Laura Bokhof

Provide consulting services to clients on leadership and organizational capability development. Coach leaders, teams and executives.

• Lead team of HR Business Partners.
• Developed and implemented comprehensive people strategies for business unit/partners.
• Lead organizational change and redesign initiatives for commercial and R&D business units.
• Lead project team in development of a corporate university and learning platform for Takeda's medical community which launched in 75 countries.
• Lead succession planning process for business partner organizations.
• Coached and mentored teams and leaders.

• 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.
• Advised senior management on organizational development and change management initiatives.
• Conducted exit interviews with employees leaving company to gauge areas of success and opportunities for improvement.
• Collaborated with leadership to assess and improve policies across board.
• Integrated talent management process to include detailed analysis of potential talent gaps and development of career plans to identify and retain current talent and attract outside talent to business.
• 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.

• Formed and lead corporate advisory board and working groups to establish diversity and inclusion strategy and programs for the Takeda North America organization
• Managed organization's Affirmative Action Planning process; communicated program metrics and analysis to executive leadership
• Responsible for developing and running training programs that supported the creation of an inclusive culture and ensured adherence to applicable laws and regulations

• Managed internal and external recruiters to staff up a rapidly growing start-up organization.
• Lead a cross-functional team to create company's employer brand and recruiting strategy.
• Established and launched the company's first college recruiting program.
• Developed and presented hiring metrics and tracking mechanisms to executive staff.