Tyese T. Battle

Partner with senior finance business leaders to develop and deliver on our people strategy, advance our company mission, and enable leaders to build high-impact, healthy teams.

• Use data-driven insights to highlight key focus areas for leaders across our Finance and Workplace teams, and help shape related strategies.
• Drive senior leader succession and development planning, resulting in the retention and progression of key talent.
• Large scale organizational restructuring, aligned to the quickly evolving company strategy

Key business partner for Software Engineers, Product Management, and supporting leaders in YouTube, Geo, and Google Assistant, providing dynamic consultation and excellence in execution to achieve strategic organizational outcomes.

• Core team lead in the global realignment of 400 to Google’s conversational artificial intelligence chat service (Bard), including navigating in-region moves for APAC and EMEA under significant time constraints.
• Workstream lead for the YouTube Originals business transformation, resulting in a 50% reduction in workforce and redeployment of resources to current critical strategic priorities.
• Advocate for positive employee experiences in areas such as performance management and leader development.

Partner with VP Engineering and Product Manager leads to build a newly formed horizontal privacy and safety organization across the Ads ecosystem

• Influence the outcomes of a new mission and vision to build a unified culture among several distinct groups.
• Work with leaders to create norms and a cohesive approach to HR processes, such as performance planning.
• Consult with leaders and execute the evolution of the organizational structure, taking into consideration business strategy, talent implications, and culture.
• Create a manager development program to enhance management skills, and introduce peer communities.
• Sole Ads HR partner in the NYC office of 700+ Ads Googlers, providing key insights, and championing local culture.

Pioneer member of the regional internal HR business partner consultancy, tasked with executing a flexible portfolio of dynamic, business-critical initiatives.

• Influence across HR tiers to prompt the creation of a more robust process for dealing with U.S. WARN Act events.
• Regional champion for the global launch of the Diversity & Inclusion, and Organization & Talent platforms.
• Project management and targeted coaching for a team of seven global HR partners through a 10% reduction in force, and the eventual phased shutdown of a J&J business.

Collaborate with Enterprise Quality COE Leadership Teams, including J&J Regulatory Compliance, Bioresearch Q&C, and Sterility Assurance, to set strategic priorities for Talent, Organization, and Culture efforts reaching over 700 employees.

• Cross-enterprise organizational design and development focus, leading to optimal organizational models.
• Proactive workforce planning, with a focus on diversity, and pipeline bench strength.
• Leverage internal and external insights to develop appropriate talent strategies, aligned with business objectives.

As a member of the global Janssen R&D Quality & Compliance Leadership Team, I serve as the HR leader for the integration of two legacy Quality organizations involving over 300 employees in 11 countries.

• Influence decisions related to the design of the new organizational model and capabilities, and related talent placements.
• Support change management efforts through effective communication and engagement strategies.
• Build and cultivate cross-enterprise relationships to help shape corporate J&J Quality and Compliance programs.
• Coordinate the year-end total rewards process, impacting several thousand global employees.

Provide strategic HR Business Partner support for a client group of over 200 global Field Service Technicians within the $1.3B Aero Services division.

• Influenced the VP leader to adapt the performance management system to fit the changing needs of the team, based on feedback from managers and field service technicians.
• Liaise with global HR partners to ensure compliance with regional and local company policies and laws.
• Collaborate with the site HR team, under the direction of the Senior HR Manager, to provide training and development programs, and other site initiatives for over 120 employees and managers.

HR Leadership Program - Responsible for day-to-day HR guidance for 100 hourly and 25 exempt-level employees in a non-union shop environment, and planning and implementation of site-wide initiatives for approximately 500 employees.

• Facilitate the introduction of the Kronos Time & Attendance IT system across the 500-employee plant
• Coordinate the successful rollout of the ‘Peer Review Process’, the corporate alternative dispute program designed for hourly staff
• Educated senior leadership and provided training for 85 frontline managers and staff volunteers
• Work with site HRM to roll out corporate frontline leadership training, UA strategy, and Employee Council

HR Leadership Program - Split assignment between two distinct client groups and work sites.

• Focused on effective, proactive employee relations, and the interpretation of HR policies and procedures for hourly employees.
• Lead efforts to turn around site culture, including providing opportunities for training, and creating programs in direct response to the annual employee opinion survey.