Bryan Theis

• 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.
• Conducted exit interviews with employees leaving company to gauge areas of success and opportunities for improvement.
• Managed full cycle of recruiting, hiring, and on boarding new employees.
• Identified HR training needs and conducted training for 1100 employees and leadership while recommending approaches to effect continual improvements in business objectives, productivity, and within company to reach business goals.
• Resolved under staffing issues, disputes, employee terminations, and disciplinary procedures.
• Collaborated with leadership to assess and improve policies across board.
• Maintained confidential nature of employee and company proprietary and privileged information used or observed in course of performing job duties.
• Facilitated team-building activities and initiatives, improving collaboration and engagement for over 1100 employees
• Advised senior management on organizational development and change management initiatives.
• Fostered positive work environment through comprehensive employee relations program.
• Created and implemented forward-thinking initiatives to improve employee engagement.
• Instructed senior leaders on appropriate employee corrective steps.
• Identified and implemented appropriate strategies to increase employee satisfaction and retention. Improved employee experience by over 38% in 6 months
• Utilized compliance tools, corrective actions and identification of deficiencies to mitigate audit risks of over 100 termination and disciplinary cases with no overturned cases
• Developed comprehensive process for new hires and reviewed new hire productivity, optimizing onboarding effectiveness.
• Maintained current knowledge of industry regulations and legislation to amend policies and promote compliance.
• Discovered and resolved complex employee issues that affected management and business decisions by conducting over 100 round table events over four shifts and including 250 employees each year
• Enhanced team workflows and employee job satisfaction by coordinating communication between managers and employees by creating processes that identified client groups and monthly check ins for 25 managers and HR team
• Updated training processes by reviewing existing documentation, leveraging feedback from associates and working with legal and compliance teams.
• Worked with employees and site managers to secure reasonable accommodations
• 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
• Conducted exit interviews with employees leaving company to gauge areas of success and opportunities for improvement

Spearheaded sustainable agriculture projects to include replacing cash crops with year round income potential

Worked with organizations to reduce human trafficking risk for Hill Tribe people by creating additional revenue sources within each village

Worked with Mien villagers and local Thai governmental agencies to provide access to schools, medical care and business opportunities in Northern Thailand

Planned, coordinated and executed team plans to provide remote villages in Northern Thailand with clean water projects

Launched successful "Mien Coffee Company" in Thailand