Summary
Work History
Education
Skills
Experience Highlights
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Kelly Woods

Scottsdale,AZ

Summary

Strategic Human Resources Consultant & Project Manager with a 10+ year record of excellence and achievement. Expert at raising bottom-line profits by generating workforce solutions that consistently raise employee morale, performance, and retention. Deftly translate broad corporate initiatives into detailed, attainable action items for staff. Uniquely skilled at motivating staff based on extensive background leveraging volunteer workforces. Accomplished Human Resources Consultant with 15 years of hands-on HR management experience and broad knowledge of HR metrics for benchmarking, measuring, analyzing and articulating value and ROI of HR initiatives, practices and policies. Guides, trains and supports clients in areas of strategic human capital management, employment law compliance, employee relations, organizational development, workers' compensation administration and overall development of best practices in human resources. Demonstrates strong business acumen and possesses entrepreneurial spirit with genuine desire to proactively and consistently deliver results for clients and internal teams. Skilled Chairman proficient in driving improvements and maintaining order within the company board of directors. Offering excellent judgment, strong listening skills and a deep understanding of business operations.

Work History

Self-employeed

Strategic Human Resources Consultant & Project Manager

Job overview

  • Enhanced employee satisfaction by implementing effective HR policies and procedures.
  • Streamlined recruitment processes for faster and more efficient hiring of top talent.
  • Reduced employee turnover through implementing comprehensive onboarding programs and ongoing training initiatives.
  • Improved company culture by conducting regular employee surveys and addressing concerns promptly.

Universalist Unitarian Educational Cooperative / JJN Memorial Tournament

Fundraising Chair

Job overview

  • Generated $100K+ revenue by organizing multiple large-scale events
  • Set organization’s strategic vision, drove PR campaigns to raise awareness, and led 50+ volunteers.

Universalist Unitarian Educational Cooperative

Chairman, Board of Directors

Job overview

  • Provided executive-level leadership and business development expertise for this nonprofit organization
  • Generated HR support of 10 educators while motivating 12 volunteers
  • Drove various PR and marketing campaigns
  • Executed $200K budget.

National Semiconductor Corporation

Director – Worldwide Performance Development

Job overview

  • Extended record of achievement revamping HR systems, developing leaders, and driving retention efforts based on $2.2M budget
  • Provided key leadership during series of acquisitions.

Education

University of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

Master of Science from Organizational Development
05.2002

University Overview

San Francisco State University
San Francisco, CA

Bachelor of Arts (BA) from Human Resources Management
05.1991

University Overview

Skills

  • Staff Benefits & Compensation
  • Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)
  • Workforce Planning & Staffing
  • Policy Development & Integration
  • Business Needs Assessment
  • Corporate Change Management
  • Recruitment & Development
  • Leader Mentoring & Coaching
  • Organizational Development
  • Job Analysis
  • Employee Relations
  • Recruitment and retention strategies
  • Onboarding and Orientation

Experience Highlights

Experience Highlights
  • Significantly elevated a company by overhauling various HR areas including talent acquisition and compensation.
  • Improved communication and development across the board by integrating a state-of-the-art 360-degree feedback tool.
  • Positioned better capability among leadership team by conducting extensive audit and communicating results.
  • Facilitated a period of major change by revamping a 600-member global sales team based on newly redefined company mission. Inspired division to embrace new values by redefining target clients and enhancing staff development.
  • Successfully reduced and refined sales headcount to 400 per company transition by retaining top performers, managing out necessary staff, and recruiting talent based on new company mission. Simultaneously led an 11-member team driving all standard HR functions.
  • Positioned major gains in staff motivation by securing CEO approval and driving all phases of a $2.2M overhaul of sales incentive plan.
  • Strengthened staff engagement and retention by enacting new succession planning and personal coaching programs.
  • While consulting a company’s HR redesign, introduced a performance management system that aligned staff development and reward with new corporate vision.

Timeline

Strategic Human Resources Consultant & Project Manager
Self-employeed
Fundraising Chair
Universalist Unitarian Educational Cooperative / JJN Memorial Tournament
Chairman, Board of Directors
Universalist Unitarian Educational Cooperative
Director – Worldwide Performance Development
National Semiconductor Corporation
University of San Francisco
Master of Science from Organizational Development
San Francisco State University
Bachelor of Arts (BA) from Human Resources Management
Kelly Woods