Strategic People Partner, Senior HR Professional
ABE CAREY-AGHO
VEG ER for Pets
Dallas-Fort Worth,TX
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Senior People Partner and strategic HR leader with more than 10 years of experience advising executive and operational leadership across multi-site, high-growth organizations. Proven record of aligning people strategy with business performance, strengthening leadership capability, and building scalable talent and culture initiatives. Skilled in organizational design, employee relations, performance strategy, and workforce analytics across complex, matrixed environments. Known for practical leadership coaching, data-driven decision making, and translating business priorities into people solutions that drive engagement, retention, and operational outcomes.
14
Years of experience
Work History
Senior People Business Partner
3 Years 2 Months
VEG ER for Pets - United States | 08.2023 - Current
- Serve as strategic advisor to senior people leadership and operational executives across 17 hospitals and more than 800 employees across multiple states.
- Partner with regional operations leaders to align people strategy with hospital performance, workforce planning, and leadership capability.
- Use engagement surveys, turnover analysis, and workforce data to guide strategic decisions and improve retention and team performance.
- Coach hospital managers, medical directors, and regional leaders on leadership effectiveness, organizational structure, and performance conversations.
- Support modernization of performance management practices and leadership development programs.
- Lead complex employee relations cases with balanced consideration of business outcomes, compliance requirements, and employee experience.
- Managed strategic partnership initiatives to drive measurable outcomes and deeper relationships with cross-functional teams.
- Developed and implemented strategies to enhance partner relations.
People Business Partner
1 Year 6 Months
VEG ER for Pets - United States | 01.2022 - 07.2023
- Partnered with regional operations leadership to support rapid organizational growth and new hospital launches.
- Designed and facilitated talent review processes and succession planning to strengthen leadership pipelines.
- Collaborated on compensation reviews and performance calibration across regions to maintain pay equity and consistency.
- Analyzed workforce data to identify performance and retention trends and recommend targeted leadership interventions.
- Served as trusted advisor to leadership on culture, employee relations, and organizational effectiveness.
- Managed strategic partnership initiatives to drive measurable outcomes and deeper relationships with cross-functional teams.
- Monitored partner performance and provided feedback on areas of improvement.
- Launched staff engagement, gender diversity and cultural programs in addition to robust reporting tool that increased operational quality.
Regional HR Business Partner
11 Months
GPM Investments - United States | 01.2021 - 12.2021
- Provided HR partnership for more than 800 employees and 45 corporate staff across multiple states.
- Advised field leadership on employee relations, investigations, disciplinary actions, and complex leave management.
- Ensured compliance with federal and state employment laws while supporting operational leaders.
- Redesigned onboarding structure and leadership accountability, increasing new hire orientation completion by 80 percent.
- Identified HR training needs and conducted training for employees and leadership while recommending approaches to effect continual improvements in business objectives, productivity, and within company to reach business goals.
- Maintained confidential nature of employee and company proprietary and privileged information used or observed in course of performing job duties.
- Conducted exit interviews with employees leaving company to gauge areas of success and opportunities for improvement.
- Investigated and liaised with legal department to respond to complaints of harassment, discrimination, employee grievances, and other sensitive issues and prepared position statements for EEOC.
- Collaborated with leadership to assess and improve policies across board.
- Advised senior management on organizational development and change management initiatives.
- Liaised between multiple business divisions to improve communications.
- Maintained current knowledge of industry regulations and legislation to amend policies and promote compliance.
- Created and implemented forward-thinking initiatives to improve employee engagement.
Multi-Site HR Generalist
1 Year 6 Months
Walmart - Dallas, TX | 07.2019 - 01.2021
- Delivered full HR partnership for more than 300 employees across multiple retail locations supporting over $160M in annual revenue.
- Coached store leadership teams on employee engagement, leadership development, and performance management.
- Led workforce planning initiatives and maintained full compliance with internal and external HR audits.
- Collaborated with payroll to complete and upload pay data and worked with managers to support proper wage and hour compliance.
- Understood, interpreted and mediated human resources inquiries to support administration of human resources policies, procedures and programs.
- Liaised with HR and payroll to coordinate and manage employee leaves of absence.
- Implemented and supervised orientation procedures for new hires.
- Coached managers through employee engagement, documentation, discipline and performance improvement plans.
- Developed and built internal and external relationships with project teams, department managers and consultant teams to improve delivery of HR services.
