REBEKAH KINARD
Orlando,FL
Summary
Strategic Human Resources Leader with 25 years of experience partnering with senior ministry leaders to align people strategies with organizational mission and long-term objectives. Trusted advisor in organizational design, executive coaching, workforce planning, succession planning, organizational effectiveness, and change leadership within a large, complex nonprofit organization. Proven record of spiritual leadership, developing leaders, strengthening executive teams, and implementing people strategies that support healthy cultures and sustainable ministry growth.
Overview
31
31
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
HR Director – U.S. Capacity
Cru
Orlando, Florida
06.2022 - Current
- Serve as a strategic thought partner to senior ministry leaders, advising on organizational design, workforce planning, leadership effectiveness, and complex organizational decisions.
- Lead and coach a team of 22 HR leaders, partners and specialists.
- Acted as a strategic partner on the core team with HR leadership to re-envision organizational redesign, workforce transition planning, and change management initiatives.
- Partner with executive teams to strengthen alignment, organizational health, and leadership effectiveness through strategic consultation and executive coaching.
- Analyze workforce, engagement, recruiting, and organizational data to support executive decision making.
- Collaborate with leaders in US Operations and USHR to implement cultural initiatives.
- Serve as senior advisor on employment law, employee relations, HR policy, and organizational risk.
- Led complex investigations and ensured compliance with employment law and organizational policy.
- Represent HR strategy with executive leaders and serve on the USHR Directors Team.
- Partnered with senior leaders to develop and implement cultural strategies that unified U.S. Capacity through intentional communication, employee engagement, and shared organizational values.
- Executed 30+ Team Leader Trainings to serve multiple divisions.
HR Director – U.S. Operations
Cru
Orlando, Florida
01.2005 - 01.2022
- Provided strategic HR leadership supporting organizational effectiveness, leadership development, employee relations, recruitment, and compliance for the CFO and Directors of US Finance.
- Cultivated a valued based leadership team with high engagement.
- Coached and developed HR professionals serving leaders across U.S. Operations.
- Created a year-long leadership development program for Lake Hart.
- Partnered with executives on workforce planning, organizational change, performance management, and leadership coaching.
- Led complex investigations and ensured compliance with employment law and organizational policy.
- Served on the Oneness and Diversity Team for seven years.
- Led and developed a team of HR Specialists and Executive Assistants, fostering collaboration, accountability, and high-quality service delivery.
Human Resource Specialist / Recruiter
Cru
01.2003 - 01.2005
Staff Relations Representative / Conference and Events Services Coordinator
Cru
01.2001 - 01.2003
Store Manager
Pier 1 Imports
01.1996 - 01.2001
Education
B.S. - Interdisciplinary Studies
Liberty University
Skills
- Strategic HR Partnership
- Executive Coaching
- Spiritual Leadership
- Organizational Effectiveness
- Succession Planning
- Leadership Development
- Change Management
- Employee Relations
- Employment Law
- Executive Team Effectiveness
- Culture Development
- Staff Engagement
- Data-Informed Decision Making
- Cross-Functional Leadership
Certification
- Professional in Human Resources (PHR)
- Certificate, Diversity & Inclusion – Cornell University
- Graduate, SLI-Senior Leadership Initiative-Cru
- Certificate, Human Resource Management – Rollins College
- Certificate, Job Analysis and Compensation Design – Employment Association of Florida
- Certified Myers-Briggs Type Practitioner
- Core Essentials Coaching Certification – Coach U
- Core Clarity Strengths Facilitator
- EQi 2.0 Facilitator
MINISTRY HIGHLIGHTS
- Served as a strategic advisor to executive leaders on organizational design, workforce planning, leadership effectiveness, and complex people decisions.
- Led HR restructuring initiatives, guiding organizational redesign, workforce transitions, communication planning, and staff care strategies.
- Designed a HR operating model with service delivery strategies to improve organizational scalability and ministry support in US Capacity.
- Developed executive communications and change management plans in support of the Chief Financial Officer, Director of Operations/Information and National Director of Human Resources.
- Built and facilitated leadership development programs, including a year-long program called Pinnacle with more than 197 graduates.
- Served on Cru's National Oneness and Diversity Team for seven years, helping advance organizational initiatives that fostered an inclusive and mission-aligned culture.
- Partnered across Human Resources and Operations to be a change agent for people strategies.
- Provided executive consultation on employment law, employee relations, organizational risk, and policy.
- Led areas of responsibility that achieved the ministry's highest employee engagement scores while also producing the highest percentage of completed growth and development conversations across the organization.
Timeline
HR Director – U.S. Capacity
Cru
06.2022 - Current
HR Director – U.S. Operations
Cru
01.2005 - 01.2022
Human Resource Specialist / Recruiter
Cru
01.2003 - 01.2005
Staff Relations Representative / Conference and Events Services Coordinator
Cru
01.2001 - 01.2003
Store Manager
Pier 1 Imports
01.1996 - 01.2001
B.S. - Interdisciplinary Studies
Liberty University