Andrea Weinzimer, now the Senior Vice President of HR for Hachette Book Group, has been with the New York-based publisher for almost 20 years. But it didn’t start out that way.
HROI Interview
Interview Pieces get this category
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…
December 16, 2019 Read more
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…
December 2, 2019 Read more
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…
November 25, 2019 Read more
Jen Vasin, now the senior vice president of HR at Insight, joined the company by way of an acquisition in 2008.
November 11, 2019 Read more
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…
March 11, 2019 Read more
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,…
February 25, 2019 Read more
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…
February 11, 2019 Read more
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…
January 28, 2019 Read more
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…
November 13, 2018 Read more
When Karen Niovitch Davis first heard about Prosek Partners in 2011, the financial communications firm had 50 employees.
October 29, 2018 Read more
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…
October 1, 2018 Read more
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…
September 17, 2018 Read more
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…
August 27, 2018 Read more
When Victoria Creamer joined ITT Inc. in February 2015, she was tasked with one challenge in particular…
August 17, 2018 Read more
It’s a straightforward question with a complex answer: What makes a corporate culture phenomenal?
July 16, 2018 Read more
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…
June 18, 2018 Read more
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.
June 5, 2018 Read more
If Onboarding Is the Beginning, Shouldn’t We Also Shape the Ending? Many companies
April 30, 2018 Read more
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…
April 23, 2018 Read more