Baliia McKinney

• Implement SLB’s global diversity initiatives, collaborating with D&I councils, Employee Resource Groups, and functional teams to ensure their strategic impact on the organization.
• Focal point for assigned ERGs, fostering a sense of belonging and inclusion.
• Embed inclusion and diversity into talent and performance management processes in partnership with HR promoting diversity in recruitment, hiring, promotions, and retention.
• Drive local engagement initiatives with external organizations and partners aligning them with the community engagement strategy.
• Design tracking strategies to monitor and evaluate the impact and return on investment initiatives, providing recommendations for program enhancement.
• Develop strong relationships with leaders, stakeholders, HR colleagues to communicate diversity related messages throughout the organization.

• Partner with business leaders to streamline human resources procedures and conduct training for employees and leadership, while recommending approaches to enhance communications in North America business divisions.
• Maintain confidentiality of employee and organization privileged information and uphold local compliance to VIC, employment law, works agreements and union contracts.
• Integrate talent management process to include detailed analysis of potential talent gaps and regular review and updates to job descriptions to ensure discriminatory language is not present.
• Maintain knowledge and promote awareness of diversity and inclusion best practices amongst HR leadership and organization and perform research to execute strategies to achieve diversity goals.

• Developed and executed internal strategies for employee support, global engagement, talent development, succession planning, people communications and wellbeing for North American regions.
• Streamlined and managed talent management processes for support functions and recruiting, staffing, training, career development, succession planning, compensation, and communication strategies across global organization.
• Promoted work environments that were accepting, respectful of differences and emphasized teamwork.

• Directed and controlled overall management of HR services and programs for the Houston Finance Hub.
• Created and implemented policies and standards, employee training and development, compensation and benefits strategies and employee engagement initiatives that align with DE&I and organizational objectives.
• Provide guidance and coaching to management on HR principles, recruiting pipeline, employee relations, employee development and retention.

• Collaborated on hiring and training of new employees and developed and managed succession plans, implemented retention programs and ensured employee development initiatives were successful for US and Canada areas.
• Coordinated with Area HR Manager to review key nationalities and gender representation and performed accurate head count and mapping.
• Delivered action-oriented quarterly employee engagement survey and followed up with management to implement action plans.

• Managed programs and implemented policies and standards, conducted employee training and development, monitored compensation and benefits strategies and motivated employees and direct reports.
• Managed and monitored the compensation, including forecasting, budgeting, and monthly analysis of compensation key indicators.
• Guided leadership in navigating compensation and benefits strategy leveraging understanding of diverse cultural issues, labor laws and compensation practices.

• Assisted senior management with providing HR support, training, and recruitment activities for three sites with three different product lines that operated under separate leadership.
• Performed internal audits and controlled costs to optimize spending and restructuring of budgets for labor, capital assets, inventory purchasing and technology upgrades.
• Conducted employee information meetings on employment policy, benefits and compensation and participate actively on various joint committees.

• Conducted recruiting, selection and onboarding activities and assisted with training and administration of corporate compensation and benefit programs for over 300 restaurants nationwide.
• Served as subject matter expert for management in employee relations and employment practices and ensured compliance with employment laws.