- Handled new-hire orientation and basic recruiting tasks for best-in-class talent identification.
- Explained and administered medical insurance, disability and flexible spending accounts.
Human Resources Generalist
1 Year 10 Months
Walmart - Fort Worth, TX | 09.2017 - 07.2019
- Managed core HR functions including recruitment, onboarding, performance management, and employee relations.
- Partnered with safety and legal teams on compliance training, maintaining zero audit findings.
- Updated key human resource metrics on turnover and terminations using reporting tools on HRMS database.
- Implemented and supervised orientation procedures for new hires.
- Understood, interpreted and mediated human resources inquiries to support administration of human resources policies, procedures and programs.
- Conducted confidential investigations of discrimination, harassment and workplace violence.
- Provided guidance to managers and employees on talent management, payroll, FMLA and benefits.
- Coached managers through employee engagement, documentation, discipline and performance improvement plans.
- Developed and built internal and external relationships with project teams, department managers and consultant teams to improve delivery of HR services.
- Conducted career fairs, screened resumes and interviewed applicants to build candidate pipelines and enhance company culture.
- Facilitated criminal background check process for new hires.
- Improved operational processes resulting in productivity increase in HR department.
- Explained and administered medical insurance, disability and flexible spending accounts.
- Liaised with HR and payroll to coordinate and manage employee leaves of absence.
- Processed unemployment claims and acted as company representative at unemployment hearings.
- Met with staff to resolve difficult situations related to performance and conflict management.
- Handled new-hire orientation and basic recruiting tasks for best-in-class talent identification.
- Collaborated with payroll to complete and upload pay data and worked with managers to support proper wage and hour compliance.
- Monitored employee attendance and performance, addressing issues in accordance with company policies and procedures.
Call Center Manager / Customer Service Executive
4 Years 11 Months
Globacom Telecommunications - Lagos, Nigeria | 08.2012 - 07.2017
- Managed and developed a team of 89 representatives in a high-volume telecommunications service environment.
- Improved service quality, operational processes, and employee engagement through coaching and performance frameworks.
- Developed quality employees within call center to take over leadership positions.
- Established and oversaw performance targets for call center associates.
- Created clear and effective policies governing all aspects of employee work and interaction with customers.
- Determined quality assurance benchmarks and set standards for improvement.
- Analyzed customer feedback to identify improvement opportunities and develop action plans.
- Improved average hold times, resolution rates and satisfaction scores through staff development.
- Led daily team meetings to review performance, set targets and motivate staff.
- Scheduled call center staff to meet operational needs whilst remaining under budget.
- Oversaw employee performance to foster accurate prioritization and achievement of sales and productivity goals.
- Interacted well with customers to build connections and nurture relationships.
Skills
Executive Coaching
Senior Leadership Partnership
Organizational Design
Change Management
Talent Management
Succession Planning
Performance Management Strategy
Employee Relations
Core Expertise
- Executive Coaching and Senior Leadership Partnership
- Organizational Design and Change Management
- Talent Management and Succession Planning
- Performance Management Strategy
- Employee Relations and Conflict Resolution
- People Analytics and Workforce Insights
- HR Compliance (EEO, ADA, FMLA, multi-state)
- Inclusion and Culture Strategy
- Leadership Development and Coaching
- Multi-site HR Business Partnership
Education And Professional Development
- Harvard Online, Exercising Leadership: Foundational Principles, 2025-01-01
- Bellevue University, People and Business Leadership Essentials, 2023-01-01
- Rice University, Organizational Leadership in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, 2022-01-01
- University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management, HR for People Managers, 2022-01-01
- Bellevue University, People and Business Leadership, 2020-01-01
- International Business Management Institute, Human Resources Management, 2020-01-01
- National Open University of Nigeria, Postgraduate Diploma, Journalism, 2017-01-01
- Auchi Polytechnic, BSc, Communications, 2010-01-01
Timeline
Senior People Business Partner
VEG ER for Pets
08.2023 - CurrentRead more
People Business Partner
VEG ER for Pets
01.2022 - 07.2023Read more
Regional HR Business Partner
GPM Investments
01.2021 - 12.2021Read more
Multi-Site HR Generalist
Walmart
07.2019 - 01.2021Read more
Human Resources Generalist
Walmart
09.2017 - 07.2019Read more
Call Center Manager / Customer Service Executive
Globacom Telecommunications
08.2012 - 07.2017Read more