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Chief Human Resources Officer

Founded in 1984, The Newport Group is a leading retirement services and asset management firmspecializing in the creative design, funding, and administration of qualified and non-qualified retirement plans as well as co-fiduciary investment advisory services. Through its innovative and customized solutions, Newport is uniquely positioned to satisfy the distinct financial needs of employers and employees, and has done so for hundreds of the country's largest and best-known companies. Newport is headquartered in Heathrow (Orlando) FL, with service centers in Charlotte NC, La Crosse WI, and St. Petersburg FL. Newport also has offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Jacksonville, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, New York City, Orange County CA, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and San Francisco."

Accomplished professional with exemplary global HR management experience. Demonstrated success in strategic planning and execution of core staffing, operational and administrative initiatives to drive overall HR organizational and bottom-line financial performance. Expertise in compensation, benefit strategies, employee and labor relations, change management. Excellent qualifications in leading HR aspects of large-scale mergers, acquisitions, and reorganizations. Natural leader with superb consensus-building capabilitities. Specialties: Change management, benefits and compensation, corporate culture change, employee communications, workforce re-engineering, organizational design and development, strategic planning, policies and procedures, employee empowerment, employee retention, employee relations, regulatory compliance, team building, performance management, sourcing and recruiting, competency-based performance, labor relations