With a national focus on resurgence of manufacturing and technology with heightened utilization of robotics and automation efficacy in the U.S., leaders and employees in this sector will continually need to:
SPECIALTY INDUSTRIES
Manufacturing & High Tech
Through adept, strategic leadership alignment in addition to innovative employee engagement strategies, and leading-edge HR & OD practices, we create highly customized solutions to empower clients to exceed expectations, inspire employee and customer loyalty, and thrive in their rapidly evolving marketplace.
- Hone leadership alignment as well as HR and Organization Development best practices;
- Develop a strategic and equitable balance of people and technically-centric operations to:
- Enable greater workforce investment in innovation and human-driven interactive, operational, and leadership endeavors to mitigate lower-value, human costs;
- Elevate workplace and customer safety while ensuring confidentiality and personal security through best in class technology;
- Update and create newly evolving skillsets by proactively designing and implementing innovative workforce strategies; and
- Increase market-share and shareholder value by focusing on customer loyalty;
- Create people-centric organizational cultures that nurture employee collaboration, performance, growth, and ability to thrive;
- Design and implement talent magnetizing programs to attract, engage, retain, and promote and
- Anticipate and implement transformative change, creating employee engagement and driving success rather than resistance.
Nature of Work We’ve Completed for Manufacturing & High Tech Clients
- Large-scale, Rapid Growth: design, development, and implementation to grow from 20 hires/year to over 100 per month including employment branding, TA strategies and execution, supervisory selection, redesign of selection and onboarding practices, hiring manager and new hire training programs, communications strategies, scaled HR design, etc.
- Multi-function Shared Services Assessment & Recommendations in Context of Strategy and 19 Business Line Leaders Needs with Follow-up Reassessment
- Leadership Succession Planning
- Large-scale, Multi-Division Culture Shift: executive, leadership, management and employee levels.
- Rapid Assimilation Facilitation – New Executive Hires
- HR Assessment & Restructure
- HR Teambuilding & Collaboration
- Affirmative Action Planning
- Supervisor Training
- Executive Coaching
- Competitive Market Compensation Study and Design and Rollout of Compensation System
- Competitive Market Benefits Study and Recommendations
- Retained Searches: Chief HR Officer, HR Professionals, Software Engineers
Why Does HR Matter Much More Now?
With average employee engagement at a low of 29%, there’s acute pressure to engage employees and elevate performance, irrespective of industry or strategic choice.
While the human to tech pendulum continues to swing in manufacturing and high tech, where and how can HR drive greater levels of vital organizational performance and value?
Our team’s wide and deep industry expertise with highly collaborative and partnered approach enables us to:
- Instill organizational connectivity through leadership alignment and trust through collaborative partnership;
- Significantly improve employee engagement;
- 400% increase in organizational performance and value by aligning, integrating, and elevating to best practice HR & OD;
- 300% acceleration in effective culture change
- 233% increase to customer loyalty (retention, expansion, and referral); and
- 167% elevation (from 30% to 80% average success) in change management transformation success.
Manufacturing
High-Tech
Our healthcare team with internal and external healthcare expertise:
- Josephine Agnello-Veley, M.S. – Senior HR Consultant: Former HR leader for F50 manufacturer and F500 utility with prior expertise as Sr Compliance Officer for DOL/OFCCP
- Yvonne Alverio – Culture & Collaboration Practice Leader: 25+ years of highly successful culture change consulting leadership for Campbell’s, Merck, and many others including technology transformations subsequent to internal roles as Chief D&I Officer at Aetna Life & Casualty, Lotus, and Wang;
- Gregg Barratt – HR & OD Practice Leader: 25+ years of standout leadership, management, service, and culture change training for AVNA, Culbro Corp., Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, IBM, JDS Uniphase, Sportech, and Texaco in addition to internal training leadership for BIC, RJ Nabisco, and Pitney Bowes;
- Michael J. Butler, Esq., MA, MS – HR and Total Rewards Practice Leader: internal leadership roles have included Chief HR Officer Ensign Bickford Industries, ProShares & Point72 investment firms, and Cablevision in addition to Benefits Partner at Hewitt.
- Shanon Cornell, MSHRM, CCMM – Senior HR & Total Rewards Consultant: external consulting expertise for large utility company and internal experience as HR Business Partner handling engagement, succession, and total rewards for GE and previously with Lexmark International in talent acquisition and compensation.
- Valerie Davis-Howard, MBA – Senior Culture & OD Consultant & Executive Coach: 15+ years in OD consulting across industries after more than a decade of internal work in OD at Chase Manhattan Bank, The Hartford, Cigna Insurance, Amoco, Proctor & Gamble, and Pepsi-Cola;
- Gary Decker, MBA, PCC, CPC, ELI-MP – Sr. HR, OD, & Change Management Consultant and Executive Coach: 30 yrs internal Finance, IT, and HR leadership for F500 Sealed Air Corporation preceded by accounting management with Deloitte clients;
- Betsy Larson, MPA – HR and Total Rewards Practice Leader: Successful external consulting in high tech, manufacturing, higher education, healthcare, and financial services subsequent to internal executive compensation, performance, and HR roles for Lexmark Int’l, Indiana University, MassMutual, and Cigna.
- Kawel LauBach, MSOD – Principal: Awarded (global) CHRO of the Year by HRO Magazine in 2015 Kawel is a top CHRO in the world. In manufacturing and high tech he consulted externally to Osterman Plastics to redesign and rebrand the HR function and also founded a start-up manufacturing company with bottling assembly line, nanotechnology, and extraction firm.
- Bruce Nichols – Senior HR & Shared Services Consultant: As CHRO for Wheelabrator, led $2B private equity acquisition due diligence including design and implementation of the new organization. Also led Liberty Mutual HR’s workforce strategies and technology optimization as well as designed and implemented new HR service delivery model for 26K employees in 42 states for Citizens Financial.
- Regan Traub, CPC – Founder & Managing Principal: 30 years consulting to organizations including Ensign Bickford Industries, JDS Uniphase, LEGO, OmegaFlex, Orafol, Richemont, Snapple, and ThayerMahan, preceded by internal Purchasing Leader for Impex/Pemex and Market Research for Nippon Steel USA-Gulf Coast Region
Call us… we’ll help you clarify a vision for a prudent path forward.
Kawel LauBach, Principal
klaubach@thehrc.com
Mobile: 860.884.4956
Regan MacBain Traub, Founder & Managing Principal
rtraub@thehrc.com
Mobile: 860.881.5300