Testimonials Archive

President & CEO, PE owned manufacturing technology company

PE owned manufacturing technology company

“We are a midsized manufacturing company recently purchased by Private Equity.  Over the last 12 months we have acquired four businesses, each without a human resources function.  At this point in our evolution, we decided to build HR from the ground up and add a Human Resource Coordinator at each of our two largest manufacturing facilities (before adding a global HR leader across all businesses).  We appreciated that our newly created HR function required guidance from an experienced HR executive like Jamie.  Jamie joined us to guide our new team and to tackle a range of important tasks including:

  • Personally verifying I-9 compliance for every one of our employees;
  • Developing an overarching Employee Handbook outlining our objectives, guidelines, policies;
  • Establishing round tables and a communication plan to give employees “voice” at all levels of the organization improving morale, retention and satisfaction;
  • Installing a methodology to quantify employee morale (using the round tables) and identify employee prioritized needs;
  • Developing a compensation strategy for our Tennessee facility;
  • Mentoring me on how to better inject our new HR Coordinators into local management;

Jamie did an outstanding job helping us establish the Human Resources capability.  Her positive but tough influence supported the new coordinators as they tackled difficult topics and helped to change the dynamic between employees as well as between management and employees.  And she was a good coach for me, providing well informed, high integrity guidance where asked.”

President & CEO, PE owned manufacturing technology company

Toni Meyer, owner of Skilled Nursing and Assisted Living Communities

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“We hired HR Designs to do an HR assessment of our business and the results were “business saving”!  Jamie is extremely good at what she does.  She is efficient, competent, easy to work with, accommodating to the business and the business owner’s needs, and the results were remarkable!  We can’t say enough about how helpful HR Designs was for our business. There are a lot of companies out there promising a lot of things but rarely do they deliver in such a tangible way as HR Designs did for our business.  Thank you so much, Jamie and HR Designs!!”
Toni Meyer, owner of Skilled Nursing and Assisted Living Communities

Joe Lampert, Operations Director of EPES Logistics

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“Our team was interviewing for our VP of Sales role, which is an absolutely critical role to the success and growth of our business. Jamie was able to construct an in-depth behavioral based interview format that was customized for our team, the role and our company values. This was a new approach for our team and for the first time our decision was based on relevant data vs. gut feel. This approach is invaluable and we will be using this method in future interviews.”

Joe Lampert, Operations Director of EPES Logistics

Robert Brown, Co-Founder of CPM Only

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“Jamie has helped us greatly with a noticeable overhaul in the clean up of our day to day workflow. Not only was she able to assess and offer suggestions in a matter of a few days, but I know without her insight, our team would not function as efficiently as we do now. From compensation plans, role delegation, hiring/recruiting, and other internal processes there are many areas Jamie has helped to improve our business. Overall, she know’s her HR very well and I’d be glad to refer her to anybody.”

Robert Brown, Co-Founder of CPM Only

Kiegan Blake, Director of Maui Center for Child Development

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“Jamie was a godsend for my small business! She was very professional, knowledgeable and helped me to organize office/HR systems that I, as a business owner, didn’t have time for, so it just wasn’t getting done. Specifically, Jamie created clear Office Staff Role Guidelines and Procedures, she screened and interviewed for vacant office staff positions and she put systems in place for training new staff.  Jamie also took time to advise me on HR matters, which was invaluable to me and our organization.  I highly recommend Jamie as an HR consultant!”

Kiegan Blake, Director of Maui Center for Child Development