Category: Faces of HR
Faces of HR profiles members of the human resources community, sharing their personal experiences, successes, challenges, current practices, aspirations, and opinions on topics impacting the industry and its workforce.
HR Daily Advisor’s 2023 Employee Benefits Week is well underway and it doesn’t stop with our latest Faces column. Despite high-profile layoffs and an increased unemployment rate, the current job market may be tight but still robust, as candidates continue to seek new opportunities. Benefits and compensation continue to be not only a hot topic but […]
After completing undergrad at the University of St. Thomas, HR wasn’t the end-goal for Amy Spartz when she initially started her career. “When I set out, I had a new baby, and just really needed a job,” she told HR Daily Advisor. “After reaching out to as many people as I could within my network, […]
Meet Eric Cormier, manager of HR services for Insperity, a provider of HR solutions. Since joining the company in 2012, Cormier has served in myriad roles, including senior HR specialist and manager of HR services of Insperity’s eastern service region. Cormier brings more than 20 years of HR experience to his current role, in which […]
While studying accounting in undergrad at Menlo College, Lupita McLane discovered she was interested in the people aspect of organizations. “I realized that the success of any business ultimately depends on its people and their effective management,” McLane shared with HR Daily Advisor. “This realization led me to switch my major from accounting to human […]
B Jaye Burchfiel has more than 20 years of strategic HR experience translating business visions into actionable, value-added goals. Throughout her impressive career, Burchfiel has held myriad leadership roles, including serving as HR director for Vyne Dental, as well as HR director roles for both the Marine Accessories Corporation and ATI, Inc. Currently, Burchfiel serves […]
Dipa Homer is a risk-taker, an important trait her parents passed on to her before she was born. Homer’s parents were born and raised in Bangladesh but decided to move to and start their family in a new place that offered opportunities. They chose Sydney, Australia. Both Homer and her brother were born and raised […]
It’s HR Diversity week here at HR Daily Advisor, and we couldn’t be more excited! Since Monday, we’ve run a gamut of free virtual events and resources to help organizations incorporate successful diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) initiatives in their workplaces. For this week’s Faces column, we’re diving deeper, spotlighting a few diversity HR […]
Lorraine Ortiz has nearly 25 years of HR professional and executive coach experience in nonprofit, corporate, health care, and higher education. Throughout her impressive career, Ortiz has held several executive roles, including Vice President of HR at Riley Children’s Health, Director of HR—Retail Division at Goodwill Industries of Central and Southern Indiana, and Vice President […]
Meet Eryn Marshall, Senior Director of Global Recruiting at Oyster – an employment platform dedicated to creating a more equal world by making it possible for companies everywhere to hire people anywhere. We recently connected with Eryn to discuss how she got her start in the industry, her biggest influences, best mistake, as well as the […]
Before Don Robertson segued into HR, he launched and spent half his career in accounting, finance, and sales. If you ask him, he’s just a “businessperson that happens to be in HR.” Nearly 38 years later, Robertson’s “strong fundamental business and finance background” laid the foundation for his impressive career as an HR executive. Robertson […]