At a company with a 150-year history, its culture, tradition, and values inform everything HR does. For a company with a 150-year history that includes five generations of family of the original founder, George Garvin Brown, Brown-Forman Corporation, based in Louisville and best known for its flagship Jack Daniel’s Whiskey, is all about values and…
Susan Melcher brought a unique HR perspective to her job at Interactive Health, a corporate wellness company. In HR at her past job, she was a client. When Susan Melcher was interviewing for the job of CHRO at Interactive Health, Inc., a corporate wellness company with nearly 30 years of serving more than 2,000 client…
CHRO Roxanne Lagano had two main challenges when her company spun off from Pfizer: Easing the transition and handling a big layoff. When Zoetis, the world leader in animal health, spun off from Pfizer, they had the third-largest IPO of 2013. Although the company had more than 60 years of experience delivering a diverse portfolio…
Creating one culture and one team from a siloed group of acquired companies was a challenge for Lisa Paul at Oclaro, but HR made it happen. When Lisa Paul signed on to take the helm of Oclaro’s HR department after some 30 years in HR for firms like Cisco and others, she knew the company…
When Archana Singh signed on as EVP and CHRO at John Wiley & Sons in 2016, she knew she was taking on a tall order. Wiley, a global leader in research and education, was in the midst of a large-scale global technology transformation to shift the company’s focus to digital offerings. “The business was changing,…
Michael Kerrigan says he got into HR by accident. “Many years back, I was working as a payroll and tax specialist and was promoted to Payroll Manager,” he says. “HR was something I was interested in, and working in such close proximity, I learned a lot about HR processes.” However, it was difficult to transition…
Would you get a tattoo of your company’s logo? At the Texas-based data center company CyrusOne, 120 of its 405 employees have chosen to do just that. Why? For Kellie Teal-Guess, executive vice president and Chief People Officer at CyrusOne, it’s all about culture. “We have something special going on at CyrusOne,” she says. “We’re…
Talent acquisition is one of the most vital functions of an HR department, and it can be a very tricky thing to get right. Bottom line, the success of any organization depends on having the right people in the right seats, and recruiting, hiring, and onboarding (not to mention training), is key to that…
When Karen Niovitch Davis first heard about Prosek Partners in 2011, the financial communications firm had 50 employees.
Public companies require a best in class HR function, core systems, processes, and programs. When Sunita Holzer joined Realogy Holdings Corp. three years ago, she found that to be the case and she was energized about building the HR function across Realogy…
When Debra McCowan was approached to take on the role of CHRO at Equinix in 2013, the company was looking for transformational HR leadership to scale and design its explosive growth…
Six years ago Susan Moriconi was presented with a challenge: helping California-based Omnicell Inc. convert from small-company HR practices to expansive systems able to support a rapidly growing company…
When Victoria Creamer joined ITT Inc. in February 2015, she was tasked with one challenge in particular…
It’s a straightforward question with a complex answer: What makes a corporate culture phenomenal?
In an age in which U.S. businesses are scrambling to replace retiring baby boomers, Elicia Pegues Spearman is taking a proactive stance to ensure that the knowledge…
The chief human capital officer for the Chicago-based investment firm came aboard with ambitious ideas, almost immediately introducing a five-year plan designed to upgrade the department toward better managing the firm’s recent growth. When he arrived, the company had a recruiter in place but a minimal hierarchy of management, no performance evaluation system, and no overarching program for handling other elements of HR.
How HR Drives Success at Cantel Medical For Dottie Donnelly, HR isn’t just a contributing factor to a company’s success. It’s a key driver of it. That was her vision when she joined Cantel, a leading provider of infection prevention products and services, as SVP and Chief HR Officer (CHRO) in January 2017. “Everything that we…
HR Professionals: How Well Do You Really Know Your Business? Sure, you are savvy in all things human resources, but how well do you really know the industry in which you work and the company for which you work? For HR professionals, knowing the business is essential, but perhaps not given the deep, ongoing attention it…