller private universities. Her work has focused on strategic job architecture redesign projects, introduction of new guidelines and policies to streamline workflows, and external benchmarking to ensure close market alignment and competitive salary structures. Such projects have involved consultation with, and presentations to, senior leaders in numerous university departments and cross-functional collaboration with other human resources functional areas, project advisory groups, university finance, and executive leadership. While at Indiana University with its 10,000 employees, Kelsey partnered with labor relations colleagues to revise various university policies and successfully negotiate relevant changes with union-covered staff. Her role at Purdue University included responsibility for leading the annual merit pay cycle and performing job evaluation and external benchmarking for all positions in Purdue Applied Research Institute (PARI), the LLC research arm of the University. Additionally, Kelsey completed a compensation project management role with a city government municipality to align salary grades to current market data, build out updated job classifications, and refine processes according to industry best practices. The City Council easily passed a vote to adopt her recommendations into the salary ordinance.

Kelsey earned her Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from West Virginia University and holds Master of Business Administration and Master of Science in Strategic Management degrees from Indiana University. She is in the process of completing WorldatWork’s Certified Compensation Professional (CCP) credential. Kelsey has been deeply involved in the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR) throughout her time working in higher education, including participation in the Ignite (formerly Wildfire) immersive program to strengthen her breadth of HR knowledge, presentation at national conferences on the topic of pay equity, and service as an at-large member on the CUPA-HR Washington State Chapter Board.